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The Book of Revelation Was Right, Something Unreal Will Resurface · Off The Kirb Ministries

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  Watch carefully because no one can agree on who the two
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  witnesses are, but I think it's obvious once you see this number
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  1 John the Baptist. In case you've never heard of
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  the two witnesses in the Bible, there's an end times prophecy
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  that God will appoint 2 of his witnesses in the very last days
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  to warn the people to turn back to their living God.
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  This will be one of the last ever opportunities for mankind
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  to finally repent and put their trust in the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  And these two witnesses will be given special powers.
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  They'll be able to perform great miracles, and there they will
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  stand for 3 1/2 years preaching on the streets of Jerusalem.
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  But the prophecy goes like this. The Antichrist at that time will
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  rise up and he will take out both of these two witnesses.
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  And there the two witnesses will lie dead in the public square.
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  And the whole world will actually rejoice at this.
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  They will be so happy that these two witnesses are finally gone.
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  Then there will be those from the peoples, the tribes, the
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  tongues and nations of the world, and they will see the
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  their dead bodies there. They will see them for 3 1/2
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  days and they will not allow these dead bodies of these two
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  witnesses to be put into graves. All right, let's just stop there
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  for a moment. Come back with me in time.
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  Imagine that you and I have gone back 500 years and together we
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  read that verse. We'd be very puzzled.
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  And we think, how could this possibly turn out?
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  How can all the people in the world see these dead bodies in
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  Jerusalem? And yet today, in the year we
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  live right now, suddenly the Book of Revelation, it doesn't
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  seem that far fetched at all, does it?
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  Why? Because because right now we
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  have iPhones, we have computers, we have televisions and one
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  video, just one piece of footage can go viral all around the
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  world in a matter of seconds. Now on that note, as a YouTube,
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  I often get asked how much money do I make when I put one of my
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  videos out there and it goes viral?
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  Well, the answer is actually 0. Because 10 years ago when I
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  started this channel, I made a difficult decision not to run
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  any adverts on my channel. And the reason was this.
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  I didn't want to present God's word before you with any
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  distractions. So if you're not a game seeing
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  ad free content and you are enjoying this video, please do
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  subscribe for more. OK, check this out because
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  what's even more interesting is it actually says in the
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  scripture that these two witnesses God will raise them
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  back to life again. Have you ever heard people say
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  this? Why didn't people just have
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  smartphones back in the days of Jesus?
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  Why didn't someone just film Jesus dead on the cross and then
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  risen from the grave? Wouldn't that make it a whole
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  lot easier for everyone to believe the gospel?
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  Well, when these two witnesses rise from the dead, I'll tell
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  you, every single news station in the world, every single
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  social media platform will have it plastered in front of
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  everyone's faces so that no one can deny that God is real and no
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  one can deny that he moves in the Spirit.
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  So come on Joe, talk to us. Why John the Baptist?
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  Well, Jesus Christ himself said assuredly.
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  I say to you, among those born of women, there has not risen
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  one greater than John the Baptist.
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  Did you catch that? So in other words, Jesus Christ
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  is saying out of all the men in the world, out of all the women
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  in the world, there is no one greater than John the Baptist.
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  And so thus would it not make sense that he would be one of
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  the two witnesses and also friends, did you know this John
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  the Baptist only had a six month ministry.
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  He was only able to preach for just six months and then he was
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  beheaded. And again, would it not be
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  possible that God might say to John, you've got another
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  opportunity to preach, here's another chance to preach
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  repentance, I'm going to unleash you again on the whole world,
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  that the message of faith might go out and the others might turn
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  to my son the Lord Jesus Christ again.
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  But hey, now, did you know this revelation tells us that these
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  two witnesses will be wearing sackcloth?
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  And why will they be wearing sackcloth?
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  Well, in the Bible, whenever a prophet was clothed in sackcloth
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  or when the people wore it, it was a sign that they were
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  grieving over sin, that they were broken.
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  It was also a sign of God's judgement, God's doom.
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  It was a sign that the wrath of God was coming.
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  And so when the Old Testament prophets would wear it, it was a
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  way of saying, repent, turn of your ways.
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  And yet, what do we know about John's message?
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  It was a message of repentance. But I do wonder now if there's
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  anyone watching this video who's thinking, do you know what?
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  I would actually really like to be one of those two witnesses
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  for that for me would be one of the highest privileges in all
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  the world to preach the gospel to prophecy in the end times, to
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  tell people to turn back to the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  And so I really do want to emphasize this.
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  There is no reason why an ordinary believer like you or
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  me, there's no reason why we couldn't do it.
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  I mean, after all, God can raise up stones to witness, to cry out
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  for him. So why couldn't you use an
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  ordinary believer like you and I to do the same job?
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  But one thing you must remember is this.
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  These two witnesses will be put to death, and whoever steps up
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  to the mark must be willing to die.
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  And what did we just say about John the Baptist?
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  John the Baptist, He was bold as a lion.
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  He called out the public figure of the day, Herod.
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  And he says you must turn from that sin.
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  It is not lawful for you to have that woman as your wife.
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  Repent. And what happened?
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  He lost his head for the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  So, my dear friend, if you do want to be a witness for the
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  Lord Jesus Christ, whether it's one of the two witnesses or
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  whether it's to witness for Christ right now in this life,
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  every single one of us must ask ourselves this very big
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  question. Am I willing to lose my head for
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  the Lord Jesus Christ? It sounds radical, guys, but I
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  do believe those days might just come for all of us, even those
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  of us who live in the West. I do believe, though, that the
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  strongest argument that John the Baptist could be one of these
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  two witnesses is found in the last page of the Old Testament.
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  The final prophecy of the Old Testament says that this behold,
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  I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the
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  great and dreadful day of the Lord.
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  So God has promised that just before the final judgment, just
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  before he pours out all of his wrath on the earth, just before
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  all of that happened, the prophet Elijah will appear and
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  Jesus our Lord and Savior. How did Jesus refer to John the
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  Baptist? He said, if you are willing to
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  accept it, John himself is Elijah who has come.
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  But OK, we actually have a little problem here because John
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  the Baptist himself said I am not Elijah.
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  So why did Jesus say he was? Well, could it be that when
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  Jesus was saying if you accepted John the Baptist as Elijah,
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  well, he would have been Elijah for you?
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  But that didn't happen, did it? The Jewish people refused to
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  accept John the Baptist, the vast majority at least.
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  So could it be that God, in his infinite wisdom, is going to
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  engineer another situation where the real Elijah will appear in
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  the last days? Or maybe another reason why
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  Jesus said John the Baptist was Elijah is because, as the Angel
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  of the Lord said, John the Baptist would be operating in
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  the same spirit, in the same power as Elijah, or whatever the
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  reason was. There's one thing I'm sure of,
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  and it's this. I believe that that prophecy in
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  Malachi has not yet been fulfilled, and one day the real
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  Elijah, not the likeness of Elijah, but the real Elijah,
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  will turn up and preach the judgement of the Lord God.
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  So surprise, surprise, you can probably guess who our number 2
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  is. It's Elijah.
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  Now, before I present to you the evidence of why I believe Elijah
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  will be one of the two witnesses, let me first ask you
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  this. Do you believe that John the
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  Baptist is going to be one of these mysterious prophets who
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  turns up in the tribulation? Well, we're going to look at
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  that answer very shortly. All right, Apart from this
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  incredible prophecy that Elijah is one day going to return, is
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  there any other evidence that he could be one of the two
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  witnesses? What about this one?
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  Did you know that one of the signs for these two witnesses is
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  this? Anyone who tries to lay their
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  hands on the two witnesses, anyone who tries to harm them,
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  It is said about these two prophets that fire will come out
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  of their mouth and will devour them.
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  OK, So take that into your mind and then remember this.
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  What is one of the miracles that Elijah is very famous for?
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  He was able to command and fire to come out of heaven.
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  Do you remember those fifty men who were sent by the king who
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  said, Elijah, you must come now before the king.
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  And what did Elijah do? He commanded fire to come down
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  from heaven, and they were totally consumed.
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  And do you remember when Elijah stood before the people of
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  Israel and cried out? How long will you waver between
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  two opinions? If Baal is God, well then serve
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  him. But if the Lord is God, well
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  then serve him. After Elijah pleaded with the
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  people of Israel to give all to the Lord God, he then challenged
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  the prophets of Baal and said, if you're God, if Baal is real,
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  why not tell him to send fire down and command this sacrifice,
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  this bull sacrifice in front of us to be lit with fire.
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  And so the Scripture says, the prophets of Baal all morning, it
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  says all morning until noon, they were crying out, Baal,
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  Baal, please answer us, light this fire.
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  But no fire was ever lit. And then the prophets of Baal
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  looked at Elijah. It was his turn now.
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  So Elijah told the people of Israel to make a sacrifice, to
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  put a bull on the top of it. He then said, pile the wood up
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  and then I want you to take 12 jars of water.
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  So they poured 12 jars of water all over this sacrifice.
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  It was soaking wet. And now if there was ever a time
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  that Elijah needed the Lord God to turn up, it was right now you
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  could cut the tension with a knife.
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  And so Elijah, he looked up to heaven and he said, Lord, send
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  the fire. And what happened?
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  God sent fire from heaven and showed everyone who the true and
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  living God is. But another powerful clue that
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  Elijah is one of these two witnesses is that Elijah never
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  died. You see in the Bible there are
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  only two people who never died. One was Elijah and who was the
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  other? It was Enoch.
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  And that's why some people say that Enoch, maybe Enoch could
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  even be one of these two witnesses.
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  For me personally, here is the most convincing piece of
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  evidence the Bible says and I will appoint my 2 witnesses and
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  they will prophecy for 1260 days.
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  Now just remember that number, keep it in your because it then
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  says that these two witnesses will have the power to shut up
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  the heavens, and there will be no rain that will fall during
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  that time when they are prophesying.
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  So Elijah was known for fire, but he is also known as the
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  prophet who stopped the rain. But how long did Elijah stop the
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  rain for? Well James 5 verse 17 gives us
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  the answer. Elijah was a man with a nature
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  like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not
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  rain, and it did not rain on the land for three years and six
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  months. Now, do you remember for that
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  number 1260 days? If you take all of those days
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  and you add them all up together, guess how many years
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  you get? You get 3 1/2 years.
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  Are you going to now tell me that that's just a coincidence?
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  Come on, guys. OK, before I give you the third
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  candidate, I do want to hear from you.
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  Do you think that Elijah could be one of those two witnesses?
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  Well, in a moment's time, I'm going to give you my answer of
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  who I believe these two witnesses are.
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  But first, number three, Moses, guys, when I first saw this, it
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  blew my mind. In the Book of Revelation, we
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  read that these two witnesses will have the power to turn the
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  water into blood and they will also have the power to command
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  every kind of plague to fall on the earth.
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  What do we know about Moses? Well, through the power of God,
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  he was able to turn the river Nile, the huge waters of that
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  huge river into blood. And he was also, through the
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  power of God, known to be the one who commanded 10 plagues to
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  fall down on the people of Egypt.
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  Why did Moses perform these great miracles?
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  It was to wake the people up and say you need to obey the living
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  God. And my dear friends, that's the
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  exact same reason why the two witnesses will use these
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  miraculous signs. The reason they'll do it is to
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  show the whole world that you need to wake up.
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  You need to realize that God is real, and one day you will stand
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  before him. And if you reject the Lord Jesus
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  Christ, you'll be trapped in hell forever.
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  But if you receive Him, you will have eternal life.
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  You will live in his Kingdom forever and you will enjoy total
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  joy and happiness for all of eternity worshipping the Lamb of
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  God who takes away the sins of the world.
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  All right, but here's the part that really got to me.
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  To this day, no one knows where Moses is buried, but the devil
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  himself seems to have a particular fascination, a
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  particular obsession with the body of Moses.
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  The book of Jude says yet Michael the Archangel in
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  contending with the devil when he disputed him about the body
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  of Moses dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but
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  said the Lord rebuke you. You see, there is something I
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  find quite peculiar and it's this.
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  Why was the devil so concerned about the body of Moses?
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  Why was he not arguing about the body of Noah, the body of
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  Samson, the body of Jonah? Why was it Moses?
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  Could it be that the devil who knows the Scriptures better than
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  any Christian watching this video right now, better than any
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  theologian in any Bible college? Could it be that the devil knew
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  that one day Moses is going to be resurrected and he is going
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  to be one of those two witnesses who is going to bring many sons,
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  many daughters back to the Most High God?
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  I mean, think about this. Could there be anything more
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  convincing for the people of Israel than when they see Moses,
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  their forefather, the one who brought them the law, the one
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  who brought them the 10 commandments, When they see
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  Moses living and breathing amongst them, preaching in the
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  streets of Jerusalem and saying I am telling you the truth,
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  Jesus Christ is our Messiah. There is not another coming.
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  Christ is our Messiah, turn to him.
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  Do you not think that the people of Israel are going to have
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  their eyes opened and there's going to be this huge big
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  revival of Jewish people like the book of Romans talks about
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  where all of these Jewish people are going to turn back to the
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  living God and put their trust in the Lord Jesus Christ?
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  Hey, now the wait is nearly over before I reveal to you.
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  I think these two witnesses are. There's one final piece of the
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  puzzle that we need to think about and it's this.
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  The prophet Zechariah, he talked about these two witnesses
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  thousands of years earlier, but he called them two lampstands, 2
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  olive trees. And you know this in the Book of
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  Revelation Chapter 11, those exact words are echoed.
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  But why are there only two witnesses?
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  Well, all the way through the Bible there seems to be an
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  emphasis on on the power of 2 witnesses.
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  In Deuteronomy it says through two witnesses or two or three
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  witnesses, a word shall be established.
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  Do you remember how many angels sat on the tomb to witness that
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  the Lord Jesus Christ was alive? He was risen from the grave.
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  How many? There was 2.
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  Do you remember when Joshua sent spies out?
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  To how many did he send? He sent out two.
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  Do you remember when Noah was in the ark?
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  How many birds did he send out? There was 2.
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  And then finished the sentence for me.
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  The Lord sent the disciples out in twos.
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  OK, OK, OK, who do I believe these two witnesses are?
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  Well, I could be totally wrong about this, but I believe the
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  answer lies in the Mount of Transfiguration.
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  Come with me. Let's go up that mountain and
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  let's stand there with Peter, James, and John.
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  And let's notice that God himself paired up two men to
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  stand with the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Who were those two men? Moses and Elijah.
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  And I personally believe that God is going to use the exact
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  same pair during the Tribulation and that Moses and Elijah are
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  going to be these two witnesses. Moses will represent every
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  believer who has died in the Lord and was resurrected and
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  brought back to life, whilst Elijah will represent every
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  single believer who has been preserved from the grave because
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  the Lord Jesus Christ has come again.
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  Moses will represent the Law, whilst Elijah will represent the
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  prophets. This might shock some of you,
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  but if you only remember one thing from this video, let it be
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  this. You might never live to see who
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  these two witnesses are, but I want to tell you right now you
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  are alive and there is a man stood in front of you who is
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  witnessing to you, and I'm pleading with you right now to
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  put your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Do you remember a couple of minutes ago when I showed you
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  the prophecy in Malachi about how Elijah will one day return?
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  Do you know what the very last word in that prophecy is?
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  Do you know what the very last word in the entire Old Testament
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  is? It's this word, the word curse.
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  But did you know this in the Book of Revelation, the book
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  that we've just been studying? Do you know what one of the very
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  last words in the entire Bible is?
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  Do you know what it is? It is, it's the word grace.
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  And my dear friend, there is one thing I've just got to ask you
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  and it's this. Are you under the curse or are
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  you under grace? If you're under the curse, it
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  looks like this. You've rejected the Lord Jesus
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  Christ and right now you stand before the Lord God Bear and the
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  law is in front of you. All of the laws that you have
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  broken, all of those skeletons in your closet, they're there.
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  We all have them. Let's be honest, we've all
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  sinned and we as sinners stand before the Lord God and every
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  single one of us will be judged and will be cast until lake of
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  fire for all of eternity if we reject the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  But again, I want to remind you, if you've got breath in your
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  lungs right now, if your heart is beating right now, you have
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  an opportunity to fall under the grace of God and is all you have
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  to do is just come. Come as you are to the Lord
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  Jesus Christ. Come to the one who died on the
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  cross, come to the one who was punished for your sin, the one
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  who was crucified, who was crushed, who was bruised, who
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  was beaten, who suffered there at Calvary for you.
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  His blood was poured out so that your sins can be scrubbed away,
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  so that your sins can be washed away, and so that you can have a
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  new beginning. You see this same God, this same
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  Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, he died, He was buried, and on
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  that third day, he rose from the dead.
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  And that's why if we put our trust in him, because he is the
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  living God, he is prepared to save any Sinner who will humbly
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  say, Lord God, have mercy on me, a Sinner.
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  And so I've got to ask you, will you receive this grace?
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  Will you receive this free gift? Being a Christian isn't about
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  being a good boy or a good girl. It's not about trying to Curry
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  up the favour of God. Now the Bible says that our
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  righteousnesses are as filthy rag.
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  There is nothing good in US. None of us are good enough to
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  save ourselves. And that's what grace is all
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  about. It's about receiving everything
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  that Jesus Christ has done. Grace stands for God's riches at
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  Christ's expense. And God today will give you all
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  of his spiritual riches, all of his righteousness as a gift.
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  And it's all at Christ's expense because he died there for you so
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  you could be forgiven. I've actually remembered
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  something else I've forgot to tell you.
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  It actually says that when these two witnesses are taken out,
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  people will make themselves merry.
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  They'll start sending gifts to each other to rejoice that these
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  two men of God, these two prophets who tormented them, are
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  now dead. Why would people say that
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  they've been tormented by prophets of God?
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  I'll tell you why. It's because these prophets will
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  be a reminder that they need to turn from their sins and put
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  their trust in the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  And these people, these people of the world, they love their
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  sins so much and it's painful to even have the thought of giving
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  it up. One more thing, you're not going
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  to believe this, but I've not just made one video, not 2, not
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  3, but four entire videos all about Moses.
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  And one of them in particular caused a real stir amongst my
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