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00:02 - [Announcer] This presentation is brought to you 00:03 by the friends of the Amazing Facts Ministry. 00:07 (upbeat music) 00:09 - Have you ever seen a bald eagle's nest? 00:12 Eagles often use the same nest year after year, 00:15 and over time, some nests grow to enormous size, 00:19 many up to nine feet in diameter and weighing two tons. 00:23 Both parents provide well for their offspring, 00:25 and the young birds grow quickly as they eat voraciously, 00:29 adding a pound every five days. 00:31 But eventually they must learn to fly 00:33 and hunt for themselves. 00:35 Life for young eagles is tough, 00:37 and tragically only 10 to 20% survive to adulthood. 00:40 They get electrocuted by landing on wires. 00:43 They're hunted by poachers, hit by vehicles, 00:46 and sometimes they simply starve. 00:48 They were once declared an endangered species, 00:51 but they've made a surprising comeback. 00:53 Because of its grace, speed, strength, and its size, 00:57 the bald eagle was chosen 00:58 to symbolize the United States of America. 01:01 Not only do nations today choose animals 01:04 as their national mascots or symbols. 01:07 The Bible also uses different beasts 01:09 to identify the characteristics 01:11 of prominent kingdoms in prophecy. 01:14 So join me now as we discover what the Bible really says 01:18 about the future of the United States of America. 01:25 The title of our lesson is dealing with 01:27 "A Mother-Daughter Conspiracy," 01:31 and it's based upon Mark 6:14-29. 01:36 You'll also find this referenced in the Book of Matthew. 01:39 Jesus tells us that John the Baptist was the greatest 01:43 of the prophets, not that he worked longer, 01:46 he never wrote a book, 01:47 but greatest in his dedication 01:50 in his message to prepare the way for the king, the Messiah. 01:54 He was that voice crying in the wilderness, 01:56 bringing the people of God back to a revival, 02:00 calling the people of Israel back to their Savior 02:03 and their Lord. 02:05 And because of John's bold and faithful preaching, 02:09 he was not intimidated by anyone. 02:11 John the Baptist came in the spirit and power of Elijah, 02:14 according to the angel that spoke to his father. 02:17 He was not afraid to say to the scribes and Pharisees, 02:21 "You den of vipers, 02:22 who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come?" 02:25 He was also not afraid to tell King Herod, 02:28 "You are committing adultery 02:30 in that you took your brother Phillip's wife." 02:33 Her name was Herodias. 02:35 And that really aggravated her, 02:37 and she stayed on King Herod, 02:38 said, "You need to arrest that loud mouth." 02:41 Finally Herod gave in. 02:43 He had John put in prison 02:45 because of his audacious preaching, 02:49 but she thought, "That's not enough. 02:50 Herod likes him." 02:51 He would occasionally go to the prison 02:53 and listen to John the Baptist 02:55 or have John the Baptist brought up to the palace 02:57 and speak to him and put 'em back in jail. 02:59 She said, "Well, pretty soon, John the Baptist 03:02 is gonna wreck this arrangement I've got." 03:03 Here's she's like the queen now that she's enticed the king. 03:08 So Herod had a birthday party, and she had a clever plan. 03:12 Herod had a few drinks, 03:15 and then she said, "Would you like my daughter to dance?" 03:19 And he said, "Yeah." 03:21 And as she expected, he made sort of a pompous boast, 03:24 and he said to Salome if she'd come out and dance, 03:27 he said, "Ask whatever you will. 03:28 Anything up to half my kingdom, I'll give it to you." 03:32 So she came out, and she did her exotic dance 03:36 and entertained king and all the guests that were there, 03:39 the who's who in the kingdom of Judah. 03:43 And he said, "What do you want?" 03:44 She wasn't sure what to ask for. 03:46 You think you'd get a credit card 03:47 for Nordstrom's or something. 03:49 Went to her mother and said, "What shall I ask for?" 03:51 She said, "You need to ask 03:53 for the head of John the Baptist on a platter." 03:57 And I don't know how reluctant she was, 04:00 but that's what she did. 04:02 The Bible tells us: 04:03 "So she went and said to her mother, 'What shall I ask?' 04:06 She said, 'The head of John the Baptist.'" 04:08 And when the king heard this, he was so sorry, 04:12 but he had made a promise, 04:14 and a king cannot change his word. 04:17 So an executioner went to the prison forthwith. 04:21 John was unceremoniously 04:23 executed alone, this great prophet, 04:27 and the head was brought, it says, 04:28 in a charger to the mother. 04:31 John's disciples later came and recovered his body 04:34 and buried his body. 04:37 Now, this is not the first time 04:39 that a mother-daughter team conspires 04:43 to persecute a prophet of God. 04:46 You read in the prophecies of Revelation 04:48 about another-mother daughter team 04:51 that persecutes the prophets of God. 04:54 John introduced the ministry of Jesus. 04:56 Jesus ministered for 1,260 days, 3 1/2 years. 05:02 But the Bible tells us 05:03 that there's another mother-daughter team 05:07 that persecuted the prophets of God. 05:09 That leads us into our lesson for tonight. 05:11 Question number one, 05:12 what other mother-daughter team persecuted God's people 05:15 in the Old Testament? 05:17 I think many of you are acquainted with a name, 05:19 though you may not know all the story behind it. 05:22 Bible talks about Jezebel, 05:25 killed the prophets of the Lord. 05:29 King Ahab, 05:31 he married a princess from the kingdom of Tyre, 05:35 and she was all engrossed and very devoted to Baal worship. 05:39 That's what happens when you marry outside your faith. 05:42 And she began to push the king 05:43 and push the king and to push the king. 05:45 The Bible says, "Nobody in Israel ever sold themself 05:48 to do Israel like Ahab, whom his wife Jezebel stirred up." 05:55 One time Ahab said, 05:56 "I'd like to have that vineyard next door, 05:58 but Naboth doesn't wanna sell it to me." 06:00 She said, "Give me your signet ring. 06:01 I'll take care of it for you." 06:04 And she arranged a feast, 06:06 had everybody falsely accuse Naboth. 06:09 He was taken out of the city. 06:10 He was executed, and she came back and says, 06:12 "Now you can have that vineyard. 06:13 I killed the man who owns it." 06:15 Ruthless woman. 06:18 For 3 1/2 years, she persecuted the prophets. 06:21 You remember the famine? 06:23 Elijah fled into the wilderness 1,260 days. 06:29 That time period comes up in Daniel, speaking of the beast, 06:32 and in Revelation several times. 06:36 Let me give you one more. 06:38 1,260 days was the time of the famine in the days of Elijah 06:44 when Jezebel was persecuting the prophets of God. 06:45 Obadiah the prophet hid a bunch of them in caves. 06:48 You may have read about that. 06:50 1,260 days was a period of time when Jesus taught, 06:56 and then He was executed. 06:58 1,260 days, 42 months, 3 1/2 years, 07:02 talking about the Jewish calendar, 07:04 is the period of time from the time of Christ 07:08 to the stoning of Stephen 07:10 when the gospel then went to the Gentiles. 07:13 You read in the Book of Esther, 07:14 did you ever catch this? 07:16 "In the third year of the reign of Ahasuerus," 07:19 this is how the book begins, 07:21 "he had a feast lasting 180 days." 07:23 What's half of 360? 07:27 180. 07:28 And at the end of that period of time, 07:30 Vashti the queen is deposed, 07:35 and they begin the search ultimately for Esther, 07:37 another 3 1/2. 07:38 You'll find that time period continues to appear. 07:41 Prophetically, we learned that from 538 to 1798, 07:47 you've got this other 1,260 year period of time, not days. 07:53 It's when you use a day for year, 07:55 the Dark Ages when religion was running things 07:59 in civilization. 08:01 Not only was it Jezebel. 08:02 Jezebel had a daughter. 08:04 Her name was Athaliah. 08:06 It says: "When Athaliah saw that her son was dead, 08:09 she arose and destroyed all of the royal heirs," 08:12 the seed of David. 08:13 She tried to kill 'em all, 08:15 but one young boy named Joash escaped. 08:17 And ultimately she ruled for six years, 08:20 and then she was slain. 08:23 Question number two, 08:24 what is the second angel's message in Revelation 14? 08:27 We talked about the first angel's message: 08:29 "Fear God and give glory to Him, 08:30 for the hour of his judgment is come. 08:32 And worship Him that made the heaven and the earth 08:34 and the sea and the fountains of waters." 08:36 The second angel has a message. 08:37 You read it in Revelation 14:8: 08:40 "Another angel followed, saying, 08:42 'Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, 08:47 because she," now is it talking about a city? 08:50 Is it talking about a church? 08:52 "For she has made all nations drink of the wine 08:56 of the wrath of her fornication." 08:58 We'll find out what that wine is 09:00 and who this woman is and what that city is. 09:02 The Bible is very clear about that. 09:04 Question number three, 09:06 how does God symbolize Babylon in Revelation 17? 09:10 If you have your Bibles, 09:11 or you've got your device with a Bible on it, 09:13 you'll wanna turn there with me to the Book of Revelation, 09:15 last book in the Bible, chapter 17. 09:19 And it describes this very unusual woman. 09:25 Verse one: "Then one of the seven angels 09:29 who had the seven bowls," 09:30 these are the seven vials 09:31 with the plagues that are poured out, 09:33 "he came, and he talked with me saying, 09:35 'Come, I will show you the judgment 09:38 of the great harlot who sits on many waters 09:41 with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, 09:44 and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk 09:47 with the wine of her fornication.' 09:49 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness. 09:52 And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored beast 09:56 which was full of names of blasphemy, 09:59 having seven heads and 10 horns. 10:02 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, 10:05 adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, 10:08 having in her hand a golden cup full of the abominations 10:12 and filthiness of her fornication. 10:14 And on her forehead a name was written." 10:16 Now, I'm hoping you're realizing that this is symbolic 10:19 because you're probably not gonna see too many people 10:21 that have a whole paragraph on their forehead. 10:24 "On her forehead was written: 10:26 'Mystery, Babylon the great, the mother of harlots," 10:30 mother and daughters, "'and abomination of the earth.' 10:35 "And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints 10:38 and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. 10:41 And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement." 10:45 Now, if you still got your Bibles open, 10:48 just jump to verse nine. 10:49 The angel begins to explain the vision: 10:52 "Here is the mind that has wisdom: 10:54 The seven heads are seven mountains 10:56 on which the woman sits." 10:58 It's definitely not talking about ancient Babylon. 11:00 There were no mountains around ancient Babylon. 11:04 You look in verse 15: "The waters which you saw, 11:07 where the harlot sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations." 11:11 It's not one nation. 11:13 Nations this woman is over, 11:15 and tongues, languages, many languages. 11:18 And if you're in doubt, you go to the last verse: 11:21 "The woman that you saw is that great city 11:24 that reigns over the kings of the earth." 11:27 What great city was reigning over the kings 11:29 of the earth when John was imprisoned 11:31 on the island of Patmos and had his vision? 11:34 So here you have a picture of a woman. 11:37 What does a woman represent? 11:39 A church. 11:40 This woman has become unfaithful. 11:43 Tells us, first of all, it says she's guilty of blasphemy. 11:46 Now when we say blasphemy, 11:48 let's use the Biblical definition. 11:50 The religious leaders said 11:51 that Jesus was guilty of blasphemy 11:55 because Jesus claimed the prerogatives 11:56 that belonged to God. 11:58 That's a definition for blasphemy. 12:00 When Jesus said he could forgive sin, they said, 12:03 "That's blasphemy. 12:04 Who can forgive sin but God alone?" 12:05 They're right, but Jesus is God the Son, correct? 12:09 It says she's arrayed. 12:10 Here's something very practical. 12:11 It talks about some of the principle colors. 12:13 She's arrayed in purple and scarlet 12:16 and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls. 12:20 It says she has harlot daughters who have also fallen. 12:24 Now, the average people couldn't read the Bible, 12:26 but the priests had them. 12:28 And as they would read the Bible, often in Latin, 12:31 they realized there was a great disparity 12:32 between what the church was practicing 12:34 and the doctrines of the Bible, 12:37 and they would protest. 12:39 And ultimately it became a showdown. 12:40 On October 31st, just about 500 years ago, 12:44 a little more than 500 years ago, 12:45 Martin Luther nailed his protests, those 95 theses, 12:49 on the doors of the Wittenberg Church. 12:52 And they said it was because of certain doctrines, 12:55 but when they came out they didn't come all the way out. 12:59 What I mean by that is they protested certain doctrines, 13:02 but they still retained in their teachings things 13:05 that could not be found in the Bible 13:06 'cause they were traditions that they just had for years. 13:09 So just like a mother is gonna have some resemblance to, 13:12 or daughter's gonna have some resemblance to the mother, 13:14 these daughters have some resemblance to the mother. 13:18 And we'll go through what those characteristics are 13:20 in just a moment. 13:23 Don't go anywhere, friends, we'll be back in just a moment 13:25 for the rest of today's presentation. 13:28 You probably already know 13:30 that the United States is one of the most powerful economic 13:33 and military nations in history. 13:36 But have you ever wondered if the Bible has 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presentation 14:34 and learn some more amazing facts from the Word of God. 14:38 Says she was a persecuting power. 14:42 She persecuted and martyred the saints. 14:44 Now we're living in a little more sophisticated time 14:47 in history, but if you go back a few hundred years, 14:49 I don't know if you've read in history 14:51 about the Spanish Inquisition. 14:53 But Karen and I were in Spain. 14:56 Oh, it's been three or four years ago now. 14:58 And while we were there, 15:01 we'd go by several of the shops on the streets, 15:03 and it would say, pay a few pesos, 15:07 and you can go down and look at the torture implements 15:09 underneath the churches. 15:11 And we went down, and oh man, 15:14 it was just very disturbing 15:17 to look at these torture machines 15:20 and tools that they had to try to get these people 15:24 that were heretics to recant or repent 15:27 or extracting confessions. 15:30 And I won't even go into detail 15:32 because children will watch these programs, 15:35 but you can look it up if you're curious 15:37 if you got a strong stomach. 15:39 And this didn't happen for a year or two. 15:41 The numbers from historians are somewhere between 30 15:44 and 50 million people, Christians and Jews, 15:49 were killed by the church during this time of persecution. 15:53 Friends, this was no small thing. 15:55 A few hundred years, we start forgetting what happened. 15:59 And Jesus did not operate that way, 16:01 saying, "If you don't agree with me, 16:02 or you don't follow me, I'm gonna torture you." 16:05 He invited people to follow. 16:07 If they walked away, they walked away. 16:08 I mean, Jesus used love. 16:10 He you did not use force and pain 16:12 to make someone follow Him. 16:13 It's says she sits upon seven mountains. 16:16 You could Google it on your phone, 16:18 just don't do it right now, 16:21 city of seven hills. 16:23 So you got a woman, represents what? 16:26 Church. 16:28 This great city reigns over the kings of the earth, 16:31 sits among seven hills, 16:33 scarlet and purple, wealth. 16:38 Goes on to say that she's also got a gold cup in her hand, 16:42 says that she rules over the kings of the earth. 16:46 You know if you read anything about history 16:48 during the Dark Ages, 16:50 By the way, you know why the Dark Ages were called dark? 16:53 'Cause the church said that the average person 16:55 should not be reading the Bible 16:57 because there's too much risk. 16:58 They won't understand it. 16:59 They said the church must interpret it for you. 17:01 The Bibles were often in Latin, 17:03 and they were chained in the walls of the monasteries 17:07 and the churches. 17:09 And the average person did not have the Word. 17:12 Martin Luther translated the Bible 17:14 into the language of the people, 17:15 as did Wycliffe and many of the others. 17:17 They wanted to give the Word to the people, 17:19 and that's when there was an explosion of belief 17:22 and revival when the people could read for themselves. 17:25 Jesus spoke to the common people. 17:27 Anyone can understand the teachings of Christ. 17:30 That was called the Dark Ages 17:31 because the Bible is a lamp to my feet 17:32 and a light to my path. 17:34 You take away the light, you've got darkness. 17:37 That's what happened. 17:39 How do the beasts of Revelation 13 and 17 compare? 17:43 It tells us: "I stood upon the sand of the sea, 17:45 and I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, 17:48 having seven heads and 10 horns, 17:52 and on his heads a blasphemous name." 17:55 Now, not only do you see this here in Revelation 13:1. 17:59 You look in Revelation 12, 18:02 and it talks about a beast with seven heads and 10 horns. 18:06 Now, if you're driving down the road, 18:07 you've seen a deer crossing before, right? 18:10 Have you ever seen a crossing where you got a beast 18:13 with seven heads and 10 horns? 18:16 No. 18:17 And it says: "I saw a woman sitting 18:18 on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, 18:22 having seven heads and 10 horns." 18:25 It's very interesting that you've got this beast. 18:29 Now is this a literal beast in the last days, 18:31 or is it a symbol? 18:35 This is symbolic. 18:37 So there's a big similarity. 18:39 Revelation 12, you've got that beast, 18:42 and it says that it's the power of Rome 18:44 that tries to destroy the baby, the manchild, 18:47 as soon as it was born. 18:48 The Roman power tried to destroy Jesus when he was a baby. 18:53 What is the meaning and the origin of the word Babylon? 18:56 Well, you go back to the Tower of Babel. 18:58 You read in Genesis 11:4,6,7: 19:02 "Let us build ourselves a city 19:04 and a tower whose top is in the heavens. 19:07 And the Lord said, 'Let us go down there 19:09 and confuse their language, 19:11 that they may not understand one another's speech.' 19:14 Therefore the name of it is called Babel 19:16 because there the Lord confused the language of the earth." 19:20 So one of the characteristics 19:21 of Babylon is confusion of doctrines. 19:24 There's just a lot of different beliefs out there 19:26 that leave people wondering what in the world is going on. 19:29 There's a confusion in Babylon. 19:32 How does God describe Babylon in urging His people to leave? 19:37 Revelation 18:2, 19:40 and it says, "He cried mightily with a loud voice, 19:42 saying, 'Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, 19:48 and has become the dwelling place of demons 19:50 and the prison of every foul spirit.'" 19:52 Now why does he say, 19:54 "Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen?" 19:56 Well, you had the fall of Babylon back when the children 19:59 of Israel were in Babylon in the Old Testament. 20:01 But then Babylon falls again in prophetic times. 20:05 Now let me put you in the Bible mind for just a moment. 20:10 The children of Israel, they were captives in Babylon, 20:14 but long before that, where did Abraham come from? 20:18 Mesopotamia. 20:19 Abraham brought his wife and his family out of Mesopotamia, 20:24 the same region of Babylon. 20:25 Anything that was over the Euphrates River 20:28 was in that territory. 20:29 He brought her out of Babylon into the promised land. 20:33 Abraham then has a son. 20:34 What's his name? Isaac. 20:37 And God says to Abraham, 20:40 "Don't want your son marrying one of these Canaanite girls. 20:43 He's gotta go back and bring his wife out." 20:45 So a servant comes and gets a wife named Rebecca, 20:48 brings her out of Mesopotamia into the promised land. 20:52 Jacob then goes looking for a wife. 20:54 Where's he go? 20:55 Back across the Euphrates. 20:57 He ends up with four for the price of one. 21:00 He gets Rachel and her sister 21:02 and the two handmaids and all the kids. 21:05 They come out of Babylon into the promised land. 21:09 Then the children of Israel, because of their unfaithfulness, 21:11 are conquered by Nebuchadnezzar. 21:12 They're carried off to Mesopotamia. 21:16 After 70 years in Mesopotamia, Cyrus the Persian comes, 21:20 conquers Belshazzar, 21:23 and he says, "I'm gonna let the people go." 21:25 Now the problem is whenever you stay someplace for 70 years, 21:31 I've seen how much stuff I bring when I go on a weekend. 21:34 You ever go camping for a weekend, 21:36 and you come back with just half the food is still there? 21:40 If you stay somewhere for 70 years, 21:42 and you make friends and you have a family, 21:44 and you learn the language, 21:46 and then all of a sudden after 70 years 21:48 of being in a country 21:49 and really getting to where you kind of feel at home, 21:51 then God says through his prophets, 21:54 "Let's go back to the promised land." 21:55 You go, "Oh that sounds exciting, 21:58 sounds like an adventure, 21:59 but kind of comfortable right now." 22:02 God says, "You need to come out of Babylon 22:04 'cause plagues are gonna fall on Babylon. 22:06 You need to go to the land like your father Abraham did, 22:09 where I'm gonna give you this land forever. 22:11 You need to have faith. 22:13 Trust me." 22:14 There was a lot of reluctance among the children of Israel 22:17 and Babylon about coming out. 22:19 In the last days, God is calling people 22:22 that believe His Word back to the Word of God. 22:25 Now that's gonna mean for some people changing churches. 22:30 That is not easy. 22:32 People say, "Oh, our family's been believing these things 22:34 and part of this church for years. 22:36 All our friends are there." 22:38 Are they teaching the truth? 22:40 Are they practicing, 22:41 are they proclaiming the truth of Jesus Christ? 22:44 Babylon is fallen. 22:46 Come before it's too late 22:48 'cause when Jesus comes back, 22:50 He's gonna have a united people 22:52 that are building once again on the Word. 22:54 Jesus said when the storm comes, 22:57 wise man builds on the what? The rock. 22:59 Foolish man builds on the? 23:01 See, you know that story. 23:03 You sing about it, right? 23:06 And what is that rock? 23:08 "He that hears these words of mine and does them, 23:12 he'll be like the wise man building on the rock." 23:14 Hearing the word and what? 23:17 Doing it, doing the Word. 23:20 When the storm comes, 23:21 you realize the storm comes to the wise man, 23:23 and the storm comes to the fool? 23:25 Jesus says not if the storm comes. 23:28 He says when the storm comes. 23:29 Friends, a storm is coming, 23:31 and the only way we're gonna get through that storm 23:33 is to be founded on the rock of Jesus and His truth. 23:37 And this is a message that's going to the world 23:39 in the last days. 23:40 It doesn't matter how comfortable we are 23:42 in the various teachings. 23:45 We need to come back to the Word in these last days. 23:49 So he cries mightily, "Babylon is fallen. 23:51 Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins." 23:54 Now, see, when people don't know something, 23:58 that's one thing, but once we know God's will, 24:01 if we continue persisting in disobeying, it becomes sin. 24:04 Let me illustrate. 24:06 Years ago, I need two hands for this illustration. 24:10 Years ago, I heard about a man that had a fabric shop, 24:14 and this is back in England. 24:17 They used to pick the size of the foot, 24:20 and the inch was based upon the size of the king's foot. 24:24 And so this man had a yardage shop, and he sold cloth. 24:28 And for years, he sold to everybody in the community, 24:30 and he'd measure it off on his table. 24:32 He had this tape measure, 24:34 and he'd measure off the cloth, and then he'd cut it. 24:35 And he'd sell it, wrap it up to the customers. 24:39 And one day after 30 years in his shop, 24:41 someone came in to buy some cloth, and they went back home. 24:43 They came back and said, 24:44 "I went to make some pillows out of that cloth, 24:46 and you sold me short." 24:47 He said, "Absolutely not." 24:49 He said, "Bring me the cloth." 24:50 And he put it back together again, 24:51 and he said, "Look, it matches up." 24:53 And they pulled out a tape measure, 24:56 and they measured his tape measure on the table, 24:59 and his tape measure on the table was like two inches short. 25:02 And he was stunned by this 'cause he's an honest man, 25:06 and evidently the king had died somewhere during the time, 25:08 and they had changed the standard. 25:11 And the standard had changed, 25:14 but he hadn't changed his table. 25:16 Well, he didn't know. 25:18 He may have been robbing people without knowing it 25:20 because there was something wrong 25:21 with his scale, his measurement. 25:22 You see what I'm saying? 25:24 But once that is brought to his attention, 25:26 it was not a sin before. 25:28 Once that is brought to his attention, 25:30 if he continues using that faulty measurement, 25:34 is he still an honest man? 25:36 No, 'cause now he knows. 25:38 See what I'm saying? 25:40 And so some of you are saying, 25:41 "Pastor Doug, I wish he never came to this seminar 25:44 'cause now I just know too much." 25:47 Don't, the truth is not a burden. 25:49 It's a blessing. 25:50 The truth will set you free, amen? 25:51 - [Congregant] Yes. 25:53 - What will prevent God's end-time people 25:54 from being deceived? 25:56 Only one thing, friends: 25:58 "To the law and the testimony. 26:00 If they do not speak according to this word," 26:02 that's the Word of God, the law and the prophets, 26:04 "there is no light in them." 26:06 We need to follow the light in the last days. 26:09 Now in Noah's day, there's only one way of escape, 26:12 and that way of escape was to get in the ark. 26:14 There's one ark. 26:16 There was one door in the ark, 26:17 and He called His people into the safety of that. 26:20 And I think you've heard God's voice tonight speaking 26:23 through His Word, and He wants you to be part of that group. 26:27 He says, "Come out of her my people." 26:33 - [Announcer] Don't forget to request 26:35 today's life-changing free resource. 26:37 Not only can you receive this free gift in the mail. 26:39 You can download a digital copy straight to your computer 26:42 or mobile device. 26:43 To get your digital copy of today's free gift, 26:46 simply text the keyword on your screen to 40544, 26:50 or visit the web address shown on your screen 26:53 and be sure to select the digital download option 26:55 on the request page. 26:56 It's now easier than ever for you to study God's Word 27:00 with Amazing Facts, wherever and whenever you want, 27:03 and most important, to share it with others. 27:08 (thunder cracking) 27:11 - [Announcer] Written by the hand of God 27:13 and spoken with His voice, 27:17 some words will never fade. 27:28 - [Announcer] Get Pastor Doug Batchelor's 27:29 12-part sermon series on the 10 Commandments 27:31 by calling 800-538-7275, or visit afbookstore.com. 27:37 - [Announcer] Did you know Amazing Facts 27:39 has a free Bible school that you can do 27:41 from the comfort of your own home? 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