Participants: Pr. John Carter
Series Code: CR
Program Code: CR100001S
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00:01 Hello friend, I am John Carter.
00:04 Welcome to Great Truths Revealed. 00:07 While I was in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 00:12 the Carter Report team presented 20 peace filled programs 00:17 often under dangerous 00:19 and difficult circumstances they were 00:22 and have powerful spiritual encounters. 00:27 This first program almost didn't happen 00:30 because of events beyond our control 00:33 and you will sense the tension 00:36 and the drama in this first presentation. 00:41 Welcome my friend to "Great Truths Revealed", 00:46 a milestone in the history of Christianity. 01:01 Some of the largest crowds in the history of Christianity 01:05 attended the Carter Report in the Sir John Guise Stadium, 01:08 Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. 01:11 Who were these people? 01:12 Well, they were earnest seekers for truth 01:15 with hearts strangely warmed by the love of God. 01:19 They came hungry for God. 01:21 And they listened to His Word with a holy awe, 01:24 mingled with a divine excitement. 01:27 When the invitation to accept Christ 01:29 as Lord and Savior was given, thousands surged forward. 01:33 The fervency and devotion of these seekers displayed 01:36 the miracle working power 01:38 of the Holy Spirit in their lives. 01:41 You are now invited to join this mighty congregation 01:44 as Pastor John Carter forthrightly 01:46 proclaims the message hot from the heart of God. 01:50 Welcome to the Carter Report 01:52 in the Sir John Guise National Stadium, 01:54 Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. 02:03 Do you ever wonder where the world is going? 02:10 Do you ever wonder 02:13 we had the awful collapse on Wall Street? 02:18 It affected me personally 02:20 because I live over in that part of the world. 02:24 The world for a moment was on the brink of disaster, 02:29 then we had at the same time the collapse of the banks. 02:34 And America has got itself involved in a number of wars, 02:39 in Iraq, Afghanistan and people say. 02:44 "Will we have a war with Iran?" 02:47 I say, God forbid. 02:50 The people are wondering, what does the future hold? 02:54 Ever wonder that my friend? 02:57 Then we have global warming, a change in weather patterns. 03:02 What does it all mean? 03:05 During times of trouble 03:07 we're confronted by the big questions of life. 03:11 Here they are, who am I? 03:14 Do you know who you are? Who am I? 03:19 Where did I come from? 03:22 Am I a planetary accident 03:27 or am I a child of God? 03:30 Why I am here? Where am I going? 03:34 I am told today by cynics and atheists 03:38 that man is the product of time, 03:42 remember this, time plus matter plus chance. 03:48 And so we simply came on the planet by accident 03:52 and that means we're going exit by accident. 03:55 I am not buying it. 03:57 The purpose of these lectures 03:59 is to answer the big questions of life, listen to me. 04:07 We've had incredible difficulties 04:10 getting these programs going this week. 04:14 My team worked their hearts out 04:17 with their brothers and sisters from PNG to get it ready. 04:24 But we did it because we believe God wanted us to come here. 04:29 And tonight, when we turned on he giant projectors, 04:32 they came thousands of miles from Los Angeles, 04:38 they wouldn't work. 04:40 And just a little while ago we were asking the question, 04:44 what we gonna do because it doesn't appear 04:47 that the projectors are going to work. 04:49 We got four projectors right now, glory be to God, 04:54 we got two of those projectors working. 04:56 Now tomorrow night by the grace of God 04:59 we'll have the four of them working 05:00 and double the power on the screens. 05:04 But I want to tell you folks something, 05:07 you're going to come to these programs 05:10 and the crowds are going to grow. 05:13 They are going to get bigger and bigger 05:16 and you're going to find it hard to get a place to sit. 05:22 You're going to find it hard to get a place to stand 05:26 because we're going to deal 05:28 with the great facts of Bible prophecy 05:32 and the facts of science. 05:34 And tonight, I am going to take you 05:38 my beloved friends, I am going to take you 05:42 on the incredible journey of a lifetime. 05:47 I am going to take you. 05:49 We're going to put it up on the screen now. 05:50 I am going to take you to the land of Egypt. 05:54 Egypt, did you know 05:59 that the Bible was born in the land of Egypt? 06:05 Did you know that? 06:07 That's where the Bible came from. 06:08 That's where it was born. 06:11 The Bible, the first five books of the Bible 06:13 were written by a mighty Egyptian prince. 06:19 Egypt is the longest, lasting civilization 06:22 in the history of the world. 06:24 Australia was discovered in 1770. 06:28 United States, 1492. 06:32 1776, the Americans fought the war of independence 06:37 with Great Britain and they won. 06:43 These are modern countries. 06:45 But Egypt goes back at least to 3,000 B.C. 06:53 The red land of Egypt was born 06:57 on the banks of the River Nile. 07:02 I just got to come over here at the black boards 07:04 and I am going to put up a little map 07:07 of the land of Egypt, 07:09 so that you will know tonight where we are going. 07:13 This is the Medaterrian Sea. 07:15 Down here we have the delta 07:19 and the land of Egypt is about a 1,000 kilometers 07:23 from north to south. 07:26 There you have outside of Cairo, the great pyramids of Giza 07:33 and you come further down the river, 07:36 in fact you go up the river and you come to Karnak, 07:43 which is the greatest temple complex in the world. 07:49 Tonight, even though we've only got two projectors working, 07:53 we are not concerned at all because we're going to show you 07:57 some tremendous pictures 08:00 that you're not going to see anywhere else 08:03 and more than show you pictures, 08:06 we're going to give you evidence of the living God. 08:13 Rather to say it, Egypt is the gift of the Nile 08:19 and the Nile is the gift of the Gods. 08:23 Therefore they believed they were the children of God. 08:26 The pharaohs were worshiped as God kings. 08:31 The wealth of the ancient Egyptians, Vegas description. 08:37 Pharaoh Osorkon 08:40 gifted 383 tons of gold and silver to the temple 08:48 during four years, worth billions of dollars. 08:53 The Bible spoke about the wealth of Egypt. 08:58 When I saw many, many years ago-- 09:01 I've been to Egypt many, many, many times, 09:03 but when I saw the buildings I was dazed and amazed. 09:11 My heart was strangely moved 09:14 when I went into the Valley of the Kings, 09:17 and I saw there the tomb of King Tutankhamun. 09:22 The Bible was born in this culture. 09:26 It was not born in an unsophisticated culture. 09:30 This book that I hold in my hands is the only book 09:36 that tells us where we came from and why we are here 09:42 and where we are going. 09:46 And if it is true then we have hope. 09:51 The Egyptians were great writers. 09:53 They wrote on almost everything. 09:57 Their writing made up of strange pictures 10:00 is called the hieroglyph or the hieroglyphics. 10:06 Nobody could understand 10:09 the meaning of the strange letters 10:13 for hundreds even thousands of years. 10:16 Then Napoleon Bonaparte marched down into the land of Egypt 10:21 ands he took with him a group of scholars 10:25 as well as a great army of solders. 10:28 And when his scholars were digging 10:30 outside the little village of Rosetta in the delta 10:37 they discovered what is called today 10:40 the Rosetta stone, there it is. 10:45 It is a trilingual inscription, Hyreoglyphic, Demotic, 10:51 two types of ancient Egyptian and also Greece. 10:56 Now, Greece was easily understood. 10:59 A young Englishman by the name of Young 11:04 worked on this amazing stone tablet for many years. 11:11 And he made some advancement 11:14 but he could not break this secret code. 11:17 That was left to a young Frenchman by the name 11:20 of Jean-Francois Champollion, there he is. 11:28 At least there's a picture of him. 11:31 And after working on this for a number of years 11:35 he announced to the scholarly world 11:39 that the ancient code had been broken. 11:44 And Egypt started to tell her secrets. 11:49 Now tonight with God's help, 11:53 I am going to tell you some of the secrets 11:56 of the ancient Egyptians that tell us where we came from, 12:00 why we are here and where we are going. 12:04 Let me talk now. 12:06 I got more material than I can deal with tonight. 12:09 The program tomorrow night is even more fascinating, 12:13 but let me tell you about the great discovery. 12:23 Over there in the Cairo museum when I was there last 12:27 was a great scholar by the name of Dr. Hawass. 12:32 Dr. Hawass allowed us to have 12:36 sole use of the Cairo museum for an evening. 12:42 I spent that evening with the queen. 12:47 What am I talking about? 12:52 Many years ago, more than 3, 000 years ago 12:57 there was a beautiful girl and she became the pharaoh. 13:03 It was not allowed that a woman should become the pharaoh 13:07 but she became the pharaoh. 13:12 But in Russia and another places I told the people, 13:18 our Queen Hatshepsut had been lost, 13:23 her mummy was lost, most likely destroyed. 13:29 Then Dr. Hawass discovered an old, old female mummy. 13:39 And he also discovered a little box. 13:44 And in the box there was a tooth. 13:48 A tooth in the box. 13:52 And on the box was written 13:54 in the coptos the name Hatshepsut 14:00 because now we are talking about Queen, 14:03 Pharaoh Hatshepsut who became the greatest ruler of her time. 14:10 Some would say the most powerful woman 14:14 in the history of the ancient world. 14:18 When he looked at this mummy he discovered, 14:23 as you can see on the screen 14:26 that there was a tooth missing in the upper jaw 14:34 and they wondered whose jaw is this. 14:38 And then they got the tooth out of the box from Queen Hatshepsut 14:45 and they pushed it up into the jaw 14:49 and it was a perfect fit. 14:55 We had discovered after so long 15:02 the body of the bearded queen. 15:07 Why she called the bearded queen? 15:09 Because the beard is the symbol of the pharaoh. 15:14 And so in her inscriptions she's shown as a female 15:19 but she's shown as a king. 15:25 She's shown as a male with the beard of the high priest. 15:33 Now you say, "So what? 15:37 Why you telling us this? What is so significant?" 15:42 you say to me, "You actually saw 15:45 the mummy of the Queen Hatshepsut?" Absolutely. 15:49 I gazed at her shrunken form. 15:55 Dr. Hawass, the greatest Egyptologist in the world 16:00 standing there with my friend Dr. Randall Younker 16:02 from Andrews University. 16:04 Have a look friend, gazed upon the body 16:10 of the great lady pharaoh 16:14 and wonder who was she? 16:21 Dr. Hawass said she was powerful, 16:28 she was mighty, her enemies trembled before her. 16:35 Who was she? Now listen to this story. 16:38 Are you folks listening to me? 16:41 What I ask you folks in Port Moresby, 16:43 are you listening to me tonight? 16:45 Yes. Let me hear it louder 16:47 Yes. Good. 16:50 Just want to make sure you folks aren't sleeping 16:51 out there in the dark. 16:53 Okay. This is a Christian country. 16:58 You know the story of the Bible, don't you? 17:01 There was a young man by the name of Joseph 17:05 who was sold as a slave to the Egyptians. 17:08 Eventually, he became the prime minister. 17:12 The Bible says, there was 17:13 a mighty famine in the land of Egypt. 17:18 When he was the prime minister 17:19 he stowed up the grain for the Egyptians. 17:25 And then the Bible says that when he died, 17:29 there arose a pharaoh who knew not Joseph. 17:34 Look there my friend on the screen, 17:38 there you have the remains of the great storage places 17:44 where the wheat was stored in the days of Joseph. 17:48 You say, you got to be kidding. 17:50 No, this is true. 17:51 The Bible says, "There arose a pharaoh who knew not Joseph." 17:58 And the Bible says "That they started to beat 18:02 and persecute the Israelites." 18:07 Now I got special permission from the Egyptian government 18:13 to go into the tomb of Rekhmire. 18:18 Got music in the name, the tomb of Rekhmire. 18:23 And I saw something there astounding, 18:25 I saw semi-slaves. 18:31 And I want you to see it. 18:33 We gonna put a picture on the screen 18:35 and you'll see that over here 18:37 how the Egyptians are actually beating them. 18:42 You say, "So what?" 18:44 Well, I'll tell you what, so what my friend, 18:47 the Bible was right. 18:50 The Bible told this story. 18:53 It told the story of the great famine. 18:56 It told the story of Joseph 18:58 and it told the story of how the children of Israel 19:02 became slaves and they were beaten by the Egyptians. 19:06 I want to tell you folks something tonight. 19:08 You just listen to me. 19:10 I want to tell you folks something tonight. 19:12 I am not here to ask you to believe by faith, 19:14 I am asking-- I want you to believe tonight 19:17 on the basis of scientific evidence. 19:24 I believe tonight and I believe 19:27 because of the overwhelming evidence that I've seen. 19:34 Now, after Joseph 19:39 and after the oppresses of his people, 19:42 there came a number of great pharaohs. 19:49 One great pharaoh who made a tremendous impact 19:53 in the land of Egypt was a man by the name of Seqenenre. 19:58 There he is, Seqenenre. 20:01 You can see how he died fighting his enemies. 20:06 And he was followed by this Pharaoh Ahmose. 20:13 I want you to notice something 20:14 ladies and gentlemen in this beautiful city 20:17 on this beautiful evening beneath God's beautiful sky. 20:22 I want you to know that during this time of Egyptian history 20:26 every pharaoh had Moses in his name. 20:31 His name actually is Ahmose or Ah-moses. 20:38 Ahmose, Ah-moses. 20:43 And then you go along and you find some other kings. 20:46 We're going to look at some of the pharaohs of this period. 20:50 And people say, "Are these the exact pharaohs? 20:53 Are these the actual kings?" Absolutely. 20:57 I've had the privilege of going into the royal mummy room 21:02 and gazing upon the faces of the kings that shook the world 21:09 and kings that were even mentioned in your Bible. 21:14 The Bible tells me there was a pharaoh-- 21:17 I am giving you so much stuff you won't remember at all. 21:20 There was a pharaoh by the name of Thutmose, Thutmose I. 21:26 And he had a daughter 21:28 and the daughter of Thutmose was Hatshepsut. 21:34 That's the mummy that I showed you on the screen. 21:39 Now if we go according to the chronologies of the Bible. 21:43 And if you go to your Bible 21:45 and if you turn to 1 Kings 6:1 in the Bible 21:52 it tells us the dates when the children of Israel 21:58 came out of the land of Egypt. 22:03 Now listen carefully. 22:06 We're getting on pretty sound territory here. 22:10 The Bible tells the story of a beautiful princes 22:16 who went down to the River Nile. 22:20 And the pharaoh had given her decree 22:22 that every little male baby should be put to death. 22:26 But there was a mother who said, 22:28 "I am not going to put him to death." 22:32 And this princess went down to the River Nile 22:36 and she saw a basket floating on the water 22:40 and she said, "Bring me the basket." 22:44 And when they opened up the basket 22:48 there was a baby there. 22:52 A Hebrew baby and she called him Moses. 22:58 Moses. 23:02 We have evidence to suggest 23:06 according to the best discoveries 23:09 and what we know about phrenology 23:11 that the princess who went down to the River Nile 23:17 and discovered the man who wrote the first five books 23:21 of the Bible was Princess Hatshepsut. 23:29 And her body has been discovered. 23:34 Listen. Listen. 23:37 Later on the little princess who found the little boy 23:43 became the pharaoh herself. 23:48 But there was another man, 23:50 the illegitimate son of her husband 23:54 whose name was not Moses, 23:58 but his name was Thutmose III 24:05 and she kept him off the throne. 24:11 And in the courts of the pharaohs 24:15 there was a tremendous dispute 24:20 because Thutmose III, there he is in the screen. 24:26 Listen to me. 24:28 You know the story, don't you in your Bible 24:32 that the cynic tells you not to believe. 24:35 But what does the cynic got to offer you? 24:38 The cynic has got nothing 24:40 to offer you at all except oblivion. 24:44 But the Bible has got everlasting life to give you. 24:48 Want you to know this. Now listen carefully. 24:57 Dr. Hawass and I standing there looking at Thutmose III. 25:02 You know in your Bible it tells us 25:04 how Moses went to pharaoh. 25:07 God said to Moses, "You got to go to pharaoh 25:10 and you got to say, 'Let my people go.'" 25:13 I like that, don't you? 25:16 The Bible is a book of freedom. 25:19 The Bible is against oppression. 25:22 The Bible is against slavery. 25:24 The Bible is against racism. 25:28 You know what I am saying. 25:32 Moses went to pharaoh and he said, "Pharaoh, 25:38 our mighty God has sent me to tell you let my people go." 25:44 And pharaoh said, "I don't know the Lord 25:47 and I will not let your people go." 25:51 There he is. I want you to see him. 25:56 Thutmose III, the man who said to Moses, 26:02 "I will not let your people go." 26:05 He hasn't got much to say tonight, has he? 26:09 This is a pharaoh that is mentioned in the Bible. 26:16 I want to tell my friends 26:18 in Papua New Guinea something tonight. 26:21 The Bible indicates that Moses who gave us the Ten Commandments 26:26 and the first five books of the Bible. 26:29 He was the son of pharaoh's daughter. 26:31 I am quoting the Bible, the son of pharaoh's daughter. 26:35 He was the step son of Queen Hatshepsut 26:40 whose body has just been discovered. 26:45 Moses could have been the pharaoh 26:48 but if he'd chosen to be the pharaoh, 26:51 he would have had to worship the gods 26:54 and the demons of the ancient Egyptians. 27:00 Moses could have been the pharaoh 27:01 but he would have to give up his faith in God. 27:06 And Moses decided that he was going to follow God. 27:11 If Moses had become the pharaoh 27:13 and turned his back on God, 27:16 I would have been showing you tonight 27:18 Pharaoh Moses on the screen, as a mummy, 27:23 as a dead man in the Cairo Museum. 27:29 But I want you to know something. 27:32 The Bible tells me that Moses turned down 27:35 the gods and the demons and the polygamy 27:40 and everything else and the polytheism 27:43 of the ancient Egyptians 27:45 and the Bible tell me he chose Christ. 27:50 And the Bible tells me tonight that Moses 27:54 is not in the Cairo museum, 27:57 Moses is in the kingdom of the God in heaven. 28:02 Did you know that? 28:05 You say to me, "It doesn't make any difference." 28:08 Well, you just look at these mummies on the screen. 28:12 The greatest man in all the world 28:16 and tonight they're simply mummies in the Cairo museum. 28:20 I want to ask you a question tonight 28:22 my friends here in Port Moresby. 28:25 Do you want to be a mummy 28:27 or do you want to be a child of God in the kingdom of God? 28:32 Now the Bible tells me where I came from. 28:35 The Bible tells me I came from the hand of God. 28:39 The Bible tells me I am a child of God. 28:41 I don't care whether you are white 28:43 or you are black or you are brown. 28:46 Whether you come from the highlands or the coast. 28:49 I don't care whether you come from China 28:51 or whether you come from America 28:54 or whether you come from Russia. 28:56 I want to tell you, we are all children of God 29:01 made by the hand of God 29:03 and that makes you and me brothers and sisters. 29:12 So the great discovery 29:15 is the discovery of the body of the foster mother of Moses. 29:21 Her name is Queen Hatshepsut, the bearded queen. 29:28 Wow, what a story. 29:31 Everything she did was grand and glorious. 29:34 You ought to go and see her buildings as I did. 29:38 You go and see Deir El-Bahri on the western bank of Karnak. 29:44 You see her tremendous obelisk, 97 feet high, 323 tons. 29:52 Once covered in silver and gold. 29:58 It's amazing, it's astounding. 30:01 Now listen to me. 30:04 I got some amazing things to tell you. 30:06 But I've got to cut a lot of it out 30:08 because we don't have our-- all of your projectors 30:10 but we're still doing okay. 30:12 Glory be to God. Listen to me. 30:17 The Bible tells me that the children of Israel 30:21 lead by Moses left the land of Egypt. 30:24 You know the story, it's called the Exodus. 30:29 The Bible tells us that the Egyptians came at 30:32 after the children of Israel and try to destroy them. 30:38 But the Bible says the children of Israel 30:41 went through, they ran over the Red Sea. 30:45 And the waves came rolling down upon the Egyptians 30:49 and they were drowned. 30:53 And one of the most amazing experiences 30:56 I've ever had was to go into the tomb of Thutmose III, 31:02 the pharaoh who said to Moses, "I will not let the people go." 31:07 I am going to take you into that tomb. 31:10 This tomb is only recently been opened. 31:13 You're seeing pictures that very few people have seen. 31:17 This is the tomb of the man who died in 1450 B.C. saying, 31:25 "I do not know God and I won't obey Him." 31:29 I've shown you his picture, there is his coffin. 31:34 I am with my friend from Andrews University, 31:37 Dr. Randy Younker and we're looking at the tomb. 31:43 Now one of the amazing things 31:45 Dr. Younker pointed out to me was this, 31:48 that the tomb was put together very quickly. 31:53 It's not even finished. 31:55 And he said to me, 31:58 "they were in a big hurry to bury this man." 32:02 They didn't expect him to die. 32:06 And he didn't expect to die himself. 32:11 But the Bible tells me that this pharaoh, Thutmose III 32:18 who fought God died in the waters of the Red Sea 32:24 and he's buried, we believe in that tomb. 32:30 So what does it mean? 32:32 You know, I've got so much I can show you, 32:34 but what does this mean? 32:36 I will tell you what it means. 32:38 It means this, that the Bible is historically accurate. 32:44 The Bible is not a mass of fables. 32:48 It's not a bunch of fairy stories. 32:50 The Bible is true. Now listen. 32:54 If the Bible is true, you ought to be very glad. 32:59 And I'll tell you why you ought to be glad, 33:02 because the Bible tells you where you came from 33:06 and the Bible tells you why you are here 33:09 and the Bible tells you where you are going. 33:13 Isn't that amazing? 33:15 The Bible tells you, 33:16 tells me that you and I are not a bit of slime. 33:22 We're not just a mass of atoms and molecules. 33:26 The Bible tells us that we came from the hand of God 33:30 and every person is important. 33:33 There's nobody who is not important. 33:35 Every person is important 33:37 because every person is a child of God. 33:42 When you walk out of this meeting tonight 33:44 you can say-- maybe some of you will say, 33:47 "But you know I am not very wealthy." 33:49 That doesn't matter a great deal. 33:52 You are wealthy if you know that you came from the hand of God 33:56 and one day you're going to be with Christ 33:58 in paradise, you see. 34:02 So the Bible tells me where I came from. 34:06 It tells me why I am here 34:09 and it tells me where I am going. 34:13 And that is why I love biblical archeology. 34:19 Well, who were these ancient Egyptians? 34:22 For a few moments look at their accomplishments. 34:26 They were the builders of the pyramid, houses of deaths. 34:32 They were obsessed with deaths. 34:36 If you don't know God, you ought to be. 34:40 They were obsessed with death, 34:42 therefore they built the pyramids as tombs. 34:47 They dug into the sides of the mountains 34:50 and they buried their pharaohs 34:52 believing that this was the way to ensure their afterlife. 34:59 Now the great pyramid was build by Khufu 35:02 or he's call Cheops by the Greece. 35:06 Build, well, almost 5000 years ago 35:09 now, 2650 B.C. about a 150 meter high, 35:15 480 feet high, 775 feet on each side, 35:19 made up of two and half million giant blocks of lime stone 35:24 laid out perfectly north, south, east and west. 35:30 Why was it built? 35:33 It was built as the cosmic mountain, 35:37 the home of the Gods. 35:39 Now listen to me. 35:43 The Egyptians worshiped many gods 35:46 and they worshiped their ancestors. 35:50 They worshiped the spirits of the dead 35:54 and that religion is aptly oppose 35:57 to the religion of God and the religion of the Bible. 36:02 They believed in powerful spirit forces. 36:08 They believed that it was important 36:10 to preserve the body for afterlife 36:12 and that is why they practice mummification. 36:18 They built these great houses of death 36:21 because of their quest for immortality. 36:26 That's why they built the Karnak temple. 36:30 I've been to the Karnak temple more times than I can remember. 36:34 It is the largest religious complex ever built 36:38 in the history of the world. 36:39 It is more than a mile square. 36:47 I've been inside the temple of Amun Ra, 36:51 it cover 61 acres, just the temple. 36:55 About 30 or 26 something hectors. 36:59 Then I've gone to the Great Hypostyle Hall 37:02 that was built by Seti and Ramesses the great. 37:09 Only a small part of it is standing today. 37:12 It is composed of 58,000 square feet 37:16 of massive pile ons. 37:19 Some of the columns are 75 feet high 37:22 and 32 feet in circumference. 37:26 And it's an amazing thing, 37:29 I don't know we got the pictures here tonight 37:30 because we don't have all our projectors 37:33 but you can look up 70 feet 37:35 on the tops of those mighty columns-- 37:38 there, look, bless your heart. 37:40 You can actually see some of the paint 37:43 on the top after 3000 plus years. 37:50 These were the people who gave us Moses. 37:57 Moses, the mighty Egyptian prince. 38:00 The prince of Egypt who gave us the Bible. 38:04 The Bible that tells us where we came from, 38:07 why we are here, where we are going. 38:10 The Bible that gave us this story 38:12 of the children of Israel and the great pharaoh 38:16 who said, "No, no, no, no." 38:20 And today, we can gaze upon these great buildings 38:24 in their sublime majesty 38:28 and our minds go back to the days 38:31 when Moses lived in Egypt. 38:35 The power and the glory. 38:39 And then there are the treasures of ancient Egypt. 38:42 Bless your heart, the gold. 38:44 Gold, gold, gold, heaps of this stuff. 38:52 I've gone inside the Cairo museum 38:54 with my television crew with my son David and others. 38:58 And we've looked at the wonders of the ancient Egyptians. 39:02 We've looked at the gold, 39:03 the treasures of the tomb of Tutankhamun. 39:08 We saw tons and tons and tons of gold. 39:15 It's an amazing wonderful story. 39:18 I think I should just show you 39:21 some of the wonders of the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun 39:26 who was a political nobody. 39:31 He was a nobody. 39:34 And enter his tomb went gold bullion--like this great shrine. 39:41 Big enough to hold a motor car covered with gold. 39:46 And there we have the golden death mask 39:50 of the pharaoh himself discovered by Howard Carter, 39:55 the intrepid English archeologist. 40:00 An amazing story. 40:03 When I saw the death mask of Pharaoh Tutankhamun 40:09 and when I gazed in admiration up on the throne, 40:15 my mind went to the Bible and the story of Moses. 40:21 He could have had it all, everybody bit of it. 40:25 He could have lived there in the courts of the pharaohs 40:30 and tonight he would have been in the Cairo museum 40:34 as a shriveled up mummy that looks like a bit of dead fish. 40:42 Now listen I want to tell you folks something. 40:45 You may be saying to me tonight and I said it to the KGB, 40:48 I've said it to the biggest audiences around the world. 40:54 You can see that I believe the Bible, 40:57 to right I believe the Bible. 41:00 I've been to so many places I've been to Egypt and Babylon. 41:05 I've been into the palaces, I've been to the shrines, 41:09 I've been into the tombs and as I've gone to these places, 41:14 I have done something that others have done before me. 41:17 I've taken a copy of the Bible. 41:23 And I've opened up my Bible 41:26 and I have read the stories of the Bible 41:29 and then I've looked at the hieroglyphics 41:33 and I've read it on the walls of the pharaohs as it were. 41:41 An amazing wonderful story. 41:45 I want you to get peace in your life. 41:47 I want you to have happiness in your life. 41:50 I want you to be prosperous and successful 41:54 and I want you to have what the Egyptians didn't have, 41:58 that is everlasting life. 42:00 And you can have it, 42:01 if you believe in the God 42:04 who believes in you, my brother, my sister. 42:09 Now this old book tells me the story 42:13 of how the children of Israel were led by Moses 42:18 from the city of Ramesses. 42:22 I'm gonna show you actually the city of Ramesses, 42:26 and my team up there are working 42:28 under great pressure tonight in, with tremendous difficulties 42:32 because the computers were not working and so forth, 42:36 but they're gonna get you to the city, 42:38 I believe of Ramesses which is in the delta. 42:44 Now this is the city of Tanis or portion of the city of Tanis 42:48 and we may have some pictures of Tanis, 42:51 I think that they're going to find. 42:54 But Tanis was not the city of Ramesses. 42:57 What happened was 42:58 that when Ramesses was overthrown Pi-Ramesses, 43:02 they cut it all the monuments up here to the north 43:05 and they built a new city, the city of Tanis. 43:09 But that was not the city of the Bible 43:13 and for many, many years 43:14 the archeologists didn't understand this. 43:17 But I visited the city of Tanis 43:20 and then I came down to the city of Ramesses. 43:25 And that was the city we're gonna find that soon, 43:29 I believe the city of Ramesses which is called Tell el-Dab'a. 43:35 When I went there I was quite amazed, 43:38 because I was disappointed 43:42 when I went there at Tell el-Dab'a, 43:45 which is south, there it is, this is Tell el-Dab'a. 43:48 These men are doing great under great difficulty tonight, 43:52 but there is the city all-- all that is best of Pi-Ramesses. 43:57 You're looking at what 43:59 once was perhaps the greatest city of the ancient world. 44:04 A huge, huge city. 44:07 And the Bible says, 44:09 that Moses led the children of Israel out of the Egypt 44:15 and this was once a magnificent place. 44:19 And they left there, and the Bible says, 44:22 they went through right over the Red Sea. 44:25 And I prepared a time, 44:27 they came up here in the north of Israel. 44:30 They came to a city by the name of Hazor. 44:36 Moses had gone home to glory. 44:39 Would you like to go home to glory too? 44:42 Well, Moses had gone home to glory. 44:46 And up here in Hazor, 44:49 the Bible tells me a young Hebrew 44:51 by the name of Joshua, 44:55 led the armies of Israelites against the city. 45:00 And the Bible says that they destroyed Hazor with fire. 45:08 And of course, the skeptics said of course that's not true. 45:13 Over here, yes that's Tell el-Dab'a 45:16 but I want us to get up now up in the north of Israel 45:21 and come up to Hazor, because, there it is. 45:26 Uh-huh, I thought we lost it. 45:29 Have a good look at that, 45:31 you say, well, it's not like the pharaohs, 45:32 it's not like the wealth, not like the gold, 45:35 not like the pyramids you've shown us tonight. 45:37 Not like Queen Hatshepsut, Thutmose III. 45:41 You see that. 45:43 That's the fire that is mentioned in the Bible. 45:47 The Bible says when they came up out of the land of Egypt, 45:51 they burnt the city of Hazor. 45:55 And there I am actually pointing to the ash 46:00 that was formed by the fire 46:03 that destroyed the city that is mentioned in the Bible. 46:08 Bless your heart. 46:10 As I walked around Egypt, 46:16 as I have filmed in the Cairo museum, 46:21 as I have gone into the tombs of the pharaohs, 46:28 as I have gazed upon the bodies of the pharaohs 46:34 who are actually mentioned in the Bible, 46:37 I heard myself saying, "The Bible is right." 46:42 It is right, the skeptics are wrong, the Bible is right. 46:48 As I have traveled around Egypt, 46:50 I have been overwhelmed by the evidence 46:54 that this is the word of God. 46:55 When I went up to Hazor, I opened my Bible 47:01 and I turned to the text were it actually says 47:06 that the children of Israel destroyed Hazor with fire. 47:12 We have discovered the city, it's there, it's there. 47:18 You can believe the Bible, it's there. 47:21 We have discovered the evidence of the fire. 47:29 Vasily, the general in charge of the KGB said to me" 47:35 we are overwhelmed.'' 47:38 I said to the leader of the KGB, I am going to ask you tonight, 47:42 all of you and all of these officers there, 47:45 they asked me to speak to them on two different occasions. 47:50 I said to them on the basis of this evidence 47:53 I am going to ask you to stand up tonight 47:55 and say that you're going to leave your atheism behind, 48:00 that religion of death, that religion of hopelessness, 48:05 that religion of despair. 48:07 I am going to ask you to leave it all behind 48:09 and put your faith in the God who inspired the Bible. 48:13 Yup, General Vladimir stood up clicked his heels, 48:19 his colonel stood up, all of his officers stood up 48:25 and then I said to them, 48:26 I am going to ask you to come down in the front 48:29 and to give your lives to God. 48:31 They came down, all of them. 48:34 I want you to know you can believe in Christ. 48:40 Listen, my friend. 48:43 Here it is, I'm gonna open up my heart to you, here it comes. 48:46 I am a plain man, with a plain utterance, 48:49 with a message hot from the heart of God. 48:55 The Bible gave prophecies about the land of the Egyptians. 48:58 Don't have time tonight to go into them. 49:02 Alexander the Great became one of the great, great pharaohs. 49:07 Prophecy in the Bible about Alexander. 49:10 There's a prophecy about the great city of Memphis. 49:13 Every word of the prophecy came to pass. 49:16 I want to tell you something. 49:18 There are prophecies in the Bible about you and me 49:22 and our day, and our age. 49:24 And from night to night 49:26 we're going to see amazing discoveries 49:29 that give us reason to hope and to believe 49:33 and to know that God is alive 49:35 and He cares for people and He loves you. 49:38 And so my message to you tonight, 49:40 my beloved friend here in Papua New Guinea 49:44 in this great stadium with so many thousands of people, 49:48 you go further than I can see, 49:51 but I want to give you this message tonight, 49:53 here it is, 49:54 '' Believe in the God who believes in you." 50:01 Because He loves you and He cares for you. 50:07 The Bible is true. 50:10 No person is unimportant, you might say I am... 50:15 nobody cares about me, your God does. 50:17 You might say, I don't have a future. 50:19 Yes, you do. 50:21 God has a future for you. 50:22 You can say there's no plan for my life, 50:24 everything seems to be hopeless. 50:26 I want you to know, God has a plan for you. 50:34 He has a dream for you. 50:38 You say '' Does God see me tonight?" Absolutely. 50:42 He sees you. He knows your name. 50:47 Jesus said even the hairs of your head are all numbered. 50:52 He knows your name, He cares for you. 50:56 And the Bible tells me this, this is the most amazing truth. 51:02 The Bible tells me that the God, who gave us the Bible, 51:09 the God who gave us 51:10 the stories of Moses, Hatshepsut. 51:15 The Bible gives us all these wonderful stories 51:18 is more than a book of history. 51:22 It's the book of a father who yearns for His children 51:27 and Jesus, the Son of God said, 51:31 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son. 51:38 So that whoever believes in Him, 51:41 shall not perish, but have everlasting life." 51:47 Believe in the God who believes in you, 51:52 because He knows you and He loves you. 52:01 We're going to do something now that I do around the world. 52:05 I do it in Russia. 52:10 I've done it just down the road from Kremlin, 52:13 the palace of culture 52:15 and the palace of sports in Russia. 52:19 I've had the privilege of speaking 52:20 in all the major cities there, in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev. 52:25 In our program on the subject in Kiev, 52:28 100,000 people were turned away from the meeting. 52:33 And I do what, 52:35 I am going to do now everywhere in the world, 52:38 in the Sydney Opera House 52:41 and the Shrine auditorium in Los Angeles, 52:47 I am going to bring you to God and pray. 52:52 I believe in a personal God. 52:54 And I believe in prayer. 52:59 And I am going to ask you to do something 53:01 that I say to every person where ever I go, 53:04 when we pray and I said it to the KGB general 53:09 when we pray we don't stray sitting down, 53:13 we stand up and we stand up to show honor, 53:17 to the God who made us 53:19 and the God who gave us the Bible. 53:22 I am going to ask you now to great audience here, 53:24 I want you all to stand on your feet 53:27 and we're going to pray together, 53:29 I want to pray for you. 53:35 I want you all to stand please. 53:43 What if our sea of faces 53:45 with so many people tens of thousands, 53:48 we're going to bow our heads, we're going to close our eyes, 53:52 but we're going to open our hearts. 53:57 Our Father in heaven, 53:59 we thank You tonight for this amazing story 54:01 that comes to us from the land of God kings. 54:05 We've seen the mighty pharaohs that shook the world. 54:09 We've seen the woman who drew Moses out of the River Nile. 54:14 We've seen the wealth, the gold 54:19 and we're glad tonight 54:21 that we haven't seen Moses as a mummy, 54:24 because he made the right decision 54:25 and tonight he's home with Jesus in the kingdom of God. 54:29 Help us to know tonight that every person is distinct, 54:35 glorious and important, 54:37 because we're made in the image of God. 54:41 We pray tonight that You'll bless 54:42 the land of Papua New Guinea. 54:47 Bless the government officers, the prime minister. 54:51 Bless the new members of parliament. 54:55 Bless this nation that they will be returning to God 55:00 and that we will see the whole nation turn to God 55:04 and the nation blessed 55:07 in a way that we cannot dream possible tonight. 55:11 Bless these people here tonight as we stand in your presence. 55:15 Take away our fears, forgive us for our sins 55:20 and warm our hearts with Your great love. 55:25 We worship You and we thank You for all of these things, 55:30 in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and our Savior. 55:35 Amen. And Amen. 55:41 Who are these people attending the Carter Report 55:44 at the Sir John Guise Stadium, Port Moresby, New Papua Guinea? 55:47 Well, they come from all walks of life. 55:49 In this great congregation of more than 100,000, 55:53 we find doctors, lawyers, 55:55 politicians, ambassadors, 55:57 carpenters, students, 55:58 teachers, believers and unbelievers. 56:01 There are husbands and wives with their families. 56:04 There are the rich and the poor, the powerful and the weak. 56:08 They are being told that Christ alone is the way, 56:11 the truth and the life. 56:13 They are hearing the words of life 56:15 and their hearts are being strangely warmed. 56:18 Sometimes they feel that their hearts will burst 56:21 and they feel compel to hurry down to the front 56:24 to publicly confess the Savior. 56:26 They are shown in the scriptures 56:28 that God commands men everywhere to repent and be baptized. 56:33 They respond with the holy devotion 56:35 and a passionate intensity. 56:37 Will you not join them? 56:43 Thank you for joining us today. 56:45 To become a faith partner with Pastor John Carter 56:47 and to receive our monthly newsletter, 56:50 write to us here at the Carter Report, 56:52 PO Box 1900, Thousand Oaks, California, 91358, 56:58 or in Australia at PO Box 861, 57:02 Terrigal, NSW 2260. 57:07 That address again is PO Box 1900, 57:10 Thousand Oaks, California, 91358, 57:14 or in Australia at PO Box 861, Terrigal, NSW 2260. 57:22 You may also contact us online at carterreport.org. 57:27 Remember Jesus said, "You will know the truth 57:30 and the truth will set you free." |
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