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The World Before the Flood | Rick Renner · The Week in Bible Prophecy

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  Speaker 1: The Week in Bible Prophecy, a Prophecy Watchers podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, I'm Jerry Steerman of Prophecy Watchers, and across the
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  Speaker 2: table from me is an author and, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: a Bible teacher of the first my dude who is
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  Speaker 2: named Thank you, Rick Renner.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so glad to be with you. Gary.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Rick, it's going to be good because you've got
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  Speaker 2: a book here and it's right in front of me,
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  Speaker 2: and it's called The World Before the Flood. And when
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  Speaker 2: you first think about that, you know what, I don't
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  Speaker 2: need to know any more than I already know about
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  Speaker 2: the world before the flood, do I? Well, there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot to know about the world before the flood, but
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  Speaker 2: it's not usually taught in church.
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  Speaker 1: And we all grew up in church thinking that we
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  Speaker 1: knew the story of Noah's Ark, that it was no
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  Speaker 1: and a bunch of animals on a bode and then
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  Speaker 1: the rainbow appeared, and that's basically all the people know.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot to the.
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  Speaker 2: Story, a lot, and it has very very very powerful connotations.
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  Speaker 1: This is significance for us right now. Yeah, very strong.
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  Speaker 2: And let's get into that all right, because I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: that people heard you say that, how can that be?
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  Speaker 1: Can I first tell you where I live? Sure? I
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  Speaker 1: live in Moscow, Russia. And in nineteen ninety one I
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  Speaker 1: was invited to speak in the first above ground Bible
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  Speaker 1: school in the history of the Soviet Union. Really, so
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  Speaker 1: I went, and gary, to be honest, I did not
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  Speaker 1: want to go. I was angry about growing. I did
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  Speaker 1: not want to go to the mission field. I was
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  Speaker 1: busy traveling and teaching. But somebody kind of conned me
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  Speaker 1: into a mission trip. So I got into that school
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  Speaker 1: and looked at two hundred and twenty students, most of
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  Speaker 1: them from families where their fathers and their grandparents had
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  Speaker 1: spent time in prison for their faith, and now they
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  Speaker 1: were there to study the Bible for the first time
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  Speaker 1: in seventy years. And when I stood up to speak
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  Speaker 1: to those students, the first time I opened my Bible
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  Speaker 1: and I heard the Holy spirits say, are you ready
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  Speaker 1: for this?
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  Speaker 2: I'm ready.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to your new home. I almost fell on the
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  Speaker 1: floor because I knew I heard the Lord speak to me.
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  Speaker 1: And the whole time I taught that session, looking at
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  Speaker 1: those students, I kept thinking, welcome to my new home.
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  Speaker 1: And that is how my family was called to the
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  Speaker 1: Soviet Union, and we actually moved to the Soviet Union
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  Speaker 1: when it was still the Soviet Union.
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  Speaker 2: And you know what my reaction to this is, that's
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  Speaker 2: probably the last place on Earth I would want to
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  Speaker 2: think of myself as going to live permanently, to move
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  Speaker 2: your family, move the family and everything.
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  Speaker 1: And at that time, it was still the bastion of
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  Speaker 1: communism and atheism and deficits. Everywhere. You had to stand
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  Speaker 1: in line to get bread. There was no sugar, there
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  Speaker 1: was no flour, there was no milk, there were no eggs.
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  Speaker 1: I remember thinking where did the chickens go? You couldn't
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  Speaker 1: buy gas for the car. It was in total collapse.
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  Speaker 1: But the hearts were wide open and it was a
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  Speaker 1: prime moment for the Gospel, and we came well, I
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  Speaker 1: cand begin to work.
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  Speaker 2: I can't. I can't let you pass that one up.
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  Speaker 2: The hearts were wide open. Expand on that. But what
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  Speaker 2: are the Russian people like and having come through what
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  Speaker 2: they came through in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the Russian people have a long history of Christianity
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  Speaker 1: because of the Orthodox Church. But when Communism came to power,
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  Speaker 1: Communism was the original woke movement. Ah, when I see
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  Speaker 1: what's happening in America, it is a repeat of what
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  Speaker 1: happened in the Soviet Union. Religion was canceled. If your
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  Speaker 1: narrative was not correct, you would be canceled. And guess
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  Speaker 1: what else carry They began pulling down statues of past
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  Speaker 1: leaders that they no longer approved of. And the Communists
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  Speaker 1: even came up with new vocabulary, brand new vocabulary that
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  Speaker 1: never existed before. They canceled everything in the past. It
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  Speaker 1: was the original woke movement, and they created a world
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  Speaker 1: free of God. And at the end of the Soviet Union,
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  Speaker 1: it was so broken. You know why nobody can pay
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  Speaker 1: for socialism. There is not enough money in the world
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  Speaker 1: to pay for socialism where everything is free. And it
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  Speaker 1: totally collapsed the system. And when our family moved in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one, there was no medications. There were wonderful doctors,
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  Speaker 1: but there were no medications because there was a deficit.
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  Speaker 1: There was very difficult to find bread or just the
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  Speaker 1: most basic products. And when people are desperate, they become
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  Speaker 1: hungry for God. And we moved to the Soviet Union
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  Speaker 1: at the peak of desperation. And when we began to
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  Speaker 1: preach the Gospel, and not just us, but the others
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  Speaker 1: who were coming at that time. People's hearts were wide open.
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  Speaker 1: The Gospel is good news for the poor.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, I am so glad to hear you say. I'm
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  Speaker 2: glad you interrupted what would have been a discussion about
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  Speaker 2: your book. But I really am glad to hear what
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  Speaker 2: you've just said, because I'm looking at America right now.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, America's in trouble.
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  Speaker 2: America's in trouble, going downhill. And because thinking to myself,
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  Speaker 2: what can one do well?
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  Speaker 1: And because history is not really taught anymore like it
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  Speaker 1: used to be taught. Right, these kids in school today,
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  Speaker 1: they don't even understand what socialism is. They think it's
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  Speaker 1: a great idea. They don't understand it doesn't work, and
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  Speaker 1: it has never worked. It is a failed experiment. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm so thankful to God that my wife and I
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  Speaker 1: raised our children during the collapse of the Soviet Union
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  Speaker 1: so that our kids could see with their own eyes
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  Speaker 1: what happens when the world tries to become a socialist
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  Speaker 1: Marxist world. It is total total failure. And it's so
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  Speaker 1: sad to see the West trying to go in that direction.
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  Speaker 2: And it's so clear when you look at it. You
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  Speaker 2: don't have to have any imagination at all to see
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  Speaker 2: that other countries have gone the same way, and look
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  Speaker 2: what's happened to them.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, Gary, now, when we come back to America,
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  Speaker 1: now we come here as visitors because we live overseas.
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  Speaker 1: When I come back to America, we were talking about
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  Speaker 1: this yesterday. We can see the degradation of society taking
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  Speaker 1: place in America. Customer service is a far cry from
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  Speaker 1: what it was thirty years ago. The standard of excellence
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  Speaker 1: is not what it used to be thirty years ago. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: cities are falling into decay. We're talking about the United States,
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  Speaker 1: which used to be the epitome of excellence for the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the world, and we're really seeing a decay
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  Speaker 1: take place in the Western world. And boy, the Gospel
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  Speaker 1: is really necessary.
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  Speaker 2: And you ask, how could this happen? My first thought was, well,
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  Speaker 2: there are those principalities, powers, rulers of darkness in high places.
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  Speaker 1: That's correct.
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  Speaker 2: If the Bible talks about it, they are busy, they
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  Speaker 2: are behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, Paul teaches very clearly that at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the age there's going to be a great
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  Speaker 1: apostasy that's going to take place. You can read about
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  Speaker 1: it in Second Thessalonians, chapter two. It says there's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a falling away, and that Greek word for
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  Speaker 1: falling away, the Greek word up us to see it, yes,
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  Speaker 1: means a stepping away, but is actually the word for
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  Speaker 1: a rebellion, mutiny, or revolt, and it's describing a society
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the age that will try to
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  Speaker 1: throw off everything connected with the law of God. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to go a new way. We're going to be progressives.
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  Speaker 1: That's the term people are now using. We're not going
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  Speaker 1: to go back to the past. We're going to make
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  Speaker 1: a new way forward. And the world is becoming a
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  Speaker 1: lawless place. Lawless does not necessarily mean anarchy and chaos.
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  Speaker 1: It's a world free of law. We don't want to
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  Speaker 1: be bound by what we used to believe. We want
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  Speaker 1: to go a new way.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's kind of like a teenager who says, please,
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  Speaker 2: I'd rather do it myself.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what's happening.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what's happening.
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  Speaker 1: And at the end of the age, a lawless world
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  Speaker 1: is going to produce a lawless man, the Antichrist. Well,
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  Speaker 1: and so the world is being primed and prepared for
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  Speaker 1: that moment. That has nothing to do with this book.
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  Speaker 2: I was just looking at your book as you said that.
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  Speaker 2: The title is the World before the Flood, and let's
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  Speaker 2: just tell it like it is. Okay, we are living
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  Speaker 2: right now in the world before the flood? Are we
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  Speaker 2: are at a period in history described in the Bible
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  Speaker 2: in which dark forces have corrupted mankind. They have and
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  Speaker 2: the result will not be beautiful as just as it was
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  Speaker 2: in the days before Noah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, in the days before the flood, entities from the
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  Speaker 1: spirit realm, we're descending into the earth realm and we're
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  Speaker 1: beginning to interact with people. How is that being replicated
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  Speaker 1: in our time today? Well, look around. Just watch the television.
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  Speaker 1: If you go through the menu on TV, it is
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  Speaker 1: program after program after program connected to the occult ghosts, spirits. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I'm amazed at the plethora of programs about this on
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  Speaker 1: American television.
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  Speaker 2: Propaganda.
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  Speaker 1: It's propaganda, and people are connecting with another realm and
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  Speaker 1: they don't realize the danger of this. And I truly
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  Speaker 1: believe portals are being opened. You know, if you think
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  Speaker 1: about something long enough, it will become your reality.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's face it, people are looking for portals these days.
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  Speaker 2: Well they are, you know, they're out there with their
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  Speaker 2: cameras after dark and suddenly a little light in the
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  Speaker 2: sky comes down. It's saucer shaped.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: It's there for about fifteen twenty seconds, or how about
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  Speaker 2: certain in Switzerland the collider. I mean, they've stated very
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  Speaker 2: clearly they're trying to open a portal, and they said
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  Speaker 2: not only should go through, but to see what we'll
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  Speaker 2: come back through from the other side. And they even
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  Speaker 2: had a religious service at its opening they did. It's
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  Speaker 2: quite shocking. So we're living in a day when, just
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  Speaker 2: like in the days before the flood, people were interacting
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  Speaker 2: with spirits, fallen angels. You could say in a certain way,
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  Speaker 2: the days before the flood were a time of diversity,
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  Speaker 2: equality and inclusion, because they just decided they're going to
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  Speaker 2: open their arms to anything that appeared. And when they did,
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  Speaker 2: they begin interacting with a nefarious realm and the result
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  Speaker 2: was the nephelum, which were born of the women in
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  Speaker 2: the days before the flood. And so in the days
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  Speaker 2: and I'm looking here at my Bible.
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  Speaker 1: And that's a very well used bible. I like that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, love this Bible, and I'm hoping to keep it
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  Speaker 2: all the way because it's been with me for a
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  Speaker 2: while now. But we have in Genesis chapter five, the
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  Speaker 2: Book of generations of Adam, and we come right down
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  Speaker 2: through to chapter six, where we have men multiplying on
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  Speaker 2: the face of the earth. That's population of the earth
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  Speaker 2: grows rapidly.
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  Speaker 1: That's also being replicated to.
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  Speaker 2: That's being replicated. You come to verse fourwards as there
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  Speaker 2: were giants in the earth in those days, and there
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  Speaker 2: the story begins there. And by the way, you have
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  Speaker 2: really captured I think what the Bible is saying.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank you. There's forty four pages of endnotes. That's
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  Speaker 1: a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Because this subject is so important. I wanted people to
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  Speaker 1: know this is not fantasy. It is backed up with documentation.
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  Speaker 1: These things really took place, and in some way they
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  Speaker 1: are going to be replicated again between now and the end.
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  Speaker 2: Now, to our audience, I want to put a question
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  Speaker 2: that will kind of take us in a particular direction. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: study this period of time. What does it tell us?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what can we learn from from re examining
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  Speaker 2: Genesis five and six.
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  Speaker 1: Well, everybody likes to speculate about the future. That's why
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  Speaker 1: people read the horoscope. They want to know what's the
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  Speaker 1: future hold. Yeah, people talk about futurists. They want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about what the future holds. Well, Jesus said in
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  Speaker 1: Matthew twenty four thirty seven, if you want to know
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  Speaker 1: what the future holds, then you have to turn around
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  Speaker 1: to see what was happening in the world before the flood,
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  Speaker 1: because it will be replicated again at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the age. So I understood. If I want to know
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  Speaker 1: what's going to happen, and if I want to help
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  Speaker 1: people be prepared about the future, Jesus said, turn around
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  Speaker 1: and see what was happening in the world before the flood.
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  Speaker 1: And the world before the flood there were fallen angels,
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  Speaker 1: there were giants, and by the way, there were monsters
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  Speaker 1: in the world before the flood. And so if we're
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  Speaker 1: going to have a replication, it means there's going to
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  Speaker 1: be again inter with dark and nefarious forces. There's going
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  Speaker 1: to be monstrous things in the earth, things that should
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  Speaker 1: not be, violations that should not exist. And that's what
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  Speaker 1: we're seeing.
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  Speaker 2: And when we think back to the Greek Roman histories,
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  Speaker 2: they envisioned all these monstrous gods and goddesses.
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  Speaker 1: And that was not imagination, and it was not their imagination. No,
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  Speaker 1: it was not.
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  Speaker 2: Take that idea a little further.
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  Speaker 1: Well, my specialty is Greek in the ancient world, and
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  Speaker 1: in the ancient world, you know, people think, oh, they
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  Speaker 1: just had overactive imaginations. No, no, no, no, no. They
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  Speaker 1: were closer to these events and they remembered these events,
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  Speaker 1: and the ancient world created logic, philosophy, geometry, they created
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  Speaker 1: structures which to this day we don't know how they built.
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  Speaker 1: These were people who were brilliant. They were brilliant, and
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  Speaker 1: they built temples all over the ancient world to these
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  Speaker 1: fallen deities because they believed they were real. They remembered
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  Speaker 1: those events. And if you study ancient mythology, all of
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  Speaker 1: it talks about demigods. A demi god was half angel,
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  Speaker 1: half human, half god, half human, and these were real
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  Speaker 1: creatures that roam the earth in the days before the flood.
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  Speaker 2: To use a New Testament example, there's the story about
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  Speaker 2: Diana of the Ephesians and then the Apostle that's rule
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  Speaker 2: and Diana of the Ephesians was a beautiful statue, huge
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  Speaker 2: and the temple. I've read about how the temple was built,
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  Speaker 2: and Paul came head to head with that system of thought.
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  Speaker 2: That's correct, and it was something that he understood as
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  Speaker 2: having resulted from the fall of man and only that.
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  Speaker 1: But when you read Peter Second Peter, Chapter two, Peter
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  Speaker 1: describes these a that left their first estate and did
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  Speaker 1: the unthinkable. It's very clearly described. Jude describes it. Jude
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  Speaker 1: was the half brother of Jesus, which means the family
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus believed these events were real. Jesus grew up
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  Speaker 1: hearing this story, probably because the Book of Enoch was
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  Speaker 1: the most popular book being read by the Jewish people
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  Speaker 1: in the first century. Isn't that amazing? It is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Then it disappeared from history until about seventeen seventy three.
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  Speaker 1: It reappeared in Ethiopia, and then they found great portions
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  Speaker 1: of it in the Dead Sea scrolls, and everybody realized
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  Speaker 1: while the book that Enoch is real, and Jude quoted
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  Speaker 1: from it, and Jude talks about that moment when the
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  Speaker 1: angels left their first estate, rebelled against God, did the
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  Speaker 1: unthinkable with women, and God put them in chains of darkness.
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  Speaker 1: Now that's amazing, because angels are made to be creatures
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  Speaker 1: of movement, and God put those angels in chain so
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  Speaker 1: they couldn't move. Angels are creatures of light, God put
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  Speaker 1: them in darkness. It was the most severe punishment for
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  Speaker 1: those angels. And the Bible tells Us and Peter and
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  Speaker 1: Jude they're held there until the time of the great judgment.
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  Speaker 1: And in Greek, the word judgment is the word crisis.
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  Speaker 1: That's literally the pronunciation of the Greek word. It will
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  Speaker 1: be the greatest crisis imaginable for those angels that send
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  Speaker 1: in the days before the flood.
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  Speaker 2: And so to study that period gives us insight into
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  Speaker 2: what's happening right now.
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  Speaker 1: That is correct.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, having gone through your book, I
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  Speaker 2: haven't fully read it, but I have read the highlights
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  Speaker 2: at this point in time, just so i'd be a
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  Speaker 2: bit prepared for the conversation I'm having with you. And
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  Speaker 2: I have to tell you that I had a dozen
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  Speaker 2: ideas flash across my mind as I looked at your manuscript,
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  Speaker 2: because it was it just reminded me of things that
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  Speaker 2: I don't often think about, and suddenly it all pops
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  Speaker 2: into focus.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's some people who even believe there's going
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  Speaker 1: to be the reappearance of an aphilom in the period
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  Speaker 1: between now and the coming of Jesus. I can't say that,
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  Speaker 1: but I do believe we're going to see monstrous things.
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  Speaker 1: Monstrous things we already are already are transgenderism, yeah, transhumanism.
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  Speaker 1: We're violating boundaries that were never supposed to be violated,
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  Speaker 1: and many people are doing it just to find out
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  Speaker 1: if we can do it well.
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  Speaker 2: And you see the pictures of the UAPs on television, yes,
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  Speaker 2: being chased by jet fighters and they're real. And then
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  Speaker 2: you hear stories and whole books written about people who
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  Speaker 2: have been quote unquote abducted. That's the word, right, And
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  Speaker 2: when you get abducted, you're up there among these supposed
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  Speaker 2: space creatures, creatures from another galaxy or what we're interdimensional
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  Speaker 2: maybe yeah, maybe interdimensional? And what do they do. They
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  Speaker 2: seem to be tampering with the huge genomest of the time.
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  Speaker 1: That they're trying to interfere with the human.
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  Speaker 2: Deatmas, which takes us right back to the era before Noah.
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  Speaker 1: And that's right. And the Bible tells us that Noah
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  Speaker 1: was blameless in his generation, and that word blameless most
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  Speaker 1: likely has to do with the fact that his DNA
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  Speaker 1: had not been messed with, and it shows us how
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  Speaker 1: widespread this corruption was in the world before the flood.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like Noah and his family were the only
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  Speaker 1: family that was still pure. It was a remnant. Now, Gary,
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  Speaker 1: there's another word that's important. It was a remnant. Do
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  Speaker 1: you know In First Thessalonians four, when the apostle Paul
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  Speaker 1: talks about the rapture of the church I read Greek,
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  Speaker 1: he says those that are alive and remain. And when
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  Speaker 1: you read that in the Greek text, it is verbatim
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  Speaker 1: in Greek, repeated twice in two verses, those who are
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  Speaker 1: alive and remain, those who are alive. I always thought
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  Speaker 1: that meant those that are still a lot when Jesus comes,
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  Speaker 1: But the Greek word really means those that are still
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  Speaker 1: robust and remain. The word remain is the Greek word
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  Speaker 1: for a remnant, and it seems to imply at the
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  Speaker 1: coming of the Lord, there's going to be a remnant
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  Speaker 1: that is still spiritually robust. And that explains what Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith
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  Speaker 1: on the earth. There's going to be a fake church.
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  Speaker 1: There's going to be a real church. But the real
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  Speaker 1: church may be a lot smaller than what we have thought.
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  Speaker 1: But they're going to be caught up to meet the
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  Speaker 1: Lord in the air. It's going to be a divine
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  Speaker 1: rescue operation.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. You know, you add dimension to what we all know,
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  Speaker 2: all of us who have looked at the church age
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  Speaker 2: and looked at the manuscripts that came out of Paul,
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  Speaker 2: John and Peter and people who couldn't possibly have written
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  Speaker 2: a manuscript like that unless they had been led of
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  Speaker 2: the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: And you read about all these things and you try
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  Speaker 2: all your life to put them together so that they
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  Speaker 2: really make sense. So I want to be in the
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  Speaker 2: will of God. I want to do what he wants
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  Speaker 2: me to do. And then you read the Bible, and
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  Speaker 2: we've all had this experience. I think there's no way
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  Speaker 2: I can understand that this is far above me. And
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  Speaker 2: then suddenly you go back, as you have done in
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  Speaker 2: this book, and you look at an era in which
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  Speaker 2: mankind is challenged and God reacts by sending a flood,
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  Speaker 2: and then post flood, man is told to go forth multiplied,
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  Speaker 2: and we have the story of the redemption of man
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  Speaker 2: in spite of everything that the fallen ones attempted to do.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: That's correct, and you capture that so well in this book.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this book pulled it all together for me.
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  Speaker 1: I started writing this book because I saw a video
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  Speaker 1: of what was allegedly the ruins of Noah's Ark and
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: I didn't believe it. I thought it was silly. But
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: I studied and studied until finally I got my whole
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  Speaker 1: camera crew together and we went to the eastern mountains
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  Speaker 1: of Ararat to look at it myself. And when I
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  Speaker 1: got there, Gary, my skepticism just evaporated. The ruins of
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  Speaker 1: Noah's Ark are really laying on Mount Judy, and that
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  Speaker 1: mountain from ancient times was called the place of the Descent.
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  Speaker 2: There it is.
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  Speaker 1: Is that amazing? And do you know those ruins of
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  Speaker 1: Noah's Ark appeared for the first time in thousands of
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  Speaker 1: years because of an earthquake in May nineteen forty eight. Well,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: what else happened in May nineteen forty eight Israel Israel
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: realpior coincidence, So the arc reappeared, Israel reappeared. These are
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  Speaker 1: two end time phenomena, God saying the end of the
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: age is right in front of you. And of course
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: look what's happening in Israel today. Being in the days
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  Speaker 1: before the flood, Noah was building that arc, and we
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  Speaker 1: know from two Peter two eight he was a preacher
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  Speaker 1: of righteousness. He was telling people what was coming. They
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  Speaker 1: ignored him, they mocked him. What Peter says, you'll know
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  Speaker 1: when you sail to the end of the age, because
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  Speaker 1: there will be mockers who will say, where is the
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  Speaker 1: promise of his coming? It is a repeat. And people
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: today are mocking people like us. They're saying, oh, come on,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: this rapture business is crazy. They've been talking about this
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  Speaker 1: for two thousand years. They themselves are a sign that
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: we've come to the end of the.
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  Speaker 2: Age and the demigods are making another appearance, just as
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  Speaker 2: they did in the days of Noah. That's correct, and
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: the that's what the Bible says, as it was in
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: the days of law. That's correct, you know. And you
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: have to say, wait a minute, is that really true?
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  Speaker 2: Well guess it is.
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  Speaker 1: You know, brother Gary, I'm looking at your Bible, and
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  Speaker 1: your Bible is so well used. The older I get,
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  Speaker 1: the more deeply I fall in love with my Bible.
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  Speaker 1: The purity of the Word of God. There's nothing that
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  Speaker 1: should take us by surprise, because God has told us
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  Speaker 1: in advance everything that is coming. And that's why I
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  Speaker 1: wrote this book. I want people to be prepared. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want them to say, oh, what are we going
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: to do? What's going to happen next? Because the Bible
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: tells us what's going to happen. And if we know
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  Speaker 1: what's going to happen, then we know how to insulate
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  Speaker 1: our family, and then we know how to rescue people
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  Speaker 1: that are perishing.
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  Speaker 2: Your book beautifully explains what's going on right now, as
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  Speaker 2: was in the days of noa social being, the days
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  Speaker 2: of the Coming and Son of Man. They're back. They
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: are making an appearance. They are tampering with men's genome,
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: they are tampering with our society. They are slowly infusing
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: themselves into the world, just as they did before.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, Jesus said social would also be the
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: coming of the Son of Man. That word coming through
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  Speaker 1: record perusia, which you know that was a technical expression
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  Speaker 1: used in the Greek world, only used to describe the
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  Speaker 1: coming of a king or an emperor who had the
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  Speaker 1: authority to make every wrong right. Well, and a day
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  Speaker 1: is coming when Jesus is going to return, and he's
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  Speaker 1: going to initiate the process of cleaning things up. He's
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: going to make every wrong right and straighten out this mess,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: and praise God, we're on the winning side. Fallen angels, giants, monsters,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: and the world before the flood, the world before the flood.
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  Speaker 1: You know that has a ring to it because people
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: love mythology. They do big, great stories with great people.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: And you know Jack the Giant Killer, you know all
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: the stories like that that have been fictionalized. But let's
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: face it, the real story is not fiction.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's not fiction. And I think also today about
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: all the super action figures that are being marketed together.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's a replication, this echo from history past. It's still
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  Speaker 1: speaking to people today. It keeps re emerging. Now it's
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  Speaker 1: super Marvel characters, right, it's the same story. Market kids,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: it's called sci fi sci fi, and it's not sci fi.
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  Speaker 2: And I have spent a few dollars myself over the
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: years going to see science fiction movies. Some of them
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: were fabulous entertainment, and as I think back, I think,
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: why did I want to see those? Well, you know,
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: they're just kind of fun. It's kind of fun to
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: imagine these things. But then you take a breath and
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: you say, wait a minute, this is an imaginary version
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: of something that really happened. Really happened.
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  Speaker 1: You know. There's a TV program called Ancient Aliens.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and from.
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  Speaker 1: Time to time I'll watch it. My wife will say
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  Speaker 1: turn that off, So when she's not watching, I'll turn
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  Speaker 1: it back on. And they try to describe Genesis chapter six,
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  Speaker 1: verse two in terms of aliens. All they have to
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: do is go to Genesis chapter six, verse two to
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  Speaker 1: get the real story. We don't have to concoct theories.
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  Speaker 1: We can go back to the scripture.
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  Speaker 2: Those are the real ancient aliens.
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  Speaker 1: That's correct, that's correct. What was their motive, Well, their
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  Speaker 1: motive was to defile the DNA so the Messiah could
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  Speaker 1: not be born. In Genesis three point fifteen, God prophesied
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  Speaker 1: the seed of the woman.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, and they knew that.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: And they knew that, and.
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  Speaker 2: Knowing that, they then proceeded with a plan.
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  Speaker 1: To corrupt the DNA of the human race so the
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  Speaker 1: Messiah could not be born of a woman.
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  Speaker 2: What a story.
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  Speaker 1: That was the plan.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what a meritive.
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  Speaker 1: But Jesus is Lord of all, and he was born
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  Speaker 1: of a woman, and he crushed the serpent's.
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  Speaker 2: Head, and his genealogy, his geno, Yes, proceeded all to Nazareth,
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  Speaker 2: and he was born pure. That's right, pure, and in
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: spite of everything they could.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Do, that is correct. Well, the gospel's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: The gospel is amazing, and I think you've really caught
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  Speaker 2: the essence of it. The world before the flood, how
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: the events of Noah's ark and the blood are relevant
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: to the end of the age, and the word relevant
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: just pops off the front cover.
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  Speaker 1: And one really good thing about this book is as
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: three hundred illustrations. People like pictures, they do, so I
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: wanted people not just to read this. I wanted them
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  Speaker 1: to be able to visualize what this book is describing.
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  Speaker 1: And I really believe this book will help equip people
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  Speaker 1: for the days that are coming and which are going
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: to be dark days and bright days for God's people.
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  Speaker 1: This is our opportunity.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: We've only got a couple of minutes left, and what
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: I'd like for you to do at this point in
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: time is speak to someone out there who's saying, Wow,
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: this is kind of scary to me. I don't know
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: what am I supposed to do with this information.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I would like to speak to you about that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're living in very strange days. You already
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: know that. You've even said to your family and your friends,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: what in the world is going on? Where is this
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: thing headed? Well, the Bible tells us very clearly where
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: it's all headed. And God is not in the business
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: of scaring anybody, but he is in the business of
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  Speaker 1: preparing us. And that's why it is so clearly described
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  Speaker 1: in Matthew twenty four thirty seven that what happened in
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  Speaker 1: the world before the flood's going to be replicated again.
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  Speaker 1: And my friends, God wants you to be prepared. He
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: does not want you to be taken off guard or
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: to be panicked. You've got the word of God. You've
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: got the power of God, you've got the blood of Jesus,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: you've got the power of the Holy Spirit. You've got
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: everything you need to walk in victory and to help
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: people around you that are confused. And there's a lot
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: of confused people. So rather than close your blinds and
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  Speaker 1: hide out in your house, you need to rush to
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  Speaker 1: those that are confused because you have what they need.
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  Speaker 1: You really do, and remember this, When Jesus arrived at
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  Speaker 1: the country of the Gatherines, and that demon possessed man
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  Speaker 1: came towards Jesus. Jesus didn't say, oh, this is terrible,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: get back in the boat and leave it. Beckoned Jesus
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  Speaker 1: to action. He entered into that situation and set that
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  Speaker 1: man free. And the age we're living in beckons you
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  Speaker 1: and me to action. We are needed right now. We've
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: got to step out of the boat, step forward and
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  Speaker 1: do everything we can to help people be free. And
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  Speaker 1: you can do it. And I speak that to you
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  Speaker 1: in Jesus' wonderful name.
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  Speaker 2: Amen, well spoken, Rick Renner, thanks for joining us here
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  Speaker 2: on Prophecy watchers, and by the way, may the Lord
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  Speaker 2: bless your work and the days to come.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Gary Steermann. We will see you soon.