Caption transcript for “Tim LaHaye, Author of the ‘Left Behind’ Series”

• 00:08 BRETHREN, MY HEART'S DESIRE AND PRAYER TO GOD FOR ISRAEL IS THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED.
• 00:14 THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE JEW AND THE GENTILE.
• 00:18 FOR THE SAME LORD OVERALL IS RICH UNTO ALL THAT CALL UPON HIM.
• 00:23 ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS
• 00:27 CONSIDERING THE TIMES AND SEASONS OF OUR WORLD TODAY, HERE'S ZOLA LEVITT.
• 00:32 SHALOM, HELLO AGAIN.
• 00:34 EVERY YEAR IN DALLAS, WHERE OUR PROGRAM ORIGINATES, THERE IS A PRE-TRIB MEETING.
• 00:40 IT'S A MEETING OF PROFESSORS, AUTHORS AND SO ON,
• 00:43 WHO SUPPORT THIS DOCTRINE, WHICH I, MYSELF SUPPORT.
• 00:47 I THINK IT'S THE BEST WAY TO READ THE BIBLE.
• 00:51 WE GO TO IT AND WE FILM SOME PERSONALITIES.
• 00:53 THIS YEAR WE WERE ABLE TO CATCH UP WITH TIM LAHAYE.
• 00:56 HE IS THE ORIGINATOR OF THE "LEFT BEHIND" SERIES, THE BOOKS AND THE MOVIES.
• 01:01 I DON'T KNOW. THERE'S JUST NO END TO THIS. HE SOLD 35 MILLION BOOKS.
• 01:07 THAT MAKES IT ONE OF THE MOST, THE BIGGEST BEST SELLERS OF A CENTURY.
• 01:12 HAL LINDSAY, I REMEMBER, SOLD 25 MILLION COPIES OF "LATE GREAT PLANET" EARTH.
• 01:17 IT'S AS IF GOD MAKES SPECIAL PROVISION FOR A COMMUNITY NOT VERY WELL SERVED
• 01:23 BY PROPHECY TEACHING FROM PODIUMS AND FROM CHURCHES,
• 01:29 BY PUTTING OUT BEST SELLING BOOKS, STUDY BIBLES AND SO FORTH.
• 01:33 IN FACT, TIM LAHAYE HAS A PROPHECY STUDY BIBLE
• 01:36 AND I WAS HONORED TO HAVE WRITTEN THE CHAPTER ON THE 7 FEASTS IN THAT BIBLE.
• 01:41 TIM HAS A LOT TO SAY ABOUT THE END TIMES.
• 01:45 AS I GO AROUND TO CHURCHES, I'M GETTING MORE AND MORE QUESTIONS ON IT.
• 01:48 IN FACT, I'VE PRETTY MUCH TURNED INTO A PROPHECY TEACHER, NOW.
• 01:51 I COME TO TEACH ABOUT ISRAEL AND ABOUT THE CHOSEN PEOPLE AND THE KINGDOM AND SO ON,
• 01:56 BUT I END UP TEACHING END TIMES PROPHECY A WHOLE LOT OF THE TIME.
• 02:00 WHEN I OPEN UP TO QUESTIONS THOSE ARE THE QUESTIONS I GET.
• 02:04 SO WE PUT SOME QUESTIONS TO TIM LAHAYE, AN EXPERT, AND GOT SOME VERY GOOD ANSWERS.
• 02:11 OUR FIRST QUESTION WAS, "WHAT SPECIFIC EVENTS HAPPENING TODAY SUGGEST THAT THIS IS REALLY THE END TIMES?"
• 02:19 WELL, THE MOST SPECIFIC OF ALL EVENTS HAS TO BE THE REGATHERING OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL IN THE LAND.
• 02:27 WE KIND OF PUT THE PIVOTAL DATE AS 1948 WHEN THEY WERE RECOGNIZED AS A NATION.
• 02:32 DR. JOHN WALVOORD, WHO'S PROBABLY THE MOST RESPECTED AUTHORITY ON BIBLE PROPHECY LIVING TODAY,
• 02:37 HAS CALLED THAT THE SUPER SIGN OF THE END OF THE AGE.
• 02:41 I WOULD CERTAINLY AGREE. IT'S REALLY 2 FOLD.
• 02:46 I LIKE TO EMPHASIZE THE MIRACLE OF 1,700 YEARS WITHOUT A HOMELAND.
• 02:51 IT'S UNPRECEDENTED IN ALL OF HISTORY.
• 02:54 I'M A STUDENT OF HISTORY. I MAJORED IN IT IN COLLEGE AND SEMINARY AND SO ON.
• 02:59 I FIND THAT NO NATION IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD HAS BEEN ABLE TO SUCCEED 300 TO,
• 03:05 AT BEST, 500 YEARS OF BEING UPROOTED FROM ITS HOMELAND AND SCATTERED TO SOME OTHER PLACE.
• 03:11 SOONER OR LATER THEY SINK BENEATH THE SANDS OF TIME.
• 03:14 YET HERE WE HAVE ISRAEL 1,700 YEARS LATER IS ABLE TO BE GATHERED FROM RUSSIA
• 03:21 AND FROM AMERICA AND FROM EUROPE AND ALL OVER THE WORLD DOWN INTO THE HOLY LAND.
• 03:27 TODAY WE HAVE 6 MILLION OF THEM.
• 03:31 NOT TO RECOGNIZE THAT, TO FAIL TO SEE THAT THAT IS THE HAND OF GOD BRINGING THEM BACK,
• 03:39 WHICH IS ONE A MIRACLE AND NUMBER TWO, IT IS PROPHETICALLY STRATEGIC.
• 03:44 AS A MATTER OF FACT, THE GATHERING TOGETHER OF ISRAEL BEGINNING BACK IN THE WWI
• 03:50 COULD VERY WELL BE THE BEGINNING OF THE BIRTH PAINS THAT JESUS TALKED ABOUT IN MATTHEW 24.
• 03:57 I FIND THAT ALL OTHER SIGNS FALL INTO PLACE AS A RESULT OF THAT.
• 04:02 WE ASKED TIM LAHAYE "TO WHAT DEGREE MILITANT ISLAM IS A PART OF THE END TIMES SCENARIO?"
• 04:11 THAT'S AN INTERESTING QUESTION AND I THINK SCHOLARS OF PROPHECY ARE CONFUSED ABOUT THAT
• 04:16 BECAUSE IT'S A PHENOMENON THAT WE THOUGHT WAS KIND OF DONE AWAY WITH AND THAT ISRAEL
• 04:21 WOULD BE THE TARGET OF RUSSIA AND THE ARAB HOARDS THAT COME DOWN WITH RUSSIA.
• 04:28 THAT STILL MAY BE. IT STILL IS GEO-POLITICALLY POSSIBLE.
• 04:32 I THINK THAT RUSSIA IS STILL THE DESIGNEE OF EZEKIEL 38 & 39.
• 04:38 IF THAT HAPPENS IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS, THEN GOD IS GOING TO SUPERNATURALLY SOLVE THE ISLAMIC PROBLEM.
• 04:44 THE BITTER HATRED BETWEEN THE ARAB WORLD AND THE JEWISH WORLD
• 04:49 THAT GOES WAY BACK TO BIBLE TIMES, IS COMING TO A FOCUS AND THE INTERESTING THING IS
• 04:56 THE WHOLE WORLD IS FOCUSING ON THE MIDDLE EAST, JUST LIKE THE BIBLE PREDICTED,
• 05:01 THAT THAT WOULD BE THE CENTER STAGE.
• 05:04 WHEN I WAS WRITING OUR FICTION SERIES OF BOOKS,
• 05:06 I WAS INTRIGUED BY HOW MANY TRIPS THE ANTI-CHRIST TOOK TO JERUSALEM.
• 05:12 IT'S ALMOST LIKE HE HAD AN OBSESSION.
• 05:14 HERE HE IS THE KING OF THE WORLD, HE'S GOT A NEW BABYLON,
• 05:18 HEAD OF A NEW COMMERCIAL SYSTEM, AND THE WHOLE THING FOR 7 YEARS,
• 05:22 AND YET HE FINDS HIMSELF GOING DOWN INTO JERUSALEM.
• 05:27 THAT IS ONE OF THE REASONS WE KNOW THAT PRAETORISM CAN'T POSSIBLY BE TRUE
• 05:30 BECAUSE THEY CLAIM THAT NERO WAS THE ANTI-CHRIST. NERO WAS NEVER IN JERUSALEM.
• 05:37 HOW CAN HE DESECRATE THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM WHEN HE WAS NEVER THERE?
• 05:40 THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS THAT HAVEN'T BEEN FULFILLED.
• 05:43 BUT THE ANTI-CHRIST IS FOCUSING IN ON THE END TIMES
• 05:48 AND WE HAVEN'T EVEN GOTTEN TO THE TIME OF THE ANTI-CHRIST YET.
• 05:51 YET EVERY NIGHT ON THE EVENING NEWS, WHAT NATION DO WE SEE? WE SEE ISRAEL.
• 05:57 PUT THAT IN PERSPECTIVE.
• 05:59 A MISSIONARY OUT IN SINGAPORE TOLD ME, IF YOU DREW A CIRCLE AROUND SINGAPORE FOR 2,000 MILES
• 06:06 YOU WOULD ENCOMPASS 50 PERCENT OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION.
• 06:11 WHEN DID WE SEE SINGAPORE ON THE EVENING NEWS LAST?
• 06:15 YET THAT'S THE CENTER OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION.
• 06:18 INSTEAD THE WORLD'S EYES ARE ON THE MIDDLE EAST.
• 06:22 FRANKLY, ZOLA, I KNOW YOU LOVE AMERICA AND YOU LOVE ISRAEL, AS I DO.
• 06:28 I WANT TO TELL YOU I'M CONVINCED THAT THE BLESSINGS OF GOD ON AMERICA
• 06:33 IN SPITE OF ALL THE THINGS WE'VE DONE WRONG;
• 06:36 MURDERING THE UNBORN, PORNOGRAPHY, CRIME, DRUG PUSHING AND ALL THE REST.
• 06:42 I'M NOT IGNORANT OF ALL OF THE EVILS OF AMERICA.
• 06:48 AND YET GOD CONTINUES TO BLESS OUR COUNTRY.
• 06:51 I'M CONVINCED THE REASON, OR ONE OF THE REASONS IS BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN GOOD TO THE JEW.
• 06:57 I AM SO PROUD OF AMERICA AND TO BE AN AMERICAN FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS.
• 07:03 ONE IS, WE HAVE AN UNPRECEDENTED HISTORY OF BEING GOOD TO THE JEW.
• 07:09 SURE, WE'RE NOT PERFECT, BUT YOU CANNOT FIND ANOTHER NATION
• 07:13 WHERE JEWS HAVE BEEN WELCOMED INTO OUR COUNTRY AND MADE TO BE FIRST CLASS CITIZENS.
• 07:19 THEY SERVE IN THE U.S. SENATE.
• 07:22 WE HAVE A JEWISH SENATOR THAT'S GOING TO RUN FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF THE COUNTRY.
• 07:27 WHERE DO JEWS HAVE THAT KIND OF FREEDOM?
• 07:30 THEY'RE ABLE TO BUY UP MAJOR CORPORATIONS AND INVEST IN NEW BUSINESSES.
• 07:35 THEY HAVE THE SAME FREEDOM ALL THE REST OF US HAVE.
• 07:38 GOD'S UNCONDITIONAL PROMISE; I WILL BLESS THOSE THAT BLESS YOU;
• 07:43 IS THE PROMISE THAT WE'RE SEEING FULFILLED IN AMERICA TODAY.
• 07:47 THAT'S WHY I'M TRYING TO ENCOURAGE THE CHURCH
• 07:50 TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE BLESSINGS OF GOD IN MATERIAL THINGS AND IN FREEDOM AND SO ON
• 07:56 TO PROPAGATE THE GOSPEL AROUND THE WORLD.
• 07:58 THAT'S WHAT WE'RE REALLY FOR, SO THAT WE CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ADVANCING THE CAUSE OF CHRIST
• 08:04 DURING THIS UNPRECEDENTED TIME OF BLESSING.
• 08:07 I JUST HOPE AND PRAY THAT AMERICA WILL NEVER CHANGE THIS NATIONAL POLICY TOWARD ISRAEL.
• 08:14 WELL, THE END TIMES SCENARIO IS COMPLEX.
• 08:16 THERE ARE MANY FACETS TO IT. MILITANT ISLAM IS JUST ONE OF THOSE.
• 08:21 ANOTHER IS THE DOCTRINE THAT THE CHURCH HAS REPLACED ISRAEL.
• 08:26 WE ASKED TIM LAHAYE TO COMMENT ON THAT.
• 08:30 THE REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY OR SUPER-SESSIONISM OR SOMETHING,
• 08:35 THEY'VE GOT FANCY THEOLOGICAL WORDS FOR
• 08:38 "THE CHURCH HAS REPLACED ISRAEL IN THE PLAN OF GOD".
• 08:42 I WOULD SAY THAT PEOPLE THAT TEACH THAT EITHER, ONE, ARE IGNORANT OF THE BIBLE,
• 08:47 OR, TWO, THEY DON'T TAKE THE BIBLE LITERALLY.
• 08:50 BECAUSE PAUL MAKES IT VERY CLEAR.
• 08:53 THERE ARE 3 CATEGORIES OF PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD.
• 08:56 THERE ARE JEWS, THERE ARE GENTILES AND THE CHURCH OF GOD.
• 09:00 EITHER JEWS OR GENTILES CAN GET INTO THE CHURCH THE SAME WAY, BY PERSONAL FAITH IN JESUS,
• 09:06 BUT YOU'RE EITHER ONE OF THOSE 3 CATEGORIES OF PEOPLE.
• 09:11 I'M CONVINCED ALSO FROM ANOTHER STANDPOINT AND THAT IS
• 09:15 THERE ARE SO MANY PASSAGES OF GOD'S PROMISES TO ISRAEL
• 09:20 THAT IF ISRAEL DOESN'T FULFILL THOSE PROMISES, THEN GOD ISN'T FAITHFUL.
• 09:25 WE KNOW THAT'S AN UNTHINKABLE THING.
• 09:26 I KNOW PEOPLE SAY THE CHURCH NOW REPLACES--
• 09:31 NO, THE CHURCH WAS STARTED DIFFERENTLY, AT A DIFFERENT TIME IN HISTORY,
• 09:35 IT HAD A DIFFERENT MISSION THAN ISRAEL AND IT HAS A DIFFERENT FUTURE.
• 09:41 THE CHURCH IS, ONE OF THESE DAYS IS GOING TO BE ALL GONE AT THE SAME TIME
• 09:46 WHEN JESUS SHOUTS FROM HEAVEN AND WE'RE TAKEN UP INTO THE AIR.
• 09:50 WE MEET OUR LOVED ONES IN THE CLOUDS AND THEN IN THE AIR.
• 09:54 THEN WE'RE WITH THE LORD JESUS IN THE FATHER'S HOUSE DURING THE 7 YEARS OF TRIBULATION.
• 10:00 THEN WE COME BACK AND AT THAT POINT IN TIME, THE JEWS AND THE SAVED GENTILES
• 10:05 WILL GO IN AND POPULATE THE MILLENNIUM AND WE WILL HAVE THE PRICELESS PRIVILEGE
• 10:10 OF RULING AND REIGNING WITH CHRIST IN THAT NEW MILLENNIUM THAT IS JUST GOING TO BE BEYOND COMPREHENSION.
• 10:17 AFTER THAT, GOD'S WONDERFUL PLAN IS HEAVEN.
• 10:22 THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS I'VE TRIED TO ADDRESS IN MY NEWEST BOOK, "MERCIFUL GOD OF PROPHECY"
• 10:28 AND THE WONDERFUL PLAN HE HAS FOR YOU IN THE END TIMES.
• 10:32 I'VE SEEN IN A NEW LIGHT HOW MERCIFUL GOD IS, AS SEEN FROM THE PROPHETS.
• 10:38 THE HEBREW PROPHETS TELL US, THEY DEFINE GOD'S NATURE AS MERCIFUL, GRACIOUS,
• 10:44 LONG SUFFERING, SLOW TO ANGER, REPENTS OF DOING EVIL AND HE'S MERCIFUL AND FORGIVING.
• 10:52 THAT'S THE KIND OF GOD PEOPLE NEED IN THIS 20TH CENTURY.
• 10:56 OF COURSE WE NEED AN OMNIPOTENT, SUPREME GOD OF CREATION AND JUDGE OF THE UNIVERSE,
• 11:03 BUT I LIKE TO PRAY LIKE THE LORD JESUS TAUGHT US TO PRAY - OUR FATHER, WHICH ART IN HEAVEN.
• 11:11 YOU KNOW, WHEN THE DISCIPLES ASKED HIM THAT QUESTION
• 11:13 AND I THINK THIS IS KIND OF TANTAMOUNT TO A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP TO GOD.
• 11:17 THEY SAID, LORD, TEACH US TO PRAY.
• 11:20 HE DIDN'T SAY, PRAY ALMIGHTY GOD, CREATOR OF HEAVEN OF EARTH,
• 11:25 SOVEREIGN OF THE UNIVERSE AND REMEMBERER OF ALL THINGS. HE DIDN'T SAY THAT AT ALL.
• 11:30 HE SAID PRAY, OUR FATHER. WHENEVER I HEAR THOSE WORDS
• 11:35 IT'S SUCH A TENDER VIEW FROM THE SAVIOR HIMSELF, WHO KNEW THE FATHER BEST ON HOW WE, MORTALS,
• 11:42 AFTER WE'RE SAVED, CAN PRAY TO GOD.
• 11:46 ANOTHER INTERESTING THING I FOUND ABOUT THE MERCIFUL GOD
• 11:50 IS HE IS REVEALED THROUGH THE PROPHETS.
• 11:54 NOWHERE IN THE BIBLE HAVE I FOUND GOD SAYING TO MANKIND,
• 11:58 ALL YOU PERFECT PEOPLE, TURN AND COME TO ME.
• 12:04 HE DOESN'T HAVE THAT KIND OF A SELECTIVE OFFER.
• 12:06 IN FACT, THE MIRACLE OF MIRACLES IS, HERE WE HAVE THIS HOLY, RIGHTEOUS, ALL MIGHTY GOD
• 12:13 AND HE SAYS TO SINNERS LIKE ISRAEL WHEN ISRAEL HAD COMMITTED EVERY FOUL SIN OF IDOLATRY,
• 12:20 SPIRITUAL ABOMINATION AND FORNICATION, HE SAID,
• 12:23 TURN TO ME WITH ALL YOUR HEART AND I'LL RECEIVE YOU.
• 12:28 I FIND THAT ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE.
• 12:49 COME WITH ZOLA LEVITT AND SEE FOR YOURSELF THE LAND OF THE COVENANT.
• 12:53 ZOLA PUTS ON ONE OF THE MOST SPECTACULAR TRIPS YOU COULD EVER BE ON.
• 12:57 THE WHOLE GROUP, EVERYBODY JUST PUTS EVERYTHING TOGETHER. IT'S SPECTACULAR.
• 13:03 WITH WHAT WAS CHOSEN FOR US TO DO, AS WELL AS WHO GUIDED US,
• 13:07 WHO SPOKE WITH US, THE OTHER PEOPLE ON THE TRIP--
• 13:11 OTHER PEOPLE HAVE SAID THEY WENT ON CRUISES AND TRIPS LIKE THIS
• 13:15 AND IT WAS ALL HISTORICAL AND THEY SAW A LOT OF SITES.
• 13:18 BUT THIS WAS SPIRITUAL. THIS WAS REALLY GOOD.
• 13:21 SO I'M REALLY GLAD I PICKED ZOLA LEVITT'S GROUP TO TOUR THE HOLY LAND.
• 13:30 TOUR THE HOLY LAND WITH ZOLA LEVITT. CALL OR WRITE FOR MORE INFORMATION.
• 13:40 WE STILL CONTINUE OUR TOURS TO JERUSALEM ON OUR NORMAL SCHEDULE.
• 13:45 THEY ARE GOING ON WITHOUT EVENT.
• 13:48 I'VE PROVED MANY TIMES, IT'S MORE DANGEROUS TO STAY HOME THAN TO GO TO ISRAEL
• 13:53 DESPITE WHAT THE NEWS, THE WAY THEY COLOR IN WHAT IS GOING ON OVER THERE.
• 13:58 BUT THERE WILL COME A DAY WHEN IT WILL BE PERFECTLY PEACEFUL IN JERUSALEM
• 14:01 WHEN WE ALL LIVE THERE IN THE KINGDOM TO COME.
• 14:04 I REFER YOU TO ISAIAH 11:9
• 14:22 ♪ TAKE US THERE, TAKE US THERE TO THE LAND OF ZION NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM ♪
• 14:27 ♪ (HEBREW) NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM ♪
• 14:33 ♪O HEAR, O ISRAEL, O ISRAEL HEAR O LORD, THY KINGDOM COME, THY WILL BE DONE NEXT YEAR! ♪
• 14:38 ♪ (HEBREW) NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM. ♪
• 14:46 ♪ OVER THERE, OVER THERE IN THE LAND OF ZION, NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM ♪
• 14:51 ♪ (HEBREW) NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM ♪
• 14:57 ♪ O LORD, DRAW NEAR TO US, O LORD DRAW NEAR ♪
• 14:59 ♪ O LORD, THY KINGDOM COME THY WILL BE DONE NEXT YEAR ♪
• 15:02 ♪ (HEBREW) NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM ♪
• 15:11 ♪ AH LAND OF REST, OF THEE I SING AH, ZION BLESSED, RECEIVE THY KING ♪
• 15:23 ♪ AH PROMISED LAND, OF THEE I TELL RECEIVE THY KINGDOM, ISRAEL. ♪
• 15:40 ♪ WHEN WE'RE THERE, WHEN WE'RE THERE IN THE LAND OF ZION NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM ♪
• 15:45 ♪ (HEBREW) NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM ♪
• 15:50 ♪ O LORD, WE'LL BE WITH YOU AND NO MORE TEARS O LORD, THY KINGDOM COME ♪
• 15:54 ♪ THY WILL BE DONE NEXT YEAR ♪
• 15:56 ♪ (HEBREW) NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM (HEBREW) NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM ♪
• 16:10 IN ALL OF HISTORY HOW MANY WORLD EMPIRES HAVE THERE BEEN - 4 WORLD EMPIRES.
• 16:17 THERE HAVE MANY WHO HAVE TRIED: GENGHIS KAHN, NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, ADOLPH HITLER,
• 16:22 AND THE LIST GOES ON AND ON, OF WOULD BE WORLD DICTATORS. THEY'VE ALL FAILED. WHY?
• 16:27 BECAUSE GOD SAID THERE WOULD BE 4 UNTIL THE END TIMES WHEN A CONFEDERATION OF 10
• 16:33 WOULD GET TOGETHER AND THEN THEY WOULD APPOINT THE ANTI-CHRIST.
• 16:38 MY POINT IS, GOD HAS REVEALED HIMSELF.
• 16:42 PROPHECY IS HISTORY WRITTEN IN ADVANCE.
• 16:46 THESE FALSE PROPHETS COULDN'T DO IT.
• 16:48 THE GODS OF THIS WORLD CANNOT PREDICT THE FUTURE,
• 16:52 BUT THE GOD IN HEAVEN CAN REVEAL IT THROUGH HIS PROPHETS AND THAT'S WHAT HE'S DONE.
• 16:57 HERE WE HAVE THE BIBLE WITH OVER 1,000 PASSAGES
• 17:02 THAT WERE PROPHETIC AT THE TIME THEY WERE WRITTEN.
• 17:06 ALL THE PROPHECIES THAT HAD TO DO WITH,
• 17:09 UP TO THE PRESENT TIME HAVE BEEN FULFILLED EXACTLY AS THE PROPHETS SAID.
• 17:14 THAT'S WHY I TAKE THE BIBLE LITERALLY AND TAKE PROPHECY LITERALLY.
• 17:19 IF YOU'VE HAD HALF OF THEM, ALL OF THE ONES THAT SHOULD BE FULFILLED UP TO THIS TIME,
• 17:24 WHICH ARE HALF THE PROPHECIES EVER WRITTEN, IF THEY'VE BEEN FULFILLED LITERALLY,
• 17:28 THEN THOSE THAT HAVE TO DO WITH THE YET FUTURE WILL BE TAKEN LITERALLY.
• 17:33 IN CASE ANY OF OUR LISTENERS HAVE A QUESTION OF WHO JESUS IS,
• 17:38 I'D LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT THAT IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE FACT THAT THERE ARE 109, AT LEAST,
• 17:43 MAYBE MORE, BUT 109 PROPHECIES ABOUT JESUS' FIRST COMING THAT HE FULFILLED LITERALLY.
• 17:50 LIKE EVERYBODY KNOWS WHERE JESUS WAS BORN, IN BETHLEHEM OF JUDEA.
• 17:55 IF IT WEREN'T FOR CHRISTMAS CAROLS, I DON'T THINK THEY WOULD UNDERSTAND
• 17:58 THAT THE PROPHET PREDICTED HE WOULD BE BORN IN BETHLEHEM 500 YEARS BEFORE HE WAS BORN.
• 18:04 THEN THERE ARE 108 OTHER PROPHECIES.
• 18:07 MY POINT IS, THE FIRST COMING OF JESUS IS A CERTIFIED FACT.
• 18:12 HISTORICALLY, NO ONE WITH ANY HISTORICAL SENSE DENIES THAT JESUS LITERALLY LIVED.
• 18:18 THERE ARE 3 TIMES AS MANY PROPHECIES CONCERNING HIS SECOND COMING
• 18:24 AS CONCERNING HIS FIRST, THAT IS A FACT.
• 18:27 IF THE FIRST ONE IS A FACT WITH ONLY 109,
• 18:30 THEN THE SECOND COMING WITH 321 PREDICTIONS IS CERTAIN TO COME TO PASS.
• 18:38 ZOLA, THAT'S WHAT YOU AND I REALLY ARE IN BUSINESS FOR. THAT'S OUR PASSION.
• 18:43 THAT'S WHAT DRIVES US ALL OVER THE WORLD AND AROUND THE WORLD TEACHING AND WRITING
• 18:48 AND COMMUNICATING THAT WE DON'T WANT ANYONE TO BE LEFT BEHIND,
• 18:52 BUT WE WANT THEM TO REALIZE THE FACT THAT JESUS IS COMING, COULD BE RAPIDLY APPROACHING
• 18:59 AND WE WANT THEM TO KNOW HIM PERSONALLY AND BE READY TO RECEIVE HIM.
• 19:05 REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY IS ONE ERROR BEING MADE TODAY.
• 19:11 THE LACK OF PROPHECY TEACHING, I THINK, IS ANOTHER ERROR. IT LEADS TO TIM LAHAYE'S WORK.
• 19:19 WE ASKED HIM, WHAT IS THE REASON FOR THE IMMENSE SUCCESS OF THE "LEFT BEHIND" SERIES.
• 19:26 THAT'S PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST PROMINENT QUESTIONS I'M ASKED TODAY
• 19:30 FROM LARRY KING TO BILL O'REILLY TO WHO KNOWS WHO.
• 19:34 THEY ALL WANT TO KNOW, WHAT'S THE SECRET.
• 19:36 IT'S ALMOST LIKE THEY'RE COMING FROM THE PLACE WHERE,
• 19:38 WHO IN THE WORLD BUT A FEW FUNDAMENTALISTS WOULD EVER BE INTERESTED IN PROPHECY?
• 19:44 ALMOST EVERYBODY THAT HAS ANY RECOGNITION OF WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE WORLD TODAY
• 19:49 WANTS TO KNOW WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE.
• 19:51 WE HAVE THE TWIN TOWERS EXPLODING AND ALMOST 3,000 PEOPLE KILLED IN ABOUT 2 HOURS.
• 19:58 THEN WE HAVE ALL KIND OF WORLD SHAKING EVENTS HAPPENING ALL OVER THE WORLD.
• 20:04 THEN YOU HAVE PIPSQUEAK DICTATORS THAT HAVE FOUND A WAY
• 20:09 OF DEVELOPING WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION AND BACTERIAL WARFARE.
• 20:14 THIS IS A SCARY TIME.
• 20:16 I DON'T MEAN TO BE A DOOMS DAY PROPHET,
• 20:18 BUT I'M JUST POINTING OUT THAT PEOPLE'S HEARTS ARE BEGINNING TO FAIL THEM FOR FEAR.
• 20:24 AND I MIGHT POINT OUT THAT THAT'S A PREDICTION THAT THE BIBLE SAID WHEN THE LAST DAYS,
• 20:30 MEN'S HEARTS WOULD FAIL THEM FOR FEAR.
• 20:33 BUT IF YOU KNOW THE PROPHECIES, YOU KNOW THAT GOD ISN'T GOING TO LET MAN DESTROY HIMSELF.
• 20:38 THAT IS WHAT PEOPLE ARE AFRAID OF.
• 20:40 I READ A BOOK TITLE IN THE WASHINGTON D.C. BOOK KIOSK JUST A FEW WEEKS AGO
• 20:46 AND THE BOOK TITLE WAS, "THE END OF HISTORY".
• 20:51 THAT DOESN'T SOUND VERY OPTIMISTIC TO ME, BUT SCIENTISTS AND HISTORIANS TODAY
• 20:56 ARE LOOKING AT WHAT'S GOING ON AND THEY SAY, HEY THIS WORLD IS OUT OF CONTROL.
• 20:59 IN FACT, JIMMY CARTER'S NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR BACK IN 1975,
• 21:09 BRZEZINSKI, WROTE A BOOK ENTITLED, "OUT OF CONTROL". HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE WORLD.
• 21:17 IT'S OUT OF CONTROL AND HE'S CONCERNED THAT THE LAST CENTURY
• 21:20 WAS THE MOST BARBARIC CENTURY IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD.
• 21:24 IF WE CONTINUE TO GO AND THIS CENTURY IS MORE BARBARIC THAN THE LAST,
• 21:27 WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE HUMAN RACE?
• 21:30 WE CAN TELL YOU WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.
• 21:31 JESUS IS GOING TO COME BEFORE MAN CAN DESTROY HIMSELF FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.
• 21:39 WE TALKED WITH TIM ABOUT THE IDEA THAT THE SEMINARIES REALLY AREN'T TEACHING PROPHECY.
• 21:44 HIS SERIES, "LEFT BEHIND", REALLY DOES.
• 21:50 FICTION IS A VEHICLE TO THE MIND.
• 21:52 JUST LIKE YOU'RE USING TELEVISION TO GET INTO THE MINDS OF PEOPLE
• 21:55 THE MESSAGE THAT YOU HAVE, I USE FICTION.
• 21:58 IT'S A WAY OF CIRCUMVENTING THE PULPIT.
• 22:01 UNFORTUNATELY, YOU'RE RIGHT.
• 22:03 OUR SEMINARIES HAVE BEEN SILENT OR HOSTILE TO THE TEACHING OF PROPHECY,
• 22:09 EVEN THOUGH 28 PERCENT OF THE BIBLE WAS PROPHETIC WHEN IT WAS WRITTEN.
• 22:13 I CAN'T UNDERSTAND IT, IT'S JUST LIKE WIPING OUT OVER A QUARTER OF THE BIBLE AND SAY, WELL, WE WON'T TOUCH THAT.
• 22:17 IT'S THE MOST MOTIVATING FORCE IN THE WORLD.
• 22:21 WE'VE COME BACK IN FICTION AND PRESENTED THESE FACTUAL EVENTS OF PROPHECY
• 22:26 IN A FICTIONAL WAY AND PEOPLE HAVE GOTTEN HOOKED.
• 22:29 ZOLA, YOU'LL GET A KICK OUT OF THIS.
• 22:32 LAST YEAR, I WON'T MENTION THE DENOMINATION,
• 22:34 BUT AT ONE OF THE ANNUAL CONVENTIONS OF AN AMERICAN DENOMINATION,
• 22:37 A LIBERAL DENOMINATION, BY THE WAY, SOMEONE BROUGHT UP THE CASE ON THE FLOOR OF THE CONVENTION
• 22:43 OF WHAT THEY SHOULD DO ABOUT THE POPULARITY OF THE "LEFT BEHIND" SERIES OF PROPHETIC BOOKS.
• 22:51 THEY DISCUSSED IT FOR A FEW MINUTES AND THEN PASSED A RESOLUTION
• 22:55 THAT THEY NOTIFY THEIR CHURCHES AND THEIR PASTORS
• 22:58 TO PREACH MORE ON THE REFORM VIEW OF ESCHATOLOGY.
• 23:04 SO IT'S OBVIOUSLY A REFORMED DENOMINATION.
• 23:06 SO THEY SENT OUT THE MESSAGE THAT THIS WAS DECIDED OFFICIALLY AND VOTED ON BY THE DELEGATES AT THEIR CONVENTION.
• 23:13 SO THEY SENT THIS LETTER OUT, I GUESS IT WAS AN EMAIL, TO ALL THE PASTORS.
• 23:17 IN IT THEY TOLD THEM WHAT HAD BEEN DECIDED AND THEY SAID, NOW TEACH THE TRUTH,
• 23:22 BUT BE CAREFUL NOT TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE "LEFT BEHIND" SERIES
• 23:26 BECAUSE SO MANY OF YOUR PEOPLE ARE READING THEM.
• 23:29 THEY WILL GET UPSET WITH YOU BECAUSE THEY LIKE THEM.
• 23:35 TALKING WITH TIM LAHAYE IS VERY ENLIGHTENING, OBVIOUSLY.
• 23:38 HE'S ALERT TO PROPHECY DEVELOPMENTS AND SO ON. SO ARE A LOT OF TEACHERS.
• 23:43 WHEN I WAS SAVED 30 YEARS AGO THIS WAS THE POPULAR SUBJECT IN THE EARLY '70S.
• 23:51 HAL LINDSEY'S BOOK REALLY STARTED IT, "THE LATE, GREAT PLANET EARTH".
• 23:54 I REMEMBER BUYING A COPY OF THAT AS AN UNBELIEVER WHEN I WAS IN COLLEGE.
• 23:58 I READ IT AND I WAS FASCINATED.
• 24:01 I THINK IT WAS PART OF ONE OF THE BABY STEPS TOWARD SALVATION.
• 24:07 I UNDERSTOOD, AT LEAST, THAT THE BIBLE PROPHESIED A SITUATION
• 24:12 VERY LIKE WE HAD AROUND US BACK THEN.
• 24:15 THEN DALLAS SEMINARY, WHICH I WAS VERY CLOSE TO,
• 24:19 I'M ONE OF THE SPEAKERS ON THEIR APPROVED CHAPEL LIST.
• 24:23 IT'S A PRETTY CAREFUL LIST AND I APPRECIATE BEING ON IT.
• 24:29 BACK THEN, THAT WAS THE TALK OVER THERE AND AT MOODY AND SO ON.
• 24:34 ISRAEL HAD JUST WON THE 6 DAY WAR.
• 24:39 I'M TALKING ABOUT THE VERY EARLY 70'S. EVERYBODY WAS ON ISRAEL'S SIDE.
• 24:43 IT WAS OBVIOUS GOD WAS BRINGING HIS PEOPLE BACK.
• 24:45 THEY WERE RIGHT AFTER ALL, THE ONES WHO HELD OUT FOR THE JEWS COMING BACK TO THE LAND
• 24:51 IN A PROPER END TIMES SCENARIO THAT DID NOT INCLUDE REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY.
• 24:57 GOD WASN'T FINISHED WITH THE JEWS.
• 24:58 HE WAS GOING TO RESTORE THEM AND REBUILT THE PROMISED LAND.
• 25:01 THAT WAS THE ATMOSPHERE THEN. THEN CAME BOYCOTTS.
• 25:05 ISLAM STARTED TO BLAME ISRAEL AND SO FORTH.
• 25:12 THE MEDIA PICKED THAT UP. THINGS GOT A LITTLE CROSSWISE. ARAFAT WAS DOING HIS WORK.
• 25:18 IT GOT TO A SITUATION WHERE PEOPLE STARTED TO TURN THEIR BACKS ON ISRAEL
• 25:24 AND ON PROPHECY FOR VARIOUS REASONS.
• 25:27 WE COME ALL THE WAY TO TODAY WHERE I GO TO A CHURCH TO TEACH PROPHECY
• 25:31 AND I'M SOME KIND OF SPECIALIST. THAT SHOULDN'T BE.
• 25:35 PROPHECY IS ONE THIRD OF THE SCRIPTURES.
• 25:38 IT'S NOT A SPECIALIST THAT TEACHES PROPHECY, BUT JUST A BIBLE TEACHER.
• 25:42 IT'S THE BREAD AND BUTTER.
• 25:45 IT'S LEFT INSTEAD TO AUTHORS LIKE TIM LAHAYE, HAL LINDSEY AND TEACHERS LIKE MYSELF
• 25:52 DR. WALVOORD AND THE OTHERS. WE'RE MORE LIKE THE OLD SCHOOL.
• 25:58 IT'S JUST AT THE TIME THE END REALLY IS DRAWING NEAR.
• 26:02 I REMEMBER ONCE OVER DINNER WITH HAL LINDSEY.
• 26:04 I SAID TO HIM, YOU KNOW, HAL, YOU'RE GETTING GRAY AND SO AM I.
• 26:08 LOOKING BEHIND US, THERE DOESN'T SEEM TO BE ANY TEACHERS COMING ALONG DOING THIS STUFF;
• 26:14 TEACHING THE END TIMES.
• 26:16 HAL LINDSEY HAS A WAY OF PUTTING HIS FINGER RIGHT ON THE TRUTH AND HE SAID,
• 26:21 YOU KNOW, MAYBE THERE DOESN'T HAVE TO BE. WE'RE THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS.
• 26:26 THE END REALLY IS HERE. YOU DON'T NEED MORE END TIMES PROPHECY TEACHING.
• 26:31 IT COULD BE.
• 26:32 MAYBE THE PHENOMENAL SUCCESS OF "LEFT BEHIND" IS THAT PEOPLE ARE STARVING,
• 26:37 EVEN UNBELIEVERS ARE STARVING, BECAUSE A LOT OF THEM ARE BUYING THESE BOOKS.
• 26:41 THEY ARE LEARNING PROPHECY DESPITE THE UNWILLINGNESS OF OTHERS TO TEACH IT.
• 26:45 MANY OF THEM ARE GOING TO BE READY WHERE SOME PEOPLE WHO PLAY AT GOING TO CHURCH
• 26:51 ARE NOT GOING TO BE READY.
• 26:54 SO WE WERE HAPPY TO TALK WITH TIM LAHAYE AND TALK ABOUT THE "LEFT BEHIND" SERIES.
• 26:58 BY THE WAY, WE HEARTILY RECOMMEND IT.
• 27:00 THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THOSE BOOKS WHATEVER.
• 27:02 PEOPLE ASK ME THAT ALL THE TIME; WHAT DO I THINK OF THEM? I THINK THEY ARE WONDERFUL.
• 27:06 IT'S AS SIMPLE AS THAT. AND SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM, PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.