John Bradshaw - I Shall Return

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It Is Written with John Bradshaw | John Bradshaw - I Shall Return | May 18, 2025

♪[theme music]♪
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[wind blowing]
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♪[ominous music]♪
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>>franklin d. roosevelt: yesterday, december 7th, 1941,
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A date which will live in infamy,
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The united states of america was suddenly and deliberately
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Attacked by naval and air forces of the empire of japan.
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>>john bradshaw: december the 7th, 1941,
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A day which then-president franklin delano roosevelt
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Predicted, correctly, would live in infamy.
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On that day, 350 aircraft of the empire of japan attacked
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The united states at pearl harbor on the island of oahu,
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Which was then part of the territory of hawaii.
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All eight us navy battleships in pearl harbor were damaged.
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Four of them were sunk,
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Although three were raised and returned to the war.
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Still other ships were sunk; 188 us aircraft were destroyed.
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And more than 2,400 americans were killed
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And almost 1,200 wounded.
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But it could've been worse.
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A couple of weeks after the attack,
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Admiral chester nimitz observed that if japan had attacked
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Pearl harbor on a weekday rather than on a sunday,
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Casualties would've been as much as 10 times higher.
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If the repair stations in pearl harbor had been hit,
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Then damaged us warships would've had to have been taken
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Back to the mainland.
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And if the massive fuel reserves just five miles
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Out of pearl harbor had been taken out,
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Nimitz said the war would've dragged on
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For at least another year.
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So as bad as the attack on pearl harbor was,
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It could've been much worse.
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♪[tense music]♪
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Japan's burning desire to become a great empire
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Drove it to try to grab control of the pacific.
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Just hours after the attack on pearl harbor,
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Japan attacked the philippines 5,000 miles away.
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But while the united states had a military presence
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In the philippines,
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It wasn't enough to counter a japanese onslaught.
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Us forces in the philippines were under the command
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Of general douglas macarthur.
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He'd retired from the united states military in 1937.
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He became a field marshal in the philippines army
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And a military advisory to the philippines government.
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Macarthur came out of retirement to be the commander
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Of the united states army forces in the far east,
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But it became very clear that not even macarthur's experience
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And military expertise, along with the combined
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Us-filipino forces in the philippines,
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Were any sort of match for the japanese.
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♪[soft music]♪
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The american and filipino troops retreated
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In the face of attack by japan.
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Eventually, 70,000 men--
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12,000 americans and 58,000 filipinos--
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Withdrew to the bataan peninsula,
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Leaving them essentially helpless
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Against the japanese onslaught.
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The surrender of american forces on the bataan peninsula
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Took place in april of 1942.
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The only american stronghold left in the philippines
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Was corregidor.
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The island of corregidor at the entrance to manila bay
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Covers just two square miles.
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For perspective,
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Manhattan island in new york city is 11 times larger.
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Corregidor was often referred to as "the rock"
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Because that's essentially what it is.
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As small as it was, the rock was the scene
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Of some of the most intense bombing of world war ii,
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Most of it confined to a tiny area.
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Millions of dollars had been spent fortifying corregidor,
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Which had been controlled by the united states since 1898.
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But the advent of air attack meant that those defenses
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Became obsolete.
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In may of 1942, the thousands of us troops on corregidor
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Couldn't hold out any longer.
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Manila had proved to be indefensible.
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Bataan fell.
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Corregidor fell.
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American pows were taken to manila
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Or sent on the catastrophic bataan death march.
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The philippines, as far as the united states was concerned,
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Was lost to japan.
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Except for one thing.
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♪[soft music]♪
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On march the 12th, 1942, macarthur, along with members
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Of his staff and family, was evacuated from the philippines.
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A b-17 transported him to darwin
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In australia's northern territory.
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And from there, he took a train to melbourne
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In the state of victoria.
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As he was changing trains at a railway station in a little town
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Called terowie, 120 miles north of adelaide in south australia,
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Macarthur faced the assembled media.
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He said, "the president of the united states ordered me
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To break through the japanese lines and proceed
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From corregidor to australia for the purpose, as i understand it,
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Of organizing an american offensive against japan,
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The primary purpose of which is the relief of the philippines.
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I came through and i shall return."
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Two thousand years ago,
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As the battle for control of planet earth was raging,
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Jesus left a group of his closest followers,
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His best friends, deep in the heart of enemy territory,
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And he said to them,
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"i go to prepare a place for you.
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And if i go and prepare a place for you,
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I will come again, and receive you unto myself;
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That where i am, there ye may be also."
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"i shall return."
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History tells us that macarthur did return,
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But not immediately,
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And not before a long, costly, bloody, drawn-out struggle.
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Jesus will return. he's promised.
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It's been two millennia since he made that promise,
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And those 2,000 years have been marked by loss
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And desperation and death.
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So what does the promise of jesus' return mean for us?
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I'll have more in just a moment.
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♪[music]♪
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>>john: the greatest event in all of history--
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The second coming of jesus christ.
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>>john bradshaw: thank you for joining me on it is written.
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After general douglas macarthur was evacuated
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From the philippines in 1942,
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He made a promise that was heard all around the world.
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Macarthur said, "i shall return."
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Two thousand years ago, standing in the shadow of the cross,
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Knowing that virtually everyone in israel would've judged
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His campaign a spectacular failure,
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Jesus said virtually the same thing.
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He said, "i will come again."
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The bible speaks about the second coming of jesus
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Again and again.
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The apostle paul referred to the return of jesus
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To the world as the "blessed hope."
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But the new testament isn't alone in forecasting
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The greatest event since the creation of the world.
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Even the book of job,
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Considered to be the first book of the bible written,
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Speaks about jesus' return to the earth.
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Job 19:25-26--
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"for i know that my redeemer lives,
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And he shall stand at last on the earth;
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And after my skin is destroyed, this i know,
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That in my flesh i shall see god."
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He's referring directly to the hope of the resurrection,
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Which takes place after jesus returns to the world.
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Virtually all of matthew chapter 24,
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Which was spoken by jesus, deals with the second coming of jesus,
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With jesus saying in verse 36,
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"but of that day and hour no one knows,
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Not even the angels of heaven, but my father only."
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Which raises an important point.
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Jesus went out of his way to tell us that while we can know
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When his coming is near,
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There's no one who can accurately forecast
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The day of jesus' return.
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People who say,
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"jesus is coming back on this day or on that day"...
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No. the bible says we cannot know.
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We don't know, and we won't know.
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And while jesus waits, planet earth descends ever deeper
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Into secularism and post-modernism and atheism,
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God allowing us to see that our -isms are not the way forward.
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♪[music]♪
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You can get a sense of the want of the world
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For the second coming of jesus by thinking about what went on
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Here at corregidor in manila bay in the philippines.
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It was held by the united states between 1898 and 1942,
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And was taken by japan as part of japan's quest
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To take the pacific.
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It was a desperate struggle.
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The philippines suffered immensely
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Under japanese occupation.
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Thousands of servicemen, filipino and american,
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Were killed.
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Servicemen suffered from diseases
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Like beriberi and scurvy.
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Hundreds of thousands of civilians perished.
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Manila was destroyed.
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Macarthur's biographer wrote that only warsaw suffered more
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Among allied cities in world war ii.
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Seventy-five percent of manila's factories were destroyed,
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80 percent of the southern residential district,
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100 percent of the business district.
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And after american troops retreated
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To the bataan peninsula,
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They were marched to what's known today as camp o'donnell
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On what's now referred to as the bataan death march.
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Thousands of men died.
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The cruelty they experienced is almost impossible to believe.
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But there was something that gave them hope:
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General macarthur had made them a promise,
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And the people here in the philippines,
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The pows, the filipinos who wanted their country back,
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American pows who'd been taken from here to japan
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To toil as slaves--
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They didn't think that macarthur was one to break his promise.
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He said he'd return, and they hung on to those words.
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He would return.
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On october the 20th, 1944, macarthur returned
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To the philippines, coming ashore on the island of leyte,
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350 miles away.
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And that's when things really started to heat up
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On corregidor.
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You look at corregidor today,
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And you know that the fighting here was intense.
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One of the main landmarks on the island is what was known
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As the mile-long barracks.
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In reality, they were 1,500 feet long,
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Not quite a third of a mile.
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But a good name goes a long way in the service.
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Looking at the ruins here,
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You can only imagine how fierce the fighting was.
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Corregidor was an ideal sort of a place once upon a time.
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There used to be the island headquarters,
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A theater, a nine-hole golf course, a parade ground.
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The vast majority of what's here today
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Testifies to the destruction of war.
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And as bad as it was that the buildings were destroyed,
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The loss of life is what really mattered.
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In the 1920s, us army engineers had carved out
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A labyrinth of tunnels on corregidor.
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The malinta tunnels were a maze of tunnels that burrowed
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As far as 1,450 feet back into the hillside.
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There was a main tunnel and then a network of tunnels
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That spread out from the main tunnel.
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The tunnels were originally designed for storing supplies,
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Ammunition, and equipment.
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They were a bomb-proof bunker.
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Macarthur and the philippines president, quezon,
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Lived here in 1942.
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But as the war overtook corregidor,
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The malinta tunnels became a defensive fortification
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And the home of a 1,000-bed hospital.
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One general remembers these tunnels being a scene
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Of unbelievable disorder, congestion, and confusion.
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♪[tense music]♪
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On may the 2nd, 1942, the japanese bombing
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Was so intense that in one 5-hour period,
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3,600 240-millimeter shells blasted the islands,
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Mainly in just two locations.
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That's more than 720 an hour,
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More than one every five seconds.
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One day in may, more than 16,000 shells hit corregidor.
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An american general recalled that "life on corregidor
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Could be compared to sitting in the middle of a bull's-eye
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During rapid-fire target practice."
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But still, men hoped.
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Macarthur said he'd return.
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What other hope did they have?
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I wonder what other hope we have.
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Those -isms i referred to earlier--
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Today the world is assailed by secularism, postmodernism,
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Atheism, agnosticism, capitalism, communism,
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Polytheism, spiritualism.
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What's it all achieved?
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Have our developments and our enlightenment brought peace
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And security to the planet?
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No, far from it.
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Life can be so challenging that you can feel
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Like you're in your own personal war with life
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Or with circumstances or with destiny or the future.
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What hope, really, does a person have beyond this world?
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When you're looking into the eyes of death or loss
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Or despair, what hope do you have?
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Well, there is hope because 2,000 years ago,
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Jesus said, "i will come again."
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More in just a moment.
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>>john bradshaw: general douglas macarthur led the united states
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And filipino troops early in world war ii from here
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On corregidor island in manila bay in the philippines.
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In october of 1944, macarthur put his feet
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On philippines soil once more, and in february of 1945,
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Corregidor was retaken.
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Of course, historians differ in their estimation
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Of general macarthur.
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But he said, "i shall return," and return he did.
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And not long after his return,
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America took the philippines back.
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But it took almost two weeks of ferocious fighting
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To win back corregidor.
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When american soldiers returned to wrest the rock
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From the control of the japanese,
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Japanese soldiers holed up here in the malinta tunnels.
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Of course, they didn't have a chance.
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Those that emerged ran directly into the path
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Of waiting american guns.
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Rather than surrender, 2,000 or so japanese soldiers chose
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To commit suicide here in the tunnels.
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They detonated explosives and brought down enormous amounts
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Of rock upon themselves, burying themselves beneath.
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The bodies are still there,
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Behind or beneath all of that rock.
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Their remains have never been brought out.
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Makes you wonder, doesn't it?
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Two thousand men gave their lives for their emperor,
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A man who claimed to be-- and who they believed to be--
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A living god.
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They could've given their lives for a man
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Who actually was god in the flesh.
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We still have the opportunity to do that today.
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To do otherwise, it's all a bit like this, really.
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Although trees and vegetation have pretty much swallowed up
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This island over the years,
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Graphic reminders of the war on corregidor are still visible
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Just about everywhere you turn--
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Huge guns, craters in the ground produced by massive explosions,
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Damage from artillery.
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The pacific war memorial stands in honor of the american
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And filipino troops who gave their lives here on corregidor.
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And beneath the memorial's dome is a circular altar,
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Upon which are inscribed the words,
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"sleep, my sons, your duty done ...for freedom's light has come.
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Sleep in the silent depths of the sea,
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Or in your bed of hallowed sod,
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Until you hear at dawn the low, clear reveille of god."
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Which is the thought expressed by the apostle paul
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In 1 thessalonians chapter 4:
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"for the lord himself will descend from heaven
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With a shout, with the voice of an archangel,
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And with the trumpet of god.
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And the dead in christ will rise first.
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Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together
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With them in the clouds to meet the lord in the air.
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And thus we shall always be with the lord."
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First thessalonians 4:16-17.
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About 210 americans died in the battle to retake corregidor,
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790 were wounded, and 5 were reported missing.
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Of the japanese, almost 6,000 died,
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20 were captured, and 30 escaped.
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Atomic bombs were dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki
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On august the 6th and august 9th.
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Japan's emperor, hirohito, surrendered on august 15,
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And the instrument of surrender was signed on board
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The uss missouri in tokyo bay on september the 2nd.
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When jesus comes back to the earth,
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There'll be no more war.
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In fact, revelation 21:4 says,
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"and god shall wipe away all tears from their eyes;
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And there shall be no more death,
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Neither sorrow, nor crying,
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Neither shall there be any more pain:
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For the former things are passed away."
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The return of jesus to this earth is going to be
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The greatest event in all of human history.
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Unless, of course, it isn't.
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You get to decide.
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For those who've chosen jesus as their lord and savior,
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For those who've surrendered their hearts to him,
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For those who've chosen to believe that god is love,
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Well, the prophet isaiah puts it this way in isaiah 25:9--
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"and it shall be said in that day,
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'lo, this is our god; we have waited for him,
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And he will save us:
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This is the lord;
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We have waited for him,
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We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation."
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But in every war, there's a defeated side.
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Revelation 6:14-17 looks at it from the opposite point of view.
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"and the heaven departed as a scroll
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When it is rolled together;
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And every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
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And the kings of the earth, and the great men,
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And the rich men, and the chief captains,
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And the mighty men, and every bondman,
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And every free man,
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Hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
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And said to the mountains and rocks,
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'fall on us, and hide us from the face of him
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That sitteth on the throne,
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And from the wrath of the lamb:
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For the great day of his wrath is come;
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And who shall be able to stand?'"
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So who shall be able to stand?
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Well, it's all incredibly simple.
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Back in matthew chapter 24, there's an emphasis
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On responding to the signs of the times and being ready
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For the return of jesus.
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Jesus said, "watch therefore,
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For you do not know what hour your lord is coming."
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Two verses later: "therefore you also be ready,
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For the son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect."
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Other than the sound of the surf,
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The beaches of corregidor are quiet now.
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No more american soldiers waiting here to welcome
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The barges bringing japanese soldiers ashore.
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The sounds of artillery are no longer heard.
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Corregidor is a peaceful place.
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One day soon, the battle raging here on planet earth
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Is going to come to an end.
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What, then, for you?
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You know, there's no reason that you should be lost.
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There's no reason anybody should be left out of heaven.
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There's no reason that this earth is all
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That you should have to look forward to.
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God wants you to have everlasting life.
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Matthew 11:28--
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"come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden,
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And i will give you rest."
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John 6:35--
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"i am the bread of life.
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He who comes to me shall never hunger,
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And he who believes in me shall never thirst."
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The last invitation in the bible is found just five verses
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From the end of the bible--
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Revelation 22:17.
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"and the spirit and the bride say, 'come!'
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And let him who hears say, 'come!'
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And let him who thirsts come.
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Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely."
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Jesus invites you to come to him in faith.
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If you've already done that,
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Then rededicate your life to god now.
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Tell him that you want him to keep you and save you.
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If you've never done so,
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If you've never accepted jesus as your lord and savior,
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If you've never accepted god into your life...
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You know, the bible says that jesus is coming back soon.
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You don't wanna miss that.
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Can you open up your heart to god now?
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Tell god you want him to keep you close.
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Tell god that you want his perfect will
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To be done in your life.
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General douglas macarthur once said, "i shall return."
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Jesus once said, "i will come again."
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And if you'll allow it to be so, then when jesus comes back,
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He'll come back for you.
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>>john bradshaw: let's pray together now.
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Our father in heaven, we thank you for the promise,
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For the certainty, the assurance that jesus is coming back
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To this world.
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We thank you for those wonderful words:
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"i will come again and receive you unto myself."
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So, inherent in the promise of the second coming of jesus
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Is your desire to receive us to yourself,
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So that we can be with you throughout the ceaseless ages
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Of eternity.
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Friend, are you waiting? are you resisting?
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Don't wait; don't resist.
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Can you offer god your heart now?
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Can you ask jesus to forgive you and cleanse you
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And make you his?
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He will do it, gladly so.
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Lord, we wait in hope.
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Thank you for the great promise,
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The reality that jesus is coming back soon.
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Make us ready for that day, now and always.
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We pray and thank you in jesus' name.
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Amen.
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Thanks so much for joining me.
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I'm looking forward to seeing you again next time.
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Until then, remember:
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"it is written, 'man shall not live by bread alone,
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But by every word that proceeds from the mouth of god.'"
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♪[theme music]♪
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John Bradshaw - I Shall Return

May 18, 2025 | S25:E21

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