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Series Code: LM
Program Code: LM000155A
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00:30 My name is Jeff Reich,
00:31 and I'm the director of Laymen Ministries. 00:34 It's been about 10 years since we first conceived, 00:36 then later started producing a documentary series 00:39 called The Days of Noah. 00:41 After traveling thousands of miles to shoot film 00:43 at geological and archaeological sites, 00:46 and to interview scientists, historians, and theologians, 00:49 I'm excited to tell you that all four films are finished 00:52 and are now available to order. 00:54 On this program, we would like to share with you 00:56 just a few short excerpts from each one of the films 00:59 to give you an idea what the series is about. 01:02 Now let's preview The Days of Noah. 01:09 One of the most unique and beautiful features 01:10 of the Grand Canyon 01:12 are the various different colored sedimentary layers 01:14 that run along the canyon walls for miles. 01:16 These layers are made up of sandstone and limestone, 01:18 and that's what creates that rainbow in the rocks. 01:21 It's one of the things that makes the Grand Canyon 01:23 so awesome to look at. 01:26 But not only these layers unique to the Grand Canyon, 01:28 they give us our greatest clue on how the canyon was formed. 01:36 The rock layers that we see everywhere on the Earth 01:39 are generally in layers. 01:42 The sedimentary rocks 01:44 are almost all deposited by water. 01:48 We see the rock layers 01:50 consist of turbidites washed in material 01:54 and with a catastrophism 01:55 that was going on would have turbiditic action 01:59 and the washing in of material. 02:01 So water brings mud or sand, or even coarser materials, 02:06 carries it and deposits it in a layer. 02:09 That's typically how the rocks in the geologic column form. 02:14 And then there are different kinds of sediments, 02:16 so they end up making rocks 02:17 that look very different right on top of each other. 02:20 But there is a question of this one layer formed 02:25 and then how much time passed 02:26 until the next layer came on top of it. 02:29 The commonly held belief is that over millions of years, 02:32 an ocean advanced over the entire continent 02:34 and deposited a sedimentary layer, 02:36 and then we treated leaving the ground dry once again. 02:40 In this dry period lasting tens of millions of years, 02:43 the sediment would have been exposed 02:44 to weathering and erosion. 02:46 And if it just sits there 02:48 without being covered up fairly quickly, 02:51 then a lot of things happen, plants grow on it, 02:54 roots go down through it, animals burrow through it, 02:56 flowing water will carve channels, 02:59 and, you know, gullies through it. 03:01 And so it doesn't just stay undisturbed. 03:05 Tens of millions of years of weathering and erosion 03:08 would create an enormous amount of uneven terrain 03:10 between these two layers such as hills and valleys. 03:12 But this is not what we see. 03:14 There's a little variation between these layers. 03:17 They're extremely flat. 03:20 And these time spans are supposedly occurred 03:23 between two layers, it can be 10 million years, 03:26 it can be 15 million, 03:28 they can be up to 150 million years, 03:29 like you see at one place in the Grand Canyon, 03:32 in deposits in the Grand Canyon. 03:34 You'd expect a whole lot of erosion, 03:37 and in fact, so much erosion, 03:40 that the whole record should be gone a long time ago. 03:45 Average rates of erosion 03:47 are about 61 millimeters per thousand years. 03:51 With the same rate of erosion 03:52 of 61 millimeters per thousand years, 03:55 we should now be looking for 300 feet of erosion, 03:58 not 3,000 feet of erosion. 04:00 But 30,020 feet of erosion 04:02 over a period of 150 million years. 04:06 All the sedimentary layers in the Grand Canyon combined 04:09 should have eroded six times over. 04:11 And yet these layers are flat 04:14 telling us that these layers were deposited 04:16 rapidly in quick succession. 04:19 So is it realistic to think that 150 million years passed 04:23 and nothing happened to this layer. 04:25 It was not eroded out into to serious gullies, 04:29 and it looks much more likely that there wasn't that time 04:32 in between those different layers. 04:35 The weather is always changing, 04:36 and the surface of the Earth is always changing with it. 04:39 Thunderstorms, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, 04:42 and wind among other factors are always... 05:06 The entire surface of the Earth 05:08 had been changed by a water-based catastrophe. 05:10 And this overwhelming evidence can't be erased or removed. 05:13 So in the minds of those that rejected the flood story, 05:16 it needed to be reinterpreted, and this is how it happened. 05:23 All during the Middle Ages, 05:26 some factors in society were very autocratic, 05:32 and dogmatic, and persecuting people, 05:35 making life very hard for people suppressing them. 05:38 And what were those agencies who were doing that? 05:40 Well, it was governments and the church. 05:43 One of the greatest things that man wants to have 05:48 over man is power. 05:50 In the Middle Ages, the church ruled the world. 05:54 Seeing the abusive power that had prevailed over Europe, 06:00 they utterly rejected the Catholic Church, 06:02 which of course, in their mind 06:05 meant that they utterly rejected Christianity. 06:08 And so that gave rise to a more atheistic-minded society. 06:14 And the mindset of man says, 06:16 "Well, what was this restricting force?" 06:19 The restricting force 06:21 to any mind expansion was God. 06:26 And therefore, let's get rid of Him. 06:28 Let's get rid of God so that we can grow intellectually, 06:33 and that's what they did in the French Revolution. 06:36 Instead of holding the masses 06:37 in blind submission toward dogmas, 06:40 Rome's work resulted in making them 06:42 infidels and revolutionists. 06:44 They regarded her greed and cruelty 06:47 as the fruit of the Bible, 06:48 and they would have none of it. 06:50 Rome had misrepresented the character of God. 06:53 And now men rejected both the Bible and its author. 06:57 This led to the French Revolution. 06:58 And ultimately, 07:00 the complete removal of the churches power, 07:02 it had maintained over the people 07:04 for more than 1,000 years. 07:06 In the French National Assembly, 07:08 the mob of revolutionaries declared only reason 07:11 should be worshiped. 07:12 They revealed a beautiful woman adorned in blue drapery 07:16 and proclaimed her the Goddess of Reason. 07:20 And they enshrined 07:23 the Goddess of Reason. 07:26 And reason took the place of faith in God. 07:31 They carried this woman on a car to Notre-Dame, 07:35 destroyed the church and preached atheism 07:37 to the masses inside the church every week. 07:41 The French people responded to the many centuries 07:43 of Roman Catholic oppression and persecution 07:46 by establishing a new form of government. 07:48 Instead of a nation with a Christian worldview, 07:50 how be it perverted and ruled 07:52 by the Catholic Church at the time, 07:54 the society was formed with an atheistic worldview, 07:57 absent of any Christian influence, 07:59 and this was called The Age of Enlightenment. 08:08 The Bible tells us, 08:09 Noah was a preacher of righteousness, 08:11 and the gospel reveals the righteousness of God, 08:14 which simply means that Noah was preaching the gospel. 08:17 It also means that at the end of time 08:19 when the first angel is seen 08:21 proclaiming the everlasting gospel 08:23 that this angel is repeating the message 08:25 Noah gave to the world before the flood. 08:28 And because we are again living in the judgment hour, 08:31 the gospel must once again be given to the world 08:34 to bring everyone to a decision. 08:36 "For the time is come 08:38 that judgment must begin at the house of God. 08:41 And if it first begin at us, 08:43 what shall the end be of them 08:45 that obey not the gospel of God." 08:47 Peter tells us judgment 08:49 will come to believers and nonbelievers alike, 08:52 and our acceptance or rejection of the gospel 08:54 will determine our fate 08:55 when the judgment is finally executed. 08:58 The Apostle Paul answers his own question 09:00 regarding what will happen to those who reject the gospel. 09:04 "The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven 09:07 with his mighty angels in flaming fire 09:09 taking vengeance on them that know not God, 09:12 and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ." 09:16 In other words, when the gospel is preached, 09:18 the gospel divides human beings into two groups, 09:21 those who accept and those who reject. 09:24 And so the message of Noah was a message of judgment 09:28 because when he finished preaching His message, 09:31 how many groups were there? 09:33 There were two groups when He finished preaching, 09:35 those that were inside and those that were outside. 09:38 When the message at the end of time is finished, 09:43 the world will be divided into two groups. 09:46 And therefore, the warning back then 09:49 is a warning for us today. 09:51 The gospel message in the days of Noah 09:53 was a call to enter into the ark. 09:55 When we look at the word ark, 09:57 it's defined as a shelter or refuge. 10:00 So the principle behind the gospel in the days of Noah 10:02 was the invitation to enter into a place of refuge. 10:06 So what is the place of refuge for God's people today? 10:09 Again, when we look at the word ark, 10:11 it's also defined by the Oxford dictionary 10:14 as a vessel or a sanctuary. 10:17 Interestingly, the word sanctuary 10:19 is also defined as a place of refuge. 10:22 So an ark and a sanctuary are the same thing. 10:25 This is important for us to understand 10:27 because God gave man a sanctuary 10:29 to be a place of refuge. 10:32 "Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, 10:35 but yield yourselves unto the Lord, 10:37 and enter into His sanctuary, 10:39 which He hath sanctified for ever. 10:41 And serve the Lord your God, 10:43 that the fierceness of His wrath 10:44 may turn away from you." 10:46 The everlasting gospel proclaimed 10:48 by the first angel's message 10:49 is like the gospel Noah preached. 10:51 It was a call to enter into the place of refuge. 10:54 Every component of the sanctuary 10:56 teaches us about the everlasting gospel, 10:59 and by studying this ancient structure, 11:01 we will discover how it will provide a place of refuge 11:04 in the Day of Judgment, 11:05 and how like the gospel message given by Noah, 11:09 the sanctuary is pointing us to the ark 11:12 for God's people at the end of time. 11:15 And the message has the everlasting gospel. 11:18 I like that because some people think the gospel 11:19 did not come until Jesus. 11:21 But the gospel really began 11:23 back at the fall in the Garden of Eden. 11:25 It's always been the gospel of trusting 11:28 in the sacrifice of the lamb. 11:30 And the entire message 11:34 of the everlasting gospel and the final judgment 11:38 and the final choice is linked with the sanctuary message. 11:44 In the Old Testament, 11:45 the lamb was killed at the entrance of the sanctuary. 11:48 This sacrifice pointed forward 11:50 to the sacrifice Jesus would make on the cross 11:52 and this is why Jesus is called the Lamb of God. 11:56 Therefore, the gospel was not first proclaimed by Jesus 12:00 when He came to Earth, 12:01 it was revealed centuries earlier 12:03 through the sanctuary service and its symbols. 12:11 Each article finished in a sanctuary 12:15 symbolized a particular aspect of the plan of salvation. 12:20 There's a lot of biblical truth 12:21 that is reflected in those three dimensional symbols. 12:25 And the whole sanctuary really is, 12:27 it's an allegory of salvation. 12:29 It is difficult to comprehend the dynamics of the gospel 12:34 without understanding the foundation. 12:38 It had the purpose of teaching Israel and teaching us 12:41 as we study of how Jesus step by step saves human beings 12:47 from the curse of sin. 12:57 Just as the multitude stood before the ark 12:59 contemplating the final decision 13:01 that would seal their fate, 13:02 so you today stand in the valley of decision. 13:05 Will you receive the message 13:06 of Noah repeated by the three angels' messages? 13:09 Will you enter into the ark of the everlasting covenant 13:11 by resting upon the seventh-day 13:13 observing the sign of the covenant? 13:15 Will you be among those who keep the commandments of God 13:18 and the faith of Jesus, or will you be among those 13:21 who keep the commandments of men. 13:23 The mark of the beast crisis will come 13:26 and it will bring all to a decision 13:28 and then probation will close as it says in scripture, 13:31 "Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision, 13:34 for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision." 13:45 After the seven last plagues, 13:47 the next event is that blessed hope 13:49 and the glorious appearing 13:51 of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ. 13:53 For centuries, Christians have talked of 13:56 dreamed about in long for that day 13:58 when they shall look upon the face of Him 14:00 who died to redeem them. 14:01 And now that time has come. 14:04 But will you be ready to meet Him? 14:13 So when Christ presence comes again, 14:15 when Christ comes the second time, 14:18 we're told that this Earth will basically be left 14:23 in a state that is uninhabitable 14:26 because of the fire and the presence of God. 14:29 "Our God is a consuming fire. 14:32 When He returns to the Earth, Paul writes, 14:35 "The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven 14:37 with his mighty angels in flaming fire." 14:40 He will return as a consuming fire 14:43 because Jesus will not only come 14:45 as the human being that He was when He walked upon this Earth, 14:49 He will come as King of kings and Lord of lords. 14:52 In other words, His glory will no longer be veiled. 15:05 Overwhelmed with a vision of Christ coming to Earth, 15:07 Isaiah wrote, 15:09 "Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? 15:11 Who among the shall dwell with everlasting burnings?" 15:14 And this is the question we're each faced with 15:17 as we prepare to dwell 15:18 in the consuming fire price presence that is coming. 15:21 But after Isaiah asked, 15:22 "Who can dwell with the devouring fire?" 15:24 He answered His question and says, 15:27 "He that walketh righteously." 15:29 Only the righteous can safely dwell in the presence of God. 15:32 This means the message Noah gave to prepare our people 15:35 for the judgment of the world by water, 15:37 it's the same message that will prepare people 15:39 for the judgment of the world by fire 15:42 because Noah was a preacher of righteousness. 17:39 The rainbow of the everlasting covenant 17:41 is just as much a promise of mercy to preserve us 17:44 through the destruction of the world by fire 17:47 as it was to preserve Noah 17:49 through the destruction of the world by water. 17:54 If a person's ever been out on the ocean 17:56 in a severe storm, it's terrifying. 17:59 Yet, Noah was preserved 18:01 in the midst of this incredible tribulation. 18:04 And the confidence that he protected Noah 18:06 through that reminds us that He can preserve us 18:10 through that storm that's coming. 18:17 Even when the seventh plague is falling 18:20 and the mountains are being swallowed up by the sea, 18:23 He said my promise to preserve you 18:25 during that time still stands. 18:28 "God is our refuge and strength, 18:30 a very present help in trouble. 18:32 Therefore will not we fear, though the Earth be removed, 18:36 and though the mountains 18:38 be carried into the midst of the sea. 18:40 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, 18:43 though the mountain shake with the swelling thereof." 19:39 You see Noah moving from an old world to a new world 19:44 based upon the covenant that was made. 19:46 This is the same thing that God wants to do with us 19:49 the covenant is designed to move us 19:52 from an old world to a new world. 19:55 Though the first world was destroyed by water, 19:58 the world the second time will be destroyed by fire. 20:01 And Peter implies then, 20:02 but we look for a new heaven and new Earth, 20:04 meaning we will survive that destruction. 20:08 We're going to survive that fire. 20:10 In the book of Isaiah, 20:11 God speaks about creating a new heavens and a new Earth. 20:15 The whole story of what happened 20:16 with Noah and what happens in the last days, 20:19 it's all about how to get back to the garden. 20:21 He wants to restore paradise for man 20:24 and purity to the universe. 20:25 The new Earth will be a place where, 20:28 according to the book of Revelation, 20:30 there'll be no more tears, no more crying, no more sin, 20:33 no more death or suffering. 20:35 In other words, everything will be perfect. 20:37 The world will return to the condition 20:39 it was in before sin. 20:41 There will be no thorns, will be no death, 20:44 no thing in nature that reflects anything impure 20:49 or anything that the case or dies. 20:51 Weather patterns will be perfect, 20:53 there'll be no pain, no suffering, no sorrow. 20:55 And so the Earth itself 20:57 will indeed be a pure reflection 21:00 of the very glory and character of God. 21:03 "And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, 21:06 Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, 21:10 and He will dwell with them, 21:11 and they shall be His people, 21:13 and God Himself shall be with them and be their God." 21:18 His sanctuary will be with us, God will live with us. 21:22 We see in Revelation, there is no temple. 21:24 There is no more need of a labor. 21:27 There is no more need of the altar of incense, 21:31 the table of showbread, the candlesticks, 21:33 all of these sorts of things 21:35 because that has been completed. 21:37 And so that was going to be often purpose of the sanctuary 21:40 how God ultimately will dwell with His people. 21:51 God desires and God will make this place a new Earth, 21:56 but only those who accept the covenant 21:59 and will get into the ark 22:01 will be alive to get out of the ark 22:03 and see it when it happens. 22:09 The events that took place in Noah's day 22:12 foreshadowed the events 22:13 that are going to take place at the end of time. 22:18 History's repeating itself. 22:19 I'm sure the Lord looks down from heaven now. 22:22 Jesus said as it was in the days of Noah 22:24 so will it be in the days of the Son of Man. 22:27 And we're seeing that in the world today. 22:29 The violence in the land, 22:31 the selfishness, the self-worship. 22:36 They weren't paying attention 22:37 and they didn't know that the flood was going to come, 22:41 despite 120 years of preaching. 22:49 We have the remains of 10,000 or more dinosaurs, 22:52 it certainly speaks of catastrophe. 22:55 The Earth itself is both a record and the prophecy 22:58 warning us of another judgment still to come. 23:01 But when? 23:05 The judgment is not which determines 23:08 who will be ready for Jesus when He comes, 23:11 and who will not. 23:12 And the everlasting gospel and the final judgment 23:15 and the final choice is linked with the sanctuary message. 23:20 Then shall the sanctuary be cleansed. 23:24 This prophecy was being fulfilled. 23:26 It was being announced 23:27 that the hour of God's judgment had come. 23:32 "And that no man might buy or sell, 23:35 save he that had the mark." 23:38 Own your hands. 23:40 The real parallel between the days of Noah 23:42 and the end of time 23:43 is found in the moment when the door closed. 23:46 All had chosen to accept or reject the promise of mercy. 23:50 Let's look at it exploded view of these last day events. 23:52 You have to choose between one or the other. 23:55 So that choice will come. 23:59 So our God is a consuming fire. 24:01 And so the whole purpose is how can I get man 24:04 to again stand in my presence without being destroyed, 24:08 without being consulted. 24:09 "And let them make me a sanctuary 24:11 that I may dwell among them." 24:13 As that angel is flying, 24:15 it's pointing to the most holy place. 24:17 God wants to dwell in His people, 24:20 but He cannot dwell in them while they hold on to sin. 24:25 And now is the time 24:26 when people need to prepare to meet their God. 24:32 God ultimately doesn't want to consume us, 24:34 He wants to consume sin but not us. 24:49 At the end of time, 24:50 there are three warnings given to man 24:51 that immediately proceed the Second Coming of Christ. 24:54 These warnings are given by three angels 24:57 and have become known as the Three Angels' Messages. 25:04 "And to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people 25:07 saying with a loud voice, fear God and give glory to Him, 25:11 for the hour of His judgment is come. 25:14 And worship Him that made heaven, and Earth, 25:16 and the sea, and the fountains of waters." 25:19 Now that can only point back to the flood. 25:25 Saying, Babylon is fallen, it's fallen that... 25:29 Revelation 18 picks up by saying, 25:31 "Come out of her, my people." 25:36 And with a light from these prophecies, 25:38 we are able to identify the system called Babylon. 25:45 In order to go through this period of severe trial, 25:49 God's people have to be sealed. 25:51 How do we avoid the mark of the beast? 25:53 By entering in by faith into the most holy place. 25:57 And that will be the last opportunity 26:01 for man to reconcile with God. 26:07 The very fact that Noah sacrificed the lamb 26:10 that it was a sign of appealing for redemption. 26:16 And even though the Earth was imploding 26:19 during the time of the flood, 26:21 He preserved Noah, 26:23 and He ratified that with a bow of promise. 26:25 God says that he's going to do that 26:26 for God's people in the last days. 26:33 How it must feel not to be on the ark 26:36 in the phase of God's judgment. 26:40 The story of the ark basically parallels 26:44 the Three Angels' Messages. 26:46 It's the message of Noah. 26:47 And it is a message that actually prepares the world 26:49 for the coming of Christ. 26:53 Not the flood this time 26:55 but the fire of destruction is going to be on the wicked. 26:57 So our message is the same thing, 26:59 get into the arc. 27:01 So the same message that we have here 27:04 in the Genesis account must be preached 27:06 at the end of time as well. 27:16 This series has been a major undertaking 27:18 to say the least, and the outcome, 27:20 well, you will have to watch the whole series 27:23 to really know. 27:24 If you'd like to order 27:25 the complete series of Days of Noah, 27:27 visit www.TheDaysOfNoah.com. 27:32 That's www.TheDaysOfNoah.com 27:35 to purchase a blu-ray or DVD set. 27:38 You can also order over the phone 27:39 by calling our bookstore at 1-800-245-1844. 27:44 On behalf of all of us at Laymen Ministries, 27:46 I just want to thank you 27:48 for your prayers and support over the years. 27:50 And we hope that you will find the days of Noah 27:52 to be a useful evangelistic tool. 27:54 God bless. |
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