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00:02 >>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF
00:05 THE AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:07 ♪♪ 00:14 >>SEE, THERE'S TWO TEMPLES: THERE'S ONE IN HEAVEN 00:19 AND ONE ON EARTH. THE CHURCH IS CALLED 00:22 THE BODY OF CHRIST. 00:24 THERE IS STILL A TEMPLE ON EARTH. 00:26 YOU AND I ARE THE PRIESTS. 00:28 YOU AND I ARE THE LIVING STONES IN THAT TEMPLE AND THAT'S WHY 00:31 THIS IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT SUBJECT. 00:37 >>WELCOME ONCE AGAIN, FRIENDS, TO ANOTHER PRESENTATION IN THE 00:41 LANDMARK OF PROPHECY SERIES. WE'RE VERY THANKFUL THAT EACH OF 00:45 YOU ARE HERE. I WANT TO THANK YOU PERSONALLY 00:47 FOR YOUR FAITHFULNESS. YOU KNOW, WE'VE TITLED THIS 00:50 SERIES LANDMARKS OF PROPHECY AND ONE OF THE FAMOUS LANDMARKS 00:53 IN THE WORLD, OF COURSE, IS THE TAJ MAHAL. 00:56 THE EMPEROR'S WIFE DIED GIVING BIRTH TO THEIR 14TH CHILD AND HE 01:03 LOVED HER SO MUCH THAT HE WANTED TO BUILD SOMETHING THAT WOULD 01:07 JUST COMMEMORATE HIS LOVE FOR HER AND SO HE HAD JUST THE BEST 01:13 ARCHITECTS IN THE KINGDOM THAT BUILT THIS BEAUTIFUL BUILDING. 01:16 WHAT MANY PEOPLE ARE NOT AWARE OF IS THAT HE ALSO SAW IT 01:22 AS A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE COULD FIND REDEMPTION. 01:25 WHEN THE EMPEROR DEDICATED THE BUILDING, IT WAS EMPEROR SHAH 01:30 JAHAN, HE DECLARED IN THESE WORDS, "SHOULD THE GUILTY SEEK 01:34 ASYLUM HERE, LIKE ONE PARDONED, HE BECOMES FREE FROM SIN. 01:39 SHOULD A SINNER MAKE HIS WAY TO THIS MANSION, 01:41 ALL HIS PAST SINS ARE TO BE WASHED AWAY. 01:44 THE SIGHT OF THIS MANSION CREATES SORROWING SIGHS AND THE 01:47 SUN AND THE MOON SHED TEARS FROM THEIR EYES. 01:51 IN THIS WORLD, THIS EDIFICE HAS BEEN MADE; TO DISPLAY THEREBY 01:54 THE CREATOR'S GLORY." VERY INTERESTING. 01:57 HE SPEAKS OF A MONOTHEISTIC CREATOR AND THAT THIS BUILDING 02:01 WAS TO BE A PLACE WHERE A PERSON COULD FIND ASYLUM - LIKE A CITY 02:04 OF REFUGE. AND SO, IT'S NOT JUST BEAUTIFUL, 02:07 IT ALSO HAD SOME REPRESENTATION OF A PLACE OF WORSHIP AS WELL. 02:13 YOU KNOW, THERE IS A BUILDING THAT THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT - 02:17 IT'S CALLED SOMETIMES THE TABERNACLE, THE TEMPLE, THE 02:22 SANCTUARY - THAT IS FOUND ALL THE WAY FROM EXODUS THROUGH 02:25 REVELATION AND IS MENTIONED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR BIBLE 02:29 PROPHETS. IN THE CONTEXT OF THIS BUILDING 02:34 WE'RE GOING TO LEARN A LOT ABOUT SALVATION TONIGHT, AND SOME OF 02:36 THE MOST INTERESTING BIBLE PROPHECIES THAT EVEN RELATE 02:39 TO OUR DAY. THE LESSON TODAY IS LESSON #11 02:42 DEALING WITH THE SUBJECT OF CLEANSING THE SANCTUARY. 02:45 NOW, WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL CAME OUT OF EGYPT AND MOSES WENT 02:50 UP MOUNT SINAI, WHAT DID HE GET UP THERE ON TOP OF MOUNT SINAI? 02:53 >>TEN COMMANDMENTS. >>TEN COMMANDMENTS. 02:55 BUT, YOU KNOW, THAT'S NOT THE ONLY THING HE GOT UP THERE. 02:57 THE BIBLE TELLS US THE LORD GAVE HIM BLUEPRINTS. 03:01 JUST LIKE THE LORD GAVE BLUEPRINTS TO NOAH TO BUILD THE 03:04 ARK, HE GAVE BLUEPRINTS TO MOSES TO BUILD A TABERNACLE. 03:09 THIS WAS TO BE THE CENTRAL PLACE OF WORSHIP IN THE HEBREW 03:12 ECONOMY. IT WAS A VERY SPECIFICALLY 03:15 DESIGNED BUILDING THAT WAS TO TEACH THEM ABOUT 03:19 HOW GOD SAVES PEOPLE. AND HERE'S A PICTURE. 03:21 AT FIRST, WHEN THEY WERE GOING THROUGH THE WILDERNESS, THEY 03:24 NEEDED A PORTABLE TABERNACLE BECAUSE THEY WOULD STRIKE THEIR 03:27 CAMP, MOVE TO ANOTHER SPOT, PITCH IT AGAIN, STRIKE IT, MOVE 03:30 TO ANOTHER SPOT - THEY HAD ALL THESE LEVITES THAT WERE 03:33 DESIGNATED TO CARRY IT ON THEIR SHOULDERS FROM PLACE TO PLACE. 03:35 FOR 40 YEARS THEY CARRIED THEIR TEMPLE WITH THEM. 03:37 FINALLY, WHEN THEY GOT INTO THE PROMISED LAND, THEY BUILT A 03:40 PERMANENT ONE. BUT THERE WERE SOME THINGS THAT 03:43 HAPPENED HERE THAT ALL ILLUSTRATED THE PLAN OF 03:46 SALVATION. THERE WAS ONE DOOR - HOW MANY 03:49 WAYS OF SALVATION DOES JESUS TELL US THERE ARE? 03:52 ONE - HE IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH, THE LIFE. HE SAID 'I AM THE 03:55 DOOR.' HE'S THE LAMB OF GOD. PEOPLE WOULD BRING THEIR LAMB 03:58 THROUGH THAT DOOR AND THE FIRST THING THAT HAPPENED ON THE 04:01 ENTRANCE TO THE SANCTUARY WAS THERE WAS A SACRIFICE. 04:04 THERE WERE TWO PIECES OF FURNITURE THAT YOU PRINCIPALLY 04:07 SAW WHEN YOU WENT IN: AFTER YOU WENT IN THE DOOR, THE FIRST 04:10 THING WAS WHAT THEY CALLED THE ALTAR. 04:12 THIS IS WHERE THE SACRIFICE TOOK PLACE AND WHERE IT WAS BURNT AND 04:15 PRESENTED TO GOD - THAT REPRESENTS THE CROSS. 04:18 THE NEXT PIECE OF FURNITURE YOU SAW WAS THE LAVER. 04:21 IT WAS WHERE THIS WATER WAS AND THEY WOULD WASH, THEN, BEFORE 04:26 THEY ENTERED THE HOLY PLACE. SO, IN EGYPT, THE CHILDREN OF 04:31 ISRAEL, BEFORE THEY WERE SAVED FROM SLAVERY, THEY SACRIFICED A 04:34 LAMB. THEN THEY WENT THROUGH THE RED 04:36 SEA. THAT WATER IS A SYMBOL OF, LIKE, 04:39 BAPTISM. PAUL SAYS THAT IN 1 CORINTHIANS 04:42 CHAPTER 10. THEY WERE BAPTIZED IN THE SEA. WHEN THEY WENT DOWN 04:45 THROUGH THE RED SEA AND CAME UP IT WAS SORT OF A SYMBOLIC 04:47 BAPTISM. THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT JESUS IS THE LAMB. 04:50 JESUS IS THE ROCK. JESUS IS THE LIVING WATER. 04:54 EVERYTHING YOU LOOK AT IN THE TABERNACLE TELLS US ABOUT JESUS. 04:56 THEN YOU WENT INTO WHAT THEY CALL THE HOLY PLACE - THE FIRST 05:00 ROOM OF THE TABERNACLE - AND THE FIRST THING YOU SAW WHEN YOU 05:04 WENT INTO THE HOLY PLACE WAS THIS TABLE OF SHOWBREAD. 05:07 JESUS SAID, 'I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE.' RIGHT? THE OTHER THING 05:12 YOU SAW WAS A LAMPSTAND WITH SEVEN LAMPS ON IT. 05:16 THAT'S BECAUSE JESUS SAID, 'I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.' AND 05:19 THEN THE THIRD THING YOU SAW WAS THIS ALTAR OF INCENSE AND THAT'S 05:24 WHERE THEY WOULD SPRINKLE INCENSE AND THE PLEASANT AROMA 05:28 WOULD WAFT OVER THE CURTAIN INTO THE HOLY OF HOLIES 05:31 OR THE MOST HOLY PLACE. THIS REPRESENTS THE PRAYERS - 05:36 THE INTERCESSION - OF JESUS. WE PRAY IN HIS NAME. 05:39 SO, BEFORE WE GO ANY FARTHER, WE SAW THREE THINGS IN THE 05:42 HOLY PLACE: THOSE ARE THE THREE SECRET WEAPONS FOR YOUR 05:46 BEING SUCCESSFUL AS A CHRISTIAN. DID YOU CATCH IT? 05:50 BREAD, LIGHT, THE ALTAR OF INCENSE. 05:55 THAT'S READING YOUR BIBLE - THAT'S THE BREAD OF LIFE - MAN 05:57 DOESN'T LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD - RIGHT? 06:00 GOD SAID LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE - BE A WITNESS - AND YOU NEED TO 06:04 PRAY. THAT'S THAT ALTAR OF INCENSE. 06:07 THOSE THREE THINGS ARE THE KEYS TO HAVING A CLOSE RELATIONSHIP 06:10 WITH GOD. NOW YOU WENT THROUGH THE VEIL 06:13 INTO WHAT THEY CALLED THE HOLY OF HOLIES AND THERE WAS ONLY ONE 06:16 THING IN THERE. WHAT WAS THAT? THAT WAS THE ARK - 06:22 THE GOLDEN ARK OF THE COVENANT - AND THERE - WHAT WAS INSIDE? 06:27 >>TEN COMMANDMENTS. >>TEN COMMANDMENTS. 06:30 WHEN YOU READ THE BIBLE PROPHECY BOOKS OF ISAIAH, "IN THE YEAR" - 06:35 CHAPTER 6 - "IN THE YEAR THAT KING UZZIAH DIED, I SAW THE LORD 06:38 SITTING ON A THRONE, HIGH AND LIFTED UP, AND THE TRAIN OF 06:40 HIS ROBE FILLED THE TEMPLE." THE VISION IS IN THE TEMPLE. 06:42 EZEKIEL - I READ IT TODAY IN MY PERSONAL DEVOTIONS - CHAPTER 40 06:45 - HE'S MEASURING THE TEMPLE - THE VISION'S IN THE TEMPLE. 06:47 ZECHARIAH, DANIEL, THE CONTEXT OF SO MANY OF THESE GREAT 06:52 PROPHECIES - REVELATION - ARE IN THE CONTEXT OF THIS BUILDING. 06:58 THERE ARE SOME SECRET LESSONS THAT WE CAN LEARN ABOUT GOD AND 07:02 HOW HE SAVES - AND EVEN PROPHECY - FROM STUDYING THIS. 07:06 SO, ONE OF THE IMPORTANT THINGS THAT HAPPENED WITH JESUS' 07:09 MINISTRY - LET'S GO TO THE LESSON - THE STORY AT THE 07:12 BEGINNING OF YOUR LESSON. IS - THE CENTER OF WORSHIP FOR 07:17 THE JEWISH NATION AT THE TIME OF CHRIST WAS THE JEWISH TEMPLE. 07:20 NOW THE TEMPLE, DURING THE TIME OF JESUS, WAS THE ONE THAT HAD 07:23 BEEN REBUILT. NEBUCHADNEZZAR HAD DESTROYED THE ONE OF SOLOMON. 07:27 IT LASTED ABOUT 400 YEARS AND THEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR DESTROYED IT 07:30 AND THEN YEARS LATER - 70 YEARS LATER - THEY CAME BACK AND, 07:34 DURING THE TIME OF EZRA AND NEHEMIAH, THEY REBUILT IT 07:36 BUT IT DIDN'T HAVE QUITE THE FORMER GLORY. 07:38 BUT THEN, ALONG CAME A ROMAN-JEWISH KING - HASMONEAN 07:43 KING - NAMED HEROD THE GREAT WHO WAS QUITE A BUILDER. 07:47 HE LOVED TO BUILD - PASSIONATE BUILDER. 07:48 HE BUILT MASADA. HE BUILT CAESAREA. 07:51 HE BUILT EVERYWHERE. HE ALSO WAS PRETTY HEARTLESS. 07:54 HE'S THE ONE WHO KILLED THE BABIES IN BETHLEHEM. 07:56 BUT TO SHOW, FOR POLITICAL REASONS, THE JEWS THAT HE WOULD 07:59 BE A GOOD KING, HE REFURBISHED THEIR TEMPLE AND IT WAS A 08:02 BEAUTIFUL PLACE AND IT STILL WAS THE PLACE WHERE THEY WORSHIPED. 08:05 SO WHEN JESUS CAME IN TO TEACH IN THE TEMPLE, YOU KNOW, THE 08:09 PEOPLE WOULD BRING THEIR SACRIFICES, WELL THE RELIGIOUS 08:12 LEADERS HAD TURNED IT INTO A BAZAAR WHERE THEY WERE SELLING 08:15 LAMBS, SELLING DOVES, SELLING SACRIFICES - THE COURTYARD OF 08:20 THE TEMPLE THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A PLACE OF PRAYER, 08:23 AND PRAISE, AND WORSHIP - IT SOUNDED LIKE A FLEA MARKET 08:26 AND--IT WAS LIKE A STOCKADE AUCTION HOUSE. 08:28 EVERYBODY WAS FIGHTING OVER THE PRICE OF SACRIFICES AND IT 08:31 SMELLED AND JESUS WALKED IN THERE ONE DAY AND HE SAID, 08:36 'MY FATHER'S HOUSE IS A HOUSE OF PRAYER FOR ALL NATIONS.' 08:40 BY THE WAY, HE'S QUOTING THE OLD TESTAMENT. 08:41 HE SAID, 'YOU'VE TURNED IT INTO A DEN OF THIEVES.' FIRE FLASHED 08:45 FROM HIS EYES. HE OVERTURNED THE MONEYCHANGERS' TABLES. 08:49 YOU REMEMBER READING ABOUT THIS? HE MADE A CORD - A WHIP OUT OF 08:53 CORDS IT DOESN'T SAY HE WHIPPED ANYBODY BUT HIS HOLDING IT WAS 08:55 PROBABLY ENOUGH. AND THEN HE SAID, IN JOHN 08:58 CHAPTER 2, VERSE 16, "TAKE THESE THINGS HENCE! 09:01 MAKE NOT MY FATHER'S HOUSE A HOUSE OF MERCHANDISE!" 09:05 NOTICE, JESUS SAID, 'MY FATHER'S HOUSE.' AT THE END OF CHRIST'S 09:09 MINISTRY WHEN THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS REJECTED HIS TEACHING, 09:13 HE SAID, 'BEHOLD, YOUR HOUSE IS LEFT TO YOU DESOLATE.' 09:18 THAT'S INTERESTING TO CONSIDER. THERE'S A CHANGE. 09:22 NOW, QUESTION #1: WHAT IS THE STARTING POINT FOR THE 2300-DAY 09:28 AND 70-WEEK TIME PROPHECIES? NOW GET YOUR BIBLES, TURN WITH 09:33 ME TO DANIEL 9:23, "AT THE BEGINNING OF YOUR SUPPLICATIONS 09:39 THE COMMANDMENT WENT OUT, AND I HAVE COME TO TELL YOU, FOR YOU 09:41 ARE GREATLY BELOVED; THEREFORE CONSIDER THE MATTER, AND 09:43 UNDERSTAND THE VISION:" NOW THERE'S NO VISION IN CHAPTER 9 09:46 SO WHAT VISION IS THE ANGEL TALKING ABOUT? 09:48 THE ONE IN CHAPTER 8 HE DIDN'T GET TO FINISH EXPLAINING BECAUSE 09:52 DANIEL FAINTED, RIGHT? "SEVENTY WEEKS" - HERE WE GO, 09:56 VERSE 24 - DANIEL 9:24 - "SEVENTY WEEKS ARE DETERMINED 10:00 FOR YOUR PEOPLE" - WHO WERE DANIEL'S PEOPLE? 10:02 JEWISH NATION - SEVENTY WEEKS - THE WORD DETERMINED THERE MEANS 10:06 'CUT OFF' OR 'ALLOTTED' OR 'REMAIN' FOR YOUR PEOPLE. 10:10 FOR WHAT? TO INTRODUCE THE MESSIAH TO THE WORLD. 10:13 "AND FOR YOUR HOLY CITY, TO FINISH THE TRANSGRESSION, 10:18 TO MAKE AN END OF SINS," - THE FINAL SACRIFICE FOR SIN WOULD BE 10:21 OFFERED - "TO MAKE RECONCILIATION FOR INIQUITY, TO 10:25 BRING IN EVERLASTING RIGHTEOUSNESS," - THAT'S CHRIST 10:28 WHO BRINGS THAT EVERLASTING RIGHTEOUSNESS - "TO SEAL UP THE 10:30 VISION AND PROPHECY, AND TO ANOINT THE MOST HOLY." 10:37 SO HE SAID SEVENTY WEEKS ARE DETERMINED FOR ALL THESE THINGS 10:39 TO BE ACCOMPLISHED. "KNOW THEREFORE AND UNDERSTAND," 10:41 - NOW HERE IS THE STARTING POINT FOR ALL THESE PROPHECIES - "KNOW 10:45 THEREFORE AND UNDERSTAND, THAT FROM THE GOING FORTH OF THE 10:48 COMMAND TO RESTORE AND BUILD JERUSALEM UNTIL MESSIAH THE 10:53 PRINCE," - FROM THIS POINT TO THIS POINT - "THERE SHALL BE 10:56 SEVEN WEEKS AND THREE-SCORE AND TWO WEEKS;" ALRIGHT, THREE-SCORE 10:59 AND TWO IS SIXTY-TWO, RIGHT? A SCORE IS TWENTY. 11:03 SIXTY-TWO PLUS SEVEN IS HOW MUCH? SIXTY-NINE. 11:07 SO YOU'VE GOT ONE WEEK MISSING. HE TELLS US WHAT HAPPENS IN THE 11:11 MIDST OF THAT LAST WEEK, HE MAKES THE SACRIFICE CEASE. 11:13 SO HE BREAKS IT UP LIKE THAT BECAUSE THERE'S THE FIRST SEVEN 11:16 WEEKS THEY'RE BUILDING THE WALL AND THE STREET. 11:19 THEN YOU'VE GOT ANOTHER SIXTY-NINE WEEKS AND AT THE END 11:22 OF THAT SIXTY-NINE WEEK PERIOD IT SAYS THAT THE MESSIAH IS 11:26 GOING TO BE ANOINTED AND BEGIN HIS MINISTRY. 11:31 SO UNTO THE MESSIAH THE PRINCE - SEVEN WEEKS; THREE-SCORE 11:35 AND TWO WEEKS. THE STARTING POINT IS FROM THE 11:37 GOING FORTH OF THE COMMAND TO RESTORE AND BUILD JERUSALEM. 11:40 CAN WE KNOW FROM ALL THE DUSTY, MUSTY RECORDS OF HISTORY 11:43 WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN? GOOD NEWS. IT'S GIVEN IN YOUR BIBLE. 11:48 IT'S IN EZRA 7:7. THE DECREE OF KING ARTAXERXES - 11:52 THAT KING GAVE A DECREE THAT ALLOWED THEM TO GO BACK. 11:56 IT WAS THE MOST PROMINENT VARIETY OF DECREES THAT CAME 12:01 SAYING THAT THEY COULD REBUILD THE CITY AND THE WALLS 12:04 AND THE TEMPLE AND THAT IS 457 B.C. 12:08 IT IS A VERY CLEARLY ESTABLISHED DATE IN HISTORY. 12:12 MALE ANNOUNCER: DON'T FORGET TO REQUEST TODAY'S LIFE-CHANGING, 12:14 FREE RESOURCE. 12:16 NOT ONLY CAN YOU RECEIVE THIS FREE GIFT IN THE MAIL, YOU CAN 12:18 DOWNLOAD A DIGITAL COPY STRAIGHT TO YOUR COMPUTER 12:21 OR MOBILE DEVICE. 12:22 TO GET YOUR COPY OF TODAY'S FREE GIFT, 12:24 SIMPLY CALL US AND ASK FOR THE OFFER NUMBER 12:26 SHOWN ON YOUR SCREEN, 12:28 OR VISIT THE WEB ADDRESS AND DOWNLOAD A DIGITAL COPY, 12:31 AND BE SURE TO SELECT THE DIGITAL DOWNLOAD OPTION 12:34 ON THE REQUEST PAGE. 12:35 IT'S NOW EASIER THAN EVER FOR YOU TO STUDY GOD'S WORD 12:38 WITH AMAZING FACTS WHEREVER AND WHENEVER YOU WANT, 12:41 AND MOST IMPORTANT, TO SHARE IT WITH OTHERS. 12:46 >> SO YOU'VE GOT THE STARTING POINT - 457 - 12:49 AND HE SAYS NOW IT'LL BE SIXTY-NINE WEEKS 12:52 UNTIL THE MESSIAH BEGINS HIS MINISTRY. 12:55 FIRST THERE'D BE THE SEVEN WEEKS - FORTY-NINE YEARS WHILE THEY'RE 12:57 BUILDING THE STREET AND THE WALL IN TROUBLOUS TIMES, THEN THERE'D 13:00 BE ANOTHER SIXTY-TWO WEEKS - A TOTAL OF SIXTY-NINE, RIGHT? 13:05 NOW WHEN YOU'RE INTERPRETING BIBLE PROPHECY, WHAT IS THE 13:07 PRINCIPLE THAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO USE? 13:10 A DAY EQUALS A YEAR. >>A YEAR. 13:13 >>YOU CAN READ THIS - THERE'S SEVERAL VERSES IN EZEKIEL 4:6, 13:17 "I HAVE APPOINTED THEE EACH DAY FOR A YEAR." 13:20 YOU CAN READ NUMBERS 14:34 "EACH DAY FOR A YEAR" THE ANGEL SAID 13:26 THAT IF YOU'RE TO COUNT SIXTY-NINE WEEKS FROM 457 B.C. 13:31 YOU'D COME TO MESSIAH THE PRINCE. SO NOW, DID IT HAPPEN? 13:35 IF YOU GO - A DAY EQUALS A YEAR IN PROPHECY - 13:39 IF YOU GO 483 YEARS FROM 457 B.C. 13:44 IT COMES TO THE BAPTISM OF JESUS IN 27 A.D. 13:48 MATTHEW 1:22 AND 23, "NOW THIS WAS ALL DONE, THAT IT MIGHT BE 13:53 FULFILLED WHICH WAS SPOKEN OF THE LORD BY THE PROPHET, SAYING, 13:59 'BEHOLD, A VIRGIN WILL BE WITH CHILD, AND SHALL BRING FORTH A 14:02 SON, AND THEY SHALL CALL HIS NAME EMMANUEL, WHICH BEING 14:06 INTERPRETED IS, GOD WITH US.'" IT SAYS SPECIFICALLY IN DANIEL 14:10 9:24, PART OF THE PURPOSE WOULD BE TO ANOINT THE MOST HOLY. 14:15 WAS JESUS ANOINTED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT WHEN HE WAS BAPTIZED? 14:20 DID THE SPIRIT COME DOWN LIKE A DOVE? 14:22 WHAT MARKED THE BEGINNING OF JESUS' MINISTRY? 14:25 HIS BAPTISM. YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE MOST 14:29 CLEARLY ESTABLISHED DATES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT IS LUKE CHAPTER 3, 14:34 VERSE 1. YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLE? 14:35 AND THE REASON IS THEY GIVE SO MANY DATES - HE GIVES SO MANY 14:40 CORRESPONDING LEADERS DURING THIS TIME, THERE'S VERY LITTLE 14:43 DOUBT ABOUT WHEN IT WAS, HISTORICALLY. 14:46 SOME OF THESE ANCIENT DATES IT'S HARD TO PIN DOWN, 14:48 BUT LET ME TELL YOU WHAT DR. LUKE DID FOR US. 14:50 LUKE 3, VERSE 1, "NOW IN THE FIFTEENTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF 14:55 TIBERIUS CAESAR," - THAT'S NOT THAT HARD TO ESTABLISH - 14:58 "PONTIUS PILATE BEING GOVERNOR OF JUDEA," - THAT'S ONE MORE 15:02 BENCHMARK - "AND HEROD BEING TETRARCH OF GALILEE, HIS BROTHER 15:06 PHILIP TETRARCH OF ITURAEA AND OF THE REGION OF TRACHONITIS, 15:09 AND LYSANIAS THE TETRARCH OF ABILENE, ANNAS AND CAIAPHAS 15:15 BEING THE HIGH PRIESTS, THE WORD OF GOD CAME UNTO JOHN..." 15:18 LOOK AT ALL OF THOSE DIFFERENT LEADERS. 15:20 YOU CAN TRIANGULATE ALL OF THOSE DIFFERENT POINTS - WELL, 15:24 TRIANGULATE WOULD BE ONLY THREE - HE GIVES ABOUT FIVE DIFFERENT 15:26 LEADERS. THERE'S ONLY ONE DATE IN HISTORY WHEN WE KNOW THAT 15:29 THEY ALL CORRESPONDED: 27 A.D. IT IS SUCH A WELL-ESTABLISHED 15:35 DATE THIS IS THE YEAR THAT JESUS WAS BAPTIZED. 15:38 THAT IS EXACTLY THE RIGHT TIME PERIOD AFTER 457 B.C. 15:44 MARK 1:15 - WHEN JESUS BEGAN PREACHING YOU KNOW WHAT HE SAID? 15:49 "THE TIME IS FULFILLED" - RIGHT AFTER HIS BAPTISM JESUS SAID, 15:52 "THE TIME IS FULFILLED" - WHAT TIME IS HE TALKING ABOUT? 15:55 HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE TIME FROM DANIEL'S PROPHECY. 15:58 HE WAS ANOINTED. HE BEGAN TO PREACH. 16:01 THIS IS WHAT THEY WERE ALL WAITING FOR. 16:03 EVERY JEW READ THE PROPHECY OF DANIEL 9, WONDERING WHEN 16:05 THE MESSIAH WOULD COME. WHICH ALSO MEANS, IF THEY HAD 16:09 BEEN STUDYING THEIR BIBLES BACK THEN THE WAY THEY SHOULD HAVE, 16:12 THEY COULD HAVE KNOWN THE TIME OF HIS BIRTH BECAUSE A HIGH 16:15 PRIEST COULD NOT REIGN UNTIL HE WAS THIRTY YEARS OF AGE. 16:20 A PRIEST COULDN'T SERVE UNTIL HE WAS THIRTY. 16:22 JOSEPH BEGAN TO RULE AT THIRTY. DAVID BEGAN TO RULE AT THIRTY. 16:25 PRIESTS BEGAN TO RULE AT THIRTY. THEY COULD HAVE GUESSED THE 16:28 MESSIAH WOULD BEGIN HIS MINISTRY AT HIS THIRTIETH BIRTHDAY AND 16:31 THAT'S WHEN JESUS WAS BAPTIZED. DID YOU KNOW THAT? 16:33 IT SAYS, 'AS JESUS BEGAN TO BE THIRTY YEARS OF AGE' - 16:36 ALSO IN LUKE. ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS COUNT 16:38 BACK THIRTY YEARS FROM THE ANOINTING POINT AND THEY COULD 16:41 HAVE GUESSED WHEN HE WOULD HAVE BEEN BORN. 16:42 SO WE'VE GOT A COUPLE OF CHARTS HERE THAT WE'RE GOING TO PUT UP 16:46 JUST TO REVIEW WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT. 16:48 FIRST WE KNOW, FROM 457 YOU'VE GOT SIXTY-NINE WEEKS. 16:53 THAT WOULD GO 483 YEARS TO THE POINT OF HIS BAPTISM, THAT WOULD 16:58 BE 27 A.D. WHAT WAS TO TAKE PLACE NEXT 17:01 IN THIS PROPHECY? AND YOU CAN READ THE ANSWER 17:04 TO THAT IS DANIEL CHAPTER 9, VERSES 26 AND 27. 17:09 IT SAYS, "AND AFTER THREESCORE AND TWO WEEKS SHALL MESSIAH BE" 17:13 - WHAT? >>CUT OFF. 17:15 >>"CUT OFF, BUT NOT FOR HIMSELF." 17:18 AFTER THAT THE MESSIAH WOULD BE CUT OFF. 17:21 YOU KNOW, THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT A LOT OF THE RELIGIOUS 17:24 LEADERS DIDN'T UNDERSTAND AND THEY STRUGGLED WITH BECAUSE THEY 17:27 WANTED THE MESSIAH TO COME AND FLEX HIS MUSCLES AND BE A 17:32 COMBINATION OF KING DAVID AND SAMSON AND OVERTHROW THE 17:35 ROMANS AND MAKE THEM A WORLD EMPIRE. 17:37 HAVING A MESSIAH COME THAT WOULD DIE AS A LAMB DIDN'T FIT IN VERY 17:41 WELL WITH WHAT THEIR HOPES AND DREAMS WERE. 17:43 THEN IT GOES ON AND IT SAYS, "AND HE SHALL CONFIRM THE 17:47 COVENANT WITH MANY FOR ONE WEEK: AND IN THE MIDST OF THAT WEEK HE 17:52 SHALL CAUSE THE SACRIFICE AND THE OBLATION TO CEASE." 17:56 THE MESSIAH IS ANOINTED BUT JESUS DOESN'T PREACH 17:59 SEVEN YEARS, HE ONLY PREACHES HALF OF THAT. 18:01 HE PREACHES THREE AND A HALF YEARS IN PERSON AND THEN HE IS 18:04 CUT OFF IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT LAST WEEK THAT REACHES TO 18:09 34 A.D. CHRIST DIES IN 31 A.D. HE SAYS, 'I WILL PREACH. 18:14 I'M GOING TO TRAIN MY TWELVE APOSTLES. 18:17 I WILL PREACH' AND HE SAYS - WHEN HE LEAVES AND GOES TO 18:20 HEAVEN HE TELLS THE APOSTLES, 'AS THE FATHER SENT ME, SO SEND 18:23 I YOU.' BUT, CATCH THIS, JESUS DID NOT SAY 'GO TO THE WORLD 18:28 FIRST.' MATTER OF FACT, HE SAID, 'DON'T GO ANYWHERE. 18:31 WAIT IN JERUSALEM UNTIL YOU RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT. 18:34 AND WHEN YOU RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT YOU'LL BE MY WITNESSES. 18:37 FIRST JERUSALEM, THEN JUDEA' - I'M IN ACTS CHAPTER 1 - 'THEN 18:43 SAMARIA AND THE UTTERMOST PARTS OF THE EARTH.' WHEN CHRIST SENT 18:46 THEM OUT PREACHING AFTER HE ROSE, HE SAID, 'GO NOT IN THE 18:48 WAY OF THE GENTILES, BUT GO RATHER TO THE LOST SHEEP OF THE 18:54 HOUSE OF ISRAEL.' HE WANTED TO FINISH CONFIRMING 18:57 THE COVENANT TO HIS OWN PEOPLE FIRST. 19:00 AND SO THE LORD SPECIFICALLY KEPT HIS PROMISE TO ABRAHAM. 19:04 HE SAID, 'I'M GOING TO CONFIRM THE COVENANT TO YOUR PEOPLE FOR 19:06 A FULL SEVEN YEARS.' THREE AND A HALF YEARS THROUGH THE MESSIAH, 19:10 HE WILL BE CUT OFF. IN ANOTHER THREE AND A HALF 19:13 YEARS THROUGH THOSE WHO HEARD HIM - THE APOSTLES. 19:16 YOU LOOK AT THE BOTTOM PART OF THIS CHART HERE, YOU'VE GOT THE 19:18 FIRST SIXTY-NINE WEEKS CHRIST IS BAPTIZED. 19:21 THREE AND A HALF YEARS HE PREACHES IN PERSON. 19:25 THREE AND A HALF YEARS HE PREACHES THROUGH THE APOSTLES. 19:28 AT THE END OF THAT, IN 34 A.D., SOMETHING HAPPENS. 19:32 ALRIGHT, GO TO YOUR BIBLES REAL QUICK. 19:33 TURN TO ACTS CHAPTER 7. IN ACTS CHAPTER 7 STEPHEN IS 19:41 THE FIRST MARTYR OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. 19:44 AFTER HE WAS FALSELY TRIED BY THE SAME PEOPLE WHO TRIED JESUS, 19:49 HE TOLD THEM THE WONDERFUL GOSPEL THAT PETER HAD PREACHED 19:54 AT PENTECOST THREE AND A HALF YEARS EARLIER, BUT INSTEAD OF 19:58 REPENTING AND SAYING, 'WHAT MUST WE DO TO BE SAVED?' 20:01 THE SUPREME COURT, THE LEADERS, THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE 20:03 NATION PLUGGED THEIR EARS. THEY GNASHED THEIR TEETH. 20:08 THEY DIDN'T WANT TO HEAR IT. THEY CRIED OUT - VERSE 57 - ACTS 20:12 7:57 - "THEN THEY CRIED OUT WITH A LOUD VOICE, AND STOPPED THEIR 20:16 EARS, AND RAN UPON HIM WITH ONE ACCORD, AND CAST HIM OUT OF THE 20:18 CITY, AND STONED HIM: AND THE WITNESSES LAID DOWN THEIR 20:22 CLOTHES AT A YOUNG MAN'S FEET, WHOSE NAME WAS SAUL." 20:26 WHOSE NAME WAS LATER CHANGED TO: >>PAUL. 20:28 >>WOW, ISN'T THIS A PIVOTAL POINT IN HISTORY? 34 A.D. 20:32 THE NATION OFFICIALLY PLUGS THEIR EARS - SAYS WE DON'T WANT 20:36 TO HEAR ABOUT JESUS ANYMORE. THEY KILL HIS REPRESENTATIVE THE 20:39 SAME WAY THEY KILLED JESUS - FALSELY TRIED, TAKEN OUT OF THE 20:42 CITY BY A MOB, EXECUTED, CLOTHES ARE LAID DOWN - THE CLOTHES OF 20:47 CHRIST WERE TAKEN AWAY. AND IT SAYS, IF YOU READ 20:51 CHAPTER 8, VERSE 1, "AND SAUL WAS CONSENTING UNTO HIS DEATH. 20:56 AND AT THAT TIME THERE WAS A GREAT PERSECUTION AGAINST THE 20:59 CHURCH WHICH WAS AT JERUSALEM; AND THEY WERE ALL SCATTERED 21:02 ABROAD THROUGHOUT THE REGIONS OF JUDEA AND SAMARIA, 21:05 EXCEPT THE APOSTLES." THEY WENT EVERYWHERE PREACHING. 21:07 THERE'S A GREAT PERSECUTION AND THAT JUST TOTALLY SEALS WHAT 21:12 HAPPENED HERE IN THAT TIME PERIOD. 21:15 ACCORDING TO THE ANGEL WHO SPOKE WITH DANIEL, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN 21:18 AT THE END OF THE 2,300-YEAR PERIOD OF TIME? 21:22 ANSWER: IT SAYS IN DANIEL 8:14, "AND HE SAID UNTO ME, 'UNTO TWO 21:26 THOUSAND AND THREE HUNDRED DAYS; THEN SHALL THE SANCTUARY BE 21:31 CLEANSED." NOW GO - GO BACK TO YOUR BIBLES FOR A SECOND. 21:35 IF YOU LOOK IN DANIEL CHAPTER 8 AND IF WE READ DOWN HERE - VERSE 21:40 12 - "BECAUSE OF TRANSGRESSION, AN ARMY WAS GIVEN OVER TO THE 21:45 HORN TO OPPOSE THE DAILY SACRIFICES; AND HE CAST TRUTH 21:49 DOWN TO THE GROUND. HE DID ALL THIS AND PROSPERED." 21:55 SO WHAT'S HAPPENING IS THE TRUTH OF GOD AND THE TRUTH OF THE 22:00 BIBLE AND THE TRUTH OF JESUS, DURING THIS TIME, 22:02 BECOMES COMPROMISED AND YET IT PROSPERS. 22:05 WELL, I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE QUICK HISTORY. 22:08 I WON'T DIVERGE ON THIS, BUT I THINK MOST OF US KNOW THAT 22:14 DURING THIS PERIOD OF TIME YOU KNOW, ABOUT THREE OR FOUR 22:17 HUNDRED YEARS AFTER CHRIST, ORIGINALLY CHRISTIANS WERE 22:21 PERSECUTED IN ROME. THEY FED THEM TO THE LIONS, RIGHT? 22:24 WHAT WAS ONCE CONSIDERED RELIGIO-ILLICITA - FORBIDDEN 22:27 RELIGION - WAS PERSECUTED, OUTLAWED - THEY WERE KILLED. 22:30 THEY BUILT CATACOMBS. 22:32 THEY WENT UNDERGROUND - IT SUDDENLY BECAME THE STATE 22:34 RELIGION AND IT ALMOST OVERNIGHT BECAME FASHIONABLE, WITH THE 22:38 CONVERSION OF CONSTANTINE, TO BECOME A CHRISTIAN. 22:41 BUT WHAT HAPPENED IS A LOT OF PEOPLE STARTED COMING INTO THE 22:44 CHURCH FROM THE DIFFERENT GRECO-ROMAN RELIGIONS THAT 22:46 WEREN'T TOTALLY CONVERTED - DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THE TEACHINGS 22:49 OF JESUS - AND THEY TRIED TO BRING SOME OF THEIR PAGAN IDEAS 22:52 WITH THEM. WE STUDIED THE OTHER NIGHT ABOUT 22:55 THE TRUTH ABOUT HELL - THAT PEOPLE DO NOT GO RIGHT AT DEATH 23:01 TO - BEFORE JUDGMENT OR RESURRECTION - A PLACE OF 23:03 BURNING WHERE THEY BURN THROUGH ALL ETERNITY. 23:05 DID WE - WE LEARNED THERE IS A LAKE OF FIRE, THERE IS A 23:07 PUNISHMENT, BUT THERE'S MISUNDERSTANDING THAT CAME IN 23:10 FROM GREEK MYTHOLOGY, RIGHT? CAST THE TRUTH TO THE GROUND 23:14 IN PRACTICE. THE IDEA OF PURGATORY, 23:16 THIS HALFWAY BURNING PLACE, WE FOUND OUT THAT THAT'S BEEN 23:19 NOW RENOUNCED. IT'S NOT BIBLICAL. 23:21 THERE'S NOTHING IN THE BIBLE ABOUT THAT. 23:22 THE IDEA THAT THE DEAD GO IMMEDIATELY TO HEAVEN AS SOON AS 23:26 THEY DIE AND THEN THEY COME BACK FOR THEIR BODIES OR THEY'RE IN 23:29 ABRAHAM'S BOSOM WAITING. WE FOUND OUT THAT'S NOT IN THE 23:32 BIBLE AND A LOT OF OTHER THINGS - THE TRUTH WAS CAST 23:36 TO THE GROUND. THE IDEA THAT YOU DON'T NEED 23:38 TO KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ANYMORE BECAUSE ONCE YOU BELIEVE 23:41 IN JESUS YOU CAN SOMEHOW NOW IGNORE HIS LAW, THAT'S ANOTHER 23:44 ONE OF THE TRUTHS THAT WAS CAST TO THE GROUND. 23:48 ALL KINDS OF THINGS BEGAN TO GET CORRUPTED DURING THIS TIME. 23:51 SO, WHEN WOULD THERE BE A CLEANSING OF THE SANCTUARY? 23:55 ALRIGHT, SO NOW, STARTING AT 457, YOU GO 2,300 AND YOU KNOW 24:02 WHEN THAT COMES? TWO THOUSAND - 24:04 THAT'S THE LONGEST TIME PERIOD IN THE BIBLE. 24:06 THAT REACHES TO 1844. I'LL PUT A CHART UP HERE. 24:11 THE MOVEMENT THAT IS BRINGING YOU THIS SERIES OF STUDIES, 24:15 REALLY FOUND ITS BEGINNING BACK THEN BECAUSE IN 1844 CHRISTIANS 24:21 ALL OVER THE WORLD THOUGHT THAT JESUS WAS COMING. 24:23 THEY CALLED IT THE GREAT ADVENT MOVEMENT . 24:25 IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS BECAUSE 24:28 THERE WERE NO SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS BACK THEN. 24:29 THE WORD ADVENT MEANS 'COMING'. THEY THOUGHT JESUS WAS COMING. 24:33 HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD THIS BEFORE? THEY CALLED IT THE 24:35 MILLERITE MOVEMENT. THEY WERE BAPTISTS AND 24:37 METHODISTS AND PRESBYTERIANS AND CONGREGATIONALISTS AND WHEN 24:40 JESUS DIDN'T COME THEY SAID, 'LOOK, IT'S NOT GOD'S WILL 24:45 WE HAVE ALL THESE DIFFERENT DENOMINATIONS. 24:46 WE'VE GOT TO PUT ASIDE OUR DIFFERENCES AND STUDY THE BIBLE 24:49 TOGETHER AND FIND OUT 'WHERE HAVE WE DRIFTED?' 24:52 AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THE LORD BEGAN A MOVEMENT THAT BROUGHT 24:55 THEM ALL BACK TO THE WORD OF GOD AND THAT TRANSLATED INTO A 25:01 MOVEMENT THAT IS NOW 17 MILLION STRONG AND GOING AROUND THE 25:04 WORLD AND THEY'RE HELPING SPONSOR THESE MEETINGS THAT 25:06 YOU'RE RECEIVING RIGHT NOW. PEOPLE WHO ARE SAYING THAT 25:10 CHRISTIANS, IN THE LAST DAYS, NEED TO RETURN TO THE BIBLE. 25:12 REVELATION TELLS US THERE ARE SEVEN CHURCHES. 25:15 THE LAST AGE OF THE CHURCH IS CALLED WHAT? 25:18 >>LAODICEA. >>LAODICEA. 25:19 YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS? 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