Hey guys, we're back with part two of lesson one.
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All right, we were talking about the preservation
of the word of God.
God wrote it and talked about that.
Here's the other thing that happened.
People saw it happen.
How can you know the word of God's true?
People saw it happen.
2 Peter 1, verse 16,
for we have not followed cunningly devised fables.
Those are lies.
Those are made up stories.
We're not following that.
When we made known unto you the power
and coming of the Lord Jesus Christ,
he says we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
So they saw it.
They saw this.
In Acts chapter two,
the day of Pentecost,
verse 22, this is what Peter says.
He says, you men of Israel, hear these words.
Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you
by miracles and signs and wonders,
which God did by him in your midst.
You yourselves know it.
So the word of God, it was seen.
It was seen by people.
All right, moving on with this.
How can you know that the Bible is true?
What if I told you that the Bible is true?
I told you, science helps us.
Let's talk about science.
Many proofs within the Bible indicate
that it is indeed a divine book.
It's like the Bible knows things
that it shouldn't have known before that moment.
The Bible tells us about a round earth.
The world didn't know about a round earth
until someone went around the world.
Magellan, I believe.
Not until brave explorers explored the world
and said, hey, we didn't fall off the side of the earth.
Did the world not understand
that the world was not flat?
Sorry if you're a flat earther out there.
The world's not flat.
But the Bible knew this way back
with Isaiah chapter 40, verse 22.
Can we look at this scripture together?
Isaiah chapter 40, verse 22.
Facebook, Isaiah 40.
Isaiah 40, verse 22.
When you're ready,
somebody read this out loud for us.
Isaiah 40, verse 22.
It is he who sits above the circle of the earth.
It is he who sits above the circle of the earth.
Now that's translated circle there.
It's actually more correct actually
to translate it circle.
Sphere, because the circle's a two-dimensional object.
The word there really gives an idea
that it is a three-dimensional object, like a globe.
How did Isaiah know that?
It's divine.
Long before we could go to outer space
and take pictures of it,
this was revealed to us by God.
There's also this old ancient belief
that the world sat on top of pillars,
that there were these pillars
that were holding it up.
They believed that these ancient gods
built these pillars and set a world on it.
That was the scientific belief
in the ancient world,
that it sat on pillars.
Can we go to Job chapter 26, verse 7?
Job 26, verse 7.
That Job, he went through so much problems,
but he still loved the Lord.
Job 26, verse 7.
Does the Bible think that the world's going to be like this?
The world sits on these pillars here?
Let's read it.
Somebody read it out loud.
He stretches out the north over the void
and hangs the earth on nothing.
Wait.
God hangs the world on nothing?
He stretches out the north over the empty place?
Way before he should have known that,
the Holy Spirit told him,
the world's not built on pillars here.
It is hanging out above nothing.
The ancient world could be,
even contemplate that.
But there it is in the word of God.
How many stars are there in the universe?
Well, science has always claimed,
tried to claim an answer.
Hippocarchus, the father of Greek astronomy,
he counted 1,080 stars.
He said, scientifically, there are 1,080 stars.
That's the ancient world for you.
Science always thinks they know what's going on, right?
The count was still believed to be accurate
300 years later.
But then Galileo's invention of the telescope
in the 1600s,
then they changed that figure.
They believed then that countless million stars
were scattered throughout the textbook.
But even current textbooks cautiously state
the number of stars.
How many stars are over there?
They know that there are over 100 billion
and that's just not even scratching on it.
There are billions upon billions of stars out there.
Man could never accurately,
accurately determine, we now believe,
how many stars are out there.
Congratulations, science.
You just caught up with Jeremiah 33 and 22
that says the host of heaven, the stars,
cannot be numbered.
Neither the sand of the sea measured.
The Bible was ahead of science.
Science is always trying to catch up with the Bible.
You know what atoms are?
Atoms are these small,
small building blocks
that make up all matter.
We still can't really see atoms.
It's like, how do you see an atom?
Like we get these atomic microscopes
and we're like, I think I see an atom.
I don't really even know how all that works.
We don't see atoms.
We've come to know that they are there.
We've even come to harness the power of atoms.
But the ancient world had no clue about this.
But turn to Hebrews chapter 11, verse three.
Turn to Hebrews chapter 11, verse three.
Read this out loud.
Hebrews chapter 11, verse three.
Who wants to read that out loud?
Go for it.
By faith, Abel offered to God a morgue.
Oh, that's not the right one.
Verse three, 11 and three.
By faith, we understand that the universe,
was created by the word of God,
so that what is seen was not made out of things
that are physical.
All right.
So by faith, we know that the world was made
by the word of God,
so that the things that we are seeing
are made out of things we can't see.
That's atoms right there.
Right there in Hebrews chapter 11.
Hebrews, in right smack dab
in the middle of the ancient world,
we would snub.
We would snub our nose at them and say,
they don't know anything that we don't know.
We know stuff they don't know.
That's what we'd say.
But the writer of the word of God right there
suggests to us that the world is created
by building blocks that are invisible.
Right there.
That's amazing, isn't it?
Let's move on to this.
So that was science.
Let's talk about medicine.
Medical science has recently made tremendous advances, right?
It's always making advances.
That's really good.
But did you know?
As recently as the 18th century,
physicians believed how you cured some patients
was to get rid of their blood.
They called it bleeding.
Here's the problem.
Their blood's bad.
We need to get rid of their blood.
We get rid of some of their blood, they're gonna live.
That was science.
That was medicine.
That's what the best medical minds of their day.
Let's get rid of some blood.
If only those people would have looked at the word of God,
because Leviticus 17 and 11 says,
for the life of the flesh is in the blood.
It's in the blood.
Right there.
Ancient world.
Divine inspiration from the word of God right there.
Medicine.
Let's look at this.
History.
History recorded before the time of Christ also proves biblical truths.
There are cities mentioned in the Bible.
They all existed.
Right?
We found them.
We know about them.
They're written about in other historical books.
We know about them.
The Bible is the most reliable history of all ages.
Every detail and account is historically accurate.
Until recent years, one of the most notable arguments used by critics stated that the
accounts of creation, sorry, yeah, the accounts of creation and the flood are only myths
or legends.
However, they must now consider evidence.
They must now consider evidence.
We've found evidence found elsewhere of these events, that the flood accounts in Genesis
is not only written history, is not the only written history.
Other historians have found other civilizations write about a flood, and they've found evidence
of such a flood.
All right, moving on.
Related to history, archaeology.
The more experts search and dig, the more they affirm the truth of the Bible.
What is history?
the truth of the Bible archaeologists and science developed in the last 200
years deal with the excavation and evaluation of items found from the
ancient past some people have asked this question how do you even know there was
an Abraham well he's written about in the Bible that's not good enough he's
written about in Babylon remember Israel was there in Babylon they told Babylon
about Abraham and Babylon wrote it down what about anything else about Abraham
well we know he's from Ur and that was a real place we know he's going through a
place called Canaan we know where exactly where that is it's Israel we
know all these things the name Abraham written all throughout history
archaeology we dig up things and we find things all the time that that reveal to
us the truth of the Bible and we find things all the time that reveal to us
the truth of the Bible and we find things all the time that reveal to us the
truth that we could talk about things about like the Red Sea and how we found
exactly where that is and how miraculous that was and how it can be proved by
archaeology let's move on let's talk about something called the Dead Sea
Scrolls can you say Dead Sea Scrolls you've heard that sin that phrase before
Dead Sea Scrolls you know what it is there it is well it's something really
excited so in the early 1900s
the oldest written manuscripts of the Bible we had were approximately from the
year 1008 AD so if you consider that's not that old when it comes to the
written manuscript of the Old Testament right because the Old Testament is
written before AD and so the the latest version of that was from 1008
which gave way to a lot of criticism like see it's an old book but they don't
even have an old copy of it that old tired argument but something interesting
happened in 1947 this is kind of a crazy story listen to this 1947 two shepherd
boys they're out tending sheep they lose one of the sheep they go let's go find
the sheep that we're missing so they go running and they go run over to a cave in
Israel
and they throw a rock into this cave thinking if the Sheep's in there maybe
we'll hit the sheep with the rock or the you know it'll scare the sheep will hear
it I don't want to go crawling in that sheep in that that cave they throw this
rock and instead of hearing a bat they hear pottery crash they hear breaking
they're like what what's that they go investigate this cave in 1947 and they
find all this pottery in there that's really old not only it's really old but
it's got old writing and they find all this old parchment all this old writing
and it's of the Bible it's of the Old Testament
now remember I told you the oldest copy that they had to this point was from 1008 right still on it though this one couple times...
to this point was from 1008 right and they need a lot of research now at the end the first 10 days they found land Carson�!
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they found copies of the Bible
stored in these old pottery
that was 1,900 years old.
And so now they have brand new,
older written word of God
than they ever had.
So here's what they did.
They poured,
they rescued all that writing
and scholars looked over all that writing
and they took all this new old writing,
1,900 years old,
and they took the most recent,
the oldest copies that they had from 1,008
and they compared them
and they were identical.
They had the entire book of Isaiah in there.
It was identical.
The people that like to say
that somebody,
somebody changed the word of God,
surely that would have been provable
when they showed up with the word
and it had changed,
but it had not changed.
That's what the Dead Sea Scrolls is.
The Dead Sea Scrolls
were an unbelievable breakthrough
that proved great validity
when it came to the word of God,
that it had been preserved.
Isn't that an amazing story?
All right, let's talk about this.
How do we know the word of God is true?
Prophecy.
The prophets proved it.
Let's get down to the real deal, Lucille.
Prophecy is important.
Your book, the Bible,
contains some 6,000 specific prophecies.
Thousands have already been fulfilled 100%.
100%.
Prophecy is the litmus test.
It is an absolutely infallibility test.
During the life of Jesus Christ,
333 prophecies were fulfilled about him.
No small task.
Actually, the prophets foretold the destiny
of practically every existing ancient nation.
And in every case, they proved correct.
Even now, countless prophetic utterances
are being realized.
The Bible has proven to be history
written in advance.
It's like reading tomorrow's newspaper.
So, there's prophecy.
And we see things that happen,
and then.
How about this?
Zechariah vividly described
the triumphal entry into Jerusalem
by Jesus.
That's Zechariah.
Hundreds of years earlier.
The psalmist David revealed
Jesus' betrayal by a friend.
Revealed the giving of gall and vinegar
on the cross.
The piercing of his hands.
And the gambling for his garment.
Even the exact price of betrayal
was predicted.
It predicted for 30 pieces of silver.
What a lucky guess the Bible is.
Or, it's true.
At least 29 Old Testament prophecies
relate to the betrayal, trial, death,
suffering, and burial of our Lord.
Although spoken at various times
by different voices during the five centuries,
every one of them was literally fulfilled
in one 24-hour period of time.
One 24-hour period.
All those prophecies fulfilled.
Isn't that amazing?
It's like it's true.
It is.
It's true.
I believe it with all my heart.
Grab a hold of that.
It happened then,
but it's also happening now.
We got prophecy that is still being fulfilled.
Christ himself predicted
that there would be worldwide,
there were never worldwide wars
until the last century.
He listed famines, pestilence, and earthquakes.
Do you know that we have more earthquakes
happening every day right now
than what would happen in years
in the ancient world?
It's amazing.
He warned that the state of political unrest
and upheaval would exist.
He prophesied that.
He told us about a beast
that would ascend to world dominance.
That could be just around the corner, right?
All these predictions plus many others
we're going to talk about in future lessons,
but I want to give you one prophecy
that is the most amazing.
It's the most amazing to me.
Are you ready?
It's a prophecy concerning Israel.
Number one,
you want to know that the word of God is true?
Israel itself
is all you need.
The fact that Israel,
still exists.
You want to prove the word of God wrong?
Destroy Israel
and let them never exist again.
That's how you prove the word of God is wrong.
That easy.
And it's the most easy thing to do
because nations rise and fall all the time.
Let's talk about this.
This is amazing.
I want us to turn to Jeremiah 23 and 3.
So we're looking at our Old Testament here.
Jeremiah 23 and 3.
You want to look up this verse.
It is absolutely amazing.
It's a prophecy about Israel.
It's a prophecy that's downright impossible to happen.
Who's got it for us?
3 and 3?
23 and 3.
Jeremiah.
Jeremiah was not a bullfrog.
He was a major problem.
Then I will gather the remnants of my flock
out of all the countries
where I have driven them
and I will bring them back to their fold
and I will bring them back to their fold
and they shall be fruitful and multiply.
All right.
That's it.
You nailed it.
This is God speaking
and it's a prophecy.
He's saying,
I'm going to drive them.
I'm going to,
another verse in Ezekiel 36
tells it like this,
that he's going to scatter them.
And once he's done that,
there is a moment when he is going to
bring them all back
to his nation of Israel.
Israel.
I didn't hear kids screaming.
Did you hear kids screaming?
I don't hear kids screaming.
You can?
Yeah.
I was watching on my way.
So he's going to gather his flock.
Who is his flock?
Israel.
Israel.
We better take care of this.
There's just a little hallelujah
from the other room.
There's just little tiny voices
which you can't hear them.
It's kind of funny.
They just get louder every now and then.
Until the point it sounds like this.
Any questions about this verse
that we just read?
Because what it's saying is
they're not going to be a nation.
I'm going to scatter them
among the world
and then I'm going to bring them back
and they're going to be.
A nation again.
Now I want you to name
any nation
that stopped being a nation
and then became a nation again.
You name that nation.
Because I can only name one.
Israel.
You got Germany
but it never stopped being Germany.
If you destroy a nation
by taking it away
by taking away its currency
that's one of the first things they do.
Destroying their government.
Taking away everything
that is that nation.
And then you take the extra step
of you kick everybody out of the nation
and then
hundreds of years go by
over a thousand years go by
getting close to
two thousand years go by.
What chance does that nation have
of ever coming back to life?
According to prophecy
they will be dead.
Only way it could happen
is if there is a God
who makes it happen.
And that is exactly
what happens.
I want to read another prophecy for you.
Isaiah 31 and 5.
As birds flying.
Everybody said as birds flying.
As birds flying.
So will the Lord of hosts
defend Israel.
Defending also
he will deliver it
and passing over
he will
preserve it.
All right.
Right there a lot of people think
that's prophesying of
airplanes
protecting Israel.
I want to give you a story.
1917.
Everyone said 1917.
1917.
Turks controlled Jerusalem.
There's no Jews in Jerusalem.
There's no Jews in Israel.
It's controlled by other nation.
And Turks controlled Israel in 1917.
And the British were confident
of reigning
of
checking out.
They were going to try
to check out
what was going on
in Jerusalem.
So they sent
a spy plane
to do a
reconnaissance mission.
And it flew over
the area of Jerusalem.
And the Turks saw
this thing up there.
They saw this plane.
It might have been the first plane
they'd ever seen.
But they saw that
and they knew
that was bad news.
They took it as an omen
that they're destructing
and that destruction
was upon them.
And they were all alarmed.
And the following night
they all left.
Every one of them left.
They see this plane.
Remember prophecy said
that as a bird flying
I'll deliver Israel.
I'll redeem them.
I'll protect them.
All the Turks leave.
And Britain's like
there's nobody in Jerusalem.
So without shooting
a bullet
Britain comes
and just takes control
over Jerusalem.
And then
they give it back
to the Jews.
In 1917
the Balfour Declaration
was signed
by the British government
giving Jews
the right to return
to Palestine
and reestablish
Israel
as
a nation.
What did he say?
He said
and I will gather
the remnant
of my flock.
They've been kicked
out of Israel.
They are no longer
a nation.
But in 1917
a flying bird
of a plane
goes over Jerusalem.
Everybody runs.
They take over it
and they sign
this declaration
making Israel
a nation again.
Time goes on
during the 20s and 30s.
Hundreds of thousands
of Jews migrated
to Palestine.
Finally
in May 1948
the creation of Israel
as an independent state
was announced.
It's recognized
by America
and other major nations.
Later in 1967
the prophecy
was dramatically repeated
at the beginning
of a six day war.
Have you ever heard
of the six day war?
At the beginning
of a six day war
Arab guns
positioned on
adjacent hills
began firing
into the city.
Everybody in the world
stood by and said
well this is not
this is it.
Israel is outmatched.
There are several
nations around here.
There are several
nations trying to attack
Israel at one point.
But guess what?
Miracles happened
and they won
that six day war.
If you read
if you hear testimonies
from people
that were soldiers
on both sides
they'll tell you
something was going on
that was supernatural.
All of this
happens.
God
kicks out Israel.
God
draws back Israel.
It's
unfathomable
that that is
still a nation.
The fact that there
is an Israel
means there is
a God of Israel.
You better
believe it.
So that's a great prophecy
and I love that story.
So things have happened.
Things will
soon happen.
Question mark.
Things could happen
and we're
we're looking
in the word of God.
That's why
it's so important
to look inside
the word of God
to know
what is coming
next.
We're going to be
looking at those things.
Any questions about
anything we've talked about?
This ends my lesson.
I've got some questions
for you
unless you've got
questions for me.
So when the Bible says
that every knee
shall bow
and every tongue
shall confess
is that considered
a prophecy?
Yes.
That's considered a prophecy.
She asked
when the Bible says
every knee shall bow
and every tongue
shall confess
is that a prophecy?
Yeah.
That's a prophecy.
It has not
happened yet
but they're going to
We're waiting on it.
We're already bowing
our knees to Jesus
but one day
every knee shall bow.
My question is this
does Satan have knees?
You bet he does.
One day he's going
to bow too.
That's already been proven
in the beginning
when God called
for all of his sons
and he says
where were you?
And he says
I was out
searching to and fro
but he still has
to enter with God
anyway.
He does.
Absolutely.
That's already been
said.
Sorry.
No problem.
Any other questions?
Of churches?
Got any questions?
Facebook?
Do you have any
questions for me?
I've got questions
for you.
In which ways
did God reveal
his will to man
before the written
word?
All of the above.
What are they?
There was
oral communication
creation
and conscience.
God used
all of those
things
before
we ever received
written word.
Question two.
The Old Testament
is written
is divided
into how many
sections?
Five.
Five.
Five.
All right.
Five of them.
Can we name them?
Poetry.
Poetry?
History.
History.
Law.
Law.
Minor prophets.
Minor prophets
and major prophets.
They did it.
Did you get it?
God's first
written word
was given to
who?
On stone
tablets.
Did you say
Merlin?
Moses.
Moses.
All right.
Although the Old Testament
was written by
32 different writers
there is perfect
harmony and unity
because there is
just one
author.
All right.
How many total books
are included
in our Old Testament?
Thirty-nine.
Thirty-nine.
And you can count
the letters in Old
the letters in Testament
to help you come up
with three and nine.
The blank
was the first book
to be printed
on the printing press
in 1488.
The Bible.
The Bible.
The Bible.
The Bible.
The Bible.
The Bible.
Very good.
All right.
So we've got this
question.
It's kind of confusing.
Number the steps
in the correct order
tracing the Bible's
progression from
God's hands to ours.
Let's do that.
So scribes copied
the law for
succeeding generations.
Is that the first
thing that happened?
No.
Right?
What's the first
thing that happened?
The first written
word
was given to
Moses.
It's handed to God
to Moses on stone tablets.
All right.
And then what else happened?
The law was preserved
in the ark.
And then it was rehearsed
every seven years.
Yeah, it was rehearsed
every seven years.
And then we got the scribes.
And then we've got them
writing down the word of God.
Then we have the first Bible
being printed in 1488.
Very good.
Can you remember
three fields of learning
that help us prove
the accuracy of God?
Science.
Of God's word.
The Bible.
Science is one of them.
Medicine.
Medicine.
Archeology.
Archeology.
We've got history.
We've also got
prophecy.
How about that one?
All right.
How many Bible prophecies
can you remember
that are being fulfilled
in our time,
in our lifetime?
Being or will be.
Either.
Israel regathered.
Israel regathered
is one of them.
Jesus told us
that there would be
wars.
Worldwide wars.
Earthquakes.
World dominance.
World dominance.
We're looking for
a one world,
the beast,
the one world government
coming up.
Absolutely.
Excellent.
Well, we've covered
all of this.
We're going to gather again
next Monday
at seven o'clock.
We're going to be talking.
We're going to be jumping
right into creation,
right in what the book
of Genesis is all about.
We want you to gather with us.
We're so glad to have
shared this time
with all of you.
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