WEBVTT 00:15:00.670 --> 00:15:03.970 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church. 00:15:04.770 --> 00:15:07.010 It's wonderful to see everybody here this morning. 00:15:07.170 --> 00:15:10.350 If we can find our seats, we will get started with this morning's first song. 00:15:11.270 --> 00:15:15.330 And if we can all grab a hymnal, we'll turn to song number 49. 00:15:19.170 --> 00:15:21.270 Song number 49. 00:15:31.600 --> 00:15:32.780 Let's all sing that out together. 00:17:51.340 --> 00:17:52.820 open up the service now with a word of prayer. 00:17:54.240 --> 00:17:56.200 Lord, we love you so much and we just thank you once again 00:17:56.200 --> 00:17:58.120 for an awesome Sunday to come and worship you 00:17:58.460 --> 00:17:59.440 and sing unto you, Lord. 00:17:59.520 --> 00:18:01.660 We just ask that you fill this room with your spirit 00:18:01.660 --> 00:18:02.500 and help us sing out. 00:18:02.920 --> 00:18:04.100 And it's in Jesus' name, we pray. 00:18:05.040 --> 00:18:05.220 Amen. 00:18:06.580 --> 00:18:08.860 All right, for our next song, let's go to song number 88. 00:18:13.500 --> 00:18:15.600 Just gonna ask that we pay attention on the timing. 00:18:15.620 --> 00:18:17.320 It changes a few times during this one. 00:18:17.940 --> 00:18:18.740 Song number 88. 00:18:21.070 --> 00:18:24.230 Sometime we'll understand song number 88 00:21:38.120 --> 00:21:39.600 Thank you for coming to St. Baptist Church. 00:21:39.700 --> 00:21:40.780 If you didn't already get a bulletin, 00:21:40.840 --> 00:21:42.520 you would like one, just lift your hand nice and high. 00:21:42.920 --> 00:21:45.280 One of ushers can come by and get you guys a bulletin. 00:21:45.740 --> 00:21:47.840 On the front, we have our Bible memory passage. 00:21:48.060 --> 00:21:50.800 We're working on Jude 1, verse 17, 00:21:51.160 --> 00:21:53.720 on the inside service and soul winning times, church stats. 00:21:54.400 --> 00:21:56.820 On the right is a list of several expecting ladies. 00:21:57.080 --> 00:21:58.000 Please be in prayer for them. 00:21:58.820 --> 00:22:05.200 Upcoming events, our men's retreat is this upcoming weekend. 00:22:06.000 --> 00:22:08.680 If for some reason you hadn't signed up or something, 00:22:09.040 --> 00:22:11.520 please let us know, but we're looking forward to this. 00:22:13.160 --> 00:22:18.980 We typically meet here around 9.30 or so in the morning 00:22:18.980 --> 00:22:21.400 and then just head out there if you want a caravan 00:22:21.400 --> 00:22:23.620 or if you just want to meet us directly out there, you can. 00:22:24.660 --> 00:22:27.020 and there's lunch provided on Thursday morning. 00:22:27.760 --> 00:22:30.560 Some people don't necessarily make it out for the morning. 00:22:30.860 --> 00:22:33.300 You can obviously come and join us for the evening or whatever. 00:22:33.760 --> 00:22:37.300 I'll be preaching that Thursday, Pastor Enrique Reyes of Springcrest Baptist Church 00:22:37.300 --> 00:22:38.600 will be preaching that Friday evening. 00:22:39.160 --> 00:22:42.580 Even if you're not coming to the conference and you just want to come out to hear the preaching, 00:22:42.980 --> 00:22:46.780 either Thursday or Friday night, you're welcome to just come out and participate. 00:22:47.180 --> 00:22:49.880 And if you need that address or if you need that information, please let us know. 00:22:50.380 --> 00:22:56.660 You can even just sign up and that way and just say like I'm only gonna be there for the preaching. That's great as well 00:22:57.790 --> 00:23:01.610 We also have the FBBF conference, August 27th to the 31st. 00:23:01.830 --> 00:23:03.610 I want to make a couple announcements about that, 00:23:03.650 --> 00:23:05.890 just as some quick reminders. 00:23:06.090 --> 00:23:09.190 We are going to offer a free valet service. 00:23:10.850 --> 00:23:12.870 And what that's going to look like, though, 00:23:12.950 --> 00:23:14.490 is it's going to be off-site parking. 00:23:14.670 --> 00:23:17.010 So we're not going to valet people here at the church. 00:23:17.410 --> 00:23:19.230 We're going to valet only off-site. 00:23:19.330 --> 00:23:20.810 So if people want to park on-site, 00:23:20.950 --> 00:23:22.550 they just have to do self-parking. 00:23:27.310 --> 00:23:30.690 Obviously, we want to fill this up as much as we can, but we realize we probably have 00:23:30.690 --> 00:23:37.110 some overflow, and so if people want to, we'll have some of our ushers and men helping just 00:23:37.110 --> 00:23:39.010 take vehicles a little bit off-site. 00:23:39.130 --> 00:23:45.570 It's about a block and a half away, and it's just kind of a large parking area that's just 00:23:45.570 --> 00:23:46.550 not really utilized. 00:23:47.020 --> 00:23:51.260 I would obviously recommend if anybody's planning on using that, just don't keep any valuables in 00:23:51.260 --> 00:23:55.640 the car. It's just a good habit of practice and everything like that. But essentially, our men 00:23:55.640 --> 00:24:00.580 will help with this. All you have to do is just drive up to the front. We'll have a valet team 00:24:00.580 --> 00:24:05.700 there, and they can help just take your vehicle. And then when you're ready to leave, you can just 00:24:05.700 --> 00:24:10.680 go up to the front again, and they'll bring your car for you. We're planning on just doing this 00:24:11.180 --> 00:24:12.060 as a sample. 00:24:12.760 --> 00:24:20.240 Not next Sunday morning, but the following so Sunday the 24th that am service if you want to just help us out 00:24:20.240 --> 00:24:26.300 And you're willing to allow us to just just get some experience doing some ballet you can do that 00:24:26.300 --> 00:24:33.620 So but we're really looking forward to the conference and we have a lot of different events being scheduled Wednesday night 00:24:34.220 --> 00:24:40.140 It's gonna be the first night of the conference. So I'm not gonna be doing our normal Bible study at 7. It's actually gonna be an hour earlier 00:24:40.140 --> 00:24:47.120 It's gonna be 6 p.m. Is when that service is going to start Pastor Corbin Russell is gonna be preaching for us 00:24:47.120 --> 00:24:50.460 and so you don't want to miss it you don't want to be late and 00:24:51.240 --> 00:24:56.440 We have a lot of activities Thursday morning. We have a family-friendly activity that we'll be having 00:24:57.020 --> 00:24:59.540 We have soul winning in the afternoons 00:25:00.220 --> 00:25:00.660 Thursday 00:25:01.960 --> 00:25:07.260 Friday are also going to be 6 p.m. service times. So they're going to be that Friday morning 00:25:07.260 --> 00:25:14.780 There's also a family-friendly activity at 11. Then there's going to be a singles event from 12 to 2 00:25:14.780 --> 00:25:16.360 We also have soul winning 00:25:18.520 --> 00:25:23.700 Friday night we'll have normals preaching at six like the other few nights Saturday morning 00:25:23.700 --> 00:25:29.760 We have our kids spelling bee. So if you've been working on that and then we'll still have soul winning 00:25:29.760 --> 00:25:35.000 We'll have a park day and we'll have men's football. There's also a 00:25:35.000 --> 00:25:39.640 It's hard to remember all the different things. We have like a men's broom ball event on the 00:25:40.380 --> 00:25:44.720 Friday evening, I believe it is or is it Thursday? I can't remember now. Is it Friday or Thursday? 00:25:45.820 --> 00:25:51.420 It's on the website folks, okay, but I think it's that Friday evening late 00:25:51.800 --> 00:25:53.340 There's a late pickleball tournament. 00:25:53.640 --> 00:25:55.800 It's going to be pretty much from 9 to midnight 00:25:55.800 --> 00:25:57.000 is the time ranges. 00:25:57.440 --> 00:25:58.220 And we don't know. 00:25:58.540 --> 00:26:00.720 We're going to make brackets if you enter in the competition 00:26:00.720 --> 00:26:02.220 and we'll sign times. 00:26:02.420 --> 00:26:04.860 So you'll know specifically when you show up, 00:26:04.900 --> 00:26:05.840 but I don't know right now. 00:26:07.200 --> 00:26:09.460 And anybody that signs up basically allowing anybody 00:26:09.460 --> 00:26:12.180 to sign up until Wednesday night of the conference 00:26:12.180 --> 00:26:14.240 is the final registration. 00:26:15.160 --> 00:26:18.200 We'll make brackets and we'll disseminate that to all the 00:26:18.200 --> 00:26:19.220 people that signed up. 00:26:20.900 --> 00:26:24.320 basically Thursday night will kick off some of those competitions. We have 00:26:24.320 --> 00:26:30.640 men's, women's, mixed, and youth if we have enough people sign up for those. And 00:26:30.640 --> 00:26:36.200 we have some pretty cool prizes. So I'm excited about that. Saturday is gonna be 00:26:36.200 --> 00:26:37.260 a men's football event. 00:26:37.800 --> 00:26:44.900 And we'll have preaching, I believe that's the only night that's different. It's 5 p.m. So it's it's normally it's it's 6 on 00:26:45.700 --> 00:26:53.360 That Wednesday Thursday Friday, it's 5 p.m. On on Saturday and then Sunday morning should be our regular service times 00:26:53.360 --> 00:26:56.220 We are gonna have pastor Reyes preaching for our Spanish service in the morning 00:26:56.700 --> 00:27:03.960 We'll have I'll preach in the morning and then he'll preach in the evening. So a lot of different fun activities and events 00:27:04.560 --> 00:27:07.600 Please just really help us out with guests and visitors 00:27:07.600 --> 00:27:08.680 and things like that. 00:27:09.020 --> 00:27:11.060 Try to be really nice if they sit in your seat 00:27:11.060 --> 00:27:13.620 or whatever, they don't know where to go. 00:27:13.880 --> 00:27:14.840 Please try to help them. 00:27:16.060 --> 00:27:16.520 Also. 00:27:17.280 --> 00:27:22.060 We'll have lots of goodies and stuff to just hand out and and giveaways and things like that 00:27:22.060 --> 00:27:29.580 But if you just help our visitors make sure that they know what they're doing that they feel welcome that you're not mad that they're there 00:27:30.540 --> 00:27:34.260 Also because of seating we're gonna try and add some extra chairs in here 00:27:34.260 --> 00:27:37.080 But we'll also probably clear out a large section on the stage 00:27:37.080 --> 00:27:41.780 And we may if you are willing to allow a lot of your children to sit up here 00:27:42.460 --> 00:27:43.960 probably five to about 00:27:44.460 --> 00:27:50.080 15 that kind of range, you know that kind of an age range if they're well-behaved and they can set up here for the services 00:27:50.080 --> 00:27:54.280 That'll be really helpful if you're a lady who typically does not 00:27:54.760 --> 00:27:58.220 Stay in the service like you pretty much know I'm not gonna stay in the service 00:27:58.660 --> 00:28:03.800 I would we would just ask you don't just take up a rocker in each section with your kids that you would just start in one 00:28:03.800 --> 00:28:06.400 Of these mother-baby room areas that way we're not 00:28:07.120 --> 00:28:10.320 Thinking you're gonna utilize that area and then you're not of course if you 00:28:10.650 --> 00:28:13.690 Want to be in a rocker and then eventually you have to go that's fine 00:28:13.690 --> 00:28:19.310 It's just if you just kind of know like hey, I'm not gonna use it then we just ask to try and not use it 00:28:20.130 --> 00:28:23.050 Also, our ushers are gonna be trained to basically move people around 00:28:23.050 --> 00:28:27.570 So if you need to be adjusted or moved they kind of are prietra is a single guys get the least priority 00:28:27.570 --> 00:28:31.930 So you're most likely to get moved and then our members are second 00:28:31.930 --> 00:28:37.270 So we would probably ask a member to try to move or adjust if we can just to accommodate people 00:28:37.860 --> 00:28:41.900 We also may add some extra chairs just in this walkway area once everybody's seated, 00:28:42.440 --> 00:28:46.600 and we'll try to get them out immediately right after the service so people can freely walk again. 00:28:46.840 --> 00:28:48.920 But I don't know how many people to anticipate for. 00:28:49.540 --> 00:28:54.660 I do think it's going to be a lot. It's going to be packed, but we're going to have a lot of fun, so... 00:28:54.730 --> 00:29:00.190 Just pray for the conference pray that everything will go smoothly, but I'm really looking forward to it and 00:29:01.250 --> 00:29:08.376 It's it's exciting to put on these kind of events down below. We also have the missions trip Mexico City September 8th to the 12th 00:29:08.990 --> 00:29:14.130 Tyler, Texas soul winning marathon September 27th. There is a soul winning seminar 00:29:14.760 --> 00:29:15.920 It's going to be at the church. 00:29:16.020 --> 00:29:17.380 It's kind of like a soul-winning blitz 00:29:17.900 --> 00:29:19.940 plus a seminar on October 4th. 00:29:19.940 --> 00:29:22.120 This is going to be help led by Brother Marcel 00:29:22.800 --> 00:29:25.380 and he is going to kind of emphasize working 00:29:25.380 --> 00:29:26.980 on just making your gospel presentation 00:29:26.980 --> 00:29:28.020 a little bit more efficient. 00:29:28.540 --> 00:29:31.000 And really, if you're planning on going to the Bahamas, 00:29:31.520 --> 00:29:34.020 this would be a great event to attend 00:29:34.020 --> 00:29:36.800 just because at the Bahamas it's so receptive. 00:29:37.590 --> 00:29:41.370 that it's best if you can present the gospel really efficiently, 00:29:41.510 --> 00:29:43.690 just to maximize the use of your time. 00:29:44.150 --> 00:29:45.070 So if you feel like... 00:29:45.120 --> 00:29:48.780 You could improve, especially this is great. If you're going to the Bahamas, this is great. 00:29:49.560 --> 00:29:53.140 Brother Marcel's been to the Bahamas before, so he has a lot of experience with that. 00:29:53.660 --> 00:29:57.620 He's a very good soul winner, and so we're looking forward to him giving us some tips on just 00:29:57.620 --> 00:30:01.740 being a little bit more efficient with our gospel presentations. If you're new to soul winning, 00:30:02.120 --> 00:30:05.560 or you've never been soul winning, or you want to learn more about soul winning, 00:30:05.740 --> 00:30:09.960 these are great events to come to as well, just to get a little bit more experience. So 00:30:14.440 --> 00:30:17.860 everything to follow, so to really put it into practice right afterwards. 00:30:18.460 --> 00:30:21.620 Our mission's trip to the Bahamas is October 6th to the 11th. 00:30:21.760 --> 00:30:26.780 If you'd like to participate, you just have to send us your itinerary, your flight itinerary. 00:30:27.200 --> 00:30:28.880 That lets us know that you signed up. 00:30:29.870 --> 00:30:34.150 Brother Kenton the bomb was like how many people are coming I was like I have no idea because we don't we don't know yet 00:30:34.150 --> 00:30:37.130 Exactly, but we'll have a big group. And so I 00:30:38.210 --> 00:30:44.870 Don't know what that looks like yet as far as total numbers yet, but last time I think we had around 60 00:30:44.870 --> 00:30:49.870 People that came out there with us. I would anticipate it's probably going to be similar or more 00:30:50.810 --> 00:30:51.970 and so in that case 00:30:51.970 --> 00:30:57.690 We'll probably what we'll do is we'll divide up into two bigger group two groups and one group will go to schools one day 00:30:58.010 --> 00:31:03.970 or vice versa, so we won't necessarily all be coming to one particular school area or something. 00:31:04.150 --> 00:31:08.430 But if you go to the Bahamas, there'll be more than likely opportunities to preach in schools, 00:31:09.530 --> 00:31:14.890 maybe go to their university, plus just normal soul winning there in just neighborhoods and busy 00:31:14.890 --> 00:31:21.190 areas is still very receptive. It's a lot of fun. So if you want to go, it's probably about $750, 00:31:21.590 --> 00:31:25.990 $800 for a round trip flight. That's about how much it's been costing people. 00:31:26.670 --> 00:31:30.330 And you probably made me spend $300 or $400 on food. 00:31:31.090 --> 00:31:33.210 So, you know, probably conservatively, 00:31:33.250 --> 00:31:36.750 maybe like for $1,200, you could probably go on this trip. 00:31:38.090 --> 00:31:40.530 And if you signed up, if you sign up 00:31:40.530 --> 00:31:43.150 in the first section of group, we have housing. 00:31:43.310 --> 00:31:44.910 We don't have housing necessarily for everybody 00:31:44.910 --> 00:31:46.290 if we have way more sign up. 00:31:46.650 --> 00:31:49.770 But, you know, you could probably even figure out 00:31:49.770 --> 00:31:51.630 some kind of solution on that too. 00:31:51.710 --> 00:31:53.750 But we do have like at least 40 plus spots. 00:31:54.200 --> 00:32:00.620 of housing already designated, so people sign up, so it's a great opportunity, it's a lot of fun. 00:32:00.860 --> 00:32:06.620 Everybody that went said it was like a trip of a lifetime, so you can ask whoever you want, 00:32:06.720 --> 00:32:12.020 and really it was an incredible experience the last time we went, and I anticipate this year is 00:32:15.120 --> 00:32:21.500 Pray for that trip as well men's retreat. Oh, here we go. I just got I got ahead of myself leave by the church at 9 00:32:21.500 --> 00:32:23.464 so we'll meet at 9 not 9 30 and 00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:27.120 Some friendly reminders bring a Bible 00:32:28.200 --> 00:32:34.420 Definitely this bring sheets pillow toilet trees towels. So the first year we showed up. I think nobody had that 00:32:35.040 --> 00:32:37.100 and it was like prison camp, literally. 00:32:37.780 --> 00:32:40.500 So, but you know, it's the mighty men, 00:32:40.740 --> 00:32:42.120 so you know, it just is what it is. 00:32:42.440 --> 00:32:47.360 But definitely, you basically get like a rigid bunk bed 00:32:48.240 --> 00:32:51.200 with a prison mat, and that's about it. 00:32:51.520 --> 00:32:53.700 But honestly, it's pretty nice other than that, 00:32:53.860 --> 00:32:57.100 so it's only a couple nights. 00:32:57.400 --> 00:32:59.560 All right, no one comes for the sleeping. 00:33:00.810 --> 00:33:02.410 On the back is our prayer list. 00:33:02.970 --> 00:33:05.570 Please be in prayer for our church family. 00:33:06.090 --> 00:33:07.850 That's pretty much all I have as far as announcements. 00:33:08.070 --> 00:33:10.090 We'll go ahead and sing our Psalm of the week. 00:33:10.250 --> 00:33:14.110 Psalm 139, do not I hate them, O Lord. 00:33:14.630 --> 00:33:18.730 Psalm 139 and our special Psalms and hymn binder. 00:33:19.370 --> 00:33:20.550 Sing it out nice and loud. 00:33:29.680 --> 00:33:33.620 All right, the Psalm 139, let's all sing it out together. 00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:40.900 Surely now we'll slay the wicked 00:33:40.900 --> 00:33:46.960 Surely now we'll slay the wicked, oh God 00:33:48.120 --> 00:33:52.840 Depart from me, therefore ye bloody men 00:33:52.840 --> 00:33:58.080 Depart from me, therefore ye bloody men 00:33:58.520 --> 00:34:14.320 Do not hate them, O Lord, that hate me, do not hate them, O Lord, that hate me, and am not agreed with those that rise against me. 00:34:14.580 --> 00:34:23.700 Do not hate them, O Lord, that hate me, for they scream against me. 00:34:26.510 --> 00:34:31.590 They speak against thee with ghibli 00:34:31.590 --> 00:34:36.830 And thy name in vain 00:34:56.270 --> 00:34:58.090 Those that rise up against me 00:35:48.460 --> 00:35:52.140 Great singing everybody. Now as the offering plates are being passed around, go ahead and open your 00:35:52.140 --> 00:35:57.400 Bibles to the book of Genesis chapter one. That's Genesis chapter number one. 00:36:53.870 --> 00:36:55.530 Genesis 1, the Bible reads, 00:37:23.100 --> 00:37:30.240 God said let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters and let it divide the waters from the waters and 00:37:30.240 --> 00:37:35.220 God made the firmament and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters 00:37:35.220 --> 00:37:37.760 Which were above the firmament and it was so 00:37:38.270 --> 00:37:44.690 God called the firmament heaven and the evening in the morning were the second day and God said 00:37:44.690 --> 00:37:50.230 Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place and let the dry land appear 00:37:50.230 --> 00:37:56.550 And it was so and God called the dry land earth and the gathering together of the waters called 00:37:56.550 --> 00:38:00.370 He sees and God saw that it was good and God said 00:38:00.760 --> 00:38:06.940 Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after 00:38:06.940 --> 00:38:13.760 his kind, whose seed is in itself upon the earth, and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass 00:38:13.760 --> 00:38:19.660 and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself 00:38:19.660 --> 00:38:25.580 after his kind, and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the third day. 00:38:27.290 --> 00:38:31.310 Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night, 00:38:31.710 --> 00:38:35.650 and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years. 00:38:36.350 --> 00:38:41.190 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and it was so. 00:38:41.930 --> 00:38:45.670 And God made two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, 00:38:45.990 --> 00:38:49.790 and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. 00:38:50.300 --> 00:38:57.300 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, 00:38:57.640 --> 00:39:01.980 and to divide the light from the darkness, and God saw that it was good. 00:39:02.660 --> 00:39:06.060 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day, and God said, 00:39:06.560 --> 00:39:14.960 Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. 00:39:15.600 --> 00:39:28.780 And God created great whales and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind, and God saw that it was good. 00:39:29.440 --> 00:39:39.880 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth, and the evening in the morning were the fifth day. 00:39:41.530 --> 00:39:46.710 Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, 00:39:47.130 --> 00:39:50.350 and beast of the earth after his kind, and it was so." 00:39:50.490 --> 00:40:00.910 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and God saw that it was good. 00:40:01.470 --> 00:40:15.370 And God said, Let us make man in our image after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 00:40:15.850 --> 00:40:23.090 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him, male and female created he them. 00:40:23.670 --> 00:40:30.090 And God bless them and God send unto them be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it 00:40:30.090 --> 00:40:36.730 and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over every living thing that moveeth upon the earth. 00:40:37.190 --> 00:40:44.430 God said behold I have given you every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth and every tree 00:40:44.430 --> 00:40:49.030 In the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed to you it shall be for me 00:40:49.030 --> 00:40:55.990 And to every beast of the earth and to every fowl of the air and to everything that creepeth upon the earth were in there 00:40:55.990 --> 00:41:00.170 Is life I have given every green herb for me and it was so 00:41:00.770 --> 00:41:08.830 God saw everything that he had made and behold it was very good and the evening in the morning were the sixth day 00:41:09.870 --> 00:41:12.070 Let's bow our heads for a word of prayer 00:41:12.650 --> 00:41:15.250 Father in heaven, we thank you for this day 00:41:15.250 --> 00:41:19.070 And I pray Lord God that you fill Pastor Shelley with your spirit and help him to 00:41:19.070 --> 00:41:23.890 Preach this sermon to us and Lord God I pray that you help us to 00:41:24.520 --> 00:41:31.180 Pay attention to the message and to learn something new from your word this morning. We love you and in Jesus name 00:41:31.180 --> 00:41:33.000 I pray amen amen 00:41:33.520 --> 00:41:38.440 The Bible keeps reading in chapter 2 thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the host of them and 00:41:39.060 --> 00:41:44.440 On the seventh day God ended his work what she had made he rested on the seventh day from all his work 00:41:44.440 --> 00:41:50.800 Which he had made and God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because that and it he had rested from all his work 00:41:50.800 --> 00:41:51.740 Which God created 00:41:52.400 --> 00:41:56.100 made. These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were 00:41:56.100 --> 00:42:01.100 created in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. So the 00:42:01.100 --> 00:42:05.440 Bible describes very clearly in Genesis 1 leading into Genesis chapter number 00:42:05.440 --> 00:42:09.780 two the creation of our world and what I want to preach this morning is a sermon 00:42:09.780 --> 00:42:13.720 called the history of the world. That's a pretty daunting task, it's a pretty 00:42:13.720 --> 00:42:18.560 daunting sermon title to do in you know one hour but it's gonna be more like a 00:42:21.320 --> 00:42:22.340 You say, how long is I? 00:42:22.440 --> 00:42:25.540 I don't know, but I have a book with me. 00:42:25.700 --> 00:42:26.720 It's called that exact time. 00:42:26.800 --> 00:42:29.460 It's the history of the world that I want to reference here 00:42:29.460 --> 00:42:31.600 because I want to contrast for a minute. 00:42:32.160 --> 00:42:35.240 what the Bible says versus what the world will teach you 00:42:35.240 --> 00:42:39.600 about the history of the world. Now, the Bible is very clear that God 00:42:39.600 --> 00:42:42.980 created the heavens and the earth in six literal 00:42:42.980 --> 00:42:47.320 days. What we would think of is generally 24-hour periods of time. 00:42:47.780 --> 00:42:52.020 If you keep your finger here and go back to Exodus or go forward to Exodus chapter 20, 00:42:52.280 --> 00:42:55.580 we have a couple other clues here about just the timeline. 00:42:56.460 --> 00:42:57.280 Some people 00:42:58.050 --> 00:43:05.190 We'll reject Genesis is literal history. They'll say this is just a metaphor. I don't believe that I believe Genesis 1 is literal history 00:43:05.190 --> 00:43:06.010 It really happened 00:43:06.010 --> 00:43:09.090 Not only that when it talks about the evening in the morning 00:43:09.090 --> 00:43:14.790 I believe it's really a 12-hour period of time a 12-hour period of night a 12-hour period of day 00:43:14.790 --> 00:43:21.350 And it was approximately a 24-hour period of time that happened in one week if you understand our calendar works 00:43:22.570 --> 00:43:25.070 Virtually all of our dating and time 00:43:25.450 --> 00:43:30.250 comes from our solar system when it comes to just the sun and how it interacts with our planet. 00:43:30.650 --> 00:43:36.210 We get a day from the Earth's rotation, we get a year from the Earth rotating around the sun, 00:43:36.910 --> 00:43:41.150 we have a month generally about the moon rotating around the Earth, 00:43:41.550 --> 00:43:48.090 but there's one particular item that's not found in our just astronomical calendar and that's the week. 00:43:48.620 --> 00:43:51.820 We get the week from Genesis chapter number one 00:43:51.820 --> 00:43:53.860 and leading in the chapter number two here 00:43:53.860 --> 00:43:56.360 about the six days and then the seventh day. 00:43:56.680 --> 00:43:57.960 That's why we have a week. 00:43:58.280 --> 00:44:03.540 And mankind still has all of these modes of calculating time, 00:44:03.700 --> 00:44:05.340 keeping track of time. 00:44:05.880 --> 00:44:08.680 We still live on a seven day cycle. 00:44:09.050 --> 00:44:12.190 Isn't that interesting that Genesis 1 told us a seven-day cycle? 00:44:12.530 --> 00:44:16.410 We still live in a seven-day cycle, and yet the whole world lives in a seven-day cycle. 00:44:16.630 --> 00:44:23.230 We're all locked in. Not only that, it's 2025 from when we estimate Jesus Christ's birth. 00:44:23.870 --> 00:44:27.650 So everything's about Jesus Christ, everything's about the Bible. 00:44:28.250 --> 00:44:33.410 We have to understand that that's true. And plus Exodus chapter 20 verse 11 says this. 00:44:34.090 --> 00:44:39.670 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day 00:44:39.670 --> 00:44:42.730 wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. 00:44:43.180 --> 00:44:46.840 The children of Israel observed a literal Sabbath day in the Old Testament, 00:44:47.460 --> 00:44:52.420 and it wasn't a long period of time, it wasn't thousands of years, millions of years, it was a day, 00:44:52.580 --> 00:44:55.700 it was their week. They had six days of labor, they had one day of rest, 00:44:56.200 --> 00:44:59.220 and that continued for the entire Old Testament leading up into Christ, 00:44:59.720 --> 00:45:04.460 and was fulfilled in Christ as He is our Sabbath rest. Of course, this is a picture of the gospel, 00:45:04.940 --> 00:45:07.720 how we do nothing and 00:45:07.980 --> 00:45:09.180 That is a picture of our salvation. 00:45:09.460 --> 00:45:10.260 We do literally nothing. 00:45:10.460 --> 00:45:13.260 We simply rest in Jesus's finished work. 00:45:13.840 --> 00:45:16.800 God finished the work and we entered in the Sabbath rest. 00:45:17.320 --> 00:45:18.600 Jesus did all the work for our salvation. 00:45:18.760 --> 00:45:20.580 He died on the cross, was buried in Rose again. 00:45:21.020 --> 00:45:23.120 All we do is put our faith in Jesus Christ 00:45:23.540 --> 00:45:25.360 and that's what gives us salvation. 00:45:25.840 --> 00:45:27.620 People say that sounds easy, it is easy. 00:45:28.100 --> 00:45:29.780 Salvation is easy, it's free. 00:45:30.300 --> 00:45:31.880 You say, what kind of works do you have to do? 00:45:32.120 --> 00:45:32.360 None. 00:45:32.560 --> 00:45:33.200 You do no work. 00:45:33.400 --> 00:45:35.460 You simply believe on the Lord Jesus Christ 00:45:35.460 --> 00:45:36.940 and He gives you that salvation. 00:45:37.360 --> 00:45:39.120 And that's what the picture of the Sabbath was. 00:45:39.660 --> 00:45:41.220 So there's all kinds of different symbolism here. 00:45:42.300 --> 00:45:42.560 Now, 00:45:43.450 --> 00:45:48.390 If you look in Matthew and Luke, it gives genealogies, and we might get there in a second, 00:45:48.550 --> 00:45:55.450 but it gives genealogies essentially from Joseph's side and Mary's side, and it has 00:45:55.450 --> 00:45:59.970 names that pretty much can be traced all the way back and go all the way back to Genesis 00:45:59.970 --> 00:46:03.450 when we have Genesis chapter number five and we have the list of all the different names, 00:46:06.320 --> 00:46:08.680 understanding of how long that would approximately be 00:46:09.060 --> 00:46:13.620 is going to fit with the timeline of what the Bible gives essentially of how long the earth has existed. 00:46:14.140 --> 00:46:16.140 Now I believe that the earth has existed around 00:46:16.140 --> 00:46:19.920 6,300 years. I had a chart made that 00:46:19.920 --> 00:46:25.300 is just kind of an estimate that I think a lot of people have. If you don't have one, you can lift your hand, maybe we can get you one, but 00:46:26.060 --> 00:46:28.660 it says 6,309 years. 00:46:29.240 --> 00:46:34.500 I am not dogmatic on it being exactly 6,309 years. 00:46:34.860 --> 00:46:36.420 This is just a general estimate, 00:46:36.680 --> 00:46:38.680 and I'm just giving you some kind of a number here. 00:46:39.140 --> 00:46:41.480 There's a few things on this particular document 00:46:41.480 --> 00:46:43.680 that we could really... 00:46:43.950 --> 00:46:48.310 You know discuss and try to figure out like what's the exact right interpretation? 00:46:48.610 --> 00:46:53.250 But just generally speaking give or take at least a hundred years. It's probably dialed in 00:46:53.250 --> 00:47:00.530 I mean it's probably not much more off than you know a hundred years or so from that particular range 00:47:00.530 --> 00:47:02.750 But why do you come to this particular conclusion? 00:47:03.010 --> 00:47:08.030 How could you say the year that's 6,300 years old when you have books like this called the history of the world by 00:47:08.030 --> 00:47:12.470 Alex Wolf that is gonna say something completely different if I asked Google 00:47:12.830 --> 00:47:16.590 If I ask AI, if I ask the public school today, 00:47:16.930 --> 00:47:17.850 what are they gonna tell me? 00:47:18.110 --> 00:47:20.390 They're gonna tell me some kind of an evolutionary theory 00:47:20.390 --> 00:47:22.690 suggestion of history. 00:47:23.210 --> 00:47:28.050 Now, what's interesting about this book is it's pretty much chronological as far as how this book is laid out, 00:47:28.390 --> 00:47:35.450 but the very first chapters or parts of this book is pretty much in line with what you'll learn in public school, 00:47:35.590 --> 00:47:38.790 what you'll learn in college, what you'll learn, what Google will say. 00:47:38.950 --> 00:47:41.630 These are kind of just the hive mind of ideas. 00:47:42.170 --> 00:47:50.470 And they would say that the prehistoric world starts around 7 million years ago up to about 10,000 B.C. 00:47:51.440 --> 00:47:57.520 So this is human origins and this is the first sentence in this book. 00:47:57.580 --> 00:47:59.220 I'm just going to read the first sentence in this book. 00:47:59.760 --> 00:48:06.920 The first written records of human activity date from about 5,500 years ago. 00:48:07.600 --> 00:48:11.860 Anything that happened before that time is known as prehistory. 00:48:12.590 --> 00:48:21.690 We know about this distant era only through the archaeological excavations of ancient settlements and the painstaking work of anthropologists 00:48:21.690 --> 00:48:23.330 examining ancient bones and fossils. 00:48:23.890 --> 00:48:29.310 So even this book will admit everything before 5,500 years is imagination. 00:48:30.760 --> 00:48:35.240 And and that's because it is it's really just they're imagining things okay 00:48:35.240 --> 00:48:39.160 So I just want you to kind of have an idea when you go to the public school system 00:48:39.160 --> 00:48:46.240 Or if you talk to just people out in the world, they'll think yeah, the universe is potentially billions of years old 00:48:46.240 --> 00:48:51.680 Humans have been on the earth for a really long period of time. This is suggesting seven million 00:48:52.240 --> 00:48:56.740 Now, this book could be out of date as far as just what's even most current because they 00:48:56.740 --> 00:48:59.660 change these things and evolve these things all the time. 00:49:00.220 --> 00:49:05.140 Most of the people will suggest that the earth itself is about four and a half billion years 00:49:05.140 --> 00:49:08.160 old which is an inconceivable number. 00:49:08.720 --> 00:49:13.060 None of us can actually truly fathom because this is what's so funny is like our position 00:49:16.680 --> 00:49:18.780 a young earth creation position. 00:49:19.160 --> 00:49:19.820 And this one's a funny man, 00:49:20.160 --> 00:49:22.160 6,300 years doesn't seem that young. 00:49:23.180 --> 00:49:26.280 I mean, you ask a woman her age after she's like 25 00:49:26.280 --> 00:49:27.740 and she's mad about it. 00:49:28.360 --> 00:49:28.680 You know what I mean? 00:49:28.880 --> 00:49:31.480 Think about if she was 6,300 years old, right? 00:49:31.720 --> 00:49:33.740 I mean, that's pretty ancient if you think about it. 00:49:34.260 --> 00:49:36.320 I mean, honestly, if you understood about just 00:49:36.320 --> 00:49:38.920 this area, the Dowsford area, 00:49:39.600 --> 00:49:40.980 a couple hundred years ago, 00:49:41.140 --> 00:49:42.660 it doesn't look anything like it does today. 00:49:43.340 --> 00:49:45.560 In fact, 20 years ago, it doesn't look anything like it did. 00:49:46.140 --> 00:49:52.500 I was actually living here in the Keller area when I was about two years old to about seven 00:49:52.500 --> 00:49:53.060 eight years old. 00:49:53.100 --> 00:49:54.360 I lived in the Keller area. 00:49:54.620 --> 00:49:56.580 It was virtually just grasslands. 00:49:56.760 --> 00:49:57.700 It was just like nothing. 00:49:58.120 --> 00:50:02.980 And now when I revisit those areas, it is just housing and businesses literally everywhere 00:50:02.980 --> 00:50:04.000 that did not exist. 00:50:04.300 --> 00:50:07.180 It looks radically different, radically different. 00:50:08.250 --> 00:50:23.030 I mean 30 years, and in about 30 years it's just radically different, and it's really hard for you young people, you kids, you teenagers, to understand how much things have changed and the world that you live in is maybe not exactly as it seems. 00:50:23.870 --> 00:50:31.190 And history is often kind of just a lot of lies, and when it comes to the public education system, who are you going to trust? 00:50:31.370 --> 00:50:34.430 Well here's the thing, I just say this is literal history and it's all true. 00:50:35.370 --> 00:50:38.550 And then where this generally maps up, 00:50:38.690 --> 00:50:40.070 I say that's probably true. 00:50:40.710 --> 00:50:43.490 And again, this is gonna be pretty much the same thing 00:50:43.490 --> 00:50:46.570 as like an AI, the internet, just the general. 00:50:46.910 --> 00:50:48.410 Go to college and you get educated. 00:50:48.550 --> 00:50:49.950 They all kind of have a general consensus. 00:50:50.350 --> 00:50:51.610 But you know, you ask Catholics, 00:50:51.790 --> 00:50:53.150 they'll have different versions of history. 00:50:53.610 --> 00:50:56.250 You ask people that are of Muslim descent, 00:50:56.510 --> 00:50:57.670 they have a little bit different history. 00:50:58.090 --> 00:50:59.730 People from Asian countries, 00:50:59.910 --> 00:51:00.910 whether that be China, Japan, 00:51:01.090 --> 00:51:01.630 they have different, 00:51:01.730 --> 00:51:03.370 little bit different versions of history. 00:51:03.890 --> 00:51:04.610 You know, everybody kind of has 00:51:04.610 --> 00:51:06.310 their little bit different versions of history 00:51:06.310 --> 00:51:07.410 and different understandings 00:51:07.410 --> 00:51:08.950 and different nuances and stuff like that. 00:51:09.720 --> 00:51:12.440 The Bible has its own version of history and world history. 00:51:13.020 --> 00:51:14.560 And what you'll notice is a pattern of the Bible. 00:51:14.660 --> 00:51:16.700 The Bible doesn't necessarily talk about everybody, 00:51:17.040 --> 00:51:18.800 every civilization, every area. 00:51:19.040 --> 00:51:22.080 It kind of just focuses in on the narrative of God's people. 00:51:23.180 --> 00:51:26.020 And God kind of just focuses history on God's people. 00:51:26.120 --> 00:51:27.240 And you know, I want to talk about 00:51:27.240 --> 00:51:29.760 is the history of the world from a biblical perspective. 00:51:29.900 --> 00:51:31.440 And it's kind of like identifying 00:51:31.440 --> 00:51:34.280 and going through God's people for the most part. 00:51:34.580 --> 00:51:35.740 Now I brought a board with me 00:51:35.740 --> 00:51:37.280 and I'm going to try and illustrate things 00:51:37.280 --> 00:51:38.300 because I'm kind of a visual learner. 00:51:43.340 --> 00:51:47.540 But I just want to plot some things and we'll just kind of talk about how we arrived at some of these conclusions. 00:51:51.500 --> 00:51:52.380 So, I 00:51:52.380 --> 00:51:54.720 have a chart there that tells you exactly where I'm coming to these numbers. 00:51:54.820 --> 00:51:57.460 So I'm not necessarily going to belabor every single point. 00:51:57.880 --> 00:52:02.120 But you can basically add up all kinds of different things in the Bible to get some general 00:52:02.700 --> 00:52:05.260 timelines of events. I believe that 00:52:05.260 --> 00:52:08.440 creation that we read about in Genesis chapter 1 happened around 00:52:08.440 --> 00:52:11.180 4,285 BC. 00:52:12.560 --> 00:52:15.360 So, this is when we have our creation event. 00:52:19.520 --> 00:52:24.300 In 2629 BC, this is when we have the flood. 00:52:27.340 --> 00:52:30.000 Now this is 1,656 years. 00:52:30.360 --> 00:52:35.120 This number is pretty much agreed upon by almost everybody as far as how long this took. 00:52:35.530 --> 00:52:39.070 Maybe this date will be different, but I'm just saying the distance between these two dates 00:52:39.070 --> 00:52:44.570 is typically always understood because we can just add up the ages of Adam and his descendants 00:52:44.570 --> 00:52:46.190 in Genesis chapter number five. 00:52:46.410 --> 00:52:49.330 So Genesis chapter number five just kind of gives us a genealogy, it gives us different 00:52:49.330 --> 00:52:56.190 ages and then we basically arrive at this particular conclusion of 1,656 years. 00:53:04.070 --> 00:53:10.370 From Noah's descendants, we have Peleg, which what the Bible says is in his days 00:53:10.370 --> 00:53:14.430 was the earth divided. Now, I 00:53:14.430 --> 00:53:18.670 kind of understand that to probably be related to the Babel event that's described in the Bible. 00:53:19.130 --> 00:53:24.330 Okay, so that's kind of what I'm putting here. Really when you study a lot of even secular 00:53:25.050 --> 00:53:25.610 sources. 00:53:26.280 --> 00:53:42.180 Now they'll range in dates, they'll sometimes say about 3,000, 3,500, sometimes they'll say 2,500 but most of the more reliable things they'll say around this period of time is when we start seeing written documentation, civilizations, all kinds of different things happening in this particular area, 00:53:42.380 --> 00:53:49.380 and an explosion in different parts of the world. Why wonder why? Well, it makes sense in the biblical narrative that the whole world was destroyed, 00:53:50.040 --> 00:53:53.360 Noah and his family gets off the Ark, takes a little bit of time to populate. 00:53:53.700 --> 00:53:57.280 Then when you have this babble event that's described in the Bible, 00:53:57.820 --> 00:54:00.540 where everybody's language is divided and they spread, 00:54:00.940 --> 00:54:04.580 then you're going to start having civilizations pop up all around generally at the same time. 00:54:04.960 --> 00:54:08.640 And they weren't ugabugas, they were actually intelligent. 00:54:08.800 --> 00:54:09.080 Now... 00:54:10.050 --> 00:54:16.430 Here's again the problem with secular history is they just have weird views about humans, okay? 00:54:16.870 --> 00:54:22.570 In this particular book, it talks about the first evidence as being of humans. 00:54:23.170 --> 00:54:28.090 It says the oldest known hominoid fossil is between six and seven million years old 00:54:28.090 --> 00:54:30.090 discovered in Chad and Northern Africa. 00:54:30.650 --> 00:54:35.730 The second thing they bring up is the Australopithecine, which is four million years old. 00:54:37.500 --> 00:54:40.800 These are just numbers they made up, but they say about four million years old. 00:54:41.040 --> 00:54:45.740 Then they bring up Lucy, they bring up about two million years old, and then they literally 00:54:45.740 --> 00:54:46.580 have a picture here. 00:54:46.680 --> 00:54:47.520 I'm just going to show you a picture. 00:54:49.120 --> 00:54:52.720 This is a picture of one of these early quote hominoids. 00:54:53.940 --> 00:54:56.160 Now, here's what you have to understand about humans. 00:54:57.050 --> 00:55:02.410 A lot of what we understand about evolution and this belief is coming from Charles Darwin 00:55:02.810 --> 00:55:09.110 and it's coming from the British and the British were very racist and people don't understand 00:55:09.110 --> 00:55:14.410 our history very much but the British would go to Africa and they would go to Australia 00:55:14.970 --> 00:55:21.070 and they literally believed that the aboriginal people were these type of people still and 00:55:25.150 --> 00:55:32.470 collect their skulls and put them in museums in Britain to teach this doctrine and say that these are the kind of people. 00:55:32.910 --> 00:55:41.270 This is Wicked False Doctrine, it's lies, you know, all mankind was created at the same time, we're not descendants of animals, 00:55:42.030 --> 00:55:47.990 you know, this is just ridiculous. In fact, I think the British Museum, even in the most recent 00:55:48.710 --> 00:55:54.610 Timeline, I mean maybe 10, 20 years ago, had to like make a big deal about returning some of these fossils, 00:55:55.050 --> 00:55:57.530 some of these skulls that they still had in their museum. 00:55:58.000 --> 00:56:04.920 as collection of their evolutionary theory of relics from Australia and these indigenous type people. 00:56:05.160 --> 00:56:08.940 So, you know, that's what you get with secular history is this kind of stuff. 00:56:09.560 --> 00:56:13.580 You know, with the Bible, hey, we're all the same race. We're Adam's race. 00:56:14.180 --> 00:56:15.320 There's no such thing as races. 00:56:16.040 --> 00:56:20.520 And really, what you understand is that evolutionary thinking is extremely racist. 00:56:22.520 --> 00:56:25.220 And the Nazis were extremely racist in their viewpoints. 00:56:25.820 --> 00:56:29.300 They thought that different people, groups were more advanced than others, 00:56:29.660 --> 00:56:34.440 and there's all these different, you know, basically tears of humans. 00:56:34.560 --> 00:56:41.440 And he was trying to create a master race of white, you know, white skin, blonde hair, blue eyes. 00:56:41.620 --> 00:56:42.900 This is kind of like the idea. 00:56:43.600 --> 00:56:46.220 And there's charts and stuff where you can see 00:56:46.220 --> 00:56:47.600 where they teach these different things. 00:56:48.260 --> 00:56:52.080 And they would say that people with darker skin 00:56:52.080 --> 00:56:53.380 were lower on the totem pole. 00:56:53.520 --> 00:56:54.600 They kind of put Jews at the bottom. 00:56:54.840 --> 00:56:56.460 They were considered the most inferior 00:56:56.460 --> 00:56:57.760 from a racial perspective. 00:56:58.160 --> 00:57:00.080 So there was just a lot of just like hatred 00:57:00.080 --> 00:57:01.800 for these type of... 00:57:02.060 --> 00:57:03.940 physical characteristics that are meaningless 00:57:03.940 --> 00:57:05.380 from a biblical perspective. 00:57:05.520 --> 00:57:06.760 God's not a respecter of persons. 00:57:07.380 --> 00:57:08.100 God doesn't care. 00:57:08.240 --> 00:57:09.680 We were all created around the same time. 00:57:10.340 --> 00:57:12.920 And the variations we have in mankind 00:57:12.920 --> 00:57:15.880 are mostly derived by two different things. 00:57:16.400 --> 00:57:19.120 Number one, that the language was divided here 00:57:19.120 --> 00:57:21.700 and so everybody spread across the face of the earth 00:57:21.700 --> 00:57:26.280 and then based on the earth's physical characteristics, 00:57:26.740 --> 00:57:29.440 it draws out distinctions in mankind. 00:57:30.000 --> 00:57:33.360 And you can just look it up, this is not my personal opinion, 00:57:33.820 --> 00:57:35.880 this is what the internet will say, this is what everyone will say, 00:57:36.200 --> 00:57:41.600 is that skin color is very tightly coupled with your proximity to the equator. 00:57:42.110 --> 00:57:48.850 Okay. Now, since technology and future advancement, we've had a lot more, you know, exceptions 00:57:48.850 --> 00:57:52.870 to this particular rule. But just generally speaking, the closer you are to the equator, 00:57:53.070 --> 00:57:56.410 countries that are closer to the equator typically have darker skin, people that are the furthest 00:57:56.410 --> 00:58:01.290 away typically have lighter skin, and that has to do with a couple different aspects 00:58:04.420 --> 00:58:09.300 But it you know skin color is not like make you better or worse or anything like that 00:58:09.300 --> 00:58:11.480 It's just how you deal with the literal Sun, right? 00:58:11.940 --> 00:58:18.540 Do you need to stay away from getting sunburned to a crisp or do you need that extra sunlight exposure to not die from? 00:58:18.820 --> 00:58:24.980 The harsh winter conditions and that's basically why a lot of that exists the languages and just the physical 00:58:24.980 --> 00:58:30.260 characteristics of the earth just dictate different things that are necessary and the human 00:58:31.200 --> 00:58:34.780 demographics. And that's why we have the divisions we have. Plus, if you have any group of people 00:58:34.780 --> 00:58:38.020 living in the same area for a long period of time without interruptions, they all start 00:58:38.020 --> 00:58:41.560 to look alike. That's just kind of how it is. That's why, you know, you go back a hundred 00:58:41.560 --> 00:58:45.220 years. It doesn't matter what country you visit. You go to Germany. Germany, they all look 00:58:45.220 --> 00:58:50.740 German. You go to India. They all look Indian. You go to Japan. They all look Japanese. You 00:58:50.740 --> 00:58:54.760 go to China. They all look Chinese. They all have like a, like certain physical characteristics 00:58:54.760 --> 00:58:59.280 that are very similar because there's not a lot of mixing and over time people start 00:58:59.880 --> 00:59:00.960 very similar one to another. 00:59:01.180 --> 00:59:03.640 America, we have no concept of this 00:59:03.640 --> 00:59:05.120 because we're such a big melting pot 00:59:05.120 --> 00:59:11.060 and we've had so much mingling in the last 60 years. 00:59:11.880 --> 00:59:15.360 So in 1960, from 1900 to 1960, 00:59:15.680 --> 00:59:20.460 America was demographically 89% white. 00:59:21.180 --> 00:59:25.100 and about 11% African-American or 10% African-American 00:59:25.100 --> 00:59:28.320 with like only 1% or 2% Hispanic potentially. 00:59:28.880 --> 00:59:30.540 And then it wasn't until the 1960s 00:59:30.540 --> 00:59:33.460 that we've had just major demographic overhaul. 00:59:34.000 --> 00:59:35.940 So, and we're one of the biggest melting pots 00:59:35.940 --> 00:59:36.820 of any countries in the world. 00:59:36.900 --> 00:59:39.040 We have one of the most diverse populations 00:59:39.040 --> 00:59:40.120 as it is right now. 00:59:40.500 --> 00:59:42.820 And so just kind of giving you some ideas of things. 00:59:42.960 --> 00:59:44.040 We want, I want to talk about that 00:59:44.460 --> 00:59:46.200 in a couple other contexts here in a minute, but. 00:59:46.950 --> 00:59:53.070 We should just understand why things are the way that they are now. Does skin color matter? No, I don't really care 00:59:53.070 --> 00:59:58.190 It doesn't matter. It's meaningless, but everybody else makes a big deal about it now 00:59:59.230 --> 01:00:03.416 Go over what the first Chronicles chapter the number one. I want to show you that verse and 01:00:06.790 --> 01:00:07.590 2277 BC 01:00:09.110 --> 01:00:11.250 This is approximately when we have Abram 01:00:15.100 --> 01:00:24.040 In 1987, B.C., this is when we basically have the children of Israel sojourning in Egypt. 01:00:24.620 --> 01:00:37.000 In 1557, B.C., we have the exodus in 1037. 01:00:43.620 --> 01:00:45.440 And I'm just highlighting some major events here. 01:00:46.860 --> 01:00:50.160 In this P-leg, I had you turn to 1 Chronicles, chapter 1, 01:00:50.180 --> 01:00:50.680 look at verse 19. 01:00:51.040 --> 01:00:53.080 And under Eber, we're born two sons. 01:00:53.200 --> 01:00:54.940 The name of the one was P-leg because in his days, 01:00:55.020 --> 01:00:58.140 the earth was divided and his brother's name was Jocktan. 01:00:58.240 --> 01:00:59.260 So there's one reference. 01:00:59.400 --> 01:01:01.240 It also brings it up in Genesis, chapter number 11. 01:01:01.380 --> 01:01:02.060 We'll go there in a second. 01:01:03.540 --> 01:01:05.720 A couple hundred years later, we have Abraham, 01:01:06.180 --> 01:01:09.120 who we know as Abraham, and his descendants. 01:01:09.920 --> 01:01:16.400 Eventually, Jacob and his 12 children, Sojourn in Egypt, they are there for about 430 years. 01:01:17.200 --> 01:01:21.380 At that point, then they have the Exodus where Moses delivers the children of Israel 01:01:21.380 --> 01:01:22.340 out of the wilderness. 01:01:22.900 --> 01:01:26.440 Now, if you look up, again, if you look up secular, if you just type into AI or one 01:01:26.440 --> 01:01:28.060 of these things, they're going to give you different dates. 01:01:28.730 --> 01:01:32.170 I gave you a chart to explain why I'm having the specific dates that I have. 01:01:32.430 --> 01:01:34.210 But most of the things aren't even that far off, 01:01:34.350 --> 01:01:38.290 but I'm just saying they will sometimes have some different dates here on these elements. 01:01:40.290 --> 01:01:43.510 Fast forward about 480 years, 01:01:44.170 --> 01:01:46.390 we have Solomon and his reign, 01:01:46.470 --> 01:01:51.070 and that's actually mentioned in First Kings chapter number six. 01:01:51.250 --> 01:01:53.250 Go if you would to the First Kings chapter number six. 01:01:54.150 --> 01:01:57.790 And I want to look at something that's mentioned there and we can kind of talk 01:01:57.790 --> 01:01:59.270 something about that on that chart here. 01:02:01.090 --> 01:02:17.470 606 BC, we have the destruction of Jerusalem, 536 BC, we have Cyrus 01:02:29.150 --> 01:02:38.910 Birth, April 6th, 30 A.D., 3 to 4 p.m., we have death, and I'll get to the resurrection 01:02:38.910 --> 01:02:39.370 in a second. 01:02:39.510 --> 01:02:48.650 So here in 1037 B.C., 1 Kings chapter number 6, let me see if I can turn there real quick 01:02:48.650 --> 01:02:49.050 with you too. 01:02:51.950 --> 01:02:54.830 Solomon's reign and it says it's talking about the fourth year of his reign. 01:02:57.470 --> 01:03:02.270 Verse one, and it came to pass in the 480th year after the children of Israel 01:03:02.270 --> 01:03:06.190 come out of the land of Egypt and the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel 01:03:06.190 --> 01:03:09.830 and the month of Ziph which is the second month that he began to build the house of the Lord. 01:03:10.230 --> 01:03:12.810 So that's an interesting verse to help us with our timeline chart. 01:03:12.990 --> 01:03:15.270 So how do we get to this point so far? 01:03:15.390 --> 01:03:15.510 Well, 01:03:17.650 --> 01:03:21.730 Creation is Genesis 1, so we'll kind of just put that over here. 01:03:21.870 --> 01:03:29.090 Genesis chapter number 1, then when we have the flood, like getting to this point, we 01:03:29.090 --> 01:03:32.330 have these ages, we have basically Genesis chapter number 5. 01:03:32.990 --> 01:03:36.270 So Genesis chapter 5 gives us all of these different ages and timelines that kind of 01:03:36.270 --> 01:03:40.630 gets us to this particular point in our biblical timeline. 01:03:44.010 --> 01:03:46.870 From here down, we have Genesis chapter number 11. 01:03:47.630 --> 01:03:51.190 And that's going to give us another timeline particular chart, 01:03:51.370 --> 01:03:54.650 giving us all kinds of ages you can just keep adding up, the ages. 01:03:57.230 --> 01:04:00.290 This particular period in time, this is like Genesis 12. 01:04:00.890 --> 01:04:06.070 If you think about it to about Genesis 50, I'll put like a six here. 01:04:08.580 --> 01:04:15.460 Genesis chapter number 50 as far as like a biblical period of time from Abraham unto the Egypt period of time and 01:04:16.140 --> 01:04:19.500 Then while they're dwelling in Egypt. This is kind of like your Exodus 01:04:21.900 --> 01:04:23.020 One through 01:04:23.800 --> 01:04:25.760 About 12 approximately 01:04:26.700 --> 01:04:28.560 Then this is going to be your Exodus 01:04:30.140 --> 01:04:30.700 12 01:04:31.840 --> 01:04:36.800 Earth well 13 edges of 12 fine just to overlap there to about first Kings 01:04:38.940 --> 01:04:43.520 Okay, so we can add up the ages in Genesis chapter 5, get to this flood period. 01:04:43.860 --> 01:04:45.960 We can add up the ages in Genesis 11, keep going. 01:04:46.360 --> 01:04:50.040 Then we have Abraham, then we have his few descendants, so when we get it to Jacob, 01:04:50.660 --> 01:04:56.600 then we know the Bible says that they dwelt in Exodus, or they dwelt in Egypt, I'm sorry, for 430 years. 01:04:57.420 --> 01:05:04.500 Then we get to this period where in 1 Kings chapter number 6, it says that 480 years after... 01:05:05.540 --> 01:05:08.080 that you have the fourth year of Solomon, okay? 01:05:08.680 --> 01:05:13.040 Now, there is something on here that we could argue a little bit. 01:05:13.100 --> 01:05:14.660 Go to Acts chapter number 13, if you would. 01:05:16.260 --> 01:05:19.600 There's kind of a 40 year option here 01:05:19.600 --> 01:05:22.140 as far as deciding like how you wanna interpret 01:05:22.140 --> 01:05:25.880 that first king's sixth piece of the puzzle, 01:05:27.700 --> 01:05:28.160 because... 01:05:29.540 --> 01:05:35.088 It says after they left. You could take like the day that they left as when you start counting the 480 or 01:05:36.020 --> 01:05:41.720 another way that I've kind of put on the chart is you you keep the 40 years of wandering in the wilderness and you start the 01:05:41.720 --> 01:05:44.468 Timeline basically once they've kind of left and they're actually in 01:05:45.800 --> 01:05:50.060 The promised land so it's like you're counting the journey as part of that particular process 01:05:50.060 --> 01:05:55.560 Why I would do that is act shop number 13 is the Apostle Paul kind of describing 01:05:56.920 --> 01:05:57.800 a loose 01:05:59.130 --> 01:06:00.830 Timeline of events here. 01:06:12.070 --> 01:06:17.270 And I want to get the start of verse 20. 01:06:17.810 --> 01:06:21.350 And after that he gave it to them judges about the space of 450 years. 01:06:22.800 --> 01:06:29.720 So, you have 450 years from the judges under the Samuel the prophet says after they desired 01:06:29.720 --> 01:06:33.140 a king and gave unto them Saul the son of Sys, a man of the tribe of Benjamin by the 01:06:33.140 --> 01:06:37.460 sases 40 years and when he removed him he raised up unto them David to be their king. 01:06:38.020 --> 01:06:38.280 So 01:06:40.010 --> 01:06:42.950 Obviously, I want to go back to verse 18, though, too. 01:06:43.110 --> 01:06:43.210 It says, 01:06:43.370 --> 01:06:47.490 And about the time of forty years suffered he, their manners in the wilderness. 01:06:48.170 --> 01:06:50.690 So you kind of have him talking about forty years in the wilderness, 01:06:51.430 --> 01:06:53.690 a 450-period time of judges of Samuel, 01:06:54.350 --> 01:06:56.410 and then if you understand the Bible, 01:06:57.210 --> 01:06:58.470 Saul has forty years, 01:06:58.850 --> 01:07:00.050 David has forty years, 01:07:00.530 --> 01:07:01.830 and then you have the four years of Solomon. 01:07:06.410 --> 01:07:12.650 So, if you say, okay, the 40 years they wanted the wilderness, when it was being described 01:07:12.650 --> 01:07:16.690 about Solomon, that's not necessarily when that counted. 01:07:17.150 --> 01:07:21.150 We started not the day they walked out, but maybe the day when they arrived. 01:07:21.600 --> 01:07:24.580 So, it's just basically add that 40 years. 01:07:24.940 --> 01:07:29.640 Then you have 450 plus Saul's 40, plus David's another 40. 01:07:30.140 --> 01:07:38.040 I think if you understand Samuel's life actually ends just shortly before King Saul dies. 01:07:38.760 --> 01:07:41.560 So, really, all you have to do is add David's 40. 01:07:41.960 --> 01:07:43.540 That would get you about 490. 01:07:44.540 --> 01:07:47.400 And again, he's saying about 450 years, 01:07:48.220 --> 01:07:50.320 about the space of 450 years. 01:07:50.640 --> 01:07:52.080 So he's probably rounding a little bit. 01:07:52.340 --> 01:07:54.740 So that'll get you pretty close to the 480 01:07:54.740 --> 01:07:57.960 that we see mentioned in Solomon's era. 01:07:58.380 --> 01:07:59.720 This is why I'm saying that, yeah, 01:08:00.000 --> 01:08:01.580 can I be super dogmatic about this? 01:08:01.740 --> 01:08:04.320 No, could we be off 40 years here or there? 01:08:04.800 --> 01:08:06.560 Yeah, maybe we could in this section. 01:08:07.100 --> 01:08:10.720 Maybe somebody would take that 40 away that I have mentioned there of them wandering, 01:08:11.240 --> 01:08:16.760 and they would just go straight from that Exodus to the 480 years of Solomon's reign. 01:08:17.460 --> 01:08:19.320 But, kind of matches what... 01:08:19.320 --> 01:08:22.200 the Apostle Paul saying, and we see here, 01:08:22.360 --> 01:08:25.300 so that's why we have that little mention here 01:08:25.300 --> 01:08:27.260 on that particular chart of where you have 480. 01:08:27.800 --> 01:08:29.980 Then you give Solomon another 36 years 01:08:29.980 --> 01:08:31.680 because he reigned for 40 years. 01:08:32.120 --> 01:08:36.020 So you understand, Saul 40, David 40, Solomon 40 years. 01:08:36.460 --> 01:08:37.860 Then it pretty much just goes into succession 01:08:37.860 --> 01:08:39.240 of all kinds of different random kings, 01:08:39.380 --> 01:08:43.160 and you can chart this through kings and chronicles 01:08:43.680 --> 01:08:45.700 of their different reigns. 01:08:45.860 --> 01:08:47.940 Some of them are probably gonna overlap a little bit. 01:08:48.280 --> 01:08:50.940 There's one thing that's highlighted, orange. 01:08:51.420 --> 01:08:53.780 It's the six years that Athalia reigned over the land. 01:08:54.680 --> 01:08:57.760 I kind of just had to put the number in there 01:08:57.760 --> 01:08:59.140 slightly different at seven, 01:08:59.620 --> 01:09:01.040 just because some of these things you have 01:09:01.040 --> 01:09:02.800 like three months reigning, three here or there, 01:09:02.880 --> 01:09:04.260 and it kind of gets off a little bit. 01:09:04.560 --> 01:09:06.800 So that's only a one-year adjustment. 01:09:07.340 --> 01:09:08.680 Everything else is just pretty much, 01:09:09.000 --> 01:09:10.700 you look at the amount of time they reigned, 01:09:11.180 --> 01:09:13.760 and then we get to the point where Jerusalem is destroyed. 01:09:14.900 --> 01:09:15.700 Jerusalem's destroyed. 01:09:16.280 --> 01:09:19.960 And then the Bible says that they rested for 70 years. 01:09:20.220 --> 01:09:21.400 It says it multiple times. 01:09:23.020 --> 01:09:25.660 History will tell you that Cyrus, the great, 01:09:26.700 --> 01:09:33.060 he is anywhere from 539 BC to this 536 BC number. 01:09:34.020 --> 01:09:35.380 So I'm not dogmatic on that either. 01:09:35.520 --> 01:09:36.760 It could be a three-year difference here. 01:09:37.430 --> 01:09:44.610 History will say 539, maybe made the proclamation of 538 or 537, or maybe 536. 01:09:44.830 --> 01:09:46.330 It's pretty much one of those particular dates. 01:09:47.130 --> 01:09:52.010 So we can basically say, okay, history tells us this is when Cyrus made the proclamation. 01:09:52.490 --> 01:09:57.610 Go back 70 years, that's where we have this, and then we can just go back, and then we 01:09:57.610 --> 01:09:59.750 arrive here at 4,285. 01:10:01.790 --> 01:10:06.730 How do you get 4,285 BC as approximate creation of the world? 01:10:07.250 --> 01:10:10.690 Well, you start with Cyrus Proclamation, go back 70 years here, 01:10:11.270 --> 01:10:14.490 then you count all the ages of the reigns of the kings in succession, 01:10:15.190 --> 01:10:19.790 you get to Solomon, you go back 480 years to when they arrived, 01:10:20.470 --> 01:10:22.770 and you add the 40 years of wandering in the wilderness, 01:10:23.070 --> 01:10:26.490 you add the 430 years that they were in Egypt, 01:10:26.910 --> 01:10:29.310 then you add just the ages of those men. 01:10:29.880 --> 01:10:34.460 and you have 4,285, which, you know, you fast forward here 01:10:34.990 --> 01:10:38.940 and you come to 2025, that would put us at 6,300 01:10:40.440 --> 01:10:43.120 and nine years is the approximate age of the earth. 01:10:43.840 --> 01:10:47.300 Now, Jesus' birth at 6 BC. 01:10:48.160 --> 01:10:49.300 A lot of people think it's at zero. 01:10:50.840 --> 01:10:52.840 First of all, there is no such thing as year zero. 01:10:53.140 --> 01:10:54.160 It doesn't exist. 01:10:54.800 --> 01:10:57.280 So our calendar went from one BC, 01:10:58.240 --> 01:11:06.160 As soon as it was December 31st, 1 B.C., and it changed the next day, it went to January 1st, 180. 01:11:06.580 --> 01:11:10.360 So there was no year zero, so you have one year off there, okay? 01:11:10.920 --> 01:11:13.480 That's another adjustment you have to make on the particular chart. 01:11:13.900 --> 01:11:19.580 But there is ways to track astronomy that's very accurate. 01:11:19.800 --> 01:11:21.440 You can basically track where stars are coming. 01:11:21.760 --> 01:11:25.340 Somebody had tracked a really special star around 6 BC, 01:11:25.740 --> 01:11:28.680 which is believed to be the star of Bethlehem. 01:11:29.020 --> 01:11:30.840 And that's where Jesus' star is. 01:11:30.880 --> 01:11:34.200 So it's estimated that that would be around this 6 BC figure. 01:11:34.320 --> 01:11:35.400 I believe that it's accurate. 01:11:36.280 --> 01:11:41.400 You fast forward because there's no year zero. 01:11:42.240 --> 01:11:46.940 That would mean that Jesus Christ let's just assume his birthday was after April 6 01:11:46.940 --> 01:11:51.240 We don't know is this December 25th, but let's just say it was after this that would mean that Jesus Christ was 01:11:52.280 --> 01:11:52.720 34 01:11:53.600 --> 01:11:57.160 About to turn 35 that year when he died 01:11:58.000 --> 01:12:03.680 So that would kind of fit again the Bible doesn't say that he had a 3 3 1 2 3 and a half year ministry. That's just 01:12:04.260 --> 01:12:09.980 Folklore that's just what people believe. It's very likely. That's pretty accurate though. If you think about it. He's about 30 years old 01:12:10.380 --> 01:12:14.340 And he dies when he's 34, about 35, that's around that same timeline. 01:12:14.780 --> 01:12:18.440 He could have been close to 31 or something when it said he was about 30 years old or something like that. 01:12:19.140 --> 01:12:23.220 This particular date, April 6th, is a date in which the Passover happens on a Thursday. 01:12:23.740 --> 01:12:27.820 And I've already done huge timeline charts to explain how Jesus actually died on Thursday. 01:12:28.520 --> 01:12:34.380 He would have died at the ninth hour, which is 3 p.m., somewhere between 3 and 4 p.m., 01:12:34.380 --> 01:12:38.300 probably just shortly after it turned 3 p.m., is when he died. 01:12:38.990 --> 01:12:52.670 He rose again three days later, would have been April 9th, 30 AD, sometime between, you know, and I'm just, these are loose estimates. 01:12:58.510 --> 01:13:03.030 Sometime between 1 and 5 a.m. The Bible says that he rose very early on the first day of the week. 01:13:03.390 --> 01:13:06.450 So that'll be our... So we have three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 01:13:06.630 --> 01:13:11.130 We have Thursday day, Friday day, Saturday day. 01:13:11.550 --> 01:13:15.430 Then you have Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday night, 01:13:15.790 --> 01:13:17.930 and he rose early on the first day of the week, 01:13:17.990 --> 01:13:19.170 so you have the three days and three nights 01:13:19.170 --> 01:13:21.810 in the heart of the earth, he rose again. 01:13:22.270 --> 01:13:26.130 Then of course we fast forward 2000, almost 2000 years, 01:13:26.770 --> 01:13:28.730 and that's where we are, which is kind of interesting 01:13:28.730 --> 01:13:30.610 because there's a lot of agendas for a 2030, 01:13:31.010 --> 01:13:32.930 have you ever heard about this 2030 agenda? 01:13:33.330 --> 01:13:35.250 That would be exactly 2000 years 01:13:35.910 --> 01:13:39.330 from when Christ was killed and rose again. 01:13:39.820 --> 01:13:43.040 That's just an interesting anecdote to just throw out there, okay? 01:13:43.940 --> 01:13:46.200 I'm not saying that at the end of the world is 2030, okay? 01:13:46.660 --> 01:13:47.720 I'm not date setting. 01:13:48.200 --> 01:13:52.920 I'm just saying it's an interesting observation that that would be to conclude. 01:13:53.080 --> 01:13:55.600 So this is just a rough history of the world. 01:13:55.800 --> 01:13:56.980 What's a rough history of the world? 01:13:57.980 --> 01:14:00.280 About, you know, 6,300 years ago. 01:14:01.260 --> 01:14:08.540 Now, if you ask a Jew, they'll say that the earth is like 5700 or 5900 years, they all, 01:14:08.700 --> 01:14:12.420 I think there's some disagreement there, but they all try to go under the 6,000 number. 01:14:13.000 --> 01:14:15.320 And we all know how Jews are about numbers in history, okay? 01:14:16.140 --> 01:14:18.020 Could be 6,000, 6 million, you never know. 01:14:18.840 --> 01:14:19.260 But... 01:14:19.280 --> 01:14:24.320 This this number is definitely over 6,000 if you believe what the Bible says 01:14:24.320 --> 01:14:31.220 There's really no way to go under they just kind of want this magical mystical number to just like hit 6,000 right when Christ returns 01:14:31.220 --> 01:14:35.400 But you know if you study a lot of the dates in the Bible nothing's like super magical 01:14:35.400 --> 01:14:38.700 It's like the floods one thousand six hundred and fifty six years 01:14:39.540 --> 01:14:41.340 What's special about that particular number? 01:14:41.740 --> 01:14:44.660 You know you just have you just have like different numbers throughout time 01:14:44.660 --> 01:14:48.040 And I don't think God wants us to know the exact things that are happening or whatever 01:14:49.510 --> 01:14:53.970 So, let's talk about some other things, though, because the goal of this sermon is not just 01:14:53.970 --> 01:14:57.730 necessarily to understand this, but it's to understand a lot of different things. 01:14:58.310 --> 01:15:01.190 Go, if you would, to just go to Luke chapter 3 for a second. 01:15:02.110 --> 01:15:06.136 Again, if you go to Matthew chapter number one, it has a genealogy, and that's... 01:15:06.660 --> 01:15:12.100 believe to be Joseph's genealogy and you can track all the names. I have that on 01:15:12.100 --> 01:15:16.400 that particular chart. You can see Matthew 1 is the first column and it has 01:15:16.400 --> 01:15:21.880 the 14 generations from Christ unto Jechinias and then Josias and Solomon 01:15:21.880 --> 01:15:25.740 and then from David to Abraham. So you have those 14 plotted. Then you have the 01:15:25.740 --> 01:15:29.140 genealogy that's coming from Mary and at some point 01:15:29.550 --> 01:15:34.650 In their distant past, they actually cross back over and then they have the same genealogy. 01:15:34.830 --> 01:15:37.570 But there is enough generations that kind of separate them. 01:15:38.750 --> 01:15:42.390 In Luke chapter number three, look at verse 23. 01:15:43.470 --> 01:15:50.470 And Jesus himself began to be about 30 years of age, being as was supposed the son of Joseph. 01:15:50.750 --> 01:15:51.370 Now why as supposed? 01:15:51.570 --> 01:15:52.670 Because Joseph is not his real father. 01:15:53.740 --> 01:15:57.620 So, this is the kind of the clue that this is the Mary genealogy. 01:15:57.700 --> 01:16:01.500 This is his lineage from Mary specifically, which is the son of Heli. 01:16:01.680 --> 01:16:07.300 So, Heli would have been Mary's dad, and then you just keep going back, right? 01:16:07.500 --> 01:16:09.340 Which was the son of Methat, which was the son of Levi. 01:16:09.680 --> 01:16:11.260 That's where you get this other list. 01:16:13.980 --> 01:16:19.120 I kind of just combined that first 14 on the Luke side just so you can kind of see. 01:16:19.660 --> 01:16:22.640 But then around 15 he gets the semi and keeps going straight down. 01:16:23.060 --> 01:16:26.480 You'll notice that these names start to align at David. 01:16:27.440 --> 01:16:32.780 If you look at the 42nd in the genealogy for Mary's lineage, 01:16:33.380 --> 01:16:36.980 David is there and it's the same as you keep going back. 01:16:37.740 --> 01:16:39.860 The Matthew genealogy kind of stops with Abraham. 01:16:40.530 --> 01:16:44.710 But we can keep going back from Abraham all the way, look at verse 38, which was the son 01:16:44.710 --> 01:16:48.810 of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God. 01:16:50.010 --> 01:16:54.850 So anybody that, you know, wants to know about this and has general interest, you don't have 01:16:54.850 --> 01:16:57.330 to go through this whole chart, you don't have to remember all these dates, you don't 01:16:57.330 --> 01:16:57.730 have to do these things. 01:16:57.970 --> 01:17:01.290 This is the few things that I say, hey, let's go to Luke 3. 01:17:02.030 --> 01:17:03.990 It has Jesus Christ right here. 01:17:06.470 --> 01:17:09.970 which is the Son of God, and I'll go to one more place, Exodus 2011, 01:17:10.710 --> 01:17:12.130 which we already read, and it says, 01:17:12.250 --> 01:17:14.550 For in six days the Lord made the heaven, the earth, the sea, 01:17:14.570 --> 01:17:16.390 and all that in them is in rest of the seventh day. 01:17:17.310 --> 01:17:19.050 So we can go all the way back to Adam. 01:17:19.310 --> 01:17:21.350 We know it was just another tag on six days. 01:17:21.990 --> 01:17:23.710 That can't be billions of years old. 01:17:24.390 --> 01:17:27.470 This is not a genealogy of billions of years old. 01:17:27.910 --> 01:17:30.510 This obviously is going to fit this general timeline, 01:17:30.630 --> 01:17:33.130 and you can kind of see these names fitting through history, 01:17:33.130 --> 01:17:34.510 and so that kind of gives us an idea. 01:17:35.030 --> 01:17:40.230 So, that's just kind of give you some way to explain these somewhat more difficult concepts 01:17:40.230 --> 01:17:42.010 in a pretty relatively quick fashion. 01:17:42.370 --> 01:17:46.370 If they don't believe, hey, this is an actual genealogy of Jesus, or that God made it in 01:17:46.370 --> 01:17:48.990 six days, they're just not going to believe it. 01:17:49.030 --> 01:17:52.250 I mean, there's not really much more you can do, but that's just an easy way to kind 01:17:52.250 --> 01:17:54.490 of illustrate some of these particular facts. 01:17:55.330 --> 01:17:57.830 Go back to Genesis chapter 10, if you would, Genesis chapter number 10. 01:17:59.070 --> 01:18:03.850 Let's talk about some of this, the way the world looks, why the world is the way that 01:18:05.560 --> 01:18:08.100 Well Genesis chapter number 10 look at verse 1 now 01:18:08.100 --> 01:18:14.180 These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth and under them were sons born after the flood 01:18:14.180 --> 01:18:20.840 The sons of Japheth, Gomor and Magog and Maidae and Javan and Tubul and Meshach and Tyrus and the sons of Gomor, Ashkenaz, 01:18:20.960 --> 01:18:24.180 Rifath and Togomar and the sons of Javan, 01:18:24.800 --> 01:18:32.080 Elisha and Tarshish Kiddum and Dodanum. By these were the Isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands everyone after his tongue after their families in their 01:18:32.080 --> 01:18:33.640 nations. Now it goes to Ham. 01:18:37.490 --> 01:18:46.130 flip. All right. And I can't do that. Sorry. I drew this wrong. I'm going to have to rotate it. 01:18:50.930 --> 01:18:54.070 All right. So just to give you some kind of an idea. 01:18:54.700 --> 01:18:58.960 the world and hopefully you can kind of generally see this outline this is our 01:18:58.960 --> 01:19:03.240 Europe this is our Spain this is your Italian boot so Italy kind of looks like 01:19:03.240 --> 01:19:08.560 a boat boot here's Greece and Athens here's kind of Asia Minor or Turkey as 01:19:08.560 --> 01:19:11.240 we would describe it and if my proportions are off please forgive me 01:19:11.240 --> 01:19:15.200 this is not an accurate to scale drawing whatsoever all right neither are any 01:19:15.200 --> 01:19:20.900 maps that you ever see in fact you know it's the weirdest thing Russia is not 01:19:22.640 --> 01:19:28.220 So, Russia is actually like almost double the size on a map than it is in real life. 01:19:28.580 --> 01:19:33.740 So, if you ever look at a map because of the flat, because when you spread it out, it just like really gets elongated. 01:19:34.220 --> 01:19:36.660 Russia is still very large, but it's just not as large. 01:19:36.780 --> 01:19:40.440 So, sometimes things look differently on a flat map because we live on a globe. 01:19:40.740 --> 01:19:41.580 Sorry, Flat Earthers. 01:19:42.120 --> 01:19:50.820 This is the Arabian Peninsula, here's Africa, you know, Egypt's kind of in this region, generally speaking. 01:19:52.360 --> 01:19:56.020 Somewhere here in the mountains of Ararat we have 01:19:57.260 --> 01:19:59.800 Noah and his sons getting off the ark, okay? 01:20:00.140 --> 01:20:03.220 And from this particular point is where we're going to kind of have this spread. 01:20:03.680 --> 01:20:07.160 The Bible talks about the sons of Japheth and their descendants, 01:20:07.640 --> 01:20:10.680 and you can look up all kinds of maps, other people's beliefs, 01:20:11.040 --> 01:20:14.480 and I think it's just generally true. They're going to say that the sons of 01:20:14.480 --> 01:20:18.100 Japheth are basically going to inhabit, you know, this part of the world 01:20:18.100 --> 01:20:22.080 and this kind of part of the world. It's kind of the northern section. This is where Japheth went. 01:20:22.520 --> 01:20:25.380 Specifically, Javan is basically understood as Greece. 01:20:25.870 --> 01:20:28.250 Okay, so Javan is understood as going here as Greece. 01:20:28.970 --> 01:20:30.190 Then you're gonna have the sons of Shem. 01:20:30.730 --> 01:20:33.570 They're basically gonna inhabit this particular area 01:20:34.090 --> 01:20:35.530 that we know, and this is where you get the idea 01:20:35.530 --> 01:20:36.290 of a Semiite. 01:20:36.730 --> 01:20:38.750 And when they say people are anti-Semitic, 01:20:39.070 --> 01:20:40.830 what they're saying is the descendants of Shem. 01:20:41.570 --> 01:20:43.370 And what most people don't understand 01:20:43.370 --> 01:20:45.410 is the descendants of Shem is not Jews. 01:20:46.070 --> 01:20:47.550 Jews are A. 01:20:48.680 --> 01:20:52.580 classification within the broad umbrella of Shem or Semitic. 01:20:52.800 --> 01:20:55.300 But Semitic includes also Ishmael, 01:20:55.620 --> 01:20:57.420 and it includes all of the Muslims 01:20:57.420 --> 01:20:58.900 and any of those group of people. 01:20:59.000 --> 01:21:00.500 So if you're quote anti-Semitic, 01:21:00.820 --> 01:21:03.080 truly, you would just be against everybody 01:21:03.080 --> 01:21:05.380 from the Middle East, not just a particular 01:21:05.380 --> 01:21:07.740 specific group of bankers, okay? 01:21:08.520 --> 01:21:12.500 Now, then Ham, Ham has understood as Africa for sure. 01:21:13.760 --> 01:21:18.300 Pretty much pretty much kind of the only discrepancy or the only thing that was kind of difficult to 01:21:18.760 --> 01:21:24.108 ascertain and I don't know the right answer on this, but it's kind of like what happened over in the Far East and 01:21:26.080 --> 01:21:31.180 If you asked online if you asked the hive mind of ideas, this is this is kind of what they'll say is they'll say that 01:21:31.180 --> 01:21:35.540 It's actually descendants of ham now if you skip down to verse 17 01:21:35.540 --> 01:21:39.720 It says in the high-vite in the archive and the Psy night now Psy night 01:21:40.300 --> 01:21:44.720 Most likely is for sure referring to the Peninsula of Sinai here the Arabian 01:21:44.720 --> 01:21:46.700 Peninsula here would be part of that 01:21:46.700 --> 01:21:52.680 but then it's also believed that this group of people kind of then continue to migrate East and 01:21:53.480 --> 01:21:57.620 That's where you get China and you get the Asian 01:21:59.180 --> 01:22:04.920 countries and Japan and those different areas that are over there that's coming from ham ham kind of is taking that area 01:22:04.920 --> 01:22:09.420 Another theory is that it's also shim. It's probably even likely it could be a combination 01:22:09.420 --> 01:22:14.840 There's there's no way that didn't necessarily ascertain that but there's another verse in Isaiah if you would go to Isaiah 49 01:22:16.780 --> 01:22:24.420 Because China and like those parts of the world are not really mentioned very much in the Bible, if at all, it's kind of just 01:22:26.020 --> 01:22:29.960 loose understandings. The Bible talks about wise men from the east, Jesus Christ, 01:22:30.880 --> 01:22:36.600 birth. We don't know exactly how far east we're talking about. Job's also described as being someone from the east. 01:22:37.660 --> 01:22:42.720 The continent of India is referenced in the Bible, especially with King Ahasuerus. 01:22:42.990 --> 01:22:47.650 That part is mentioned a few times so there is some mentions of parts of the east but it's 01:22:47.650 --> 01:22:53.230 for the most part not mentioned a ton in the Bible but look at verse number 12 the Bible says this 01:22:53.230 --> 01:22:58.550 behold these shall come from far and low these from the north and from the west and these from 01:22:58.550 --> 01:23:06.950 the land of Sinim. A lot of people would tie like some of the Chinese dynasties names to that root 01:23:09.330 --> 01:23:13.950 Again, maybe it's a coincidence, we don't know, but a lot of people just assume that 01:23:13.950 --> 01:23:17.890 Ham is kind of taking that whole eastern section as well. 01:23:18.310 --> 01:23:21.890 But generally speaking, we talk about Russia, we talk about all the north side, Russia, 01:23:22.690 --> 01:23:23.350 Eastern Europe. 01:23:23.730 --> 01:23:26.290 All of this is basically Jaypeth, generally speaking. 01:23:26.810 --> 01:23:33.670 The Middle East is Shem, Africa is Ham, and this kind of part, and then we kind of have 01:23:38.590 --> 01:23:40.530 Some people even say it could be Japheth. 01:23:40.770 --> 01:23:42.370 It's the least likely scenario. 01:23:42.830 --> 01:23:46.110 It's most likely a ham or a combination of ham and shem 01:23:46.110 --> 01:23:46.890 or something like that. 01:23:46.970 --> 01:23:47.990 So that's just kind of give you an idea 01:23:47.990 --> 01:23:50.230 of why the world looks the way that it does. 01:23:51.590 --> 01:23:53.850 If you're, I hope you, if you stayed in Genesis 10, 01:23:53.910 --> 01:23:54.970 I want to read a little bit more here. 01:23:55.510 --> 01:23:57.350 Now this is what's also very interesting though. 01:23:58.770 --> 01:24:00.270 I kind of wanted to understand like, 01:24:00.410 --> 01:24:05.550 what is the oldest language that is still and used today? 01:24:05.950 --> 01:24:18.870 So, if we were to try to understand like, what's the, like there's going to be very old languages that like Sumerian I believe is like considered one of the oldest languages, but it's nobody there speaking Sumerian, but like the oldest language that's still in existence today is actually Greek. 01:24:19.320 --> 01:24:25.700 So, Greek is considered the oldest language that is still in use today, and has had probably 01:24:25.700 --> 01:24:32.200 some, like, the least evolution of most of the languages that, you know, are kind of 01:24:32.200 --> 01:24:33.200 like a historic language. 01:24:33.880 --> 01:24:37.600 There are other languages that are like this that have, like, that trace back pretty far. 01:24:37.980 --> 01:24:42.500 But according to the internet and online, just the secular history, they'll say it 01:24:48.270 --> 01:24:53.030 which is not that far off from when we see Peelag and the land being divided, 01:24:53.450 --> 01:24:58.110 which is interesting because it's almost like confirming exactly what the Bible is saying. 01:24:58.630 --> 01:25:02.770 Now when it comes to language, that's a really big animal. I want to tackle that in just a second, 01:25:02.970 --> 01:25:09.790 but let's keep going here. Genesis chapter 10 verse 6 says this specifically about 01:25:10.512 --> 01:25:12.630 Ham and his particular descendants. 01:25:14.540 --> 01:25:18.740 And the sons of Ham, Cush, and Mizrayam, and Ft. and Canaan, 01:25:19.100 --> 01:25:21.880 and the sons of Cush, Siba and Havala, and Sabta and Rehma, 01:25:22.380 --> 01:25:24.980 and Saptika, and the sons of Rehma, Siba and D'dan, 01:25:25.100 --> 01:25:27.040 and Cush, we got Nimrod, and it began to be a mighty one 01:25:27.040 --> 01:25:27.580 in the earth. 01:25:28.020 --> 01:25:29.500 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord, 01:25:29.900 --> 01:25:31.400 wherefore it is said, even as Nimrod, 01:25:31.460 --> 01:25:32.420 the mighty hunter before the Lord. 01:25:32.880 --> 01:25:34.460 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, 01:25:34.800 --> 01:25:37.020 and Erech, and Acad, and Calne, and this land of Shinar. 01:25:37.220 --> 01:25:40.344 Out of that land went forth Asher, and builded Nineveh, 01:25:43.070 --> 01:25:45.790 between Nineveh and Cali, and the same is a great city. 01:25:46.390 --> 01:25:49.370 And Miserain begette Ludem and Aenem, and the Habem, 01:25:49.730 --> 01:25:53.270 and the Tufem, and Pathrusem, and Castelluhem, 01:25:53.650 --> 01:25:56.250 out of whom came Philistem and Captorm. 01:25:56.370 --> 01:25:58.550 So you might notice there in verse 14, Philistem. 01:25:58.950 --> 01:26:00.570 What is that, the Philistines? 01:26:01.370 --> 01:26:05.850 So Cain, I'm sorry, Cainan, the land of Cainan 01:26:05.850 --> 01:26:06.990 is kind of what we would understand 01:26:06.990 --> 01:26:08.610 is this Middle East section. 01:26:09.360 --> 01:26:11.120 and the Canaanites are a group here, 01:26:11.260 --> 01:26:13.940 but the Philistines and a lot of hams 01:26:13.940 --> 01:26:15.340 dwelt right here in this strip, 01:26:15.440 --> 01:26:17.760 which as we know today is like the Gaza Strip. 01:26:18.420 --> 01:26:20.960 And Gaza is kind of an area where a lot of these people were, 01:26:21.260 --> 01:26:23.400 but the Canaanites had spread throughout this entire region, 01:26:23.400 --> 01:26:25.840 especially before the children of Israel come 01:26:25.840 --> 01:26:26.880 and take it all over. 01:26:27.200 --> 01:26:30.100 So hams kind of like this little strip here and down, 01:26:30.260 --> 01:26:32.820 and then like all this area, maybe also parts of here. 01:26:33.460 --> 01:26:34.620 Shem again is kind of here. 01:26:39.020 --> 01:26:43.800 That's kind of where they start obviously at any point in time these things keep evolving and changing 01:26:44.700 --> 01:26:47.100 If we read verse 17 in the high-vite 01:26:47.820 --> 01:26:48.820 Oh, sorry, verse 15. 01:26:49.020 --> 01:26:51.700 And Canaan begat Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth, 01:26:51.940 --> 01:26:53.760 and the Jebusidon, the Amorite, and the Gershidon, 01:26:53.840 --> 01:26:55.080 the Hivite, and the Archite, and the Sinite, 01:26:55.560 --> 01:26:57.660 and the Arvidite, and the Zemmerite, and the Hamathite, 01:26:58.000 --> 01:26:59.600 and afterward, where the families of the Canaanites 01:26:59.600 --> 01:27:00.300 spread abroad. 01:27:00.960 --> 01:27:02.820 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, 01:27:03.200 --> 01:27:04.840 as they come as to Gerar, under Gaza. 01:27:05.300 --> 01:27:06.740 So again, Sidon's kind of up here. 01:27:07.380 --> 01:27:08.620 It's coming down into Gaza, 01:27:08.700 --> 01:27:10.760 so it's kind of talking about this particular strip. 01:27:11.580 --> 01:27:13.380 As they go, it's under Sodom and Gomorrah, 01:27:17.140 --> 01:27:22.680 These are the sons of Hammett after their families, after their tongues in their countries and in their nation. 01:27:22.880 --> 01:27:26.420 So, it's pretty obvious that once they land from the mountains of Errat, 01:27:27.120 --> 01:27:29.300 you know, Jepeth is kind of tracking this water, 01:27:30.140 --> 01:27:31.700 Hamm's kind of tracking this water, 01:27:32.020 --> 01:27:34.680 and they eventually come down to the Nile, which is very plenteous, 01:27:34.760 --> 01:27:35.980 and Shem kind of comes over here. 01:27:40.030 --> 01:27:42.490 Let's keep reading here and get into Shem. 01:27:42.590 --> 01:27:43.850 And unto Shem, verse number 20, 01:27:43.970 --> 01:27:45.970 and unto Shem also the father of all the children of Eber, 01:27:46.330 --> 01:27:47.630 the brother of Japheth the elder, 01:27:47.850 --> 01:27:50.590 even to him were children born, the children of Shem, 01:27:50.710 --> 01:27:53.370 Elam and Asher and our faxed and Ludd and Aram. 01:27:53.710 --> 01:27:57.210 And the children of Aram, us and Ul and Geethe and Mash. 01:27:57.810 --> 01:27:59.910 And our fax said we got Selah, and Selah we got Eber, 01:28:00.030 --> 01:28:02.110 and under Eber were born two sons. 01:28:02.410 --> 01:28:04.050 The name of the one who was Peleg for in his days 01:28:04.050 --> 01:28:06.470 was the earth divided, and his brother's name was Jaktan. 01:28:06.790 --> 01:28:08.950 So, you know, after they get off, 01:28:09.050 --> 01:28:10.010 they're pretty much just clumped. 01:28:10.510 --> 01:28:12.270 At some point, we have that Tower of Babel event. 01:28:13.510 --> 01:28:17.550 Now, how many particular languages were there? 01:28:18.210 --> 01:28:18.570 I don't know. 01:28:21.290 --> 01:28:24.350 The Bible kind of gives us more details than here in Genesis chapter number 11 01:28:24.350 --> 01:28:27.810 Look what it says in verse 1 and the whole earth was of one language and of one speech 01:28:28.310 --> 01:28:33.250 So they get off the Ark makes sense. They all speak the same language. It's only one tongue. They're building this great tower 01:28:34.770 --> 01:28:37.550 Trump Tower and they basically, no, I'm just kidding, 01:28:38.010 --> 01:28:40.430 but they're building some tower and God gets mad 01:28:40.430 --> 01:28:43.110 at them being united and he wants them to be divided. 01:28:44.150 --> 01:28:46.170 If you skip down to verse six and the Lord said, 01:28:46.230 --> 01:28:49.010 behold, the people is one and they have all one language 01:28:49.010 --> 01:28:52.170 and they begin to do and now nothing will be restrained 01:28:52.170 --> 01:28:53.710 from them which they have imagined to do. 01:28:54.050 --> 01:28:57.090 Go to, let us go down and they're confound their language 01:28:57.090 --> 01:28:59.310 that they may not understand one another's speech. 01:28:59.550 --> 01:29:00.650 So the Lord scattered them. 01:29:00.970 --> 01:29:05.510 abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth and they left off to build the city. Therefore 01:29:05.950 --> 01:29:10.570 is the name of it called Babel because the Lord did their confound the language of all the earth 01:29:10.570 --> 01:29:13.970 and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. 01:29:14.490 --> 01:29:19.350 So again, this will say, you know, nothing exploded. 01:29:20.370 --> 01:29:26.990 billions of years ago and it became bacteria and the bacteria became little tiny, you know, 01:29:27.290 --> 01:29:32.510 fish things and then the fish grew and then the fish somehow started walking on land and 01:29:32.510 --> 01:29:36.750 then the fish became animals and then the animals became like walking and then those 01:29:36.750 --> 01:29:39.630 walking things became hominoids and then those hominoids became people. 01:29:40.250 --> 01:29:42.030 It's just, it's insane, okay. 01:29:42.560 --> 01:29:45.700 It's just insanity, it's nonsense, there's nothing to do with the Bible. 01:29:46.100 --> 01:29:48.620 The Bible talks about special creation, everything's created in six days, 01:29:49.280 --> 01:29:57.300 and that makes perfect sense, especially considering how many different organisms and systems depend upon each other. 01:29:57.710 --> 01:30:04.970 You kind of have to have grass and at the same time as you have animals and they kind of you know 01:30:04.970 --> 01:30:11.170 A lot of animals even eat each other. We eat animals. We need grass. We need all I mean like all these things are super important 01:30:11.570 --> 01:30:16.010 A lot of a lot of things to say it's also important, you know to find a mate to reproduce 01:30:16.610 --> 01:30:21.750 It's like even if you had like what if you just had a miracle like out of nothing something was created 01:30:21.750 --> 01:30:23.770 Well, if it didn't have a mate it wouldn't survive 01:30:24.620 --> 01:30:27.820 it would still die. So again, like all this stuff is just nonsensical. 01:30:28.560 --> 01:30:32.380 What does the Bible teach? Well, God created Adam and Eve, they populated the 01:30:32.380 --> 01:30:32.660 world, 01:30:33.040 --> 01:30:35.700 God has mad at them, killed all of them, except for no one in his family. 01:30:36.060 --> 01:30:39.500 They landed here. Then his three sons start 01:30:39.500 --> 01:30:43.740 repopulating the world. About a hundred years later, they have the Tower of Babel. 01:30:44.170 --> 01:30:48.590 There, God confounds the language so much that all these people just start to spread 01:30:48.590 --> 01:30:49.850 and they have that spread that we talked about. 01:30:49.950 --> 01:30:51.470 Japheth is kind of going north and over here. 01:30:52.050 --> 01:30:55.990 Shem is kind of staying here towards Mesopotamia and then we have Ham staying here with this 01:30:55.990 --> 01:31:00.030 little Gaza Strip and down into Africa and that's kind of as their journey starts. 01:31:00.470 --> 01:31:05.150 Over time, these borders are just continually increasing, getting larger and larger and 01:31:05.150 --> 01:31:07.710 larger and larger and God is pretty much focused here. 01:31:08.050 --> 01:31:11.830 You ask secularists to say, oh yeah, human population started somewhere around here or 01:31:13.690 --> 01:31:16.810 which is exactly the Bible saying, it's just they give, they make updates 01:31:16.810 --> 01:31:18.370 when it comes to that particular stuff. 01:31:19.810 --> 01:31:21.810 So, why do we have all the languages that we have? 01:31:21.970 --> 01:31:23.310 Why do we have so many advanced languages? 01:31:23.490 --> 01:31:24.770 Why do they all pop up at the same time? 01:31:25.070 --> 01:31:27.790 Because God can found all the languages at the same time and these people were smart. 01:31:28.170 --> 01:31:30.810 They were not ugabugas walking around being dumb. 01:31:31.110 --> 01:31:35.850 They were very smart, very intelligent, had a lot of technologies that we have today just 01:31:35.850 --> 01:31:36.610 in different forms. 01:31:36.950 --> 01:31:41.450 And I think that people just don't understand how smart people could have been in the past 01:31:41.450 --> 01:31:42.710 and how they could have had some of things. 01:31:42.810 --> 01:31:44.530 Now, is it the exact thing of the Flintstones? 01:31:44.650 --> 01:31:45.650 Is Flintstones a documentary? 01:31:48.120 --> 01:31:51.640 And at the end of the day, they probably still had a lot of things that would surprise us 01:31:51.640 --> 01:31:59.620 as far as just even indoor plumbing, showers, medical devices, all kinds of different things 01:31:59.620 --> 01:32:03.540 that we think of that didn't exist in some forms or some fashions. 01:32:04.540 --> 01:32:05.900 They didn't have a computer, okay? 01:32:06.320 --> 01:32:09.720 If you can go on the internet, you'll find people that think they had computers and stuff. 01:32:09.840 --> 01:32:10.560 It's weird, okay? 01:32:11.480 --> 01:32:15.340 When it comes to languages, I think there's all kinds of different numbers here. 01:32:18.200 --> 01:32:23.340 language like major classifications of languages and even within that there's 01:32:23.340 --> 01:32:27.060 like thousands and thousands of languages that exist. If you look at just 01:32:27.060 --> 01:32:31.920 major family groups, this is not all of them, just major family groups, it's 01:32:31.920 --> 01:32:37.540 estimated to be about six major family language groups. The number one is the 01:32:37.540 --> 01:32:39.240 Indo-European language. 01:32:40.320 --> 01:32:47.920 It has 2.9 billion approximate speakers, and it accounts for 450 to 580 languages that 01:32:47.920 --> 01:32:49.320 are sub-languages from that. 01:32:49.760 --> 01:32:50.580 What are the key regions? 01:32:50.800 --> 01:32:53.660 Europe, South Asia, and the Americas. 01:32:54.420 --> 01:32:55.780 What are notable languages within this? 01:32:55.900 --> 01:32:58.340 English, Spanish, Hindi, Russian, and French. 01:32:58.480 --> 01:33:00.700 Now, if you look at the back of that chart that I gave you, it actually has a little 01:33:00.700 --> 01:33:01.380 family tree. 01:33:05.320 --> 01:33:10.380 And this is just specifically the Indo-European languages, okay? 01:33:10.940 --> 01:33:13.700 Indo-European, again, being kind of this region. 01:33:14.410 --> 01:33:17.190 this Japheth region and then also some mixing. 01:33:17.730 --> 01:33:21.670 There's also Indo-European, there's Indo-Iranian. 01:33:21.770 --> 01:33:23.690 So there's a pretty big split when it came 01:33:23.690 --> 01:33:25.510 to the Indo-European languages 01:33:26.070 --> 01:33:28.790 and then it came to the Indo-Iranian languages. 01:33:29.210 --> 01:33:32.050 And you'll kind of notice the Indo-Iranian 01:33:32.570 --> 01:33:33.910 also journeyed down into here. 01:33:34.330 --> 01:33:35.530 There's where you have a lot of Indian languages 01:33:35.530 --> 01:33:39.270 like Hindi, those kind of languages on the right hand side. 01:33:39.680 --> 01:33:43.520 You'll see you have Spanish, Portuguese, English, German, all of these European languages. 01:33:43.940 --> 01:33:47.100 It's really hard to find Greek on this particular chart. 01:33:47.560 --> 01:33:52.740 But it's because if you look at the European route and you just keep going directly straight, 01:33:53.060 --> 01:33:55.540 it'll just be like Hellenic and then just Greek. 01:33:56.140 --> 01:33:59.360 And notice Greek doesn't ever like keep branching and branching and branching, 01:33:59.400 --> 01:34:04.800 because it's like Greek is for some reason just been one of the most stable languages from history. 01:34:05.360 --> 01:34:10.260 makes a lot of sense why God would want the New Testament to be written in Greek 01:34:10.260 --> 01:34:13.300 because it's just this super stable language. 01:34:13.660 --> 01:34:17.620 Also, you could argue that because the Bible was put in Greek, 01:34:17.620 --> 01:34:20.040 is why it stayed so stable as well. 01:34:20.140 --> 01:34:22.540 So there's a lot of different correlations there. 01:34:23.500 --> 01:34:29.520 But you see all these different languages, and again, European languages have a lot of commonality, a lot of similar words, a lot of borrowed words. 01:34:29.740 --> 01:34:33.560 When it comes to science and mathematics, we're pretty much all borrowing Greek words. 01:34:34.060 --> 01:34:45.320 Whether you're talking Spanish, Portuguese, English, any of these things, we're pretty much just all using the exact same root Greek words when it comes to some of these advanced topics. 01:34:45.980 --> 01:34:49.980 So Greeks are really, really important language from a historical perspective. 01:34:52.730 --> 01:34:55.810 Plus, it's covering just a huge portion of this throughout history. 01:34:56.680 --> 01:35:04.860 Other major languages groups, Sino-Tibetan, Niger-Congo, Afro-Asiatic, Austronesian, Transnuginian, 01:35:04.920 --> 01:35:09.020 and they also say Dravidian could potentially swap there with Transnuginian, but those are 01:35:09.020 --> 01:35:09.760 some different languages. 01:35:09.980 --> 01:35:15.200 But what is the most important language as far as just influence number of people speaking 01:35:15.200 --> 01:35:15.620 today? 01:35:16.080 --> 01:35:18.880 Indo-European is just takes the cake. 01:35:18.980 --> 01:35:19.720 It's not even close. 01:35:19.860 --> 01:35:22.000 The second closest is 1.3 billion speakers. 01:35:24.230 --> 01:35:26.350 what the next language group is like. 01:35:26.910 --> 01:35:28.050 Revelation chapter 17. 01:35:28.170 --> 01:35:29.710 Go view it there at Revelation chapter 17. 01:35:31.650 --> 01:35:33.290 I still have a few more things that I want to just, 01:35:33.390 --> 01:35:35.030 I kind of want to just label here 01:35:35.430 --> 01:35:36.590 before we kind of finish this, 01:35:36.630 --> 01:35:38.110 but I want to talk about some empires 01:35:38.110 --> 01:35:39.770 that the Bible brings up. 01:35:47.590 --> 01:35:49.530 Now, Daniel also brings up 01:35:49.930 --> 01:35:55.570 various empires in the Bible, and it kind of, the book of Daniel is kind of starting in the middle of 01:35:56.310 --> 01:36:03.476 that particular scope of understanding, but Revelation chapter 17 verse 7 is kind of talking about the end times and 01:36:04.450 --> 01:36:06.570 it describes us a little bit of history here. 01:36:10.440 --> 01:36:11.340 And the angel said to me, 01:36:11.420 --> 01:36:12.300 wherefore did itst thou marvel? 01:36:12.440 --> 01:36:13.520 I will tell thee the mystery of the woman 01:36:13.520 --> 01:36:14.840 and of the beast that carryeth her, 01:36:15.080 --> 01:36:16.480 which hath the seven heads and ten horns. 01:36:16.580 --> 01:36:19.940 The Bible talks about a great whore mystery Babylon. 01:36:20.780 --> 01:36:22.620 And it says, hey, I'm gonna tell you what this was about. 01:36:22.740 --> 01:36:23.880 Like I'm gonna give you some descriptions of this. 01:36:24.240 --> 01:36:24.900 It says, verse eight, 01:36:25.040 --> 01:36:26.780 the beast that thou sawest was and is not 01:36:26.780 --> 01:36:28.700 and shall send out of the bottoms pit 01:36:28.700 --> 01:36:29.440 and go into perdition. 01:36:29.560 --> 01:36:30.880 And they that dwell on the earth shall wonder 01:36:30.880 --> 01:36:32.680 whose names were not written in the book of life 01:36:32.680 --> 01:36:33.500 from the foundation of the world. 01:36:34.130 --> 01:36:37.010 when they behold the beast that was and is not and yet is, 01:36:37.350 --> 01:36:38.690 and here is the mind which hath wisdom, 01:36:39.210 --> 01:36:42.730 the seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sitteth. 01:36:43.470 --> 01:36:46.670 And there are seven kings, five are fallen and one is, 01:36:47.050 --> 01:36:48.770 and the other is not yet come, 01:36:49.230 --> 01:36:51.850 and when he cometh, he must continue a short space, 01:36:52.090 --> 01:36:53.270 and the beast that was and is not, 01:36:53.450 --> 01:36:55.530 even he is the eight and is of the seven, 01:36:56.010 --> 01:36:57.290 and goeth into perdition." 01:36:57.290 --> 01:36:59.490 And the Bible brings up these kingdoms 01:37:00.110 --> 01:37:02.350 that have this Babylonian spirit. 01:37:03.330 --> 01:37:08.650 We have to understand that this is not saying that these are the only empires the only kingdoms ever exist or 01:37:09.150 --> 01:37:10.970 That'll ever happen in them in history 01:37:10.970 --> 01:37:17.930 It's more just like these are the major empires that have this Babylonian spirit that the Bible is highlighting and focusing on 01:37:17.930 --> 01:37:22.350 And if we kind of understand again, I I wish I could just flip this I got to turn it but 01:37:24.970 --> 01:37:29.410 We talk about those kingdoms that said there was five that have fallen 01:37:30.070 --> 01:37:33.450 One is and then there's one to come, okay? 01:37:34.550 --> 01:37:38.930 Seems pretty obvious that what these are is this is going to be the Egyptian is the first one 01:37:40.310 --> 01:37:46.596 This is the first kingdom that we had of that's Babylonian spirit now their timeline is 01:37:47.770 --> 01:37:55.850 Arguably two different options here from a biblical perspective and secular history will say this is the peak of the Egyptian Empire 01:37:56.830 --> 01:37:59.690 I could argue that it's also just this period of time too. 01:38:00.190 --> 01:38:03.150 But either way, it's basically this period of time. 01:38:03.610 --> 01:38:05.550 When the children of Israel were here, 01:38:05.730 --> 01:38:08.090 Joseph accumulated a huge amount of wealth, 01:38:08.410 --> 01:38:09.770 and Egypt became extremely rich. 01:38:10.510 --> 01:38:12.050 But even after their decimation, 01:38:12.170 --> 01:38:14.050 we have to understand that King Solomon 01:38:14.050 --> 01:38:18.090 was still bringing all kinds of gold and precious goods 01:38:18.090 --> 01:38:19.930 out of Egypt at that particular time. 01:38:20.230 --> 01:38:22.430 And Egypt is still considered a very powerful 01:38:22.430 --> 01:38:23.970 kingdom throughout this period of time. 01:38:24.050 --> 01:38:26.130 In fact, the destruction of Jerusalem, 01:38:27.930 --> 01:38:31.970 relied upon or looked upon as someone that could help them defeat the Babylonians. 01:38:32.110 --> 01:38:34.230 So the Egyptians have this kind of this first major kingdom. 01:38:34.670 --> 01:38:36.290 The second is going to be the Assyrians. 01:38:41.450 --> 01:38:45.010 And I think I wanted to go to a place in the Bible just to give you some kind of a reference. 01:38:45.170 --> 01:38:47.310 Go to 2 Kings chapter 19. Go to 2 Kings chapter 19. 01:38:47.710 --> 01:38:53.330 But this is kind of understood as the 9th to the 7th century. 01:38:56.530 --> 01:39:00.890 here in between Solomon and the destruction of Jerusalem. 01:39:01.310 --> 01:39:02.670 This is where we have the Assyrian Empire. 01:39:03.290 --> 01:39:05.330 Now in 2 Kings chapter 19 and verse 35, 01:39:05.970 --> 01:39:06.570 notice what it says, 01:39:06.690 --> 01:39:09.010 And it came to pass that night that the angel Lord went out 01:39:09.010 --> 01:39:10.930 and smote in the camp of the Assyrians 01:39:10.930 --> 01:39:13.890 a hundred four score in five thousand. 01:39:14.250 --> 01:39:15.470 And when they arose early in the morning, 01:39:15.510 --> 01:39:16.370 behold, they were all dead corpses. 01:39:16.690 --> 01:39:17.890 Now this is the king Hezekiah. 01:39:18.530 --> 01:39:21.010 So obviously to get that many number of people 01:39:21.580 --> 01:39:22.960 It didn't happen that day. 01:39:23.340 --> 01:39:24.440 I'm talking about a long period of time. 01:39:24.660 --> 01:39:28.240 So in this period of the kings, we have the Assyrian Empire. 01:39:28.860 --> 01:39:30.940 So kind of prior to we have, and again, 01:39:31.600 --> 01:39:35.540 Canaan was dwelling here when they were in Egypt. 01:39:36.440 --> 01:39:38.180 Canaan was dwelling in the land of Canaan. 01:39:38.720 --> 01:39:40.300 The Canaanites, they got wiped out completely. 01:39:40.480 --> 01:39:42.880 They're just decimated and they're just only intermingled a little bit. 01:39:43.760 --> 01:39:45.240 We have the Egyptian Empire, though, 01:39:45.480 --> 01:39:46.860 ruling and reigning at this period of time. 01:39:47.160 --> 01:39:48.480 Then we kind of have the Assyrian Empire. 01:39:49.340 --> 01:39:51.240 You could argue you have a little bit of a 01:39:53.280 --> 01:39:57.480 Davidic Empire for a little bit David and Solomon kind of have a little bit of a run 01:39:57.480 --> 01:40:00.740 But they're not part of the Babylonian spirit. So that's why they're not mentioned 01:40:00.740 --> 01:40:06.920 Okay, what's the next one that comes? Well, the next one is going to be the Babylonians and of course the Babylonians are going to be here 01:40:09.620 --> 01:40:11.980 And I want to make sure I have yeah, they're going to be about 01:40:14.100 --> 01:40:14.420 626 01:40:19.430 --> 01:40:25.910 to 539 BC and again this is they get wiped out in like one night by the 01:40:25.910 --> 01:40:30.050 Medo-Persian Empire and that's exactly what the Bible says. The Medo-Persians 01:40:30.050 --> 01:40:33.170 are gonna start again these these kingdoms are gonna have overlap because 01:40:33.170 --> 01:40:39.150 you can't just take over a whole area and one day they grow up real big and 01:40:39.150 --> 01:40:42.230 then they eventually come in and conquer and take over. The Medo-Persians are 01:40:42.230 --> 01:40:44.550 700 BC to 330. 01:40:47.140 --> 01:40:51.400 And then you have Greek, and then Roman. 01:40:51.600 --> 01:40:53.040 And I'm just gonna, for a sake of time, 01:40:53.140 --> 01:40:53.980 I'm just gonna write these real quick. 01:40:54.400 --> 01:40:58.320 Greek is about 359 BC to 31 BC. 01:40:59.420 --> 01:41:06.360 And then Roman is 573 BC to 476 AD for the west, 01:41:07.580 --> 01:41:10.420 and 1453 AD for the east. 01:41:10.820 --> 01:41:12.500 Okay, so let's talk about this for a second. 01:41:14.180 --> 01:41:14.620 Babylonians, 01:41:15.260 --> 01:41:19.240 Take over the whole world basically around the 600 BC timeline. 01:41:19.660 --> 01:41:24.040 They destroy Jerusalem, take the children of Israel into captivity for 70 years. 01:41:24.360 --> 01:41:28.980 At the end of the 70 years, the Mido-Persian Empire comes and wipes out the Babylonian Empire 01:41:28.980 --> 01:41:30.540 and takes over that whole region. 01:41:31.300 --> 01:41:34.580 Then, a little bit later, fast forward, 359 BC, 01:41:35.780 --> 01:41:42.140 You know and forward it's not this exact timeline the Greeks are getting you know big and then eventually they come in and wipe out the 01:41:42.140 --> 01:41:47.720 Medo Persian Empire take over that whole area all the way up to about I think it was like 70 01:41:49.440 --> 01:41:54.960 AD 70 BC when the Romans took over Jerusalem specifically that area 01:41:54.960 --> 01:41:58.100 But about this time the Greeks are completely decimated and then we have the Roman Empire 01:41:59.370 --> 01:42:05.890 This is kind of helpful for me to looking at this as like a like a chart of the world. Again. I got it. Sorry. I got to rotate it 01:42:08.570 --> 01:42:13.450 Kind of one thing that you'll notice though is if you look at these empires at the height of their empire 01:42:13.850 --> 01:42:18.890 They kind of just start to just get bigger and bigger and bigger over time. So we go back to the Egyptian the Egyptians 01:42:20.010 --> 01:42:21.110 basically kind of had 01:42:27.370 --> 01:42:30.250 This region so when the Egyptians were in power 01:42:31.150 --> 01:42:34.010 They basically kind of have at the peak 01:42:34.630 --> 01:42:38.230 They kind of are ruling this particular area 01:42:40.930 --> 01:42:44.450 And that was you know 01:42:45.270 --> 01:42:52.910 2000 BC to about a thousand BC some more in those those timelines then the Babylonians. I'm sorry then the Assyrians come in 01:42:54.210 --> 01:42:58.150 And, the Assyrians are coming from this northern part and a little bit eastern part. 01:42:58.670 --> 01:43:03.070 They actually are coming from this area, and so they ended up adding. 01:43:03.350 --> 01:43:04.650 So this is where you get the Assyrians. 01:43:05.530 --> 01:43:08.890 And they're basically still taking in all of this. 01:43:13.630 --> 01:43:16.310 the night to the seventh century, period of time. 01:43:16.430 --> 01:43:17.250 This is where you have the kings 01:43:17.250 --> 01:43:19.690 that are constantly being attacked by the Assyrians 01:43:20.190 --> 01:43:22.530 and they subdue a lot of different things. 01:43:22.710 --> 01:43:24.570 Then you have the Babylonians coming in. 01:43:25.650 --> 01:43:28.350 They're gonna fill in even more of this 01:43:29.070 --> 01:43:30.910 and go a little bit further up 01:43:31.610 --> 01:43:33.130 and kind of shade in some of this. 01:43:33.310 --> 01:43:35.050 So then at the height of the Babylonian kingdom, 01:43:35.590 --> 01:43:38.730 they basically have this, this is gonna be again, 01:43:38.970 --> 01:43:40.950 600 to 539 BC. 01:43:41.680 --> 01:43:46.040 Then you have the Medo-Persians. Now, you kind of notice this theme like the Egyptians are here. 01:43:46.300 --> 01:43:51.520 The Assyrians are here building up their army like in risk, and then they come and wipe through and take this out. 01:43:51.900 --> 01:43:58.360 Then the Babylonians are building here, and then they come and they take the white coat. The Medo-Persians are right here 01:43:59.060 --> 01:44:06.360 building up their particular army, and so then when the Medo-Persians come, they basically fill in 01:44:06.920 --> 01:44:10.200 and then take all this because you know in risk you spread yourself to thin you 01:44:10.200 --> 01:44:13.160 only have one army on each little these little continents or whatever and then 01:44:13.160 --> 01:44:16.000 the guy just comes and wipes through with his particular army. So the Medi 01:44:16.000 --> 01:44:21.360 Persians basically come and expand that particular kingdom and in fact this goes 01:44:21.360 --> 01:44:24.940 all the way down into India because the Bible brings us up about King Hazaris 01:44:24.940 --> 01:44:30.020 being in parts of India. He ruled over 127 provinces is what the Bible says 01:44:30.020 --> 01:44:34.680 about King or Hazaris is rain and this particular area. Then you have the 01:44:35.800 --> 01:44:37.640 Which where are they building their army up? 01:44:38.900 --> 01:44:44.160 Greece, okay, it's it's pretty it's pretty self-explanatory. I know you're bored, but here's here's Greeks 01:44:44.160 --> 01:44:49.420 And they come in and they basically just fill in this entire area 01:44:49.420 --> 01:44:57.120 And then they they can go all the way down in here as well and take all of that particular area now the Romans 01:44:57.980 --> 01:44:58.980 Where are they building? 01:44:59.940 --> 01:45:02.320 Rome, yeah, do you notice this theme? 01:45:02.900 --> 01:45:04.900 It's like, hey, they're just an outsider 01:45:04.900 --> 01:45:06.920 just building up a huge army, waiting, 01:45:07.120 --> 01:45:08.280 and then they just basically take over. 01:45:08.560 --> 01:45:09.400 So then you have the Romans, 01:45:09.600 --> 01:45:12.620 now the Roman Empire is vast, okay? 01:45:13.320 --> 01:45:14.220 This is gonna be, 01:45:20.340 --> 01:45:21.940 they've got all of Spain, 01:45:23.340 --> 01:45:27.780 they've got all of this area, Germany, France, Belgium. 01:45:29.140 --> 01:45:30.840 All the way here they've got 01:45:32.280 --> 01:45:38.360 Obviously Roman Italy they've got all of this like southeastern portion of Europe 01:45:39.000 --> 01:45:40.500 Greece all of this now 01:45:40.500 --> 01:45:46.620 They didn't necessarily have as much of this but there was a Roman road and we have different things throughout history like the Silk Road 01:45:46.620 --> 01:45:52.940 To China that the Romans are kind of building and we have different pathways, but the room. Oh, they have all this northern 01:45:53.560 --> 01:45:55.720 Africa strip and section as well 01:45:56.770 --> 01:46:02.430 So we just kind of have this just giant empires that just keep growing and growing growing. 01:46:02.570 --> 01:46:06.250 So at the time of Christ, this is kind of what the world looked like. 01:46:06.750 --> 01:46:10.370 The world looked like this is a Roman Empire, you have Jerusalem right here. 01:46:11.050 --> 01:46:15.910 But what's this is what's really interesting is this is all a Greek area for the most part 01:46:15.910 --> 01:46:16.910 other than like Rome itself. 01:46:17.190 --> 01:46:21.210 Like the whole world is basically Greek because the Greeks had taken over. 01:46:24.360 --> 01:46:28.360 approximately. This is where you have, you know, Jerusalem and you have the 01:46:28.360 --> 01:46:34.800 disciples and Jesus and everything. Well, whenever Jesus ascends, they get 01:46:34.800 --> 01:46:38.420 scattered, right? And they go into Corinth, which is kind of in this south 01:46:38.420 --> 01:46:42.320 portion of Asia Minor, and that's where they're first called Christians. Now, 01:46:43.040 --> 01:46:44.580 this being called Asia, 01:46:45.080 --> 01:46:50.360 can be a little misleading, because when Christopher Columbus came and settled in America, 01:46:50.840 --> 01:46:54.600 he called all the Native Americans Indians, because he thought he was in India. 01:46:55.040 --> 01:46:59.960 But they had nothing to do with India or being Indian whatsoever, it was just kind of a labeling, right? 01:47:00.460 --> 01:47:07.000 Asia, again, this area has nothing to do with China really or Asian countries whatsoever. 01:47:07.400 --> 01:47:11.880 The name Asia is not necessarily indicating that. 01:47:12.160 --> 01:47:19.260 This was a Greek culture under Roman rule and of course from here you plant all these churches. 01:47:19.420 --> 01:47:21.160 You have the seven churches which are in Asia. 01:47:21.780 --> 01:47:23.800 Then you have, obviously, churches going here. 01:47:24.040 --> 01:47:25.280 They go into this Greek peninsula. 01:47:25.460 --> 01:47:25.960 They have Crete. 01:47:26.100 --> 01:47:26.800 They have all these different areas. 01:47:27.420 --> 01:47:29.000 And eventually the gospel even gets to Rome 01:47:29.000 --> 01:47:30.020 in the biblical narrative. 01:47:30.560 --> 01:47:32.540 Okay, obviously, we understand people like Thomas 01:47:32.540 --> 01:47:34.100 and others may have gone into India 01:47:34.100 --> 01:47:35.360 and other parts of the world, 01:47:35.600 --> 01:47:37.040 but this is kind of just understanding 01:47:37.040 --> 01:47:39.600 how the gospel was spread throughout history. 01:47:41.460 --> 01:47:46.040 I wanna go to Acts chapter number, well, 01:47:47.690 --> 01:47:51.510 Just go to yeah, just go to Acts chapter 11. We'll finish with a few more verses here 01:47:54.490 --> 01:47:57.850 Beyond this beyond like the Roman Empire 01:47:58.570 --> 01:48:00.616 just to give real quick history and 01:48:01.590 --> 01:48:07.430 400 and I think I had this this written down 476 the Western portion of 01:48:08.470 --> 01:48:09.610 Rome kind of fell 01:48:09.960 --> 01:48:12.920 fell for, and then that's kind of where they think that in. 01:48:13.380 --> 01:48:16.640 But in Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire, 01:48:16.920 --> 01:48:18.840 it lasted until 1453, 01:48:19.360 --> 01:48:22.220 and that's when the Ottoman Empire specifically had come 01:48:22.220 --> 01:48:24.720 and stretched all the way to this point and kind of took over. 01:48:25.300 --> 01:48:27.780 And this is when you have those Greek manuscripts 01:48:27.780 --> 01:48:29.940 from the Byzantine Empire, the Byzantine area, 01:48:30.140 --> 01:48:32.640 flooding into the western portion of Europe, 01:48:32.920 --> 01:48:37.840 and that's where you get Desiderius Erasmus making his comparison. 01:48:38.490 --> 01:48:43.310 And then you start having people make translations into English and we get the King James Bible. 01:48:43.530 --> 01:48:45.290 We have a lot of that particular history. 01:48:46.630 --> 01:48:52.690 There's tons and tons of empires that have existed, though, throughout history. 01:48:53.590 --> 01:48:58.290 That the Bible just doesn't really mention the Bible doesn't really bring up and even 01:48:58.970 --> 01:49:03.690 You know from from that timeline from the biblical timeline and obviously in the future 01:49:03.690 --> 01:49:07.050 There's a lot of things that aren't mentioned, but the Bible talks about a future coming kingdom 01:49:07.050 --> 01:49:09.150 That's gonna be an anti-Christ kingdom 01:49:09.690 --> 01:49:17.270 Obviously, it's gonna be much more expanded than this and if you understand things like other empires like the 01:49:17.770 --> 01:49:24.710 Byzantine Empire, then you have the Arab Caliphate, you have the Mongol Empire, 01:49:25.050 --> 01:49:30.030 you have the Ottoman Empire, some of these are expanding like just huge sections. 01:49:30.790 --> 01:49:34.970 The British Empire though is kind of the culmination of probably the most powerful 01:49:34.970 --> 01:49:36.410 empire in modern history. 01:49:36.910 --> 01:49:43.710 Even online they would say the British Empire is the number one Empire and they conquered a lot of the world as far as just 01:49:43.710 --> 01:49:45.610 amount of land that they 01:49:46.150 --> 01:49:48.870 Were in possession of it's like something like 13 01:49:50.170 --> 01:49:54.590 I'm gonna get the number wrong 13 point seven million naval 01:49:55.670 --> 01:49:56.470 You know 01:49:57.130 --> 01:50:04.050 Supremacy, I don't know exactly what how they're measuring that but it's the British Empire conquered the world in a lot of ways 01:50:05.140 --> 01:50:08.340 So I would assume that the last empire, this antichrist empire, 01:50:08.620 --> 01:50:11.180 which has the Babylonian spirit, is going to be a worldwide empire, 01:50:11.180 --> 01:50:13.100 which is what the Bible alludes to. 01:50:14.740 --> 01:50:17.520 I had you turn to Acts, didn't I? 01:50:19.980 --> 01:50:21.320 Acts 11, look at verse 25, 01:50:21.400 --> 01:50:23.120 then the part of Barnabas... 01:50:23.160 --> 01:50:28.680 to Tarsus for to seek Saul and when he had found him he brought him unto Antioch and it came to pass that a whole year 01:50:28.680 --> 01:50:34.860 They assembled themselves with the church and taught much people and the disciples were called Christians first and Antioch and in these days 01:50:34.860 --> 01:50:38.780 Came prophets from Jerusalem to Antioch, so that's where we have that go to chapter 14 for a second 01:50:40.040 --> 01:50:44.400 And what you'll understand is that in the New Testament the Bible is talking about Greeks often 01:50:44.400 --> 01:50:50.020 Why because everybody basically has Greek culture. They're under Roman rule Greek culture 01:50:50.960 --> 01:50:55.660 Acts 14 verse 1 and it came to pass an Iconium that they went both together in the synagogue of the Jews 01:50:55.660 --> 01:51:00.900 And so spake that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed 01:51:02.700 --> 01:51:06.660 Go to Matthew 2 if you would go to Matthew Romans 1 says for I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ 01:51:06.660 --> 01:51:09.440 What is the power of God in salvation everyone that believe it to the Jew first and also to the 01:51:10.580 --> 01:51:15.680 Greek so the Bible's constantly bringing up the Greek because that's just basically the vast majority of the world is Greek 01:51:16.560 --> 01:51:18.160 Because they conquered the entire world 01:51:19.500 --> 01:51:26.560 If you look up at history, China and Japan and stuff have like long histories where they just, they're kind of just doing their own thing. 01:51:27.600 --> 01:51:31.820 I don't really know a lot about that. The Bible doesn't really bring up a lot about that. 01:51:32.300 --> 01:51:39.780 But you have this, not just limited there, you have Vikings, you have, people are uncertain exactly when the Americas would actually develop, 01:51:39.920 --> 01:51:42.640 but you have the Incans, you have the Mayans, you have all these different civilizations. 01:51:46.630 --> 01:51:49.570 Care about the nations that don't really care about him 01:51:51.460 --> 01:51:53.720 And when I talk about nations, I'm talking about giant groups of people. 01:51:54.120 --> 01:51:57.120 He cares about every individual, no matter where they are on the planet, 01:51:57.200 --> 01:52:00.660 if they actually seek him, want to be saved, or following his commandments. 01:52:01.100 --> 01:52:02.060 But Matthew 2, verse 1, 01:52:02.180 --> 01:52:04.120 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem and Judea, 01:52:04.140 --> 01:52:08.740 in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came Wisemen from the east to Jerusalem. 01:52:08.880 --> 01:52:10.360 So there was people that were saved in the east. 01:52:10.980 --> 01:52:12.700 Don't hear me wrong. I'm not saying there isn't saved people, 01:52:12.820 --> 01:52:14.440 there isn't the gospel, there isn't Christianity over there. 01:52:14.720 --> 01:52:16.340 But for the most part, it's just kind of ignored. 01:52:18.380 --> 01:52:20.840 I just want to make a few conclusions as we finish. 01:52:22.160 --> 01:52:24.120 Govahut to Isaiah 40. 01:52:24.720 --> 01:52:28.640 I'm just going to read a lot of verses for you, but... 01:52:28.640 --> 01:52:30.800 Here's some conclusions. 01:52:31.040 --> 01:52:34.440 Number one, that the Bible's narrative fits secular history. 01:52:36.140 --> 01:52:39.320 And we see that these major empires that the Bible brings up 01:52:39.320 --> 01:52:43.500 were real empires they're prophesied of and they have followed the course of 01:52:43.500 --> 01:52:44.620 history as expected. 01:52:45.160 --> 01:52:47.760 We are coming a future anti-Christ 01:52:47.760 --> 01:52:51.360 one world system. It's never happened. We never had an empire do that. 01:52:51.640 --> 01:52:54.400 And probably the most powerful empire 01:52:55.220 --> 01:52:59.140 Online everybody agrees the British Empire, but it doesn't really have the Babylonian spirit 01:52:59.620 --> 01:53:03.060 because if you think about it the British Empire, especially when they do a lot of their 01:53:03.600 --> 01:53:06.620 conquering throughout the world, it's actually had a good time in history. 01:53:08.080 --> 01:53:12.600 So in 1588 the British defeated the Spanish Armada, 01:53:13.200 --> 01:53:17.120 which was a really significant point in time where they basically get to rule the seas. 01:53:17.780 --> 01:53:19.860 Now that's right before something pretty important. 01:53:20.350 --> 01:53:22.050 How about the King James Bible being translated? 01:53:22.790 --> 01:53:24.050 Now who do you want to travel to see? 01:53:24.170 --> 01:53:25.970 Is the Spanish with their Catholicism 01:53:25.970 --> 01:53:28.410 or the British with the Gospel message 01:53:28.410 --> 01:53:29.970 where they can literally go and spread it 01:53:29.970 --> 01:53:30.650 throughout the entire world. 01:53:30.950 --> 01:53:33.470 And again, the British, they colonized 01:53:33.470 --> 01:53:35.370 South Africa and all that region. 01:53:35.970 --> 01:53:38.730 They had the East India Company 01:53:39.190 --> 01:53:40.650 established in 1600. 01:53:41.190 --> 01:53:43.230 In 1600 they established the East India Company 01:53:43.230 --> 01:53:45.050 and they're all in this part of Asia 01:53:45.440 --> 01:53:46.980 to where they can reach into China, 01:53:47.260 --> 01:53:48.040 they can reach into India, 01:53:48.440 --> 01:53:49.900 they can reach that entire part of the world. 01:53:50.620 --> 01:53:54.160 Not only that, they're colonizing the Americas, 01:53:54.880 --> 01:53:57.160 specifically, they're colonizing Australia 01:53:57.700 --> 01:53:59.160 and all kinds of other areas. 01:53:59.280 --> 01:54:01.240 So the British are basically colonizing everything 01:54:01.240 --> 01:54:03.740 simultaneously while getting the King James Bible 01:54:03.740 --> 01:54:06.320 and Christianity is getting kind of a fresh start 01:54:06.840 --> 01:54:07.260 in the world. 01:54:07.400 --> 01:54:08.740 1611, you have the King James Bible. 01:54:09.620 --> 01:54:14.120 Obviously, other big events, 1776, we have the War of Independence where we kind of separated 01:54:14.120 --> 01:54:18.840 from the British Empire, but the British Empire is known as like 1500 to 1914 is kind of like 01:54:18.840 --> 01:54:21.580 the idea of the quote British Empire. 01:54:22.100 --> 01:54:25.460 We've kind of picked the torch up and America is kind of the world's superpower at this 01:54:25.460 --> 01:54:32.740 point where again, think about it, who, who's, we have the Roman Empire who's really close 01:54:32.740 --> 01:54:37.880 that can build from a, Britain can sit here and build their little army and then take 01:54:38.780 --> 01:54:40.540 And then who's next after that? 01:54:40.920 --> 01:54:43.680 Oh yeah, America's over here building up our little army. 01:54:43.960 --> 01:54:46.520 But here's the thing, eventually we run out of real estate in the world, don't we? 01:54:47.500 --> 01:54:52.500 And eventually then it's just going to be a literal one-world government ruled by that anti-Christ. 01:54:53.300 --> 01:54:55.320 And so these empires are kind of ebbing and flowing. 01:54:55.520 --> 01:55:02.440 Obviously the Ottoman Empire and the Arab Caliphate and the Mongol Empire and some of these helped, you know... 01:55:03.200 --> 01:55:05.900 Conquer a lot of these areas as well that we don't have on this particular map. 01:55:06.000 --> 01:55:08.900 We don't have America on the map either because the Bible doesn't really bring it up either. 01:55:11.360 --> 01:55:16.420 Other conclusions, you know, it's interesting to me that the Greek has always existed. 01:55:16.540 --> 01:55:18.800 I mean, pretty much Greek's always been there. It's the most steady language. 01:55:19.080 --> 01:55:20.660 That's why it makes sense it's using the New Testament. 01:55:21.340 --> 01:55:21.940 It replaces 01:55:22.740 --> 01:55:24.260 Japheth dwells in the tents of Shem. 01:55:24.620 --> 01:55:26.980 You could argue a lot of different things that we talked about there. 01:55:27.400 --> 01:55:28.800 The West has always existed. 01:55:30.190 --> 01:55:33.010 Jeremiah 25, when Jeremiah is going out and preaching, 01:55:33.270 --> 01:55:34.510 he's preaching to all these different areas 01:55:34.510 --> 01:55:36.330 and talks about him going to the Isles 01:55:36.330 --> 01:55:37.930 and the farthest parts of all the kingdoms 01:55:37.930 --> 01:55:38.810 of the nations of the world. 01:55:39.250 --> 01:55:40.510 But look at Isaiah 40 verse 17. 01:55:41.650 --> 01:55:43.590 All nations before him are as nothing 01:55:44.050 --> 01:55:46.370 and they are counted to him less than nothing in vanity. 01:55:46.850 --> 01:55:49.410 So if I'm not bringing up a particular part of the world 01:55:49.410 --> 01:55:52.470 or a particular country or particular empire or whatever, 01:55:53.610 --> 01:55:54.910 it's just because I don't care. 01:55:56.720 --> 01:56:00.080 But he doesn't think God doesn't care either. All nations before him are as nothing. 01:56:01.040 --> 01:56:03.840 Why do we have the history that we have? Why are we talking about these things? 01:56:04.080 --> 01:56:07.360 Why do I emphasize the things I emphasize? Because the Bible emphasizes them. 01:56:08.430 --> 01:56:16.350 And of course, you know, European history is important because that's where the Bible's lineage kind of carries forward after this particular gospel message. 01:56:16.650 --> 01:56:25.750 So if I emphasize these type of things or these type of areas or whatever, it's not that other parts of the world don't have their own history and they're doing the little thing and playing checkers or whatever, 01:56:26.050 --> 01:56:32.250 but it's just, it doesn't really matter because the biblical narrative is focused on God's people and where they're at and the works that they're doing. 01:56:36.890 --> 01:56:39.850 the Renaissance eras, and then now, in modern day, 01:56:40.370 --> 01:56:43.590 America is pretty much the missionary leader of the world. 01:56:44.710 --> 01:56:46.090 We see the Bible is right. 01:56:46.790 --> 01:56:49.570 Look, people, groups that exist, and why they're divided, 01:56:49.810 --> 01:56:50.670 the Bible explains that. 01:56:50.830 --> 01:56:53.170 Languages, why do they exist, and why are they diverse? 01:56:53.650 --> 01:56:54.550 The Bible explains that. 01:56:54.650 --> 01:56:55.810 The Bible is historically accurate. 01:56:56.250 --> 01:56:58.050 The Bible explains all the big players 01:56:58.050 --> 01:56:58.970 throughout history perfectly. 01:56:59.610 --> 01:57:02.290 It emphasizes God's people, and wherever God's people are 01:57:02.290 --> 01:57:04.070 and submitted to the Bible, God's blessings come. 01:57:06.820 --> 01:57:09.840 If you go to one more place, go to Psalm 9, that's the last place I'll have you turn. 01:57:11.320 --> 01:57:16.820 The Bible warns about people and groups and nations and areas that would not adhere to God's word of the Bible. 01:57:17.680 --> 01:57:18.600 And they're going to be doomed. 01:57:19.100 --> 01:57:21.780 The Bible says now, with the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 01:57:22.730 --> 01:57:29.950 And what you'll notice is the countries that have Christianity the best typically have freedom the best and the places that have the 01:57:29.950 --> 01:57:36.070 Most restrictions on Christianity and we're talking about biblical Christianity not Catholicism or something 01:57:36.070 --> 01:57:37.570 We're talking about true biblical Christianity 01:57:37.570 --> 01:57:41.910 We see the most freedom in those areas and the most prosperity and blessing typically in those areas 01:57:43.720 --> 01:57:48.060 Deuteronomy 4.7 says what nation is there so great that have God so nine of them as 01:57:48.060 --> 01:57:49.760 Lord of God is in all things that we call upon Him for? 01:57:50.000 --> 01:57:53.280 The Bible talks about when God's nine to you, you're a better nation than other nations. 01:57:54.400 --> 01:57:57.780 The only thing that made America really good is that we were trying to draw night of God 01:57:57.780 --> 01:58:01.540 and we had the King James Bible and we're basing laws on the Bible and we had a lot 01:58:01.540 --> 01:58:02.260 of Christians here. 01:58:02.600 --> 01:58:03.760 That's why God has blessed our nation. 01:58:03.940 --> 01:58:05.080 Not for any other reason. 01:58:05.560 --> 01:58:08.180 I mean, you have the Chinese and you have the Japanese and you have all these others. 01:58:11.610 --> 01:58:15.690 And in America, you just have us getting raw land starting from scratch. 01:58:16.010 --> 01:58:18.070 How did we catch up and surpass them so quickly? 01:58:18.950 --> 01:58:19.450 Because of the Bible. 01:58:19.690 --> 01:58:21.490 Not because we were better or anything like that. 01:58:21.870 --> 01:58:24.090 It's just specifically because of the Bible. 01:58:24.990 --> 01:58:26.050 In Deuteronomy 14, the Bible says, 01:58:26.170 --> 01:58:27.670 For thou art a holy people, and the Lord thy God, 01:58:27.970 --> 01:58:30.450 and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, 01:58:30.770 --> 01:58:32.850 above all the nations that are upon the earth. 01:58:33.210 --> 01:58:36.290 The Bible says, hey, it shows that the children of Israel would be better than all the other nations in the world. 01:58:36.680 --> 01:58:41.100 be special. And again, when you make the Bible your standard, you will be better than all 01:58:41.100 --> 01:58:44.240 the other nations in the world, period. Psalm 33 says, 01:58:44.400 --> 01:58:47.900 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord and the people whom he hath chosen for his 01:58:47.900 --> 01:58:51.680 own inheritance. Any nation who makes God their Lord will be better than a nation that 01:58:51.680 --> 01:58:58.540 doesn't. Canada just raised some graven image to some Hindu God. It's a giant curse on that 01:58:58.540 --> 01:59:02.300 country and a giant, you know, reprehension on that particular country. 01:59:02.700 --> 01:59:09.160 Psalm 9 verse 17 the wicked shall be turned into hell and notice this and all the nations that forget God 01:59:10.940 --> 01:59:13.680 You may say this isn't fair. Well, that's just how the world works 01:59:13.680 --> 01:59:19.060 Nations and areas in this world that don't want Christianity don't want God don't want the truth 01:59:19.060 --> 01:59:26.620 They just turn into a hell hole literally and you find me areas that don't want the Bible and I'll show you a hell hole 01:59:26.620 --> 01:59:28.660 I will not show you a paradise 01:59:29.440 --> 01:59:34.360 And most of the best places in the world either currently have good standards towards Christianity 01:59:34.360 --> 01:59:37.580 or had them for a long period in their most recent history 01:59:37.580 --> 01:59:39.940 and they're now just slowly eroding in that it. 01:59:40.320 --> 01:59:42.040 I mean Europe obviously had 01:59:43.140 --> 01:59:50.360 interesting history, but obviously Britain in some of these areas had a lot more freedom and we're prospering in a Christian way. 01:59:50.640 --> 01:59:53.620 The British Empire was thriving, but then they forgot God, didn't they? 01:59:54.300 --> 01:59:58.880 And then now they're invaded by a bunch of Muslims. Okay, and so it's correlation. 01:59:59.860 --> 02:00:03.880 America is the same way. We're very blessed, but in the last 60 years, 02:00:04.640 --> 02:00:06.000 it's changed a lot, hasn't it? 02:00:06.270 --> 02:00:12.290 And we've had a lot of diversity and not diversity because of Christianity diversity of religion diversity of ideas 02:00:12.290 --> 02:00:16.530 And that's been corrupting our country degrading our country causing problems 02:00:16.530 --> 02:00:19.390 We're still in my opinion the best place to live in the world though 02:00:20.190 --> 02:00:22.450 And we still have the greatest churches, 02:00:23.190 --> 02:00:25.290 we have the greatest missions movements, 02:00:25.850 --> 02:00:27.510 we have the greatest opportunity, 02:00:28.090 --> 02:00:30.270 we have a lot of wealth that we can use at our disposal. 02:00:30.910 --> 02:00:32.330 But you know, there's other areas in the world, 02:00:32.870 --> 02:00:34.830 you know, Philippines, the Bahamas, 02:00:34.990 --> 02:00:36.250 areas that are really receptive right now 02:00:36.250 --> 02:00:37.170 and getting a lot of people saved. 02:00:37.570 --> 02:00:39.410 It seems like their economies are changing too. 02:00:40.110 --> 02:00:40.990 They're getting more blessed, 02:00:41.350 --> 02:00:42.130 God is giving them more favor. 02:00:42.410 --> 02:00:43.810 And look, any nation or any country 02:00:43.810 --> 02:00:45.430 that starts embracing Christianity 02:00:45.960 --> 02:00:50.520 It's going to start getting way better over time and the nations that are not are going to get way worse over time. 02:00:52.420 --> 02:00:53.480 Psalm 1171 says this, 02:00:53.620 --> 02:00:55.700 Oh, praise the Lord all ye nations, praise them all ye people. 02:00:55.920 --> 02:00:59.360 Look, we're all God's people in the sense that we're all His creation, 02:01:00.020 --> 02:01:02.460 but we're not all His, the sons of God. 02:01:03.460 --> 02:01:06.640 And so every nation is supposed to serve God. 02:01:07.940 --> 02:01:10.880 It's like, oh, well we have our gods. No, you only have one God. 02:01:11.620 --> 02:01:16.408 There's only one God. It's the Lord God. He's the Lord of both the Jew and the Gentile and 02:01:17.060 --> 02:01:18.540 You're supposed to call upon him 02:01:18.540 --> 02:01:22.148 you're supposed to believe in him to get saved and you're supposed to follow the Bible period and 02:01:22.880 --> 02:01:26.400 We have to understand that the history of the world God wanted them to all serve God 02:01:26.400 --> 02:01:32.600 but some people some people groups didn't some nations didn't and Ham didn't and Ham was a subservient 02:01:33.300 --> 02:01:36.128 nation and group of people and always will be and 02:01:36.840 --> 02:01:40.120 That doesn't mean that people within that descendancy can't 02:01:40.730 --> 02:01:42.430 believe in Jesus Christ and get saved and move on, 02:01:42.550 --> 02:01:45.790 but those nations as a whole are going to be inferior, 02:01:47.250 --> 02:01:48.710 doomed, causing all kinds of problems. 02:01:49.110 --> 02:01:50.270 And if we want our nation to be prosperous, 02:01:50.490 --> 02:01:52.730 we have to adhere to the Bible to the Word of God. 02:01:53.390 --> 02:01:54.450 So hopefully you don't believe in evolution 02:01:54.450 --> 02:01:55.190 because you're an idiot. 02:01:56.590 --> 02:01:57.270 Believe the Bible. 02:01:58.210 --> 02:02:05.030 This is a lot of information, but I'm just trying to give you a big picture so then that way when we talk about other stuff 02:02:05.030 --> 02:02:10.130 You kind of have some idea of why the world looks the way that it does and what happened in history 02:02:10.130 --> 02:02:15.850 Let's close in prayer. Thank you heavenly father so much for giving us the Bible so that we could understand the world that we live in 02:02:16.760 --> 02:02:20.980 Thank you for giving us the word of God in our English tongue so that we could use it. 02:02:21.520 --> 02:02:27.180 We are very blessed people to live in America, to have the English Bible, to have the King James Bible, 02:02:27.760 --> 02:02:32.740 to have the church that we have, to have great pastors and churches in this area. 02:02:32.860 --> 02:02:35.880 I pray that we would understand how blessed we really are. 02:02:36.430 --> 02:02:43.330 And to use that for the Gospel, to get people saved, to go out and preach the Gospel, to do missions, trips, to help other individuals, 02:02:43.870 --> 02:02:50.910 and to help our nation remember why it's prosperous, why it's successful, why it's been blessed, is because of you and drawing near to you. 02:02:50.990 --> 02:02:56.850 And I pray that we could have revival, we could have more people drawing near to you, learning history, learning what the Bible says, 02:02:56.990 --> 02:03:02.710 learning the truth, getting saved, start reading the Bible and getting plugged into a good church so they can serve you. 02:03:03.150 --> 02:03:05.570 because all the nations should give you honor and praise 02:03:05.570 --> 02:03:07.110 and in Jesus' name we pray, amen. 02:03:07.470 --> 02:03:07.710 Amen. 02:03:11.050 --> 02:03:12.770 All right, for our last song, 02:03:13.910 --> 02:03:15.850 let's go to song number 55. 02:03:24.110 --> 02:03:25.810 Song number 55. 02:03:29.200 --> 02:03:32.740 When the roll is called up yonder song number 55 02:05:11.690 --> 02:05:12.670 of the day.