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Doug Batchelor - Signs Of The Coming King (Part 1)

January 5, 2025 | S25:E1

Doug Batchelor - Signs Of The Coming King (Part 1)
Pastor Doug Batchelor is an energetic speaker of vision and deep spirituality.
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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
  • 00:12:41.643 --> 00:12:44.746
  • 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
  • 00:12:52.153 --> 00:12:55.023
  • 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 -
  • 00:13:09.504 --> 00:13:13.508
  • 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
  • 00:13:21.382 --> 00:13:24.385
  • 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
  • 00:13:28.890 --> 00:13:32.260
  • Again now for thousands of years, and it hasn't come yet.'
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  • 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
  • 00:13:41.636 --> 00:13:43.905
  • 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.
  • 00:14:46.167 --> 00:14:51.839
  • They kept saying 'he's coming he's coming.' 'the messiah is
  • 00:14:51.839 --> 00:14:53.908
  • 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
  • 00:14:58.980 --> 00:15:00.949
  • Coming.' finally when jesus did come, 2000 years
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  • Later were they ready? >>no.
  • 00:15:04.385 --> 00:15:06.888
  • >>could that happen again? >>yes.
  • 00:15:06.888 --> 00:15:09.123
  • >>they were on that time. what are some of the signs
  • 00:15:09.123 --> 00:15:12.393
  • 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
  • 00:15:17.932 --> 00:15:19.734
  • 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
  • 00:15:22.971 --> 00:15:27.075
  • 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."
  • 00:16:03.177 --> 00:16:06.381
  • - and hear its promises - "but he that endures to the end will
  • 00:16:06.381 --> 00:16:08.483
  • 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
  • 00:16:13.354 --> 00:16:17.225
  • 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
  • 00:16:22.830 --> 00:16:26.367
  • The signs that we just looked at talking about the
  • 00:16:26.367 --> 00:16:29.003
  • Signs of the end. talked about wars and rumors of
  • 00:16:29.003 --> 00:16:31.739
  • Wars - political instability. do we have that in
  • 00:16:31.739 --> 00:16:34.942
  • The world today? >>yep.
  • 00:16:34.942 --> 00:16:37.078
  • >>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
  • 00:16:43.584 --> 00:16:47.655
  • Iran is now testing missiles and they've made it very clear
  • 00:16:47.655 --> 00:16:50.491
  • 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
  • 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:02.236
  • Never made a weapon he did not use.
  • 00:17:02.236 --> 00:17:04.505
  • That's a historical fact. and you just wonder, at one
  • 00:17:04.505 --> 00:17:07.875
  • 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
  • 00:17:14.182 --> 00:17:18.486
  • Back the winds of strife so that the gospel can go forward.
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  • 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.
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  • Wars and rumors of wars. i saw an interesting fact.
  • 00:17:32.567 --> 00:17:36.137
  • You know the world spends over one hundred million dollars an
  • 00:17:36.137 --> 00:17:39.373
  • 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
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  • 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.
  • 00:17:50.618 --> 00:17:54.255
  • 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.
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  • 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?
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  • And we've already seen some terrible catastrophes
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  • With earthquakes. i saw a fact that came from the
  • 00:18:16.744 --> 00:18:19.280
  • 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.
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  • 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
  • 00:18:49.710 --> 00:18:52.747
  • 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
  • 00:19:08.863 --> 00:19:12.700
  • 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
  • 00:19:41.996 --> 00:19:45.933
  • Jesus talked about - wars well last century we had two world
  • 00:19:45.933 --> 00:19:49.870
  • Wars. and it almost looks like we're
  • 00:19:49.870 --> 00:19:52.240
  • 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,
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  • 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
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  • 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
  • 00:21:38.245 --> 00:21:43.584
  • 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.
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  • I remember in shanghai - i grew up in new york city -
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  • That's a busy city and it's a very populated city, but i got
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  • To china i feel like i was driving through new york city
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  • Downtown for an hour and it never stopped - like 24 million
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  • People - this one city but it's growing. and this just tells us
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  • It can't last forever. that's why jesus said 'except
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  • Those days be shortened no flesh would be saved; but for the
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  • Elect's sake those d'ays will be shortened.
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  • In other words, if he did not come on time and if he doesn't
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  • Cut it short, nobody would survive.
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  • So the lord has to come soon
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  • >> amen.
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  • >> or there'll be nothing to come for.
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  • And another reason i think is coming soon is everybody is
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  • Going to believe that jesus is coming when the whole world just
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  • Sort of begins to swallow itself.
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  • But it may be a little before that because he said in such
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  • An hour you think not the son of man is coming.
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