Participants: Ivor & Atonte Myers
Series Code: BOF
Program Code: BOF000052
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00:15 Welcome to Battles of Faith.
00:17 We're your host, Ivor and Atonte Myers. 00:19 And we're with Power of the Lamb Ministries. 00:22 In past programs, we've been learning about the blueprint, 00:26 God's plan of salvation. 00:29 And we've seen that 00:30 how He has sprinkled it all over the Bible. 00:33 And in the last program, we even learned that prayer, 00:36 Bible study, and being a light, 00:38 witnessing to the world are all equally balanced. 00:43 That God doesn't put one over the other 00:45 and how important as Christians 00:47 we must do all three. 00:48 That's right, the Holy Place in the Sanctuary 00:51 had those three articles of furniture 00:53 and as we look to the plan of salvation, 00:56 and how it is applicable to each of our lives, 00:58 we saw that those three in particular are 01:01 extremely important for the Christian 01:04 to be balanced in and ultimately that leads us 01:10 to the very throne room of God, 01:12 where He brings us back into His presence. 01:13 And that's the entire plan of salvation, 01:15 it is to bring us back into the presence of God. 01:20 The blueprint that we have been discussing, 01:22 the sanctuary that God had given the children of Israel 01:25 in the wilderness is God's GPS. 01:29 His Gospel Plan of Salvation 01:31 that He gives a world lost in sin. 01:34 And He gives it to us because He loves us, 01:36 and He wants us to understand 01:39 the clear path to salvation. 01:42 And some who may just be tuning in for the first time 01:45 or maybe have missed some of the programs, 01:47 may still be wondering, 01:48 why does He have to give this blueprint? 01:53 What took place that caused God to have put this in place? 01:57 Right, and we're gonna, we're gonna to do is, 01:58 we're gonna to do a little recap 02:00 because we're going to get into what happens 02:03 with this blueprint and basically see 02:06 how God had given it and how Satan 02:08 is trying to counter its influence. 02:11 So, again we invite you to get your Bibles, 02:14 and we invite you to follow along 02:16 because we have a powerful study 02:18 today in the word of God. 02:20 And we're gonna begin with the Book of Ezekiel 28, 02:23 and I'm just gonna kind of share some of these verses 02:26 and pass them, because we're just giving a recap here. 02:29 But in Ezekiel 28, the Bible speaks of this angel 02:35 that we understand to be Lucifer, 02:38 "He was called the covering cherub." 02:40 He was perfect in his ways 02:42 when he was created the Bible says, 02:43 "Until inequity was found in him." 02:46 Looking at this concept of covering cherub, 02:48 it led us through the Old Testament, 02:50 where we saw that God had given Moses 02:53 this instruction to build this temple, 02:57 the sanctuary in the wilderness. 02:59 And the sanctuary was like a miniature model 03:02 of the throne room of God or the Kingdom of God, 03:06 if you will, His government. 03:08 Inside that sanctuary was something 03:10 called the Most Holy Place, 03:12 and inside that Most Holy Place 03:14 was the "Ark of the Covenant." 03:16 On top of that Ark, was the Mercy Seat. 03:19 You can read all this in the Book of Exodus Chapter 25. 03:21 The mercy seat was symbolic of God's throne. 03:25 And on either side of the mercy seat were covering cherubs. 03:31 Angels, whose job it was, was to protect 03:35 and defend as it were the law of God, 03:37 that what cover means to defend. 03:39 So based upon this miniature model 03:41 of God's throne room in heaven, 03:43 we can look at that model and see, 03:46 Lucifer, Satan was one of these angels, 03:49 one of these two angels 03:50 that stood in the very presence of God 03:53 and was in charge or was his, was commissioned to uphold 03:58 and to show the sanctity of the law of God. 04:02 But the Bible tells us that Lucifer 04:05 he was perfect in his ways 04:07 until inequity was found in him. 04:09 Now that word inequity means sin, 04:11 and sin means transgression of the law. 04:14 So, Lucifer, who was to be defending the law of God, 04:17 which is the foundation of his throne, remember, 04:19 "The mercy seat rested upon the Ark." 04:23 Lucifer, who was to be defending 04:25 that law turned against it 04:27 and hence there was war in heaven. 04:29 Lucifer and his angels are cast out, 04:32 God raises up humanity, creates planet earth, 04:37 and creates Adam and Eve, okay. 04:40 And part of the reason that He creates Adam and Eve, 04:42 we're told, is to serve as jurors. 04:45 We read that in First Corinthians 6:1 through 3, 04:47 where the Bible says, 04:49 "Know ye not that the saints shall judge angels?" 04:51 We're talking about judging the Lucifer 04:54 and his fallen angels. 04:56 But, you know, this, we know the story, 04:57 Adam and Eve sinned, they fall fromthe grace of God 05:01 and hence the plan of salvation is put in place 05:05 to bring mankind back to the throne of God. 05:09 Remember, well, according to the verse 05:12 Psalms 77:13 tells us 05:14 "'Thy way, O God." Is where?" In the sanctuary." 05:18 When Lucifer was rebelling against God in heaven, 05:21 he was rebelling against God's way of doing things. 05:26 So, when God creates mankind 05:29 and calls him to walk in God's way, 05:33 Lucifer, approaches Eve in the Garden 05:36 and gets her to turn away from God. 05:39 The plan of salvation is designed 05:41 to lead us back into the way, back to God. 05:46 And so we find in Exodus Chapter 25 that, 05:50 God instructs Moses to build the sanctuary. 05:53 Now we've spent the last, I believe three programs 05:56 going through the incredible parallels in the sanctuary 06:02 that show the plan of salvation. 06:04 So I'm not gonna do that now, 06:06 where it was simply recapping 06:09 what we've gone over so far. 06:10 But, God gives this sanctuary blueprint to Israel 06:14 because in it is the very path of salvation 06:18 that God wants to get to the whole world. 06:21 So imagine with me, if you will, 06:23 I want to say this carefully, 06:24 imagine Israel as God's football team, okay. 06:29 Just, just go with that analogy with me for a moment. 06:32 And those who are watching in other, in other countries, 06:35 I think they call in America football 06:38 is not the game that you play with your feet. 06:41 Well, you use your feet, but it's not we call soccer. 06:44 Yeah, so I think in other countries, 06:45 people might see this, your thinking football, 06:47 I guess it's the same, 06:48 same kind of just in the game, same concept. 06:51 Trying to move the ball up the field 06:52 and get it into the goal. That's right. 06:54 Or the end zone, whatever, well, 06:56 God gives Israel this blueprint like a football 07:01 and He says, Israel, take it down the field, 07:03 you ought to take this blueprint. 07:06 And because this blueprint contains a plan of salvation, 07:10 I'm going to use you to prepare the world 07:13 for the coming of Jesus Christ. 07:16 That was their entire mission. 07:18 And so as we begin to consider the entire 07:20 Old Testament is really about Satan's 07:24 or God's desire to prepare the world 07:28 for the coming of Christ 07:30 and Satan's desire to stop the people 07:34 who God had called to do it, okay. 07:37 So Satan is against Israel, 07:39 and he is against the blueprint 07:41 because in that blueprint 07:42 which contains the way of salvation. 07:46 The devil doesn't want anyone to be saved. 07:48 So, he begins to attack the people, 07:50 that's Israel, and the blueprint. 07:53 And so we'll find that, you know, 07:56 what begins to happen throughout the Old Testament 07:59 is that Israel begins to falter, 08:01 they begin to do all kinds of things that 08:04 that are getting them just basically in trouble 08:07 like worshiping idols and falling away 08:10 from the very thing God had called them up to be. 08:14 So they started disobeying God and His word, 08:17 taking things into their own hands 08:19 and there's many, many examples of that 08:22 scattered throughout the Old Testament 08:25 and it would take us several programs 08:27 to go over everything that is real started to do. Yep. 08:30 But, I guess the main point is, 08:31 is they started to go against the will of God, 08:34 started to rebelled Him be disobedient. 08:35 Right, in other words, we've just summarized 08:38 basically the whole Old Testament. 08:40 The whole Old Testament is about God's desire 08:43 to prepare the world for the coming of Christ 08:45 through the blueprint that He had given to Israel 08:49 and Satan's desire to stop that mission 08:53 from being accomplished by either destroying Israel 08:57 or calling them, causing them to turn away from God 09:00 or destroying the blueprint itself. 09:03 And that's what we find happens. 09:05 The children of Israel become so rebellious that God allows, 09:10 finally allows the nation of Babylon to come 09:13 and take them captive 09:16 because they were rebelling against His will. 09:19 We find it in Second Chronicles 09:20 Chapter 36 verse 18, the Bible says here, 09:26 "And all the vessels of the house of God, 09:29 great and small, and the treasures 09:31 of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king 09:34 and of his princes, all these he, 09:38 that is Nebuchadnezzar, brought to Babylon. 09:41 And they burnt the house of God, 09:43 and break down the wall of Jerusalem, 09:45 and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, 09:48 and destroyed all vthe goodly vessels thereof." 09:52 Now this is not the tabernacle 09:53 that was built in the wilderness. 09:55 This is a new tabernacle, a different temple, 09:57 a more sturdy structure that have been built, 10:02 and this temple is the one that was destroyed. 10:07 And so this leads us to the Book of Daniel, 10:11 which takes us to a very important time prophecy 10:14 that we're going to look at, 10:15 it is called the 70 week prophecy, 10:18 the 70 week prophecy, 10:20 it's found in Daniel Chapter 9. 10:22 Now this is the first of three major time prophecies 10:26 in the Book of Daniel. 10:28 There is the 1260 day prophecy, 10:31 there is a 2300 day prophecy, 10:34 and there is the 70 week prophecy. 10:36 The 70 week prophecy is the shortest of all three. 10:40 And we're gonna get into other two prophecies 10:42 in a future program. 10:44 We're gonna focus in on the 70 weeks right now. Daniel 9-- 10:48 And I have to say this. 10:49 Don't let your mind shutdown 10:51 as soon as you start hearing the numbers and the prophecies, 10:54 I know there is a time before I really understood 10:56 the blueprint honestly, that my mind would 10:59 just shutdown 'cause like oh, there it goes again. 11:01 Okay, I get the whole point of it, 11:03 but I'm not understanding all the little details 11:05 and God wants us to understand the details. 11:09 And because the blueprint gives us a nice wonderful overview 11:13 and it makes these time prophecies 11:15 extremely easy to grasp and understand, 11:17 and even to share with others. 11:19 That's right, and that's what we're gonna do. 11:20 We're just gonna show you the basic 11:22 70 week time prophecy and what it represented, 11:25 okay, in the context of our study with the blueprint. 11:29 So remember now, what do we have going on here, 11:32 the children of Israel are in Babylonian captivity 11:35 because of their rebellion towards God. 11:39 And Daniel 9 begins with a Prophet Daniel, 11:44 and he is praying to God, praying for understanding, 11:47 praying for wisdom, praying for enlightenment. 11:51 When he receives a prophecy, the prophecy begins in verse, 11:57 verse 24, in fact, we'll read verse 23. 12:02 Angel comes to Daniel, then angel comes to Daniel 12:04 as he's praying and verse 23 reads, 12:07 "At the beginning of Thy supplications 12:09 the commandment came forth, and I am come," 12:12 that is the angel, "to show Thee, 12:14 for thou art greatly beloved, 12:16 therefore understand the matter, 12:18 and consider the vision." 12:20 Verse 24, begins, "Seventy weeks are determined 12:24 upon Thy people and upon Thy holy city 12:27 to finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, 12:31 to make reconciliation for iniquity, 12:33 to bring in everlasting righteousness, 12:36 and to seal up the vision and prophecy, 12:39 and to anoint the Most Holy. 12:41 Know therefore and understand, 12:43 that from the going forth of the commandment 12:45 to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah, 12:49 the Prince shall be seven weeks 12:52 and threescore and two weeks, 12:54 the street shall be built again, 12:56 and the wall, even in troublous time." 13:00 Now pause right here. 13:01 I know you're probably thinking what if, what was that? 13:04 What did you just read? Just, just hold on. 13:07 We're not gonna get into the detail of this prophecy, 13:09 I just simply want to give you 13:11 the nutshell of what this prophecy was about. 13:13 When the Bible says, "Seventy weeks are determined." 13:17 The word means, cutoff, allowed it to. 13:20 In other words, what the prophecy is basically saying 13:23 and what the angel is basically telling Daniel was, 13:25 listen Daniel, your people, Israel, 13:28 has 70 weeks to get their act together, 13:34 that's what's being spoken here in this prophecy. 13:37 Seventy weeks, why? 13:39 Because in that time period, the Messiah is coming. 13:43 The very one to whom the sanctuary points 13:48 that very one is coming. 13:50 I have called you into existence 13:52 to prepare the world for the coming of this man of my son. 13:56 In 70 weeks, he's gonna be here. 14:00 Seventy weeks, if you take that time period 14:04 and look at the prophecy, 14:06 when the prophecy was suppose to begin 14:08 which was from the decree going forth 14:10 to restore and to build Jerusalem. 14:12 Just a very quick historical fact here, 14:15 that decree went forth in 457 B.C., 14:19 which means that the 70 weeks if you'd count 70 weeks 14:23 or four-hundred and ninety days, 14:26 do you come to the Messiah from 457 B.C? 14:29 Absolutely not. 14:30 But, when you understand that 14:31 in Bible prophecy a day equals a year, 14:35 then if you'd count 457 from 457, 14:39 four-hundred and ninety years, 14:41 it will bring you to 27 to 34 A.D., 14:47 that is exactly the time 14:48 that the Messiah came upon the scene, 14:50 where he was anointed and baptized. 14:52 It's an amazing prophecy that pinpointed the very time 14:57 that Christ was to come. 14:59 So you have the picture there? 15:01 Great. I'm glad you said yes. 15:03 Now, this prophecy basically it's telling Israel, 15:08 if, if you do not receive My Son, 15:16 the Savior of the world at this time period. 15:20 Israel, I'm going to take the ball from you 15:24 and I'm going to give it to another nation 15:27 that will accomplish the work that I have set into play. 15:33 Because it wasn't so much about a group of people 15:36 as it was just god needing A group of people 15:41 to hold this blueprint message 15:43 and take the ball down the field if you will. 15:47 And so he had mercy upon Israel but... That's right. 15:52 If they could reject the Christ. 15:53 That's right, it's interesting, 15:55 you know, the prophecy stated 70 weeks 15:58 or that will be seventy times seven 16:01 and you remember that Jesus once said He was asked 16:04 how often should I forgive? 16:05 And Jesus replied seventy times seven. 16:10 This was an extension of forgiveness 16:12 and grace extended to Israel 16:14 but when the Messiah came what did Israel do? 16:18 The Sanhedrin, the Pharisees, the Sadducees, 16:22 they rejected Jesus Christ. 16:24 And in rejecting Christ they rejected something else 16:27 which they did not understand. 16:29 You see Jesus said in John 2:19, 16:31 "Destroy this temple and I will raise it up again," 16:35 Christ Himself was the embodiment of that sanctuary. 16:40 He was everything in that sanctuary. 16:42 And so when Israel rejected Christ 16:44 here's what they were rejecting. 16:45 Number one, in fact, before we even go there 16:48 I want to put up our image of the sanctuary 16:51 so you can take a look at this image 16:53 and for those of you who haven't seen it before, 16:54 I'll explain it briefly. 16:55 So, here we go, here's our image, 16:58 of the bottom of the screen 16:59 you'll see what is called "the Altar of Sacrifice" 17:02 that where animals were sacrificed 17:05 on a daily basis in the temple. 17:08 Above that you find the "Laver," 17:10 so if you were to go a little bit further 17:11 into the sanctuary, in the outer court 17:14 you would find the "Laver," that's where the priest would 17:16 wash their hands and feet with the water 17:18 that was found in that "Laver." 17:20 If you went further you would go into the Holy Place 17:22 where there are three articles of furniture, 17:25 "the Table of Showbread," "the Altar of Incense," 17:28 and "the Seven Branched Candlestick." 17:31 And then above that in the Most Holy Place 17:33 was something called "the Ark of the Covenant," 17:37 where in was the law of God. 17:38 Okay, you have that picture? 17:40 Memorize it, that's the blueprint right there. 17:42 That's what God had given Israel, 17:44 that plan of salvation, the plan of salvation 17:47 that's found in this, in this, in this sanctuary 17:50 and when Israel rejected the Messiah, 17:54 they were rejecting the temple itself, why? 17:59 Number one, Jesus is the Lamb of God, 18:03 when they rejected the Lamb of God 18:06 they were rejecting that Altar of Sacrifice. 18:08 They were saying, we don't accept 18:09 the sacrifice in our behalf. 18:11 He is not the Messiah, He's an imposter. 18:15 Number two, they were rejecting the water of life 18:18 right there at the Laver, which represents washing. 18:21 Without Christ we cannot be cleansed, 18:24 we cannot be purified, we cannot be made whole. 18:27 So they rejected the Altar of sacrifice, 18:29 they rejected the Laver, 18:30 they rejected the Table of Showbread, 18:33 because Christ said, "I am the bread of life." 18:36 The bread of life, they rejected the bread of life 18:38 and with out the bread of life, you can't survive, you can't, 18:41 you know, you can't live, you starve to death. 18:44 They rejected the bread of life. 18:45 In Ephesians 5:2 He's called the sweet smelling incense, 18:49 he is our righteousness when they rejected Christ 18:51 they were cutting off the only communication 18:56 you could have with God. 18:57 They were cutting Him off. 18:59 Our intercessor. Our intercessor. 19:01 When they rejected Christ, they were even rejecting 19:03 that Seven Branched Candlestick 19:05 which is the light of the world 19:06 because that's what Christ was called Himself. 19:07 He said I am the light of the world, 19:10 they rejected Him there and they -- 19:13 when they rejected Christ they were rejecting 19:15 the very law of God because He was the law personified. 19:21 So, it's as though Israel said, we don't want the blueprint, 19:24 we don't want the football and so what happens, 19:30 you look in Matthew Chapter 27 when Jesus dies-- 19:35 And the interesting thing to all of that is 19:37 I don't believe Israel at that time really knew 19:39 that they were rejecting all of those things. 19:43 Not, you know, and that's what Satan will do, 19:45 he will try to, you know, cause us 19:51 to go against God's word or his will in one thing 19:53 and over all we're rejecting the whole big picture. 19:56 But we're not thinking at that time 19:58 and that's what we're really doing. 20:00 They had no idea that they were, 20:01 that they were rejecting the very sanctuary 20:04 which they had so much pride in, right. 20:06 You know, so Matthew 27 verse 51 20:09 or verse 50 the Bible says, 20:11 "Jesus when he had cried again with a loud voice 20:13 yielded up the ghost 20:14 and behold the veil of the temple 20:16 was rent in two from the top to the bottom, 20:19 and the earth did quake, and the rocks were rent." 20:23 So, when Jesus died what happened 20:26 that veil was ripped into signifying that the blueprint 20:31 that God had so graciously given to Israel. 20:33 He said, you rejected this blueprint, 20:36 it's of no more use to you, I am taking it from you, 20:40 you're no longer the people that possess this, 20:43 you've rejected My Son, 20:45 you've rejected the blueprint, 20:46 I'm gonna take the plan of salvation 20:48 and I'm going to give it to another people, 20:52 in fact we read about that in the Book of Matthew, 20:57 Matthew Chapter 21 verse 42. 21:01 Matthew 21 and verse 42, the Bible tells us here 21:08 Jesus is speaking, and it says, 21:10 "Did you never read in the scriptures 21:12 the stone which the builders rejected 21:14 the same has become the head of the corner. 21:17 This is the Lord's doing and it is, 21:18 and it is marvelous in our eyes, 21:21 therefore say I unto you 21:22 the kingdom of God shall be taken from you 21:25 and given to a nation bringing forth 21:28 the fruits there off." 21:31 When they had rejected 21:32 the chief cornerstone of the sanctuary, Jesus Christ, 21:37 God said, "I am taking this, I am taking it from you 21:40 and I'm gonna give it to a nation bringing forth 21:44 the fruits there off." 21:46 And the question is who is that nation? 21:49 It was none other than the gentiles, 21:52 God raises up as it were a spiritual Israel 21:57 and what does He give to the spiritual Israel? 22:00 What is the significance? 22:01 What is the spiritual Israel going to 22:04 surround themselves or going to be given, 22:07 I believe that they were given a message 22:10 and that message was that Christ was crucified, 22:15 He was risen and had ascended into heaven 22:18 into what the Bible calls a heavenly sanctuary. 22:24 We read about in the Book of Hebrews 22:26 Chapter 8 verses 1 through 5, 22:28 do you have that, Atonte, can you read that? Yes. 22:30 It says, "Now the things which we have spoken 22:33 this is the sum, We have such an high priest, 22:37 who is set on the right hand 22:38 of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens. 22:41 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, 22:44 which the Lord pitched, and not man. 22:48 For every high priest is ordained 22:50 to offer gifts and sacrifices, 22:52 therefore it is of necessity 22:54 that this man have something also to offer. 22:57 For if he were on Earth, he should not be a priest, 23:00 seeing that there are priests 23:02 that offer gifts according to the law. 23:04 Who serve unto the example 23:06 and shadow of heavenly things, 23:08 as Moses was admonished of God 23:11 when he was about to make the tabernacle. 23:14 For, See, saith he, that thou make all things 23:17 according to the pattern showed 23:19 to thee in the mount." 23:20 Okay, so this sanctuary we're reading again 23:24 was a pattern of heavenly things. 23:27 God had given the ball to Israel 23:29 the sanctuary blueprint to Israel, 23:30 but they rejected it when they rejected the Messiah. 23:33 And now what happens is Christ dies, He resurrects, 23:37 He ascends into a heavenly temple 23:39 and He raises up a new people. 23:41 Second Peter or rather First Peter Chapter 2 23:45 tells us about that people. 23:46 First Peter Chapter 2 verse 9 says this, it says, 23:50 "But ye are a chosen generation, 23:53 a royal priesthood, an holy nation, 23:56 a peculiar people, that you should show forth 23:59 the praises of Him who has called 24:00 you out of darkness into His marvelous light. 24:04 Which in time past were not a people, 24:06 but are now the people of God." 24:08 If you were to ask the question 24:09 who are the people of God? 24:11 Christ tells us, God tells us, anyone who accepts My Son, 24:15 he is a child of God. 24:18 It's not about your lineage, 24:19 it's not about, you know, your skin colors, 24:21 it's not about who your parents are 24:23 or who their parents were, 24:24 it's about have you accepted Christ 24:26 that is only way that we can claim lineage 24:32 in the house of God. 24:33 And so God raises up a new people 24:36 anyone can be a part of this people, 24:38 no matter whether you're, you know, 24:39 no matter where you're born, 24:41 no matter who you are, 24:42 anyone is welcomed into this fold of God's people, 24:46 regardless of nation, color, anything. 24:49 But God raises up a new people 24:50 and He gives them a message of a heavenly sanctuary, 24:54 that's the new blueprint. 24:56 God says to spiritual Israel, 24:58 Israel, take this ball and take it down the field 25:02 and that's exactly what they do, 25:03 God blesses them with the gift of tongues. 25:06 So that they can get it into the world very quickly 25:10 with no language barrier. 25:11 That's right. It was not unintelligible gibberish. 25:13 It was the gift of tongues 25:15 that God had given to them 25:16 so that they could take this message of Christ, 25:19 risen and in heaven interceding on our behalf, 25:23 that this message could be taken to the world 25:25 and you look through the New Testament. 25:27 This is exactly the New Testament gospel. 25:30 This is what they preached that Christ was crucified. 25:32 They preach you must be baptized. 25:34 They preach that the word of God 25:35 is sufficient for our salvation. 25:37 They preach that by the intercession of Christ 25:40 we are brought closer to God. 25:42 They preach that we, 25:44 that the Church is to be the light of world. 25:46 And most importantly, not most importantly 25:48 but just as important as all those things, 25:50 they preached the law of God. 25:52 Paul said, "Circumcision is nothing 25:54 and uncircumcision is nothing, 25:56 but the keeping of the law of God." 25:59 And, Atonte, Israel, spiritual Israel 26:01 took that ball and off they went down the field 26:06 to take this gospel into all the world. 26:09 In our next program we're gonna discover 26:12 how Satan was able to get the ball 26:14 out of their hands and bring about 26:16 what we call the Dark Ages. 26:19 And you think about it, they were so zealous 26:21 and so on fire because Christ had just died 26:25 and they realized, I mean, when He's saying, 26:28 He'll return and come quickly. 26:30 I mean, they're working 26:31 just to do all that they can do 26:33 there is nothing more important in their life 26:36 than to fulfill what God had called them to do 26:38 so that Christ could return soon. 26:41 They didn't want to delay His coming. 26:43 They realized after He had gone, 26:45 how much He really meant to them. 26:47 And that how we should be, 26:49 we should be doing everything in our power 26:52 that God gives us the power to do 26:55 to hurry up His second coming, 26:58 not to delay it. 27:01 And there should be nothing more important in our life, 27:04 nothing that we are doing, not our work, 27:07 not family, not friends, 27:09 these are all very important things, 27:10 but being a witness and doing everything in our power 27:14 should be the most important thing in our life. 27:16 That's right, you know, Israel allowed things 27:18 to come in between them and God, 27:20 and we don't want to do to make the same mistakes 27:23 that many of those leaders made. 27:25 So what we're seeing is that God's GPS moves forward. 27:29 We've jut covered the entire Old Testament 27:32 and in our next program, as I said, 27:34 we're gonna get into how the devil comes up 27:37 with the master plan 27:38 to almost destroy the sanctuary truth 27:40 but how God redeems it just at the right time. 27:44 You don't want to miss the next program. 27:46 If we have a DVR 'cause you know, 27:49 you're gonna be gone somewhere set your DVR 27:51 to this program to record it 27:53 so that you can see it 27:54 because it is going to make 27:55 the hair stand up on your arms 27:57 and I am not exaggerating. 27:59 Every time I hear it I get goose bumps 28:01 because it is just so amazing 28:03 what God is doing to preserve this blueprint. 28:06 Thank you for joining us. Until next time, God bless. |
Revised 2014-12-17