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We live in times of
startling upheaval.
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The Middle East continues
to be a source of global
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chaos and instability.
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Alliances are breaking and
reshaping at blinding speed.
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The systems and institutions
on which our modern
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civilization depends--
economic, governmental,
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medical, scientific, educational--all continue
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to prove themselves unworthy
of our trust, yet with no
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alternatives to replace them.
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News programs seem to carry a litany of tales of suffering--
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not only on the global scale, but also the intimate
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and personal.
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There's never been a time in human history when the entire
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world needed to pay more
attention to Bible prophecy.
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Yet, many don't.
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God has given us Bible prophecy
for a reason, and the times in
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which you and I are living,
right now, make understanding
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those reasons more
important than ever.
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Today, we want to make
those reasons plain,
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and to equip you to do more
than wonder about prophecy--
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we want you to understand it.
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So, join us right now
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where we will help you
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Greetings, from all of us here
at the Tomorrow's World studio,
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At Tomorrow's World, our
mission is to help you make
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sense of your world, through
the pages of the Bible.
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And doing so requires an
understanding of Bible prophecy.
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Today, we'll be offering
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It isn't some dry,
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Rather, in simple and
straightforward language,
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it will lay out for you in
the pages of your own Bible
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specific prophetic events that we expect to happen in the
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years just ahead of us, today.
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It will also teach you
how to learn to understand
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prophecy for yourself.
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Now, if you have watched
Tomorrow's World for any
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length of time at all,
you already know that
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we don't shy away
from prophecy.
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In fact, we spend quite
a bit of time with it,
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because it helps to make
sense of the world around us,
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even as that world appears
to be descending into chaos.
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With the previous power
structures of the Middle East
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detonating before our eyes,
with national economies
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continuing to teeter on
the brink of crumbling,
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with ethnic and racial
tensions on the rise in
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multiple states and nations, world leaders are growing
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ever more worried about
what lies ahead.
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NATO Secretary General Mark
Rutte told his colleagues
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in June 2025: "[T]o preserve
peace, we must prepare for war.
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Wishful thinking will
not keep us safe.
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We cannot dream
away the danger.
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Hope is not a strategy."
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And preparing for war is
exactly what nations across the
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globe are doing, as munitions factories fire into production,
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engineers pour their passions into new forms of warfare,
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and governments scramble to
find the billions they need
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to survive the conflicts
they see on the horizon.
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But unless they understand
Bible prophecy, today's leaders
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won't be able to understand how events are being moved into
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place into their final
"end game" positions.
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Anyone not paying attention
to Bible prophecy is simply
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not "getting it."
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And they're failing to truly understand the news at the
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very time when understanding
it is increasingly becoming
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a matter of life and death.
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In fact, in early 2026,
a popular online
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"prediction market"--essentially a gambling site focused on
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different events--was taking bets on exactly when a nuclear
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Armageddon would finally begin.
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If ever there were a time when
Bible prophecy could help us
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understand what's going on in the world, now is that time.
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And yet, so many
professing Christians--
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and so many professing
Christian churches--
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don't spend any time
on prophecy at all.
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And when they do, it's often
seen as a mere curiosity
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or distraction--something
that's not really part of
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the "important stuff" in the
Bible--not related to your
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salvation in any way.
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Or, it might be considered
somewhat important, but it
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seems too confusing to
spend time on, with all of
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its symbols and imagery--
seven-headed beasts, and
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strange creatures and statues.
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Some worry that they just
can't make sense of it,
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and that there just isn't
any spiritual profit to
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them personally if they
spend any time in it.
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Yet, when you go through
the Bible, verse by verse,
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you find that, by some counts, at least one-fourth of the Bible
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is prophecy.
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How big is that?
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Well, from the beginning of
the Bible, ignoring a fourth
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of the Bible would be like ignoring Genesis, Exodus,
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Leviticus, Numbers,
Deuteronomy, Joshua,
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Judges, Ruth, and 1 Samuel-- maybe parts of 2 Samuel, too.
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Or, from the other end,
cutting out the last fourth of
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the Bible would be like removing most of the New Testament.
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Could God possibly want us to
ignore that much of His Word?
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We don't have to guess at
the answer to that question.
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The Son of God, Jesus
Christ, who inspired the
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word of God, is the same
one who admonishes us
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very directly in
Matthew 4:4...
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"Man shall not live by bread
alone, but by every word that
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proceeds from the mouth of God."
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And, my friends, "every word"
means "every word"--including
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the words of prophecy.
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Today, all of us here at
Tomorrow's World want to
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encourage you to understand
Bible prophecy--not to
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hold it out at arm's length,
but to begin studying it--
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to learn from it--to gain
from it all the things
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God intends for you
in His prophetic word.
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And He intends a lot.
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In particular, we want to
explain to you what the
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purpose of prophecy is.
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When you begin to see its
purpose, you begin to
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appreciate why God gives prophecy, what He is trying
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to accomplish with it,
and what its impact in
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your own life can be.
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Plus prophecy provides
context for the events
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we see in the world today.
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The Middle East has been
shaken by Iranian leaders
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who look to their Muslim
faith as justification
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for war and atrocity.
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On the other side of that conflict, U.S. Secretary of War
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Pete Hegseth spoke of the American military, saying:
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"The providence of our
almighty God is there
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protecting those troops."
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Of course, leaders have
claimed God to be on their
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side throughout history, even when the conflict was between
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so-called Christian nations.
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What has been missing has been
an understanding of His mind,
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His desires, and His plan
for coming world events.
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And prophecy is vital in
gaining that understanding.
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So, in our next segment,
we'll begin to focus on four
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vital purposes of prophecy.
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In doing so, we hope to encourage you to begin
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making a growing understanding of prophecy part of your own,
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personal Bible study.
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And we want to help
you do it right.
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Though the symbols of prophecy
can seem strange and unfamiliar,
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there is a proper way
to understand them.
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God does not allow us to simply
interpret them however we want,
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and He makes that clear
in 2 Peter 1:20...
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"...knowing this first, that
no prophecy of Scripture is
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of any private interpretation [or origin], for prophecy never
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came by the will of man,
but holy men of God
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spoke as they were moved
by the Holy Spirit."
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Prophecy reveals God's
thoughts, and we want
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to handle them rightly.
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To help you do this, we're sending to everyone who requests
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This powerful booklet will not only lay out so many prophetic
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from the pages of your own Bible, it will also take the
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time to explain how you can personally understand Bible
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It includes a timeline chart
of end-time milestone events,
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arranged in sequence--along
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For those who have ever been
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Welcome back.
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Before the break, we noted that
even though many Christians
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often find prophecy intimidating
or confusing--or mistakenly
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think that it's not relevant
to their lives--it makes up
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a huge portion of your Bible.
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Prophecy is clearly
important to God.
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But why?
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Why is it so important to Him?
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Why does Almighty God put
such a priority on prophecy
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in His word--so much that
at least one-fourth of the
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Bible is prophecy?
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Understanding the answer
to that question is at
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the very foundation of
understanding prophecy.
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So, let's dive in and
answer it together.
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When you look at the big
picture, you find there are
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four fundamental reasons
God inspires prophecy.
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The first purpose of
prophecy is this:
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Bible prophecy warns people
and nations to repent so
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they can avoid punishment.
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Like a good parent, God does
not desire to punish people--
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He desires to bless.
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And He provides a warning--
to us as individuals, and to
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entire nations--when punishment is on its way, so that we can
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repent and change our course
before it is too late.
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Punishment is coming
on the world for sin.
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Eventually, it will culminate
in the greatest time of trial
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and suffering that the world
has ever known--a time called
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the Great Tribulation.
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Picture the footage we've
all seen from the horrors
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of wars past, such as the
Holocaust of World War II,
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the killing fields of Pol Pot, or the genocide in Rwanda.
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Today, our social media feeds
bring us images of dead and
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mutilated Russian and Ukrainian
soldiers at war, newly ravaged
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regions of the Middle East, and the devastation of civil wars
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around the globe, from Myanmar
to Mali, from Afghanistan to
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Yemen, and elsewhere.
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Jesus Christ prophesies in
Matthew 24 that the time to
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come will be far worse than
any of those times ever were.
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Read His thoughts for yourself,
beginning in verse 21...
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"For then there will be great
tribulation, such as has not
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been since the beginning of
the world until this time,
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no, nor ever shall be.
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And unless those days were
shortened, no flesh would be
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saved; but for the elect's sake
those days will be shortened."
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A time of suffering never
experienced before by mankind
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that will threaten to extinguish
all life on earth if God were
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not to cut it short.
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The Bible makes plain the fact
that these days are coming but
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they're coming for a reason:
Because of this world's sins.
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In particular, those days
will begin with the punishment
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on the United States and the
British-descended nations
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before engulfing the entire world, as we have explained
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from Scripture many
times on this program.
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But God takes no pleasure in any
of this, and He tells us ahead
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of time so that we will change.
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So that we can avoid punishment.
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That is His desire.
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Consider His loving warning in
the prophetic book of Ezekiel,
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in chapter 18 and
beginning in verse 30...
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"'Repent, and turn from
all your transgressions,
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so that [your] iniquity
will not be your ruin.
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Cast away from you all the
transgressions which you have
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committed, and get yourselves
a new heart and a new spirit.
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For why should you die,
O house of Israel?
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For I have no pleasure in
the death of one who dies,'
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says the Lord God.
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'Therefore turn and live!'"
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In the free resource that
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Understanding Bible Prophecy, you will be taught that one
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of the keys to understanding prophecy is identifying modern
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nations in the Bible, and when you learn to do so you learn
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that Ezekiel's warning to
Israel applies to modern
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nations today--not just the modern nation of Israel.
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God does not want them to go
into punishment for their sins,
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but He warns them, passionately,
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"[W]hy should you die?
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Turn and live!"
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And for you, viewing
today's program.
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Your nation may not turn
to God, and it may continue
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in national sin.
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But you do not have to.
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You, personally, can turn
to God--cease from breaking
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His laws, cease from ignoring His commands, and seek to follow
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the true Jesus Christ of the
Bible, in love and obedience.
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As the Apostle Peter warned
his listeners in Acts 2:40...
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"'Be saved from this
perverse generation.'
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Then those who gladly received
his word were baptized; and
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that day about three thousand souls were added to them."
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You know, though Jerusalem
and its people paid a terrible
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price in 70 AD, some heeded Peter's words and were saved
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from the slaughter that
followed in their day.
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Jesus Christ died for you, so
that you, too, can escape the
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snare of sin, turn, and be free.
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But you must choose to repent.
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May God give you the strength
to follow Him and to commit
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your life to Him.
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Part of the purpose of Bible
prophecy is to warn people and
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nations to turn, so that
they can avoid punishment.
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Prophecy isn't just an
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We concluded the previous
segment pointing out that
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the first reason for prophecy
is to warn people and nations
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of what is to come so that
they can repent and change.
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The prophets of old did this for ancient Israel and Judah and for
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other nations and cities such as Nineveh, and God's servants
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continue to do this today, using
the prophecies of the Bible.
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But not everyone will repent.
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Not everyone responds.
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We know that many of you,
our viewers today,
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will choose not to respond to God's desire that you repent
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and avoid what is to come.
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But prophecy has a
purpose even then.
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Purpose #2, today, is that:
Bible prophecy encourages
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those in captivity to repent.
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God had this purpose in mind
when He made this proclamation
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to ancient Israel in
Deuteronomy 4:27-31...
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"And the LORD will scatter
you among the peoples,
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and you will be left few in number among the nations
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where the LORD will drive you.
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And there you will serve gods,
the work of men's hands,
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wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.
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But from there you will
seek the LORD your God,
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and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart
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and with all your soul.
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When you are in distress, and
all these things come upon you
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in the latter days, when you
turn to the Lord your God and
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obey His voice (for the Lord
your God is a merciful God),
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He will not forsake you nor destroy you, nor forget
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the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them."
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God intended that those who have
been punished for their sins and
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in captivity would remember the
words and the warning they had
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heard, and they will begin to
seek God in a way they did not
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before their punishment.
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My friends, the Bible
highlights in Malachi 3:6
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that God does not change, just as Paul says in Hebrews that...
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"Jesus Christ is the same
yesterday, today, and forever."
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For the reasons discussed in
today's free resource, these
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same, ancient promises apply
to modern nations, today.
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Concerning the coming Great
Tribulation, the book of
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Revelation prophesies that
many will learn from their
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suffering and will turn
to God during that time--
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chapter 7 and verse 9 calls
them a "great multitude"
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or an "innumerable multitude."
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In the despair of that time,
they will begin to seek God as
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they never have before, and they
will find Him and the comfort
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only He can provide.
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For those of our viewers today
who watch our program or receive
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our materials, but who never
act on what they read and who,
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perhaps, will find themselves
under the punishment of the
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Great Tribulation, it is our
prayer that you will remember
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these things and remember to
seek God with all your heart,
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with all your mind,
and all your strength.
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He will hear you.
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A third purpose for
Bible prophecy is to:
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Announce the good news of
the coming Kingdom of God.
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If you're a regular viewer of
the Tomorrow's World program,
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you know that this is our
primary focus--just as it
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was the primary focus of Jesus Christ and His disciples.
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In fact, vast amounts of
Bible prophecy--in both the
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Old and in the New Testament--
are devoted to describing
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the coming of God's Kingdom,
what that Kingdom will be like,
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and the role of Jesus Christ
as the King of that Kingdom.
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Time would fail us to read them
all, but look for yourself.
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Read of the miraculous change
in the animal kingdom in a newly
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peaceful world in Isaiah 11.
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Read of people of all nations
and languages coming to
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Jerusalem to worship God at
the Feast of Tabernacles
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in Zechariah 14.
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Read of the removal of Satan
the Devil and of resurrected
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Christians ruling beside Jesus
Christ as kings and priests
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in Revelation 20.
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Read in Zechariah 8 of a world
where children and elderly--
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the weakest of society--are
safe and able to congregate
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and play in the streets.
20:47.679 --> 20:50.882
Read of a world physically
transformed, with deserts
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blossoming into life, and
the lame and sick healed and
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whole in passages such as
Isaiah 35, and of the world
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being spiritually transformed,
described in Isaiah 11:9...
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"They shall not hurt nor
destroy in all My holy mountain,
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for the earth shall be full
of the knowledge of the Lord
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as the waters cover the sea."
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In Acts 3:21, the Apostle Peter
calls these prophesied times the
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"restoration of all things,
which God has spoken by the
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mouth of all His holy prophets
since the world began."
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Regardless of how mainstream
"Christian" churches ignore it,
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the prophetic message of the
coming Kingdom of God is the
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main message of the Bible and
the primary thrust of Jesus
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Christ's message to the world.
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The message of that Kingdom
was the Gospel--the good news
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that He brought to humanity.
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And His true ministers will
continue to preach that
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prophetic witness to the
world until its arrival
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with the returning King of
Kings and Lord of Lords.
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Before we conclude with the
very inspiring fourth purpose
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of prophecy, I want to make
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the days just ahead of us.
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So far, we've reviewed three of
four purposes of Bible prophecy.
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It warns people and nations so
they can repent before being
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punished, it encourages those
in captivity to repent, and
23:53.398 --> 23:57.068
it announces the good news of the coming Kingdom of God.
23:57.135 --> 24:01.673
The fourth purpose is simple,
but inspiring: Bible prophecy
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demonstrates God's total
sovereignty and power.
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In the book of Isaiah, God comments on this aspect of
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prophecy's purpose--in chapter 46 beginning in verse 9...
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"Remember the former things of
old, for I am God, and there is
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no other; I am God, and there
is none like Me, declaring
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the end from the beginning,
and from ancient times things
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that are not yet done, saying,
'My counsel shall stand,
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and I will do all My pleasure,' calling a bird of prey from
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the east, the man who executes My counsel, from a far country.
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Indeed I have spoken it;
I will also bring it to pass.
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I have purposed it;
I will also do it."
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Our predecessor in this work, Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong,
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said many decades ago that there is one most important fact in
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all the universe, and it can be stated in three simple words:
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"God reigns supreme."
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My friend and colleague on this program, the late Richard Ames--
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who is the author of today's free booklet offer--frequently
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reminded others of this inspiring truth, and I have
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benefited from the passion, clarity, and focus it gave him
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in his life.
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Prophecy teaches us
that God reigns supreme.
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It is meant to remind us that
all of history--both history
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past and the rest of human
history that is yet to unfold--
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is all under the care and providential guidance of a
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loving and All-Powerful Creator.
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What does this mean?
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It means that His purposes
will be fulfilled.
25:41.339 --> 25:44.809
His plan of salvation,
climaxing in the Kingdom of God
25:44.876 --> 25:49.648
and the transformation of His people into glorious children in
25:49.714 --> 25:52.918
that Kingdom will come to pass.
25:52.984 --> 25:55.487
The removal of Satan the
Devil for all eternity
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will come to pass.
25:57.689 --> 26:02.093
The complete purification and
utter transformation of this
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world will come to pass.
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God has declared it.
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And He is not only the God
who announces prophecy, but
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He is the God who has the
power to make His prophecies
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come to pass.
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But this lesson goes beyond
the grand picture and should
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touch us in the smaller
picture, as well.
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A God of prophecy who has the
power to declare the end from
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the beginning is also a God in
whom we can place our trust...
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He's a God with whom we can
share our hopes, our dreams,
26:36.361 --> 26:37.929
and our concerns...
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He's a God who knows our
purpose and has it in sight,
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even when we don't.
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He's a God we can obey and place
ourselves 100% in His hands,
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even under threat of persecution
or harm, because we know that
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in His hands is the best
possible place we can be.
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Indeed, Bible prophecy does declare God's sovereignty
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and power.
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And it reminds us that the one
who lovingly demands our loyalty
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and obedience is truly worthy
of that loyalty and obedience,
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for He is God,
and He reigns supreme.
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