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#137 - Alien Abductions, Jimmy Fallon on Simulation, & Will Faith Last? · Brandon Fogal Evolution

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  Okay, so let's just dive into this. I've got a lot to cover today and hope you buckle up.
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  So Jimmy Fallon, he was on Diary of a CEO and at the very end of it,
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  the whole thing was good, but at the very end of it, he gave a very offhand view of simulation,
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  just what he would think of it if this all was a simulation.
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  Also, I want to continue the conversation of are alien abductions a real phenomenon?
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  Or are they, is it all made up? And then lastly, we are going to finish it off
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  with when Jesus returns, will there be faith on earth?
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  All right. So let's just dive into this. Got a lot to cover.
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  I want to first of all, show the clip that Jimmy Fallon brings this up.
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  He's asked about like, if he's given the final question on that show of it's
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  the CEO that was before him that says, If all of this ended up being like,
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  it's all about the actions that you do.
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  And if that is all that it is, and is there any higher purpose?
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  It was just a general question.
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  He gave a very offhanded answer, but he, it was kind of eye-opened and kind
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  of funny in the way that Jimmy Fallon is and the way he describes it.
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  Let's just hear it, hear it out. Yeah.
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  I wouldn't be shocked if, if all of this was just my, based on what I'm doing.
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  It's fascinating. If that's the real truth, how fascinating,
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  what a great experiment this was.
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  And I hope I passed.
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  And again, I'm a people pleaser.
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  Whoever is playing this game, I hope they're enjoying the game they're playing.
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  I sometimes think it's a simulation.
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  We think we've banned that as a conversation. And someone's playing us.
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  Yeah, they're just messing around. It would make sense.
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  But don't you think whoever's playing us is enjoying themselves?
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  We're good characters. maybe they like started the
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  game and they've like wandered off and they'll oh no it's like toy story they
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  don't play us anymore yeah they just like they're off doing something else and
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  they're like forgot yeah and then they go oh i didn't play that in so long yeah
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  jimmy fallon game oh god no we don't i don't play that game anymore yeah no
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  all right so this that was just.
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  That we are even that people are even thinking about that is is all this a simulation
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  because it's hard not to come to that conclusion.
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  If you throw away God and everything else and trying to explain it,
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  you kind of come from two different camps.
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  It's either the God camp or it's just evolution.
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  The universe is eternal and we're just a very small accident that happened and
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  we suddenly came to maturity and all that and we're just in the middle of it.
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  Or is it a simulation? I think you kind of can go that direction easily,
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  very easily, because just the evolution of
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  that Darwinism does not, is not satisfactory in explaining it.
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  And just that we have all this, like, is there things outside of us that are
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  controlling us that are kind of moving us around and just we're a game that's being played?
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  That would make sense. It is kind of hilarious that Jimmy went to that immediately.
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  And then it was kind of, no, it's the simulation that is debunk. You cannot go.
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  It's, it's an, it's not a good word. You don't use that word,
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  you know, in, you know, in common conversation.
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  This leads me to think about the alien abduction that I talked about the other day,
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  because I look at alien abductions in the same way that somebody outside of
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  the God arena that believes in God or believes in Jesus and all that,
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  they look at, it seems kooky.
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  Like I said before, I think aliens are a real deal.
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  I think aliens are a real deal, But it's also when somebody starts talking about
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  being abducted, for some reason, I get red flags. I don't immediately buy into it.
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  I am skeptical. And I think that is the view of anybody that's out there thinking about God.
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  Yes, obviously, God exists.
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  You cannot explain it away. God exists. And I think everybody agrees with that.
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  Everybody fundamentally, radically agrees with that, even though you might be suppressing it.
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  You know there's a God. That's why the atheist is kind of, that's becoming,
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  you know, off the scene and now it's agnosticism.
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  But it's like when you start saying about people wrote the Bible and wrote the
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  word of God and it's inspired scripture, that's when can cause people to raise
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  red flags. And I think that is the same way for me.
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  I believe there's aliens out there, but when somebody starts explaining of being abducted.
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  I immediately start becoming extremely skeptical.
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  So I can see that vantage point because I know everybody that looks at Christianity
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  and thinks that it's nutso, but at the same time, they would assume there's a God.
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  There's something out there. But this whole thing about there being inspired
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  scripture and the apostles and Jesus, because we know that people aren't perfect.
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  So how could God have communicated and revealed himself through fallible people.
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  And that, so I'm like taking it from both extremes. We know there's a God, I believe in aliens.
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  But then on the people that disagree with God, I'm the same way where I disagree
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  with people that want to say alien abductions.
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  I know I'm convoluting a lot of this stuff right here, but I'm kind of seeing
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  in the same way that somebody, if somebody came to this from the outside,
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  that it would look schizo, would look nutso. because we're talking about kind of the same things.
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  It's some things we know that are real, but at the same time,
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  there's some things that we just cannot buy into based on we know that everybody
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  is imperfect and people are fallible.
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  People are going to just have weird visions, have weird trances that they fall into.
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  And can we really trust somebody communicating something?
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  It's hard for me to trust somebody communicating an alien abduction.
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  And I come to it with, you know, that lens of it's, I don't really buy into it immediately.
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  And I know there's people out there that when somebody talks about the Bible,
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  red flag goes up, red flag goes up.
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  You know, God really spoke into this world. You know, we know there's a God,
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  he's out there, but would he really care enough to actually reveal himself to us?
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  All right. So next, I wanted to look at the conversation that we'd looked at
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  the other day with Timothy Albarino and Michael Knowles, and them talking about alien abductions.
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  This is where Timothy Albarino, he ends it with saying kind of,
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  We've talked about these things happening, and in his field,
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  and he's studied this heavily for over a decade, looking into this.
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  He's had so many conversations about people that have been abducted,
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  and he is ending at that this is conclusive that these are happening.
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  I'll let you hear it, but then we'll discuss it further.
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  And again, having a casual conversation about alien abduction like this,
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  it makes me sound like a nut job.
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  But you have to understand, as I keep saying, and this is what I want the audience
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  to understand, there is a, again, I'm going to use the word conclusive body of evidence.
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  There are millions of people who have the exact same testimony, physical evidence.
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  And it's probably, you know, people that we all know, some of these individuals.
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  So you have, I'm sure, going to be listening to this discussion,
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  you have a lot of people who are going to be thinking, this guy is completely, this dude's a whack job.
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  Well, I'll preempt this a little bit right now. If you, if it's 2% of the population,
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  I'm sorry, if you think you've had an experience like this, I want to see it in the comments.
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  Oh, God. I want to see it and I want to hear it. I want details in the comments.
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  Well, I doubt you'll get details, but I would love to hear that as well.
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  And I know a lot of people have given their experience because I myself have
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  had experiences that are outside of this world that seem outside of this world
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  and that don't naturally make sense to me.
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  And I can't even put into words. And I always attribute it to the more spiritual dimension.
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  But when people say that they have physically been abducted, it's still tough for me.
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  I'm really struggling with that in the same way that you might be struggling with.
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  Did really God say that? Is the Bible really God's word?
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  You know, aren't there so many contradictions?
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  Isn't like how could fallen man, people that are, you know, that are fallible,
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  how can they write something that is?
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  God's, God's word, you know, and the Bible claims that inside of it.
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  I know it's a library, a litany of books that are, you know,
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  composed together and put together.
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  And, but it makes the claim that it is God's word. It makes the claim that it
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  is God breathed. And that's that.
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  I'm just saying that I feel that skeptical nature in the same way.
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  I know there's aliens in the same way that, you know, there's God, there's God out there.
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  He's out there, but I have the same skeptical nature of people really being
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  abducted into the spacecraft and are having those experiences that they were
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  legitimate in the same way that you might think, how is Jesus,
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  how is the Bible true?
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  How is it truly the word of God?
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  How is it explaining actual events, not just tales and things to teach us how
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  to live and giving us an allegorical expression?
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  There's all that in the Bible in certain genres of it, but it is giving a historical
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  account of where we came from and where we are at and where we're going.
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  So I wanted to finally end it on this of talking about Jesus in his ministry,
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  in his life before he died.
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  He says, he says this in Luke 18, verse eight, he says, nevertheless,
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  when the son of man comes, will he find faith on earth?
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  And I wanted to talk about this because I do think that something is going to happen.
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  Alien in nature, something will happen and will shock people.
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  And you think, how can people be shocked? We weren't shocked when the government
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  said that these things out there are really happening.
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  That these UFO incidents are real events that are happening.
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  How could we, and we were not phased by that at all. And in a sense,
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  I think we're going to be shocked in the sense that we are going to put down our Bibles.
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  If this happens, that aliens encounter us and we are, it is front and center.
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  And we see these things before us.
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  At that point, it'll be like, yes, that this is the new man.
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  We are getting ready to be absorbed into a higher level of being.
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  Let's put away our infancy of these Bibles and people are going to massively depart from the faith.
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  And it talks about before all the stuff hits the fan and the Antichrist and
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  the one world government and all that, there will be a massive rebellion and
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  departure from the faith.
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  And is that what Jesus is alluding to when he says, nevertheless,
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  when the son of man comes, will he find faith on earth?
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  Now you could go into, is it the rapture? Is the Christians taken out of the world?
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  I'm still not settled on whether I think that is what happens or not.
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  Really? I mean, you'll hear people think I'm a, I'm a pan millennialist.
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  I believe in, I believe it's all going to work out.
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  So when it all happens, it'll work out one way or the other.
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  It's, I think it's going to catch everybody off guard. Nobody really knows exactly.
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  We can't give a 10-point essay of this is the exact events because the Bible doesn't work like that.
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  Prophecy does not work like that. But it gives us a basic outline and we can
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  see that before Jesus came, there was this painting of this portrait of this
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  person to come, this Messiah, the suffering servant, and it was hazy.
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  And then Jesus came, caught everybody off guard.
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  But now looking back, it all makes sense. It all fits. I think that's going
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  to be the same at the very end.
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  But will people, will there be faith still on earth when he comes? We'll find out.
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  All right. If you've enjoyed this video, hit this other video and we will continue
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  that conversation. I'll see you on the other side.