Participants: Pr. John Carter
Series Code: CR
Program Code: CR001605A
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00:13 The topic today is "The Next President
00:18 and the Last President of United States of the World." 00:26 Before we talk about this today, 00:29 there are some big questions that you and I need to ask 00:32 and we need to answer. 00:36 If you're gonna be happy, who am I? 00:41 Who am I? 00:42 Am I the product of time plus matter plus chance? 00:52 Can life as Professor Dawkins from Oxford University says, 00:56 "Can life come from non-life? 01:00 Can knowledge, information come from chaos?" 01:06 Did you know that in the human body there are literally 01:10 trillions of cells? 01:13 Did you know that in each cell, you have the information 01:19 that is found in a library of 100,000 volumes 01:24 each of a thousand pages? 01:27 And he discovered this recently, 01:29 so I'm sharing it with you. 01:31 But did all this information, 01:34 where did this information come from? 01:38 The Russians, I've been to Russia many times 01:41 and spoken to millions of atheists. 01:44 And the Russians for almost 70 years were taught 01:47 that they were machines or animals. 01:50 So what am I? 01:52 Am I an animal? 01:53 Am I a machine 01:56 or am I something infinitely of more value? 02:01 Richard Dawkins said and you've all heard 02:03 of the great Professor Richard Dawkins, 02:05 the world's most famous atheist. 02:06 He said "That the best thing a person can do 02:09 as he approaches the end of his life 02:11 is to stand on the deck of the ship and salute. 02:16 Go down with the ship 02:18 because he said there is nothing after that." 02:22 Today we are going to explore life's biggest questions 02:26 and I want to read this statement to you 02:29 and I want you to get it down into the molecules 02:32 of your mind because it's of great importance. 02:36 "If genuine prophecy exists, 02:40 the main issues of our age are met." 02:44 Want you to think about this. 02:45 It's a philosophical question. 02:48 "If genuine prophecy exists, 02:53 then the main issues of life and of our age are met." 02:59 Because if there is genuine prophecy, 03:02 it shows that we are not alone in the universe. 03:05 It shows that there is a super mind 03:10 that can see into the future. 03:13 "The genuine prophecy exists, 03:15 the main issues of life are met." 03:18 The Quran is not a book of prophecy, 03:22 neither are the writings of the Hebrews scholars, 03:25 there is only one book that claims to tell the future, 03:30 that is this book here which is called the Bible. 03:35 And today we are going to notice 03:37 that amazing prophecy. 03:39 In fact, we are going to notice at least two prophecies, 03:44 amazing prophecies that as far as I'm concerned 03:48 and I think as far as you are concerned 03:50 after we are through here today you will say, 03:54 "Genuine prophecy does exist." 03:57 I want you to come in the Bible now 03:58 to the Book of Isaiah 13:19 and onwards, 04:04 the Book of Isaiah. 04:06 This book takes us back about 2,600 years. 04:11 Remember that date, it goes back to about 600 or 700 BC. 04:17 Isaiah 13:19. 04:21 I want all of you folks just to notice it. 04:24 We're gonna put it up here on the screen 04:26 and we are going to notice it in the Bible. 04:28 The Bible says, this was written about 600, 700 BC. 04:33 "And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, 04:35 the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, 04:37 will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. 04:41 It will never be inhabited, 04:43 nor will it be settled from generation to generation, 04:47 nor will the Arabian pitch tents there, 04:51 nor will the shepherds make their folds there." 04:56 "The greatest days of Babylon were still to come 04:58 when this verse was written. 05:00 But wild beasts of the desert will lie there, 05:04 and their houses will be full of owls, 05:09 ostriches will dwell there, 05:11 and wild goats will caper there. 05:14 And hyenas will howl in their citadels, and jackals..." 05:19 "Remember the word jackal. 05:21 Jackals in the palaces. 05:23 Her time is near to come, 05:25 and her days will not be prolonged." 05:32 I've been to Babylon on many occasions. 05:35 It's in the old land Mesopotamia 05:37 that we call today Iraq. 05:40 Babylon was once the United States of the world. 05:43 It was the great super power. 05:46 It was a magnificent place. 05:49 This is as you would notice, this is the famous Ishtar Gate 05:53 named after the Mother Goddess. 05:57 And from here we get the ceremony 05:59 of the tradition of Easter. 06:02 The Ishtar Gate, and this great city was founded upon 06:08 the great river Euphrates that we are going to talk about 06:11 as we go along today because 06:13 Babylon was finally overthrown because of the River Euphrates. 06:19 The walls, the palaces were made of glazed brick. 06:24 It was the dominant power in the world 06:27 about 2, 600 years ago. 06:29 The most famous ruler 06:31 was King Nebuchadnezzar. 06:36 I want you to see something here. 06:39 You want to see just a little bit of magic. 06:41 You ready for this, it's not really, folks. 06:43 Want to see a little bit of magic? 06:45 What I'm gonna do, I'm gonna-- 06:50 was that magic or is it not? 06:53 I'll tell you it was magic, it actually happened. 06:57 This contains the building list. 06:59 I took this in the British Museum. 07:02 It contains the building list of Nebuchadnezzar. 07:08 It talks about his arrogance 07:11 when he walked around the city and he said 07:14 "Is not this great Babylon that I've build for my glory." 07:18 And it is written down here in the strange letters 07:21 that we call the Cuneiform. 07:27 Now the years rolled by and some of you folks 07:29 will be aware of this from studying history. 07:33 The years rolled by, he died and after other years, 07:38 one of his descendents was a young larrikin 07:43 as they would say in island 07:45 or a waster by the name of Belshazzar. 07:52 Now for many, many, many years skeptics said 07:55 that Belshazzar did not exist 07:59 because in the Cuneiform it said 08:01 that the last king of Babylon was Nabonidus, 08:08 but it's an interesting thing that the Bible said 08:11 that the last king of Babylon, 08:14 the last king on the throne was Belshazzar. 08:20 And skeptics said for many, many years, 08:23 it is another evidence that the Bible is phony. 08:29 But then scholars, archeologists discovered this. 08:36 There it goes. 08:38 It says here. 08:39 Look at it, "The foundation cylinder 08:41 marking the restoration of the Temple of the Moon God 08:45 at Ur by King Nabonidus. 08:48 It ends with a prayer for him 08:51 and his son, Belshazzar." 08:56 And what actually happened was this 08:58 that Nabonidus got sick of it all, 09:00 he got sick of fighting congress in the senate 09:03 and he retired to the hill country 09:06 and his son took over the throne. 09:10 Now I want you to notice a very interesting text here. 09:14 I want you to come to Isaiah 45:1, my friends. 09:19 Isaiah 45:1 09:23 "Thus says the Lord to His anointed, to Cyrus, 09:28 whose right hand I have held to subdue nations before him 09:32 and loose the armor of kings, 09:33 to open before him the double doors, 09:36 so that their gates will not be shut." 09:40 I want you to think of this. 09:42 The Bible says come a man after Nebuchadnezzar 09:45 and his name was Cyrus 09:49 and he would be the person 09:50 who would overthrow the city of Babylon. 09:53 It says the gates would not be shut, 09:56 I want you to remember that. 09:58 This is interesting because 10:01 Cyrus did not operate until 150 years 10:07 after that text was written down by the prophet. 10:12 Did you know that? 10:14 This description of Cyrus by name 10:19 is written down in the Hebrew writings 10:23 more than 100 years before he was born. 10:29 And it says when Cyrus got to the place, 10:33 the gates would not shut. 10:36 Let me tell you, I got to tell you so much today. 10:40 Babylon was surrounded by tremendous walls. 10:44 I've been there in many occasions. 10:47 Four walls, total thickness of the wall 10:50 is about 80, 90, 100 feet. 10:53 And when the Medo-Persian army surrounded the city of Babylon, 10:58 they could not break down the walls. 11:02 But flowing through the heart of Babylon was this. 11:07 I want you to see this. 11:08 I want you to see this. 11:10 Gonna show it to you, here it comes the River Euphrates. 11:15 Now the story is told 11:17 and confirmed by one great historian 11:20 that when the armies of Cyrus saw that they could 11:24 not break down the walls, 11:27 they diverted the River Euphrates. 11:30 Now I want you to come in your Bible over here 11:32 to Isaiah 50:38, 39, 11:40 the Book of Jeremiah, 11:43 we are not talking about Isaiah. 11:45 We are coming over here 11:46 to Jeremiah 50:38, 39, 11:54 have you got that. 11:55 Jeremiah 50:38, 39 the Bible said, 12:00 "A drought is against her waters, 12:03 and they will be dried up. 12:05 For it is the land of carved images, 12:07 and they are insane with their idols. 12:10 There the wild desert beasts shall dwell there 12:15 with the jackals, 12:17 and the ostriches will dwell in it. 12:20 It will be inhabited no more forever, 12:23 nor will it be dwelt in from generation to generation." 12:26 History tells me, soldiers, Cyrus the Great, 12:31 diverted the River Euphrates and they actually marched down 12:35 the muddy banks into the River Euphrates 12:39 and they waited along the bed of the River Euphrates. 12:45 And when they came to the double gates 12:48 for the first time in Babylon's history, 12:52 the gates had not been locked. 12:55 Now you say to me, 12:57 "You know, I couldn't believe the Bible 12:59 because it's all faith." 13:00 We are not talking faith here today. 13:03 You want to hear what I'm saying. 13:05 We are not talking faith. 13:06 We are talking facts. 13:08 We are talking evidence. 13:10 This is not just pie in the sky in the sweet by and by. 13:13 We are talking evidence and facts now 13:16 and at the very same time that this was going on, 13:20 there was Belshazzar whose name is written down 13:23 in Nabonidus' inscription. 13:25 And then he was having this drunken feast 13:28 and the Bible tells me a bloodless hand came 13:32 and wrote on the wall of the palace 13:35 "mene, mene, tekel, upharsin." 13:39 And that was the end of the Babylonian Empire, 13:43 the Neo-Babylonian Empire 13:46 and then Babylon went down and down and down. 13:53 I have visited there many times. 13:56 On one occasion this is the Lion of Babylon. 14:00 In Bible prophecy Babylon is called the lion. 14:03 This is the Lion of Babylon 14:05 that you can see today in the city of Babylon. 14:08 Very hard to go there today. 14:10 When I was there was a television crew, 14:13 I went to Nebuchadnezzar's summer palace. 14:18 This is buddy my cameraman from Texas 14:22 and we climbed up into Nebuchadnezzar's summer palace. 14:30 Don't have time to tell you the story 14:32 but we were surrounded to seem by the Iraqi Army 14:36 and helicopter gunships over our heads. 14:41 We were carrying what looked like a bazooka. 14:45 It was a tripod, tripod case 14:48 and the colonel came to me he said, 14:49 "What on earth you're doing?" 14:50 "We told him what he said, 14:52 Well, you see the car over there 14:54 that's Saddam Hussein our president 14:59 and the CIA couldn't get close to him. 15:03 No, I'm telling you, he was over there. 15:06 They said, "What are you doing?" 15:08 We said, "We are here because we believe the Bible." 15:11 And another amazing thing happened when I was there. 15:15 In Nebuchadnezzar's summer palace, 15:17 we disturbed a little creature, 15:19 a jackal came running out of the ruins. 15:23 I stood there and I said to myself 15:25 "There is a God in heaven and the Bible is true. 15:28 "And I believe in the Bible not because 15:30 I was brought up to believe the Bible." 15:32 Want you to hear this. 15:34 I believe the Bible not because of blind faith, 15:38 I believe the Bible because of overwhelming evidence. 15:41 You hear what I'm saying today? Amen. 15:43 Now here you got it, there you got Nebuchadnezzar's palace. 15:48 This is where we met the soldiers of Saddam. 15:53 Along here Saddam came with his soldiers 15:58 and it is in the same, 16:00 in the same place that I disturbed a little jackal. 16:04 I want to tell you something today, 16:05 I have seen divine predictions fulfilled. 16:08 I believe in the Bible not because 16:11 I was brought up to believe in it. 16:13 I do not believe because of blind faith, 16:15 I believe in it because of the overwhelming evidence. 16:19 Amen. 16:20 You get it? 16:23 Well, now, we're going to talk about 16:27 the king's amazing dream. 16:30 The vision of the superman, okay. 16:37 Now I want you to come to the Book of Daniel. 16:41 This book was written we believe around 600 BC. 16:47 It's a very ancient book. 16:50 A portion of it was discovered in the Dead Sea Scrolls 16:55 and therefore we believe it goes back 16:57 many, many years before Christ. 17:01 Daniel 2:1-3 have you got it. 17:04 "Now in the second year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign..." 17:08 You say, "Sure there's a Nebuchadnezzar?" 17:10 Absolutely. 17:11 I've seen his name in the Cuneiform. 17:13 "Nebuchadnezzar had dreams, his spirit was troubled, 17:16 "so troubled that his sleep left him. 17:19 Then the king gave the command to call the magicians, 17:22 the astrologers, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans 17:25 to tell the king his dreams. 17:26 So they came and they stood before the king. 17:29 And the king said to them, 'I have had a dream, 17:31 and my spirit is anxious to know the dream.'" 17:33 It is self explanatory. 17:35 The king has a dream, it's like a nightmare. 17:38 It scares the daylight out of him 17:41 and he asks for the magicians, 17:44 the spiritualists and the philosophers, 17:47 the smart guys to come and tell him all about it. 17:50 Now look at Daniel 2:4-11. 17:54 "Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in Aramaic, 17:56 'O king, live forever! 17:58 Tell your servants the dream, 17:59 and we will give the interpretation.' 18:00 But the king answered and said to the Chaldeans, 18:02 'My decision is firm, 18:04 if you do not make known me to the dream 18:06 and its interpretation, you shall be cut in pieces, 18:10 and your houses shall be made an ash heap. 18:12 However, if you tell the dream and its interpretation, 18:15 you shall receive from me gifts, 18:17 rewards, and great honor. 18:18 Therefore tell me the dream and its interpretation.' 18:22 They answered again and said, 18:23 'Let the king tell his servants the dream, 18:26 and we will give its interpretation.' 18:28 The king answered and said, 18:30 'I know for certain that you would gain time, 18:32 because you see that my decision is firm, 18:36 if you do not make known the dream to me, 18:38 there is only one decree for you! 18:40 For you have agreed to speak lying 18:42 and corrupt words before me till the time has changed. 18:45 Therefore tell me the dream, 18:48 and I shall know that you can tell me the interpretation.' 18:51 The Chaldeans answered the king, and said, 18:54 'There is not a man on earth who can tell the king's matter, 18:57 therefore no king, lord, or ruler 18:59 has ever asked any such thing 19:02 of any magician, astrologer, or Chaldean. 19:05 It is a difficult thing that the king requests, 19:08 and there is none other who can tell it to the king 19:11 except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh." 19:17 Now let me tell you the story. 19:20 These men are shown to be what they are that they are phonies. 19:26 And so the king not being 19:28 a model of Christian charity says, 19:31 "We're gonna put them all to death." 19:35 Now listen to this. 19:38 In the wise man's union all these phonies, 19:44 they had placed a young man from Jerusalem 19:49 who had been brought to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar 19:52 when he overthrew Jerusalem in 605 BC. 19:56 His name was Daniel 20:00 and he is the star of this presentation. 20:06 They come to kill Daniel, the soldiers do. 20:10 Daniel says, "Why is the decree so hasty from the king, 20:15 give me time." 20:18 So the king says, "Okay, give you time." 20:21 Daniel goes, the Bible says and he prays 20:25 and Almighty God tells him what the king dreamed. 20:30 Not only does the Almighty God tell him what the king dreamed. 20:36 Who can know another man's dreams? 20:40 But he tells the king, 20:42 tells Daniel exactly what it means. 20:49 Now listen, 20:52 as you've never listened before. 20:56 Want to tell you folk something. 20:58 You say to me, "You got a lot of confidence?" 20:59 Yeah, I sure have because I have seen things. 21:06 I have seen the leaders of atheism 21:11 in Russia and Ukraine say 21:16 "We have no answer." 21:22 Would you be the judge, please, 21:26 and would you notice chapter 2 verse 24 to 28 21:32 in this book that is 2,600 years old 21:37 Daniel 2:24 onwards, 21:41 "Then Daniel went to Arioch, 21:44 whom the king had appointed 21:45 to destroy the wise men of Babylon. 21:48 He went and said thus to him, 21:49 'Do not destroy the wise men of Babylon, 21:52 take me before the king, 21:54 and I will tell the king the interpretation.'" 21:57 Then Arioch quickly brought Daniel before the king, 22:00 and said to him, 'I have found a man of the captives of Judah, 22:04 who will make known to the king the interpretation.' 22:07 The king answered and said to Daniel, 22:08 whose name was Belteshazzar, 22:12 'Are you able to make known to me the dream 22:15 which I have seen, and its interpretation?' 22:17 Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, 22:20 'The secret which the king has demanded, the wise men, 22:24 the astrologers, the magicians, and the soothsayers 22:27 cannot declare to the king. 22:30 But there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, 22:37 and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar 22:41 what will be in the latter days. 22:45 Your dream, 22:47 and the visions of your head upon your bed, were these." 22:53 Now listen carefully, look at me. 23:01 I believe the Bible not because of blind faith. 23:06 I was not brought up in a cloister or in a church. 23:13 I've met people who say, "Why do you believe the Bible?" 23:17 They say, "Well, I just believe." 23:20 That is a nonsense statement, 23:23 unworthy of anybody with any brain at all. 23:27 No wonder the skeptics and the atheist laugh 23:32 but I believe my, friend, because not of blind faith 23:38 but because of the evidence. 23:41 Now today, I've proven to you 23:46 that there is such a place as Babylon. 23:48 Once upon a time skeptics derived 23:50 that there was even a Babylon. 23:52 We know that there isn't was a Babylon. 23:56 We know today, it is in the very state 23:58 that the prophet said it would be in, 24:01 it is a hailing wilderness and a desolation. 24:05 I know that, I have seen that. 24:07 I have seen divine predictions fulfilled. 24:10 We know that there was a Nebuchadnezzar. 24:14 We know that. This is not faith. 24:16 Don't talk to me and say it is all airy-fairy. 24:20 No, no, no. It is the truth. 24:22 His name is written down in the inscriptions. 24:25 We know that there was a Belshazzar. 24:29 We know this. 24:30 We know that he was the son of Nabonidus. 24:33 We know this. 24:37 And we know that there was a Cyrus. 24:40 In the British Museum, I had the privilege 24:43 of going and inspecting. 24:45 We had it on the screen before, I'm not gonna put it up now. 24:51 It went past so fast because I forgot. 24:54 But in the British Museum, there is this beautiful, 24:58 beautiful, beautiful cylinder. 25:02 It talks about Cyrus 25:04 and how Cyrus defeated his enemies 25:08 and the Babylonians and how he let the people go free. 25:12 It's all written down. 25:14 You see... 25:18 It is written in the Bible 25:20 and it is written in the inscriptions 25:24 and mine eyes have seen the glory. 25:29 Now, what we are gonna do is this. 25:33 This is the Cyrus cylinder. 25:37 There it is, the Cyrus cylinder that actually talks about 25:43 his mighty exploits as in the Bible now. 25:49 Next time the story of the superman 25:55 and the history of the world 25:59 and the next president of the United States of the world. 26:12 I have just come from Russia via Switzerland 26:16 and I'm now in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. 26:20 This place has got huge memories for me 26:24 because back in '95 we ran a campaign in the city 26:28 and in spite of terrific opposition, 26:31 by the grace of God we baptized 26:33 3,530 precious souls 26:38 in the Dneiper River. 26:40 I'm back here today because I believe that 26:43 we need to take care of the people we baptized. 26:47 I don't believe it's right to baptize people 26:50 and then to walk away 26:52 and to leave them literally in the cold. 26:56 When I read my Bible, 26:58 I find where the Apostle Paul went back 27:01 time after time 27:02 to visit the people that he had baptized. 27:06 And so I'm back here today for the 43rd time 27:11 in Russia and Ukraine together to visit the people. 27:15 I'm back here to preach the gospel of Christ. 27:19 I'm back here to explain the Word of God 27:21 and let these people know that they are not forgotten 27:25 and never will be forgotten. 27:29 We believe that there is a tremendous opportunity 27:33 for the preaching of the gospel of Christ 27:36 in this part of the world. 27:38 The soul hunger still exists 27:42 and the Carter Report has got a goal 27:46 to take the gospel of Christ 27:48 to the people of Russia and the people of Ukraine. 27:52 I just want to say to you, dear friend, 27:54 my heart is overwhelmed with thankfulness 27:57 for your magnificent support. 28:00 Thank you in Jesus' name. 28:14 For a copy of today's program, please contact us 28:17 at P.O. 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