Participants: Pastor Shawn Boonstra
Series Code: RSP
Program Code: RSP000002A
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01:21 Announcer: Revelation. The time of the end.
01:24 Mysterious signs. 01:25 Strange happenings. 01:27 Confusing numbers. 01:29 Are we facing a new world order and the mark of the beast? 01:34 Are we living on a planet in upheaval? 01:36 Are we on the verge of Armageddon? 01:45 Revelation, what do all the signs in this mysterious book mean? 01:52 Discover real answers. 01:54 Revelation Speaks Peace, with Shawn Boonstra. 01:56 + 02:00 >>>Shawn Boonstra: Welcome back to "Revelation Speaks Peace." My 02:03 name, Shawn Boonstra. I am probably the only Boonstra in the city of Minneapolis tonight; 02:10 unless you've run into some others, I'm probably it. I am the speaker for a radio program 02:17 known as the Voice of Prophecy, a program that was based in Los Angeles, California, for 85 02:24 years, until this past fall when we pulled it out of California and moved it to the mountain 02:33 state of Colorado. And from there, in the foothills of the Rockies, we now broadcast all 02:37 over the globe, from Southeast Asia to the Middle East, from Europe to South America, and of 02:44 course, right here in the United States of America. And every so often, we even let it go up 02:48 north of the 49th parallel into my home country of Canada. Now, if you are here for the very 02:55 first time, tonight, let me just take a few more minutes tonight again and explain how the 03:00 seminar works. I won't do that every night - we're going to move onto other things tomorrow 03:06 night - but there are some people who have come for the first time tonight. Our 03:09 subject, as you probably guessed from the advertising, is Bible prophecy. So our only textbook, 03:16 really, is going to be the Bible. I do make reference to other texts - you know, I 03:20 brought out Edward Gibbons last night out of curiosity's sake and so on - but really, the 03:26 textbook is the Bible, and that's because my method is just to examine what the Bible text 03:31 actually says and let the Bible explain itself. And as many of you saw last night, the Bible 03:37 does a remarkably good job of just spelling things out and explaining itself. And every 03:44 night, as we go through our subjects, we're going to learn principles, we're going to see 03:47 big themes, that will help us understand how Bible prophecy is structured and help us as we 03:52 move into deeper and broader topics night after night. So for example, one of the really 03:58 simple principles that we walked away with last night was, you have to read the whole thing. If 04:04 you want to understand Daniel 2 and the dream Nebuchadnezzar has, then you read the whole 04:09 chapter. And in essence, if you really want to understand Bible prophecy, you don't have much 04:14 choice but to read the whole book. And people say, "Well, that's a big book." I know it's 04:18 a big book, but it's well worth - those of you who have read it, is this well worth your time to 04:23 read, yes or no? Oh yeah, it sure is. It has revolutionized my life. I wake up every day 04:29 bubbling with joy and hope because of what I found in this book. You gotta read the whole 04:34 thing, and that's kind of one of the underlying lessons that we walked away with last night. And 04:38 once you have all the principles that we're going to gather - we'll get some more tonight - 04:42 Bible prophecy, the book of Revelation, the book of Daniel, they become as easy to 04:47 understand as the rest of the Bible. Literally, you can read them as easily as you read 04:52 Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John. All you need is the all-important historical context 04:59 and then a few more tools that help with understanding. And from that point on, it becomes 05:05 easy. You can read Revelation as easily as you read anything else. And as you read it, what 05:10 you discover is that prophecy isn't mysterious; it's not frightening, it's not something 05:16 from the Twilight Zone - it actually makes really good sense. And once you see the big 05:24 picture, it actually gives you a lot of hope. What you discover, if you read it all and get the 05:30 right tools, is that God is not trying to destroy the human race. That is not His first 05:37 intent. That is not what He's after. He's not trying to destroy the human race; God is 05:41 trying to save it. Unfortunately, Hollywood always paints this horrible picture of 05:47 God. They make these Bible movies and they always paint God as "arbitrarian", severe, and 05:52 trying to kill everybody off. But if God was trying to kill everybody off, why would He give 05:56 us the information we need to make it home? He loves us. The big picture is beautiful. And 06:03 once we gather a lot of the information, we're going to step back and discover there's always 06:07 a beautiful picture of hope in every prophecy. We saw that last night already. Nebuchadnezzar 06:14 has this dream. "Oh, I'm going to lose my empire." And then Cyrus loses his empire, the 06:20 Persians do, and the Greeks, and the Romans, and western Europe, and so on. But at the end of the 06:23 day, the prophecy said that God sets up a kingdom that never needs replacing. It's the 06:30 prefect environment for us to live in. It's always a picture of hope. Now, what we cover 06:35 every night is going to build on the stuff that we covered the night before, and it's kind of 06:39 progressive. The stuff we learned last night and especially tonight is going to 06:44 factor into what we study tomorrow night. And so it becomes important to kind of 06:49 follow along. And I know, as I mentioned last night, a lot of people are busy, but I can 06:54 promise you - I mean, I'm busy too, I've got kids - I've got one daughter who's singing 06:58 somewhere tonight in Colorado. I've got another daughter in a nursing home. She's not in the 07:02 nursing home - she's only 13 - but she's helping in a nursing home somewhere else tonight. And 07:07 they're in soccer and they're in volleyball and piano lessons and that, so I get busy. So I 07:14 understand how busy people are. But I promise you, if you clear your calendar for a few nights, 07:18 most people around the world have told me that they walk out the door knowing more about 07:22 prophecy in a few days than they learned in their entire life. I'm going to open up the taps 07:28 and pour it all out there and give you more than you've ever had before. That's my aim. We 07:33 are learning basic principles and key thematic concepts in prophecy so that at the end, 07:39 like building a house - I talked about it last night; we put down a foundation, put up the studs, 07:43 hang the windows and the doors, put on a roof, and so on - and at the end, we'll step back and 07:47 look at the big picture, and that's the part I'm looking forward to: the big picture will 07:52 blow you away. Let's talk for a moment about what we learned last night. Let's have an exam. 08:00 Are you ready for your first exam? No? You didn't know there'd be a pop quiz, did you? 08:06 Here it comes. Nebuchadnezzar has a dream and there's a statue, and the statue is made 08:11 of different metals. The head is made of gold; the chest is made of silver; the belly and thighs 08:16 are made of brass or bronze, depending on the translation you read; the legs are made of iron; 08:20 the feet are made of iron and clay, if you remember that. What empire was represented by the 08:26 head of gold? Who was it? The Babylonian empire, or the Neo-Babylonian empire, or 08:32 Nebuchadnezzar's empire. What empire was represented by the legs of iron? Which one was it? 08:37 That was the iron monarchy of Rome, as Everett Gibbons descried it. Next question. 08:43 Will the western Roman empire ever be reunited, yes or no? No. That was kind of the whole 08:52 point, wasn't it? They shall not or will not adhere to one another; they will try and try 08:58 and try for centuries to put it back together and they will never succeed. Last question. 09:03 Who does set up the next universal kingdom? Who is it? It's God, and it happens when 09:08 Jesus Christ returns. Now, tonight, a planet in upheaval. We're going to look at a 09:14 2000-year-old prophecy that is mind-numbing and it becomes more interesting with every passing 09:20 year. Let's pray. Father in heaven, I know that this is not like the other books on the 09:32 shelf. You speak through this book. I know that because it changed my life. And I would ask 09:41 that You would make me fit to speak tonight. I'm not fit to represent You, except that You 09:48 would bless me, and so I ask for that. Cover my sins with the blood of Christ. Enable me to 09:58 represent You faithfully so that heaven is smiling when we're finished. And I ask it in Jesus' 10:05 name, amen. In the Bible, in the gospel according to Matthew, there is this story where Jesus 10:14 is walking through the city of Jerusalem with his disciples, and they walk right past the 10:21 temple. And it's the second temple, the one that was built after the Israelites came back 10:27 from Babylonian captivity. Sometimes we call it Herod's temple. Herod didn't build it, 10:34 but he did expand the grounds and beautify the grounds and so on, and so we often call it 10:39 Herod's temple. But we could also call it Cyrus' temple 'cause Cyrus liberated the 10:44 Israelites and let them go home. Or we could call it Artaxerxes' temple because Artaxerxes helped 10:49 fund rebuilding the temple. Or we could call it Nehemiah's temple because he was down there 10:53 working on the walls of Jerusalem. But this is the second time they have built the 10:58 temple. And the second temple is drop-dead gorgeous. It's one of the ancient wonders of the 11:05 world. And as they walk by it, the disciples begin to swell with pride, understandably, and 11:12 they point to the temple and they brag just a little bit. "Oh, look, Lord, this beautiful 11:18 building is proof that God is with His people." And Jesus stops and He looks at the temple 11:26 and then He says something that really bothers those disciples. And what Jesus says in Matthew 11:33 24 actually sets the stage for understanding the last few minutes of this world's history. 11:42 Matthew 24 verse 2, Jesus is looking at the temple and He says, "Do you not see all these 11:48 things? Assuredly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left upon another that shall not be thrown 11:57 down." This temple, guys, it's coming down. Not one stone left on top of. Jesus was absolutely 12:06 right, because roughly 40 years later in A.D. 70, there's a group in Jerusalem known as the 12:13 zealots, and they are trying to overthrow Roman occupation, and they're protesting and they're 12:20 causing trouble. They stage an uprising, and so Titus, the Roman general, is sent into 12:27 Jerusalem to take command and squash the rebellion. And the zealots, at one point, running 12:33 from the Romans, go and hide in some of the rooms in the temple. And the soldiers are looking for 12:40 them. And we don't know if it was deliberate or accidental, but at one point, a soldier 12:45 sticks a lit torch through an opening into the temple, and the temple is full of cedar wood 12:51 that is centuries old and very dry, and the soldier starts a fire. Titus loved the building. 12:59 The Romans loved to preserve culture where they could. And he tried to save it, but there was 13:03 no use; the temple burned up, and hundreds of zealots died inside that temple, and a lot of 13:10 the gold in the temple started to melt and run into the cracks between the rocks. And so partly 13:16 out of rage at the zealots and partly to get the gold out of the cracks, the Romans literally 13:22 disassembled the temple, and they don't leave one stone left on top of another. Today, in 13:30 the city of Rome, about halfway between the Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine and the old 13:37 Roman senate in the ancient city of Rome, there's an archway. It's known as the Arch of Titus. 13:43 It was erected to celebrate his victory in Jerusalem. And when you go through that arch and 13:48 look up on the wall, you can still see this fresco, this carving, of Roman soldiers 13:54 carrying away the seven-branched candlestick that they took from the temple in Jerusalem. Jesus, 14:01 40 years in advance, was absolutely right. This temple's coming down. And that bothers 14:09 the disciples. Well, how could that be? It's the temple. I guess they forgot it came down 14:15 once before. And they come to Jesus with a question. And you read the question in verse 3. 14:21 "And as He [that's Jesus] sat upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately 14:26 [away from the crowd], saying, 'Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of 14:34 Your coming and of the end of the age?'" They're reasoning to themselves. Well, if the temple 14:40 comes down, that's got to be the end of all the things. It must mean Jesus is about to set up 14:45 His kingdom. Lord, tell us, how will we know? What will be the signs? Give us a sign of Your 14:52 coming and the end of the age. We need to know. Now, I want you to listen very, very carefully 14:58 to what Jesus says, because it has bothered a lot of people for the last 2000 years. Here it is 15:05 now, starting in verse 4. "And Jesus answered and said unto them: 'Take heed that no one 15:11 deceives you.'" I want you to pay attention to that word "deceive" because as we keep 15:18 going through different prophecies found in the Bible, you're going to see that word 15:22 cropping up a lot of times. The word "deception", "deceive" is there an awful lot. Jesus is 15:28 saying there's going to be a lot of confusion before He comes back, a lot of bad thinking. And 15:33 what that means is that you and I are really going to have to pay attention. We are going to 15:38 have to be absolutely sure that we know what this book says. And you will not be able, in the 15:43 end, to just take somebody's word for it. You're going to have to know. Jesus said there's 15:49 going to be deception. What kind of deception? Verse 5. "For many -" How many? Many. Oh, there's 15:58 more of you here than that. I can see you all. You know I can see you, right? For how many? 16:02 Many "- will come in My name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will deceive many." This is 16:08 going to be a big problem. Jesus said there'll be a lot of people who'll be deluded and fall for 16:13 this kind of stuff. "Many will come saying, 'I am the Christ,' and you will hear of wars and 16:18 rumours of wars. See that you are not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but 16:23 the end is not yet." Verse 7. "For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against 16:30 kingdom, and there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places." 16:36 You want to know, guys, when my kingdom is getting close? Then pay attention to these kinds of 16:41 signs: false christs with their bad religion; war and famine and pestilence and earthquakes. And 16:46 the sceptics read this - I've heard them - the sceptics read this and they say, "What a lot 16:51 of nonsense; we have always had those things." There have always been weird religious people. 16:57 There have always been wars to fight. There's always been famine and pestilence and 17:03 earthquake. These aren't signs of anything. But the sceptics didn't keep reading. They don't 17:11 understand. They didn't read verse 8 where Jesus says: "All these are the beginning of 17:22 sorrows." That word "sorrows" is a very important word. Jesus did not choose that word by 17:27 accident. In fact, if you don't understand why He uses that word, you cannot understand this 17:32 prophecy at all. What does that word "sorrows" mean? The best way to explain it is to tell you 17:40 something that happened in our family roughly 13 years ago. It was 1:30 in the afternoon. I'm 17:47 at my office. I'm living in Toronto at the time. And my phone rings on my desk. I pick 17:52 it up and it's my wife. "Hi, honey," she says. Her voice is always so nice. It was nicer 17:57 than that. "Hi," she says. "I think I want to come to the office and see you this 18:02 afternoon." I said, "That's nice. I always love to see you, but it's 1:30 in the afternoon. 18:06 I've got, like, four or five more hours to go. Why are you coming to the office in the 18:10 middle of the day?" She said, "Because I've been in labour for the last hour." I said, "Well, 18:17 maybe you should come to the office." Now, we only had one car in those days, or I would've 18:20 gone to get her. I walked to work. And she drove down the office and she came upstairs, 18:26 and I'll never forget it. There was a little yellow love seat by - an ugly yellow love seat by 18:31 the front door of my office. And she came in and very carefully sat down in the seat. And she 18:38 said, "Now, I know what you're like. You're going to panic. You're going to panic. I know 18:42 what you're like, Shawn. And I just want you to know, there's nothing to worry about. We have 18:46 all the time in the world. The baby's not coming anytime soon. I just wanted to be early so we 18:50 could be ready when it is time to go to -" I said, "We've got to go to the hospital." She 18:54 said, "No, no, no, it's far too soon. The contractions are, like, ten minutes part." I said, 19:00 "Ten minutes apart? We've got to go." She said, "No." I said, "We have to go." "No, no, no, I'll 19:06 feel like a fool. They'll send me home." This isn't our first rodeo; she knows. "Oh," she said 19:10 - Does that make sense in other languages? This is not our first baby. We didn't have rodeos; we 19:16 had babies. She said, "I know what you're like. And I don't want to go to the hospital. 19:27 They're going to tell me I came too soon and send me home and I'll be embarrassed." She said, 19:31 "I know, though; let's go for lunch." I said, "I don't want to go for lunch. You think I'm 19:35 going to eat? We're about to have a baby. I can't eat." She said, "I just want to go for 19:38 lunch. It'll be nice. We'll sit and talk." I said, "I am not going to have this child in 19:42 Arby's. It's not going to happen." She said, "Well, maybe we could go to Best Buy." Right? 19:46 We don't have Best Buy in Canada; it's actually Future Shop. I converted it for 19:49 American talk. We have Future Shop. She said, "Let's go down to Future Shop, and you can look 19:55 at all of the electronic toys, and I'll walk up and down the aisles and it'll feel good to 20:01 walk up and down the aisles." I said, "No. We are not having this baby in Future Shop. We 20:06 have got to go." She said, "I'm not going to the hospital. This baby is not coming." I said, 20:10 "The baby must be coming; why are you here?" She said, "No, it's too soon." She said, "I 20:14 know. Let's drop off our oldest daughter at a friend's house now while we have time, and then we 20:19 don't have to do it later when we have no time." I said, "That sounds good. Let's do that." So 20:23 we took our oldest daughter Natalie [ph] - she was, oh, not quite three. We got to the 20:27 friend's house. She had her little suitcase. She loved staying there. We rang the bell, 20:31 she ran inside, they closed the door, we turned around to go down the steps, and my wife 20:35 buckles over. "Oh!" I said, "What's the matter?" She said, "What do you think is the 20:41 matter? It's a contraction." I said, "How far apart?" She said, "Six minutes." I said, "We've 20:48 got to go to the hospital." "Too soon," she said. I said, "Go to - get in the car." We drove down 20:52 to the hospital. We pulled into the parking lot. And she said, "Let's just sit in the car and 20:56 listen to the radio for a while." I said, "I'm not going to sit here listening to the 21:01 radio." I got out of the car. I walked around to the passenger's side, I open the door, and this 21:07 is the only argument I've won in 22 years of marriage. The only one. I said, "Get out." And I 21:12 pulled her out of the car and I brought her inside. I put her in front of the admitting nurse. 21:16 She's sitting at the desk. And this is what she said. She said, "I have no idea why I'm here. My 21:20 crazy husband dragged me down here and it's too soon." The nurse looked at her, she said, 21:28 "I think I have a pretty good idea why you're here today." And they put her in the 21:32 monitoring room. They put the monitors on her tummy and you hear the baby's heartbeat. Isn't 21:36 that sweet when you hear the baby's heartbeat? And then she said, "Would you get out of 21:39 here? You're driving me crazy. Go down to the cafeteria, buy a sandwich." So I went down there 21:43 - I hadn't eaten in a day and a half - and I bought a sandwich. I hope there's no hospital 21:48 cafeteria workers here, but this was the worst sandwich ever made. Noah threw it out on the 21:53 ark. It was so old. And it was dry. And I ate it. And I ran upstairs. And I got upstairs to 22:02 where she was supposed to be on the bed with - and there's nobody there. And there's no 22:08 doctor, there's no nurse, there's nobody. Oh, no. I looked down the hall. There must be ten 22:13 doors, and there's a lady having a baby behind every door. And I dropped out of pre-med when they 22:21 showed the childbirth film. I passed out in the dark in class. And I prayed a prayer, "Lord, 22:25 please don't let me open the wrong door, no." And I listened. I literally listened at each 22:32 door. No. No. Maybe. Closed one eye, I opened the door. Oh, it's her. The baby arrived within ten 22:43 minutes of me walking in there. The doctor almost didn't make it. "Baby's not coming anytime 22:50 soon." Those aren't signs; that stuff has always happened. They missed the word "sorrows." In 22:57 the Greek language, it's "odune." It's "contractions." It's birth pains. And birth 23:04 pains happen quite awhile before the baby actually comes. They just pick up speed and they grow 23:09 more intense as the moment comes. So I'm going to ask a question tonight. Of all these 23:15 things Jesus told us to watch for, yes, they have happened all - I mean, Jesus knew there'd 23:19 been war and earthquake and famine and pestilence, but He called them contractions. Since 23:24 that day, how big have the contractions become? I want you to think about it tonight. But 23:29 just before we think about it, I want to give you a word of caution. The first word of 23:33 caution is this: We are not going to throw darts at a calendar and pick a date for the 23:38 second coming of Christ. Why? Because Jesus says you're not allowed to do that. Matthew 24 23:42 in verse 36: "No man knows the day or hour." I've had people come to me say, "He said 'day or 23:48 hour.' He didn't say 'week or month.'" Yes, He did, Acts chapter 1, on His way back to 23:54 heaven. The disciples said, "Now tell us when You're going to establish Your kingdom." He 23:57 said, "It is not for you to know the times or the seasons." "That's in My Father's control." 24:04 Now, why wouldn't God just give us an exact day? Right? Why not just tell you? You're going to 24:10 come that day. 'Cause He knows what you're like, that's why. You're going to wait 'til the 24:16 last minute, try and make things right with God, but that is now how you build a relationship. 24:20 You see, with God, it's not a legal arrangement only. It's a relationship. You can't build 24:26 those in the last minute of your life. It's like telling a girl, "Look, I'll marry you once I run 24:31 out of other options." That's what it's like. You can't build a relationship - of course God 24:38 doesn't tell us. It's about a relationship with Him. Now, we can't pick dates, but we can get 24:44 a sense of when it's soon. Jesus did say that. In verse 32, He actually says, "These signs, 24:49 these contractions, are like a fig tree in the springtime. When you see the leaves come out, 24:53 then you know that summer is almost here." That's how much we can know. Summer is almost here. 24:59 So let's take a look at it. Jesus gives us three general categories of signs to look at: 25:03 He gives us signs in the religious world; He gives us signs in the political world; 25:08 and He gives us signs in the natural world, geological-type signs. I want to start with the 25:13 religious signs. Let's see what kinds of things Jesus told us to watch for. He said: "For many 25:19 will come in my name saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will deceive many." Jesus said when you have 25:26 a lot of people claiming to be Messiah, lots of them, it's a sign that we're getting close. 25:30 He says it again a little bit later in verse 24. "For false christs and false prophets will 25:36 arise and show great signs and wonders, so as to deceive" - there's that word again - 25:43 "deceive, if possible, even the elect [God's people]." Jesus said, "Be careful. There are 25:49 going to be a lot of fakes just before the end, and even if they manage to pull off a miracle, 25:56 even if they do stuff you can't explain, watch out. A miracle is no guarantee that God is behind 26:04 it." False christs work signs and wonders in the end. Even the evidence of your senses, the 26:10 things you see and hear, might lead you astray, so do not allow yourself to be fooled by 26:16 somebody's pop and dazzle and showmanship, because false christs will work wonders. It's 26:25 what Jesus said. There's only one safe place to stand; it's on the Word of God and what it 26:29 says. Jesus said when there are lots of these people, then you know it's almost time. You know, 26:35 over the centuries, there have always been a few. In the first century after Jesus, there were 26:39 a few wing nuts that came out and said, "Ooh, I'm Jesus come back." Around the year 1000, 26:45 there were two or three, because there was some millennial fever around the year 1000. But if you 26:51 paid attention to how it's gotten in our lifetime, let's go back through my lifetime and the 26:58 stuff that I remember. 1969. Charles Manson gets a group of people to murder Sharon Tate in 27:06 a house just over the hill from where I used to live in Northridge, California. And what 27:11 was Charles Manson trying to do? He was trying to get one group of people in Los Angeles to 27:14 blame another group of people in Los Angeles for the murder, and spark the battle of Armageddon, 27:19 at which point he would step in and become messiah to the whole world. Now, what's unbelievable 27:24 about Charlie Manson is he still has a following to this day. Forty years later, there are 27:28 still people who think he's Jesus Christ. In fact, you probably heard it a couple of 27:32 months ago: some young girl wanted to marry this guy. That's one. Jim Jones follows quickly 27:39 on the heels of it. People's Temple, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Eventually, he moves 27:44 the whole cult, to avoid scrutiny, down to Jonestown, Guyana. And when the government, 27:49 the CIA started to inspect what was going on, he actually talks the whole cult into poisoning 27:53 themselves. They drank Kool-Aid laced with cyanide. You younger folks, when you hear somebody 27:59 saying, "Oh, that person drank the Kool-Aid," that's where that comes from, from that event in 28:03 the 1970s. You know, I listened to Jim Jones' last sermon. The CIA has made it available so you 28:10 can listen to it. It's bone-chilling. He has hundreds of people in a room and they all 28:14 say, "Yes, we'll drink the Kool-Aid. We will die for you," except one woman who stands up 28:19 and says, "I've been reading my Bible, and this doesn't seem right." Another messiah, a 28:24 false one, Sun Myung Moon, in our generation, founder of the Unification Church. We call them 28:29 the Moonies. You've probably seen their mass wedding ceremonies. An interesting side 28:33 note, he also started the Washington Times newspaper. It's a great newspaper. There's 28:37 nothing culty about the newspaper - just an interesting side note. I just found that out 28:41 a few months ago. Sun Myung Moon claimed he's the second coming of Christ, that he came 28:46 to this earth to finish Jesus' unfinished work. And he said, quote - I quote him - "He [he 28:54 means God], He is living in me. I am the incarnation of Himself." Tens of thousands of 28:58 followers. In the early 1990s, this guy by the name of Vernon Howell comes around. And of 29:03 course, that's a very ordinary name, so he changes it to David Koresh: David after King David; 29:09 Koresh after Cyrus who conquered Babylon. His original name in his original tongue is Koresh. 29:15 And he told his followers, "I'm a sinful christ. The first time Jesus came, He had to be sinless 29:22 and pure, but now I've come to indulge in sin and experience that on behalf of all humanity." 29:28 It's hard to believe that people fall for this stuff. But they do. Jesus said there'll be 29:34 overwhelming deception for people in the last days. And you saw how that story ended in 29:39 Waco, Texas. It ended in flames. And the tragedy is, it didn't have to, because the Bible has 29:45 plenty of warning to keep you out of those places. You don't have to fall for it. Marshall 29:51 Applewhite, San Diego, Heaven's Gate Cult, had a partner. She called herself Peep; he called 29:56 himself Bo. They were Bo and Peep. And they told everybody that there was a flying saucer 29:59 behind Comet Hale-Bopp and they had to kill themselves so that they could ascend to the next 30:04 level above human. So in San Diego, they all went out for dinner one night, they ate bowls 30:09 of lemon wedges - I have no idea why - the waiter told us they ate lemon wedges. Then they went 30:15 home and they poisoned themselves, and the last two wrapped their heads in bags and 30:18 suffocated. Didn't have to happen; Jesus warned us. Just last year, Alan John Miller of 30:25 Australia told the world he's Jesus. And his girlfriend Mary Luck said that she is Mary 30:29 Magdalene. He explains it on his website. There's an audio recording. He says there's 30:34 probably a million people who say they're Jesus; there are. Probably a million people who 30:39 say they're Jesus; most of them are in asylums. Actually, most of them are not. They're not. 30:44 And he says, "But one of us has to be Jesus. How do I know? Because I remember my life." 30:48 You'd think nobody would follow it. But he has a following; people come every week to 30:54 listen. One after the other. The Solar Temple in France. Benjamin Creme, the Maitreya. 31:00 Nerve gas attack in the Tokyo subway. So many people showed up in Jerusalem, claiming to be 31:05 Jesus in the year 2000, that they actually named a psychiatric disorder after it: 31:09 they call it Jerusalem syndrome. Right now, in North America, there are more than 1000 people 31:14 who claim to be Jesus Christ and actually have a following. They're not in prison, they're 31:18 not in asylums; there are more than 1000 right now tonight. "Watch out," said Jesus, "when 31:25 many come, you have many contractions." But you know, it's just false christs that the 31:31 Bible warns us about. It also talks about religion that goes bad. Here's a prediction from 31:35 the apostle Paul, 2nd Timothy chapter 3 verse 1. He says: "In the last days perilous times 31:42 will come. For men will be lovers of themselves..." Oh, is that ever true now. Verse 5: 31:49 "Having a form of godliness -" we're going to cover that whole passage on a coming night. But 31:53 in verse 5, he says, "These people will have a form of godliness, but deny its power." 31:58 They'll claim to be believers. They'll claim to be godly, but they won't live it and they 32:03 won't really believe it. Going through the motions. About 30 years ago - in our lifetime - 32:09 Jeffrey Hadden was the editor of Christianity Today and he put out a survey. I've been 32:14 describing this one ever since it came out. It fascinates me. He surveyed 10,000 Christian 32:19 pastors - 10,000. He got 7500 of them to respond here in America. And he gave them four questions 32:26 and asked them, "Do you agree with these statements?" These are Christian pastors. He asked 32:30 them, "Do you accept Jesus' physical resurrection as a fact?" You would hope so. 32:34 Because Paul says if Jesus didn't rise from the dead, then our faith is in vain. "Do you 32:39 accept?" Two out of five pastors said, "No, I don't actually believe that happened." Two out 32:44 of five. He asked them, "Do you believe in the virgin birth of Christ?" Almost half of the 32:48 pastors said, "No, we don't believe that actually happened. "Do you believe in an evil 32:53 demon power today? When the Bible says there's a devil, do you believe that's true?" Now, 32:56 these are pastors they're asking. Forty-five percent said no, there is no devil. "Do you 33:02 believe -" this one breaks my heart "- do you believe -" these are pastors - "Do you believe 33:06 that the Scriptures are the inspired and inerrant Word of God in faith, history and 33:10 secular matters?" Eighty-five percent said no. Not just the preachers, though. Easy to pick 33:17 on them. Let's turn it around on the pews for a moment. 2009, Barna goes to the pews and 33:22 interviews churchgoing Christians. Do you agree with these statements? "God is the 33:26 all-powerful, all-knowing Creator of the universe who rules the world today." 33:30 Seventy-eight percent, praise the Lord, said yes. But it's still one out of five, almost, 33:34 that said no. Churchgoing. "Satan is not a living being, but a symbol of evil." 33:39 Fifty-nine percent said that's true, there is no devil. Churchgoing Christians. In 33:43 America. "Jesus sinned while living on this earth," Barna said. Thirty-nine percent of 33:49 churchgoing Christians said it's true, Jesus sinned. But my Bible said Jesus is the sinless Son of 33:54 God, the pure Lamb of God. Next one. "The Holy Spirit is a symbol of God's power or 34:01 presence but is not a living entity," not a person of the godhead. Fifty-eight percent of 34:07 churchgoing Christians said that's true, there isn't really a holy spirit. Having a form of 34:13 godliness, Paul said, but denying its power. I could go all night. I've got surveys like 34:19 you wouldn't believe, but I think we've kind of made the point and we move on because 34:23 there are more contractions. Jesus mentioned stuff in the political world. "You will hear 34:27 of wars," He said, "and rumours of wars. See that you are not troubled, for all these things 34:31 must come to pass; but the end is not yet." "For nation will rise against nation, kingdom 34:36 against kingdom." Now, we have always had war and the threat of warfare. What we're looking at 34:42 are trends. Are the contractions bigger or stronger or closer than they used to be? We've 34:49 always had war; it's always been nasty. But in the last few generations, we've just gotten 34:53 very efficient. I mean, we used to have war. We would line up in two lines wearing bright red 34:58 coats and we would take turns shooting at each other. And if we ever got up close, you had to 35:04 look someone in the eyes if you planned to kill them. But then in the 20th century, it suddenly 35:09 changes. We have trench warfare. And then the airplane and then the A-bomb and now our new 35:14 favourite toy, the drones so that we can kill someone on the other side of our planet and 35:18 then go out for dinner right afterwards. We killed more people in warfare as a human 35:23 race in the 20th century than in all previous centuries put together, period: 203 million 35:29 people dead. We didn't do that in all the other centuries combined. Right now, tonight, 35:36 you can go check it; there are forty-nine armed conflicts being fought right now. Some of them 35:40 are averaging more than 10,000 deaths per year. Forty-nine of them; go look it up. The 35:45 conflict with Boko Haram in Africa has already killed 4500 people this year and it's not 35:49 quite March. It's going on right now. The last I checked, every single member of the United 35:55 Nations is involved in a dispute with another nation. Every single one. After the Soviet 36:01 Union collapsed, we all told ourselves, "Ooh, the world's about to become a more peaceful 36:04 place," but now it's worse than it ever has been. North Korea still wants to finish the war. 36:09 China is busy redrawing the map. Russia stirring up trouble in Crimea. ISIS knocking on 36:16 Europe's door and trying to seize land all over the Middle East. We have rogue nations 36:21 working on nuclear weapons. It was bad enough when we knew who had them. And the eight nations 36:26 that did have them had enough to destroy the planet fifty times over in less than a day. But 36:33 now there are people with an axe to grind, rogue nations that are developing nuclear programs. 36:36 Folks, it has always been bad, but it's never been like this. That's just the tip of the 36:42 iceberg. Jesus gave us signs to watch for in the natural world too. He said there'll be 36:46 famines, pestilence, and earthquakes in various or different places. Tonight there 36:52 are countless millions who face food shortages in sub-Saharan Africa. Right now, the number in 36:57 sub-Saharan Africa that are starving is 28 million. Nearly the entire population of my home 37:02 country. I think of the Kalahari bushmen who we had contact with some years ago. Remember the 37:08 film, The Gods Must be Crazy. We made contact with those folks, and their kids were crawling out 37:13 of their huts in the morning to lick the dew off the grass because it's the only moisture 37:17 they would get all day. In this world, a child dies of starvation every six seconds. 37:23 There are three million people in Somalia that would not live if they didn't have food aid. 37:28 There are one million in Somalia living in tent cities. Right now in this world, there are more 37:33 than a billion people that don't have their basic nutritional needs met, and four out of five 37:37 children born in this world tonight are born into families that cannot afford to feed them. 37:42 Even though you and I have more wealth than any generation in the history of this world, we 37:49 have more people going hungry. And let me tell you tonight, that bothers God. When Jesus 37:55 comes back, it says in Matthew 25, "Why didn't you feed Me?" And people will say, "But when 38:00 did we see you hungry?" He said, "Because you saw all those hungry. Inasmuch as you did not 38:05 do it to the least of these, you did not do it to Me." One more sign. Jesus talked about 38:10 pestilence. Think about the last few decades. Any strange new diseases? Huh? Any weird ones 38:20 that we can't explain? Strep throat used to live in the back of your throat. Then about 38:25 twenty years ago, it crawled out and become flesh-eating disease. I knew someone who lost a leg to 38:30 that one. Spinal meningitis showing up in our schools again. We're having trouble treating 38:34 it. The black plague recently showed up again in the streets of India. The black plague. Mad 38:39 cow disease. My home country Canada just had to put another ban on their beef because people 38:44 are nervous about it. It's a horrible disease. The food supply is contaminated. 38:49 Tuberculosis is becoming drug-resistant and making a comeback. SARS. We have such 38:53 short memories, but do you remember that one? I was living in Toronto when that touched 38:57 down. They would take our temperature before they let us into the airport to make sure we 39:01 didn't have a fever. A brand-new respiratory disease no one had ever seen before. The 39:06 Ebola virus hiccuped twice and now it's all ablaze in Africa and it's touched down here at 39:12 home a couple of times. And we've got CRE. I can't even pronounce the whole name of that 39:18 one. It's half Latin and I can't pronounce it. CRE. The nightmare bacteria. It's a drug-resistant 39:23 bacteria, just killed a couple of people again in Los Angeles and infected 200 a couple of 39:28 weeks ago. Hospital deaths due to infection from drug-resistant bacteria have increased 39:33 seven-fold in the last fifteen years. We thought we had it all beat with our antibiotics, and 39:37 now we're struggling. Our food supply is going downhill. There's salmonella in the 39:42 spinach. You hear it almost every month on the radio. "Be careful with the E. coli in the 39:45 meat and in the vegetables." Is there pestilence? You better believe it. And it's not just 39:50 the disease; it's the constant droughts. Australia's in drought; California's in 39:54 drought; Sao Paulo, Brazil is in drought. They don't know where we're going to get the water for 39:59 the 10 million people that live in that area. 40:01 There's flooding in other parts of the world. Fires like we've never had them in other parts of 40:05 the world. We have crop diseases. We have honeybees dying off in record numbers. 40:09 We're wondering when it's going to affect food production. We have whales and dolphins washing 40:14 up on the beach in spooky numbers down in South America and entire flocks of birds just 40:19 dropping out of the sky here in North America. And I know what some of you are thinking. "I 40:29 felt pretty good when I came here tonight. I got a little tickle in my throat." There's 40:38 more. Earthquakes. This is interesting. People argue about earthquakes. You can slice the 40:44 data any way you want. You can go and get different data and apply different criteria, but 40:49 what's interesting, if you get enough of it, a pattern begins to emerge. I did it a few years 40:55 ago. About 25 years ago, I went to the University of Victoria, and I went to the geology 41:01 section, seismology section of the library. Huge library there. And I started to write them 41:07 down. And I went for the big earthquakes, the ones that sort of knock your house down, so 41:12 everybody knows they happened. Take out cities, make the records. And I found something 41:18 interesting emerging in the data that I assembled. In the first 300 years after Christ, there 41:23 was one such earthquake. The next 200 years, there were two. The next 300 years, there was 41:28 one. The next 200 years, there were three, a little bit of a spike. And then you get about 41:33 two per century. In the 1000s there were two. In the 1100s there were two. I think there 41:38 were two in the 1200s. In the 1300s we went back down to one. In the 1400s there was one. In 41:44 the 1500s there was two. And then suddenly we get a little spike: in the 1600s there were 41:49 seven. In the 1700s it almost doubled to thirteen. In the 1800s it did double to 41:55 twenty-six. In the 1900s it was about 138. I went and looked at USGS data just a few days ago, 42:08 looked at the way they were cutting up the data, and they said, "You know what? In the 42:11 last decade, at the beginning of this last decade, we had about 200 a year, and now it's 800." 42:18 And there's not just more; they're bigger. Remember the Asian tsunami? 9.3 in magnitude. 42:26 First earthquake felt by every device on the planet. It was the longest earthquake in 42:30 recorded history - ten minutes long - and it left an 800-mile scar in the bottom of the ocean. 42:36 On that day, we said, "What an anomaly; that'll never happen again." Then it hit Haiti, and 42:41 then the big one in Japan, flooded Fukushima. Look, I know this stuff has always happened. 42:47 But is it really business as usual? Let me ask you a question tonight. What time is it? I did 42:58 an interesting experiment starting just a few years ago. I started taking the covers of 43:04 major magazines, especially Time magazine, Newsweek here, Maclean's up in Canada. I 43:11 started laying them all side by side, and they started to tell a remarkable story. If I had three 43:18 hours tonight, I'd show you the whole story, but I don't, so let me show you some of it. The most 43:24 logical starting place is the day we all think of when everything seemed to change: 43:29 2001/9/11. In the west, everybody's attitude changed overnight. I remember where I 43:38 was; do you? My wife was on the other side of the country. I couldn't believe it. I was late 43:43 for work. I was shaving - back when I shaved. And my wife's on the other end of the country, 43:49 and I hear out of my bathroom - the TV's on - a small plane just hit the World Trade Center. I 43:57 thought, "That's weird. They don't fly small planes down there." 44:00 And I went out, and like many of you, I saw the second one hit. I called my wife, I said, "It just 44:06 came here. It all changes now." It did, didn't it? As we're trying to grasp how horrific 44:15 that was, that's when we find out we're going to war in Afghanistan. That war cost us a 44:21 billion dollars U.S. every single month. And as we're trying to get our heads around 44:26 that news, suddenly, there are floods in Europe like they have never seen in the history of 44:31 Europe. This is a picture of Budapest under water, flooding in Europe. And as we're 44:36 thinking, "Is there something up with the weather?" That's when Enron collapses. Our memories 44:41 are so short, we virtually don't remember this one anymore, but that was the first big hiccup in 44:46 our global economy, when we started to realize that a hiccup anywhere in the world starts to 44:52 take us all down. And Time magazine asks the question, "How sticky will it get?" They had no 44:59 idea, because we were about to go to war in Iraq next, to the tune of one billion dollars a 45:06 week. And as we're getting our heads around that war, suddenly that's when SARS touches down 45:12 and we've got this new disease nobody knows how to deal with. Everybody walking around with 45:15 masks on their face. I had doctor friends treating SARS patients, describing how awful 45:20 that was, up in the city of Toronto. And we're thinking, "How many new diseases can we 45:25 get?" And that's when a heatwave hits Europe. They're no longer going under water; now people 45:29 are dying of the heat in quick succession. Something is up. And on the heels of that, the power 45:36 grid fails in the American northeast. Everything from New York up to Buffalo plunges into 45:41 the dark. Now, to be honest, in other parts of the world, they were laughing saying, "Our power 45:45 goes down all the time, you big babies." But you saw what happened. Just a night of 45:54 darkness and we lose control. That's when the tsunami hits in Southeast Asia, the one that 46:01 left the 800-mile scar on the bottom of the ocean. Nine point three. Ten minutes long. 2005 46:11 comes around and we ran out of names for the hurricanes that year. They have a letter of the 46:16 alphabet for every hurricane. There's hurricane Albert and hurricane Bert and hurricane 46:20 Charlie and hurricane David. They ran out because they had 27 that year. And they started to 46:25 ask the question, "What's going on? Are we making these things worse? Why are there so many?" 46:30 We had no idea what was coming, because that's when New Orleans went underwater with hurricane 46:35 Katrina. You saw that. Incredible. And we weren't ready for it. We're not ready for most 46:41 things. Then 2008 comes and the next hiccup is there and the economy collapses and we have 46:47 the worst collapse since the Great Depression. My bank disappeared overnight. I used to 46:52 bank with Washington Mutual. Go look them up. They don't exist anymore. And trust me, that was 46:57 just a warm-up. How do I know? James chapter 5 predicts: "Come now, you rich men, weep and howl 47:03 for your miseries that are coming upon you. Your riches are corrupted and your garments are 47:08 moth-eaten. Your gold and silver are corroded and the corrosion will be a witness against you. 47:13 You have heaped up treasure against the last days, and it won't do any good." 2008. We 47:19 still haven't quite recovered from that all over the world. That's when the earthquake hits 47:23 in Haiti. 150,000 reported dead. The Haitian government is telling us, "No, it was more 47:27 like 300,000." 47:30 Cyclone hits Burma on the heels of that, kills 140,000, puts half a million people in 47:35 makeshift shelters. Deepwater Horizon begins dumping oil into the Gulf of Mexico, turning the 47:40 Gulf of Mexico red. The biggest spill in marine history. Almost five million barrels dumped into 47:47 the Gulf of Mexico. 210 million gallons. When you look at these one at a time, you don't think 47:52 much of it. And we're kind of getting desensitized to this stuff. But pay attention. It is 47:57 going down. Three years later, tar balls still washing up on the beach. That's when Arab 48:03 Spring kicks in. Starts December of 2010. Governments are overthrown all over the Middle 48:07 East over the next three years, in Tunisia, twice in Egypt, Libya, Yemen, civil uprisings in 48:14 Bahrain and Syria, and it has never quite settled down. The whole Middle East is still a 48:19 tinderbox tonight. And then it hits in Japan, the earthquake and tsunami. Suddenly in March 48:25 of 2011, a 9.0 earthquake off the coast of Japan. The fifth most powerful earthquake in 48:31 history and the strongest in Japan's history. It pushed 25 million tons of debris into the 48:37 streets of the city, caused 122 billion dollars of damage, and killed 16,000 people in a 48:44 heartbeat. Always been like this? Mass shootings right after 9/11. We had the Beltway 48:51 sniper kind of to kick off the party. July 20, 2012: James Holmes shoots up a theatre in 48:57 Aurora, then sits calmly, waiting for the police to come and get him. Sandy Hook 49:02 Elementary School. The Columbia Town Center, next to my house when I was living on the east 49:08 coast. Clackamas Town Center in Portland, Oregon. The navy yards in Washington, D.C. Phoenix back 49:13 in 2011. Anders Breivik kills more than 70 people in Norway. It's one after the other. 49:17 Another dozen dead, I heard the other day in Missouri here just a few days ago. 2013, bombs in 49:25 pressure cookers at the Boston Marathon. It's one thing after the other. 2013, Calgary, 49:32 Alberta, and parts of Colorado go under water. Boulder's under water, Calgary's under water. I 49:38 couldn't believe it. The Saddledome in Calgary is under water. Last summer in 2014, they 49:43 had the worst flooding in recorded history in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia. That's when 49:48 we find out that the bees are dying all across this country and we're worried about who's 49:52 going to pollinate the crops. The Syrian civil war breaks out, April of 2011, in an attempt to 49:58 overthrow the Baathist government. Somebody starts using chemical weapons on their 50:03 own people, and by September of 2013, 120,000 people have died. Hurricane Sandy hits October 50:10 2012. Sixty-five billion dollars in damage. I lived through this one. I had a place in Maryland I 50:16 was living and we rode this thing out. There are still neighbourhoods in New York 50:19 without power. There are still neighbourhoods that were burned to the ground in the disasters 50:23 that happened afterwards. The Atlantic Monthly reported just weeks ago that by the time we 50:31 came to 2014, forty-nine percent of Americans now agree that our weather is a sign that the world 50:39 is ending. We're not laughing anymore. People used to laugh at this. Twenty years ago, people 50:46 used to laugh at this, and nobody's laughing anymore because something is going on. 50:51 More killer tornadoes than we have ever seen happen all at once. Moore, Oklahoma. Joplin, 50:56 Missouri. Super typhoon Haiyan, November 13, pummels the Philippines, kills 2500, puts 51:03 670,000 people out of their homes. The Ebola outbreak in recent months. And ISIS marching 51:10 up to the coast of Libya, beheading Christians, and their next target, they say, is Rome. 51:16 Do you know why? They're trying to spark a war with the west that they believe will become 51:21 Armageddon, and in their minds, they believe that when Armageddon starts, Jesus will 51:24 come and take their side. Never been like this. What time is it? There is one more sign. No, not 51:39 another sign. This one's good. Remember the pattern. God always lays out the bad news, the mess 51:49 that we made, then He delivers the good news. Jesus follows up with one more sign to watch for. 51:55 Don't miss this one. Matthew 24 and verse 14: "And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached 52:01 in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come." Now, when Jesus 52:06 said the gospel would go to the whole world, it seemed impossible. The whole world? The 52:09 disciples didn't even know about some of the world, and they had to do the job on foot. They 52:14 didn't know about the people living in South America or in Australia. They had no idea that 52:19 those people happened. It seemed impossible. But I am telling you that tonight, it is absolutely 52:24 happening. You know that in the year 1800, the Bible was available in less than 70 52:28 languages on this planet. Sixty-seven, I believe, in the year 1800. Today it's available 52:33 in 2233. Christianity tonight is growing sixty-five percent faster than the population is 52:41 growing in Africa. It is growing four times faster than the population in South America; and 52:46 it is growing by the hundreds of thousands in India. How do I know that? I saw it with my own 52:51 eyes. I did "Revelation Speaks Peace" in a place that had no Christians just a few years ago, 52:56 and 25,000 people came out; 16,000 of them became Christians. It's changing. It's 53:05 changing. There are eighty-five million Christians in communist China, almost a hundred now. We 53:13 think we know because they keep bulldozing their houses. I'm telling you, it's not all bad 53:19 news. "All these, said Jesus, "are the beginning of sorrows." Birth pains. But you know what 53:33 comes after the birth pains, don't you? Yeah. John 16. "A woman," said Jesus, "when she is 53:41 in labour, has sorrow because her hour has come." There's that word again. "But as soon as she 53:50 has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human 53:54 being has been born into the world. Therefore," said Jesus, "you now have sorrow." He knows. 54:01 People say, "Where's God?" He knows. And He didn't make the mess; we made the mess and He 54:07 sees it. And His promise in prophecy is not to destroy everything; He's not the one who 54:12 made the mess. His promise is to set it right. Therefore, now you have sorrow. God knows you hurt. 54:21 He saw what those people did to you. He knows what happened in your life. He knows you have 54:26 sorrow. "But," He says, "I will see you again and your heart will rejoice and your joy no one 54:36 will take from you." The statue is crushed. The pieces blow away in the wind, and Daniel said 54:50 they'll never find those pieces back. Human systems of running this world are gone forever, and 54:56 the stone comes and fills the world. The kingdom of God is established forever. And 55:02 because it's forever, no one can take your joy from you. Worldly kingdoms crushed to dust, 55:08 disappeared, but the kingdom of God lasts forever. You wouldn't want it any other way. I don't 55:17 want human government again. I get less and less and less excited about elections. Doesn't 55:25 matter. For thousands of years, it doesn't matter. Our world's a mess. Let me say this: if you're 55:33 banking on people to solve your problems, if you're banking on governments to solve your 55:39 problems, the last 2000 years should tell you, that doesn't work. The contractions, in spite 55:48 of our best efforts, are only bigger and stronger than ever. But there is a solution. Not 55:58 only does God open a kingdom, He throws the door wide open and invites us all in. And I can 56:09 tell you, there's not one of us that deserves it, after the way we've lived. But because of the 56:15 cross of Christ, He can open the door. I'm telling you, it's not about death and doom and 56:24 destruction. Revelation speaks peace. If you want to place your faith in the coming kingdom of 56:36 Christ, if you're tired of this old world, I'd invite you to just stand and have prayer with 56:43 me. 56:49 Father in heaven, we watch the world around us and it doesn't offer us a lot of hope. Some 56:59 people are despondent. What a joy to find out that You see it, You know we have sorrow, and 57:11 that You're about to solve it. Thank You for Christ. And I pray it in the name of Jesus, amen. 57:25 Today you have watched just one in a series of "Revelation Speaks Peace" presentations. 57:29 The entire series is available on DVD. Find out how you can order a copy at www.vop.com/rsp 57:38 Or Call.. 877-955-2525 Or if you wish you may request the series by writing to Voice of Prophecy 57:47 PO Box 999 Loveland, CO 80539 Our world is in turmoil. War. Hate. Catastrophe. And a battle 57:57 for your mind. What on Earth is next? 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