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Let's join Rick Renner.
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Hey friends, this is Rick Renner,
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and today I'm standing on the balcony
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of my hotel in the eastern part of Turkey.
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And that is the beautiful Mount Ararat.
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It's most beautiful in
the morning, I think,
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because that's when the clouds
do not completely cover it.
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But the reason I'm here right now is
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because I wrote this book,
which is called Fallen Angels,
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Giants, Monsters, and the World Before The Flood.
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Ay, yi..if you don't have this book,
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you need a copy of this book.
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The subtitle says, How the Events of Noah's Ark
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and the Flood are relevant
to the End of the Age.
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And of course that's us
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because we're living
at the end of the age.
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But when I wrote this book,
I said to my team, you know,
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I need to go there
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and do an entire series
called Discovering Noah's Ark.
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And this is a documentary type series.
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And today we're gonna
take you up to the hill,
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to the bottom part of
Mount Judi, where the ruins
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of Noah's Ark are really resting.
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We're going to show it to you.
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I'm gonna take in the
Visitor Center, I'm going
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to show you all kinds of documentation,
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and then we're gonna walk
to the base of the ark
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and walk up the right side of the ark.
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And I'm going to show you the
erosion where you can begin
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to see the ribs are protruding
from the side of the ark.
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It is going to be amazing.
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So let's go to the bus and get started.
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Well guys, here we are back
inside the Visitor Center,
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having tea, having tea,
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Turkish tea, and it's so good.
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And the reason we came back inside is because it's raining.
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It's raining, the weather
changed rain, we're on the top
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of a mountain and the weather
here is very volatile.
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One moment the sun's shining,
the next moment it's raining.
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So we came back in, but
in just a few moments,
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we're gonna go down the
hill to the side of the ark.
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But yesterday you saw the panoramic view
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of Noah's ark for the first time.
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What did you think, Joseph?
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My goodness, I was taken back.
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Because when you look
at it, it's, you know,
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for years I've imagined
the ark, I've imagined
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what it would look like,
what would it look like
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to view it, see it.
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And yesterday my imagination
had a real object to look at.
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And I'll tell you, it was profound for me. It was surreal.
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And looking at it....it looks just like a ship
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that got stuck in the mud.
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When you look at it, you can
see the point going up in the
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mud and it's like the mud comes around it
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and it, it really, it really touched me
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because it was a surreal
yet so visual moment,
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it changed my perspective.
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You know, a lot of modern people say
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that the ark looked like
a big box, a big barge.
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Yeah. No, it was not.
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It was really the very shape of an ancient
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ship.
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Well, you've taught us that
ancient ships are pointed
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That it's not in box.
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That's right. And the, the back of the
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stern is usually round.
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Yeah. And you know what,
there's a stone here, which
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I now own, come on.
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And it probably possibly
is the earliest depiction
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of the ark in all of history.
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Amazing. - And it shows this very formation
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with a pointed bow, a rounded stern.
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It really is the ark.
Heather, what did you think?
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I was completely amazed wowed
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by this is where it all began.
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And thinking the family
stepping off of the ship
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and this is what they are seeing.
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The very, in the very sight
of what they saw stepping out.
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I'm sure it was a mess. I can't imagine.
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But I was just overwhelmed
by this is it, this is,
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this is the place and the topography
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and how you can just see for miles.
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It just, it was breathtaking.
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Denise, what did you think?
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Thought, well that's, that's a boat.
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That's what I thought.
But I have thought about
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this before Rick.
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I thought about what it was like for them,
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those 8 people, Noah
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and his family to have gone through all of that.
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And now God opens the door and,
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and they're the only 8 people living in the whole earth.
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And, and to have that realization
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that we've been saved, that
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it's amazing because God can
overwhelm you with his mercy.
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And they had to know that
mercy had touched them,
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so they had to know it.
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True. - That merciful hand of God. Yeah.
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You know, when you think about the fact
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that there were just 8 of them,
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it means if they had any family conflict, they couldn't move
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to another street in another city or make other friends.
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They had to learn how to get along.
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And I think one reason the families
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and relationships break up is
because they have so many outs
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and so many options, a
good, they had no options.
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No options.
They had no outs.
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They had to learn how
to get along together.
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And they had a job
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and their job was to
replenish the earth. Joel,
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The first time I saw the
ark, it was, it was amazing.
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We pulled up and looked out the window
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and no one had to point it out to me.
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It's right there. It's so real.
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And immediately I wanted to show it to my family, show them
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what I'm experiencing
because it is so real
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and evident what you're looking at.
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How could a ship get to
the mountains in Ararat,
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in the mountain range of Ararat.
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It is just amazing.
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And the proof that we've
been hearing, the studies
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that have been done, it is just, it's,
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it's amazing what we're seeing.
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It's really irrefutable. It's Paul.
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Well, this is a beautiful place.
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And when you're here up on the top
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of the mountain, you can see the valley.
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And I imagine everything's
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So it's Noah protecting
his family pre-flood,
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Noah protecting his family flood,
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and then Noah protecting
his family post flood
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and becoming the most important figure
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after Jesus in the history of humanity.
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Because everything starts right here.
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That's amazing. It is.
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Well, before we go down the
hill to see the actual site,
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I want us to turn to Genesis 7
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and see what the Bible says
about the ark and the flood
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and where it came to rest.
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So let's go to Genesis 7.
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Okay, you guys got your tea?
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I've got my tea, but I don't have
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my Bible.
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All right, well it's kind of warm in here.
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So this tea will kind of warm
your hands up a little bit.
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But in Genesis 7:1,
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the King James version says,
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And the Lord said unto Noah, come thou
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and all thy house into the ark.
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Now, that is amazing to me
because the ark was prepared,
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but they did not enter
the ark until God said,
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now is the moment.
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And I think there's such a
lesson for us to learn that
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Noah was a man who really
listened to the Lord.
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You know, Jesus said 6 times in the gospels
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and 7 times in Revelation 2
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and 3 that we need to have ears to hear.
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And Noah was a man who had ears to hear.
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And even though the ark was
ready, they did not go in
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until the Lord said, come now
all of yours go into the ark.
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And then when you get to verse 6,
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it says, And Noah was 600 years old when the
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water was upon the Earth.
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Well, he was 500 years old when he began to build the ark.
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So they built for a hundred years.
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Can you guys imagine the laughter
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and the ridicule and the mockery?
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Oh man, - I think they probably told the funniest Noah
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jokes in the history.
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Noah jokes - About that old
crazy man building that boat
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for a flood, which no
one had ever heard of.
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Yeah. Or Denise. Think how Mrs.
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Noah could have really said, honey,
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I hope you really heard from God
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because we've given a hundred years
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of our life to this project.
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Or the sons could have said, dad,
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are you sure we're risking
our whole life for this?
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Right? But they stayed
faithful to the task.
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And verse 6 says, Noah was 600 years old when the flood
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of waters was up on the earth. Verse 7:
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And Noah went in and his sons and his wife
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and his son's wife with them into the ark
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because of the waters of the flood.
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And verse 11 says, In the 600th year of Noah's life,
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in the 2nd month, the 17th day of the month,
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the same day were all the fountains of the deep broken up,
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which means massive hydro geysers begin
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to blow water up from within the earth.
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And then the windows of heaven were opened.
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And guess what guys? That's the 1st time the window
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of heaven is ever mentioned in scripture.
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Amazing. - Now, later when
we come to Malachi, he says,
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if we bring all the tithes
into the storehouse,
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God will open the window of heaven.
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It's a heavenly portal.
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Well, this is the first time
that portal ever opened.
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And when the window of heaven opens,
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abundance falls through it.
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Okay? - And in this case, we find an abundance of rain.
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But you carry that over into Malachi 3
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and we find that when we give our tithe
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and our offering, a
heavenly portal opens up
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and God doesn't bless us
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just a little bit, like the rain poured through this portal,
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God's blessings pour into our life. Come on.
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Is that amazing? That
was so good. Praise God.
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But look at verse 12. And the
rain was upon the earth 40
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days and 40 nights.
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Verse 13: in the selfsame day entered Noah and Shem and Ham
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and Japheth, the son of Noah and Noah's wife,
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and the three wives of his
sons with them into the ark.
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They and every beast after his kind and all the cattle
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after their kind, and every creeping thing
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that creeped upon the earth
after his kind and every foul
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after his kind and every
bird of every sort.
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And they went in unto Noah into the ark.
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By the way, there's something
very interesting there.
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You know, people have
this idea that Noah had
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to collect all these animals,
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but actually the scripture teaches the animals came to him.
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Yeah. - God gave the animals
an impulse to come to him.
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Is God amazing? Amazing.
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And the Bible says two of all,
flesh wherein is the breath
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of life entered in verse 16.
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And they that went in went in male
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and female, which means there was no transgenderism.
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Animals were male
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and female of all flesh as God had commanded him
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and the Lord shut him in.
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Now just imagine they're inside the ark
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and all of a sudden they
hear the door creaking
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raising by itself.
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as the hand of God literally put
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that door in place.
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Amazing. And the Bible
then tells us in verse 17,
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and the flood was 40 days upon the earth
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and the waters increased -
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listen to this - and bare up the ark.
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And it was lifted up above the earth,
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which means the same water
that destroyed everything else
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caused Noah and his family
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and all those animals
to rise above it all.
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And I believe this is prophetic.
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I do too, because we're living in the end
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of the aids when there's a lot
of destruction all around us.
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But if we're sealed in Christ
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and if we're safe in the promises of God, it doesn't matter
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what goes on in the world around us,
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we can float above it all. Amazing. If we
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Follow - God, if we follow
the Lord, follow the Lord
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and stay in that safe place.
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Well think about the sound
of the deep breaking open.
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They must have heard that, oh,
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it must have been like a
nuclear blast for them.
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All the crack and then
cracking, the cracking the
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sounds and then the door
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shutting. And then what you're saying,
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Well, verse 18 says,
and the waters prevailed
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and were increased greatly upon the earth.
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And the ark went upon the
face of the waters. Verse 19:
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And the waters prevailed
exceedingly upon the earth.
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And all the high hills
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that were under the whole
heaven were covered.
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And that's important because
there are some people
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who say this was just a regional flood,
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but the Bible clearly says
it was a global flood.
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But then when you go to chapter 8:1, it says,
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in God remembered Noah
and every living thing
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and all the cattle that
was with him in the ark,
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and God made a wind to pass over the earth
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and the waters assuaged, or they begin to recede.
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Verse 2: And the fountains also of the deep
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and the windows of the
heaven were stopped.
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And the rain from heaven was restrained
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and the waters returned from
off the earth continually.
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And after the end of the 150
days, the waters were abated.
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Verse 4:
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And the ark rested in the 7th month on the 17th day
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of the month - where - upon the mountains of Ararat,
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it does not say on Mount Ararat.
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Come on. It says on the mountains of Ararat.
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And as we've seen, the mountains of Ararat were massive,
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massive, massive.
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And the ark came to rest upon one of them.
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And today the ark is still
laying there on the side of
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that same mountain.
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Now where we're gonna see the ark today is
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not where it landed.
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It landed about 1500 feet higher.
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Okay.
But this is a mud flow.
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And over 1500 years, it began
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to move down the side of
this hill when the mud moved
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and finally came to rest
in this particular spot.
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And it has never moved since.
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And it was completely
covered by mud until 1948.
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My goodness. And in 1948,
there was an earthquake,
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and that's when the local
Kurdish village first saw the
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reappearance of the ark.
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They could see it just
completely defined in the mud.
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And then there was another earthquake
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and the sides begin to fall out from it.
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Everything moved in the whole
region except that object.
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And it didn't move because it is not mud.
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It is the ark stuck in mud. Come on.
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Wow. - Amazing. And now
all the underground scans
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and the radar and all the scientific studies have revealed
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it is not connected to the local geology.
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It is literally a ship.
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And in fact, the scans show
the complete hull of the ship
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sitting in the middle of this mud flow.
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And just like the Bible says, the ark came
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to rest upon the mountains of Ararat,
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what do you guys think?
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I'm thinking about the
extremes God went through
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to not only rescue
humanity for his purpose,
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but then to make it a sign
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and a wonder to us again today; 1948 till now,
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this is all prophetic Rick,
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powerful. - Joel. I just
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don't, almost don't have words to describe what we've read
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for so many years.
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Sing with your own eyes.
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It's hard to even express with words
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what you're, what you're seeing.- Paul.
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I think it's time to go down to the ark
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because I really want to
go walk around on the ark.
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I've been there before, but
I really want to go walk
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around on the ark again because it's a sight to see.
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But the idea of
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Noah being persistent
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and faithful in the
assignment that God gave him.
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It wasn't..a short assignment.
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It was a long term assignment.
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And there are many things
that God gives us to do
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that will take a long time to do.
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And we don't get results
as quick as we like
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to get them sometimes.
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But we have to be faithful
to what God's told us to do
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because that's the sign
that he's given us. Denise.
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Well, as you were talking,
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I was thinking about Genesis chapter -
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is it 3, where that it says
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that the the serpent will bruise his heel,
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but he will crush his head
of the seed of the woman.
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And that God was saying,
no, I gotta save 'em.
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I gotta give them eternal life.
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I've gotta give them
my spirit on the inside
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and they're not gonna be finished.
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I'm saving these 8 people and I've gotta plan.
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So that's what I was thinking about.
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Well, that is a good word because sometimes it seems like
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it's over and it's not over.
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It is not over.
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I wanna say one more thing.
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We were reading about the animals, how the animals started
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to come to the ark like a beacon.
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And I'm sure Noah thought, gosh,
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we're building this huge boat.
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How is this boat gonna get filled?
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How are we gonna fill this
boat and all these decks
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and all these rooms with animals?
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And I'm sure that he thought,
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I can't solve all the
questions of the world.
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God has to provide another miracle.
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That is a good word.
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And I believe he was
miracles along the way.
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And I believe we can expect miracles.
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That's a word.
That was great, Joel.
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Well, I think that we're
just a bunch of theologians.
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We're having a good time together.
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But Paul's right, I think it's time for us
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to finish our tea, close
our Bible, walk out
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of this Visitor Center
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and start down the hill to the ark. Let's
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go.
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Are we starting?
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Okay, everybody. Andrew,
let's go to the ark.
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Paul, you help your mother.
Everybody be careful.
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Heather, grab Joseph's arms.
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Okay, we're gonna head on down.
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Be very careful because this is unstable.
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All right. Denise, sing us
a solo climb every mountain.
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Hey, hey. Be very Hey, it's
very slick here. Be careful.
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Everybody remember this
is a mud flow from the top
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of the mountain all the way to the bottom.
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Well, they say technically
this is the earth flow.
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So an earth flow is
caused by an earthquake.
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For example, it unsettles the ground
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and it basically collapses.
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And so it's not stable
anymore. A mud flow.
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So this earth flow, for example, part
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of it has become a mud flow.
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You see the top of the mountain?
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Do you guys see the top of the mountain?
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That's where they built the
first village after the flood.
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On this left hand side
of it, you'll find a lot
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of foundations, anxious
foundations of homes,
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Foundations, stones up
there and petroglyphs, right?
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Yeah. The middle third
is, that's where Ron found
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animal petroglyphs.
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They found atrip animal
petroglyphs of giraffes
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and elephants, things that are
not natural to this region.
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That's because that's
what came off the ark.
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We're gonna try to cross down this way. Heads-up.
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Cut the tree. There it is.
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Guys. We have a ways to go.
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Very muddy. Be
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careful, Sister Renner.
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Okay, Denise, this is what you asked for.
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Ah, there we go. Just keep going up.
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Here we are guys, over there, that's the ark.
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That is the ark.
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Now we've gotta go down
through this golly
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and we're gonna climb up from
the lower end of the stern
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of the ship where you can really see the bottom of the ship.
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But my friends, you're
looking at Noah's Ark.
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Someone has asked, how did
Noah actually hear from God
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that a flood was coming?
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Well, first of all, Noah was
born into a prophetic family.
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His great-great-great grandfather.
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Jared knew that a flood was coming.
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He had a son whose name was Enoch.
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Enoch knew the judgment was coming.
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Enoch had a son whose name was Methuselah.
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Methuselah knew the judgment was coming.
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Methuselah had a son
whose name was Lamech.
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Lamech knew that judgment was coming.
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And finally, Lamech had a
son whose name was Noah.
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And the word Noah means a
pause, a reprieve or relief.
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And Lamech prophesied that
during Noah's life, a break
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or a pause would come to
the nefarious activity
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that was happening in the earth.
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They all knew
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and passed revelation from
generation to generation
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that the flood was coming.
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So Noah didn't just wake up
and hear this by himself.
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Yes, he heard from God himself.
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We know that from Hebrews 11:7,
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but he also heard from his previous generations
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that destruction and
judgment was on the way.
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Are you ready for what's coming next?
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The Bible warns of a
moment coming soon suddenly
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and without warning,
when Jesus will return
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to rapture his church right
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after that, the antichrist
will rise, deceive the nations
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Hey, this is Rick Renner,
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and today I'm in the Tulsa office
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and this is the conference
room or the boardroom.
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This room is used all the
time for strategic planning
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for the gospel and for
the teaching of the Bible,
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which we're taking around the world.
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And all around this room we
have scriptures about wise
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counselor and wise planning.
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Of course, we have the great
commission on the screen
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behind us, and we even have
photographs of all the Board
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of directors of Rick Renner
Ministries who are real board
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of directors and regularly provide us
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with the most wonderful
godly counsel and advice.
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But right now we're in the process
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of paying off this facility in Tulsa.
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And guess what? We've already paid off 78%
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of the whole project.
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And that is just amazing.
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If you consider how long
we've been doing this,
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it's really not that long.
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But because of the grace of God and
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because of people like you,
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we are really making significant progress.
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And when we're finished
paying off the debt on this
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building, it's gonna
release all these finances
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to help us take the teaching
of the Bible further
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to the ends of the earth.
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And if you're not already a part
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of our Ministry Expansion Project to pay off this facility,
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we're inviting you to join us
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and to become a part of our Giving Team.
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We're very serious about what we do.
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We're very careful with our finances
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and we're really grateful for you
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and for every person who is
a partner with our ministry.
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So if you want to become
a part of the Giving Team,
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we welcome you,
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and together we're gonna remove this debt
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and release finances to go
further in taking the teaching
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of the Bible to the ends of the earth.
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Well, we have had such a
good time today in this new
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documentary, which is called
Discovering Noah's Ark.
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It's 10 parts, which means there are 6 more episodes
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for you to see, but you can order the whole series.
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It is a full documentary about the ruins
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of the real Noah's Ark in the lower mountains of Ararat.
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Please order this by going
online or by giving us a call
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and be sure to order the new book,
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which is called, Fallen Angels, Giants, Monsters,
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and the World Before the Flood: how the events of Noah's Ark
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and the flood are relevant
to the end of the age.
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I know you are just going to
devour this when you get it.
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So place your order today by going online
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or by giving us a call.
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And when you reach out to us,
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please let us know how to pray for you.
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We're people of prayer and
we want to pray for you.
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Just call that number on the
screen or send us an email
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and we'll pray for you.
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But until tomorrow, remember Ecclesiastes 8:4,
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"Where the word of a king is there is power."
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If you've never received
Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for
you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now: Lord,
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I repented my sin and receive you as my savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that
I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life.
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Amen.
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If you just prayed the
prayer of salvation with us,
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would you please let us know by going
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to renner.org/salvation.
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We would love to connect with you.
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Thank you for joining Rick Renner today.
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For more information about Renner Ministries
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and product resources, visit renner.org.