Participants: John Carter
Series Code: CR
Program Code: CR001611A
|
00:13 Today, we're talking about the Jew,
00:15 the Arab and Jerusalem, 00:16 and the coming of a mighty prince of peace, 00:18 who along can bring peace to this part of the world 00:22 that have got ISIS 00:23 and all these unspeakable tragedies happening today. 00:28 The city of Jerusalem is sacred to the hearts 00:32 of three great religions, to the Jews, 00:36 Christians, and the Muslims. 00:42 One of the most fascinating places in Jerusalem 00:45 is this place here 00:46 that is called, The Dome of the Rock. 00:51 It is built from the very site of the old Jewish temple 00:55 which was built upon the very site 00:58 where Abraham offered up his son. 01:01 The Dome of the Rock was built in 1691 A.D 01:05 by the Muslims. 01:07 The Prophet as I called him the holy prophet Muhammad 01:11 was born in Mecca in 570A.D. 01:15 He died in 632A.D. 01:18 He traced, he believed his ancestry 01:21 back to Ishmael and Abraham. 01:25 He taught only one God. 01:28 He deplored the worship of images 01:31 and because the Christian church 01:33 by this time was just flooded with icons and pagan symbols, 01:40 and all of the images. 01:42 He came with a message he believed 01:44 was hot from the heart of God 01:46 and that was to overthrow idolatry. 01:50 That is the great message of Islam. 01:53 That there is only one God, his name is Allah, 01:57 and Muhammad is his prophet. 02:01 He also believed that Jesus was a great prophet. 02:07 So when you read the Quran, it is not really against Jesus, 02:11 it teaches that Jesus was a great 02:15 and a mighty prophet but not the son of God. 02:19 Not the son of God but a great prophet. 02:23 This is where our Muslim friends 02:26 come by the millions 02:29 and they come to this place to worship. 02:32 They come to this place that is called the Kabah 02:37 and they believe that the Kabah was actually built by Adam 02:44 and restored by Abraham their father. 02:50 They also believed that Muhammad was carried 02:52 by the Angel Gabriel to Jerusalem 02:56 and ascended into heaven where he received instructions 02:59 from almighty God, from Allah himself. 03:04 This is the most sacred place in all of Islam. 03:10 It is they believe very center of the universe. 03:16 Now I'm gonna take you to the Jewish temple. 03:20 The Jewish temple however 03:22 was built long before the Kabah. 03:25 The Jewish temple was built firstly by Solomon 03:29 about a thousand years before Christ. 03:32 And then it was restored in the days of Nehemiah 03:38 and then it was destroyed, 03:39 you should know by the Babylonians 03:42 and built by Herod the great. 03:45 It became one of the greatest buildings 03:48 in the history world. 03:50 This is the site of the ancient Jewish temple. 03:54 The Jewish temple today no longer has a temple upon it, 03:58 but it has-- 03:59 doesn't have this. 04:02 It has a building 04:04 that commemorates the faith of Islam, 04:09 amazing thing. 04:11 It is where Jesus preached and taught. 04:14 The temple itself was bigger than most of us realize. 04:18 It's 1,500 feet long, 900 feet across. 04:23 It was built upon tremendous foundation stones 04:26 and some of those foundation stones, 04:29 I have actually measured them are 30 feet long 04:32 and some of them like this one here is 60 feet long. 04:38 Massive, 04:40 it would take an earthquake to knock it down. 04:43 It became the temple of doom. 04:47 When we look at these buildings and we hear the story, we know, 04:50 we're not dealing with fiction, 04:52 we're dealing with the facts of history. 04:55 Even the great professor Dawkins says now, 04:59 he used to deny that Jesus was a person of history. 05:02 He says "there was a real Jesus." 05:05 I want to show you just a few sites quickly 05:08 around Jerusalem. 05:09 When I take you very quickly to some of these place 05:12 to the Garden of Gethsemane where Jesus went, 05:15 and where Jesus was betrayed. 05:18 It is an absolutely exquisite and beautiful place. 05:22 And this is where Christians believe 05:24 that Lord came on that night. 05:26 This is the place 05:28 where Christians believe with some validity, 05:32 where Christ was placed in the tomb 05:34 and this place here was where Christ 05:36 was flocked by the Roman soldiers. 05:39 But many conservative archaeologists believe 05:42 that this place here, the church of Sepulcher, 05:48 is actually the place 05:49 where the Lord Jesus Christ was laid 05:53 but really, it doesn't really matter a great deal, 05:56 because we know that's he is alive. 06:01 This is the place where Jesus stood before 06:04 the Roman governor and the marks are in the rocks. 06:08 So the horses wouldn't fall over. 06:10 This is called the pavement 06:13 and you'll see something of significance here. 06:16 They had a game that Roman soldiers played this game 06:18 that was called "King for a Day." 06:23 And so they made Jesus king, and after they beat Him up, 06:27 they made Him king for a day until they took Him out 06:30 and they crucified Him. 06:32 But these are solid things, these are real, 06:36 these are not just traditions. 06:40 We know that this man was a real figure in history, 06:43 his name was Pontius Pilate. 06:46 And if you look at this old Roman inscription, 06:49 and if you look at it hard, 06:51 you will actually see the name Pilate 06:54 written there on the stone. 06:56 So we're dealing my friend not with fairytales, 06:59 but we're dealing with the facts of history. 07:02 Now I've got to go fast. 07:04 I'm going to talk about the amazing story 07:06 of the Temple of Doom. 07:08 I want you to come over here, we got to go faster. 07:10 You want to come over here to Luke Chapter 21 07:13 'cause I'm gonna run out of time 07:15 and this one Luke 21:20 and onwards, Jesus said 07:20 and Jesus, you should know lived about 2,000 years ago, 07:23 "But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, 07:27 they know their desolation is near. 07:30 Let those in Judea flee to the mountains. 07:32 Let those who're in the midst of her depart 07:37 and let not those who are in the country enter her. 07:41 For these are the days of vengeance, 07:43 that all things are written maybe fulfilled, 07:46 But woe to those who are pregnant 07:48 and to those who are nursing babies in those days. 07:51 For there will be great distress in the land 07:53 and wrath upon this people, 07:55 and they will fall by the edge of the sword, 07:57 and be led away captive into all nations 08:00 and Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles 08:02 until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled." 08:06 Listen to the story. 08:09 I got so much, I got to tell you. 08:10 You got to press all this in as I tell this to you. 08:14 In 66 A.D, because of legitimate grievances, 08:21 the Jews had an uprising against the Romans, 66. 08:26 The Romans sent down their best general 08:29 from the north in Syria, 08:32 his name was Cestius Gallus. 08:37 He quickly surrounded the temple 08:39 and the whole city of Jerusalem. 08:43 My friend think of the prophecy. 08:47 This is when you see Jerusalem 08:48 surrounded by armies then flee-- 08:52 Well, how could you? 08:55 How can you flee when you're surrounded by the soldiers 08:58 of the greatest nation in the world? 09:00 It seemed to be an absolute impossibility. 09:05 I'm talking to you what happened? 09:08 After he was winning the battle for some inexplicable reason 09:13 nobody understands as Dr. Siegfried Horn 09:16 explained to me. 09:19 The Roman soldiers departed, 09:22 they gave up the siege and they went down the road, 09:27 the Beth Horon road to the coast. 09:30 The Jews who are mighty fighters 09:32 came out like wild hornets and they attacked 09:35 the Romans as they went down the road to Beth Horon. 09:40 And in one day they killed 6,000 Roman soldiers. 09:45 And they struck a coin that said, 09:47 "In our first year of liberty, 09:53 we won the battle, we've freedom." 09:58 But the Christians had this prophecy. 10:02 Jesus said when you see Jerusalem surrounded, 10:04 then flee. 10:05 It seemed it impossibility but when Cestius Gallus 10:11 withdrew his troops, 10:13 the Christians came out of the city 10:16 and they fled to a little town by the name of Pella 10:19 and when Jerusalem was subsequently destroyed 10:22 not one Christian died in the siege of Jerusalem. 10:26 And I'll tell you why, I'll tell you why. 10:28 It is because, it is because, 10:31 they believed the words of Jesus. 10:35 And then a few years later, Vespasian came back 10:40 and he became the emperor of Rome. 10:43 And he had a son by the name of Titus. 10:48 And when you go to Rome today and you go inside this arch, 10:53 this is what you see. 10:57 It was all written down in the Bible. 11:01 You have the seven golden candlesticks. 11:05 Inside the city of Jerusalem, 11:08 it was held 11:10 when Vespasian put his soldiers around the city. 11:14 There was three characters 11:16 John of Giscala, Simon bar Giora, 11:19 and Ally is the son of Simon. 11:22 They fought among themselves, they burnt each other's food. 11:28 The people were starving to death, 11:31 they practiced cannibalism. 11:36 And then history tells me 11:39 that in 1780 after this bloody siege, 11:46 the wall was broken. 11:47 Let me tell you folk something if you want to know the truth. 11:52 As the Jews surrendered 11:54 and gave themselves up to Titus... 11:59 It was discovered that some of them 12:01 had been swallowing gold, 12:06 and so they took thousands of them 12:08 and cut them open 12:09 and took the gold out of their living bodies 12:12 and then they put them on crosses, 12:16 in the spot where Jesus was crucified, 12:19 the crosses were so thick 12:22 you couldn't walk between the crosses... 12:28 and it should never have happened. 12:30 Come over here to Daniel 9:25. Come fast with me. 12:35 Daniel 9:25, 12:37 I'll tell you why it should never have happened. 12:43 Daniel 9:25 says, "Know therefore and understand, 12:48 that from the going forth of the command 12:50 to restore and build Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince, 12:54 there shall be seven weeks and sixty two weeks, 12:56 sixty nine weeks. 12:58 The street shall be built again and the wall, 13:01 even in troublous times." 13:03 This is talking 13:04 about the restoration of Jerusalem 13:08 after the Babylonians came. 13:11 Now I want you to notice this. 13:14 A man in Babylonian by the name of Daniel, 13:18 2,500 years ago said there would be 69 weeks 13:22 of 483 days 13:27 of prophetic years 13:30 and the Bible says Messiah the prince would come 13:34 after a decree and this decree was made 13:38 by Artaxerxes Longimanus in 457.B.C. 13:45 This is history. 13:48 And if you add the 483 years under the prophecy, 13:52 it brings you through the 27.A.D 13:56 and what happened in 27 A.D? 13:58 I wonder. Now you can see why I believe. 14:03 I want you to come over here with me to Luke. 14:05 You'll see the fulfillment of that prophecy. 14:09 This was talking about 14:10 the coming of the prince of peace, 14:12 and you can't have peace 14:14 until you have the prince of peace, 14:16 whether you're a Jew or Muslim or a Christian. 14:20 Luke 3:21 and onwards, if you got it, 14:23 Luke 3:21 and onwards it says now 14:29 "When all the people were baptized, 14:31 it came to pass that Jesus also was baptized. 14:34 And while he prayed the heaven was opened. 14:36 And the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form 14:39 like a dove upon him. 14:40 And a voice came from heaven which said 14:42 "You are my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased." 14:47 And the Bible tells us 14:49 that Jesus, next verse, verse 23, 14:53 "And Jesus Himself began His ministry 14:56 at about 30 years of age." 14:59 So Jesus was about 30 15:02 and this is when He commenced His ministry 15:05 and when He was revealed to the people of Israel 15:10 at His baptism. 15:12 Before this, He was locked in seclusion and obscurity. 15:17 And when did it happen? 15:19 Look at Luke 3:1, this is plain as the days long, 15:24 "Now in the fifteenth year 15:26 of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, 15:28 Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, 15:31 Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, 15:34 his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea 15:36 and the region of Traconitis 15:38 and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene." 15:41 Look it again. 15:42 Now in the fifteenth year 15:43 of the reign of Tiberius Caesar. 15:45 Listen carefully, 15:46 especially if you are a skeptic. 15:51 Two and a half thousand years ago, 15:54 hundreds of years before Jesus came into this world. 15:58 It was predicted that he would make his public appearance 16:03 483 years after the decree of Artaxerxes, 16:08 was a Persian king. 16:10 That year was 27.A.D, 16:14 because it was the fifteenth year 16:17 of the reign of Tiberius Caesar. 16:20 Now according to Jewish reckoning, 16:23 the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar was 27 A.D, 16:27 and in 27 A.D, 16:30 Christ was baptized. 16:35 Now I put this to you. 16:37 The skeptic will tell me 16:39 that Jesus Christ is just a carpenter. 16:44 Then if he is just a carpenter, 16:46 then every skeptic and infidel 16:48 and unbeliever is defeated by this carpenter's baptism. 16:54 Because He came to the world, right on time. 17:00 So this is overwhelming evidence 17:07 that He is more than a carpenter, 17:09 and He is the Son of God. 17:12 Now my beloved Muslim friends whom I appreciate 17:17 tell me that He is a great prophet, 17:22 and we accept what they say. 17:24 The Jewish people say that He is an imposter and a fraud, 17:30 but the Prophet Muhammad said, 17:32 He is one of the great prophets like Moses. 17:35 But He is more than a great prophet like Moses, 17:39 He is indeed the Son of God 17:43 according to scripture. 17:46 Born on time, lived on time, baptized on time, 17:51 revealed on time and died on time. 17:54 Look at verse 26, 17:56 Daniel 9:26, come back to it please. 17:59 Daniel 9:26, 18:04 what went wrong? 18:06 Well, we'll see what went wrong in the Middle East. 18:09 Daniel 9:26-- 18:13 "And after the 62 weeks Messiah shall be cut off--" 18:18 We won't go into that time period, 18:19 but the Bible says, 18:22 Messiah, well, what happened to Him? 18:25 He'll be cut off. 18:27 In other words, He would be murdered. 18:31 Now our Muslim friend says no, 18:33 the Messiah could never, never be murdered 18:36 because God would not allow it. 18:39 But He was put to death not for Himself but for us, 18:43 and for our sins. 18:46 Now please read it. 18:49 "And after the 62 weeks Messiah shall be cut off, 18:52 but not for Himself." 18:55 So He didn't die for Himself, 18:58 He died for the sins of the world. 19:00 Now-- 19:03 history tells me, 19:05 and we won't go into this time period today, 19:08 but history tells me 19:11 that after this period of the 483 years after 27 A.D, 19:18 the Bible actually said Messiah would be cut off. 19:25 So history tells me Christ is a real person. 19:29 He was born on time in the right place 19:32 and after this time period it says 19:35 Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself. 19:40 So He didn't died because He was a bad man, 19:43 He didn't die because of His sins, 19:45 He died to save us and to bring us to God. 19:51 And this is true, 19:53 and this is history. 19:56 Now read on in this verse. 19:58 It's wonderful, this is amazing. 20:00 This comes from the dust heaps of Babylon. 20:04 "And after the 62 weeks, Messiah shall be cut off, 20:06 but not for Himself and the people--" 20:09 Notice that word people. 20:11 "And the people of the prince who is to come 20:14 shall destroy the city and the sanctuary, 20:17 the end of it shall be with a flood, 20:21 and till the end of war desolations are determined." 20:24 Look at me. 20:27 The Bible doesn't say 20:29 the prince would destroy the city, doesn't say this. 20:33 But it says the people of the prince, 20:36 the prince is Titus. 20:40 Titus and the people are the Roman soldiers. 20:46 When the temple caught on fire, 20:49 we're gonna show you pictures now 20:51 of the destruction of the temple. 20:54 When the temple caught on fire, 20:57 Titus was horrified, he said it is a temple of Yahweh. 21:04 He said I am a Roman 21:05 but this the temple of Almighty God. 21:07 Put out the fire. 21:09 He went down 21:12 and he held up the staff of his office. 21:17 But the Romans were so infuriated 21:20 with the insubordination of the Jewish people. 21:26 How they've fought them 21:27 and killed many of their soldiers. 21:31 That they push for the first time in history, 21:34 they pushed Titus aside, they pushed Caesar aside, 21:40 and they stormed into the temple 21:42 and one Roman soldier took a flaming torch 21:46 and he flew threw it into the temple 21:49 and soon it was on fire. 21:52 The people of the prince who shall come, 21:56 the prince tried to save the temple. 21:59 Don't tell me you can't believe the Bible. 22:03 Look at the fulfillment of his prophecy, 22:06 31 A.D, 27 A.D. 22:11 And then the coming of the mighty prince of peace 22:13 and the people of the prince, 22:16 not the prince shall destroy the city 22:19 and the sanctuary. 22:23 And then listen, 22:25 the Roman soldiers took out their swords, 22:28 their short swords and they went into the mops 22:34 and the blood mingled with the gold of the temple 22:37 as it ran down the steps. 22:41 The survivors stood on the hills 22:43 and shouted Ichabod, Ichabod, 22:46 the glory has departed. 22:52 And Jerusalem has never, 22:54 the city of peace has never known peace, 22:58 since it rejected the prince of peace 23:01 and put Him on a cross. 23:05 You want to understand 23:06 the condition in the world today. 23:08 You think politics are going to save the world? 23:13 Has become a joke. 23:15 People laugh at it and they discuss it. 23:21 People of the prince, genuine prophecy exists, 23:27 the main issues of the age are met. 23:31 Listen to this, hard words, 23:33 the turmoil, the continuing wars 23:36 and the terrorism in the Middle East, 23:38 the problems in our own nations, 23:42 are a direct consequence of the murder 23:44 and the rejection of the Messiah, 23:47 the prince of peace. 23:49 Think of the text Isaiah 9:6, 23:53 "Unto us a child is born, unto us son has given 23:57 and the government shall be upon his shoulder, 23:59 and his name shall be called wonderful counselor, 24:03 the mighty God, The everlasting father, 24:07 the prince of peace." 24:12 The politics are not gonna do it. 24:14 Only Christ, the prince of peace. 24:19 You know how to get peace 24:20 between black people and white people? 24:22 Not politics, Christ. 24:26 You know how you get the Russians 24:28 and the Americans to love each other? 24:30 Not politics, Christ, you see. 24:34 The North Koreans and the South Koreans, no hope. 24:37 Christ only Christ 24:40 'cause He is the prince of peace. 24:42 On one occasion, the disciples were out on the Sea of Galilee, 24:46 You know, it s not a sea 24:48 but it's a beautiful, wonderful lake. 24:51 And they're out there on this lake 24:52 and a great storm came up 24:56 and they thought rightly so they were going to drown. 25:01 Then they saw a man walking on the water, 25:04 some say that's impossible. 25:05 It's impossible for us but it's not impossible 25:07 if you're the man who made the water. 25:10 He walks on the water, they're scared to death. 25:15 Then they see who it is 25:17 and they take Him into the boat. 25:21 And instantaneously, it's not like this anymore. 25:27 All of a sudden, there is peace. 25:33 And what we need to do, my friends, 25:36 doesn't matter whether we are Muslims or Christians 25:39 in the sense of our need, we all got needs, 25:43 whoever we are, 25:46 we need to take Christ into our boat. 25:51 Amen. 25:53 Because my friend, 25:56 He indeed and only He is the prince of peace. 28:07 For a copy of today's program, 28:09 please contact us at P.O. Box 1900 28:12 Thousand Oaks, California 91358. 28:17 Or in Australia, contact us at P.O. Box 861, 28:22 Terrigal, New South Wales 2260. 28:26 This program is made possible 28:28 through the generous support of viewers like you. 28:31 We thank you for your continued support. 28:34 May God richly bless you. |
Revised 2016-06-16