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00:01 >>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE
00:04 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:09 >>ARMAGEDDON. THIS SCARY WORD FROM THE BOOK OF REVELATION 00:12 IS AN ENIGMA FOR MOST BIBLE SCHOLARS. IT ONLY APPEARS 00:16 ONCE IN SCRIPTURE AND IT IS FOUND NOWHERE ELSE IN GREEK 00:19 WRITINGS. MANY BELIEVE IT'S CONNECTED 00:21 WITH THE VALLEY OR THE HILL OF MEGIDDO, LOCATED IN ISRAEL. 00:25 BUT BIBLE TRANSLATOR AND SCHOLAR, ROBERT MOFFETT ARGUED 00:28 STRONGLY THAT THE WORD REALLY REFERS TO THE BATTLE OF GIDEON, 00:32 WHEN A SMALL BUT DIVINELY CHOSEN ARMY GAINED THE VICTORY OVER A 00:36 POWERFUL AND VASTLY LARGER ENEMY. ARMAGEDDON COMES FROM 00:40 THE HEBREW WORD 'AMAR GID' OWN,' WHICH CAN BE TRANSLATED 00:44 FROM 'YEHOVAH AMAR GID' OWN,' MEANING, 'THE WORD OR 00:49 CHALLENGE OF JEHOVAH TO GIDEON.' IT'S ALSO NOTEWORTHY THAT THE 00:53 BATTLE OF GIDEON WAS FOUGHT IN THE VALLEY OF MEGIDDO. 00:57 REVELATION CHAPTER 16, VERSE 14 CONNECTS ARMAGEDDON WITH THE 01:01 BATTLE OF THE GREAT DAY OF GOD ALMIGHTY, BUT WHAT EXACTLY IS 01:06 THIS MYSTERIOUS BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON? 01:09 AND WHAT'S INVOLVED IN IT? WHAT'S AT STAKE AND 01:11 HOW DOES IT AFFECT YOU? TOGETHER, LET'S TAKE A CAREFUL 01:15 LOOK AT THESE ANSWERS. >>I DON'T KNOW HOW 01:21 TO BREAK THIS TO YOU. THE BIBLE TELLS US 01:24 THAT WE ARE AT WAR. THERE IS A WAR GOING ON. 01:28 IF YOU HAVE NOT FELT THAT WAR IN YOUR MIND, THEN I WONDER IF 01:32 YOU'RE TRYING TO LIVE A HOLY LIFE. 01:34 BECAUSE, IF YOU ARE CHRISTIAN, AND YOU ARE TRYING TO BE GOOD IN 01:37 A BAD WORLD, YOU FEEL CONFLICT. JESUS SAID, 'YOU WILL BE HATED 01:43 OF ALL NATIONS FOR MY NAME'S SAKE.' 01:45 THERE IS A GREAT CONTROVERSY THAT IS GOING ON IN 01:48 THE WORLD BETWEEN THE FORCES OF GOOD AND THE FORCES OF EVIL. 01:52 WE SEE IT PLAYING OUT THROUGH HISTORY. 01:55 JESUS SAID THERE WILL BE WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS AND THERE 01:58 HAVE BEEN FROM THE VERY BEGINNING AND WE SEE IT PLAYING 02:01 OUT IN OUR LIVES, THIS BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL - THE 02:06 DESIRE TO DO GOD'S WILL BETWEEN OUR OWN WILL, WHICH IS OFTEN THE 02:11 WILL OF THE EVIL ONE TOO. NOW, THAT TAKES US TO THE 02:17 ULTIMATE BATTLE OF BATTLES, WHICH IS WHAT THIS SERIES IS 02:20 ABOUT, BETTER KNOWN AS THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON. 02:25 THE VERY WORD 'ARMAGEDDON', IT'S USED A LOT OF DIFFERENT TIMES - 02:28 IT'S SORT OF OMINOUS - AND IT TALKS ABOUT JUST THE ULTIMATE 02:32 BATTLE, THE BATTLE ON STEROIDS, OF ALL BATTLES. 02:37 AND SO PEOPLE SAY THAT WORD - IT ONLY APPEARS ONE TIME IN THE 02:39 BIBLE. THE WORD 'ARMAGEDDON', AS FAR AS THE SCHOLARS CAN TELL, 02:43 IT COMES FROM THE COMPOSITE OF TWO WORDS. IT'S - IN GREEK - 02:48 IN REVELATION 16 WE SAY 'ARMAGEDDON,' BUT THEY'RE 02:52 DRAWING FROM A HEBREW WORD AND IT SAYS, IN THE HEBREW TONGUE, 02:55 IT WOULD BE 'HAR MEGIDDO' - HAR MEANS 'HILL OF'. MEGIDDO WAS A 03:01 HILL OUTSIDE OF THE VALLEY OF JEZREEL, A VERY FAMOUS PLACE. 03:05 MATTER OF FACT, WE'VE GOT A PICTURE OF THAT UP ON THE SCREEN 03:07 FOR YOU. THOSE ARE THE ANCIENT RUINS OF MEGIDDO. 03:10 NOT VERY BIG, BUT WHAT IT WAS IS A REMARKABLE WATCH TOWER - A 03:15 VILLAGE OR A LITTLE KINGDOM - IT WAS A WALLED 03:18 FORTRESS THAT OVERLOOKED A VERY IMPORTANT STRATEGIC VALLEY KNOWN 03:23 AS THE VALLEY OF JEZREEL. AND THE VALLEY OF JEZREEL HAS 03:28 BEEN THE SITE OF ABOUT 34 DIFFERENT BATTLES. 03:32 AND SO, WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT ARMAGEDDON, IT MEANS THE BATTLES 03:36 FROM THE VALLEY OF JEZREEL. IT'S IN THAT BATTLE 03:41 WHERE GIDEON FOUGHT. MATTER OF FACT, SOME HAVE 03:44 WONDERED IF ARMAGEDDON IS REALLY REFERENCING JUDGES CHAPTER 6 03:50 BECAUSE WHEN IT SAYS THE LORD SAID TO GIDEON IT SOUNDS LIKE 03:53 'YAH MAR GIDEON' - VERY SIMILAR TO ARMAGEDDON. 03:59 BUT HIS BATTLE TOOK PLACE IN THAT VALLEY TOO, SO IT WORKS 04:01 EITHER WAY. IT'S WHERE JOSIAH WAS KILLED. IT'S WHERE DEBORAH 04:05 AND BARAK GOT VICTORY OVER THE CANAANITES. AND SO, THERE HAVE 04:10 BEEN A NUMBER OF SIGNIFICANT BATTLES IN THIS VALLEY. 04:13 ONE REASON IT'S SO STRATEGIC IS BECAUSE THIS VALLEY IS THE MAIN 04:17 ROAD THAT BRINGS TOGETHER THREE CONTINENTS. 04:22 WHOEVER OWNED THIS VALLEY OWNED THE TAX REVENUE AND IT WAS JUST 04:27 FANTASTICALLY IMPORTANT FOR KINGDOMS TO POSSESS THIS VALLEY 04:31 AND THE WATCH TOWER, IN PARTICULAR. 04:33 NAPOLEON, AT ONE TIME, VISITED THE MIDDLE EAST. 04:37 AND WHEN HE WENT TO ISRAEL AND HE WENT, IN PARTICULAR, TO THE 04:40 HILL OF MEGIDDO, HE OVERLOOKED THE VALLEY AND HE IS REPORTED TO 04:43 HAVE SAID, "ALL THE ARMIES OF THE WORLD COULD MANEUVER THEIR 04:47 FORCES ON THIS VAST PLAIN... THERE IS NO PLACE IN THE WORLD 04:51 MORE SUITED FOR WAR THAN THIS... [IT IS] THE MOST NATURAL 04:56 BATTLEGROUND OF THE WHOLE EARTH." THAT'S NAPOLEON, AND HE 05:01 KNEW SOMETHING ABOUT WAR - THOUGHT ABOUT THIS BATTLE. 05:04 WELL, A LOT OF CHARISMATIC AND EVANGELICAL PASTORS HAVE READ 05:07 QUOTES LIKE THIS AND THEY SAY [THE] BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON IS 05:11 GOING TO LITERALLY BE FOUGHT IN THIS VALLEY. 05:13 AND YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE CHINA AND YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE RUSSIA 05:16 AND WE'LL, YOU KNOW, AMERICA AND ISRAEL AND THERE'S JUST GOING TO 05:20 BE THIS BIG - YOU KNOW, THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON, 05:24 BIBLICALLY, HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH TOY SOLDIERS FIGHTING ON A 05:27 BATTLEFIELD THE WAY THEY USED TO DO, WHERE THEY ALL LINE UP AND 05:29 MARCH AGAINST EACH OTHER. THEY DON'T FIGHT WARS LIKE THAT 05:32 ANYMORE. LOOK AT HOW WAR HAS CHANGED IN THE LAST FEW YEARS. 05:36 NOW, THERE ARE SOME TIMES THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN THE MIDDLE EAST - 05:41 THERE MAY BE SOME WAR - BUT THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON IS THE 05:43 ULTIMATE BATTLE OF SATAN AGAINST GOD'S PEOPLE. 05:48 IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT IT IS, YOU CAN READ IN REVELATION 12, 05:50 WHERE IT SAYS IN VERSE 17, "THE DRAGON" - WHO'S THAT? 05:54 >>SATAN. >>"THE DEVIL IS WROTH" - 05:56 INFURIATED - "WITH THE WOMAN AND HE GOES TO MAKE WAR." 06:00 AND, WELL, I'M GETTING AHEAD OF MYSELF. 06:02 WE'VE GOT SEVERAL OTHER WARS WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT THAT. 06:06 SO PEOPLE WONDER, IS THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON A PHYSICAL WAR? 06:09 IS IT A FINANCIAL WAR? IS IT A SPIRITUAL WAR? 06:12 WHY DON'T WE GO TO THE VERSE AND READ IT AGAIN? 06:14 TURN WITH ME TO REVELATION CHAPTER 16 AND LET'S JUST KIND 06:17 OF GET OUR HEADS WRAPPED AROUND WHAT'S BEING SAID HERE. 06:21 THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON IS ACTUALLY PLAGUE #6 OUT OF THE 06:25 SEVEN LAST PLAGUES. AND, IF YOU GO TO VERSE 12, 06:28 REVELATION 16, "THEN THE SIXTH ANGEL POURED OUT HIS BOWL" - OR 06:35 HIS VIAL - ON THE GREAT RIVER EUPHRATES, AND ITS WATER WAS 06:39 DRIED UP," - THE WATERS OF THE EUPHRATES MIGHT BE DRIED UP - 06:42 "SO THAT THE WAY OF THE KINGS OF THE EAST MIGHT BE PREPARED. 06:45 AND I SAW THREE UNCLEAN SPIRITS LIKE FROGS COMING OUT OF THE 06:49 MOUTH OF THE DRAGON, OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE BEAST, AND OUT OF 06:52 THE MOUTH OF THE FALSE PROPHET. 06:54 FOR THEY ARE THE SPIRITS OF DEMONS, PERFORMING SIGNS THAT GO 06:57 OUT TO THE KINGS OF THE EARTH AND OF THE WHOLE WORLD, TO 07:01 GATHER THEM TO THE BATTLE OF THAT GREAT DAY OF GOD ALMIGHTY." 07:07 NOW, IT'S INTERESTING THAT - HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE A RED-LETTER 07:11 BIBLE? DO YOU NOTICE THAT SUDDENLY, OUT 07:15 OF NOWHERE, THINGS TURN RED? "BEHOLD, I AM COMING AS A THIEF. 07:20 BLESSED IS HE WHO WATCHES; AND KEEPS HIS GARMENTS, LEST HE WALK 07:24 NAKED AND THEY SEE HIS SHAME." 07:27 YOU DON'T SEE ANY RED LETTERS UNTIL YOU GET TO THE END OF IT, 07:30 OR YOU GO BACK TO REVELATION CHAPTER 3. 07:33 THIS IS ONE PLACE WHERE JESUS SUDDENLY INTERJECTS A PHRASE 07:38 DURING THE SIXTH PLAGUE - AND WE'LL EXPLAIN MORE ABOUT THAT - 07:43 AND IT SAYS, "AND THEY GATHERED THEM" - VERSE 16 - REVELATION 07:46 16:16 - "AND THEY GATHERED THEM TOGETHER TO THE PLACE 07:49 CALLED IN HEBREW, ARMAGEDDON." 07:53 ALRIGHT, WELL, WITH THAT LITTLE BACKGROUND, LET'S GET BACK TO 07:56 OUR STUDY. SOME OF THIS WILL BE A BRIEF REVIEW. 07:59 YOU REMEMBER BEFORE, THERE'S A SEALING THAT TAKES PLACE. 08:03 WE READ IN REVELATION CHAPTER 7 - I DIDN'T GET TO THE 144,000 IN 08:07 CHAPTER 14, BUT I TOLD YOU IN CHAPTER 7 IT TELLS US THAT 08:10 THERE'S 144,000 THAT ARE SEALED. THESE ANGELS ARE HOLDING BACK 08:15 THE WINDS OF STRIFE AND THE WINDS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BLOW 08:18 UNTIL GOD'S SERVANTS ARE SEALED IN THEIR FOREHEADS. 08:21 AND IT TELLS US THERE ARE 12,000 SEALED FROM THE TRIBES OF JUDAH, 08:25 REUBEN, GAD, ASHER, NAPHTALI, MANASSEH, SIMEON, LEVI, 08:29 ISSACHAR, ZEBULAN, JOSEPH, AND BENJAMIN. 08:32 NOW, DOES THAT MEAN THAT GOD IS GOING TO HAVE 144,000 LITERAL 08:38 JEWS FROM THESE LITERAL TRIBES, IN THE LAST DAYS, THAT RECEIVE 08:43 THIS SPIRITUAL SEAL BEFORE THE LAST PLAGUES COME? 08:48 >>NO. >>YOU'D BE SURPRISED. 08:50 THERE ARE SOME EVANGELICAL PASTORS AND PREACHERS SAYING 08:53 THAT, AND I'M JUST, QUITE HONESTLY, SHOCKED AT THEIR 08:57 IGNORANCE, BECAUSE ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS READ THE BIBLE AND 09:01 YOU'LL SEE THAT, LONG BEFORE JESUS WAS BORN, BACK DURING THE 09:04 TIME OF HEZEKIAH, TEN OF THE TRIBES WERE CARRIED OFF TO 09:07 ASSYRIA - MANY OF THE TRIBE NAMES WE JUST MENTIONED - THEY 09:11 INTERMARRIED WITH THE ASSYRIANS. MANY OF THEM JUST COMPLETELY 09:15 LOST THEIR IDENTITY. THERE ARE PROBABLY SOME OF YOU 09:18 HERE THAT HAVE A LITTLE ISSACHAR IN YOU. 09:20 YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW IT, BECAUSE MANY OF THEM WERE DISPERSED AND 09:23 SCATTERED AND INTERMARRIED AND - SO THE IDEA THAT GOD CAN'T DO 09:28 HIS FINAL WORK UNTIL HE GETS 144,000 PURE-BRED JEWS - 12,000 09:35 FROM EACH OF THESE TRIBES. AGAIN, THAT'S ODD, BECAUSE THE 09:38 TRIBES HAD SUCH VASTLY DIFFERENT POPULATIONS. JUDAH WAS MUCH 09:41 BIGGER THAN BENJAMIN AND EPHRAIM THAN MANASSEH. 09:46 THAT'S SO - WHY THE NUMBER 12 - EXACTLY 12 - WELL, I BELIEVE 09:50 THAT THE NUMBER MAY BE PARTICULAR, BUT THE NAMES YOU'RE 09:53 GOING TO FIND IN REVELATION - NAMES ALWAYS HAVE A SPIRITUAL 09:57 MEANING. I FEEL SO SURE OF THAT I'M GOING TO SAY IT TWICE. 10:00 THE NAMES IN REVELATION ALWAYS ARE SYMBOLIC. 10:05 WHEN IT TALKS, IN REVELATION, ABOUT JEZEBEL, WELL, DO YOU 10:09 THINK THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT REAL JEZEBEL OR WAS SHE DEAD LONG 10:11 AGO? IT'S TALKING ABOUT SOMEONE WHO DOES WHAT JEZEBEL DID. 10:14 IN REVELATION IT TALKS ABOUT BALAAM. 10:16 DO YOU THINK IT'S REALLY BALAAM RESURRECTED OR IS IT TALKING 10:18 ABOUT SOMEONE THAT HAS GREED? THEY SELL OUT ON 10:21 GOD LIKE BALAAM. AND IT TALKS ABOUT THE DRAGON, 10:23 IT TALKS ABOUT APOLLYON, IT TALKS ABOUT MICHAEL - IT TALKS 10:26 ABOUT A NUMBER OF THESE TERMS AND THEY HAVE SPIRITUAL NAMES. 10:31 WHEN YOU GET TO THE 144,000, WHAT DO THOSE NAMES MEAN? 10:36 FIRST OF ALL, YOU DO NOT FIND A LIST OF THE SONS OF JACOB THE 10:39 WAY THEY'RE LISTED IN REVELATION, ANYWHERE IN THE 10:41 BIBLE. IT IS UNIQUE LIST OF TRIBES. 10:44 TWO TRIBES ARE LEFT OUT. DO YOU KNOW WHICH ONES? 10:47 NO MENTION OF DAN. WHY IS DAN LEFT OUT? 10:51 AND THERE'S NO MENTION OF EPHRAIM. 10:54 INSTEAD, IT ADDS JOSEPH AND INCLUDES LEVI. 10:58 AND THE REASON IS BECAUSE THIS LIST, WHEN YOU SAY THE NAMES 11:02 TOGETHER, TELLS THE STORY OF REDEMPTION. 11:04 EPHRAIM, THE BIBLE SAYS 'EPHRAIM IS JOINED TO HER IDOLS. 11:08 LET HIM ALONE.' AND THEN DAN, IT SAYS, IS A SERPENT IN THE WAY. 11:14 AND DAN ALSO MEANS JUDGMENT AND JUDGMENT IS PASSED, AT THIS 11:18 POINT, FOR THE 144,000. SO WHEN YOU TAKE THE NAMES THE 11:23 WAY THEY'RE GIVEN, IF I WERE TO JUST READ THE NAMES IN HEBREW 11:26 WITH THEIR MEANING, WHAT DOES IT SAY? FOR INSTANCE, THE NAME 11:31 JUDAH - JUDAH'S FIRST - WHY IS JUDAH FIRST IN THIS LIST? 11:34 HE'S NOT THE FIRSTBORN, REUBEN'S THE FIRSTBORN. 11:36 YOU SEE, IT'S A - IT'S A DELIBERATELY MIXED-UP LIST. 11:40 JOHN KNEW WHAT THE TRIBES WERE BECAUSE IT SAYS SOMETHING. 11:44 THIS IS WHAT IT SAYS, "I WILL PRAISE THE LORD" - WHEN YOU PUT 11:48 THE NAMES TOGETHER AND YOU DECIPHER THEM WITH THEIR 11:50 MEANING, IT SAYS A STATEMENT: "I WILL PRAISE THE LORD FOR HE HAS 11:54 LOOKED ON ME" - MY AFFLICTION - "AND GRANTED ME GOOD FORTUNE. 11:59 I AM HAPPY, BECAUSE WITH GREAT WRESTLING, I HAVE WRESTLED AND 12:03 PREVAILED. THUS, GOD HAS MADE ME FORGET MY 12:06 TOIL BECAUSE THE LORD HAS HEARD THAT I AM NOT LOVED. 12:09 HE IS JOINED" - OR MARRIED - "TO ME. 12:11 GOD HAS GIVEN ME MY HIRE BY DWELLING WITH ME. 12:16 THE LORD SHALL ADD TO ME THE SON OF HIS RIGHT HAND." 12:19 IT'S A BEAUTIFUL STATEMENT THAT TALKS ABOUT THE PLAN OF 12:22 SALVATION, WHEN YOU PUT IT TOGETHER - THE NAMES. 12:25 SO NOW WE'VE TALKED ABOUT REVELATION 7. 12:28 IF YOU GO TO REVELATION CHAPTER 14 YOU'LL READ VERSE 1, "I 12:33 LOOKED, AND BEHOLD, A LAMB STANDING ON MOUNT ZION, AND WITH 12:36 HIM 144,000, HAVING HIS FATHER'S NAME WRITTEN ON THEIR FOREHEADS. 12:43 AND I HEARD A VOICE FROM HEAVEN, LIKE THE VOICE OF MANY WATERS, 12:45 AND LIKE THE VOICE OF LOUD THUNDER. 12:47 AND I HEARD THE SOUND OF HARPISTS PLAYING THEIR HARPS. 12:50 THEY SANG AS IT WERE A NEW SONG BEFORE THE THRONE, BEFORE THE 12:54 FOUR LIVING CREATURES, AND THE ELDERS; AND NO ONE COULD LEARN 12:56 THAT SONG EXCEPT THE 144,000 WHO WERE REDEEMED FROM THE EARTH. 13:01 THESE ARE THE ONES WHO ARE NOT DEFILED WITH WOMEN, FOR THEY ARE 13:04 VIRGINS..." THAT'S ODD. IT SAYS THEY'RE VIRGINS - THAT'S 13:07 FEMININE - THEY'RE NOT DEFILED WITH WOMEN. 13:09 WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? WHAT DOES A WOMAN REPRESENT? 13:12 >>CHURCH. >>WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT BABYLON 13:14 AND HER DAUGHTERS, IN REVELATION, AND IT SAYS IN HER 13:18 FOREHEAD 'MOTHER OF HARLOTS,' IS THAT GOOD OR BAD? 13:21 >>BAD. >>BAD. SHE'S A BAD WOMAN. 13:23 YOU HAVE ANOTHER WOMAN WHO IS PURE - IN REVELATION 12 - SHE'S 13:27 CLOTHED WITH THE SUN, MOON, AND STARS. 13:29 IT'S SAYING THE 144,000 ARE NOT DEFILED WITH THE FALSE TEACHINGS 13:34 OF BABYLON AND HER DAUGHTERS FOR THEY ARE PURE. 13:38 AND IT SAYS THEY FOLLOW THE LAMB WHEREVER HE GOES. 13:41 THEY SING A SONG THAT NO ONE CAN SING EXCEPT THOSE WHO ARE 13:44 REDEEMED FROM THE EARTH. YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING IT SAYS 13:47 ABOUT THE 144,000 - FIRST OF ALL, HOW MANY WERE THERE? 13:51 12 TIMES 12,000. WHERE DO YOU FIND THE NUMBER 12 IN THE NEW 13:55 TESTAMENT? THE APOSTLES, FOR ONE THING, RIGHT? 14:00 DID THE APOSTLES FOLLOW JESUS WHEREVER HE WENT? 14:04 DID THE APOSTLES SING A SONG WITH JESUS? 14:06 ONLY TIME RECORDED THAT JESUS SANG IS WITH THE APOSTLES AT THE 14:09 LAST SUPPER. IT SAYS THEY'RE WITHOUT GUILE. 14:13 DIDN'T JESUS SAY TO ONE OF THE APOSTLES, 'BEHOLD, AN ISRAELITE 14:16 IN WHOM THERE IS NO GUILE'? AND YOU START LOOKING AT THE 14:19 DESCRIPTION, THEY HAVE A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP. 14:23 MY OPINION IS THE 144,000 ARE, TO THE SECOND COMING, WHAT THE 14:28 12 APOSTLES WERE WHEN JESUS CAME THE FIRST TIME. 14:31 THEY ARE LAST-DAY APOSTLES THAT DO A SPECIAL WORK. 14:34 ARE THERE ONLY 144,000 SAVED? NO, THAT'D BE PRETTY BAD. 14:39 I DID THE MATH AND THAT MEANS THAT, LIKE, 1 OUT OF 40,000 14:42 WOULD MAKE - BE SAVED. THAT'D BE DEPRESSING. 14:45 STATISTICALLY, THAT'S JUST A LITTLE BETTER THAN THE LOTTERY. 14:49 YOU'RE STILL BETTER OFF TRYING TO BE ONE OF THE 144,000 THAN 14:53 BUYING A LOTTO TICKET. DID YOU GET THAT? 14:55 BUT THERE'S GOING TO BE MANY MORE BECAUSE IT SAID THERE WAS A 14:59 GREAT MULTITUDE THAT NO MAN COULD NUMBER, WHO WOULD WASH 15:02 THEIR ROBES AND COME OUT OF GREAT TRIBULATION. JUST LIKE ON 15:04 THE DAY OF PENTECOST WHEN GOD POURS OUT HIS SPIRIT. 15:07 THE TWELVE APOSTLES ARE IN THE UPPER ROOM, THEY HAD REPLACED 15:09 JUDAS, THERE'S 120 ALTOGETHER AND THEN THEY PREACH AND A GREAT 15:13 MULTITUDE IS BAPTIZED AS A RESULT. 3,000 ONE TIME, 5,000 15:17 ANOTHER, SO I THINK THE 144,000 ARE SPECIAL, SPIRIT-FILLED 15:21 PEOPLE THAT ARE READY DURING THE SEALING TIME WHEN THE HOLY 15:24 SPIRIT IS POURED OUT TO DO A GREAT EVANGELISTIC WORK AND 15:28 BRING IN A GREAT MULTITUDE. SO - BUT IT SAYS BEFORE THE 15:32 PLAGUES COME, THE ANGELS ARE HOLDING BACK THOSE WINDS OF 15:35 STRIFE UNTIL EVERYONE IS SEALED IN THE FOREHEAD. 15:41 >>DON'T GO ANYWHERE, FRIENDS, IN JUST A MOMENT WE'LL RETURN FOR 15:44 THE COMPLETION OF TODAY'S PRESENTATION. 15:47 EITHER DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, VIRTUALLY EVERY BIBLE WRITER 15:51 REFERS TO THE GREAT JUDGMENT DAY. 15:54 PAUL SAYS, 'WE WILL ALL STAND BEFORE THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF 15:57 CHRIST.' IN LIGHT OF OUR COUNTLESS SINS, THE THOUGHT OF 16:01 FACING OUR LIFE'S RECORD BEFORE A HOLY GOD CAN STRIKE TERROR 16:04 INTO THE HEART OF EVERY MAN. BUT JESUS TELLS US THERE'S A 16:08 WAY TO FACE THE JUDGMENT WITH COMPLETE PEACE. 16:11 WE'D LIKE TO SHARE THIS BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED RESOURCE 16:14 WITH YOU THAT EXPLAINS, THROUGH SCRIPTURE, WHO PRESIDES AT THIS 16:17 JUDGMENT, WHO'S THE DEFENSE ATTORNEY, THE ACCUSER, THE 16:21 SUPREME JUDGE, AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY, HOW TO ESCAPE BEING 16:25 CONDEMNED. TO GET YOUR FREE COPY, CALL THE 16:27 PHONE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN AND ASK FOR OFFER #132, OR 16:32 VISIT THE WEB ADDRESS. AND, AFTER YOU READ THIS 16:34 INCREDIBLE RESOURCE, MAKE SURE AND SHARE IT WITH A FRIEND. 16:37 LET'S GET BACK TO TODAY'S PRESENTATION AND LEARN SOME MORE 16:40 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE WORD OF GOD. 16:44 >>THE KEY TO UNLOCK THE MYSTERIES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT 16:46 IS FOUND IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. GO TO THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL. 16:50 I'VE MENTIONED THIS BEFORE BUT, IN REVELATION, THERE ARE 404 16:54 VERSES - 278 OF THE 404 VERSES IN REVELATION CAN BE FOUND, 17:00 ALMOST VERBATIM, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. 17:03 GO TO EZEKIEL 9. READ VERSE 4 - THIS IS A 17:08 SOBERING PROPHECY, BUT IT'S SOMETHING YOU NEED TO KNOW 17:12 IN THE CONTEXT OF WHAT WE'RE STUDYING. 17:14 "AND THE LORD SAID, 'GO THROUGH THE MIDST OF THE CITY, THROUGH 17:18 THE MIDST OF JERUSALEM, AND PUT A MARK ON THE FOREHEADS" - 17:22 ALRIGHT, RIGHT AWAY, IF YOU WERE TO STOP READING - IF YOU HADN'T 17:24 READ THIS BEFORE - MARK ON THE FOREHEAD. 17:25 YOU'RE THINKING, 'HOO HOO, DON'T LET THEM DO THAT. 17:28 THAT'S BAD.' BECAUSE WE ALWAYS THINK OF A MARK ON THE FOREHEAD 17:31 AS ASSOCIATED WITH WHAT? >>THE BEAST. 17:34 >>MARK OF THE BEAST. BUT WE FORGET THAT EVERYBODY'S MARKED 17:37 IN REVELATION. YOU EITHER HAVE THE MARK OF GOD OR THE MARK OF 17:41 THE DEVIL. LOOK AT THIS MARK - YOU WANT THIS MARK IN EZEKIEL 9. 17:45 IT SAYS, "PUT A MARK ON THE FOREHEADS OF THOSE WHO SIGH AND 17:48 CRY OVER ALL THE ABOMINATIONS THAT ARE DONE WITHIN IT." 17:51 THESE ARE THE ONES WHO ARE GRIEVED ABOUT THE SIN AND 17:54 APOSTASY IN ISRAEL. THEY'RE LONGING FOR A HOLINESS. 17:56 THEY'RE SORRY FOR THE WAY THAT THE TRUTH HAS BEEN COMPROMISED 17:59 AND THE TEMPLE ABUSED. EZEKIEL TALKS ABOUT THEM PRAYING 18:03 TO IDOLS IN THE TEMPLE IN OTHER PASSAGES. 18:05 AND THEN HE SAYS TO THE OTHERS, THESE OTHER SIX ANGELS - YOU'VE 18:09 GOT THE SEVENTH ANGEL HAS A WRITER'S INKHORN AND THERE'S SIX 18:11 OTHERS, "GO AFTER HIM THROUGH THE CITY AND KILL; DO NOT LET 18:17 YOUR EYE SPARE, NOR HAVE ANY PITY. 18:19 UTTERLY SLAY OLD AND YOUNG MEN, MAIDENS AND LITTLE CHILDREN AND 18:23 WOMEN;" THIS IS TALKING ABOUT A JUDGMENT THAT'S LIKE THE FLOOD - 18:25 IT TAKES OUT EVERYBODY - "BUT DO NOT COME NEAR ANYONE ON WHOM IS 18:30 THE MARK;" - SO YOU WANT THAT MARK, DON'T YOU? 18:33 AND HE SAYS, "BEGIN AT MY SANCTUARY." 18:36 THAT MEANS AMONG GOD'S PEOPLE. HAVE YOU READ IN THE NEW 18:39 TESTAMENT WHERE PETER SAYS, 'JUDGMENT MUST BEGIN 18:42 AT THE HOUSE OF GOD'? PETER'S QUOTING EZEKIEL 9. 18:46 WELL, YOU'D START WITH TO WHOM MUCH IS GIVEN, MUCH IS REQUIRED. 18:50 HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER THE STORY WHERE - JOHN CHAPTER 8 - A 18:53 WOMAN IS BROUGHT INTO THE TEMPLE? 18:55 THE PRIESTS ARE STANDING AROUND ACCUSING HER. 18:57 THESE ARE THE ONES WHO DON'T FOLLOW JESUS. 18:59 THEY'RE TRYING TO GET RID OF JESUS. THEY'RE JUST USING THIS 19:01 WOMAN TO ATTACK JESUS AND THEY WANT HER STONED. 19:06 AND JESUS SAID, 'HE THAT IS WITHOUT SIN, LET HIM CAST THE 19:08 FIRST STONE.' AND IT SAYS, 'THEY WENT OUT ONE BY ONE BEGINNING AT 19:12 THE ELDEST.' THERE WAS A JUDGMENT IN THE SANCTUARY AND IT 19:15 SAYS, 'BEGINNING AT THE ELDEST'. KNOW WHAT IT SAYS HERE? 19:18 IT SAYS 'THEY BEGAN WITH THE ELDERS WHO WERE BEFORE THE 19:22 TEMPLE.' AND SO, THIS JUDGMENT - IF YOU'RE GOING TO JUDGE PEOPLE, 19:27 WHO WOULD YOU BEGIN WITH? THE CHILDREN WHO HAVEN'T HAD 19:32 MUCH OPPORTUNITY, OR THE OLDEST WHO HAVE HAD MORE OPPORTUNITY? 19:36 WHEN THE SEALING IS COMPLETE, THOSE - THE BIBLE TELLS US IN 19:39 MATTHEW 24, "THE GOSPEL OF THIS KINGDOM WILL BE PREACHED IN ALL 19:42 THE WORLD FOR A WITNESS...AND THEN THE END WILL COME." 19:46 UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT THE GOSPEL'S GOING TO GO 19:48 IN GREAT POWER, THE WAY IT DID IN THE DAYS OF THE APOSTLES. 19:52 AND WE'RE TRYING TO HAVE A PART OF THAT BUT, I'LL TELL YOU 19:55 SOMETHING, FRIENDS, IT'S NOT BECAUSE OF MEDIA THE GOSPEL'S 19:58 GOING TO GO. THERE'S A PLACE FOR THE TOOLS, 20:00 BUT WHAT GOD NEEDS MORE THAN BETTER MEDIA OR MACHINES - HE 20:04 NEEDS BETTER MEN AND WOMEN. >>AMEN. 20:06 >>IT'S GOING TO BE THE INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE 20:08 SPIRIT-FILLED THAT'S GOING TO MAKE THE GOSPEL GO SO FAST. 20:11 HOW DID THE DISCIPLES TAKE THE GOSPEL TO THE ROMAN EMPIRE 20:15 WITHOUT PRINTING PRESSES? HOW DID THEY DO IT 20:19 WITHOUT THE INTERNET? HOW DID THEY DO IT 20:20 WITHOUT SATELLITE? IT'S MIND-BOGGLING, ISN'T IT? 20:23 THEY HAD POWER IN THEIR LIVES THAT PEOPLE SAW, AND IT TOOK 20:28 OFF. WE NEED THAT POWER. 20:29 CAN YOU SAY, 'AMEN'? >>AMEN. 20:31 >>BUT THE GOSPEL'S GOING TO GO - NOT EVERYONE WILL BELIEVE - 20:34 JESUS SAID, 'AS A WITNESS' AND THEN HE SAYS, 'THEN THE END WILL 20:37 COME.' WHEN HE SAYS THE END WILL COME, HE MEANS THE BEGINNING OF 20:39 THE END WILL HIT. THAT'S WHERE YOU'VE GOT THE 20:42 CLOSE OF PROBATION AND THE PLAGUES BEGIN TO FALL. 20:45 WHEN THE PLAGUES BEGIN TO FALL, THAT'S THE END. 20:47 BECAUSE, AT THAT POINT, PROBATION IS CLOSED. 20:49 THE SAVED ARE SAVED, THE LOST ARE LOST, AND THERE'S NO 20:53 CHANGING TEAMS ANYMORE. YOU KNOW, JESUS SAID WHEN YOU GO 20:56 OUT PREACHING, "WHOEVER WILL NOT RECEIVE OR HEAR YOU, WHEN YOU 21:00 DEPART FROM THERE SHAKE OFF THE DUST OF YOUR FEET AS A 21:03 TESTIMONY AGAINST THEM. ASSUREDLY I SAY, 'IT WILL BE 21:06 MORE TOLERABLE FOR SODOM AND GOMORRAH IN THAT DAY OF 21:09 JUDGMENT THAN THAT CITY." SO PEOPLE REJECT THE GOSPEL. 21:12 WE ALWAYS THINK ABOUT THE PATIENCE OF GOD. 21:14 IS THERE A LIMIT TO THE PATIENCE? 21:16 WE HATE TO THINK ABOUT IT, BUT THERE IS. 21:18 AND GOD SAYS IT'LL BE MORE TOLERABLE FOR SODOM AND GOMORRAH 21:21 THAN THOSE WHO REJECT THE MESSAGE OF JESUS. 21:26 SO YOU'VE GOT THE MESSAGE OF GOD, THREE ANGELS OF HEAVEN - 21:30 THEY'RE SOUNDING FORTH WITH THE LOUD POWER OF THE TRUTH - AT THE 21:33 SAME TIME YOU'VE GOT ON EARTH, FROG MESSAGES. 21:37 THREE UNCLEAN SPIRITS - THEY'RE NOT JUST SPIRITS, THEY'RE 21:39 UNCLEAN SPIRITS - "LIKE FROGS COMING OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE 21:42 DRAGON...THE MOUTH OF THE BEAST, AND...THE MOUTH OF THE FALSE 21:45 PROPHET." WHAT'S THE BIGGEST 21:48 PART OF A FROG'S BODY? NOT HIS LEGS, IT'S HIS MOUTH. 21:52 YOU KNOW, ONE FROG CAN SWALLOW ANOTHER FROG OF ALMOST THE SAME 21:55 SIZE BECAUSE THEIR MOUTHS ARE SO BIG. 21:58 AND WHAT DOES A FROG USE TO ATTACK? 22:00 >>TONGUE. >>HIS TONGUE. 22:03 IT'S GOING TO BE A MESSAGE COMING OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE 22:08 BEAST. WHAT TYPICALLY COMES 22:10 OUT OF THE MOUTH? IT'S THE WORDS. SO, THESE FALSE MESSAGES 22:14 - THESE FROGGY MESSAGES - DO YOU KNOW THE MOST POISONOUS ANIMAL 22:18 IN THE WORLD IS A FROG? HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF THE 22:21 POISON-DART FROG THEY HAVE IN SOUTH AMERICA? 22:24 INDIANS DOWN THERE - IT GETS ITS NAME BECAUSE THEY TAKE THESE 22:26 FROGS AND THEY PUT THEM ABOVE A FIRE. 22:28 THEY DON'T COOK THEM OR BURN THEM, THEY KEEP THEM ALIVE, BUT 22:30 THEY PUT THEM ABOVE A FIRE WHERE THEY GET HOT AND THEY SWEAT AND 22:33 THAT SWEAT IS SO TOXIC THAT A YEAR AFTER THEY PUT IT ON A DART 22:36 OR AN ARROW, IT'S STILL LETHAL. AND - SO IT'S A POISON MESSAGE. 22:43 I REMEMBER HEARING IN THE NEWS ABOUT PEOPLE BEING POISONED AND 22:45 POISON GAS AND THERE'S GOING TO BE POISON WORDS THAT ARE GOING 22:50 TO BE GOING OUT. HAVE YOU HEARD OF DOCTRINES OF DEVILS? 22:53 WHAT IS THAT POISON MESSAGE? "FOR THEY ARE THE SPIRITS OF 22:56 DEMONS, PERFORMING SIGNS, WHICH GO OUT TO THE KINGS OF THE EARTH 23:02 AND OF THE WHOLE WORLD, TO GATHER THEM TO THE BATTLE 23:04 OF THAT GREAT DAY OF GOD." THEY'RE TRYING TO ASSEMBLE 23:07 EVERYBODY TO MAKE A LAW TO COMPLETELY ANNIHILATE GOD'S 23:10 PEOPLE AND THEY'RE USING TOXIC MESSAGES TO DO THIS. 23:15 HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU TURNED ON THE TV AND SOME PREACHER 23:17 SAYS, 'THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS TOLD ME' - 'I TALKED TO GOD JUST 23:21 TODAY AND I GOT THIS MESSAGE FROM THE LORD.' ANY OF YOU EVER 23:24 HEARD THAT BEFORE? THEY PLAY THE GOD CARD - 'GOD 23:26 TOLD ME' - I THINK YOU BETTER BE VERY CAREFUL. 23:29 I BELIEVE GOD STILL SPEAKS BUT YOU'VE GOT TO BE VERY CAREFUL TO 23:32 SAY THAT GOD TOLD YOU SOMETHING. SO THEY ARE THE 23:35 SPIRITS OF DEVILS PERFORMING MIRACLES. THAT LEADS US TO 23:42 YOU'VE GOT THE BEAST, THE DRAGON, AND THE FALSE PROPHET. 23:45 WHEN THEY ALL GATHER THE KINGS OF THE EARTH TOGETHER FOR THIS 23:48 BATTLE, THEN YOU COME INTO WHERE THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON COMES. 23:51 YOU LOOK AND THE SEVENTH PLAGUE IS NOW POURED OUT. 23:55 AND WHAT IS THAT? THE LORD COMES. 23:58 IT TALKS ABOUT - GO TO REVELATION CHAPTER 16. 24:04 IN REVELATION CHAPTER 16 YOU READ IN VERSE 17, "THEN THE 24:08 SEVENTH ANGEL POURED OUT HIS BOWL INTO THE AIR, AND A LOUD 24:12 VOICE CAME OUT OF THE TEMPLE OF HEAVEN, FROM THE THRONE, SAYING, 24:16 'IT IS DONE!'" - IT'S OVER - "AND THERE WERE 24:19 NOISES AND THUNDERINGS AND LIGHTNINGS; AND THERE WAS A 24:23 GREAT EARTHQUAKE, SUCH A MIGHTY AND GREAT EARTHQUAKE AS HAD NOT 24:27 OCCURRED SINCE MEN WERE ON THE EARTH. 24:30 NOW THE GREAT CITY WAS DIVIDED INTO THREE PARTS, AND THE CITIES 24:33 OF THE NATIONS" - IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE FALL OF BABYLON. 24:36 YOU READ IN CHAPTER 18, "WAS REMEMBERED BEFORE GOD AND THE 24:39 CUP OF THE WINE OF THE FIERCENESS OF HIS WRATH. 24:42 EVERY ISLAND FLED AWAY AND THE MOUNTAINS WERE NOT FOUND. 24:45 A GREAT HAIL FELL FROM GOD UPON MAN. 24:47 EACH HAILSTONE ABOUT THE WEIGHT OF A TALENT. 24:50 MEN BLASPHEMED GOD BECAUSE OF THE PLAGUE OF THE HAIL, SINCE 24:54 THAT PLAGUE WAS EXCEEDINGLY GREAT." 24:56 SO HERE YOU'VE GOT THE WAY THAT IT'S SET, THIS GREAT EARTHQUAKE, 24:59 THIS GREAT PLAGUE, AND THEN YOU'VE GOT THE WRITER COMING ON 25:02 HIS WHITE HORSE. NOW, I WANT TO CLOSE WITH THE RED LETTERS. 25:07 WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THE SEVEN PLAGUES, BUT REMEMBER WHAT IT 25:11 SAYS IN REVELATION 16, VERSE 15? "BEHOLD, I AM COMING AS A THIEF. 25:17 BLESSED IS HE WHO WATCHES AND KEEPS HIS GARMENTS, LEST HE 25:20 WALK NAKED AND THEY SEE HIS SHAME." 25:23 JESUS, IN THE MIDST OF ALL THIS, IS TELLING US, 'I'M COMING.' WHY 25:27 DOES HE TELL US THAT? HE'S SAYING, 'I WANT YOU TO 25:29 COME' - HE'S SAYING, 'I WANT YOU TO BE BLESSED. 25:31 I WANT YOU TO BE READY,' BECAUSE WHEN HE COMES LIKE A THIEF IT'S 25:35 GOING TO BE TOO LATE FOR MOST. EVERYONE THINKS 25:37 WE'VE GOT FOREVER. YOU COULD READ IN MATTHEW 24, 25:41 "THEREFORE," - VERSE 44 - "BE READY FOR THE SON OF MAN IS 25:45 COMING AT AN HOUR YOU DO NOT EXPECT." 25:48 LOOK IN 1 THESSALONIANS 5, VERSE 2, "FOR YOU, YOURSELVES, KNOW 25:53 PERFECTLY THE DAY OF THE LORD IS COMING AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT. 25:55 FOR WHEN THEY SAY, 'PEACE AND SAFETY!' 25:57 THEN SUDDEN DESTRUCTION COMES ON THEM, AS LABOR PAINS UPON A 26:01 PREGNANT WOMAN. AND THEY SHALL NOT ESCAPE. 26:03 BUT YOU, BRETHREN, ARE NOT IN DARKNESS, THAT THAT DAY SHOULD 26:07 OVERTAKE YOU AS A THIEF." WE WANT TO HAVE OUR GARMENTS ON. 26:12 REVELATION 3:3, JESUS SAYS, "REMEMBER THEREFORE HOW YOU HAVE 26:16 RECEIVED AND HEARD; HOLD FAST AND REPENT. 26:18 THEREFORE IF YOU WILL NOT WATCH, I WILL COME ON YOU AS A THIEF, 26:23 AND YOU WILL NOT KNOW WHAT HOUR I WILL COME UPON YOU." 26:25 THE LORD IS LOOKING FOR A WORLD OF PEACE - AND WE ALL WANT PEACE 26:30 - AND UNFORTUNATELY, SOMETIMES TO HAVE PEACE, YOU NEED TO BE 26:33 WILLING TO FACE WAR. AND THE LORD IS GOING TO CREATE 26:36 A NEW WORLD WHERE THERE'S PEACE. >>AMEN. 26:39 >>BUT IT'S GOING TO TAKE A MIGHTY BATTLE, IN THE END, TO 26:44 BRING ABOUT THAT PEACE. >>DON'T FORGET TO REQUEST 26:51 TODAY'S LIFE-CHANGING FREE RESOURCE. 26:54 NOT ONLY CAN YOU RECEIVE THIS FREE GIFT IN THE MAIL, YOU CAN 26:56 DOWNLOAD A DIGITAL COPY STRAIGHT TO YOUR COMPUTER OR MOBILE 26:59 DEVICE. TO GET YOUR DIGITAL COPY OF TODAY'S FREE GIFT, SIMPLY 27:03 TEXT THE KEY WORD ON YOUR SCREEN TO 40544 OR VISIT THE WEB 27:07 ADDRESS SHOWN ON YOUR SCREEN. AND BE SURE TO SELECT THE 27:10 DIGITAL DOWNLOAD OPTION ON THE REQUEST PAGE. 27:13 IT'S NOW EASIER THAN EVER FOR YOU TO STUDY GOD'S WORD WITH 27:16 AMAZING FACTS, WHEREVER AND WHENEVER YOU WANT. 27:19 AND, MOST IMPORTANT, TO SHARE IT WITH OTHERS. 27:24 >>WHAT IF YOU COULD KNOW THE FUTURE? 27:27 WHAT WOULD YOU DO? 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