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Series 211 - Looking Ahead After Looking Behind About this video: A lot of people really do not understand why there has to be an antichrist. They just accept that it's a given, that there is one, but they really never stopped to ask why. Why must this all unfold in the way prophecy predicts? A lot of people look at Bible prophecy as though it is a record of what will happen rather than a plan of what must take place. Do you understand what I just said? A lot of people look at Bible prophecy as something recorded in the beginning of things that will just take place rather than the outline of a plan that must happen. What I'm saying is that God has pre-decreed or predestined or predetermined that certain things must come to pass. It was pre-decreed, before the foundations of the earth, that Jesus should be born. The Bible says, He was the lamb slain from the foundations of the earth. When man sinned, the only hope we have of returning to our Eden home is through the death of Christ. And so God wasn't caught by surprise when Adam and Eve sinned. He already knew what they would do. God is not managing the universe by the seat of his pants, because God stands in the future. He knows exactly where we're going to be 10 million years from now. Let me explain.... Disclaimer: Wake-up America Seminars is a non-profit / non-prophet organization. We are dedicated solely to proclaiming the imminent return of Jesus Christ. We are not affiliated, endorsed, nor sponsored by any religious organization; we, quite frankly, haven't found one that would have us. This is not a clandestine method of getting you to join a church because Wake-up America seminars is not a church — we have no prisoners (members). We are an organization that is dedicated to education. Our mission is to inspire and encourage people into the Word of God, and what church may mean to you or what church may be to you is something between you and your Lord. Finally, the basis for the views presented in this seminar is limited to the Bible; the only authority that I except for matters in doctrine and spiritual guidance come from the Bible. Visit our website for more in-depth articles and videos about what God is doing. You’ll be amazed at the effort God exerts to save you and me! https://www.wake-up.org

Series 211 - Looking Ahead After Looking Behind About this video: When you study the Bible, it's like eating out of the refrigerator. When you look in the refrigerator and you have a tomato sandwich in mind, you only look around for things that go with that tomato sandwich — but there are all kinds of other stuff in there. And if you're looking for breakfast, you look in there and you're only looking to see and work with those things that would go with breakfast. So it depends on the frame of mind you have, the mindset you have, when you study as to how you're seeing things. The most amazing thing about studying the prophecies is, it forces you to study in every direction. For example: you need to know about the sanctuary because of the sanctuary services that connect in Revelation’s story. You need to know about the state of the dead because you need to know about the resurrections and how God deals with dead people and how God judges living people. You need to know about the Sabbath and the perpetuity of God's law and how that the fourth commandment is about resting and giving rest every week in honoring God. It’s really all about honoring and observing his signature because of the big picture he’s had in mind from the beginning. Let me explain.... Disclaimer: Wake-up America Seminars is a non-profit / non-prophet organization. We are dedicated solely to proclaiming the imminent return of Jesus Christ. We are not affiliated, endorsed, nor sponsored by any religious organization; we, quite frankly, haven't found one that would have us. This is not a clandestine method of getting you to join a church because Wake-up America seminars is not a church — we have no prisoners (members). We are an organization that is dedicated to education. Our mission is to inspire and encourage people into the Word of God, and what church may mean to you or what church may be to you is something between you and your Lord. Finally, the basis for the views presented in this seminar is limited to the Bible; the only authority that I except for matters in doctrine and spiritual guidance come from the Bible. Visit our website for more in-depth articles and videos about what God is doing. You’ll be amazed at the effort God exerts to save you and me! https://www.wake-up.org

Series 211 - Looking Ahead After Looking Behind About this video: Luke says they were all wondering in their hearts if John might possibly be the Christ. Why were they so excited? John had come and explained to them the fulfillment of a certain prophecy. And when he said “The kingdom of heaven is at hand”, he meant it. It was a truth. The kingdom of God was at hand, and he had explained the decree of Artaxerxes and the 483 years and the 7 and 62, and it all lined right-up and right on time. The Prophet John showed up on the scene to herald the appearing of Messiah right on time. He was a miracle just like Jesus was a miracle; not the same father but the same kind of miracle. And John had explained to the people the prophecy predicting the appearing of the messiah, and this is why the Bible says that people were waiting expectantly. Remember the priests sent a group of Levites out to John in the wilderness and asked “Who are you? Are you the Christ? Nope! Are you Elijah? Nope! Are you that prophet that Moses talked about in Deuteronomy? Nope! Well, who are you? The voice of one crying in the wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord!” Well, the reason they asked these questions is because of the last two verses in the Jewish Bible. The Bible closes, before the time of Christ, with these two verses — Malachi 4:5,6... Let me explain.... Disclaimer: Wake-up America Seminars is a non-profit / non-prophet organization. We are dedicated solely to proclaiming the imminent return of Jesus Christ. We are not affiliated, endorsed, nor sponsored by any religious organization; we, quite frankly, haven't found one that would have us. This is not a clandestine method of getting you to join a church because Wake-up America seminars is not a church — we have no prisoners (members). We are an organization that is dedicated to education. Our mission is to inspire and encourage people into the Word of God, and what church may mean to you or what church may be to you is something between you and your Lord. Finally, the basis for the views presented in this seminar is limited to the Bible; the only authority that I except for matters in doctrine and spiritual guidance come from the Bible. Visit our website for more in-depth articles and videos about what God is doing. You’ll be amazed at the effort God exerts to save you and me! https://www.wake-up.org

Series 211 - Looking Ahead After Looking Behind About this video: The Bible says all seven heads have blasphemous names on them. And the seven religious systems of the world happen to be: 1) Atheism. Atheism is a religious system that denies the existence of God. It has a paradigm all about God not being there. To talk to an atheist is to have a religious discussion. If you've ever done it, you know what I'm talking about. 2) Heathenism. Heathenism is where man invents God, makes him out to be whatever he wants him to be. A lot of Christians are actually heathen. Greek mythology is all about making up Gods. 3) The third oldest religion of the world is Judaism. Judaism says that salvation comes through obedience. If that had been the case, there would have been no need for Jesus. 4) The next oldest religion of the world is the Islamic faith. Ishmael, who's actually older than Jacob, is the founder of the Islamic faith. And Mohammad, when he came in the sixth century AD, simply consolidated many of the Islamic faith tenants, put it all together and produced the Quran. 5) The fifth oldest religious system in the world is the Eastern mysticism — Buddhism, Zen, Eastern mystics, Hinduism etc. — which teach that man can become God. 6) The sixth religious system in the world is Catholicism. It started in the days of Christ. And 7) the youngest religious system in the world is Protestantism. These are the seven religious systems of the world. Can you think of anybody on earth we've left out? Now each of these systems has variants within them, but in general terms, the seven religious systems of the world are these seven. Let me explain.... Disclaimer: Wake-up America Seminars is a non-profit / non-prophet organization. We are dedicated solely to proclaiming the imminent return of Jesus Christ. We are not affiliated, endorsed, nor sponsored by any religious organization; we, quite frankly, haven't found one that would have us. This is not a clandestine method of getting you to join a church because Wake-up America seminars is not a church — we have no prisoners (members). We are an organization that is dedicated to education. Our mission is to inspire and encourage people into the Word of God, and what church may mean to you or what church may be to you is something between you and your Lord. Finally, the basis for the views presented in this seminar is limited to the Bible; the only authority that I except for matters in doctrine and spiritual guidance come from the Bible. Visit our website for more in-depth articles and videos about what God is doing. You’ll be amazed at the effort God exerts to save you and me! https://www.wake-up.org

Series 211 - Looking Ahead After Looking Behind About this video: Faith is an amazing thing. Faith always makes sense in reverse. Getting on the Ark makes sense when you look at the whole story in reverse. As you look back over your life and see how God has led, sometimes the way doesn't seem very clear or attractive. But as you look back over what God has been doing in your life, ultimately, you began to see the hand of providence. Faith always makes sense when examined in reverse. God’s ways aren't our ways. He doesn't reason as we reason. And because he can see the end from the beginning, sometimes, he leads us in the most amazing ways to accomplish goals through us that brings us great joy; but at the same time, we would have never chosen to go that way had we had our choice about it. And this sometimes brings us to the point of anxiety. When God is moving in our lives it produces anxiety. Do you know about anxiety? Have you ever had to deal with it? It’s not comfortable. I’m sure if I had been in the crowd standing before the Red Sea and heard the rumble of Pharaoh's chariots, I would’ve had a little anxiety. But after I saw the mighty hand of God and the parting of the Red Sea and the swallowing up of Pharaoh, my trust in God should have been much greater! It’s sad to say but humanity finds it most difficult to trust in God; and there is a reason for it, actually, it's because of our fallen nature. Let me explain.... Disclaimer: Wake-up America Seminars is a non-profit / non-prophet organization. We are dedicated solely to proclaiming the imminent return of Jesus Christ. We are not affiliated, endorsed, nor sponsored by any religious organization; we, quite frankly, haven't found one that would have us. This is not a clandestine method of getting you to join a church because Wake-up America seminars is not a church — we have no prisoners (members). We are an organization that is dedicated to education. Our mission is to inspire and encourage people into the Word of God, and what church may mean to you or what church may be to you is something between you and your Lord. Finally, the basis for the views presented in this seminar is limited to the Bible; the only authority that I except for matters in doctrine and spiritual guidance come from the Bible. Visit our website for more in-depth articles and videos about what God is doing. You’ll be amazed at the effort God exerts to save you and me! https://www.wake-up.org

Series 211 - Looking Ahead After Looking Behind About this video: The Bible does not yield its beauty without much effort, and I want to inspire you and encourage you to press on to see the beauty of God's Word. I want to show you how that the repetitive weekly cycle from creation has never stopped. In fact, today is Wednesday... the fourth day of the week... and this aligns with the fourth day of creation week. The Sun, Moon, and stars were made on this day of the week that very first week. Since the weekly cycle began God has protected it. No one was around when he made the world. This is his signature. The week does not exist anywhere in nature; you can't touch it, taste it, see it, smell it, contain it, or own it; you can't discover it in science, you can't put it in a test tube, there's no way to know what day of the week it is from nature — it conveys from Eden. And what's so amazing to me is everybody knows what day of the week it is, they just don't know where it came from! Disclaimer: Wake-up America Seminars is a non-profit / non-prophet organization. We are dedicated solely to proclaiming the imminent return of Jesus Christ. We are not affiliated, endorsed, nor sponsored by any religious organization; we, quite frankly, haven't found one that would have us. This is not a clandestine method of getting you to join a church because Wake-up America seminars is not a church — we have no prisoners (members). We are an organization that is dedicated to education. Our mission is to inspire and encourage people into the Word of God, and what church may mean to you or what church may be to you is something between you and your Lord. Finally, the basis for the views presented in this seminar is limited to the Bible; the only authority that I except for matters in doctrine and spiritual guidance come from the Bible. Visit our website for more in-depth articles and videos about what God is doing. You’ll be amazed at the effort God exerts to save you and me! https://www.wake-up.org

Series 211 - Looking Ahead After Looking Behind About this video: I early on concluded that Bible prophecy had to follow a set of rules or else it's a nose of wax that can be manipulated to conform to what someone wants it to be. Obviously this can’t be true or else prophecy is a matter of somebody's interpretation and personal taste. I studied the history of prophetic interpretation going back to Wycliffe in the 14th century, and even going back to Augustine in the 5th century AD, and I discovered that all of these men end up reading the prophecies and then looking around in their reality and writing how all the prophecies fit together in their current reality. But what happens as realities change through the centuries, is different interpretations begin to occur and become embraced. When I began studying the prophecies in 1971, I didn't know anything about this subject. I didn't have anything to work with so I just began to read, and I read about this person's view and this other person's view and so on and so forth, and then I began to discover: “Wait a minute. Everybody can't be right. How does this work?” That’s when I began questioning: there's got to be a set of guidelines, a set of rules that determine what this means. And the reason this became so crucial to me is, how do we prove a view to be true or false? There has to be a reasonable answer. Disclaimer: Wake-up America Seminars is a non-profit / non-prophet organization. We are dedicated solely to proclaiming the imminent return of Jesus Christ. We are not affiliated, endorsed, nor sponsored by any religious organization; we, quite frankly, haven't found one that would have us. This is not a clandestine method of getting you to join a church because Wake-up America seminars is not a church — we have no prisoners (members). We are an organization that is dedicated to education. Our mission is to inspire and encourage people into the Word of God, and what church may mean to you or what church may be to you is something between you and your Lord. Finally, the basis for the views presented in this seminar is limited to the Bible; the only authority that I except for matters in doctrine and spiritual guidance come from the Bible. Visit our website for more in-depth articles and videos about what God is doing. You’ll be amazed at the effort God exerts to save you and me! https://www.wake-up.org

Series 211 - Looking Ahead After Looking Behind About this video: I want to show you the prophecy in Daniel 2. When God gave this vision to Nebuchadnezzar he actually gave him a seven-part vision. The number 7 is most interesting. God showed Nebuchadnezzar the future in 7 Kingdoms. You’ll see that the head represents Babylon, Kingdom number one; the chest represents Persia, kingdom number two; the thighs of brass represent the kingdom of Greece, which is kingdom number three; the legs of iron represent the kingdom of Rome, kingdom number four; the feet of iron and clay represents many nations for a period of time, Kingdom number five; and the ten toes represent ten Kings who will be in power at the time of the Second Coming, Kingdom number six; and then the rock establishes his kingdom. Seven Kingdoms! At the present time we are still in the feet of the image, we have not reached the toes just yet. Disclaimer: Wake-up America Seminars is a non-profit / non-prophet organization. We are dedicated solely to proclaiming the imminent return of Jesus Christ. We are not affiliated, endorsed, nor sponsored by any religious organization; we, quite frankly, haven't found one that would have us. This is not a clandestine method of getting you to join a church because Wake-up America seminars is not a church — we have no prisoners (members). We are an organization that is dedicated to education. Our mission is to inspire and encourage people into the Word of God, and what church may mean to you or what church may be to you is something between you and your Lord. Finally, the basis for the views presented in this seminar is limited to the Bible; the only authority that I except for matters in doctrine and spiritual guidance come from the Bible. Visit our website for more in-depth articles and videos about what God is doing. You’ll be amazed at the effort God exerts to save you and me! https://www.wake-up.org

Series 211 - Looking Ahead After Looking Behind About this video: I want to tell you a little story and take you back to the Book of Daniel. We’re going to work our way back into Revelation, but we've got to go look behind before we can see ahead. In Daniel chapter 2, Daniel saw a metal man: he saw a head of gold, a chest of silver, thighs of brass, legs of iron, and feet and toes of iron and clay. These represented the kingdoms of man; and as he was watching a great stone came out of the sky and hit the image at its feet and blew it away! God came to the pagan King and gave him a Revelation that distressed him greatly. It really bothered him badly. When Nebuchadnezzar was given this revelation — evidence that God can talk to anyone he wants to — he was awakened and very disturbed by what he saw. This internal distress was caused by the Holy Spirit. The anxiety and concern of this was all prompted by the same Holy Spirit that tortured the wife of pilot. And what was her torture? She come and told her husband “have nothing to do with this man for I have suffered because of him”... the Holy Spirit is very capable of putting us in a state that is most uncomfortable. I can attest to that in a sense. And if you've ever done anything wrong and you felt guilt about it, you can to. One of the works of the Holy Spirit is to produce guilt so that we can resolve the problem and find healing and move on. The Holy Spirit tormented this King in the most severe way, and I measure the severity of it by what follows: he called all the wise men together and said “I've dreamed a dream but I can't remember it. Now tell me what I dreamed and interpret it for me.” Well, of course, they realized this was an impossible request. God used a simple dream to fully unmask the cunning sophistry of the wise men of Babylon! Disclaimer: Wake-up America Seminars is a non-profit / non-prophet organization. We are dedicated solely to proclaiming the imminent return of Jesus Christ. We are not affiliated, endorsed, nor sponsored by any religious organization; we, quite frankly, haven't found one that would have us. This is not a clandestine method of getting you to join a church because Wake-up America seminars is not a church — we have no prisoners (members). We are an organization that is dedicated to education. Our mission is to inspire and encourage people into the Word of God, and what church may mean to you or what church may be to you is something between you and your Lord. Finally, the basis for the views presented in this seminar is limited to the Bible; the only authority that I except for matters in doctrine and spiritual guidance come from the Bible. Visit our website for more in-depth articles and videos about what God is doing. You’ll be amazed at the effort God exerts to save you and me! https://www.wake-up.org

Series 211 - Looking Ahead After Looking Behind About this video: I've heard many Christians say the command to let the land rest every seventh year is for agricultural purposes. God knows that in order for the land to be productive, you need to give it a year of rest. I'd like to suggest that idea is completely false. Guess what happens during the sixth year when the land has been tilled and worked for six long years... what does it do? In its greatest state of fatigue it produces twice as much! This is not an agricultural issue at all; it has nothing to do with agriculture except that God is dealing with an agriculturally dependent nation. What God is trying to do is he's trying to test the faith of his people; he wants people to understand that they have what they have because he gives it to them, not because they earned it. One of the toughest lessons on earth to learn is: What you have comes to you as a gift from God. By demanding every seven years that no agriculture activities are allowed — none — God is trying to get the children of Israel to understand that the productivity of the land is based on his blessing, not their toil. I hate to report to you that Israel did not keep the sabbatical year. The temptation was just too great. They refused. What a deal the Lord was making! Why would an intelligent person refuse what the Lord offered? Why would a rebellious person refuse this!? The only reason is greed. I will send you such a blessing in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years. Look, Jesus says, “while you plant during the 8th year — the 8th year is the same as the 1st year because you start a new cycle after the 7th — you will eat from the old crop, and will continue to eat from it until the harvest of the 9th year comes in! Disclaimer: Wake-up America Seminars is a non-profit / non-prophet organization. We are dedicated solely to proclaiming the imminent return of Jesus Christ. We are not affiliated, endorsed, nor sponsored by any religious organization; we, quite frankly, haven't found one that would have us. This is not a clandestine method of getting you to join a church because Wake-up America seminars is not a church — we have no prisoners (members). We are an organization that is dedicated to education. Our mission is to inspire and encourage people into the Word of God, and what church may mean to you or what church may be to you is something between you and your Lord. Finally, the basis for the views presented in this seminar is limited to the Bible; the only authority that I except for matters in doctrine and spiritual guidance come from the Bible. Visit our website for more in-depth articles and videos about what God is doing. You’ll be amazed at the effort God exerts to save you and me! https://www.wake-up.org

Series 211 - Looking Ahead After Looking Behind About this video: In this video I talk about timing and how precise God is in his timing. And I'm going to attempt to show you how the 70 weeks of Daniel 9 are a wonderful clock. A clock is simply an instrument for measuring time. Now we've gotten real fancy with them and we've put alarms in them and calculators and all other kinds of things, but basically, all a clock does is measure the passage of time. And would you agree with me that the passage of time suggests the continuation of time? Christians today are very skeptical about the imminent return of Christ when you really begin to talk about timing. Christians are quite happy with the word “soon” as long as “soon” means nothing. If you really mean that “soon” is “soon” then all of a sudden things begin to change. And I constantly run into Christians of all faiths who are very nervous about discussing time and timing. In the apocalyptic prophecies of Daniel and Revelation there are 18 prophetic time periods. God is a master of timing. With God timing is everything, and he's given us clocks to measure time. Let’s talk about the day... how long is a day? A day is 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds. And what makes up the remainder of the three minutes and 56 seconds? It’s the arc we travel in the period of a day, so that the world actually is back to where it started 24 hours ago! When God set a spin on the planet, he set it precisely to spin at 23 hours, 56 minutes, and four seconds because if he didn't do that, six months from now our days would be nights and our nights would be days. God is so clever! What an engineer!! Disclaimer: Wake-up America Seminars is a non-profit / non-prophet organization. We are dedicated solely to proclaiming the imminent return of Jesus Christ. We are not affiliated, endorsed, nor sponsored by any religious organization; we, quite frankly, haven't found one that would have us. This is not a clandestine method of getting you to join a church because Wake-up America seminars is not a church — we have no prisoners (members). We are an organization that is dedicated to education. Our mission is to inspire and encourage people into the Word of God, and what church may mean to you or what church may be to you is something between you and your Lord. Finally, the basis for the views presented in this seminar is limited to the Bible; the only authority that I except for matters in doctrine and spiritual guidance come from the Bible. Visit our website for more in-depth articles and videos about what God is doing. You’ll be amazed at the effort God exerts to save you and me! https://www.wake-up.org

Series 211 - Looking Ahead After Looking Behind About this video: In this video I try to explain a number of specifications about the destroyer and show they are consistent throughout the whole of Scripture. The way that God has done this is so neat! God uses the following technique throughout the Bible. Try and follow this... Let's say tonight I'm talking about a man in this room that's above the age of 50. Who would it be? Well, you'd all look around and say “Well, I can see several that would qualify for that specification”. And then I add by saying, “He's wearing a blue shirt”. We would all look around and see two or three that would qualify for that. And then I add to this by saying, “He's got the pair of suspenders on”. Well, that just eliminated everybody but Norm. When God does definitions in the Bible he will say the same thing three or four or five times in a different way so that, finally, when the identity of what he's talking about is determined, there's no wiggle room left! How clever! And the neat thing about this type of coded language is that superficial students of the Bible can never understand it, because they will read specification numbers four and five and reach a conclusion and know nothing about one, two, and three. When God lays out these specifications, he does so in the most magnificent way, he pulls pieces from here and pieces from there and finally, they all lock up and there is no wiggle room left. And so those who search the Scriptures, those who constantly are in investigating and looking for the truth that God has to say, find this wonderful harmony continuing to reoccur; and it's the harmony that comes from the sum of the parts that proves the consistency of truth. Disclaimer: Wake-up America Seminars is a non-profit / non-prophet organization. We are dedicated solely to proclaiming the imminent return of Jesus Christ. We are not affiliated, endorsed, nor sponsored by any religious organization; we, quite frankly, haven't found one that would have us. This is not a clandestine method of getting you to join a church because Wake-up America seminars is not a church — we have no prisoners (members). We are an organization that is dedicated to education. Our mission is to inspire and encourage people into the Word of God, and what church may mean to you or what church may be to you is something between you and your Lord. Finally, the basis for the views presented in this seminar is limited to the Bible; the only authority that I except for matters in doctrine and spiritual guidance come from the Bible. Visit our website for more in-depth articles and videos about what God is doing. You’ll be amazed at the effort God exerts to save you and me! https://www.wake-up.org

Series 211 - Looking Ahead After Looking Behind About this video: The point that I try to make in this series, which is so critical to understanding the story of Revelation, is that God has children all over the world whose hearts are right but whose heads are wrong. Let me say that again, God has people whose hearts are right but their heads are wrong — and I'm including myself — and so God considers anyone his child, no matter where they are, whose heart is honest and upright before him. What matters most to God... I'm going to say something profound here... what matters most to God is our honesty in the presence of truth! And what God plans to do during the Great Tribulation is, he's going to use the discomfiture of the earth to put a series of three truths before the people of Earth, and the honest in heart will respond. Those who are not honest in heart will rebel. When God sets truth before us in its clearest terms and then presses his truth home with the nagging of the Holy Spirit, and if we then reject both, what can God do to reach us? Nothing... You understand what I'm saying? If God puts his will clearly before us and the Holy Spirit presses it as hard as he can without violating our will, what else can he do to reach us if we reject it? Disclaimer: Wake-up America Seminars is a non-profit / non-prophet organization. We are dedicated solely to proclaiming the imminent return of Jesus Christ. We are not affiliated, endorsed, nor sponsored by any religious organization; we, quite frankly, haven't found one that would have us. This is not a clandestine method of getting you to join a church because Wake-up America seminars is not a church — we have no prisoners (members). We are an organization that is dedicated to education. Our mission is to inspire and encourage people into the Word of God, and what church may mean to you or what church may be to you is something between you and your Lord. Finally, the basis for the views presented in this seminar is limited to the Bible; the only authority that I except for matters in doctrine and spiritual guidance come from the Bible. Visit our website for more in-depth articles and videos about what God is doing. You’ll be amazed at the effort God exerts to save you and me! https://www.wake-up.org

Series 211 - Looking Ahead After Looking Behind About this video: When God created the Sun Moon and stars, he brought all the light from the stars to the earth so that we could see them, because many of the stars are farther away than light could travel in six thousand years — the length of time we’ve been on earth. And just to give you an idea of the precision he uses when calculating time: He's spinning the earth on its axis at a rate of 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds per day; and at the same time he’s rotating it around the Sun once per year in 365 days, 6 hours, 45 minutes, and 48 seconds! And he uses all these weird numbers for very interesting reasons I’ll discuss in the video. What marvelous synchrony! God is deliberate and purposeful in everything he does. You’ve got to think about that. Everything has its being, its origin, its function because God is deliberate. The calendar we use today was given to us by Julius Caesar around 45 BC. He had an Egyptian mathematician named Sosigenes figure out the calendar. Cesar wanted to get rid of the use of the moon in keeping track of time. Synchronizing time with the moon is a very frustrating thing to do because the moon and the Sun do not move together in perfectly aligned cycles, and so Caesar wanted a calendar that was completely free of the moon. It was just too frustrating to deal with. So Sosigenes created the calendar and Caesar approved it, and this became known as the Julian calendar. Disclaimer: Wake-up America Seminars is a non-profit / non-prophet organization. We are dedicated solely to proclaiming the imminent return of Jesus Christ. We are not affiliated, endorsed, nor sponsored by any religious organization; we, quite frankly, haven't found one that would have us. This is not a clandestine method of getting you to join a church because Wake-up America seminars is not a church — we have no prisoners (members). We are an organization that is dedicated to education. Our mission is to inspire and encourage people into the Word of God, and what church may mean to you or what church may be to you is something between you and your Lord. Finally, the basis for the views presented in this seminar is limited to the Bible; the only authority that I except for matters in doctrine and spiritual guidance come from the Bible. Visit our website for more in-depth articles and videos about what God is doing. You’ll be amazed at the effort God exerts to save you and me! https://www.wake-up.org

Series 211 - Looking Ahead After Looking Behind About this video: I'm going to try to show you that God had a purpose from the beginning. With God, timing is everything. And God sometimes likes to put his children in a state of anxiety. I'll give you a couple examples: the flood; the children of Israel standing before the Red Sea — a rather anxious moment wouldn't you say? Can’t you just hear the rumble of Pharaoh's chariots? The desert is to the South, the mountains are to the North, and the Red Sea is before you...God just loves it when we're caught in the middle of an impossible situation so that we can see his mighty power! He set up that whole drama to show his children his exceeding great power and love for them, then he provided the manna out of the dew and the water out of the rock; he did marvelous things to show them his great love for them. Then, within just about two years of all this, he takes them to the gates of Kadesh Barnea — the gates to the promised land — sent in the spies... and, well, you know the story... the leaders of Israel went in, looked over the land, saw the Giants and their massive walls, and got scarred. What God was doing was showing them that in their strength there was no way they could do this on their own. That really was the purpose of this trip. And they understood that they couldn’t. But the problem was, God wanted them to see what was humanly impossible is possible through faith. All things are possible! My God can do anything!! And that was the point he was trying to get them to see. It’s the same in our life experiences. God sometimes puts us in situations that are impossible to show us what the possible can be through faith. It’s a tough lesson. It’s a hard lesson. But there is no easy way to develop faith in God. It’s a challenge. It’s a test. Disclaimer: Wake-up America Seminars is a non-profit / non-prophet organization. We are dedicated solely to proclaiming the imminent return of Jesus Christ. We are not affiliated, endorsed, nor sponsored by any religious organization; we, quite frankly, haven't found one that would have us. This is not a clandestine method of getting you to join a church because Wake-up America seminars is not a church — we have no prisoners (members). We are an organization that is dedicated to education. Our mission is to inspire and encourage people into the Word of God, and what church may mean to you or what church may be to you is something between you and your Lord. Finally, the basis for the views presented in this seminar is limited to the Bible; the only authority that I except for matters in doctrine and spiritual guidance come from the Bible. Visit our website for more in-depth articles and videos about what God is doing. You’ll be amazed at the effort God exerts to save you and me! https://www.wake-up.org

Series 211 - Looking Ahead After Looking Behind About this video: Consider for a moment: on this planet there are six plus billion people, and if I remember the numbers correctly, every hour we have a net gain of about 9,000 people per hour. I'm taking all those who died off and all those who come to life, the net gain is about 9,000 people an hour. That’s why we can move in the next 25 years from 6 billion to 9 billion people at the present rate of growth. That is awesome to consider! On this planet God looks down and sees people that he loves dearly everywhere; and a lot of people don't even know him but that doesn't stop him from loving them. God loves children and that's why he made so many. He’s the reason for children and he knew before he put man on this globe he had a plan in mind — he had a purpose. God is deliberate and purposeful and everything he does because his actions have eternal ramifications. How would you like to know that every minute aspect of your behavior will be studied for eternity? God will be studied — all of his actions — throughout eternity for what he did during the six thousand years of sin. God has no equal. He alone is qualified to rule the universe. Disclaimer: Wake-up America Seminars is a non-profit / non-prophet organization. We are dedicated solely to proclaiming the imminent return of Jesus Christ. We are not affiliated, endorsed, nor sponsored by any religious organization; we, quite frankly, haven't found one that would have us. This is not a clandestine method of getting you to join a church because Wake-up America seminars is not a church — we have no prisoners (members). We are an organization that is dedicated to education. Our mission is to inspire and encourage people into the Word of God, and what church may mean to you or what church may be to you is something between you and your Lord. Finally, the basis for the views presented in this seminar is limited to the Bible; the only authority that I except for matters in doctrine and spiritual guidance come from the Bible. Visit our website for more in-depth articles and videos about what God is doing. You’ll be amazed at the effort God exerts to save you and me! https://www.wake-up.org

Series 211 - Looking Ahead After Looking Behind Disclaimer: Wake-up America Seminars is a non-profit / non-prophet organization. We are dedicated solely to proclaiming the imminent return of Jesus Christ. We are not affiliated, endorsed, nor sponsored by any religious organization; we, quite frankly, haven't found one that would have us. This is not a clandestine method of getting you to join a church because Wake-up America seminars is not a church — we have no prisoners (members). We are an organization that is dedicated to education. Our mission is to inspire and encourage people into the Word of God, and what church may mean to you or what church may be to you is something between you and your Lord. Finally, the basis for the views presented in this seminar is limited to the Bible; the only authority that I except for matters in doctrine and spiritual guidance come from the Bible. About this video: Our confidence in what God is doing, and is about to do, is made secure by understanding what he's done in the past. And by looking at the light that shines from the past, we can find our way into the future. So looking ahead after looking behind, you'll see this theme played out many times this week. I'm going to show you how God uses examples of things past to explain what he's about to do. Because God is consistent and unchanging, by seeing how he accomplished things in the past we can understand how he's going to do it in the future. That harmony allows us to look behind and see the magnitude of what God's doing and understand His plans. Question: what do the following items have in common...Stock futures, weather forecasting, horse racing, and Bible prophecy? Well, the guys who study the stock market are constantly looking behind in order to predict ahead; weather forecasters are constantly looking behind so that they can predict ahead; horse racing, if you're gambling on horses you want to know the history of the one you're betting on. That’s how the odds are all determined, I'm told. Bible prophecy is the same way. If you understand the operation of things behind, the understanding of things future are all harmonious. Visit our website for more in-depth articles and videos about what God is doing. You’ll be amazed at the effort God exerts to save you and me! https://www.wake-up.org

A short description of the apocalyptic prophecies found in Daniel and Revelation.

A short description of the apocalyptic prophecies found in Daniel and Revelation.

A short description of the apocalyptic prophecies found in Daniel and Revelation.

A short description of the apocalyptic prophecies found in Daniel and Revelation.

A short description of the apocalyptic prophecies found in Daniel and Revelation.

A short description of the apocalyptic prophecies found in Daniel and Revelation.

A short description of the apocalyptic prophecies found in Daniel and Revelation.

A short description of the apocalyptic prophecies found in Daniel and Revelation.