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Series Code: PHR
Program Code: PHR000002S
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00:02 - [Narrator] "And to the woman were given two wings
00:05 of a great eagle, 00:06 that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, 00:10 where she is nourished for a time, and times, 00:14 and half a time, from the face of the serpent. 00:19 [swords clanging] 00:22 - 20 years after the sack of Rome by Alaric the Goth, 00:25 the Church Father Augustine of Hippo 00:27 could hear another wave of barbarians 00:29 attacking his city in North Africa. 00:32 The whole empire was in disarray. 00:35 Augustine had just finished his literary masterpiece, 00:37 "The City of God", 00:38 which argued that the fall of the empire 00:40 was not an act of vengeance by the pagan gods 00:43 who were angry about the Christianization of Rome. 00:47 It would be one of the final works 00:49 coming from the pen of classical antiquity. 00:52 After the fall of Rome, 00:53 the age of culture and learning came to an abrupt end, 00:56 because illiterate barbarians 00:59 had little use for such things. 01:02 [dramatic music] 01:05 The Romans and the Greeks before them 01:07 held the barbarians in utter contempt. 01:09 They were crude, unlearned and uncivilized. 01:13 Even their language sounded like nonsense, 01:16 and the civilized Romans made fun of it. 01:18 "Bar, bar, bar! 01:19 Is all those people can say." 01:21 And some people believe 01:22 that's how we got the word barbarian. 01:25 An outsider who speaks the simple tongue of nonsense. 01:30 The hallmarks of civilization were being destroyed. 01:33 As the author Thomas Cahill points out, 01:35 "A world in chaos is not a world 01:38 in which books are copied and libraries maintained." 01:41 As Rome collapsed, 01:43 the world came within a hair's breadth of losing everything. 01:46 Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, 01:49 almost every classical masterpiece from antiquity. 01:52 And tragically, it also meant 01:54 that Christianity itself was in peril. 01:59 [dramatic music] 02:04 [fire crackles] 02:22 [intense string music] 02:29 A huge portion of the church had been deeply influenced 02:32 by Roman government and politics because of constancy. 02:35 The church was suddenly flooded 02:37 with half-hearted "Christians" 02:38 who only joined for the prestige and social benefits. 02:41 And the hearty fiber of the church that held it together 02:43 through all those persecutions began to disintegrate. 02:47 Now that Rome had become 02:48 the key center of Christian influence, 02:50 when the empire began to collapse, 02:52 Christian learning and scholarship found itself 02:55 in as much peril as the pagan philosophers. 03:00 The secular government of Rome 03:01 began to pull rapidly to the east, to Constantinople, 03:05 leaving Roman style Christian bishops 03:07 as the last civil authority figures in the crumbling West. 03:11 An empire once ruled by Caesars and senators, 03:15 was now ruled by bishops 03:16 who became the last vestige of Roman law and order. 03:21 To the far north in places like Britannia, 03:23 Roman armies started going home 03:25 because their efforts were no longer sustainable. 03:28 The retreat of those Roman forces 03:30 emboldened Germanic barbarian tribes 03:32 to move into the newly vacant regions. 03:35 [mysterious music] 03:38 And so beginning in the fifth century, 03:41 the Saxons crossed the waters into the British Isles, 03:43 pushing Celtic Britons into Wales and Cornwall. 03:47 But the bigger problem wasn't the new Germanic tribes, 03:49 it was Celtic slave traders from Ireland 03:51 who began to raid the west coast, 03:54 stealing British children. 03:55 These Celtic pirates were some of the most 03:57 feared people in the world. 03:59 They were rough, violent, 04:01 and shockingly promiscuous. 04:03 In battle, they almost seemed to become non-human entities, 04:06 demons from the very pits of hell. 04:08 Under cover of night, they would cross the sea 04:10 in tiny skin covered boats called coracles, 04:12 which they commanded so masterfully 04:15 that they were able to explore as far abroad as Iceland. 04:19 In the darkest part of the morning, 04:20 they would silently slip into British homes 04:22 and be halfway back to Ireland with your children 04:25 before you woke up and realized what had happened. 04:29 [dramatic music] 04:34 At about the same time that Alaric the Goth 04:37 was marching into the north of Italy, 04:39 Irish raiders kidnapped a 16 year old British boy 04:42 by the name of Patricius, 04:43 or Patrick in modern English. 04:47 He was taken back to Ireland 04:48 and forced to work as a shepherd, 04:50 slave to an Irish chieftain. 04:53 For six long years, Patrick tended sheep 04:55 in the chilly countryside of Hibernia, 04:57 the land of winter. 04:59 And with all that quiet time on his hands, 05:02 he started to think about the God his father worshiped. 05:05 The Christian God. 05:07 As a child at home, 05:08 he had considered Christianity the religion of fools, 05:11 but as a slave, it began to speak to him. 05:15 Patrick himself tells us what happened. 05:17 [calming piano music] 05:19 - [Patrick] Tending flocks was my daily work, 05:21 and I would pray constantly during the daylight hours. 05:25 The love of God and the fear of him 05:27 surrounded me more and more. 05:30 And faith grew, and the spirit was roused, 05:33 so that in one day I would say as many as a hundred prayers. 05:37 And after dark, nearly as many again. 05:41 Even while I remained in the woods or on the mountain, 05:44 I would wake and pray before daybreak, 05:47 through snow, frost, rain. 05:50 Nor was there any sluggishness in me, 05:52 such as I experience nowadays. 05:54 Because then, the spirit within me was ardent. 06:00 - At the lowest point of his life, 06:02 he found comfort in the religion of Jesus. 06:05 And then one night, he suddenly heard a voice 06:07 calling him in his dreams. 06:09 "Patrick, your hungers are rewarded, you are going home." 06:14 He woke up certain that it was nothing but a dream, 06:16 but amazingly, the voice continued to speak. 06:18 "Look, your ship is ready." 06:22 Patrick rose to his feet 06:23 and walked about 200 miles to the sea, 06:26 through a countryside he had never seen. 06:28 And sure enough, he eventually found a ship 06:31 that agreed to take him away from Ireland. 06:41 From that point on, 06:43 much of the story has been muddied or lost in antiquity, 06:46 but we do know this. 06:47 After traveling on the European mainland 06:49 for an unknown period of time, 06:51 he eventually went back home to Britain, 06:53 where his family hoped he would stay 06:55 for the rest of his life. 06:57 [tense music] 06:59 But it wasn't to be. 07:00 Patrick had another dream. 07:02 And in the dream, a man he had known back in Ireland 07:05 appeared as Patrick's angel, 07:06 and he was holding a batch of letters. 07:10 He pulled one out and handed it to Patrick, 07:13 and at the top it said, 07:14 "Vox Hiberionacum", or the voice of the Irish. 07:20 As Patrick clutched the letter, 07:21 he suddenly heard the voice of a crowd pleading with him, 07:23 "Come and walk among us once more!" 07:26 [wondrous mysterious music] 07:30 The dreams kept coming, 07:31 and eventually he heard the voice of Jesus himself. 07:34 "He who gave his life for you, 07:37 he it is who speaks within you." 07:40 That was the deciding moment. 07:42 He went to Gaul to study for the ministry, 07:45 and then amazingly, he went back to Ireland, 07:48 to the very people who had stolen his youth. 07:52 [dramatic music] 07:56 He set up shop in Ard Mhacha, or modern day Armagh. 07:59 From there, he began to share the gospel 08:01 with some of the roughest people on the planet. 08:03 And amazingly, they listened. 08:06 The Irish began to accept Christ. 08:09 He even managed to baptize 08:10 the famous Irish high king Óengus, 08:12 behind me here at the Rock of Cashel. 08:14 Legend has it that Patrick carried a crozier, 08:16 it's kind of a stylized shepherd's crook 08:19 with a sharp spike at the bottom. 08:21 Now, he usually planted that crozier in the ground 08:23 while he went about the business of baptizing people. 08:25 But this time he accidentally planted it 08:28 in the waiting king's foot. 08:30 And surprisingly, the King didn't say a word. 08:32 Now when they later asked him why he didn't protest 08:34 the impalement of his foot, he said, 08:36 "I thought it was part of the ceremony." 08:40 Ireland was utterly transformed by Patrick's efforts. 08:43 He managed to set up centers of Christian learning 08:45 and influence all across the island. 08:48 The Irish slave trade suddenly came to an end, 08:50 the first emancipation campaign in the history of the world. 08:54 And the wars between various Irish chieftains 08:57 suddenly dropped to an all time low. 08:59 [wondrous music] 09:05 There are actually very few records 09:07 of Christian missionaries traveling 09:08 to the remote corners of the globe 09:10 between the close of the New Testament 09:12 and the collapse of Rome, 09:14 but Patrick May have been the first missionary 09:16 to the barbarians outside of the Roman Empire, 09:19 completely apart from the influence of Roman Christianity. 09:23 We do know of early missionaries 09:24 among the Germanic tribes like Ulfilas among the Goths, 09:28 but those were usually converts 09:30 who were already members of the tribe. 09:32 Patrick was different. 09:34 He was a missionary in the spirit of Acts chapter 1. 09:36 A missionary to the uttermost parts of the Earth. 09:40 And look at the timing. 09:41 Between the years 410 AD and 476, 09:44 the Roman Empire is collapsing. 09:46 Patrick is bringing Christianity to the Celtic barbarians 09:49 at precisely the same time. 09:52 [wondrous music] 09:54 It was almost as if God was taking Christianity 09:57 out of a volatile and compromised situation, 09:59 and putting it somewhere completely safe, away from Rome, 10:03 out on the edge of the continent, 10:05 on a distant island in the Atlantic. 10:08 [wondrous music] 10:16 So, what kind of Christianity would emerge in isolation, 10:19 away from the influence of Constantine's Rome? 10:23 What kinds of Christians would you get 10:24 if the man who led them to Christ 10:26 was not part of the great compromise 10:28 taking place on the European continent? 10:31 It was a non-Roman Christianity, 10:33 completely free from the cultural baggage of Imperial Rome. 10:37 A Christianity that was distinctly Irish, 10:40 and distinctly biblical. 10:41 It utterly transformed the wild band of Celts. 10:45 Not only did they give up 10:46 pagan idolatry and human sacrifice, 10:48 but they suddenly became passionately literate. 10:51 Suddenly, miraculously, they could read and write, 10:54 which proves to be one of the most important developments 10:58 in the history of the world. 11:01 Why? 11:02 Because Hibernia proves to be the place 11:04 where God kept the scriptures alive 11:06 during the darkest period of Western history. 11:09 The transformation was remarkable. 11:12 The pagan Irish had been big, loud and powerful. 11:15 They loved big gestures and big feasts. 11:17 But the Christian Irish, they were different. 11:21 They suddenly delighted in simplicity and modesty, 11:24 preferring to live in humble, close contact with nature. 11:28 They lived in simple abbeys, 11:30 centers of learning run by pious Irish monks, 11:32 who lived in modest stone structures. 11:36 [wondrous music] 11:52 Back on the mainland, 11:54 there was a much different church structure emerging. 11:56 Ecclesiastical power was firmly merging with civil power. 12:00 There was a marriage of church and state. 12:02 The bishop of mainland Europe 12:03 was a distinctly political figure, 12:06 as opposed to the Irish Abbott, who was just religious, 12:09 who merely spoke to the Irish kings. 12:12 The Irish monks, usually 13 to an abbey, 12:15 an Abbott with 12 disciples, 12:17 spent their days preaching and teaching, 12:19 learning and carefully copying the scriptures. 12:22 To a large extent, 12:23 the reason we still have Bibles today 12:25 is because of faithful Celtic scholars 12:27 who made absolute certain the Bible did not disappear 12:31 in the chaos of the Dark Ages. 12:33 Their monasteries emerged all over the land. 12:37 From the centers of learning, 12:38 the Irish monks began to travel, 12:40 collecting every scrap of literature 12:42 they could lay their hands on, 12:44 carefully making copies so they wouldn't be lost. 12:47 [seagulls chirping] [waves crashing] 12:54 [dramatic music] 12:56 The hand illuminated manuscripts 12:57 they produced were stunning. 12:59 Some of the most beautiful manuscripts 13:01 in the history of Western civilization. 13:03 The Irish were passionate people, 13:05 and they had a strong sense of the artistic. 13:08 The writing was beautiful, even poetic, 13:10 something that is still true of the Irish to this day. 13:13 The Irish are marvelous storytellers, 13:15 producing literary geniuses like James Joyce, 13:18 Samuel Beckett, C.S. Lewis, Oscar Wilde, 13:21 Jonathan Swift, Bram Stoker, William Yeats 13:24 and countless others. 13:26 Names that tower over the literary landscape. 13:29 These were exactly the right people 13:31 to preserve the Christian faith 13:33 out on the edges of the European wilderness, 13:35 away from the compromise and corruption 13:37 that was starting to degrade the mainstream church. 13:40 The Celts were wild and passionate, 13:43 artistic and determined. 13:45 The kind of people who would not only preserve the faith, 13:48 but do it with flair. 13:54 [mellow synth music] 14:08 They proved to be talented scholars, 14:10 quickly learning to speak Greek, Hebrew, and Latin. 14:13 But in spite of that, they were very careful 14:15 to preserve the gospel in the native language 14:17 of the people they were teaching. 14:19 They preached in the Gaelic tongue, 14:21 as opposed to the Christians of the continent 14:23 who were starting to lock up the mysteries of the gospel 14:25 in the ancient tongue of a dying empire. 14:27 Sermons and documents were produced in Latin, 14:30 so as to not sully the sacred things of Christianity 14:33 by exposing them to mere uneducated peasants. 14:37 What happened with the Irish is really pretty remarkable. 14:40 The Book of Daniel had accurately predicted 14:43 the collapse of the world's fourth major empire. 14:46 Rome was not to be replaced by a fifth empire, 14:49 but simply fragment and fall to pieces. 14:52 600 years after Daniel, the book of Revelation 14:54 predicted that the Christian Church 14:56 would go through some very dark times 14:58 after it compromised with Constantine's political empire. 15:02 It's exactly what happened. 15:06 So, what else do we know 15:08 about these early Celtic Christians? 15:10 Fortunately for us, the Celts loved to write, 15:12 so we have plenty of written evidence 15:14 to help us study their lives. 15:16 When you read some of the words that Patrick wrote, 15:18 one of the first things you'll notice 15:20 is his love for the Bible. 15:23 We actually have two major works. 15:24 The confession, and a short letter. 15:27 Neither of them is particularly long, 15:29 but in the space of a few short pages, 15:31 Patrick manages to quote the Bible no less than 340 times. 15:38 At a time when mainline Christianity 15:39 was starting to adopt hundreds of manmade customs, 15:42 the Celtic Christians were building a new church 15:45 primarily on the words of the Bible. 15:47 The Venerable Bede, 15:49 one of England's most notable church historians, 15:51 marveled at how doggedly 15:53 the Irish stuck with the scriptures. 15:57 - [Bede] The Celtic missionaries 15:58 diligently follow whatever pure and devout customs 16:01 that they learned in the prophets, 16:03 the gospels, and the writings of the apostles. 16:09 - In other words, they were determined to follow the Bible. 16:12 They were building a faith 16:13 on the evidence of the scriptures. 16:18 [calming music] 16:29 [bird caws] 16:38 [calming inspiring music] 16:47 And what kinds of things did they learn from the Bible? 16:51 Well, most of us would recognize much of what they taught 16:54 because to some extent, 16:55 it closely resembles a lot of Christianity today. 16:59 Celtic Christians, for example, 17:00 believed in a triune God. 17:02 Father, Son and Holy Spirit. 17:05 Now, they didn't spend much time 17:06 trying to understand exactly how that works, 17:09 they just accepted it because the Bible was so clear 17:12 about the divinity of Christ. 17:14 So in that regard, they were a lot like us. 17:18 They also taught a literal creation story 17:21 that God made the world in six days, 17:23 and rested on the seventh. 17:24 And the reason they believed that, 17:26 was because that's exactly what the Bible says 17:28 in the Book of Genesis. 17:30 That's not to say there were no competing theories 17:32 back in the fifth and sixth centuries. 17:35 There were. 17:36 But Celtic Christians were determined to believe 17:38 the whole Bible. 17:40 They also believed in the power of prayer, 17:41 just like many of us do. 17:43 In fact, Patrick was known to pray 17:45 up to a hundred times a day, 17:47 convinced that God would hear him. 17:51 They also believed in a literal second coming of Christ 17:53 at the very culmination of human history. 17:56 Now, what some Christians might find very interesting today 18:00 is the fact that the Celtic Christians 18:01 never, ever spoke of a secret coming of Christ. 18:04 They simply taught that Jesus returns in glory 18:07 at the last trump when everybody gets the reward> 18:09 It was a very simple approach to the subject. 18:12 They were also big fans of the 10 Commandments, 18:15 like most Christians are today. 18:16 Teaching that sin is the transgression of God's moral law. 18:20 The reason we need a savior, the Celts taught, 18:23 is because we broke God's law 18:25 and deserve the wages of sin, 18:26 which the Bible says is death. 18:29 The only chance you have, they preached, 18:31 is to lay hold of the righteousness of Christ. 18:35 So in many ways, Celtic Christianity 18:38 was a lot like modern Christianity, 18:40 or at least the Christianity that eventually 18:42 grew out of the Protestant Reformation. 18:44 While the church of continental Europe 18:46 was struggling with the mistakes that it made 18:48 after the rise of Constantine, 18:50 there was a very distinctive, different kind of church 18:52 rising on a distant island out in the Atlantic Ocean. 18:56 But in some ways, the Celts were almost 18:58 ahead of modern Christianity, 19:00 because they also taught some things 19:02 that we are only now starting to see for ourselves 19:04 in the pages of the Bible. 19:06 For example, following the lead of Bible passages 19:09 like first Timothy 6, verse 16. 19:11 The Celts taught that only God has natural immortality. 19:14 Only God can live forever by his own strength. 19:17 The rest of us, they taught, 19:19 are only mortal, because we die, 19:21 and we do not live forever. 19:23 [dramatic string music] 19:25 So, how is that different from modern Christianity? 19:29 Well, the Celts taught, based on the scriptures, 19:32 that the only way to become immortal 19:34 is to be forgiven, covered by the blood of Christ. 19:37 Apart from that, the wages of sin is death. 19:40 The only thing waiting for the unrepentant sinner. 19:43 And curiously, they never spoke 19:45 of a place of eternal torment, 19:47 a place where God tortures sinners 19:49 throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity. 19:51 And the reason they didn't teach it, 19:53 is because that doctrine, 19:55 the doctrine of ever burning hellfire that never goes out, 19:58 well, the Celts never found it in the Bible. 20:01 And today, we're just starting to catch up 20:03 with those early believers, 20:04 because a lot of sincere Bible believing scholars 20:07 are starting to come to the very same conclusion. 20:09 The stories of an everlasting place of torment 20:12 seem to have more to do with Roman paganism 20:15 than the actual words of the Bible. 20:17 It's one of those things that should make us check the Bible 20:20 one more time to see if they were right. 20:23 [calming music] 20:36 [tense string music] 20:43 And there's another curious fact. 20:45 Back in the year 321 AD, 20:47 Constantine suddenly passed a law 20:50 declaring that the first day of the week, Sunday, 20:53 was now a day of rest. 20:54 It was the first "blue law" in the history of the world. 20:57 And it really stemmed from the fact 20:59 that Constantine had been a sun worshiper, 21:02 and the Romans dedicated the first day 21:04 of the week to the sun. 21:05 It was literally the "Sun"-day. 21:08 Now, growing up, I always assumed 21:10 that the apostles were the ones 21:11 who changed the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday. 21:14 But if that was true, 21:16 why would a newly Christianized Roman emperor 21:19 need to pass a law forcing the matter? 21:21 And why would the Council of Laodicea 21:23 more than 40 years after that, 21:26 need to follow up Constantine's law with another one 21:29 that actually forbid the observance of Saturday 21:31 as the Sabbath? 21:33 The reason was, there were still Christians 21:36 keeping the Sabbath of the fourth commandment 21:37 when Constantine came to power. 21:40 And that fits the words of Jesus perfectly. 21:42 He said the Sabbath would still be in effect 21:45 years after he returned to heaven. 21:47 Speaking of the Roman sack of Jerusalem in AD 70, 21:50 Jesus warned his disciples... 21:52 "Pray that your flight may not be in winter 21:55 or on the Sabbath." 22:00 [calming vocal music] [water patters] 22:13 [bird caws] 22:23 Now, this is where the story of Celtic Christianity 22:25 gets very interesting. 22:27 Patrick is living some 400 years after Christ, 22:31 in an environment that is distinctly different 22:33 from the Christianity of the Dark Ages. 22:36 From what we can tell, 22:37 there are still countless Christians 22:39 keeping the original Seventh Day Sabbath all over Europe. 22:42 And the reason we know that, 22:43 is because the official church 22:45 felt the need to crack down on them. 22:48 So you've got to wonder then, 22:49 which day would Patrick keep? 22:51 Remember, all the Celts have is a Bible. 22:53 They don't have canon law, 22:55 they don't have the traditions of the continental church. 22:58 The answer comes as a surprise to a lot of people. 23:01 Remember, an angel visited Patrick, 23:03 and his surviving letters indicate 23:05 that angel visited him many times, 23:07 and almost always on the seventh day of the week. 23:12 [calming vocal music] 23:14 Another great Celtic missionary by the name of Columbanus, 23:17 a man who lived almost 200 years after Patrick, 23:20 wrote these words. 23:23 - [Columbanus] We are bidden to work on six days. 23:25 But on the seventh, which is the Sabbath, 23:28 we are restrained from every servile labor. 23:31 Now, by the number six, 23:32 the completeness of our work is meant, 23:34 since it was in six days 23:36 the Lord made heaven and Earth. 23:38 Yet on the Sabbath, we are forbidden to labor 23:40 at any servile work. 23:42 That is sin, since he who commits sin is a slave to sin. 23:48 [calming music] 24:02 - Toward the end of the sixth century, 24:04 Pope Gregory the Great started sending monks 24:06 to live in Britain. 24:08 And those monks came in contact 24:10 with some of the Celtic missionaries. 24:12 They sent Pope Gregory a very curious report. 24:15 The Celts were radically different. 24:18 They allowed their priests to marry, 24:20 they were practicing an older form of immersion baptism, 24:24 they didn't know anything about Roman canon law, 24:27 they had their own translation of the Bible, 24:30 and they kept Saturday as a day of rest. 24:33 Is it possible that God knew 24:36 the greater part of our Christian church 24:37 was going to compromise? 24:39 It's a fact we can't escape. 24:41 We really did burn heretics at the stake. 24:44 We seized their property and tortured people 24:47 who didn't tow the official line. 24:50 [fire crackles] 24:57 The Christianity we perpetrated in the Dark ages, 25:01 the Christianity skeptics still make fun of, 25:03 you and I know full well, 25:05 it doesn't match the Christianity of the New Testament. 25:09 To be perfectly honest, 25:10 we even compromised the gospel itself. 25:12 We started selling salvation to desperate people, 25:16 convincing them that good works and a few gold coins 25:19 could actually secure a spot in heaven. 25:22 But then you start to dig past the official stories, 25:25 the well-known ones, 25:26 and you begin to discover a very biblical Christianity 25:30 surviving outside the boundaries of the Roman Empire. 25:33 Today, we know. 25:34 In the earliest centuries, 25:36 there were Christian churches stretching deep into Africa, 25:40 across the Middle East, into India, 25:42 and maybe even as far away as Japan. 25:46 And then at Earth's darkest hour, 25:48 a brand new Christian Church 25:50 just happens to spring up in one of the most remote places. 25:53 A church with a distinctly New Testament Christianity. 25:57 The Book of Revelation got it absolutely right. 26:01 "The woman was given two wings of a great eagle, 26:04 that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, 26:07 where she is nourished for a time, times, and half a time 26:11 from the presence of the serpent." 26:14 [dramatic music] 26:23 There are stories we know and stories we don't. 26:26 One of the most remarkable untold stories 26:28 is that of the Celtic Christians. 26:30 What's even more remarkable 26:32 is how we get from Patrick to Martin Luther. 26:36 [dramatic music] 26:49 [dramatic music continues] 26:58 This has been a broadcast of The Voice of Prophecy. 27:02 To learn more about how you can get a DVD copy 27:05 of "A Pale Horse Rides" for yourself, 27:08 please visit palehoresridesdvd.com, 27:12 or call toll free, 844-822-2943. 27:18 [dramatic music] 27:32 - [Presenter] Life can throw a lot at us. 27:35 Sometimes we don't have all the answers. 27:38 But that's where the Bible comes in. 27:40 It's our guide to a more fulfilling life. 27:43 Here at The Voice of Prophecy, 27:45 we've created the Discover Bible Guides 27:47 to be your guide to the Bible. 27:49 They're designed to be simple, easy to use, 27:51 and provide answers to many of life's toughest questions. 27:54 And they're absolutely free. 27:56 So jump online now, or give us a call, 27:59 and start your journey of discovery. 28:02 - [Presenter] Dragons, beasts, cryptic statues. 28:07 Bible prophecy can be incredibly vivid and confusing. 28:11 If you've ever read Daniel & Revelation, 28:13 and come away scratching your head, 28:15 you're not alone. 28:16 Our free focus on prophecy guides 28:19 are designed to help you unlock the mysteries of the Bible 28:22 and deepen your understanding of God's plan 28:24 for you and our world. 28:26 Study online or request them by mail, 28:28 and start bringing prophecy into focus today. |
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