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Amazing Facts | Doug Batchelor - Signs Of Christ's Return (Part 1) | August 4, 2025
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- Announcer: coming to you from new york city at the historic
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- Manhattan center with your host doug batchelor.
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- Join this exciting journey of discovery as we learn the truth
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- About bible prophecy.
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- Explore the timeless wisdom of god's word and see how it
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- Relates to our lives today.
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- Stay tuned, your amazing facts adventure begins now.
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- Doug batchelor: my name is pastor doug batchelor, and it's
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- Been my privilege to be talking about my favorite theme, the
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- Word of god and bible prophecy for about 45 years now.
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- And i'm just so thankful to be back in the town where i grew up
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- In new york city, and thank you so much,
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- Each of you, for coming.
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- Tonight's presentation is among the most important, we're
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- Dealing with "signs of christ's return."
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- I use sort of a question-answer method, jesus used that to
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- Teach, and so we're going to go into question number one of our
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- Study tonight on "signs of christ's return."
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- And something happened in 1881 in scotland, off the coast, in
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- The town of eyemouth, they had endured a terrible storm and
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- Because of that storm, nobody could go fishing for
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- Several days.
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- Everybody was tied up in the shore and they were not able to
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- Go out and to go fishing.
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- Well, that's their main livelihood, and so finally there
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- Was a break in the storm october 14, and this whole harbor full
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- Of fishing boats, all the fishermen went out and they
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- Began to ready to go out to go catch and try to make some money
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- Again and go out fishing.
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- But the harbor master, he used to watch the weather
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- Instruments, he hoisted the storm flag and told people, "do
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- Not go out, the barometric pressure is dropping, it looks
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- Like there's still a severe storm that's out there."
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- But the fishermen, they saw their buddies were all going,
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- And one of them said, "i'm going, clear day, calm weather,
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- I got to catch some fish."
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- And they said, "well, if he's going, i'm going," and most of
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- The fishermen went out that day.
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- They ignored the warning signs of the instruments.
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- As a result of that, they didn't know that they were in
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- The eye of a hurricane and a terrible storm
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- Swept through the north sea at that time, and almost 190
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- Fishermen were lost as a result of that.
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- They still call it black friday in eyemouth, all these families,
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- They lost their fathers and their husbands and their
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- Brothers because they did not listen to the warning signs.
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- In god's word, the lord gives us warning signs about what
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- Is coming.
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- Jesus said that his coming would be something like as it was
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- In the days of noah.
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- You know, god told noah,
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- "there's a storm coming," and
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- Noah told the people, and noah
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- Prepared, and a lot of people
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- Said, "you know, i think noah's
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- Right, the world's pretty wicked,"
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- But they looked and they didn't
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- See any rain.
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- And even though they saw the signs, sky go black with all
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- These birds that came to the ark, and then the animals came,
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- The clean and the unclean, and they thought, "but there's
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- No rain."
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- And they waited until noah and everybody had entered the ark,
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- And then the rain started after the door was shut and it was
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- Too late.
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- Jesus said that's what it will be like in the day when the son
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- Of man comes.
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- God gives us prophecy to save.
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- Noah was a prophet, and he wanted people
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- To be saved by that.
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- In the book of amos, chapter 3, verse 7, it says, "surely the
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- Lord god will do nothing, but he reveals his secret to his
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- Servants the prophets."
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- Now, you look at bible history, whenever god is getting ready to
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- Do anything significant, like the flood in the days of noah,
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- Or when he was about to deliver them from the slavery of egypt,
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- He sent a prophet, what was his name?
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- Moses, and before the babylonian captivity there was isaiah
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- And jeremiah.
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- Before jesus's first coming, who was that great messenger
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- That came?
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- John the baptist, so you, whenever you've got these
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- Critical events in history, god says, "surely the lord god will
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- Do nothing," meaning nothing of great significance, but he will
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- Send a prophet to prepare, to warn, to woo, to win people.
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- Do you think that god would send prophecies to help us get ready
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- For the second coming and the end of the world?
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- Well, he certainly has, we're going be talking about
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- Those tonight.
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- But you know, we always think it's interesting when we do a
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- Seminar like this to take a little time and just go out on
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- The street and get some input from what we call the man on the
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- Street, what do people think out there about will the world end
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- And how might it end?
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- So we're going to go to the screen and and listen to some of
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- These comments that came in.
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- Male: i believe the world will end, i mean, it's a reality, if
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- We look at science as a cause.
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- I mean, eventually it will run its course as a planet.
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- When?
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- Probably significant time from now, i don't think the world is
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- Going to end tomorrow.
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- Female: i'm sure one day it will, i don't know exactly when
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- The earth will end.
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- I mean, it is a really random question, but i would say maybe
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- A couple million years.
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- Male: absolutely, it's coming soon, luke 21, verse 10 to 19.
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- Male: i don't think the world is going to end, but, i mean, i'm a
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- Christian, yeah, i think the world is going to end one
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- Day, yeah.
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- You know, it's either we're going to go to hell or we're
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- Going to go to heaven.
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- I know i'm going to heaven, so.
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- Female: what would bring this world to an end?
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- The hatred.
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- Female: nuclear.
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- Female: pollution.
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- Male: maybe satan, i don't know.
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- Male: i'm going to go with climate change.
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- Male: probably just war, politics, something like that,
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- People arguing and causing like nuclear destruction.
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- Male: he's coming back, yes, of course, ask every christian.
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- Male: no.
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- Female: no.
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- Female: yeah, i think so, yeah.
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- Male: no.
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- Male: because i believe jesus is coming back and all that stuff,
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- But then there's different people with different thoughts,
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- You know, like there's some people that said the rapture
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- Already happened already.
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- And there's people that say there's no rapture in the bible,
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- But it's a lot.
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- Doug: i think you'll agree with me that the answers are sort of
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- All over the map, amen?
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- So, how do we know the truth?
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- Do we just take a camera on the street to learn the truth or do
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- We go to the word of god?
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- "heaven and earth will pass away," jesus said, "but my word
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- Will not pass away."
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- I want to make you promise, in this seminar, what i'm going to
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- Share with you is from the bible.
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- We're going to be giving you scripture.
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- I don't want you to believe what i say,
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- I want you to believe what the bible says,
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- And i'll be sharing with you what the bible says on these
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- Very important issues.
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- So you check it out, by the way, it's the best selling book in
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- The world, and it stood the test of time and began to be written
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- About 3,500 years ago by 40 authors on three continents.
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- Some were shepherds, kings, scribes, fishermen, all
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- Different backgrounds, and yet it has stood the test of time.
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- There's a reason: it is an inspired book.
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- So all right, question number one in our study, how positive
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- Was jesus that he was going to come again?
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- What does the bible say?
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- Christ said in john 14, i hope you've memorized this promise.
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- He said, "i go and prepare a place for you and i will,"
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- What's it say?
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- "i will come again," he didn't say i might, he said, "i will
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- Come again."
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- Now keep in mind, god told adam and eve, "a savior's going to
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- Come," and all the patriarchs knew the messiah would come the
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- First time as a lamb, he'd come the next time as a lion.
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- And it took a while for him to come as a lamb, but he came.
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- And jesus said, "i'm coming back now as a king.
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- I'm going to come as a conquering king, as a lion
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- Next time."
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- There are 1,800 passages in the bible that talk about the second
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- Coming of jesus.
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- Some people say, "why do you focus on prophecy?"
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- Well, jesus did, the bible does, and you can find 318 of those
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- Passages in the new testament.
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- And all the way from the time of enoch before the flood, enoch
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- Said, "behold, the lord comes with 10,000 of his saints," and
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- Who knows what are the last words in the bible?
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- "even so come lord jesus," so is the coming of christ a
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- Biblical theme?
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- Then we need to talk about what the lord talks about, right?
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- All right, another verse, matthew 16:27, "for the son of
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- Man," what's it say?
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- "will come in the glory of his father with his angels, and he
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- Will reward each one according to his works."
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- The lord made it very clear he will come.
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- Next question, what can we know about the time of
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- Christ's return?
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- Now here's where a lot of people have gotten in trouble.
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- What does the bible say about this?
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- Jesus said matthew chapter 24, it says, "but of that day and
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- Hour," what?
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- "no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but my
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- Father only."
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- Now some are saying, you mean jesus didn't know?
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- Well, no, when he was on the earth, he didn't have all
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- Knowledge swimming around in his head as a little baby and
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- Through his earthly life, but he certainly knows now.
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- I can't imagine that god the father and the son are sitting
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- Up there in heaven and jesus is saying, "so when am i supposed
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- To come back?"
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- "i got the envelope here, but i can't show it to you yet."
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- Of course he knows now.
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- On earth, christ laid aside a lot of his knowledge.
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- Furthermore, matthew 24, verse 44, "therefore, be ready, for
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- The son of man is coming at an hour that you do not expect."
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- Did you notice what he said?
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- He's coming, but it's going to surprise a lot of people.
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- So when someone said, i've calculated the date, how many of
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- You have heard of a pastor or ministry that picked a date for
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- The second coming or the rapture?
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- Do you realize so far they've all been wrong?
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- You know why the devil does that?
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- Do you all know the story about the boy that called wolf?
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- The devil wants a lot of ministries and people out there
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- Setting dates so when they get all excited and then jesus
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- Doesn't come, they jettison their faith completely.
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- And then when someone else says there are signs of his coming,
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- They say "oh, i used to believe that," and it makes people lose
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- Faith in the word of god.
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- Jesus said, "don't set dates.
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- No man knows the day or the hour."
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- Only god knows that, but what can we know about the
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- Second coming?
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- Jesus said in matthew 24, verse 33, "so you also, when you see
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- These things, know that it is," what?
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- It's near--even at the door!"
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- So can we know when it's at the door and when it's near,
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- According to jesus?
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- Yes, well, friends, i tell you it is at the door, it is near.
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- We're going to go through some of the reasons from the bible
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- That we believe that now.
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- Only god knows the exact timing and date, i'd stay away from
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- Anybody that says that they have found the date or they can
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- Calculate it.
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- Question three, what signs does jesus give us to indicate that
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- His coming is near?
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- Now first we're going to talk in this lesson--we've divided this
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- Lesson in two parts.
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- We're talking about signs of the nearness of jesus's coming, and
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- Then we're going to be talking about how he's coming, so we're
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- Not deceived because satan's going to impersonate that.
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- What are some of the signs?
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- For one thing, tell you what, let's go to the bible.
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- I want to just read a passage to you from the bible, and you can
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- Look this up, make a note if you want.
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- I'm going to matthew chapter 24, where jesus talks about the
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- Second coming, and just to give you the background, the
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- Disciples are showing jesus the beautiful stones in the
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- Renovated temple of herod the great.
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- He's renovated their national treasure, the sanctuary, and
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- Karen and i and so many of our team have been there, and we've
- 00:12:26.394 --> 00:12:29.097
- Been down below the level and we've seen some of the stones.
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- They got one stone there that weighs more than a fully loaded
- 00:12:32.033 --> 00:12:36.137
- 747, and you think, "how did they perfectly cut?"
- 00:12:36.137 --> 00:12:41.476
- And even back then the disciples are saying, "they marveled at
- 00:12:41.476 --> 00:12:44.078
- The stones," and you know jesus shocked them, he said, "do you
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- Not see all these things?
- 00:12:46.848 --> 00:12:48.483
- I say unto you, there will not be left here one stone upon
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- Another that will not be thrown down," and the disciples were
- 00:12:51.386 --> 00:12:54.622
- Thunder struck.
- 00:12:54.622 --> 00:12:56.524
- And they said, "lord, when will these things be?
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- What will be the sign of your coming
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- And the end of the world?"
- 00:13:01.930 --> 00:13:03.264
- So they asked him several questions, all of them were
- 00:13:03.264 --> 00:13:05.633
- Asking him questions.
- 00:13:05.633 --> 00:13:07.001
- He then coalesced his answer into one discourse.
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- You'll find that discourse in matthew 24, mark 13,
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- Luke 17, and luke 21, the signs that jesus gives
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- So we can know when his coming is near.
- 00:13:21.716 --> 00:13:23.952
- So christ told his disciples, first thing, verse 4, matthew
- 00:13:23.952 --> 00:13:27.021
- 24, verse 4, "take heed that nobody deceives you."
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- What did jesus warn about his second coming?
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- First thing, there'll be a lot of deception, "for many will
- 00:13:35.430 --> 00:13:39.534
- Come in my name, saying, 'i am christ,' and deceive many.
- 00:13:39.534 --> 00:13:43.304
- And you'll hear of wars and rumors of wars."
- 00:13:43.304 --> 00:13:45.840
- We have that today, "see that you're not troubled; for all
- 00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:49.444
- These things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
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- For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom
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- Against kingdom.
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- And there will be famines, and pestilences," that's plagues,
- 00:13:56.718 --> 00:14:01.456
- "and earthquakes in various places.
- 00:14:01.456 --> 00:14:03.858
- All these are the beginning of labor pains.
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- Then they'll deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and
- 00:14:07.262 --> 00:14:10.365
- You'll be hated of all nations for my name's sake.
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- And many will be offended, and betray one another, many will
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- Hate one another.
- 00:14:16.771 --> 00:14:18.106
- Many false prophets will rise and deceive many."
- 00:14:18.106 --> 00:14:21.242
- That's why we do these seminars so people can read the bible for
- 00:14:21.242 --> 00:14:23.878
- Themselves and not be deceived.
- 00:14:23.878 --> 00:14:26.047
- 'cause let's face it, there's a lot of religious voices out
- 00:14:26.047 --> 00:14:28.650
- There, they're not all telling the truth.
- 00:14:28.650 --> 00:14:31.619
- "and because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will
- 00:14:31.619 --> 00:14:34.455
- Grow cold, but he that endures to the end, the same will be
- 00:14:34.455 --> 00:14:38.960
- Saved," is the promise.
- 00:14:38.960 --> 00:14:40.495
- So that's just the beginning of what jesus said, and we're going
- 00:14:40.495 --> 00:14:42.697
- To go into that in some detail now.
- 00:14:42.697 --> 00:14:45.066
- Nation will rise against nation, famines, pestilences,
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- Earthquakes, well, let's talk a little bit about earthquakes.
- 00:14:47.568 --> 00:14:52.206
- National geophysics data center, the earthquakes between 1940 and
- 00:14:52.206 --> 00:14:58.046
- 2020 have gone up 4.9 times.
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- And that's even accounting for better equipment, it's not just
- 00:15:02.517 --> 00:15:05.219
- Cause they've got better seismic equipment.
- 00:15:05.219 --> 00:15:07.588
- There are more problems, more earthquakes that are taking
- 00:15:07.588 --> 00:15:10.358
- Place, greater magnitude.
- 00:15:10.358 --> 00:15:12.694
- You realize the tsunami that they had that affected indonesia
- 00:15:12.694 --> 00:15:17.198
- Was an earthquake.
- 00:15:17.198 --> 00:15:18.733
- The earthquake in haiti, thousands have died in the last
- 00:15:18.733 --> 00:15:23.171
- Few years, it seems like they're mounting.
- 00:15:23.171 --> 00:15:25.673
- Natural disasters, he tells us that, that will increase.
- 00:15:25.673 --> 00:15:30.979
- Here's actually a report according to bbc, the number of
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- Weather-related disasters has increased by a factor of five
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- Over 50 years.
- 00:15:38.386 --> 00:15:40.054
- Now this is not a religious report, this is a report of an
- 00:15:40.054 --> 00:15:43.624
- Insurance company based in munich, and they want to know
- 00:15:43.624 --> 00:15:47.195
- How to insure, and they look at the natural disasters because
- 00:15:47.195 --> 00:15:50.098
- The more disasters, the more money they lose and they see a
- 00:15:50.098 --> 00:15:53.101
- Trend, it's not a religious organization.
- 00:15:53.101 --> 00:15:56.170
- Have you noticed the trend is going up for both geophysical,
- 00:15:56.170 --> 00:16:00.174
- Meteorological, hydrological, and climatological catastrophes
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- Are increasing.
- 00:16:06.014 --> 00:16:07.348
- And with more people, more people in the world are affected
- 00:16:07.348 --> 00:16:09.951
- By those.
- 00:16:09.951 --> 00:16:11.319
- Jesus said, "there'll be plagues, pestilence," same word.
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- Does anyone remember something that happened between like 2019
- 00:16:14.689 --> 00:16:18.159
- And 2023?
- 00:16:18.159 --> 00:16:21.362
- A global plague, and it wasn't the most deadly, you go back to
- 00:16:21.362 --> 00:16:24.999
- 1918, somewhere between 30 and 50 million people died from the
- 00:16:24.999 --> 00:16:30.238
- Spanish flu.
- 00:16:30.238 --> 00:16:32.106
- And so, you know, of course, the leaders in that field are saying
- 00:16:32.106 --> 00:16:37.478
- There could be something worse on the horizon.
- 00:16:37.478 --> 00:16:39.981
- Jesus said these things will accelerate in the last days.
- 00:16:39.981 --> 00:16:44.652
- And thousands of people died from the ebola outbreak in 2011,
- 00:16:44.652 --> 00:16:49.323
- And we know covid kind of paralyzed the world for a while.
- 00:16:49.323 --> 00:16:53.094
- Jesus gives us another sign of the last days, he said it will
- 00:16:53.094 --> 00:16:56.497
- Be as it was in the days of noah, that because of the
- 00:16:56.497 --> 00:17:00.101
- Hardness of people's hearts, their love will grow cold and
- 00:17:00.101 --> 00:17:04.138
- There's more violence.
- 00:17:04.138 --> 00:17:06.374
- Now, i know you are good people, but not everybody in new york
- 00:17:06.374 --> 00:17:10.678
- City is as good as you are.
- 00:17:10.678 --> 00:17:13.081
- And karen and i were just watching the news last night and
- 00:17:13.081 --> 00:17:15.550
- Some of you saw, where just some random man went up and clobbered
- 00:17:15.550 --> 00:17:20.254
- An old woman that he didn't know knocked her to the street and
- 00:17:20.254 --> 00:17:23.424
- Walked away.
- 00:17:23.424 --> 00:17:24.792
- That's called crazy violence.
- 00:17:24.792 --> 00:17:27.895
- Jesus said that would be one of the signs
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- As it was in the days of noah.
- 00:17:29.430 --> 00:17:30.765
- What does it say about the days of noah?
- 00:17:30.765 --> 00:17:33.134
- You can read there in genesis, "the earth was corrupt before
- 00:17:33.134 --> 00:17:36.104
- God and violence.
- 00:17:36.104 --> 00:17:38.973
- Now, let me tell you something, just it's kind of a personal pet
- 00:17:38.973 --> 00:17:42.009
- Peeve of mine.
- 00:17:42.009 --> 00:17:44.579
- Everybody's trying to figure out, why is there so
- 00:17:44.579 --> 00:17:46.447
- Much violence?
- 00:17:46.447 --> 00:17:48.382
- And i'm not saying that the multiplication of guns and more
- 00:17:48.382 --> 00:17:51.919
- Deadly guns is not a factor, but i think it's something
- 00:17:51.919 --> 00:17:54.522
- Even bigger.
- 00:17:54.522 --> 00:17:55.890
- If you have a society that is entertained by violence, if you
- 00:17:55.890 --> 00:18:00.361
- Have a generation of young people that grow up playing
- 00:18:00.361 --> 00:18:02.697
- Games that involve shooting digital characters, they soon
- 00:18:02.697 --> 00:18:06.367
- Lose the separation between fiction and reality.
- 00:18:06.367 --> 00:18:10.438
- The value of human life is diminished if we're all being
- 00:18:10.438 --> 00:18:14.575
- Entertained by watching bloodshed that gets worse and
- 00:18:14.575 --> 00:18:17.345
- Worse with every new program in order to keep the audience, and
- 00:18:17.345 --> 00:18:20.581
- We wonder, why is violence increasing?
- 00:18:20.581 --> 00:18:24.185
- Well, maybe it's because people are feeding on it and it's
- 00:18:24.185 --> 00:18:27.421
- Affecting our natures.
- 00:18:27.421 --> 00:18:29.490
- I appreciate more than one amen on that because i just told you
- 00:18:29.490 --> 00:18:31.826
- The truth.
- 00:18:31.826 --> 00:18:33.161
- If we spend all of our times--you become like what
- 00:18:33.161 --> 00:18:34.896
- You behold.
- 00:18:34.896 --> 00:18:36.230
- If you have a culture around the world--and whatever we produce
- 00:18:36.230 --> 00:18:38.633
- In america is imported internationally, and if we are
- 00:18:38.633 --> 00:18:42.236
- Importing violence internationally, wonder why is
- 00:18:42.236 --> 00:18:45.673
- Violence increasing?
- 00:18:45.673 --> 00:18:47.775
- Men's hearts are growing cold.
- 00:18:47.775 --> 00:18:49.977
- We need the gospel, friends.
- 00:18:49.977 --> 00:18:52.747
- Immorality increasing, not only in the breakdown of marriage,
- 00:18:52.747 --> 00:18:58.486
- But even the definition of marriage, friends, i told you
- 00:18:58.486 --> 00:19:00.621
- I'm going to tell you what the bible says.
- 00:19:00.621 --> 00:19:02.390
- You want me to do that?
- 00:19:02.390 --> 00:19:04.325
- I'm going to tell you what the bible says,
- 00:19:04.325 --> 00:19:06.227
- Jesus said, "likewise as it was also
- 00:19:06.227 --> 00:19:08.429
- In the days of lot... even so will
- 00:19:08.429 --> 00:19:09.997
- It be in the day when the son of man
- 00:19:09.997 --> 00:19:12.934
- Has appeared."
- 00:19:12.934 --> 00:19:14.569
- Do you know that there are about 200,000 americans that are
- 00:19:14.569 --> 00:19:18.773
- Classified as porn addicts.
- 00:19:18.773 --> 00:19:21.943
- Here, i've got some statistics here, i can't
- 00:19:21.943 --> 00:19:23.811
- Remember them all, but i have some notes i jotted down in the
- 00:19:23.811 --> 00:19:27.548
- Front of my bible to share with you on these statistics.
- 00:19:27.548 --> 00:19:33.321
- Forty million american people-- there's only 340 million total--
- 00:19:33.321 --> 00:19:37.592
- 40 million american people regularly visit porn sites.
- 00:19:37.592 --> 00:19:41.495
- The pornography industry earns $97 billion worldwide every
- 00:19:41.495 --> 00:19:45.900
- Year, that's more than microsoft, google, oracle, and
- 00:19:45.900 --> 00:19:48.869
- The top ten tech companies combined.
- 00:19:48.869 --> 00:19:53.207
- Thirty-five percent of all internet downloads, when you
- 00:19:53.207 --> 00:19:55.543
- Wonder why your internet is slow, 35% of all internet
- 00:19:55.543 --> 00:20:00.615
- Downloads are related to pornography, think about the
- 00:20:00.615 --> 00:20:03.484
- Bandwidth that would increase.
- 00:20:03.484 --> 00:20:06.387
- Thirty-four percent of internet users have experienced unwanted
- 00:20:06.387 --> 00:20:09.824
- Exposure, and the earliest happens at 8 years of age, so
- 00:20:09.824 --> 00:20:15.596
- 8 to 11 is when it's first exposed.
- 00:20:15.596 --> 00:20:19.066
- One third of porn viewers are women, and it plays a
- 00:20:19.066 --> 00:20:23.404
- Significant role in all divorces.
- 00:20:23.404 --> 00:20:26.307
- I'm a pastor and unfortunately we have to do marriage
- 00:20:26.307 --> 00:20:28.743
- Counseling and i can testify that that's true.
- 00:20:28.743 --> 00:20:31.512
- It is an epidemic and jesus said, you know, the problems in
- 00:20:31.512 --> 00:20:35.683
- Sodom and gomorrah were sexual immorality on all scales.
- 00:20:35.683 --> 00:20:41.222
- But i think that we agree, jesus said, "from the beginning, god
- 00:20:41.222 --> 00:20:45.159
- 'made them male and female.'"
- 00:20:45.159 --> 00:20:47.595
- He didn't give us 20 options.
- 00:20:47.595 --> 00:20:50.398
- I still believe jesus, i'm sorry.
- 00:20:50.398 --> 00:20:51.999
- You have to take that up with him, don't get mad at me.
- 00:20:51.999 --> 00:20:56.003
- Mushrooming population around the world, by the year 2050, the
- 00:20:56.003 --> 00:21:01.375
- Earth's population is going to be 9.5 billion.
- 00:21:01.375 --> 00:21:05.212
- I've got another note that i want to read you, this is just
- 00:21:05.212 --> 00:21:07.515
- Fantastic when you think about it, because this is another
- 00:21:07.515 --> 00:21:10.184
- Reason i think it just cannot go on forever.
- 00:21:10.184 --> 00:21:12.820
- Listen to this, it took all of human history, until about 1800,
- 00:21:12.820 --> 00:21:19.794
- To get the first billion people.
- 00:21:19.794 --> 00:21:23.097
- That's, you know, roughly 5,000 years of bible history to get
- 00:21:23.097 --> 00:21:26.300
- The first billion people.
- 00:21:26.300 --> 00:21:28.436
- Then it only took 130 years, back in 1930, to get the
- 00:21:28.436 --> 00:21:33.407
- Second billion.
- 00:21:33.407 --> 00:21:34.742
- The third billion took 30 years, the forth billion took 15 years,
- 00:21:34.742 --> 00:21:39.947
- The fifth billion, 13 years.
- 00:21:39.947 --> 00:21:42.883
- Now there are over eight billion people in the world, and during
- 00:21:42.883 --> 00:21:49.090
- That same time that humanity is developing and sprawling across
- 00:21:49.090 --> 00:21:53.661
- The world and using incredible amounts of resources, and i want
- 00:21:53.661 --> 00:21:57.998
- To remind you, friends, i've traveled all over the world.
- 00:21:57.998 --> 00:22:00.368
- Just this year, karen and i've been india, pakistan, dubai,
- 00:22:00.368 --> 00:22:05.840
- Indonesia, china is, i
- 00:22:05.840 --> 00:22:10.077
- Actually had the privilege of preaching in china.
- 00:22:10.077 --> 00:22:11.412
- We were in panama, guatemala, russia, just, australia, we've
- 00:22:11.412 --> 00:22:16.650
- Been in fiji, new guinea, we've been all over the world and i
- 00:22:16.650 --> 00:22:19.920
- See what's happening.
- 00:22:19.920 --> 00:22:21.288
- I'm also a pilot, so i fly over the country and i see places i
- 00:22:21.288 --> 00:22:24.759
- Used to fly that were forests, it's sprawl now, and you wonder
- 00:22:24.759 --> 00:22:29.163
- How long can that go on?
- 00:22:29.163 --> 00:22:32.133
- During this same time, humanity has wiped out, since 1970, 60%
- 00:22:32.133 --> 00:22:38.139
- Of the animal population in the world.
- 00:22:38.139 --> 00:22:42.943
- Now there's more cows than there ever have been and there's
- 00:22:42.943 --> 00:22:47.047
- Probably more pigs and chickens than there ever have been,
- 00:22:47.047 --> 00:22:49.250
- Because what would we do without mcdonald's and kentucky fried
- 00:22:49.250 --> 00:22:53.120
- Chicken, right?
- 00:22:53.120 --> 00:22:55.790
- But the other wildlife, you know, i read history books when
- 00:22:55.790 --> 00:23:00.060
- Lewis and clark crossed north america, took a day and a half.
- 00:23:00.060 --> 00:23:03.164
- They had to wait for a buffalo herd to cross a river, they had
- 00:23:03.164 --> 00:23:05.833
- To wait a day and a half, millions of them.
- 00:23:05.833 --> 00:23:08.569
- Now if you see a buffalo, you go, "oh look, a buffalo."
- 00:23:08.569 --> 00:23:14.608
- The sky used to be black with carrier pigeons, they're
- 00:23:14.608 --> 00:23:17.077
- All gone.
- 00:23:17.077 --> 00:23:19.647
- The world cannot go on. you know what jesus said?
- 00:23:19.647 --> 00:23:22.550
- Except those days be shortened, speaking of the last days, no
- 00:23:22.550 --> 00:23:26.253
- Flesh would be saved.
- 00:23:26.253 --> 00:23:27.621
- The word flesh there means that nothing's going to survive
- 00:23:27.621 --> 00:23:29.256
- Unless he comes, 'cause there'll be nothing to come for.
- 00:23:29.256 --> 00:23:33.060
- Eventually man will self destruct, so we've got the
- 00:23:33.060 --> 00:23:37.565
- Diminishing resources.
- 00:23:37.565 --> 00:23:39.700
- The un released its global resource
- 00:23:39.700 --> 00:23:41.368
- Outlook for 2024, "we are consuming
- 00:23:41.368 --> 00:23:45.005
- Resources much faster than the earth can
- 00:23:45.005 --> 00:23:47.374
- Sustainably provide them."
- 00:23:47.374 --> 00:23:48.742
- Some things can't be re-provided,
- 00:23:48.742 --> 00:23:50.845
- We're not making new oil.
- 00:23:50.845 --> 00:23:52.913
- "by 2050, it will require 3 earths
- 00:23:52.913 --> 00:23:56.617
- To meet the world's demand."
- 00:23:56.617 --> 00:23:59.787
- Political instability and nuclear weapons is something
- 00:23:59.787 --> 00:24:03.390
- Just to think about.
- 00:24:03.390 --> 00:24:05.226
- You realize that man has never made a weapon he did not use.
- 00:24:05.226 --> 00:24:09.864
- And instead of decommissioning all the nuclear weapons, the us
- 00:24:09.864 --> 00:24:15.035
- And russia principally have the largest number, but of course,
- 00:24:15.035 --> 00:24:17.838
- India, pakistan, israel, europe, they're all over the world.
- 00:24:17.838 --> 00:24:21.642
- North korea has got them, china's got them, they haven't
- 00:24:21.642 --> 00:24:24.645
- Stopped making them because they say it's a deterrent, but
- 00:24:24.645 --> 00:24:27.448
- Knowing human nature, and some people get extreme, and some
- 00:24:27.448 --> 00:24:31.852
- People out of vengeance, eventually through accident,
- 00:24:31.852 --> 00:24:34.788
- Folly, or madness, somebody is going to set something off if
- 00:24:34.788 --> 00:24:40.227
- Jesus doesn't come.
- 00:24:40.227 --> 00:24:42.530
- Now, i'm not trying to fright--yeah, i am a little bit,
- 00:24:42.530 --> 00:24:44.231
- I guess, just because i want you to know jesus has to come or
- 00:24:44.231 --> 00:24:47.735
- We're going to destroy ourselves eventually.
- 00:24:47.735 --> 00:24:50.204
- The other thing i think is very interesting, is thinking
- 00:24:50.204 --> 00:24:54.475
- Successful people around the world, how do they view
- 00:24:54.475 --> 00:24:57.578
- The future?
- 00:24:57.578 --> 00:24:58.979
- I just read this, this year,
- 00:24:58.979 --> 00:25:01.382
- Mark zuckerberg, of course,
- 00:25:01.382 --> 00:25:03.284
- Who's the founder and principal
- 00:25:03.284 --> 00:25:05.286
- Owner of facebook and meta, he's
- 00:25:05.286 --> 00:25:08.055
- Bought a huge ranch in kauai, a
- 00:25:08.055 --> 00:25:10.157
- Beautiful island in hawaii and
- 00:25:10.157 --> 00:25:12.293
- He's building a 5,000 square
- 00:25:12.293 --> 00:25:14.061
- Foot bunker under his ranch on
- 00:25:14.061 --> 00:25:16.430
- An island.
- 00:25:16.430 --> 00:25:17.765
- Why would you build a bunker under a ranch on a volcano?
- 00:25:17.765 --> 00:25:20.634
- Doug: you know, jesus came into our world for three reasons.
- 00:25:20.701 --> 00:25:24.071
- First of all, he came as our example, to live a life that we
- 00:25:24.071 --> 00:25:27.541
- Might follow his steps.
- 00:25:27.541 --> 00:25:29.209
- He came to show us the father.
- 00:25:29.209 --> 00:25:31.045
- He said, "if you've seen me, you've seen the father."
- 00:25:31.045 --> 00:25:34.081
- And then he came as our sacrifice, he died on the cross
- 00:25:34.081 --> 00:25:37.585
- As a substitute for all our sins, but we must come to him.
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- We repent of our sins, we confess, he'll receive us with
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