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• 00:02 Everybody today is worried about Israel for a lot of reasons.
• 00:05 But we don't worry about Israel because that's God's problem
• 00:07 because He that keepeth Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
• 00:10 We pray for Israel because we're instructed to.
• 00:12 I tremble...for America.
• 00:14 The America that used to stand for freedom and liberty is a thing of the past...
• 00:19 I might say the myth of the past.
• 00:28 This know also that in the last days perilous times shall come.
• 00:34 Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse
• 00:38 deceiving and being deceived.
• 00:42 But continue in the Holy Scriptures
• 00:44 which are able to make thee wise unto salvation
• 00:48 through faith in Christ Jesus.
• 01:05 Shalom and welcome to our program.
• 01:07 I'm Myles Weiss
• 01:08 And I'm Katharine Weiss
• 01:09 And today we are going to be speaking about...
• 01:11 Where is America in Bible prophecy?
• 01:13 That is a question that I hear all the time.
• 01:15 Is America in the end times?
• 01:17 Where do we fit in?
• 01:18 How does it work that if Israel is the center of God's universe
• 01:21 then where is America?
• 01:23 And I want you to be listening during these programs.
• 01:25 Listen for the hope that is in the message
• 01:28 because you're going to hear some heavy things
• 01:31 but we need to know that this is a call to prayer;
• 01:33 it's a call to know the LORD
• 01:35 and it's a call to prepare for the days that are coming.
• 01:37 We have a distinguished panel
• 01:39 from a recent prophecy conference
• 01:41 that's going to help us to understand the relationship
• 01:43 between America and Israel and the end times.
• 01:46 Right, we as Christians are going somewhere.
• 01:49 This is not the "be all", "end all" America.
• 01:52 Obviously we're going to be praying for America
• 01:54 and believing God for His restoration of the people of God
• 01:58 to turn their hearts to Him.
• 02:00 But in Haggai 2:6 it says
• 02:02 that everything that can be shaken will be shaken
• 02:05 until the desire of all nations, which is Him, turn to Him.
• 02:09 So in this time of shaking know that there's a purpose in it.
• 02:12 It's that we would turn our hearts to Him.
• 02:15 Now let's go and hear from our distinguished panel.
• 02:23 Where is America in Bible Prophecy?
• 02:25 When I go to Bible Prophecy conferences or I'm on the radio
• 02:27 when people can call in and ask questions
• 02:30 even if you're talking about a totally unrelated subject
• 02:32 the number one question you always get is,
• 02:34 where's America in prophecy?
• 02:36 Now I've never been asked where is Uruguay in Bible prophecy
• 02:38 or where is Brazil or Canada.
• 02:40 Everybody wants to know about America
• 02:42 because we're the greatest economic political military power that's ever existed.
• 02:46 So I look at the different passages
• 02:49 where people try to find America in the Bible
• 02:51 and I don't believe America is mentioned
• 02:53 either, certainly explicitly, but even under any of these other veiled references.
• 02:58 So I think America is missing from the Bible.
• 03:01 Well when you study Bible prophecy and start looking at the end of the age
• 03:06 the European Union, a revived Roman empire some people call it,
• 03:10 is the dominant group of nations in the world
• 03:12 and if America is in Bible prophecy that's debatable.
• 03:16 Some think they see it in some of the symbols
• 03:20 but you can debate whether they do or not.
• 03:23 So the European Union is going to replace America.
• 03:26 And the anti-Christ is going to rise to power in the European Union.
• 03:31 People will say America is Babylon the Great
• 03:33 or America is the unnamed nation in Isaiah 18
• 03:36 or the young lions of Tarshish
• 03:38 or these different places.
• 03:40 And I look at all those and I find America missing
• 03:43 which some would say,
• 03:44 well America is missing as a lot of other countries are.
• 03:46 But I think us being the greatest power that has existed on earth
• 03:49 the fact we're not mention is significant.
• 03:53 I think it means something has happened to America
• 03:55 and power is shifted to Europe, to the Far East, to the Middle East.
• 03:59 And I look at different scenarios of how that can take place.
• 04:02 Economically we see a rush toward one world order.
• 04:05 We've seen this really since the latter part of 2008 and the beginning of 2009 and on
• 04:11 where it just seems that there's a big movement toward globalism.
• 04:16 We have a president who seems bent on bringing the United States into that globalism
• 04:22 and then we're headed that way very quickly.
• 04:25 And it seems that in answer to my question of the subtitle
• 04:30 "Is the United States in Bible Prophecy?"...
• 04:32 well I think it is to an extent
• 04:36 in that the question that's always asked is well what happens to the United States?
• 04:40 And I think that we see something that happens to the United States
• 04:44 in that we're losing economic power quite quickly and being forced into a global mold.
• 04:51 So geo-economically we see things developing.
• 04:56 About 13 or 14 years ago I wrote that there would be an economic collapse.
• 05:00 And it wasn't new with me.
• 05:03 I had studied some of the writings of Dr. Billy Graham and, Dr. Grant Jeffrey,
• 05:08 and Dr. John Hagee and some of the others.
• 05:10 I believe Revelations 6 verses 5 and 6
• 05:14 the rider on the black horse:
• 05:16 that's economic collapse and famine.
• 05:18 So I've been teaching for years
• 05:19 that there will be economic collapse and famine
• 05:22 during the tribulation period after the rapture of the church.
• 05:24 But because I have taught that it will be during the tribulation period
• 05:28 and after the rapture of the church
• 05:30 I've told people, that doesn't mean that we won't have economic problems before then
• 05:33 and that world leaders won't try to control economic problems
• 05:38 with stimulus checks and bailouts and interest cuts and these kinds of things.
• 05:42 Many times what people will want to ask me is
• 05:44 "Is the nation going to go bankrupt?"
• 05:47 And our answer to that is no, our nation already is bankrupt.
• 05:51 We have a national debt that's over 12 trillion dollars.
• 05:55 We have entitlement obligations
• 05:57 that take us out to about 60 trillion dollars by the year 2040.
• 06:00 We're talking about massive, massive debt.
• 06:03 In 1980 for example
• 06:06 the United States of America was the world's greatest creditor nation.
• 06:09 There had never been a nation in the world that had been a better lender nation.
• 06:13 Basically 3 decades later in 2009 we find ourselves
• 06:18 now standing as the greatest debtor nation in all of world history.
• 06:22 Never before in all of world history has there been a greater debtor nation.
• 06:25 Money... the financial systems that we have in the world today
• 06:28 are an integral part of Satan's systems.
• 06:32 He's the prince of the air, prince of the world
• 06:35 and what other system is out there in the world of man
• 06:41 that Satan and his minions can use to control the human agenda?
• 06:46 There isn't anything.
• 06:47 They're not omnipresent so they need something else
• 06:50 and something like money and certainly the modern day systems that we built around it.
• 06:54 And ultimately they will lose control of it.
• 06:57 In this country what we see happening; we're trying to divide the Land of Israel.
• 07:01 We're going against God.
• 07:03 God says I'll cut you into pieces; you cut Israel up I'll cut you up.
• 07:07 We see our taxes the amount going in is falling.
• 07:12 People are out of work.
• 07:13 Unemployment is rising.
• 07:15 And our tax collections are going to be down I think 18% this year.
• 07:17 We see deficits over a trillion dollars.
• 07:19 You can't keep taking in less money and spending more money and survive.
• 07:24 The dollar's declining.
• 07:26 People see gold going up; silver going up.
• 07:28 They're going up because the dollar is getting to be worth less.
• 07:32 All of this impacts us.
• 07:34 I think there will be an economic collapse.
• 07:36 I think we see it coming on the scene now
• 07:38 but it ultimately will be after the rapture in the tribulation period.
• 07:47 Right now we're facing several different staggering problems;
• 07:51 one of them obviously are dollar crisis.
• 07:53 In the news we've been hearing, ad nauseam, the problems with the United States dollar.
• 07:57 In the book, "Bankruptcy of Our Nation" we tackle that and say
• 08:01 why should a Christian really care whether the dollar is in crisis or not?
• 08:05 That really does play a tremendous impact upon our own spirituality,
• 08:08 this topic of money.
• 08:10 Jesus has over 2,000...
• 08:12 well the Bible itself has over 2,350 verses on money, wealth and possessions alone
• 08:16 which indicate that God seems to be somewhat interested in our view of money.
• 08:21 We certainly know that culture has a view of money
• 08:24 and that God has another view of money.
• 08:26 There will be the financial aspect to the apocalypse at the end period.
• 08:32 And we know that's coming and there's financial elements to it; commercial elements.
• 08:36 Revelations 17 and 18 certainly tells us about that;
• 08:40 also some Old Testament references.
• 08:42 That's all coming in the future and it's not all one event.
• 08:47 It's not one event even in the second half of the tribulation period.
• 08:50 Revelation 18 takes us through these 3 occasions.
• 08:54 On 3 occasions in an hour, over a day, so on and so forth.
• 08:59 But all that's yet future and the things that we're witnessing today its part of an aggression.
• 09:06 The world has moved over to globalism.
• 09:08 I personally believe that we are going to go into a post globalism era very, very close.
• 09:14 And this "global financial crisis" as it's called that we've been through
• 09:20 and it's not over yet
• 09:22 is very much one of those catalysts that sort of eggs on;
• 09:27 pushes the world so to speak to that future agenda.
• 09:32 That Revelation 6:5 and 6;
• 09:35 that's the rider on the black horse
• 09:36 and usually people will say
• 09:38 "a day's wages for a measure of wheat"
• 09:40 which means money won't buy very much food.
• 09:43 Money will be worthless.
• 09:45 And that's what we see with the deficits
• 09:47 and printing a whole lot of money,
• 09:50 of the dollar declining
• 09:51 and food looks like it's going up in the grocery stores
• 09:54 but it's because our money is going down.
• 09:56 The value of our money's going down.
• 09:58 And so there will be an economic collapse.
• 10:02 There will be famine.
• 10:03 There's always been famine
• 10:05 but the worst famine that the world will ever see will be during that tribulation period.
• 10:09 And that's what I see coming on the scene.
• 10:11 We're at that point in time
• 10:12 where we do have a global culture
• 10:13 certainly with respect to commerce.
• 10:16 That is that one thing as we call in Revelations
• 10:18 the false prophet comes in
• 10:21 and the sign that was required
• 10:23 so that people may be able to buy and sell.
• 10:26 We're already there from both
• 10:27 not just from a technical perspective
• 10:29 cause that already exists
• 10:31 but also I would say from a common value.
• 10:33 All the major financial centers,
• 10:35 commercial centers around the world
• 10:37 all the major universities
• 10:39 they teach the same thing;
• 10:41 it's one culture.
• 10:42 We saw this here with the fallout of the global financial crisis within weeks.
• 10:46 This is a non-physical event the financial crisis.
• 10:51 Everybody around the world was taken up with it;
• 10:55 they were afraid by it.
• 10:56 We never had for example a collapse in trade
• 11:00 such as we've seen so simultaneously as ever before,
• 11:04 not even in the 1930s
• 11:06 with was held up to be one of the worst economic crises the world has ever seen.
• 11:09 So both from a point of culture and systemic structure
• 11:17 we're already there
• 11:19 instantaneously almost.
• 11:21 Everybody around the world reacts to financial stimuli.
• 11:23 We all get worried and certainly almost the whole world got worried this last time.
• 11:28 And it really is a catalyst to change that.
• 11:31 At least the demigods can use it for catalyst for change.
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• 13:45 You know as we are speaking about these heavy times that we're living in
• 13:48 I want you to know that it's also a message of hope.
• 13:51 This is a message all about the desire of nations
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• 14:17 So let's go to our interview now with Thomas Horn.
• 14:22 Imagine the earth was destroyed
• 14:23 and you traveled here from another planet
• 14:25 and you found a dollar
• 14:27 and you saw "In God We Trust".
• 14:29 And you said, well what god were they talking about?
• 14:31 If you interpreted it based on the symbolism on the U.S. dollar
• 14:36 you would interpret it as either a Greek or Roman god.
• 14:40 You would definitely not connect it to a Biblical Judeo or Christian God
• 14:45 because there's no symbolism on the dollar that equates to that.
• 14:49 Furthermore if you look at the Apotheosis of George Washington in the U.S. Capitol dome
• 14:53 what heaven is he ascending into?
• 14:55 He is surrounded not by Jehovah,
• 14:57 not by Yahweh, not by Jesus,
• 14:59 not by Michael the Arch Angel,
• 15:01 he is surrounded by Greek pagan deities;
• 15:04 Zeus, Apollo, Athena, Minerva, Isis.
• 15:07 This was the belief system.
• 15:10 And even the founding of Capitol Hill
• 15:12 comes from Capitoline Hill where Zeus was the chief of the gods.
• 15:16 All of the framework, the design, the layout,
• 15:18 the U.S. Capitol dome,
• 15:20 the Obelisk which is the symbol of the erect male phallus of Osiris.
• 15:25 It is all symbolism based on Freemasons.
• 15:28 They believe about the future return of Osiris
• 15:31 which is the Egyptian version of Apollo in Greek mythology.
• 15:37 Well George Washington of course a 33 degree mason.
• 15:42 The Freemasons were very much involved with the design and layout
• 15:46 of this great seal as you see it.
• 15:48 The great seal itself,
• 15:50 especially the reverse side of the great seal,
• 15:52 is very important because on the great seal there is a prophecy.
• 15:55 It's from the Apollonian Priestess the Cumaean Sibyl.
• 15:59 That's where the language "Novus Ordo Seclorum" is taken from.
• 16:03 And it is a prophecy about the return of Apollo,
• 16:06 "Apollyon" in the New Testament,
• 16:09 who will return at the end of time and give birth to a new world order.
• 16:13 We set out to study not the dollar bill as a matter of fact.
• 16:17 We were looking into other things
• 16:19 that led to a prophecy that we found about the year 2012
• 16:23 and frankly there's been so much conversation about the year 2012
• 16:26 I didn't have any interest in it either.
• 16:28 I felt it was mostly just New Age ramblings...
• 16:31 the Maya...
• 16:33 nothing that I would put on a par with Biblical prophecy.
• 16:35 But we found a 500 year old prophecy.
• 16:38 This came by the way from scholarship.
• 16:40 This was interpreted by an academic by the name of Richard Luxton
• 16:45 who interpreted the Book of the Chumayel,
• 16:47 the Counsel book of the Yucatec Maya
• 16:49 that was written down in the 1500s.
• 16:51 And their most important prophet
• 16:54 the Chilam Balam, the Jaguar shaman
• 16:56 prophesied and connected the year 1776 with a 13 stepped countdown
• 17:03 that would end in the year 2012
• 17:05 with the return of their highest god.
• 17:08 When I saw that I wanted to know...
• 17:10 13 steps...
• 17:11 1776 in Roman numerals at the base of a 13 stepped pyramid
• 17:16 over which hovers the eye of Apollo,
• 17:20 the eye of Osiris, Horus
• 17:23 and even U.S. Presidents...
• 17:26 Roosevelt...
• 17:27 Vice Presidents...
• 17:29 Henry Wallace
• 17:30 believed... they were 32 degree masons.
• 17:32 They believed that that was a prophecy about the return of the great architect of the universe;
• 17:38 their deity basically.
• 17:40 This is written in their own memoirs.
• 17:42 This is not me making this up.
• 17:44 They believed that it was their responsibility to put that seal on the dollar
• 17:48 which would then set in motion
• 17:50 what would ultimately lead to a new world order.
• 17:53 Both "Annuit Coeptis", "Novus Ordo Seclorum"
• 17:57 and by the way the greatest experts in the world
• 17:59 including Robert Hieronimus who the government considers
• 18:02 to be the foremost authority on this seal,
• 18:04 say in their writings that this is the prophecy
• 18:07 of the coming of a pagan god at the end of time.
• 18:10 "Novus Ordo Seclorum" is taken from the Cumaean Sibyl.
• 18:13 If you go to the Sistine Chapel
• 18:15 and look up into the Sistine Chapel,
• 18:18 the Cumaean Sibyl is placed alongside the Old Testament prophets.
• 18:21 It's startling.
• 18:22 But this prophecy is from the Chumaean
• 18:25 and her prophecy if you read her prophecy,
• 18:27 "tis thine own Apollo comes".
• 18:30 She is specifically talking about Apollo.
• 18:32 The reason that's important is because in the New Testament
• 18:35 the Apostle Paul speaking of the anti-Christ
• 18:38 who will also herald the coming of a new world order and a global dictatorship.
• 18:44 Paul says, "He will be the son of perdition"
• 18:47 and the Greek word as you know
• 18:49 "Perdition" - "Apoleia"-
• 18:51 "Apollyon" -"Apollo".
• 18:53 John says in the apocalypse that the beast will rise up out of the bottomless pit
• 18:58 and go into perdition...
• 19:01 "Apoleia" -
• 19:03 "Apollyon" -
• 19:03 "Apollo";
• 19:05 so that most Americans are completely not aware that there is a prophecy on the U.S. dollar
• 19:10 about the coming of the man that we would identify as Christians as "the anti-Christ".
• 19:15 So I'm just telling you that those facts can't be disputed
• 19:19 and even the greatest experts
• 19:20 even the 33rd degree freemasonic counsel out of Washington D.C.,
• 19:26 the Heredom,
• 19:27 the House of the Temple;
• 19:28 I went and met with them.
• 19:30 I said, "Here's what I believe this mythology represents"
• 19:32 and they said, "You are right that's exactly what it represents."
• 19:35 Of course the bigger picture may be what is happening in our world today around the world.
• 19:40 Not only are people using this phrase...
• 19:43 Nancy Pelosi recently referring to a new world order;
• 19:46 George W. Bush in his inaugural speech is saying
• 19:49 when our founders placed this phrase "Novus Ordo Seclorum" on the U.S. dollar bill
• 19:54 they were looking forward to an ancient plan that is meant to be fulfilled.
• 19:59 And now around the world...
• 20:01 the collapse of the U.S. dollar...
• 20:02 people calling for a new global government.
• 20:05 Maybe we have entered in to a period of time that is the unfolding of Biblical prophecy.
• 20:17 As we hear these messages they can be very daunting
• 20:19 because we realize that we're in a time of shaking.
• 20:22 But I need you to know something.
• 20:24 In the book of Revelation the fact that God is on the throne
• 20:27 is mentioned 40 times.
• 20:29 He's in charge.
• 20:30 Right, He's in charge of the whole earth.
• 20:32 Exactly
• 20:34 There are 4 views of interpreting the book of Revelation.
• 20:36 There's the historicist view,
• 20:38 the idealist view,
• 20:39 the preterist and the futurist.
• 20:41 Some of them have to do with symbolism only.
• 20:44 Some have to do with thinking everything happened before 70 A.D.
• 20:47 Others that we're in the time of the unfolding
• 20:49 The futurist view which is the one that we take
• 20:52 says that we are in the unfolding of the end times
• 20:55 and we're going to see the things that are spoken of in the book of Revelation come to pass.
• 21:00 We have good news though.
• 21:01 2 Peter 3:9 says that God is not willing that any should perish
• 21:05 but all come to everlasting life.
• 21:07 That's ultimately the message of the entire book.
• 21:11 So let's go to our interview with Chuck Missler.
• 21:14 Paul, last verse of I Corinthians 9
• 21:17 said that he keeps himself in subjection
• 21:20 "lest after preaching to others I myself might be a castaway".
• 21:25 Paul was paranoid;
• 21:27 he lived his life as a type A.
• 21:29 And what was he paranoid of?
• 21:31 Not of salvation,
• 21:33 he wrote the book on eternal security;
• 21:35 it's called "Romans Chapter 8".
• 21:36 But what was he nervous about?
• 21:38 Losing his inheritance
• 21:40 We don't teach enough about that.
• 21:41 Inheritance in the Old Testament could be lost.
• 21:44 Ask Esau, ask Ruben about that.
• 21:46 In the New Testament it also can be lost.
• 21:48 There are parts of it you can't lose.
• 21:49 You can never lose your sonship.
• 21:51 The prodigal son never lost his sonship
• 21:53 but he certainly blew a lot of inheritance.
• 21:55 So the point is that our inheritance is something that's understudied we think.
• 21:59 You know the Chinese Christians have an interesting perspective.
• 22:04 They regard the time we're in as the "kingdom of preparation".
• 22:07 And what we call "the millennium"
• 22:09 they call "the kingdom of inheritance"
• 22:11 and they believe, properly we believe
• 22:13 that our authorities, responsibilities,
• 22:17 opportunities in the coming kingdom
• 22:19 will derive from our faithfulness and perseverance in this kingdom.
• 22:23 Our behavior matters.
• 22:25 And they smile at the American Church
• 22:27 because we sort of have an attitude.
• 22:29 When someone accepts Christ we celebrate that like a victory as if it's a final.
• 22:33 It's a starting gun.
• 22:35 That's when our sanctification begins.
• 22:37 You see the Church is all walled around in justification
• 22:40 and it doesn't really understand sanctification.
• 22:42 The attitude in the American Church
• 22:44 that once you accept Christ
• 22:45 it's all done and you relax and so forth
• 22:48 when in fact salvation is 3 tense;
• 22:52 it's past, present and future.
• 22:53 The past tense is justification...
• 22:55 done deal...done on a cross 2,000 years ago.
• 22:58 Christ did it all, you can't add to it.
• 22:59 That would be blasphemy.
• 23:01 But we go on from there to sanctification which is the present tense of salvation
• 23:04 which is a progressive thing.
• 23:06 We're all works in progress;
• 23:07 we're not finished yet and our behavior matters.
• 23:09 How does it matter?
• 23:11 In glorification in the kingdom
• 23:13 we're not talking about salvation; we know we're saved.
• 23:14 Before the judgment seat of Christ everyone there is saved.
• 23:17 The issue is the rewards; the fruit bearing.
• 23:20 It's the fruit bearing that's being measured, tested and rewarded.
• 23:24 And most Christians aren't focused on that.
• 23:26 I can tell you candidly
• 23:28 everybody today is worried about Israel for a lot of reasons
• 23:31 but we don't worry about Israel because that's God's problem,
• 23:34 because He that keepeth Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
• 23:36 We pray for Israel because we're expected to.
• 23:38 I tremble for America.
• 23:41 I've spent over 30 years in the strategic arena;
• 23:44 my career path prior to being a publisher.
• 23:46 And I can tell you candidly
• 23:48 the most painful years of my life have been the last few
• 23:52 as I begin to realize that what I used to regard as patriotism
• 23:57 I now regard as an obsolete form of idol worship.
• 24:01 The America that used to stand for liberty is a thing of the past.
• 24:06 I might say the myth of the past.
• 24:09 The net of it is though
• 24:10 is I think the damage that is being done is not reparable.
• 24:12 And a lot of people think that the upcoming elections
• 24:15 this thing will probably be repaired.
• 24:17 I don't think so.
• 24:18 Even if it was
• 24:20 I don't think the kind of damage that's been done to what we used to embrace as America...
• 24:23 I think it's over...
• 24:25 that it's done.
• 24:26 And I think the times that are coming are more troubled than ever.
• 24:29 Now that may be a great blessing from a spiritual point of view.
• 24:32 Our Chinese friends, the Chinese Church prays for the American Church,
• 24:35 prays for persecution
• 24:36 because they believe that will make it healthier
• 24:38 and they're really right in a sense.
• 24:40 But the point is I think there are very, very dark times coming for America
• 24:43 and it's a challenge for all of us
• 24:45 is "a" to understand them
• 24:46 and to be prepared to minister in those times
• 24:49 because I think things are going to get far more rough than most people have any idea.
• 24:55 The primary thing that overwhelms me
• 24:58 is the Biblical illiteracy
• 25:00 in the pulpits not only in the pews.
• 25:02 And so I think it's a time to do our homework,
• 25:06 a time for us to dust off the things we thought we knew and make sure we do
• 25:11 and be prepared to give people answers.
• 25:14 And I think that's the primary thrust to get serious about it.
• 25:19 I think that it's a question of stewardship of our hearts
• 25:22 and I think God wants to be number one on a list of one...not ten.
• 25:25 And now is the time to focus.
• 25:28 Now is the time to take Him seriously.
• 25:30 And I think every one of us are called to a specific ministry
• 25:34 and they're not the same.
• 25:36 And the great adventure in life is to discover that specific ministry He's called us to
• 25:40 and then get about it...
• 25:41 get on it
• 25:42 cause I think the time is short.
• 25:44 It's exciting, challenging
• 25:45 and preparation is essential
• 25:48 and now is the time.
• 25:51 I love Chuck Missler's teaching.
• 25:53 It can be very heavy.
• 25:55 It can be hard to hear.
• 25:57 But think about the overview of the entire Bible in the story that we're living.
• 26:01 In Genesis death is introduced
• 26:03 but in the book of Revelation life eternal is produced.
• 26:06 In Genesis Satan comes on the scene
• 26:09 but in the book of Revelation we see Satan defeated.
• 26:12 In Genesis we're barred from the Tree of Life
• 26:15 but in Revelation we're restored to the Tree of Life.
• 26:19 And in Genesis paradise is lost
• 26:20 but in Revelation paradise is restored to those who believe.
• 26:24 That's right Myles.
• 26:26 In the book of Revelation there's an actual book of life
• 26:30 that God's is calling all of us
• 26:32 to have our names written in...the Lamb's Book of Life.
• 26:35 And that will give us the entrance into the Kingdom of His great Son;
• 26:39 the kingdom that will last forever
• 26:42 and that is an eternal promise
• 26:44 that we can know that we can know
• 26:46 that we have that promise in Him
• 26:48 because of His blood and His sacrifice we can have eternal life.
• 26:52 So it was our joy to call you to that place of surrender
• 26:56 to the LORD
• 26:57 and make sure that your name is in the Lamb's Book of Life.
• 27:00 And it's exciting;
• 27:01 it's a Jewish tradition too
• 27:04 to make sure that your name is written in the Book of Life.
• 27:07 Every fall on the Day of Atonement
• 27:09 we ask that our names will be written in the Book of Life.
• 27:12 Through Yeshua we can have our names written in the Book of Life.
• 27:15 Absolutely
• 27:16 And so on that note
• 27:18 we want to remind you till we see you again,
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