Participants: Pr. John Carter
Series Code: CR
Program Code: CR001607A
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00:13 The topic today is a great topic.
00:15 It's "Visitors from Other Worlds." 00:22 Are there other beings out there somewhere in space? 00:26 We're going to talk today, 00:28 and try to answer some of the biggest questions. 00:30 But we're going to talk about the mysteries of the Universe. 00:35 I have some terrific stuff for you, 00:38 and I loved presenting this material 00:41 to a vast crowd of atheists, sceptics, and unbelievers, 00:46 as I've done in Russia and Ukraine and other places. 00:49 We're going to try to answer, 00:51 and I believe successfully these questions. 00:54 Did the universe have a beginning? 00:57 What about the steady state theory 00:59 that has been believed 01:00 by virtually by all of the scientists 01:03 and to a relatively recently, You know what, 01:05 the steady state theory is, that was held by Einstein 01:08 and that was said 01:10 "The Universe always was there." 01:13 I want you to do this with your fingers. 01:16 Can you do this with your fingers, okay? 01:20 I see some of you folks aren't doing it. 01:23 It's gonna throw me off if your not doing, okay, 01:25 now I feel better, you are all doing it. 01:29 Did you know 01:30 that the remotest star in our universe 01:34 helps to make it possible for you do this, 01:39 and we're gonna talk about that today. 01:41 How big is the universe, is this the only universe? 01:46 And if you believe in God as I do, what is God like, 01:49 and what prophecies predict the return of the king 01:54 and visitors beyond time and space? 01:56 Let's get started, shall we? 02:01 The universe is very, very big. 02:07 We now know that the universe of large 02:10 and medium-sized galaxies, 02:13 consists of 200 billion galaxies, 02:19 and each galaxy is composed 02:22 of around 200 billion suns. 02:27 In the Milky Way system of which we are a tiny little part 02:30 but an important part, 02:32 there are 200 billion suns. 02:38 If you look at this picture here, 02:40 here you have one of the vast galaxies 02:44 and there are, how many? 02:45 200 billion of those in the universe. 02:51 Our planet is just a tiny little dot in the universe. 02:57 These amazing spots here, each of these is a galaxy. 03:06 How did it happen? Where did it come from? 03:10 Besides 200 billion medium and large galaxies 03:14 with an average of 200 billion stars, 03:19 there are 100 times more small galaxies, 03:25 all with billions and billions and billions of suns. 03:32 The number of suns in the universe, 03:34 I don't know if I can say this but it's... 03:37 it's a terrific figure, 03:39 it's 40 with zero and uh-hmm. 03:45 Now I can't say that number, I can't say that number 03:49 but that's the number of suns in the cosmos 03:54 plus billions of dwarfed galaxies 03:58 plus billions of planets plus comets 04:02 and black holes etc. 04:04 What I'm going to tell you now 04:05 is a relatively recent discovery. 04:08 This is almost too hard to believe. 04:12 What we see in the universe 04:14 is only 0.27% of the universe and you say, 04:20 "Well that's possibly because we do not have telescopes 04:25 that are big enough." 04:26 No, no, no, we have telescopes now 04:29 that can peer back to the very beginning of time. 04:33 The reason is this, listen carefully, 04:37 more than 99% of the universe 04:44 is not visible to our eyes. 04:47 It's even all around us, it's in this room, 04:50 it's in this studio. 04:53 More than 99% of the universe is composed of a material 04:59 that scientists now call "Dark Matter." 05:04 This Dark Matter is composed 05:06 of three different types of dark matter, 05:08 there is Ordinary Dark Matter 05:10 there is Exotic Dark Matter and there is Dark Energy. 05:16 And so, when we look at and we see these vast galaxies, 05:21 the billions and billions of great galaxies, 05:24 we are only seeing about 0.25 %, 05:29 because the vast, the vast amount of the universe 05:34 is composed of this mysterious stuff 05:37 that is called "Dark Matter". 05:44 Where did it all come from? 05:45 The atheist says, Richard Dawkins says, 05:49 the entire universe he says this vast universe all of this, 05:53 all of this he says and he says this with a straight face. 05:57 He said this in a debate with the great Christian professor 06:00 from Oxford University, Dr John Lennox, 06:03 he said "We believe it came from nothing," 06:08 he said "We believe that nothing made nothing, 06:11 which made Lennox say, you're a remarkable man of faith." 06:17 Would you please come in your Bible to Genesis 1:1, 06:22 my dear friends and I'm so glad that you're here today, 06:25 in our studio in beautiful Moorpark 06:27 in Southern California. 06:30 These words are the most important words 06:33 that have ever been uttered by a human being. 06:35 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, 06:41 so the Bible teaches 06:43 there was a time when there was nothing, 06:47 and then the Bible makes the extraordinary statement, 06:51 "In the beginning God created 06:54 heavens and the earth." 06:58 Let me talk for a moment about the Big Bang, 07:02 that most or some Christians 07:05 who don't understand astronomy are afraid of. 07:10 There's a remarkable picture of professor Hubble, 07:13 you've heard of Hubble, Hubble telescope, 07:16 and Einstein and they are having a meeting. 07:18 There you have the great professor Einstein, 07:21 here is the great professor Hubble 07:24 and before this meeting, listen to this, 07:28 Einstein, perhaps one of the greatest minds 07:31 that the human race has ever produced. 07:33 He believed in the Steady State theory, 07:37 almost every scientist believed in the Steady State Theory, 07:41 that is, the universe has always, always been there. 07:46 Matter is virtually eternal and then professor Hubble 07:52 showed to the great professor Einstein, 07:55 the Red Shift, 07:59 which you can see with your eyes, 08:02 and it shows that the universe in which we live 08:05 is exploding out at almost the speed of light, 08:10 and it shows that if, if it is moving out like this, 08:14 then it came 08:17 from virtually something smaller than a proton 08:22 with inconceivable energy. 08:26 And scientists say that this must be... 08:29 they were nonplussed, 08:32 they were staggering for words they said 08:34 "We will call it The Big Bang." 08:39 Virtually and it was, virtually all scientists now believe 08:42 that the universe has a beginning. 08:44 Now some of my dear Christian friends have a problem 08:49 with the concept of The Big Bang, 08:52 but they don't realize that this discovery 08:55 that was pointed out by Professor Hubble 08:58 to Professor Einstein is one of the greatest proofs 09:02 that this old book is absolutely true, 09:07 because it said "In the beginning 09:11 God created the heavens and the earth." 09:13 Do you know this there was a time when there was no time, 09:20 Mm-hmm, there was no matter and there was no space 09:24 and all in a tiny microsecond 09:30 they came this tremendous explosion 09:34 and in the beginning, 09:36 God created heavens and the earth. 09:42 Listen to this, some of said to me 09:48 "Well, if you believe in this point of time 09:52 and if you can measure it 09:54 as many as all the great scientists do 09:57 then you're forced to believe in evolution my friend." 10:04 Nothing is further than this idea from the truth, 10:11 the truth of a beginning at a relatedly, 10:15 I say relatively, in a recent time 10:19 is the greatest argument against evolution. 10:23 Now let me tell you why. 10:25 Let us think of a single cell. 10:29 Did you know that in your body, 10:31 you have trillions and trillions of cells? 10:35 Did you know that each cell, 10:38 each cell is more complex 10:40 than the city of the Los Angeles, 10:42 the chance of a cell, 10:43 this has been worked out by scientists mathematically. 10:46 The chance that a cell could somehow 10:49 spontaneously generate is 10 with 40000 zeros after it. 10:56 The total number of atoms in the universe is 10 with 80. 11:06 I wanna look you in the eye, I wanna say to the audience, 11:08 I wanna say to you today, the chance, 11:11 the idea that life can originate by itself 11:15 spontaneously is far-fetched ridiculous. 11:21 10 to 40,000, 11:25 where as in the whole of the universe, 11:26 you've only got that number of atoms. 11:32 It is beyond reason, it is a crazy idea 11:38 remember the saying, I hope I got it right, 11:42 if it walks like a duck, if it looks like a duck, 11:47 if it quacks like a duck, maybe, maybe my friend, 11:52 maybe it is a duck, you say, you see, 11:55 you know what we're saying. 11:57 Now listen to this, I wanna talk to you now 12:00 but something you're not gonna hear probably, 12:02 it any of a sort of meeting like this. 12:07 I don't even expect you to believe it, 12:11 but it is true. 12:13 It is absolutely scientist ahh, scientific, every time, 12:17 a great astronomer explains this to me and I said to him 12:23 "Do you believe, do you really believe this?" 12:25 He said "Well, every educated person does." 12:31 Alright, the fine tuning of the universe, 12:37 when the point of creation occurred, 12:40 four forces of nature came into being 12:43 that had not existed before, 12:45 what scientist call "The Big Bang." 12:47 How may forces? 12:49 Four let me tell you about them. 12:50 Number one is gravity, number two is electromagnetism, 12:57 number three, you can look this up in any scientific book, 13:00 the strong nuclear force, and the weak nuclear force. 13:04 These forces had not existed before the point of creation 13:09 that is described in Genesis 1:1, 13:12 have I lost you, you're still with me? 13:16 Listen to this, these four forces gravity, 13:20 electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force, 13:22 the weak nuclear force, 13:24 they didn't exist before the moment 13:27 that is called "The Big Bang" by scientists. 13:30 They came into being in a microsecond 13:33 after this tremendous explosion. 13:35 Listen to this, if they had been out of sink, 13:41 you know what I mean, 13:42 if they had been out of balance, 13:48 by one quadrillionth, that's one quadrillionth, 13:53 of one quadrillionth, of one quadrillionth, 13:56 of one quadrillionth, 13:57 of one quadrillionth, of one quadrillionth, 14:03 they wouldn't be no universe. 14:12 The universe has a fine tuning 14:16 such as human beings on this planet 14:19 cannot conceive or realize or replicate. 14:26 Dawkins said, 14:28 when was talking to the great professor John Lennox, 14:32 he says, "It looks or so, 14:35 it were intelligently designed." 14:39 Hmm, he said "But it's not, 14:41 it's not because there's no God," 14:44 but he said "It looks as though it were." 14:47 Now remember, if it looks like a duck, 14:53 walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, 14:56 if it swims like a duck 14:59 and the odds are it is a duck, you know. 15:03 Okay, that's the fine-tuning of those four forces. 15:06 The second one, I call "The old Gravity meter." 15:11 When I was a boy growing up in Brisbane, Australia, 15:15 We were not very wealthy, it was... 15:18 my parents had come out of the great depression, 15:20 most young people never even heard of that. 15:23 So we didn't have a lot of, you know, 15:25 we didn't have televisions in those days, nobody did, 15:28 but we had radios. 15:31 And we have a little radio that was called, 15:33 it was the joy of our home, it was called a "PeterPan" 15:38 and I used to listen to all the serials 15:40 at night-time. 15:41 The search for the golden boomerang and... 15:45 you folks never heard of this stuff. 15:47 Where have you been? 15:49 But it had a dial, you know what a radio dial is? 15:54 You turn it and it's got a line there 15:58 and it's got all the stations, 16:00 4BC and all these stations in Brisbane. 16:03 I would dial in so I could listen to my serials, 16:07 when I should have been doing my homework. 16:09 Now, what we gonna do now, 16:11 we're gonna have the gravity meter, 16:13 the gravity dial. 16:15 What I'm telling you is true. 16:18 You might say "I just don't believe this stuff." 16:21 What I'm telling you is scientifically true. 16:23 I want you to think of a line 16:26 and It's 100 billion miles away, 16:29 100 billion miles away like this 16:31 in fact it's trillions of miles across. 16:35 Think conceivable to our little finite minds 16:39 and you have the capacity to tune-in gravity. 16:44 You can dial it in. 16:46 Okay, billion miles this way, billion miles this way, 16:52 it's calibrated in inches. 16:54 This controls the gravity of the universe. 16:59 It sets on zero, if you go one inch to the left, 17:03 the world blows up and the universe blows up. 17:07 If you go one inch to the right, 17:09 the universe explodes or implodes, 17:14 nothing left. 17:17 We are sitting on a knife-edge. 17:22 That's why Dawkins, the world's greatest atheist said, 17:27 "It looks as though it were 17:29 intelligently designed." 17:34 Remember the dark. 17:36 Now let me talk to you about Dark Matter. 17:40 The number three in this fine-tuning, 17:41 I want to talk to you about Dark Matter. 17:45 Dark energy that we can't see, 17:48 we know it is there because we can measure it. 17:53 We can feel the force of the dark energy. 17:56 There is dark energy all around us we can't see it. 18:01 More than 99% of the universe not made of stars or planets, 18:05 things that we can see, it is made of this dark energy. 18:10 The dark energy 18:12 drives the expansion of the universe. 18:19 The universe is exploding out like this. 18:22 You say, "Well, I never heard this in Church," well, 18:25 we don't talk about this stuff in church, do we? 18:29 But the universe is expanding out like this, 18:32 you can actually see it going out. 18:38 If the universe goes too fast, 18:44 there will be an unheard of catastrophe. 18:48 Bu if it goes too slow, 18:51 there will be unheard of catastrophe also. 18:54 Now listen to this, listen to this, 18:59 the dark energy that drives the universe 19:02 is fine-tuned to one part to 10 to 120. 19:08 The number of atoms in the universe 19:10 is 10 to 80. 19:15 This means, 19:20 that someone a mighty mind 19:25 is behind it all. 19:29 I could not be an atheist, 19:33 I could not be an honest atheist 19:36 and believe that these are the odds, 19:43 considering the driving force 19:45 behind the expansions of the universe. 19:49 Look at that figure, 19:51 remember the dark but remember something else. 19:55 The chance of this happening by itself 19:59 is like a man who is blind, 20:03 he is deaf and he is wearing gloves, 20:08 this is true. 20:12 This is the sand on one of our beaches, 20:14 but I'm not talking about one of our beaches, 20:16 I'm talking about sand in all the world, 20:20 and the sand on the Moon, in Mars, 20:24 and the 200 billion galaxies. 20:28 I'm talking about 20:30 that vast incomprehensible amount of sand. 20:38 And somebody has taken one grain of sand 20:41 and marked it. 20:47 One grain of sand and marked it and you have, 20:52 you're blind, you're wearing gloves, 20:55 you stumble, and you're told, 21:00 "Go and find the marked piece of sand." 21:06 They are the same odds. 21:10 So I want to say to the people watching the telecast, 21:13 I don't believe in God 21:15 because I was brought up to believe in God. 21:17 I don't believe in God because I have just got faith. 21:21 I don't have a lot of sympathy, 21:23 intellectually for a person that says, 21:24 "Oh, I just have faith, I believe, well, you know, 21:28 Dawkins has got faith too, 21:30 he has got faith in these silly ideas. 21:32 But what I want you to know is this, 21:36 that there is overwhelming evidence 21:38 why a thinking person can believe 21:41 that there is a creator who made it all. 21:46 Now the Bible teaches did you know this, 21:49 that the universe had a beginning 21:50 and the universe will have an ending. 21:53 Oh, you say "No the universe can't have an ending," 21:55 oh, I'm sorry the Bible teaches, 21:56 "The universe had a beginning 21:58 and the universe is going to have an ending." 22:00 I'm going to come in the Bible over here to 2nd Peter 3:10. 22:03 I want you to take the Bible 22:05 and come over here to 2nd Peter 3:10. 22:09 2nd Peter 3:10 says, 22:14 "But the day of the Lord will come 22:16 as a thief in the night, 22:19 in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, 22:22 and the elements will melt with fervent heat, 22:25 both the earth and the works that are in it 22:28 will be burned up." 22:30 Then if we count to 3:12, 22:33 "Looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, 22:35 because of which the heavens will be dissolved, 22:38 being on fire, 22:39 and the elements will melt with fervent heat. 22:43 Nevertheless, we according to his promise, 22:46 look for new heavens and a new earth 22:49 in which righteousness dwells." 22:54 So if I'm reading my Bible with an open mind, 22:58 it seems to me to teach 22:59 that the whole universe is going to be replaced. 23:05 And I'm going to tell you why it has to be? 23:10 Every scientist in the world, Christian, Atheist, 23:14 Buddhist, Muslim, believes that we believe, 23:18 we live in an expanding universe, 23:22 blasting out at almost the speed of light. 23:27 The day will come when the Galaxies 23:30 and the Suns and the Moons and the stars, 23:33 will be so far apart that they will blink out. 23:36 But before this happens God is going to step in 23:41 and create a new heaven and a new earth. 23:47 You see, 23:49 we think that God some how is a part of our universe 23:53 in this 200 billion galaxies, plus the other ones. 23:57 But God existed before and outside of our universe. 24:02 God was not in time, The Bible says, 24:05 "He made it and so he was outside of this." 24:09 Now do this again. 24:12 Got to tell you something, pretty hard to believe, 24:14 I may just discover this. 24:16 I've been doing a lot of research on this 24:18 for 20 years. 24:21 What you're doing here is that, you are overcoming Inertia. 24:26 Inertia is the tendency of an object to remain at rest 24:32 and once it's moving 24:34 to keep going in the same speed. 24:36 If Inertia was different, you couldn't do this. 24:45 You perhaps would need muscles, 24:47 huge muscles to do it and once you started doing it, 24:50 you couldn't stop your fingers. 24:52 It would mean that you could go to a boulder, 24:56 say there's a huge boulder 24:58 and you could puff on the boulder 25:00 and it would just blow away. 25:03 The world would be tremendously chaotic, 25:06 if we did not have this inertia worked out properly. 25:12 I'm gonna read you something, 25:14 "Physicists now propose that, "The inertia of forces 25:19 experienced by objects on earth, are generated 25:26 by the total combined gravitational attraction 25:29 of all matter in the Cosmos, 25:32 including the most distant stars and galaxies." 25:36 You couldn't do this, without the help of a galaxy 25:43 which is at trillion miles away. 25:48 And your hand 25:49 was made to do it. 25:55 This is a dime. 25:59 I'm gonna tell you about the dime and God. 26:03 Go to take a break, We'll be back, 26:07 we're talk about the dime and God, 26:11 amazing, amazing discoveries. 26:23 Hello friends, I'm John Carter, in Russia. 26:27 This is my 43rd visit to this land 26:31 and I come not for this weather, 26:34 but to preach the Gospel of Christ. 26:37 The need here is tremendous. 26:40 The first big campaign was in the year 1991, 26:44 in the great city of Moscow, 26:46 followed by a mighty campaign here in 1992 26:52 in Nizhny Novgorod, 26:55 when in the Volga river 2,530 souls 27:01 were Baptized into Jesus Christ. 27:05 The need here has not lessened. 27:08 The people are crying out for God. 27:11 I'm asking you today, in the name of Jesus, 27:16 please support us 27:17 in the preaching of the Gospel of Christ 27:21 to the Russian people. 27:23 Please write to me John Carter, 27:26 P.O.Box 1900 Thousand Oaks, CA 91358. 27:33 In Australia, you can write to me at the address, 27:37 now appearing on the screen at Terrigal. 27:41 I'm here my friend 27:43 to bring Christ to the Russian people. 27:47 Already we have seen 27:49 the mighty outpouring of the spirit of God. 27:52 We have seen hundreds of thousands of people 27:57 come to Christ in Russia. 28:00 Please write to me John Carter, 28:02 post office box 1900, Thousand Oaks, CA 91358. 28:08 In Australia, write to me at, Terrigal. 28:11 In the name of God, please support this work. 28:25 For a copy of today's program, 28:27 please contact this at PO box 1900, 28:30 Thousand Oaks, CA 91358 28:35 or in Australia, contact us at P.O. 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