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Amazing Facts | Doug Batchelor - Signs Of The Coming King (Part 1) | January 5, 2025
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- >> the great basin bristle cone pine is one of the longest
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- Living organisms on earth. incredibly, it can live
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- More than 4,000 years. in fact, one specimen, called
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- The methuselah tree, in the white mountains of california,
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- Is believed to be over 4,700 years old and it's among the
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- Oldest living trees on the planet.
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- This tree was around when the egyptians were building the
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- Pyramids. some of these ancient evergreens
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- Found on lonely mountaintops have weathered thousands of
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- Years of intense freezing wind, pounding rain, scorching sun,
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- And violent electrical storms. how have they managed to survive
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- For millennia of such harsh weather and adverse conditions?
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- They do it by sending their roots deep and wrapping them
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- Tenaciously around the solid rock and hanging on.
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- You know, friends, jesus tells us that there's a time of
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- Tribulation coming just before his return - an intense
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- Frightful storm of trouble unlike anything we've ever seen.
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- Is your life anchored on the solid rock of christ?
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- Let's explore together, from the bible, just what will happen
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- In the last days.
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- >> you know it's very interesting that they have
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- So many programs now that are dealing with
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- The subject of preppers. national geographic has a
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- Program that specifically talks about doomsday preppers
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- And a lot of people have been wondering what's coming.
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- And some of these people aren't even religious.
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- They just see what's happening in the world, they're worried
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- About the environment, they're worried about a natural disaster
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- - they say 'what will we do if an asteroid strikes or if
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- There's a tsunami or if there's a social meltdown?'
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- Others are worried about armageddon and there's more
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- Religious overtones to their fear.
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- But a lot of people are worried - how many of you heard about
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- Folks that are preppers who are trying to get ready for the last
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- Days and they're - they're storing up buckets of beans and
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- They've got, you know, solar electric and all these things
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- And it's not necessarily a bad thing.
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- Karen and i've had a cabin in the hills for 40 years now and i
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- Think 35 years we've been off the grid and it's just because
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- There's no electricity nearby. but a lot of people are doing
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- This because they think 'when there is this major meltdown we
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- Somehow will survive.' now for years folks have acted like
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- 'well this is just a fringe group that's worried
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- About that.' but it's now going beyond that.
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- I think it was just last week wall street journal published an
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- Article that now there is about 60 percent of these mega
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- Millionaires have a plan or a place where they can protect
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- Themselves in the event of some social meltdown.
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- You can see doomsday prep for the super rich.
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- They bought these deactivated missile silos.
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- You've heard of skyscrapers that go up in the air?
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- These go down in the ground and they have rooms.
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- And it's three million dollars for a level and they are
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- Selling out. because these mega millionaires
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- And billionaires they're buying secure spots they've got their
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- Own water system purification, air purification, hydroponic
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- Farming - they got the swimming pool, they've got a theater
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- For 17 people, they've got a pharmacy, a jail and this is
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- All being built below ground. you know, they thought, if
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- Anybody kind of gets odd, they've got the jail.
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- Till they cool off because you know if you get cooped up with a
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- Bunch of type x millionaires anything could happen.
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- So it's not just fringe groups that are thinking about some
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- Kind of catastrophe that seems to be looming on the horizon.
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- Hedge funds managers multi-millionaires and
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- Billionaires from silicon valley, they are making
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- Preparations for what they think is going to be inevitable one
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- Way or the other and you - you consider what we're going to
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- Study tonight and you'll see why.
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- So we're going to be talking tonight about signs of jesus
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- Coming. the second coming of christ is
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- What you would call the pinnacle or the high point of prophecy.
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- And we're going to go through sort of a question and answer
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- Method that just helps me stay on track.
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- And so it creates an outline for our study.
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- First question is: what is one of the central teachings in
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- Revelation? now you may want to take notes.
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- We've mentioned that there's some supplemental material that
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- You can get to go along with these presentations but i'm
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- Going to give you a few of the scriptures just from revelation
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- So you'll know that the second coming of jesus is not an
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- Afterthought in the last book of bible - of the bible.
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- For instance: revelation 1, verse 7 - first chapter -
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- "behold he's coming with the clouds and every eye will see
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- Him. even those who pierced him."
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- - you can read revelation 14:14, "i looked and behold a white
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- Cloud and upon the cloud one sat like unto the son of man having
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- On his head a golden crown." again talking about
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- The second coming. someone on the clouds coming -
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- Jesus is coming in the clouds. you can read in revelation 22,
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- Verse 7 he said, "behold i am coming quickly.
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- Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this
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- Book." now that's the last chapter in the bible but we're
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- Not done yet. you go to revelation chapter 22,
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- Verse 20, "he who testifies of these things says, 'surely
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- I am coming' - how? >>quickly.
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- >>quickly. notice he's coming quickly, quickly - and you're
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- Probably thinking, 'pastor doug, john wrote that 2000 years ago.
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- God's idea of quickly and my idea of quickly are not the
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- Same.' (laughter) i mean we want fast food.
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- We think our microwaves are too slow, right?
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- So what's taking so long? well stay with us and we'll talk
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- About that in just a moment. he who testified of these things
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- Said, "'surely i am coming quickly, amen.'
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- Even so, come, lord jesus." one of the principal
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- Teachings of the book. so with that in mind that the
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- Lord says he is coming and that he's coming quickly, what can we
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- Know about the time of jesus' return?
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- Now this is where you've got to be very careful.
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- And i want you to listen carefully to what i'm sharing.
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- We can know something about the lord coming soon, but be very
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- Careful about a group that is giving you a date for the lord's
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- Return. matthew 24, jesus said, speaking
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- Of his second coming, "but of that day and that hour
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- Knows" - how many people? - "no man" - not even the
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- Angels, but my father only." i'm sure jesus is in heaven - he
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- Knows now, but when christ was on the - i mean, i doubt that
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- The father is saying, 'oh, i know the date but i can't trust
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- You with it.' but when jesus was on the earth he said, 'i
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- Don't even know the date. my father only knows it.
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- So when someone starts to presume to tell you, 'i've
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- Figured it out. i did the math.
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- I know the day and the hour of jesus' coming' - this gentleman
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- Here, harold camping, a very sincere man.
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- I don't question that. he was the president and one of
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- The founders of family radio. they have some great christian
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- Music - but i think most of us remember when, a few years ago,
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- He foretold - i think it was 2011 - that was the second or
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- Third time he picked a date for the second coming.
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- Matter of fact, one of his dates was, i think, 1994 or 96 -
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- I don't remember - i was doing a seminar and, again, he had
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- Picked the date and it really helped the attendance of my
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- Seminar. (laughter) but, of course, jesus didn't come.
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- And i've always made it very clear that's not how you do it.
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- He had a big date for may 11 - or may 21, 2011 and we actually
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- Interviewed him. we were on fox news in
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- Sacramento because i made an offer - he had a great network
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- Of radio stations; we said, we'll give you a million dollars
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- For your radio stations. you can use now, but if jesus
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- Doesn't come you sign them over to us' - and he didn't do it.
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- (laughter) and since then he's - yeah, he was sincere - he had a
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- Stroke shortly after jesus didn't come.
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- I think he was devastated. he really believed it, but it
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- Messed up a lot of people. and you know what?
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- It made christianity lose credibility.
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- That's why we've got to be careful about people just
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- Continually setting dates and then it's the next date, and
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- Then it's the next thing. i think we need to live in a
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- State of expectancy because, in reality, as far as you're
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- Concerned, if you die your next conscious thought is the
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- Resurrection and the second coming of jesus.
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- >>amen! >>he could come
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- For you very soon. and even if you live 90 or 100 -
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- 200 years, what's that compared to eternity?
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- Our lives are pretty short. the bible says a day with the
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- Lord is like a thousand years. now, jesus did tell us we don't
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- Know the day or hour but we can know when it's near.
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- Matthew 24, verse 33, he said, "when you see all these things
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- Know that it is" - what? - it's near.
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- So jesus gave us signs. he said, 'lift up your heads
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- When you see these things.' he wants us to be watching.
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- Five times in mark 13, when jesus talks about the second
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- Coming, he says, 'watch watch watch.' actually it's four
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- Times, but he wants us to be watching.
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- He said 'lest coming suddenly he finds you sleeping.' and then he
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- Gives the parable of the virgins waiting for the bridegroom.
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- They fall asleep and they're not ready.
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- And so he wants us to be thinking about these things and
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- So when you come to a program like this and we talk about the
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- Return of the lord - and the closing promise in the bible
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- Talks about 'even so come lord jesus,' it is a good thing for
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- Christians to talk about jesus coming back.
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- Amen? >>amen.
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- >>it's a good thing. don't set dates, but he wants
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- Us to be looking at that. so, is he coming soon?
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- Let me give you a broad idea of where we are in the scope of
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- History. the bible sort of outlines
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- History from - in three great epochs. you've got - from the
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- Time of adam to abraham is about 2000 years.
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- We don't know the exact date for creation.
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- Amazing facts spent a lot of time developing a bible
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- Chronology timeline just adding up the ages in the bible just to
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- Know when, you know, david lived in relation to samson and those
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- Things, and when it got back to the time of adam and creation,
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- You could just make an educated guess and even if you knew the
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- Date that would not be the way to pick a day for the second
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- Coming. just looking at the
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- Scope of history. adam was born - you don't really
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- Say born, he was created - about 4004 b.c., somewhere
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- Around there. 2000 years later abraham's born.
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- For the first 2000 years god shares the gospel through the
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- Patriarchs. they were not jews. they were people like adam and
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- Seth and noah - methuselah - so forth - enoch - godly people.
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- And then from the time of abraham, then god shared the
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- Gospel for another 2000 years especially through the hebrew
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- People - the jewish people - and jesus was born about 4 b.c.
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- Now i know that confuses people. they say, 'i thought jesus was
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- Born zero.' and that's why we say, you know, 4 b.c.
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- Is before christ. when they developed that dating
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- Method, they did an educated guess about when they
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- Thought jesus was born. they fixed that as the year
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- Zero, then years later they found out that king herod
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- The great died about 2 b.c. we know he's the one who tried
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- To kill all the babies in bethlehem.
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- Jesus must have been alive then. we realized jesus was
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- Baptized in 27 a.d. he was baptized on his 30th
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- Birthday, the bible says. you count backwards and we
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- Realize they got that a.d. b.c. dating method wrong -
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- About 4 years. but - so then you've got 2000
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- Years from adam to abraham, 2000 years from abraham to christ.
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- Then, for the next 2000 years, which brings us to our day - the
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- Gospel's being preached through spiritual israel - or the
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- Church. and then, after you get from
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- That - and, of course, we're living now in the space age -
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- You know we're living right now exactly 2000 years
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- From the life of jesus. we're living 2000 years from
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- Between when he was born and when he died.
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- And so it is an interesting time in history.
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- And then you read in revelation chapter 20, it talks about a
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- Thousand-year period at the end of this six thousand year of
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- Bible history - talking about the bible ages - for a total of
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- 7000, which is kind of an interesting number.
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- You know the bible says 'a day with the lord is like a thousand
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- Years and a thousand years like a day.' god seems to work on a
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- Pattern in the bible where you work six days and you rest one.
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- And here you've got like six thousand years for the plan of
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- Salvation. here we are near the end of that
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- Period and then a thousand years - it says the saints live and
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- Reign with christ - it's almost like a thousand-year
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- Sabbath, if you will. so just kind of give this to you
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- In - in your mind here i'll put a chart up here you've got these
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- Three epochs you get 2000 years of the patriarchs, 2000 years
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- Of the jews, 2000 years of the church - or spiritual israel -
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- Then a thousand years where we live and reign with christ.
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- We're living right at that time that would be of great interest.
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- I frankly think that we're living in the generation that's
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- Going to see the culmination of all that's been foretold.
- 00:13:24.385 --> 00:13:27.288
- I know what some of you are thinking.
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- 'pastor doug, you pastors have been talking about jesus coming
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- Again now for thousands of years, and it hasn't come yet.'
- 00:13:32.260 --> 00:13:37.298
- When he does come you'll think it's too soon.
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- And you know what that means one of these days one of us is going
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- To be right. he is going to come.
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- >> friends, in just a moment, we're going to continue
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- Some more amazing facts from the word of god.
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- >> keep in mind god told abraham
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- That through his descendants the messiah would come.
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- Every jewish girl hoped that she would be the mother
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- Of the messiah. 100 years went by 200 years went by.
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- They kept saying 'he's coming he's coming.' 'the messiah is
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- Coming.' 500 years went by - 1000 years went by and they
- 00:14:53.908 --> 00:14:58.980
- Started losing faith. 'yeah, they say the messiah is
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- Coming.' finally when jesus did come, 2000 years
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- Later were they ready? >>no.
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- >>could that happen again? >>yes.
- 00:15:06.888 --> 00:15:09.123
- >>they were on that time. what are some of the signs
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- Of the nearness of christ? there's our question
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- Number three. now, if you've got your bibles
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- - i don't know if you brought a bible with you but
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- I'll read it to you. if you go to matthew chapter 24
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- Jesus is talking about signs of the second coming: "you will
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- Hear of wars and rumors of wars. see that you're not troubled.
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- All these things must come to pass."
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- He said there's going to be war but a war is not a sign -
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- There's been wars all along - "the end is not yet.
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- Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom and
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- There will be famines and pestilence" - those are plagues
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- - "and earthquakes in various places.
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- All these are at the beginning of sorrows then they will
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- Deliver you up to tribulation and kill you and you'll be hated
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- Of all nations for my name's sake and many will be offended
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- And betray one another and many will hate one another.
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- Many false prophets will rise and deceive many and because
- 00:15:59.574 --> 00:16:03.177
- Lawlessness will abound the love of many will grow cold."
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- - and hear its promises - "but he that endures to the end will
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- Be saved." - he said, 'don't lose patience'
- 00:16:08.483 --> 00:16:13.354
- - even revelation says 'here is the patience of the saints.' why
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- Do you think we need patience? he's coming soon and some people
- 00:16:17.225 --> 00:16:20.661
- Are saying, 'aw, is he ever going to come?'
- 00:16:20.661 --> 00:16:22.830
- Hold on. he's coming again. so now let's take apart some of
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- The signs that we just looked at talking about the
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- Signs of the end. talked about wars and rumors of
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- Wars - political instability. do we have that in
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- The world today? >>yep.
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- >>yeah, you know, just in the news in the last few days.
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- Not only is north korea continuing to push the envelope
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- And test the distance it can deliver ballistic missiles, but
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- Iran is now testing missiles and they've made it very clear
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- There's some countries they don't like very much.
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- We're one of them. israel's another.
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- I mean right now it's - it's like the whole middle east is a
- 00:16:55.363 --> 00:16:59.000
- Powder keg. and, unfortunately, man has
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- Never made a weapon he did not use.
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- That's a historical fact. and you just wonder, at one
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- Point, is somebody going to get a hold of a forbidden nuclear
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- Weapon from the cold war or what's going to happen.
- 00:17:11.012 --> 00:17:14.182
- You know revelation tells us that god has his angels holding
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- Back the winds of strife so that the gospel can go forward.
- 00:17:18.486 --> 00:17:22.390
- I think the only thing that's giving us this window of peace
- 00:17:22.390 --> 00:17:25.560
- Is that the lord is holding back the winds of strife to give us
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- An opportunity to share the good news while time remains.
- 00:17:29.063 --> 00:17:32.567
- Wars and rumors of wars. i saw an interesting fact.
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- You know the world spends over one hundred million dollars an
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- Hour on soldiers, ammunition, and war machines.
- 00:17:39.373 --> 00:17:44.979
- And you think about the american military what it costs every
- 00:17:44.979 --> 00:17:47.248
- Hour and the - russia and china and these - a hundred million
- 00:17:47.248 --> 00:17:50.618
- Dollars an hour is spent on preparing for these.
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- Not only wars and rumors of wars, the bible talked about
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- Earthquakes in various places - not only earthquakes -
- 00:17:56.457 --> 00:18:00.261
- Earthquake - the one there in 2004 triggered the tsunami.
- 00:18:00.261 --> 00:18:04.465
- And 250,000 people perished. and everyone keeps saying, on
- 00:18:04.465 --> 00:18:11.272
- The west coast, when is the big one going to come?
- 00:18:11.272 --> 00:18:13.908
- And we've already seen some terrible catastrophes
- 00:18:13.908 --> 00:18:16.744
- With earthquakes. i saw a fact that came from the
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- Geological society of america and the national earthquake
- 00:18:19.280 --> 00:18:23.217
- Information center that, between 2004 and 2014, 18 earthquakes
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- With a magnitude of 8.0 or more rattled subduction
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- Zones around the globe. this is an increase of 265
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- Percent over the average rate of the previous century.
- 00:18:35.963 --> 00:18:40.234
- Now while i talk about signs like war and rumor of war and
- 00:18:40.301 --> 00:18:44.639
- Plagues and earthquakes, keep in mind there have always been
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- These things. what the lord is talking about
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- Is when the frequency and intensity increases.
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- When karen and i had children and she was great with child
- 00:18:58.152 --> 00:19:03.191
- Every now and then she'd get a labor pain.
- 00:19:03.191 --> 00:19:05.459
- I think they call the early ones braxton hicks contractions or
- 00:19:05.459 --> 00:19:08.863
- Something. and you know your reaction could
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- Be, 'oh, i'm feeling something - we'll run for the doctor.' and
- 00:19:12.700 --> 00:19:15.903
- They'll often smile and send you home and say, 'first one?
- 00:19:15.903 --> 00:19:18.973
- Relax, you've got a ways to go.' and, you know, usually that
- 00:19:18.973 --> 00:19:22.009
- Ninth month they are ready to be delivered.
- 00:19:22.009 --> 00:19:25.947
- They want to have that baby. but when, all of a sudden, the
- 00:19:25.947 --> 00:19:30.384
- Pains begin come closer together with more frequency and they
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- Become more intense, then you know there's going to be a baby.
- 00:19:35.623 --> 00:19:41.996
- And, as you near the end of time, you'll see the signs that
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- Jesus talked about - wars well last century we had two world
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- Wars. and it almost looks like we're
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- On the brink of a third, the way things are going.
- 00:19:52.240 --> 00:19:54.208
- That's not a normal war. it's a world war and nuclear
- 00:19:54.208 --> 00:19:58.479
- Weapons and atomic bombs - and the intensity of these things,
- 00:19:58.479 --> 00:20:03.651
- Including the earthquakes and natural disasters.
- 00:20:03.651 --> 00:20:05.586
- It seems like they increase and intensify.
- 00:20:05.586 --> 00:20:08.456
- So that's something to keep in mind.
- 00:20:08.456 --> 00:20:10.558
- Plagues, pestilence - jesus talked about.
- 00:20:10.558 --> 00:20:13.327
- I think don't we all shudder from the terrible images that we
- 00:20:13.327 --> 00:20:16.664
- Saw coming from west africa with the ebola break out recently but
- 00:20:16.664 --> 00:20:21.002
- That's not the worst plague. little more than a hundred years
- 00:20:21.002 --> 00:20:24.071
- Ago in 19 - i guess a little less than a hundred years ago -
- 00:20:24.071 --> 00:20:27.675
- In 1917 - 1918 they had the - an influenza epidemic and you know
- 00:20:27.675 --> 00:20:34.248
- That it killed more people than world war i?
- 00:20:34.248 --> 00:20:36.851
- About 40 million people died from a strain of the flu.
- 00:20:36.851 --> 00:20:42.657
- And now, with all the antibiotics, science is telling
- 00:20:42.657 --> 00:20:45.293
- Us that the possibility of a very resistant strain - a super
- 00:20:45.293 --> 00:20:49.897
- Bug could be spread very quickly cause - i travel a lot; you get
- 00:20:49.897 --> 00:20:55.269
- On these airplanes all it takes is one sick person coughing it's
- 00:20:55.269 --> 00:20:57.805
- Pumped through the ventilation system and boy, the airline
- 00:20:57.805 --> 00:21:01.309
- Industry around the world is a very effective way to spread the
- 00:21:01.309 --> 00:21:04.578
- Virus around the world. and so, governments are aware of
- 00:21:04.578 --> 00:21:08.282
- That and they are very carefully guarding - you remember, with
- 00:21:08.282 --> 00:21:10.918
- The ebola - people flying - they were screening everybody because
- 00:21:10.918 --> 00:21:13.688
- They could see how quickly this could spread. again, it's just
- 00:21:13.688 --> 00:21:16.590
- The grace of god that's holding these things back right now.
- 00:21:16.590 --> 00:21:20.227
- One of the signs jesus gives of the last days is violence.
- 00:21:20.227 --> 00:21:24.398
- Christ said, 'as it was in the days of noah, and as it was in
- 00:21:24.398 --> 00:21:28.102
- The days of lot, so will it be in the days when the son of man
- 00:21:28.102 --> 00:21:31.339
- Returns.' what was it like back in the days of noah?
- 00:21:31.339 --> 00:21:34.608
- You read in genesis chapter 6, 'the thoughts of men's hearts
- 00:21:34.608 --> 00:21:38.245
- Were only evil continually and violence filled the land.' the
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- Bible tells us that it grieved the lord in his heart that he'd
- 00:21:43.584 --> 00:21:46.587
- Even made man. and so you consider that.
- 00:21:46.587 --> 00:21:50.057
- Do we have that kind of violence in the world today?
- 00:21:50.057 --> 00:21:52.960
- Here's an interesting fact. every day more american youth
- 00:21:53.027 --> 00:21:56.197
- Die in gang violence than fighting in foreign wars.
- 00:21:56.197 --> 00:22:01.469
- I understand that 2016 in chicago there were over
- 00:22:01.469 --> 00:22:04.472
- 718 murders. that's more people being
- 00:22:04.472 --> 00:22:10.945
- Murdered in one u.s. city. than our soldiers were slain in
- 00:22:10.945 --> 00:22:15.950
- The last six years fighting in the middle east. violence.
- 00:22:15.950 --> 00:22:22.223
- One of the signs of the last days.
- 00:22:22.223 --> 00:22:23.624
- And, if you don't mind my just saying here, i don't think it
- 00:22:23.624 --> 00:22:26.861
- Should surprise us when - if you scan through the television,
- 00:22:26.861 --> 00:22:30.564
- You're going to find people are entertained by violence.
- 00:22:30.564 --> 00:22:33.734
- And if we're entertained by violence we tend to reproduce -
- 00:22:33.734 --> 00:22:37.204
- Especially young people. they see hundreds and thousands
- 00:22:37.204 --> 00:22:39.440
- Of murders as they grow up and you sort of become
- 00:22:39.440 --> 00:22:41.575
- Callous and indifferent. and they see all this shooting
- 00:22:41.575 --> 00:22:44.979
- On television and they don't realize the distinction between
- 00:22:44.979 --> 00:22:47.148
- A real gun and what it's going to do to a life and fiction.
- 00:22:47.148 --> 00:22:51.652
- And there's just this cold indifference. immorality.
- 00:22:51.652 --> 00:22:57.858
- Porn - i saw study not too long ago that - it's kind of
- 00:22:57.858 --> 00:23:04.231
- Shocking. 12 percent of all internet
- 00:23:04.231 --> 00:23:07.535
- Websites are pornographic - and there are millions of
- 00:23:07.535 --> 00:23:11.138
- Websites - twelve percent. thirty five percent of all
- 00:23:11.138 --> 00:23:14.275
- Internet downloads are pornographic in content.
- 00:23:14.275 --> 00:23:18.012
- 25 percent of online search engine requests are related to
- 00:23:18.012 --> 00:23:21.849
- Sex. forty million americans consider
- 00:23:21.849 --> 00:23:24.852
- Themselves regular visitors to porn sites.
- 00:23:24.852 --> 00:23:27.621
- The average age for the first exposure to porn is 11 years old
- 00:23:27.621 --> 00:23:31.258
- - average age. it's just saturating our society
- 00:23:31.258 --> 00:23:37.097
- And things that were once considered, you know, immoral
- 00:23:37.097 --> 00:23:40.734
- It's just becoming a way of life.
- 00:23:40.734 --> 00:23:43.204
- People are becoming calloused to purity that god is calling us
- 00:23:43.204 --> 00:23:46.574
- To. and you know i just can't rush
- 00:23:46.574 --> 00:23:49.076
- By this without mentioning something i think we're all
- 00:23:49.076 --> 00:23:51.245
- Aware of, that the bible says 'as it was in the days of sodom,
- 00:23:51.245 --> 00:23:56.150
- So shall it be in the days when the son of man comes' - and i'm,
- 00:23:56.150 --> 00:23:59.720
- Frankly, very disappointed that we've become fuzzy on the
- 00:23:59.720 --> 00:24:03.624
- Distinctions between men and women when it comes to marriage.
- 00:24:03.624 --> 00:24:06.994
- I don't want to be unkind.
- 00:24:06.994 --> 00:24:08.662
- I realize it's very politically incorrect to say that,
- 00:24:08.662 --> 00:24:11.532
- But i'm going to be here and tell you what the bible says.
- 00:24:11.532 --> 00:24:15.002
- Overpopulation.
- 00:24:15.002 --> 00:24:18.272
- You know i saw a study - i actually looked it up to check
- 00:24:18.272 --> 00:24:22.276
- My facts today. right now we're bordering on,
- 00:24:22.276 --> 00:24:24.979
- You know, seven and a half billion people in the world.
- 00:24:24.979 --> 00:24:28.716
- It took approximately five thousand years - i think it was
- 00:24:28.716 --> 00:24:32.786
- 1829 - the world got the first billion people - 5000 years to
- 00:24:32.786 --> 00:24:37.191
- Get 1 billion. then it was about 123 years
- 00:24:37.191 --> 00:24:40.661
- After that just 123 year to get the second billion.
- 00:24:40.661 --> 00:24:44.431
- Then about 30 years after that to get the third billion.
- 00:24:44.431 --> 00:24:47.735
- I remember when there were only 3 billion people and i'm not
- 00:24:47.735 --> 00:24:49.970
- That old - in the world - and in my life the world population has
- 00:24:49.970 --> 00:24:55.209
- More than doubled from 3 billion to 7 something billion.
- 00:24:55.209 --> 00:25:00.047
- There's actually a website you can go to and it will clock for
- 00:25:00.047 --> 00:25:03.083
- You how people are being born - how quickly - it's kind of
- 00:25:03.083 --> 00:25:05.686
- Staggering to just sit there and look that - how many people - 90
- 00:25:05.686 --> 00:25:09.189
- Million people are being added to the world's population every
- 00:25:09.189 --> 00:25:12.893
- Year - 90 million people - that's including the ones you
- 00:25:12.893 --> 00:25:15.996
- Deduct for death 90 million new people drawing on the resources
- 00:25:15.996 --> 00:25:21.602
- Of the planet. karen and i've been to china a few times.
- 00:25:21.602 --> 00:25:25.773
- Let me tell you there are a lot of people in china.
- 00:25:25.773 --> 00:25:28.375
- I remember in shanghai - i grew up in new york city -
- 00:25:28.375 --> 00:25:30.511
- That's a busy city and it's a very populated city, but i got
- 00:25:30.511 --> 00:25:36.183
- To china i feel like i was driving through new york city
- 00:25:36.183 --> 00:25:39.053
- Downtown for an hour and it never stopped - like 24 million
- 00:25:39.053 --> 00:25:43.557
- People - this one city but it's growing. and this just tells us
- 00:25:43.557 --> 00:25:49.229
- It can't last forever. that's why jesus said 'except
- 00:25:49.229 --> 00:25:52.066
- Those days be shortened no flesh would be saved; but for the
- 00:25:52.066 --> 00:25:55.235
- Elect's sake those d'ays will be shortened.
- 00:25:55.235 --> 00:25:57.271
- In other words, if he did not come on time and if he doesn't
- 00:25:57.271 --> 00:25:59.873
- Cut it short, nobody would survive.
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- So the lord has to come soon
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- >> amen.
- 00:26:04.244 --> 00:26:05.579
- >> or there'll be nothing to come for.
- 00:26:05.579 --> 00:26:07.381
- And another reason i think is coming soon is everybody is
- 00:26:07.381 --> 00:26:09.583
- Going to believe that jesus is coming when the whole world just
- 00:26:09.583 --> 00:26:12.686
- Sort of begins to swallow itself.
- 00:26:12.686 --> 00:26:15.122
- But it may be a little before that because he said in such
- 00:26:15.122 --> 00:26:17.424
- An hour you think not the son of man is coming.
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- And thank you for your continued support as we take the gospel
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- Of jesus christ to the world. we hope you'll join us next week
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- As we delve deep into the word of god
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- To explore more amazing facts.
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