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Amazing Facts | Doug Batchelor - The Spirits of Armageddon (Part 1) | August 10, 2025
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- Coming to you from new york city at the historic manhattan center
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- With your host, doug batchelor, join this exciting journey of
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- Discovery as we learn the truth about bible prophecy, explore
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- The timeless wisdom of god's word, and see how it relates to
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- Our lives today.
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- Stay tuned, your "amazing facts" adventure begins now.
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- Doug batchelor: you know the bible says christians don't die.
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- Eternal life begins now.
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- Jesus said, "the kingdom of heaven is at hand."
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- And while a christian may sleep, like the grave says, rest in
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- Peace, it's temporary, amen?
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- But there are a lot of misunderstandings and not
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- Knowing what the bible teaches about death can set you up for a
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- Major deception in the last days, and that's why our lesson
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- Titled "the spirits of armageddon" is a very
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- Important one.
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- Gonna start with an amazing fact.
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- Queen victoria of england,
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- She was very close to prince albert.
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- They had several children, but they were always intrigued by
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- Psychics and mediums that could ostensibly communicate with the
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- Dead, and they both participated in seances in the
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- Royal residence.
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- After prince albert died, there was a young man, he was a
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- 13-year-old medium named robert lee--robert james lee.
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- He claimed that during a seance he had heard from prince albert,
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- And he had a message for queen victoria.
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- And intrigued, you know, if you're gonna get a message from
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- Someone you love on the other side, you'll fall for almost
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- Anything, they invited this young man, and during the time
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- Of the seance, he spoke with albert's voice, and he used a
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- Pet name that only victoria and he were aware of.
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- Was this really prince albert speaking from the other side?
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- Victoria continued to hold these seances with various mediums,
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- And she was known to seek her husband's, her dead husband's,
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- Advice in political matters, and i think we're not surprised
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- By this.
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- A few years ago, we remember when hillary clinton visited
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- With a friend who was a medium and wanted to communicate with
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- Eleanor roosevelt.
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- And in order to be fair, nancy reagan, after they attempted an
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- Assassination of ronald reagan, she had a friend that was
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- Consulting his astrological charts and tried to match it up
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- With his schedule.
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- Do you know the bible says that this is going to be something
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- That will happen more frequently in the last days?
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- Now, we've been going out on the streets of the city and getting
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- Some information, just what do people think about death and
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- Communicating with the dead and resurrection.
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- So let's find out what our man on the street has to say on
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- This subject.
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- Male 1: our souls, our soul deteriorates.
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- Once we die, our soul dies with us, that's why we rot.
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- Female 1: some people believe in, you know, turning into
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- Another being, or creature, or whatever else, but i think that
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- Once our soul goes back into, you know, god, we just become
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- Part of the earth and live eternal.
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- Male 2: probably nothing.
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- You just, you disintegrate, and that's it.
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- Female 2: i think that we go see the angels.
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- I think we, i don't know, we go see heaven.
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- Male 3: i think our body reverts to energy.
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- Male 4: ghosts, they're like, i don't know, phantom
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- Photoplasmic beings.
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- Like, they don't exist within our realm, but they're able to
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- Come here.
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- And real, i'd say, yeah, i think a little bit they're real.
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- Female 3: oh, i don't know what they are cause i don't think
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- They are real.
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- Female 4: again, i don't know if it's real or not, but sometimes
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- I feel that you can feel somebody's present.
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- Is that a ghost or not?
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- I don't know.
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- Male 5: ghosts are paranoia, but it could be real, it could not,
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- Depending on the person and depending on situation.
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- Male 6: dead people that you can't see,
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- And i do believe in ghosts.
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- Male 7: you know, i don't, i don't think the dead can
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- Communicate back, but i can tell you this, at my father's eulogy,
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- The last thing i said was, my hand on his casket, and said,
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- "i'll be talking to you."
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- Female 5: yeah, probably, it could be, you know,
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- A possibility.
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- Female 6: i'm gonna say yes 'cause i have a healthy fear
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- Of ghosts.
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- Female 7: yes, i talk to my husband every night.
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- Male 8: i don't know that the dead would be interested.
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- Male 9: yes, under certain circumstances, that it's
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- Possible for the living to speak with the dead because king saul
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- Went to the witch of endor and had the shade of the prophet
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- Rose in the old testament.
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- That's why i believe it's possible under the
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- Right circumstances.
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- Now, was he supposed to?
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- No.
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- Was it forbidden?
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- Yes, but it can be done.
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- Doug: well, the last gentleman there wasn't that far off about
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- Something we're gonna talk about.
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- I think some of the people are getting their information from
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- "ghostbusters" or something, but i think it's clear to everybody
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- There is a lot of chaos, confusion in the world out there
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- About what happens with that final destination.
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- What's going on?
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- Where do we get our answers?
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- What does the bible have to say about this?
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- Now, our lesson is called the "spirits of armageddon."
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- I want to read this to you.
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- If you have your bibles, go to revelation chapter 16, and if
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- You start with verse 12, it's talking about the sixth plague,
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- "and the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river
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- Euphrates; and its water was dried up," it is just
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- Interesting to me that the euphrates river is going dry,
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- "so the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
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- And i saw three unclean spirits like frogs coming out of the
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- Mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of
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- The mouth of the false prophet.
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- For they are the spirits of demons, performing signs,
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- Miracles, which go out to the kings of the earth and the whole
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- World, to gather them to the battle
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- Of the great day of god almighty."
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- And right after it says that, if you've got a red
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- Letter in your bible, the words of jesus say, "behold, i am
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- Coming as a thief.
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- Blessed is he who watches and keeps his garments, lest they
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- Walk naked and see his shame."
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- You remember when we talked about the second coming, the
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- First thing christ said was, "beware that no man
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- Deceives you."
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- There's gonna be massive diabolical deception just before
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- The lord returns.
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- Now to understand our study today, you need to know
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- Something about a story.
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- It happens in the first book of samuel, chapter 28.
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- King saul, the first thing--first king of israel, he
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- Started out, god had chosen him, he's a good king, but he
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- Gradually became corrupted by power, and he drove away the
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- Holy spirit, until finally god would not answer him.
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- He killed the priests of god.
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- And then when all the philistines gathered against him
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- For this massive battle, he said,
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- "i need the priest to talk to me."
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- They wouldn't speak.
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- "i need a message from god.
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- Is there anything from the prophets?"
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- They would not speak to him.
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- He had grieved away the holy spirit.
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- So he said, "well, give me a witch to call up
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- The spirit of samuel."
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- And he went to the witch of endor, and she went through her
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- Incantations, and this apparition appears that claims
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- To be samuel and gave a totally discouraging message to king
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- Saul, said, "why'd you wake me up?
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- You're gonna be with me tomorrow, and your sons are
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- Gonna die because you forsook the lord, and david's gonna
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- Be king."
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- The next day in battle, they were defeated by
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- The philistines.
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- Saul wounded, discouraged, fell on his sword.
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- You ever heard that expression?
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- He fe--he took his own life, grieved away the holy spirit
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- Like judas, who hung himself.
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- And you can read in the bible about ahitophel, who betrayed
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- David, hung himself.
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- People who grieve away the spirit, sometimes they lose
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- All hope.
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- Now the question is, was that samuel the prophet?
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- Does a witch have the power to resurrect?
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- Or are there evil spirits that work miracles to deceive the
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- Kings of the earth before the final battle?
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- The story of what happened there with king saul is an allegory of
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- What's also going to be happening in the last days.
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- So, let's find out what the bible says.
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- Go to our questions and answers, lesson number 9 in your
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- "prophecy odyssey" series.
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- Was the spirit conjured by the witch really samuel the prophet?
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- What does the bible say?
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- 1 kings 22, verse 21: "then a spirit came forward and stood
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- Before the lord, and said...'i will go out and be a,
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- A lying'"--what?
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- Got it on your screen?
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- "a lying spirit in the mouth of his prophets."
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- Are there lying spirits out there?
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- A lot of people, when they say, "i think i saw a ghost," they
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- Saw a fallen angel that may be impersonating the dead.
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- Let me ask you, we talked about queen victoria, prince albert,
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- Did the devil know what prince albert's pet name was
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- For victoria?
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- Sure he did, the devil's got lots of inside information
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- About you.
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- Not only does god have guardian angels, you can be sure the
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- Devil's got angels that know you too that are trying to tempt you
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- And trip you up.
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- Bible's pretty clear.
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- Read in 1 chronicles 10:13: "so saul died for his unfaithfulness
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- Which he had committed against the lord, because he did not
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- Keep the word of the lord, also because he consulted a medium
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- For guidance."
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- It says it was a medium.
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- They communicate with evil spirits, and those evil spirits,
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- Satan can appear as an angel of light.
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- Isn't that what the bible says?
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- Those evil spirits can deceive.
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- Question number 2: through what agency will satan gather the
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- Armies to the final battle of armageddon?
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- It tells us, "i saw three unclean spirits like," what?
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- "frogs."
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- Now, you ever been bitten by a frog?
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- Scratched by a frog?
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- What's the frog's most powerful rapid weapon?
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- Its tongue, and it's gonna be through these messages that go
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- Out, these spiritual messages, that's gonna deceive the world.
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- By the way, frogs were one of the plagues that fell on
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- Ancient egypt.
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- "three unclean spirits like frogs coming out of the mouth of
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- The dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth
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- Of the false prophet.
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- For they are the spirits of," what?
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- "demons, performing signs, that go out to the kings of the
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- Earth," and they will claim to be deceased prophets, saints,
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- And apostles, and they're gonna be manipulating world leaders to
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- Make decisions that will bring about the final battle of
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- Armageddon, "to gather them to the battle of that great day of
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- God..and they gathered them together in a place called in
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- The hebrew tongue, armageddon."
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- Now, armageddon is a word appears one time in the bible.
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- It's found there in genesis--i'm sorry, revelation chapter 16.
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- But the valley of megiddo, we believe har megiddo means the
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- Mount of megiddo, there's a mountain up above megiddo, and
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- This great valley, many pivotal battles happened there,
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- Including the battle where saul died, the battle where king
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- Josiah died, the battle where gideon--by the way, gideon
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- Fought against a threefold alliance in the valley of
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- Megiddo, it says that the midianites, and the amalekites,
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- And the people of the east, a three-fold enemy.
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- Revelation talks about the beast, the dragon, the
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- False prophet.
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- And gideon fought with the armor of god, and he won the battle.
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- He blew a trumpet, "lift up thy voice like a trumpet," the word
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- Of god.
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- "pull out a sword," said the sword of the lord.
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- "the word of god is sharper than any two-edged sword."
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- They broke the pitchers, and the lamp was shining, "thy word is a
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- Lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path."
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- How do we win the battle of armageddon?
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- By the word of god, "thy word i've hidden in my heart that i
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- Might not sin against thee."
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- Friends, there's a lot of distractions in the world today,
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- Christians need to read their bibles, amen?
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- The word of god has not changed, our weapon has not changed.
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- We need to know what the word of god says.
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- Number 3: do the dead come back to converse with or haunt
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- The living?
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- If you believe the people on the streets, they think, a lot of
- 00:13:08.270 --> 00:13:10.739
- Them think, "oh yeah."
- 00:13:10.739 --> 00:13:12.741
- But where we get our answer, man on the street or the bible?
- 00:13:12.741 --> 00:13:18.047
- The word of god is where you find truth.
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- Do the dead come back to haunt the living?
- 00:13:20.783 --> 00:13:22.551
- What does the bible say?
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- Job, speaking of someone who had died, "his sons come to honor,
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- And he does not know it; they're brought low, and he does not
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- Perceive it."
- 00:13:33.529 --> 00:13:35.264
- Now, my father's mother, grandma batchelor, was a, a dedicated
- 00:13:35.264 --> 00:13:42.771
- Christian, and she went to church, and i hope to see her in
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- The kingdom.
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- And if suddenly grandma batchelor should appear and say,
- 00:13:48.277 --> 00:13:52.514
- "doug, i've got messages for you."
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- Here, you get the cemetery.
- 00:13:55.684 --> 00:13:58.087
- Poof, there's grandma batchelor, okay?
- 00:13:58.087 --> 00:14:01.323
- And she said, "doug, i need to tell you that you don't need to
- 00:14:01.323 --> 00:14:04.627
- Worry so much about the bible because things have changed and
- 00:14:04.627 --> 00:14:08.564
- The bible's an old book.
- 00:14:08.564 --> 00:14:09.932
- It's gone from person to person, and it's been changed over time,
- 00:14:09.932 --> 00:14:12.368
- And you can't really trust it.
- 00:14:12.368 --> 00:14:14.169
- Everybody's gonna make it to heaven, just live the way you
- 00:14:14.169 --> 00:14:16.739
- Wanna live."
- 00:14:16.739 --> 00:14:18.574
- Should i believe what grandma batchelor says to me through an
- 00:14:18.574 --> 00:14:21.076
- Apparition or should i believe the word of god?
- 00:14:21.076 --> 00:14:24.713
- But it looked just like grandma batchelor, and it sounded just
- 00:14:24.713 --> 00:14:29.985
- Like her, and it even smelled a little bit like
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- Grandma batchelor.
- 00:14:33.489 --> 00:14:35.324
- Does the devil know all about grandma batchelor?
- 00:14:35.324 --> 00:14:39.094
- Don't be deceived, because the devil can create illusions.
- 00:14:39.094 --> 00:14:41.964
- Now someone's gonna say, "oh, pastor doug, my departed loved
- 00:14:41.964 --> 00:14:46.001
- Ones, i just sense their presence, and it's so powerful."
- 00:14:46.001 --> 00:14:51.140
- That's normal.
- 00:14:51.140 --> 00:14:52.908
- You know, if you're married to someone for 50 years, and then
- 00:14:52.908 --> 00:14:55.744
- They die, and you find yourself feeling their presence, your
- 00:14:55.744 --> 00:15:02.551
- Mind is absolutely saturated with memories of that person,
- 00:15:02.551 --> 00:15:06.322
- And it's gonna be normal to think of them.
- 00:15:06.322 --> 00:15:09.291
- I remember years after my brother died, i always had
- 00:15:09.291 --> 00:15:11.961
- Falcon on auto dial, i'd just press one button, and i'd talk
- 00:15:11.961 --> 00:15:15.331
- To him, and we'd visit and hang up, and, and even after he died,
- 00:15:15.331 --> 00:15:19.034
- I didn't have the heart to delete his messages to me.
- 00:15:19.034 --> 00:15:24.106
- And one day, i picked up the phone to call him and i had
- 00:15:24.106 --> 00:15:28.043
- Forgotten that he was dead.
- 00:15:28.043 --> 00:15:30.779
- I don't know if any of you have had that experience.
- 00:15:30.779 --> 00:15:32.982
- I know saints that are married for years, and they have a
- 00:15:32.982 --> 00:15:36.251
- Problem, and they call down the hall, "jack, can you come give
- 00:15:36.251 --> 00:15:38.354
- Me a hand?"
- 00:15:38.354 --> 00:15:39.722
- And they forgot jack's been dead ten years.
- 00:15:39.722 --> 00:15:42.791
- They, and they felt his presence.
- 00:15:42.791 --> 00:15:44.727
- Well, you feel their presence because your brain is filled
- 00:15:44.727 --> 00:15:46.862
- With the person, but what does the bible say?
- 00:15:46.862 --> 00:15:50.499
- The bible says they're asleep.
- 00:15:50.499 --> 00:15:53.902
- Ecclesiastes 9, verse 5, do we believe the wisest man who ever
- 00:15:53.902 --> 00:15:57.573
- Lived, solomon?
- 00:15:57.573 --> 00:15:59.575
- "for the living know that they will die; but the dead," how
- 00:15:59.575 --> 00:16:04.079
- Much do they know?
- 00:16:04.079 --> 00:16:05.881
- "know nothing, they have no more a reward for the me"--meaning in
- 00:16:05.881 --> 00:16:10.719
- This life, "they have no more a reward, for the memory of them
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- Is forgotten.
- 00:16:13.722 --> 00:16:15.057
- Also their love, their hatred."
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- If you've got someone that hated you and they died, you don't
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- Have to worry about them haunting you.
- 00:16:18.861 --> 00:16:22.364
- Their love, their hatred, their envy has now perished.
- 00:16:22.364 --> 00:16:28.137
- And you know, it is very liberating once you realize that
- 00:16:28.137 --> 00:16:30.672
- The dead are dead and they're not gonna bother you.
- 00:16:30.672 --> 00:16:32.975
- I don't worry about evil spirits.
- 00:16:32.975 --> 00:16:35.277
- I've got christ, "greater is he that is in you, than he."
- 00:16:35.277 --> 00:16:37.913
- Some people live in absolute fear of the devil, and fallen
- 00:16:37.913 --> 00:16:40.349
- Angels, and ghosts, and that is awful.
- 00:16:40.349 --> 00:16:43.485
- I can walk through a cemetery in the middle of the night and all
- 00:16:43.485 --> 00:16:45.854
- I have to worry about is tripping.
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- I'm not scared those people are gonna come bother me,
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- They're dead.
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- Have you ever gone through a cemetery and read some of
- 00:16:53.929 --> 00:16:56.265
- The tombstones?
- 00:16:56.265 --> 00:16:58.767
- It's very interesting some of the, the scenes you might find.
- 00:16:58.767 --> 00:17:02.538
- Oh, i had a little list, do i still have it here?
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- Yeah.
- 00:17:04.139 --> 00:17:05.641
- I remember one guy, he put on his tombstone, "stop, my friend,
- 00:17:05.641 --> 00:17:11.613
- As you go by.
- 00:17:11.613 --> 00:17:13.849
- As you are now, so once was i. as i am now, you soon shall be.
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- Prepare yourself to follow me."
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- Well, a young man was walking through the cemetery one day
- 00:17:26.528 --> 00:17:29.565
- Coming home from school and he read that, and he pulled a
- 00:17:29.565 --> 00:17:31.834
- Crayon out of his bag, and he wrote on the tombstone, "to
- 00:17:31.834 --> 00:17:35.737
- Follow you, i'm not content until i know just where
- 00:17:35.737 --> 00:17:38.874
- You went."
- 00:17:38.874 --> 00:17:40.275
- Some people have a sense of humor even on their tombstones.
- 00:17:43.245 --> 00:17:47.783
- I think it was dr. james dobson said that his father told his
- 00:17:47.783 --> 00:17:52.321
- Mother, "when i die, i want you to put on my tombstone,
- 00:17:52.321 --> 00:17:55.290
- 'i told her i was sick.'"
- 00:17:55.290 --> 00:17:59.728
- "here lies the body," this is really on a tombstone
- 00:17:59.728 --> 00:18:02.364
- In nantucket, massachusetts, "here lies the
- 00:18:02.364 --> 00:18:05.000
- Body of old man peas, buried beneath the flower and trees,
- 00:18:05.000 --> 00:18:10.239
- But peas ain't here, just the pod.
- 00:18:10.239 --> 00:18:13.208
- Peas shelled out, and he went to god."
- 00:18:13.208 --> 00:18:17.513
- It's not theologically completely correct.
- 00:18:17.513 --> 00:18:20.015
- You know, a lot of them actually say rip.
- 00:18:20.015 --> 00:18:21.817
- What does rip stand for?
- 00:18:21.817 --> 00:18:24.253
- Rest in peace, that is more theologically correct.
- 00:18:24.253 --> 00:18:26.655
- What happens when a person dies?
- 00:18:26.655 --> 00:18:28.423
- They're sleeping, a dreamless sleep.
- 00:18:28.423 --> 00:18:30.626
- You can read in ecclesiastes 9, verse 10, "nevermore will they
- 00:18:30.626 --> 00:18:35.564
- Share in anything done under the sun...for there is no more work
- 00:18:35.564 --> 00:18:41.036
- Or device or," what?
- 00:18:41.036 --> 00:18:43.372
- "knowledge or wisdom in the grave," where you go.
- 00:18:43.372 --> 00:18:47.442
- Psalm 146, "put not your trust in princes, neither in the son
- 00:18:47.442 --> 00:18:51.346
- Of man, in whom there is no help.
- 00:18:51.346 --> 00:18:52.981
- His breath goes forth, and that very day his thoughts perish."
- 00:18:52.981 --> 00:18:57.252
- I could go through 50 scriptures right now, there's just no time.
- 00:18:57.252 --> 00:19:00.389
- Psalm 6, verse 5: "in death there is no remembrance of you."
- 00:19:00.389 --> 00:19:04.860
- "the dead do not praise the lord," psalm 115, verse 17.
- 00:19:04.860 --> 00:19:08.664
- "he shall never return to his house."
- 00:19:08.664 --> 00:19:12.100
- Now, friends, i know some of you are thinking, doesn't the body
- 00:19:12.100 --> 00:19:15.270
- Say--doesn't the bible say in 2 corinthians chapter 5, "to be
- 00:19:15.270 --> 00:19:20.108
- Absent from the body is to be present with the lord?"
- 00:19:20.108 --> 00:19:23.879
- That's true, when a believer dies, their next conscious
- 00:19:23.879 --> 00:19:29.418
- Thought is the resurrection and the presence of the lord.
- 00:19:29.418 --> 00:19:34.890
- But 1,000 years might have gone by, they're not there yet.
- 00:19:34.890 --> 00:19:38.594
- For them, it's like that, in a moment, in the twinkling of
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- An eye.
- 00:19:42.030 --> 00:19:43.398
- But the bible's pretty clear.
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- Is the resurrection past or is it future?
- 00:19:44.766 --> 00:19:47.236
- Read john chapter 6.
- 00:19:47.236 --> 00:19:48.570
- It says over and over, the resurrection,
- 00:19:48.570 --> 00:19:50.305
- The last day, the resurrection, the last day, it's in
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- The future.
- 00:19:52.574 --> 00:19:53.942
- That's when we get our rewards.
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- Can you say amen?
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- Number 4: according to the book of revelation, who has the keys
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- Of death?
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- Revelation 1:18: "i am he who lives, and i was dead, and
- 00:20:03.685 --> 00:20:10.859
- Behold, i am alive forevermore.
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- Amen.
- 00:20:13.161 --> 00:20:14.529
- And i've got the keys of hades," that means the grave,
- 00:20:14.529 --> 00:20:16.898
- "and death."
- 00:20:16.898 --> 00:20:18.267
- The last enemy to be cast in the lake of fire is the grave
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- And death.
- 00:20:21.403 --> 00:20:22.771
- There will be no more death, but the dead are not haunting,
- 00:20:22.771 --> 00:20:27.809
- They're sleeping.
- 00:20:27.809 --> 00:20:29.177
- And the reason we emphasize this in a prophecy seminar is because
- 00:20:29.177 --> 00:20:32.381
- The devil and his demons are going to use this
- 00:20:32.381 --> 00:20:35.384
- Misunderstanding to manipulate the world in the last days with
- 00:20:35.384 --> 00:20:39.921
- The great masterpiece of deception, because they don't
- 00:20:39.921 --> 00:20:43.625
- Know that the dead are dead, and a lot of people try to
- 00:20:43.625 --> 00:20:45.527
- Communicate with the dead.
- 00:20:45.527 --> 00:20:46.895
- Do you know the bible very explicitly forbids that.
- 00:20:46.895 --> 00:20:50.832
- We'll get to those verses in just a minute.
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- If you wanna know something about what happens when you die
- 00:20:52.834 --> 00:20:55.604
- In life, look at how god made us in the beginning.
- 00:20:55.604 --> 00:20:59.775
- Question number 5: how did god make man in the beginning?
- 00:20:59.775 --> 00:21:03.779
- It says, "and the lord god formed man from the," the what?
- 00:21:03.779 --> 00:21:08.517
- "the dust of the ground, and he breathed into his nostrils the
- 00:21:08.517 --> 00:21:13.722
- Breath of life," that word life there, that breath is "ruach" in
- 00:21:13.722 --> 00:21:18.527
- Hebrew, "the breath of life; and man became a living being."
- 00:21:18.527 --> 00:21:23.265
- So you get the elements of earth, god puts him in the right
- 00:21:23.265 --> 00:21:26.401
- Position, he inspires man with this power, this energy, this
- 00:21:26.401 --> 00:21:31.673
- Breath of life, and they became a living being.
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- They're conscious, they're alert, they're thinking.
- 00:21:34.943 --> 00:21:37.412
- Adam was different from most babies born in that adam, when
- 00:21:37.412 --> 00:21:40.182
- He was made, he came factory preinstalled with the ability to
- 00:21:40.182 --> 00:21:45.120
- Walk, and talk, and think, right?
- 00:21:45.120 --> 00:21:47.222
- He had a certain amount of knowledge that he was made with.
- 00:21:47.222 --> 00:21:50.625
- He was not made a baby, he was made a full-grown man, and he
- 00:21:50.625 --> 00:21:54.096
- Was made in the image of god.
- 00:21:54.096 --> 00:21:56.598
- And when a person dies, you've got creation in reverse.
- 00:21:56.598 --> 00:22:01.436
- What happens at death?
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- Question number 6.
- 00:22:02.771 --> 00:22:04.873
- "then the dust will return to the earth as it was,
- 00:22:04.873 --> 00:22:09.044
- And the spirit," that's the same word as breath, it's
- 00:22:09.044 --> 00:22:12.647
- The word ruach, "and the breath will return to god who gave it."
- 00:22:12.647 --> 00:22:17.953
- By the way, ecclesiastes said not just the breath of people,
- 00:22:17.953 --> 00:22:21.490
- Not just the breath of the saved, the breath of the saved,
- 00:22:21.490 --> 00:22:24.459
- The breath of the lost, the breath of animals, the breath of
- 00:22:24.459 --> 00:22:27.062
- Life, of all creatures returns to god.
- 00:22:27.062 --> 00:22:31.166
- It is not saying that word "spirit" is a little conscious
- 00:22:31.166 --> 00:22:34.403
- Ghost that flies out of a person when they die and goes off
- 00:22:34.403 --> 00:22:37.873
- Roaming around looking for a place until the resurrection.
- 00:22:37.873 --> 00:22:40.909
- It simply means the power of life.
- 00:22:40.909 --> 00:22:44.112
- Right now, this building, this studio is illuminated with all
- 00:22:44.112 --> 00:22:47.582
- These lights, and apparatus, and devices through the energy
- 00:22:47.582 --> 00:22:51.620
- Of electricity.
- 00:22:51.620 --> 00:22:53.188
- If heaven forbid someone should kill the switch and everything
- 00:22:53.188 --> 00:22:56.825
- Went dark, i would say, he might not hear me without the pa, but
- 00:22:56.825 --> 00:23:01.029
- I'd say, "where did the light go?
- 00:23:01.029 --> 00:23:03.965
- Where'd the power go?"
- 00:23:03.965 --> 00:23:05.300
- It's back at the power plant where it came from.
- 00:23:05.300 --> 00:23:07.335
- That one power operates many devices.
- 00:23:07.335 --> 00:23:10.639
- It gives life to these things.
- 00:23:10.639 --> 00:23:13.642
- Well, that's the breath of life that you find in the bible.
- 00:23:13.642 --> 00:23:16.044
- Let me give you more proof.
- 00:23:16.044 --> 00:23:17.746
- Job says, "all the while that god is with me and the breath,
- 00:23:17.746 --> 00:23:23.118
- The spirit of life is in my nostrils."
- 00:23:23.118 --> 00:23:27.689
- The spirit, it's the same word.
- 00:23:27.689 --> 00:23:29.791
- Do you have a ghost in your nose?
- 00:23:29.791 --> 00:23:32.761
- We hope not.
- 00:23:32.761 --> 00:23:35.764
- The very fact he says the spirit of god is in my nostrils, he's
- 00:23:35.764 --> 00:23:40.135
- In the breath of god.
- 00:23:40.135 --> 00:23:41.970
- In hebrew, the word is "ruach."
- 00:23:41.970 --> 00:23:45.507
- In greek, it's the word "pneuma."
- 00:23:45.507 --> 00:23:49.077
- When someone has trouble breathing, they call
- 00:23:49.077 --> 00:23:50.779
- It pneumonia.
- 00:23:50.779 --> 00:23:52.948
- And you men, if you've ever used those air-powered tools, they're
- 00:23:52.948 --> 00:23:56.985
- Called pneumatic.
- 00:23:56.985 --> 00:23:59.154
- It's because it's wind, pneuma, comes from that greek word.
- 00:23:59.154 --> 00:24:02.290
- And so, often in the bible, when it uses the word spirit, people
- 00:24:02.290 --> 00:24:05.627
- Think it's talking about a ghost, and it's talking about
- 00:24:05.627 --> 00:24:08.096
- The breath of life, that the wind.
- 00:24:08.096 --> 00:24:11.766
- The bible teaches that the "spirit" that returns to god is
- 00:24:11.766 --> 00:24:14.903
- Simply the breath of life, that god breathed into man at
- 00:24:14.903 --> 00:24:17.939
- The beginning.
- 00:24:17.939 --> 00:24:19.274
- You can look in james 2:26, job 27, verse 3, and others.
- 00:24:19.274 --> 00:24:24.179
- "take away their breath, and they die and return to
- 00:24:24.179 --> 00:24:26.982
- Their dust.
- 00:24:26.982 --> 00:24:28.350
- You send forth your spirit [your breath], and they are created."
- 00:24:28.350 --> 00:24:32.320
- This is what it's talking about.
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- Number 7: where do the dead go when they die?
- 00:24:33.655 --> 00:24:38.059
- Don't we go somewhere?
- 00:24:38.059 --> 00:24:39.794
- Yeah, you know where they go?
- 00:24:39.794 --> 00:24:42.497
- You've probably seen it before.
- 00:24:42.497 --> 00:24:44.165
- They go to the tombstones.
- 00:24:44.165 --> 00:24:46.401
- They go to the cemetery.
- 00:24:46.401 --> 00:24:48.003
- It says, "yet he will be brought to the," what?
- 00:24:48.003 --> 00:24:51.940
- "the grave, and a vigil kept over the tomb."
- 00:24:51.940 --> 00:24:56.778
- Listen to the words of jesus in john chapter 5:28-29: "all who
- 00:24:56.778 --> 00:25:01.750
- Are," where?
- 00:25:01.750 --> 00:25:03.351
- "in their graves will hear his voice."
- 00:25:03.351 --> 00:25:06.454
- Where are they now?
- 00:25:06.454 --> 00:25:08.056
- Where did jesus say they are?
- 00:25:08.056 --> 00:25:10.091
- Did he say they're in abraham's bosom?
- 00:25:10.091 --> 00:25:11.960
- Did he say they're in limbo?
- 00:25:11.960 --> 00:25:13.328
- Did he say they're in purgatory?
- 00:25:13.328 --> 00:25:15.630
- When he comes again, he said, "when i come, all that are in
- 00:25:15.630 --> 00:25:19.267
- Their graves will hear his voice," that's when they hear
- 00:25:19.267 --> 00:25:21.570
- His voice.
- 00:25:21.570 --> 00:25:22.938
- He says, "come forth."
- 00:25:22.938 --> 00:25:24.306
- Now, how long does it feel for them?
- 00:25:24.306 --> 00:25:27.108
- Instant!
- 00:25:27.108 --> 00:25:28.443
- To be absent from the body, no consciousness of time, present
- 00:25:28.443 --> 00:25:32.714
- With the lord.
- 00:25:32.714 --> 00:25:34.316
- But the bible says that the lord descends from heaven and then
- 00:25:34.316 --> 00:25:37.452
- The dead in christ rise, amen?
- 00:25:37.452 --> 00:25:40.121
- And we're caught up to meet him in the air.
- 00:25:40.121 --> 00:25:42.390
- Doug: friends, i hope you've been blessed by today's message,
- 00:25:42.457 --> 00:25:44.859
- But really the reason we do this is so that people might
- 00:25:44.859 --> 00:25:47.662
- Know christ.
- 00:25:47.662 --> 00:25:49.030
- You know, information is not gonna save us.
- 00:25:49.030 --> 00:25:51.099
- It's a relationship with jesus, the one who died on the cross
- 00:25:51.099 --> 00:25:54.169
- For your sins.
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