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- Welcome to the final chapter of the of The Days of Noah.
I'm your host Jeff Reich.
Noah gave his last solemn appeal to the
people as they stood before the ark.
And at that time, their decisions were sealed.
Since 1844, the message of Noah has been
repeated by the three angel's messages
which will continue to grow as they proclaim
their final appeal.
There's not much time left before the
Mark of the Beast crisis will break upon the world
and will bring all to a point of decision.
To accept or reject the invitation into the ark
of the everlasting covenant.
The purpose of this crisis is to try the character of men.
To see whether selfishness or the selfless love of God
reigns in the heart.
The crisis will not develop the faith of any,
but will reveal whether or not there's any
abiding trust in the promises of God.
And after the warnings have been given
and the last heartfelt plea to enter into
the Ark of the everlasting covenant is finished,
the door of salvation will close
just as it did in the Days of Noah.
After the Close of Probation,
the seven last plagues will be poured out
on the rejecters of Gods mercy.
And when these plagues are finished,
Jesus will come again.
The second coming of Christ is the culmination
of the Christians hope.
But few understand how to be ready.
For Jesus will not return this time
veiled in the weakness of humanity.
He'll come in the power and the glory of God
as a consuming fire.
- [Narrator] "The day of the Lord will come
"as a thief of the night in which the heavens
shall pass away with a great noise."
And the elements shall melt with a fervent heat.
And the heavens being on fire, shall be dissolved.
A fire goeth before Him
and burneth up His enemies round about.
The hills melted like wax at the
presence of the Lord.
At the presence of the Lord of the whole earth,
the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven,
and the beasts of the field,
and all creeping things that creep upon the earth,
and all the men that are upon the face of the earth
shall shake at my presence.
And the mountains shall be thrown down,
and the steep places shall fall,
and every wall shall fall to the ground.
All the cities thereof were broken down
at the presence of the Lord.
The earth is utterly broken down,
the earth is clean dissolved,
the earth is moved exceedingly,
the earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard
and shall be removed like a cottage.
Our God shall come and shall not keep silence.
A fire shall devour before Him
and it shall be very tempestuous round about Him.
The mountains quake at Him and the hills melt,
and the earth is burned at His presence.
Yea the world and all that dwell therein."
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- The mission of the three angel's messages
is to prepare people to stand in the
presence of Jesus at His coming.
And the third angel's message makes a solemn announcement
regarding those who are not prepared.
- [Narrator] "He shall be tormented with fire
and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels,
and in the presence of the Lamb."
[Doug] It's really an invitation.
Not just to escape Babylon,
but it's an invitation to come into God's presence.
It's like not only avoid the flood,
but come into the ark.
- God will have a people
prepared to stand in His presence.
And they will understand the nature of the consuming fire
and so must we.
For when we understand this, we will know how
to be prepared to meet him. (fire crackling)
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[Ivor] When you look at the kingdom of heaven,
when you look at God's throne,
the Bible says that His throne, in Daniel 7
was like "A fiery flame, and His wheels as burning fire."
- If you go back to the original story
of the fall of Lucifer,
the Bible says, He walked amongst the fiery stones.
- In Hebrews, the Bible says that
His angels are ministering flames.
- Those that will be redeemed will stand one day
on the "sea of glass mingled with fire."
- Jeremiah says, "Was not His word like a fire in my bones."
And then the Bible tells us in Deuteronomy 33,
From Gods hand went forth "a fiery law."
[Walter] You look at just purely on what the Bible says,
it says that "God is a consuming fire."
[Ivor] Daniel says, "A fiery stream issued
"and came forth from Him."
So what you have here is this being
of fire.
- So God is fire.
- What you have here is this picture
that Heaven is filled with fire as it were.
Most people think of a place of fire,
they're thinking hell.
Why does God manifest Himself as fire?
Why is He surrounded by so much fire?
The Bible tells us in the book Song of Solomon
that love is like a flame.
[Narrator] "For love is strong as death;
jealousy is cruel as the grave:
the coals thereof are coals of fire,
which hath a most vehement flame.
Many waters cannot quench love,
neither can the floods drown it."
[Ivor] Fire is a symbol of love.
So it's not that God is trying to scare people
or scare us.
It's that He manifests Himself as fire
because fire is heaven's symbol of love.
God wants us to be able to dwell in His presence,
but because we have sinned,
we have become fearful of that fire.
- Sin is a combustible material.
And sin cannot exist in the presence of a holy God.
- In our sinful condition, if we appear before God,
we would be extinguished in an instant.
- So the whole purpose is, how can I get man
to again stand in my presence
without being destroyed, without being consumed?
- Well cover to cover, the Bible tells a story
of a heavenly Father who's been separated from His children
and who longs to be reunited with them.
There's one illustration above all others
that shows us the process by which God
will prepare people to dwell with Him.
And that is the sanctuary.
For this is the very reason it was given.
[Narrator] "And let them make me a sanctuary,
"that I may dwell among them."
[Ivor] The purpose of the sanctuary was
to instruct man of what his condition must be
in order for God to dwell with them.
God wants to dwell in His people.
But He cannot dwell in them
while they hold onto sin.
- If you give up your sin.
And you place it on the only one
who is able to remove your sin.
Well then you can continue to live
because He's not a destroyer of humans,
He's a destroyer of sin.
- God ultimately doesn't want to consume us,
He wants to consume sin, but not us.
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[Dave] In the sanctuary, interestingly enough,
is God's plan and His system
for doing away with sin.
[Ivor] He separates sin from the individual
and He can focus on destroying the sin.
That's a purpose.
When the children of Israel were being
led out of Egyptian captivity,
you find the process of the sanctuary
leading them from captivity,
preparing them to enter into the Promised Land.
Moses commanded the children of Israel
to sacrifice a lamb.
Which would point us to the altar of sacrifice.
[Doug] After the children of Israel sacrificed the lamb,
then they came to the Red Sea.
Paul tells us in 1st Corinthians 10
that represents baptism.
- Which points us to the laver,
the next article of furniture.
[Narrator] "All passed through the sea,
and were all baptized unto Moses
in the cloud and in the sea."
[Doug] We need to be baptized in His spirit.
We need to be cleansed.
Baptism represents a cleansing, a new birth.
- After they crossed the Red Sea,
God rains Manna down from heaven.
Which is a symbol of the Table of Shrewbread.
The word of God.
God now says to them, "You are my royal priesthood,
my holy nation."
That seven branch candlestick
was a symbol of the people of God.
[Narrator] "I will also give thee
for a light to the Gentiles,
that thou mayest be my salvation
unto the end of the earth."
- In Exodus 19, God instructs Moses to tell the children
of Israel to spend three days in preparation.
They were to be praying, pleading,
preparing their hearts as it were.
Which points us to the altar of incense, prayer.
Because in Exodus 20, God would come down
and speak to them the 10 commandments.
And so you have the law of God being spoken,
you have His presence.
So the children of Israel were basically in essence
looking into the most holy place.
So you see this pattern of the sanctuary
leading from bondage into the presence of God.
Even illustrated in how the children of Israel
went from bondage to the presence of God.
[Narrator] "The earth shook, the heavens also dropped
at the presence of God:
even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God,
the God of Israel."
[Jeff] Jesus' last request to His Father was to
dwell with those who love Him.
That they might experience the full revelation of His love
without being consumed by it.
The two promises of the everlasting covenant
are for this purpose.
They declare Gods promise to show mercy to man
and sanctify him.
That the prayer of Christ might be answered.
It was amazing, yet not surprising
that we find the symbols of these two promises
manifest by the glory of God in the most holy place.
[Narrator] "For the Son of man shall come
in the glory of His Father with His angels."
- The prophets saw the coming of Christ in vision
and were astonished.
Isaiah said, "Who among us shall dwell with
the devouring fire?
Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?"
Then Isaiah answered his own question and says,
"He that walketh righteously."
- We're told that it's the righteous
that will dwell with the everlasting fire.
[Jeff] So how do we enter into the presence
of God at His coming?
There are few better examples than Noah,
who was called a preacher of righteousness.
[Allen] When we take a look at the idea
of coming into God's presence,
this idea is set forth in Noah's time
in that Noah and his family came into God's presence
by faith entering into the ark.
[Narrator] "And the Lord said unto Noah,
Come thou and all thy house in the ark."
When God said come, it was an invitation for Noah
to go to the same place where God was.
And according to this verse, God was in the ark.
- What God was inviting Noah to do
was to come into His presence.
That is ultimately the essence of the covenant.
It's an agreement.
It's like a marriage.
You and I are going to dwell together.
And this is the very same thing
as the covenant in our day.
It is God seeking to bring us into His presence.
[Narrator] And the reason why Noah was
able to enter into the presence of God
is given in the same verse.
"For thee have I seen righteous
before me in this generation."
- Noah was righteous.
He built the ark.
He couldn't see any rain.
He couldn't see any flood.
He had to move forward in faith.
And that's probably the single defining characteristic
that set Noah apart from everyone else.
[Narrator] "By faith Noah, being warned of God
of things not seen as yet, moved with fear,
prepared an ark to the saving of his house;
by the which he condemned the world,
and became heir of the righteousness
which is by faith."
- How did Noah become an heir of righteousness?
We read in this verse it was because he prepared an ark.
Noah's ark was in a sense a sanctuary
and a resting place for God's presence.
And we too have an ark to prepare.
We are to be living sanctuaries
that God may dwell in us.
As Paul said, "Know ye not that your body is
the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you,
which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?"
Through the process of the sanctuary,
as man draws nearer to God, it is he himself
that is being changed and made into a living
sanctuary for the presence of God.
- So the sanctuary is like the changing booth if you will.
This is where we enter in
and a transformation happens.
It's the actual change from unrighteousness
to righteousness that allows us
to ultimately be able to stand and see God face to face.
[Narrator] God gave Noah the blueprint
for His plan to save Noah.
And Noah cooperated with God's plan
by preparing the ark.
In the same way, God has given us the blueprint
for the sanctuary and we are to cooperate
with God's plan for our salvation.
By preparing to dwell in His presence
as we walk through the sanctuary process.
(water splashing)
"For ye are the temple of the living God;
as God hath said, I will dwell in them,
and walk in them; and I will be their God,
and they shall be my people."
- If you look at the Old Testament sanctuary,
the moment that all the articles of furniture
were set in place, that's when the presence
of God filled the tabernacle and sanctified it.
Ultimately, what God is trying to do,
is He's trying to get those articles
of furniture in place in us.
That means the altar of sacrifice.
We're living a life of sacrifice.
We're living a life of purity, laver.
We're living a life based upon the word of God.
We're letting our light shine
on the seven branch candlestick.
We are interceding, we're praying,
we're communing with God and we're keeping His law.
Ultimately, when God has a people
in which those articles of furniture are set in place
and functioning, Jesus will come again
to tabernacle within those sanctuaries.
Both in a spiritual sense
and a very literal sense.
His presence will sanctify us
when we follow His blueprint for sanctification.
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- Many Christians wonder why Jesus hasn't come yet.
What is He waiting for?
Well Jesus Himself told us that
"As the days of Noe were, so shall also
the coming of the Son of man be."
So then we may ask ourselves,
what was God waiting for in the days of Noah,
before He sent the flood?
Peter says, "The longsuffering of God waited
in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing."
God waited to send a flood while the ark was being prepared.
And Jesus is waiting today for the same reason.
He's not waiting for the multitudes of earth
to sink further into sin.
He's waiting for the few who will fully surrender to Him.
That they might be prepared to be living vessels
fit for the presence of God.
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- Need to be cleansed and purified.
[Narrator] To prepare a people for the
presence of Christ, is the purpose
of the third angel's message.
This is a warning about worshiping the beast
and his image and receiving his mark.
But this final conflict is ultimately to prepare
a people to stand in the presence of the holy angels
and in the presence of the Lamb.
- So this message guides us into the most holy place
into the presence of the Lamb.
[Narrator] For this reason, the third angel's message
and the sanctuary are linked together.
[Stephen] The presence of God dwelt in the
Old Testament sanctuary in the most holy place.
And the high priest could only enter
the most holy place once a year.
However, the people were to follow
the high priest into the most holy place by faith.
[Narrator] "Having therefore, brethren,
boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus."
- Hebrews 10:19 talks about this idea
of entering into the most holy place by faith.
And really, this has been a very difficult
concept for Christians to grasp.
Because many of them, number one,
don't understand that there is a sanctuary in heaven.
But when they do get this concept,
oftentimes they don't really know what that means.
- The most holy place of the heavenly sanctuary
contained the 10 commandments.
And in the center of the 10 commandments
was found the Sabbath.
Which is the seal in the center of the commandments.
This is a very important detail.
Because the third angels message speaks
about those who receive the Mark of the Beast.
So the Sabbath commandment clearly connects
the third angel's message with the sanctuary.
Because the third angels message deals
with the issue of Sabbath or Sunday,
and the most holy place of course, has the law,
and then the center of the law is contained the Sabbath.
- When we take a look at the relationship
of the third angels message of Revelation 14
and how it relates to the most holy place,
we get a really good understanding
of what's going to happen to the righteous,
and what's going to happen to the wicked.
- Those who reject the three angels messages,
particularly those who worship the beast and his image,
and receive the mark, they will suffer
the punishment of fire.
It says in the third angel's message.
They will not be able to abide
in the presence of the fire.
But they will be consumed by the fire.
[Narrator] "And he shall be tormented with fire
and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels,
and in the presence of the lamb."
- Paul also gives the warning
of the third angel's message in 2nd Thessalonians.
- [Narrator] "And to you who are troubled rest with us,
when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven
with His mighty angels in flaming fire
taking vengeance on them that know not God,
and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
who shall be punished with everlasting destruction
from the presence of the Lord,
and from the glory of His power."
[Jeff] In this verse, the one affirmative statement
that shows us how to prepare for that time
when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed
is given in the command, "Rest with us."
- Only those that have entered into the rest of Christ
will be able to stand in the presence of Jesus.
The third angel's message also warns us about those
who reject entering into the Sabbath rest.
[Narrator] "They have no rest day nor night,
who worship the beast and his image,
and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name."
[Stephen] The third angel's message is actually
warning people to not receive the Mark of the Beast,
to not observe the counterfeit day of worship,
but to keep the Sabbath which is the seal of God
in honor of the great creator
and in honor of the redeemer.
- As that angel is flying it's pointing
to the heavenly sanctuary, in particular,
to the most holy place.
Why?
Because how do we avoid the Mark of the Beast?
By entering in by faith into the most holy place.
[Jeff] In Psalms 91, David writes about those
who have entered into the most holy place
and says this.
[Narrator] "There shall no evil befall thee,
neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
For he shall give his angels charge over thee,
to keep thee in all thy ways."
- When the seven last plagues are poured out,
those who have entered into the most holy place
by faith will not receive the plagues.
And they will be protected by holy angels.
Why?
Because David says in verse one, "He dwelleth in the
secret place of the most High."
The Bible also reveals the location of this secret place.
[Narrator] "For in the time of trouble
he shall hide me in his pavilion:
in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me."
- It is in the tabernacle or sanctuary
that God's people will find refuge.
And where in the sanctuary is this secret place?
Again David writes this.
[Narrator] "Thou shalt hide them in the
"secret of thy presence."
[Ivor] The secret place was a reference to the
most holy place in the sanctuary of God.
Which is where the presence of God dwells.
Those who have entered the most holy place by faith.
(thunder cracking)
Who are submitted to His law, submitted to His will,
they are the ones that are in the secret
place of the most high.
(thunder cracking)
Psalm 91 says that no plague will come near those.
So it is very significant (calming music)
to see that in the end of time when these
plagues are poured out,
the ones who escape the plagues
are those who are dwelling in the secret place.
Those who have moved by faith
into the most holy place, who accept Gods law,
who accept His Sabbath, and are therefore
dwelling in His presence.
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[Narrator] In the most holy place of the sanctuary
there was the presence of God, the Ark of the Covenant.
And inside the ark were the 10 commandments.
Also called The Testimony.
This scene of the throne room
was symbolically depicted on earth
in the days of Noah.
Inside the ark was the presence of God.
There was the ark itself.
And inside the ark were the living testimonies
upon whose hearts and minds the law of God had been written.
They had entered the ark, but they had spiritually
entered into the covenant.
The most holy place and the presence of God.
This scene is but a symbolic representation
of that final day when those who have
entered into the everlasting covenant
shall stand in the presence of Christ at His coming.
- It was Gods ideal to show man.
Look, this is what I want for you.
I want for you to be able to stand in my presence
and not be consumed.
Like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
- And look at what happens here.
They are told about down to the image
after the music plays.
The refuse to do so.
They are then brought before the king.
The king gives them another opportunity to do so.
And he says, But if you don't,
I will cast you into a burning fiery furnace.
And of course they didn't.
He heated the fire seven times hotter than it was before
and he cast them in.
- But they weren't consumed
because of Gods presence was in there with them.
But the guys who threw them into that fiery furnace,
because they were not prepared for the presence of God,
the same fire destroyed them that was like nothing
to Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
- Why did these three young men not burn up?
And the answer is plain.
There was no sin left in them.
They were so joined with Christ
that He was with them in the fire.
Their characters were so refined
that they were spotless before the Son of God.
- Those who have accepted Jesus as Savior and Lord,
and who have allowed the grace of God
to cleanse their lives from sin,
the fire will not consume them.
- Because they had obeyed God,
they were protected and purified by Christ,
they could stay in those burnings and be unharmed.
And yet on the other hand,
those who threw them in,
they didn't even make it in and they were destroyed
by that same fire.
- Those who are righteous
will be clothed with the same righteousness of Christ.
There will be no combustible material to burn.
And therefore, they will be able to stand
in the presence of the Lord.
Whereas the wicked will be consumed
by the very sin that they harbor.
- And so our God is a consuming fire.
And we need to now allow
Christ and His spirit to
purify us and to sanctify us
to be able to abide His coming.
Otherwise we'll flee from that fire, that glory.
- The fire meant to consume these men
became unto them an ark of refuge
because the presence of the Son of God was with them.
This is a lesson to all of us
regarding the nature of Christ's second coming.
At the same time the glory of His presence
will consume the wicked.
He will be to the righteous an ark of fire.
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[Narrator] "As wax melteth before the fire,
so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
But let the righteous be glad;
let them rejoice before God:
yea, let them exceedingly rejoice."
[Ivor] These three angels messages
point us to the importance of inner righteousness.
The presence of God dwelling in us.
That is what prepares us to stand in His presence.
- The mission Jesus came to earth to accomplish
is revealed in His last prayer.
- [Narrator] "Father, I will that they also,
who though hast given me, be with me where I am;
that they may behold my glory,
which thou hast given me."
- Jesus' last request to His Father
was to dwell with those who love Him.
That they might experience the full revelation of His love
without being consumed by it.
The two promises of the everlasting covenant
are for this purpose.
They declare God's promise to show mercy to man
and sanctify him.
That the prayer of Christ might be answered.
It was amazing, yet not surprising that
we find the symbols of these two promises
manifest by the glory of God in the most holy place.
[Narrator] The Sabbath is the sign of Gods promise
to sanctify man.
That we may dwell in the presence and glory of God.
In His presence, the true significance of the Sabbath rest
will be fully realized.
With nothing separating man from God,
he may find an eternal rest.
No more sorrow, no more pain or disease or suffering.
"For in thy presence is fullness of joy" David said.
In Gods presence man will find the
fulfillment of the Sabbath rest.
Therefore, it is by the manifestation
of Gods presence in the most holy place
we see represented the symbolism
and significance of the Sabbath.
And bound up with the manifestation
of the consuming fire.
Ezekiel saw the sign of the promise of mercy.
"And I saw as the color of amber,
as the appearance of fire round about within it,
from the appearance of his loins even upward,
and from the appearance of his loins even downward,
I saw as it were the appearance of fire,
and it had brightness round about."
Ezekiel then describes this brightness
round about God's presence in detail.
"As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud
in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the
brightness round about.
This was the appearance of the likeness
of the glory of the Lord."
(slow gentle music)
[Jeff] Here in the manifestation of the presence of God
is represented the signs of the promises
whereby man is prepared to dwell in His presence.
The Sabbath, given by God to be
for a perpetual or everlasting covenant
is a sign of God's promise to sanctify man
to abide in His presence.
And the rainbow given to Noah
is a sign of the everlasting covenants promise
of mercy for the forgiveness of sins.
Both of these promises are guaranteed
by the life and death of Jesus.
He lived a sinless life that we might
be sanctified by the merits of His righteousness.
And for the sins we have committed,
He died in our place that we might receive His mercy.
In these two symbols manifest by the presence of God
are represented the significance of the Gospel
and the everlasting covenant.
All so that the Father,
separated from His children by sin
might once again might be reunited with them
at His coming.
[Narrator] "Now unto him that is able to keep you
from falling and to present you faultless before
the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,
to the only wise God our Savior,
be glory and majesty, dominion and power,
both now and ever, amen."
- The message was get into the ark.
It is actually a call
to draw people into the ark of safety
which is the secret place of the most high.
The most holy place of the sanctuary.
And that call is the call that has
been going out since 1844.
It has been directing the attention
of mankind to the Ark of the Covenant
wherein is the law of God.
And on top of which was the presence of God.
So it's as though this message is calling mankind
to the secret place of the most high
where there is safety.
- Not the flood this time.
But the fire of destruction is gonna be on the wicked.
So our message is the same thing.
Get into the ark,
except not the ark Noah built
but the ark that Moses put in the most holy place.
[Ivor] Ultimately, secret place is the presence of God.
(slow gentle music)
(slow paced music)
So when Christ's presence comes again,
when Christ comes a second time,
we're told that this earth
will basically be left in a state that is uninhabitable
because of the fire and the presence of God.
[Narrator] After the seventh and final plague,
Jesus will come again.
And His presence will shake the earth,
triggering a chain of volcanic eruptions
around the world.
"The mountains might flow down at thy presence,
as when the melting fire burneth,
the fire causeth the waters to boil."
- The Bible says that there will be fire
from heaven in the final judgment.
And that the fire will also come from the earth.
That the store houses of fire and hail
and those necessary for the destruction are
here in the crust of the earth.
[Narrator] At the time of the flood,
cities, people, animals, and immense forests were buried
and have since turned to coal and oil.
These frequently ignite and burn
beneath the surface of the earth.
The rocks are heated, and when mixed with water,
the intense heat causes earthquakes,
volcanoes, and great cracks in the earth's crust.
And by these means the pre-flood world,
buried by water in the depths of the earth
will be brought forth and employed
in the destruction of the world by fire.
- Take Mount Saint Helens and multiply it
by 100 multiply it by a thousand.
[Walter] And we have examples of massive
volcanic eruptions that take place now.
So there will be catastrophes on a scale
that we cannot imagine (sirens blaring)
in the final destruction.
- In the Days of Noah, water rained down from the sky
and water came up from the depths of the earth.
And at the end of time,
fire will be used in the same manner.
As lightnings from heaven unite with fire in the earth,
the mountains will burn like a furnace
and will pour forth terrific streams of lava
overwhelming gardens and fields, villages and cities.
The earth will be convulsed.
Everywhere there will be dreadful
earthquakes and eruptions.
(thunder cracking)
- Now, Isaiah 24 in verse five gives us
the reason why.
[Narrator] "The earth also is defiled
under the inhabitants thereof;
because they have transgressed the laws,
changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
Therefore, hath the curse devoured the earth,
and they that dwell therein are desolate:
therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned,
and few men left."
[Stephen] Interesting that it says,
"They have transgressed the laws."
We found in the book of Deuteronomy,
it says that the covenant was written on tables of stone.
The ten commandments.
And so basically the reason why is because
of the way that people have treated God's law
and more specifically, His Sabbath.
(light music)
- Though the whole world was destroyed
in the Days of Noah, we see in the pages of Genesis
that "Noah only remained alive,
and they that were with him in the ark."
At the end of time, the same will be true.
Only those that have entered into the ark
of the everlasting covenant will be saved.
During this time they will receive the same
mercy and protection
that preserved Noah through the flood.
[Stephen] The rainbow that Noah and His family saw
after the flood was in a certain sense
an everlasting covenant that not only included them
and the people that would come after them,
but it also included God's end time generation
that would be protected in the midst
of the convulsions of the earth
that they placed during the period of the seventh plague.
As it's stated in the book of Isaiah.
- Where He promises in the same way
that His covenant was made to Noah.
That that covenant would not be removed from God's people.
And even though the earth was imploding
during the time of the flood,
He preserved Noah.
And He ratified that with a bow of promise.
God says that He's gonna do that for Gods
people in the last days.
[Narrator] "In a little wrath I hid my face
from thee for a moment;
but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee,
saith the Lord thy redeemer.
For this is as the waters of Noah unto me:
for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah
should no more go over the earth;
so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee,
nor rebuke thee.
For the mountains shall depart,
and the hills be removed;
but my kindness shall not depart from thee,
neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed,
saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee."
In this passage, God repeats His covenant of mercy
to the last generation that He established
with Noah before the flood.
The rainbow was and still is
the sign and symbol of Gods promise to show mercy.
For Isaiah says this promise is extended
to those upon the earth.
"When the mountains shall depart,
and the hills be removed."
In the book of Revelation we see this same event
described in chapter 16 where we read,
"Every island fled away,
and the mountains were not found."
And we see in this chapter this event occurs
when the seventh angel pours out
the seventh and final plague.
- Therefore the rainbow that was a sign of
God's promise of mercy to Noah
is also a sign of His promise to show us mercy
and to protect us through the outpouring
of the seven last plagues.
[Narrator] The rainbow of the everlasting covenant
is just a much a promise of mercy
to preserve us through the destruction
of the world by fire, as it was to preserve Noah
through the destruction of the world by water.
- If a person's ever been out on the ocean
in a severe storm, it's terrifying.
Yet Noah was preserved in the midst
of this incredible tribulation.
And the confidence that He protected Noah through that
reminds us that He can (thunder cracking)
Even when the seventh plague is falling
and the mountains are being swallowed up by the sea,
He said my promise to preserve you during
that time still stands.
[Narrator] "God is our refuge and our strength,
a very present help in trouble.
"Therefore will not we fear,
though the earth be removed,
and though the mountains be carried
into the midst of the sea;
though the waters thereof roar and be troubled,
though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof."
(walls rumbling)
(rocks crumbling)
(door clanking)
(thunder cracking)
(determined music)
(sirens blaring)
- You see Noah moving from an old world to a new world
based upon the covenant that was made.
This is the same thing that God wants to do with us.
The covenant is designed to move us
from the old world to a new world.
[Doug] Though the first world was destroyed by water,
the world the second time will be destroyed by fire.
And Peter implies then that,
We look for a new heaven, a new earth.
Meaning we will survive that destruction.
We're gonna survive that fire.
- In the book of Isaiah, God speaks about
creating a new heavens and a new earth.
- The whole story of what happened with Noah
and what happens in the last days,
it's all about how to get back to the garden.
He wants to restore paradise for man
and purity to the universe.
[Ivor] The new earth will be a place where
according to the book of Revelation,
there'll be no more tears, no more crying,
no more sin, no more death or suffering.
- In other words, everything will be perfect.
The world will return to the condition
it was in before sin.
[Ivor] There will be no thorns, will be no death,
no thing in nature that reflects anything impure,
or anything that decays or dies.
[Stephen] Weather patterns will be perfect,
there'll be no pain, no suffering, no sorrow.
[Ivor] And so the earth itself will indeed
be a pure reflection of the very glory
and character of God.
[Narrator] "And I heard a great voice
out of heaven saying,
Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men,
and He will dwell with them,
and they shall be His people,
and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God."
- His sanctuary will be with us.
God will live with us.
[Allen] We see in Revelation there is no temple.
[Clyde] There is no more need of a laver.
There is no more need of the altar of incense.
The Table of Shrewbread, the candlesticks,
all of these sorts of things,
because that has been completed.
[Ivor] And so that was ultimate
purpose of the sanctuary.
How God ultimately will dwell with His people.
- There's no need of a temple because God is the temple.
He dwells with man.
So the sanctuary again is complete because of God.
Because of Christ.
And we His people, those of us who choose to be there
will reign with Him forever.
(thunder cracking)
[Ivor] God desires and God will make this place a new earth.
But only those who accept the covenant
and get into the ark will be alive
to get out of the ark and see it when it happens.
[Narrator] "And God shall wipe away all
tears from their eyes;
and there shall be no more death,
neither sorrow, nor crying,
for the former things are passed away.
And He that sat upon the throne said,
Behold, I make all things new."
[Clyde] Those things that have caused us so much misery
and so much grief and so much pain will be gone.
And we'll be given a new earth and a new heart.
But we will still be, I will be me
and you will be you.
But we will be different
because there is no pain, no sorrow,
no death, no dying.
That's love.
That's ultimate love.
(thunder cracking) (light music)
[Jeff] On this timeline we can look back
and see how Bible prophecy has foretold every movement.
From the story of Noah and the flood,
the 70 week prophecy pointing to the sacrifice of Christ,
the corruption and restoration of the sanctuary,
and the events of the present day.
With this track record we can know with certainty
that we are at the end of the judgment hour
living in the last sliver of time.
The Days of Noah are done, the door of mercy is almost shut,
and the last prophecies of Revelation
are being rapidly fulfilled in our midst.
The papacy and the United States
are allying themselves together.
Protestants and Catholics are uniting.
The blessings of eating and drinking
and giving in marriage is being
perverted by millions and sanctioned by law.
Religious liberties are being attacked and revoked.
And the Pope and members of congress
are paving the way for the legislation of Sunday
to curb the evils of an immoral society.
Jesus is coming very very soon.
Are you prepared to meet your God?
- Back now to our top story.
A terrible mystery gripping the world right now.
Birds, fish, and all kinds of creatures
just dropping dead in huge numbers
for what seems like no reason.
- [Driver] Birds just were falling out of the sky.
- Dozens of large whales are
washing up dead on the shores of Alaska.
- Crews are in boats in Sanibel.
They're cleaning up hundreds and thousands of dead fish,
turtles, and other...
- Trying to unravel a mystery in northeastern New Mexico.
More than 100 elk found dead on a ranch
about 20 miles north of Las Vegas.
- [Reporter] 8,000 dead turtle doves in Italy.
hundreds of birds dead in Rockwell Texas.
500 Red-winged Blackbirds in Louisiana.
100 birds, Sweden.
3,000 dead Red-winged Blackbirds in Arkansas.
Several hundred dead in Kentucky.
On the fish, several hundred snapper fish in New Zealand.
Thousands of dead fish in Florida.
40,000 deviled crabs in the UK.
80,000 drum fish in Arkansas.
Two million spot and croakers in Maryland
in the last two weeks.
- Scientists are scrambling to investigate
what caused that mass die-off.
- I just wanna know why.
- [Narrator] "For the Lord hath a controversy
with the inhabitants of the land,
because there is no truth, nor mercy,
nor knowledge of God in the land.
Therefore, shall the land mourn,
and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish,
with the beasts of the field,
and the fowls of heaven;
yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away."
- [Male] That's crazy.
- A major tsunami has struck northeastern Japan
sending a four meter wall of water inland.
- [Male Reporter] In Indonesia.
- This after Friday's monstrous earthquake
and the disastrous tsunami that followed that earthquake.
[Art] If I were on the ark and I were looking out
and I saw my son or my daughter outside,
it would tear my heart out.
What would I say?
What message could I leave them?
[Narrator] "And there shall be signs in the sun
and in the moon, and in the stars,
and upon the earth, distress of nations
with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring."
- [Reporter] Pacific coast area of Japan.
That tsunami, that huge tsunami you can see
hitting Miyagi prefecture
in northern Japan and Sendai city.
- [Female Reporter] This is already
one of the most devastating hurricane seasons ever.
(water rustling)
(glass shattering)
- [Female Reporter] Burning objects raining
down from the sky after a meteorite
exploded about the earth causing immediate.
- [Male Reporter] An outbreak as we come on the air,
tornadoes are on the ground in Oklahoma.
One reported to be a mile wide.
- Raging wildfires in the west.
More than a dozen burning across California alone.
- Probably great financial turmoil in the world.
Maybe natural disasters and through fear.
People are going to run to the churches.
The existential threat of our time,
the climate crisis, a crisis manifested
in natural disasters of epic proportion...
- The ecological crisis is essentially
a spiritual problem.
- [Female Reporter] The encyclical praise be,
is the most important papal document
ever on the environment.
- Consume less and buy less.
We have to really rethink our lifestyles.
- The fact that he's bringing oil executives
from BP and other companies to talk about this issue
I think is significant.
- [Male Reporter] Calls for a new environmental morality.
The encyclical rests on a simple premise.
What sort of world do we want to leave our children?
- [Female Reporter] He recently concluded
global warming is a moral issue.
- [Female Reporter] On an issue where activists meet apathy,
the world scientists are doubted,
and global institutions ignored,
a rockstar radical from the Vatican,
at least gets attention.
- And I have been enormously impressed
by Pope Francis.
We've got to engrain moral principles
into our economy.
- Protestants and Catholics are going to join their forces.
- [Male Reporter] General Secretary the Reformed
Church in America held a Presbyterian church
in the United States.
President of the National
Baptist Convention, United States.
General Superintendent of the International Pentecost
Holiness Church.
President of the National Association
of Evangelicals.
Sir Bernard Senior, President of the
Council of Churches of the city of New York.
- The Pope traveled to Sweden to meet
with the president of the Lutheran World Federation.
The two leaders signed a joint statement
pledging to improve relations
between Catholics and Lutherans.
- In 1999 the Roman Catholic Church
and the Protestant Lutheran Church
signed an agreement that brought an end
to the protest.
- [Male Reporter] Signed in 1999
the declaration put an end to one of
the most important issues
that separated Catholics and Lutherans
since the reformation.
With the agreement both sides recognize
that faith is not the only thing
that will lead to salvation.
But that works are also necessary.
(audience applauding)
- This brought an end to the protests of Luther.
Brothers and sisters, Luther's protest is over.
Is yours?
If there is no more protest,
how can there be a Protestant Church?
Maybe now we're all Catholics again.
(audience laughing)
- One of the things that God's put on our heart
is for us to just kind of lay aside our differences
and come together.
- And then you talk about Pentecostals,
Charismatics, Evangelicals,
Fundamentalists, Catholics,
Methodist Baptist, Presbyterian,
on and on and on and on.
Well, they would all say we believe in the trinity,
we believe in the Bible, we believe in the resurrection,
we believe salvation is through Jesus Christ.
These are the big issues.
But the most important thing is
if you love Jesus, we're on the same team.
- Protestant leaders will join themselves with the state
and they will form an image to beast.
- When you look into Benedict the XVI eyes,
what do you see?
- God.
- I believe in an America
where the separation of church and state is absolute.
Where no Catholic prelate would tell the president
should he be Catholic, how to act.
And no Protestant minister
would tell his parishioners for whom to vote.
- [Male Reporter] That speech has been read as you know
by millions of Americans.
Why did it make you throw up?
- Because the first line,
first substantive line in the speech says,
"I believe in America where the separation
"of church and state is absolute."
I don't believe in an America where the
separation of church and state is absolute.
- Let's talk about God and the constitution Mika.
- [Mika] Oh good, I look forward--
- Governor Mike Huckabee yesterday.
- [Male Reporter] Here we go.
- I have opponents in this race who do not
want to change the constitution.
But I believe it's a lot easier to change the constitution
than it would be to change the word of the living God.
And that's what we need to do
is to amend the constitution so it's in God's
standards rather than try to change
God's standards so it lines up with some
contemporary view of how we treat each other
and how we treat the family.
- And when protestant America does this,
they will then have the image set up.
- My administration will stand side by side
with the American Catholics to promote
the values we all share as Christians and Americans.
- The separation of church and state
is not in the constitution,
it's not in the declaration.
We should be having an influence
upon arts and entertainment,
upon the media, upon sports,
upon education, upon government.
(audience applauding)
- [Male Reporter] Increasing religious freedom
by scaling back restrictions on churches
that now they could be allowed to be politically.
- [Male Reporter] The president gave remarks
in the Oval Office today surrounded by Evangelical
religious leaders and members of faith based groups.
He signed a proclamation establishing
Sunday as a day of prayer for those dealing.
- Our Christian heritage
will be cherished, protected,
defended, like you've never seen before.
(audience cheering)
- The political pressure is gonna be
applied so that they're gonna use military
and police power to persecute those
that believe the Biblical truth.
- I am announcing our next step.
The religious liberty task force.
- It's clear this task force won't be concerned
with religious liberty for everyone.
Some critics are even calling it to a
"nod to Christian nationalism."
- [Male Reporter] More than 80 high level
government ministers will come together
to promote religious freedom.
- They're some of the countries most powerful people
and now they have been gathering
at the White House for God.
Making history as part of the President's
Cabinet Bible Study.
So what's behind the spiritual awakening at the White House?
- The last election 80% of white Evangelical Christians
voted for Donald Trump.
This has given him a huge support base.
And they have immense political power
to influence government policy.
- [Male Reporter] Evangelical adviser to President Trump
claiming God has given him the authority
to take out North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.
Pastor Jeffers, citing the Bible's book of Romans 13
which says in part, "For he is the servant of God,
"and avenger who carries out God's wrath
"on the wrongdoer."
- Especially Romans 13 does give President Trump
moral authority to use whatever force necessary.
- Is this the most Evangelical presidency you've seen?
- Oh 100%.
I don't think there's.
- And they'll appeal to the powers of the state.
And people out of fear are gonna listen.
- We are slowly eroding a religion
at every opportunity that we have.
Probably we should be debating a bill
requiring every American to attend
a church of their choice on Sunday.
[Narrator] "And that no man might buy or sell,
"save he that had the mark."
- Loss of 37 points or so.
Apple shares are just getting hammered this morning.
- We're down by between three and 4.5%
generally across these markets.
- Let's talk about the speed with which
we are watching this market deteriorate.
- 676 points down.
- Was the worst day on Wall Street
since the crash of 1987.
- Some are calling them radical ideas
by the Catholic Church to fix the global economic crisis.
- [Male Reporter] Pope Benedict XVI
is calling for a new world financial order.
In the third encyclical of his pontificate,
Benedict announced the profit at all cost mentality
of the globalized economy.
And he lamented that greed brought about
the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.
- The Vatican has come out
and said that economic inequality across the world
is very dangerous and that the global economy
needs to be based on ethical behavior
and the financial systems need to work
towards an achievement of a universal common good.
- [Female Reporter] Vatican calls for
central world bank to be set up.
- [Female Reporter] A proposal to create a
new financial authority,
including a global central bank
and a new tax on global financial transactions.
- [Male Reporter] Pope Francis on Thursday
urged the downtrodden to change the world economic order.
- This is a challenging economy across the globe,
not just here in the US, it's challenging everywhere.
And I think that it's going to take
a lot of policy changes and the Pope
clearly has a view on that is weighing in on that.
- Is there a possibility that there will
be a new world currency that will take
over from the dollar?
- [Male Reporter] As the debt crisis in Greece
sends the stock market into a tailspin.
- It'll be a real measure of kind of
the waning of American power globally.
- The affirmative task we have now
is to actually create
a new world order.
- The issue of the Sabbath will become
very very prominent in the world.
- Talk to me about the Sabbath, what it means.
Just religion aside.
What it means to you.
- One of the ideas,
the political idea is sort of embedded in the Sabbath
is the idea that as a society,
we have the right to take control of our time
and say maybe as a democratic society,
we want to decide to bring back some
rules about what can and cannot be done one day a week.
And we might wanna start thinking about
ways to encourage people not to work on that day.
- Seventh-day Adventist is a Christian denomination
and one of the things that we believe
is observing the Sabbath.
So from a young child, being brought up,
I was always brought up with Sabbath observance.
So Friday night sundown, Saturday night sundown,
as mentioned in the 10 commandments.
remember the seventh day to keep it holy.
- Which, may I just confess that I learned
in my first meeting with DeVon,
all these years I thought the Sabbath was Sunday.
I've been going to church, we say worship on the Sabbath,
worship on the Sabbath in the Baptist church.
And you corrected me, you said,
"No, Sunday is the first day of the week.
"Sabbath is Friday sundown to Saturday sundown."
- [DeVon] That's right, that's right.
- I stand corrected.
- The day of rest, the Sabbath,
because in six days God created the world
and on the 7th He rested.
When Christianity came along they changed that.
And they made the Sabbath the first day of the week
'cause that was the day on which
certain important events happen to Jesus.
- Constantine had the authority to change the Sabbath
from Saturday to Sunday.
Looking through the Bible we have not found
evidence that anybody except God
gets to make that declaration.
- You know what, is working on Sundays true freedom?
It basically says, all of this hard work
that people are doing on the weekends,
on Sundays, is having a negative impact on their lives.
- Sunday law, the Bible speaks about
these laws that will be passed.
They're called Blue Laws.
They are an indicator that
the close of probation is close.
Is very near.
- Several states still have Blue Laws on the books.
Those are the laws that restrict
what you can buy on Sunday.
- [Female Reporter] It's based on a centuries old
Christian concept brought over to this country
in colonial times.
- And anyone who does not comply
with this law of the state
instigated by the church
will be persecuted.
The religious leaders in the United States
will push strongly for a national Sunday law.
Which eventually will lead to a universal
worldwide Sunday law.
- In EU's original working time directive
Sunday should be a weekly day of rest
for European workers.
- [Male] This is not necessarily a
religious thing any longer at least.
- Should the Sabbath be a day of rest?
- If we're going to, as a country,
and as individuals, if we're going to say,
actually it's our relationships that
are most important to us as a community
and I suggest that we have to make
one day of the week, give priority to relationships.
- New Italian government will introduce
a ban on Sunday shopping in large commercial centers
by the end of this year.
The reason, the Italian government fears
that shopping on weekends is destroying
family traditions and creating.
- Ban on working on Sundays isn't it for you?
- That's right.
And this Sunday several home improvement stores
decided to brave that ban
and this has caused quite an uproar
that is continuing to get a lot of attention here today.
Let's take a look at (speaks foreign language)
that talks about Sacred Sunday.
- [Female Reporter] Our society that provided
the rhythm of consumption is likely
to steal from us.
The sense of celebrating Sunday
as the day of the Lord and the community.
- Our continuing Catechesis on the Eucharist
today centers on the importance of Sunday mass.
As Christians, we celebrate the Eucharist
in order to encounter the Lord,
to hear His word, eat at His table,
and by His grace, to fulfill our mission in the world
as members of His mystical body, the church.
As the day of the Resurrection
and the Pentecostal outpouring of the Holy Spirit,
Sunday is the Christian holy day par excellence.
How could we pass this day without encountering the Lord?
Sadly, in many secularized societies
we have lost the sense of Sunday.
Second Vatican council asked us
to celebrate the Lords day
as a day of joy and rest from several work.
Precisely as a sign of our dignity as children of God.
Each Sunday is meant to be a foretaste
of the eternal bliss and repose to which
we're called and which we share even now
in holy communion.
In the end, we go to mass
not to give something to God,
but to receive from Him
the grace and strength to remain
faithful to His word.
- The third angels message is all about
getting right with Christ
so that we can avoid the punishment of the wicked.
This is why the revelator finishes up
in Revelations 14:12.
"Here is the patience of the saints:
"here are they that" do what?
"Keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus."
(thunder cracking)
(determined music)
[Narrator] We are living at the end
of the worlds last judgment hour.
Now is the time to enter into
the everlasting covenant by entering
into His rest.
Only those who receive Gods mercy and are sanctified
will be hid with Christ in God
til the desolation be overpassed.
Turn your face to the throne of God,
and there you will see the rainbow of the covenant.
The living promise of God.
Whosoever avails himself of the provisions of mercy
that have been made and appropriates
the merits of the life and death of Christ
has in the rainbow of the covenant
a blessed assurance of acceptance with the Father
as long as the throne of God endures.
During the outpouring of the seven last plagues
and the coming of Christ,
the righteous will dwell safely
in the presence of the Lamb with exceeding joy.
Looking forward to a new heavens and a new earth,
wherein dwelleth righteousness.
And finally, God will dwell with man.
[Jeff] The Days of Noah refers to a time
when the warning message about the judgment to come
began to be proclaimed.
And at the end of time, the first angel's message announces
"The hour of His judgment is come."
Noah preached the everlasting Gospel
and at the end of time, the first angel's
message also proclaims the everlasting Gospel.
Noah had a global message.
And the three angels' messages at the end of time
are also given to all "That dwell on the earth
"to every nation, kindred, and tongue, and people."
Noah called people to forsake their idols
and false systems of worship.
At the end of time the second angels message
announces the fall of Babylon.
Exposes her false worship and her sins
and proclaims the plea of God.
"Come out of her my people,
"that you be not partakers of her sins
"and that you receive not of her plagues."
In the Days of Noah, the people were tested
to see who would trust in the promises
of the everlasting covenant
by the sign of entering into the ark.
Now at the end of time, the third angels message
warns us of the coming test that will determine
who will trust in the promises
of the everlasting covenant by the sign
of entering into His Sabbath rest.
Noah was a preacher of righteousness.
An heir of righteousness by faith
which prepared him to enter into the presence of God.
And likewise, the third angel's message
and the Mark of the Beast crisis
will also reveal who will be prepared
to dwell in the presence of the holy angels
and in the presence of the Lamb.
Noah's ark served as a sanctuary for Noah and his family.
It was a symbol of the most holy place
where we find the presence of God, the ark.
And inside the Ark the covenant of the 10 commandments.
Now we can finally see the deeper significance
of this ancient story and how it is a lesson
to teach us to enter into the most holy place
of the heavenly sanctuary by faith
and the blood of Jesus.
That we too might be prepared to rest
in the presence of God safely inside
of the Ark of the Covenant.
God said to Noah, "With thee I will establish my covenant;
"and thou shall come into the ark."
With these words, God invited Noah
to come into His presence.
A picture of Jesus' last invitation to man
to come into the glory of His presence at His coming.
The tears of Noah and his last pleadings with man
foreshadowed the tears of Jesus
in His last heartfelt plea with us
by these three angel's messages.
As He said to Noah, "Come into the ark."
So today the captain of our salvation
is inviting us into the last ark with these words.
[Narrator] "Incline your ear, and come unto me:
hear, and your soul shall live;
and I will make an everlasting covenant with you."
(determined music)
Sin and sinners will be no more.
The entire universe will be clean,
one pulse of harmony and gladness
will beat through the vast creation
from Him who created all,
flow life and light and gladness
throughout the realms of illimitable space.
From the minutest atom to the greatest world.
All things animate and inanimate
in their shadowed beauty and perfect joy
will declare that God is love.
(slow paced music) (thunder cracking)
(slow paced music)
(slow light paced music)
- The worst decision I've ever had to make
was to keep the Sabbath or not.
Because if I decided to keep the Sabbath
that means I had to dispense
with my entire world philosophy.
And did I lose family and friends as a consequence?
I can honestly say yes, virtually all of them.
But I gained new ones.
And I pray for my old friends
and hope that they will see the way one day.
But there are consequences to this choice.
But then the Bible says if you are
not willing to leave,
even father, mother, wife, friend,
for the sake of Jesus Christ,
then you're not worthy of Him.
- When I was introduced to this message
I was skeptical of all religions.
Skeptical of the Bible.
I looked at it as a book that was
just written by, you know, men.
And when I was introduced to the prophetic element
of this message, I could not find any error in it.
And it terrified me because I thought
there's no such thing as real truth.
It terrified me because I knew that
if this was true, there were changes
I would need to make in my life
and at the time I was a hip-hop artist,
touring, an eight album contract.
I was living what I thought was life.
And so coming face to face
with the three angels messages,
there was a decision that I had to make.
The first angel said this is truth,
the second angel said this is error,
and the third angel said choose.
And I saw the truth, understood it,
saw the error, understood it.
I said okay, I have to make my choice.
There's nothing else I can do.
And I turned away, left a million dollar contract.
Said, alright Lord, I'm ready.