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Name him, ha-ha ha-ha.

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Well we're now going to enter our 14 of our Learn the Bible 24 Hours as we begin our

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study of the New Testament.

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And as we do that we have a whole another perspective to gain here.

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The New Testament has architectural features that are very similar to the Old.

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The Old Testament opened with the five books of Moses and the New Testament opens with five

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historical books, the Gospels and the book of Acts.

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And you can look at the book of Acts as volume two of Luke, if you will.

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See Luke wrote two books, volume one, and volume two if you will.

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So I always treat the four Gospels and the book of Acts as a group.

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And so they are followed then by 21 interpretive letters.

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Just as the book of Deuteronomy is Moses' interpretation of the law, they're really

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three sermons by Moses, in the New Testament we have 21 letters that were gathered and

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circulated by the early church as precious items because they were apostolic interpretations

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of what went on.

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So the Gospels tell you what happened and the letters tell you why it happened and what

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the significance of it is.

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Now those 21, 14 we believe are written by Paul.

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I say we believe because there's one that is deliberately unsigned and there's a strategy

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behind doing that.

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And we'll talk about when we get to the book of Hebrews.

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We're among those, some scholars have different perspectives, but we think we have a good

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defendable position by arguing that the book of Hebrews was written by Paul but deliberately

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unsigned so it wouldn't be read, so it wouldn't be rise, ire, and so forth.

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But in any case we have 14 by Paul and then seven by some of the others, Peter James,

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we call him the Hebrew Christian epistles.

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So there's 21 epistles.

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So we have five historical books, 21 letters that are sort of like the op-ed pieces if

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And then we have, in lieu of the prophets of Old Testament we have The Book of Revelation

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by Apostle John.

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So we have 39 books in the Old Testament, 27 in the new.

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That's 66 books.

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The people say, does that sort of strain?

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Everybody expects 70 books.

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Why 66?

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Well technically the book of Psalms is five books by the way.

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So if you put that in it's really 70 but let's not confuse people.

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Everybody knows it is 66 books.

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So the Old Testament was compiled over several thousand years.

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That shocks many people because there are books in the Old Testament that are older

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than the books of Moses.

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The main example being Job.

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Because Job was an old book even before Moses.

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So they span a period of at least 1500, almost probably 2000 years in compiling the Old Testament.

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Pull together as we know it today in the days of Ezra.

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In the days of Ezra.

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And we're not going to spend a lot of time on the documentation there because Jesus Christ

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authenticated it for us.

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He quotes from it, quotes from each of the books.

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And so we don't have a problem because he felt comfortable enough to quote from it as

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God's Word.

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That should be enough for us too.

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So we're not going to spend a lot of time on that.

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But the New Testament is a little different kind of a creature.

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It was put together within one lifetime.

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Whole different circumstance.

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We have four gospels and I say Luke in two volumes.

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The Pauline corpus of letters and other epistles.

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And these were all circulated along with the Septuagint Old Testament.

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The Old Testament which was written originally in Hebrew was translated into Greek three

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centuries before the Gospel period because most of the people in the world, commercial

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world, spoke Greek.

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As the Christian church begins to emerge in that first century, their Old Testament was

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a copy of the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Old Testament.

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The LX abbreviation is the Greek version of the Old Testament.

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Most of the quotes in the New Testament of the Old, in the New Testament when they quote

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the Old Testament, they quote most of the time from the Septuagint, the Greek.

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And so the gospels, these letters and the Septuagint was a package that was used for

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instruction and for worship within the early church.

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Paul rely on the fact that the readers were contemporary with these events.

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saw the resurrected Lord.

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not only what's there.

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Number one, Nero's Persecutions, after 64 AD, Nero, see up till then most of the persecutions

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of the Christians came from the Jewish community by Zealous Jews.

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and volume two were the necessary documentation for an appeal to Caesar.

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background had to precede you to Rome.

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it was putting a document together, it was an expensive process.

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15, he gets executed in 62 AD, that's well documented.

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What does this tell you that the New Testament documents are completed before these things

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This is a way of putting an early dating on the document, especially when some of these

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things would have been incorporated in their arguments.

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The Jewish revolt against the Romans in 66 AD, no mention.

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were drafted and in circulation prior to any of these events.

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In other words, they were circulated prior to 62 AD and we'll get to more of that.

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Now there is a parchment, I'm not going to spend a lot of time in the Dead Sea stuff

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and all that, but there is a parchment.

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It was published for a while under the label of the Jesus papyrus, that's just a secular

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label for a book that was written about it.

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found in Egypt and it was at the Magdalene school of Oxford.

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They're written on both sides which tells you that this was a Codex.

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The ancient Old Testament was written on scrolls.

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I use a little scrap of parchment.

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came from the Old and New Testament.

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A Codex was started to emerge when they discovered it was useful to write on parchment on both

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sides and make pages like in a book.

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A Codex is what you and I think of as a book in contrast to a scroll which has, you know,

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a scroll has two scrolls and a scroll is a scroll.

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indicate they were a Codex, not in a scroll.

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what we understand from Texas Receptus and I'll come to that later in a minute here.

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But some advanced technology comes to our rescue and it turns out that a scanning laser

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microscope can differentiate between 20 millions of a meter layers of the papyrus.

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See the technology today is astonishing.

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Well using these advanced technologies, it turns out that Dr. Karsten Thede using a scanner

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laser microscope and comparing with four other manuscripts, and I won't go through

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the details of the other four manuscripts, the more important thing, what he's done

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from his studies, he's concluded that the Magdalene papyrus is either an original of

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Matthew's gospel or an immediate copy.

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The point I'm making is you will find in your Bible helps many estimates of when certain

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the dates far earlier than was previously believed.

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Many people are in the impression that the New Testament was put together in the second

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century AD and so forth.

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who he was.

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She thought he was the gardener and she's Mary and she recognized Rabona.

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That shatters many people's concepts here.

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You think of Luke as a journey come lately because so much of what he learned he learned

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by doing some research.

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Staunton realized the book of Acts was that early.

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That shatters a lot.

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myths that have surrounded the New Testament.

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There is a school of belief among scholars, they call it the Jerusalem school for reasons

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about one bother you to hear it.

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But we're dealing here within just a few decades of the actual events.

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Paul's letters the first letter he probably wrote were Thessalonian letters.

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There are actually four letters to the court.

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This is very important to understand.

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they discovered the Septuagint, the Greek translation, had been adopted by the Christians as their

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relies on sacrifices.

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that is out of, it derived from the Council of Yomna.

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Greek text to become the primary standard throughout the Byzantine world.

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it had been moved.

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Constantine moved it to Byzantium.

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the Byzantine manuscripts compiled the first Greek text produced on a printing press thanks

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And his writings are the basis for what it is formally called Texas Receptus.

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of the Bible which becomes with Tyndale and others translate to make the English Bible.

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I won't take you through the evolution from Wycliffe and all the rest from 1382 down through

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1611 the King James Version except to make a couple of points here.

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As we go through these Erasmus and the Tyndale Bible, Luther's Bible, COVIDales and so forth

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and the Geneva Bible rest, you need to understand that the people that did these translations

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did it under penalty of death.

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they could understand it rather than have it filtered by a church with its own agenda.

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King James VI of Scotland became King of England and he called himself James I and in 1607

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with more than 50 scholars they met in continual prayer and committees.

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available to them 5,556 manuscripts.

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by the secular world as one of the most noblest monuments in English prose.

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The majesty of the King James has never been really equaled.

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And some of us have trouble with the old English but that turns out there's less than a dozen

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words that bother you and you can learn those pretty quickly.

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Every translation has its problems, the advantage of the King James, the problems are well known

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and well documented and most Bible helps key to that anyway.

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So okay, there's something else as you realize the King James Version leans on Tyndale and

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the forebears but it leans most heavily on Texas Receptus as they translate into English.

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But I want to talk about another set of Codexes or cottices, the Alexandrian.

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There's Codex Alexandrinus that was discovered about 1630 and was brought to England.

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There's also Codex Sinaiticus.

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About 200 years later a German scholar named Constantine Montezendorf discovered Codex Sinaiticus

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at St. Caffin's monastery at the traditional Mount Sinai.

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This manuscript is apparently dated about 350 AD so it's one of the two oldest manuscripts

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of the Greek New Testament.

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It had been in the Vatican Library since at least 1481 but was not made available to

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scholars until the middle of the 19th century.

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It was dated slightly earlier like about 325 AD than Codex Sinaiticus in regard to

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many of the most reliable copies of the Greek New Testament.

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Now what's going to happen here, look ahead a little bit, Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Vaticanus

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have been overly revered by scholars to our detriment.

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I'll explain what happened here but you need to, because they are very old manuscripts,

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they tended in the minds of some of the modern translators to have extra weight because they're

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These, the Alexandrian codices have become very controversial in recent years for a number

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of reasons.

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So these occurred about the third or fourth century and they become the primary reliance

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of the newest, most modern translations, the NIV and any of the other new translations

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tend to lean very heavily on these Alexandrian codices.

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So the primacy of Texas Receptus has been dethroned.

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In about the 1730s, a guy by the name of Ben Gal produced a text that deviated from Texas

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Receptus and he relied on some of these earlier manuscripts and Carl Lockman did a similar

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kind of thing and another guy did, not that critical.

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Brookfoss, Westcott and Fett and John Anthony Hort were Anglican churchmen who had contempt

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for Texas Receptus.

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The problem is we've now discovered that those texts, even though they're older, are corrupted.

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And these people have really promoted it and we should talk a little bit about them.

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Both of these guys were very influenced by Origen and others who denied the deity of

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Jesus Christ.

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Gnostics which is Alexandria.

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The Codexes we're talking about came from Alexandria.

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Alexandria was the fountainhead of the Gnostics which were really in effect anti-Christian

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groups.

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Much of the New Testament letters are written in repudiation of the Gnostic beliefs.

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while they're excellent Greek scholars are corrupted texts.

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last few decades, there's been a reaction against the modern translations by some who

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begin to realize that they're victims in a sense of corrupted foundations here.

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There are over 3,000 contradictions in the four gospels alone between the manuscripts.

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And now by the way, West Cotton Heart, although they're very, very obviously outstanding Greek

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scholars, you wouldn't trust them to run your, you wouldn't trust them to teach your

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study school class.

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They did not believe in the deity of Jesus Christ.

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So you got to be unlearned just because the guy has a lot of degrees and a lot of prominence

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in the scholastic community does not make him a modified expert in before the Lord.

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that puts a cloud on some of the modern translations.

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They're useful because they're readable, but be careful if you're doing a detailed study

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because they've been corrupted.

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Now what were the Gnostic heresies?

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I think it's Satan's strategy, the same one he had in Genesis 3.

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He put doubt and then additions and amendments.

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Did God really say that?

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Well, this is maybe what he really meant.

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That's the kind, that's where he started going down one of these alleyways that he

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gets you into trouble.

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In about 55 AD, the twisting of the scripture begins.

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That's what 2 Peter chapter 2 deals with.

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That's what 1 John 1 deals with.

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They're dealing with the Gnostic heresies.

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In other words, if you look with the Gnostics, add to it some pantheism and all these other

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So that's why they deal if you're really in the know, you don't take those things seriously.

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Let us let you know what it really like.

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Is that kind of deception that's going on?

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So what the Gnostics did, they expregated the scriptures.

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They would throw out the verses that weren't comfortable.

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taken themselves to mutilating the scriptures which they themselves have shortened.

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So we have evidence that that was one of the things, one of the tactics they used.

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The headquarter for the Gnostics of course was Alexandria, which is the primary library

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center of the world at the time.

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Now let me, we could spend a lot of time wading through scholastic arguments about

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the texts.

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I'm going to show you a shortcut.

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I'm going to show you a shortcut.

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There are, in the scripture, there are authentication codes.

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There's an automatic security monitor watching over every single letter of the text that

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doesn't rust or wear out and it's been running continually for several thousand years.

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And most people don't know about it.

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There is a fingerprint, what I call a fingerprint signature of the author in the scripture.

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And we'll show you that.

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And furthermore, this authentication code is of a non-compromizable design.

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Now if you're an engineer, your mouth is a watering boy.

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Where is this thing?

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I want to see this thing.

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Let me back up a little bit now and give you some background.

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How many of you have noticed there are sevens in the Bible?

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Somebody without their hand up hasn't read their Bible, right?

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Over 600 passages have it very explicitly so.

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Some of these are very overt.

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It's very obvious.

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Seven of this and seven of that or whatever.

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Some of them are structural.

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Some of the list a few things you'll always notice.

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There's always seven of them.

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You find those.

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They're subtle.

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Some are not any subtle.

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Some are actually hidden.

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And yet you can find them if you know how to look.

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I want to suggest to you the possibility that these heptatic structures are a signature

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of the Creator Himself.

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And let's take a look at some examples.

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I want you to imagine, you don't have to actually do this, but I want you to imagine

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yourself seriously taking this on an assignment.

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Imagine yourself taking on a scratch pad, blank piece of paper, and I want you to design

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a family tree, a genealogy.

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And by the way, for this assignment, you can do this from fiction.

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You can make it up as you go.

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How many could do that?

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Obviously you could.

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That's no problem.

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You know, fathers and sons make up a family tree.

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Except I got a couple of rules I want you to follow.

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When you finished your assignment, you turn it in, I want the number of words that you

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used to be an exact multiple of seven.

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In other words, if I take the total number of words that is in your work product, if I

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divide it by seven, I don't have any remainder.

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So it's either seven words, 14, 21, 28, in other words, whatever number words you use,

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it's an exact multiple of seven.

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How many could do that?

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You could fudge it around to a multiple of seven.

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Good.

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Yeah, sure you could.

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Of course you could.

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I got another rule I want to add.

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I want the number of letters that you use to also be an exact multiple of seven.

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I can sense that some of you dropped out and you say that you begin to realize that's

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a little tricky.

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And incidentally, I'm talking about an English here, aren't I?

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Unless you can fudge it around sometimes.

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Poets always do that.

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You can throw an asterisk in or something.

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I want the number of vowels and the number of consonants to be divisible by seven exactly.

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If I go through all your words, I count the vowels.

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It's an exact multiple.

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You got a problem with that?

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Of course you do.

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You realize that to make it a multiple of seven, if it's a random result, you've got

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six chances of losing only one of winning.

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I haven't come out right.

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You have me?

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So every time I add a rule, it makes it tougher.

469
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:55,000
I'm going to say I want the number of words that begin with a vowel to be divisible by

470
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:56,000
seven.

471
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:59,000
Well, that's kind of a chicken.

472
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,000
And obviously if that's in the number of words to begin with a consonant, it must be

473
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,000
divisible by seven.

474
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:07,000
The number of words that occur more than once to be divisible by seven.

475
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,000
Anybody still playing?

476
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:13,000
You get the feeling that this would be hard to do, right?

477
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:16,000
Those that occur in more than one form divisible by seven.

478
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:19,000
Those that occur in only one form divisible by seven.

479
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,000
The number of nouns shall be divisible by seven.

480
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:25,000
The number only seven words shall not be nouns.

481
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,000
That's easy, probably, maybe not.

482
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:30,000
The number of names shall be divisible by seven.

483
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:36,000
Only seven other kinds of nouns shall be permitted beside names.

484
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:39,000
The number of male names shall be divisible by seven, and the number of generations shall

485
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:40,000
be divisible by seven.

486
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:43,000
You've probably guessed where I'm headed here.

487
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:50,000
Because this is a description of the genealogy of Jesus Christ in the first 18 verses of

488
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:52,000
the book of Matthew.

489
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:57,000
And incidentally, we're talking about the Greek, not the Hebrew, or English.

490
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:58,000
In English, it's soft.

491
00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:00,000
You can fudge around.

492
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:03,000
Greek is incredibly precise.

493
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,000
Every verb has to be five conditions and so forth.

494
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,000
It's a tight, precise language.

495
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:13,000
What I'm sharing with you here, of course, is the discoveries of Dr. Ivan Pennen.

496
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:17,000
He's a very interesting guy born in Russian in 1855.

497
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:18,000
He was exiled in early age.

498
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:21,000
He got tangled up in a plot against the Tsar.

499
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,000
He eventually immigrated to Germany and then finally to the United States.

500
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:30,000
He graduated from Harvard in 1882 with a PhD in mathematics.

501
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,000
But then he discovered Jesus Christ.

502
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:37,000
Now, by the way, every one of us in this room that has discovered Jesus Christ,

503
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:41,000
whether you know or not, is a result of a miracle.

504
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,000
Brought by someone's prayer.

505
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,000
For some of you, the stories are really quite dramatic.

506
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,000
For many of us, it's quite routine.

507
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:51,000
But every one of us that except Christ are a result of a miracle.

508
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:54,000
But if you're a PhD from Harvard, that's a miracle indeed.

509
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,000
OK, so.

510
00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:02,000
But shortly after becoming a Christian, he discovered these haptatic structures,

511
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:05,000
these sevenfold structures that underlie the biblical text.

512
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,000
He discovered that about 1890.

513
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:15,000
He committed the rest of his life more than 50 years, generating over 43,000 pages,

514
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:16,000
writing incidentally in very small letters.

515
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,000
He's got a very tight hand of discoveries.

516
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:27,000
He went to his lord in October 30th of 1942 and left behind all kinds of discoveries.

517
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:31,000
Candidly, it's very tedious to go through because it's laborious stuff.

518
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:34,000
And yet, what comes out of this are some treasures.

519
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:35,000
And I'll show you a few highlights.

520
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:40,000
That was the one that I showed you, the genealogy of Jesus Christ fits all those conditions.

521
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:45,000
And even if you try to simulate that, you'll discover it's almost impossible

522
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:48,000
to get something to fit all those conditions.

523
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:52,000
But let's talk about a specific practical example.

524
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:56,000
If you look at your Bible, at the last 12 verses of the Gospel of Mark,

525
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,000
you will probably find a footnote in it.

526
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:02,000
Something to the effect that these verses are in dispute

527
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:05,000
and were probably added later by some copyist.

528
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,000
That's the typical kind of remark you see,

529
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:11,000
annotating the last 12 verses of the Gospel of Mark.

530
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:16,000
And the question is, were they added later?

531
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:19,000
Or, you know, Westcott and Hort,

532
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:25,000
regards the last part of Mark, that's verses 9 through 20 of chapter 16,

533
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:29,000
as a later edition, that this wasn't in the original, it was added by some well-intended

534
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,000
copyist down the road a bit.

535
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:36,000
Well, that's easily shredded because Irenaeus, in 150 AD,

536
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:39,000
quotes it in his commentary.

537
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:44,000
The Alexandrian codices were fourth century.

538
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:50,000
But in the first and second century, we have quotes from these so-called

539
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:51,000
verses that were added later.

540
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,000
No, they weren't added later.

541
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:57,000
They were expregated from the Alexandrian codices, is my contention.

542
00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:00,000
So Irenaeus either had a copy of the original or he must have been clairvoyant.

543
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:01,000
I don't think he was going to be clairvoyant.

544
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:06,000
Hippolytus, also in the second century, quotes from these 12 verses.

545
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:10,000
And these are several hundred years before the Alexandrian codices.

546
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:14,000
So if these verses are not the Alexandrian codices, they were expregated.

547
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,000
So you can attack this scholarship from the point of view of the historical records,

548
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:21,000
but I'm going to show you something even more surprising.

549
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:26,000
If we studied the last 12 verses of Mark, we discover that verses 9 to 11

550
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:33,000
are an appearance to Mary and discusses the disciples' initial disbelief.

551
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:37,000
From verse 11 to 18, our subsequent appearance is then the conclusion of the chapter

552
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:38,000
is verses 19 to 20.

553
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:41,000
So from 9 to 20, what we're talking about.

554
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:48,000
Another way to organize those 12 verses is from verses 9 to 14, a simple narrative.

555
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:53,000
Verses 15 to 18 is a discourse by Jesus Christ, and the last two verses are a conclusion

556
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:54,000
of the whole gospel.

557
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:58,000
And by the way, if you take these 12 verses away, you leave the gospels with the people

558
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:01,000
confused and in disarray and in disbelief.

559
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:02,000
You have no resurrection.

560
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,000
So you can see why the Gnostics would love to drop those verses off.

561
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,000
But anyway, these are the verses that are there.

562
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:12,000
Let me share some things with you that Pan and Discover about these verses.

563
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:17,000
The number of words in these 12 verses are 175.

564
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:19,000
That's a multiple of seven exactly.

565
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,000
Oh, really?

566
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:24,000
The vocabulary involved is 98 different words.

567
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:27,000
That's a multiple of seven exactly.

568
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:31,000
The number of letters in the 12 verses are 553.

569
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:34,000
That's a multiple of seven exactly.

570
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:37,000
The vowels are a multiple of seven exactly.

571
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:41,000
The consonants obviously would be a multiple of seven exactly.

572
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:44,000
The total vocabulary I said was 98 words.

573
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:49,000
84 of those are found earlier in the book of Mark.

574
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,000
That's a multiple of seven exactly.

575
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:54,000
14 of these words are found only here.

576
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:57,000
It's a multiple of seven exactly.

577
00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:01,000
42 of those words are used in the Lord's address.

578
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:08,000
56 are not part of his vocabulary that are in these 12 verses.

579
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,000
All multiple of them exactly.

580
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:16,000
If I take just two rules, if I have one rule, you've got six chances of losing one of winning.

581
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:19,000
To meet two rules, it's seven squared.

582
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:27,000
In other words, I have 48 chances of losing and only one of having both rules of seven.

583
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:29,000
Follow me if it goes by the square, right?

584
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:31,000
Two rules is the square.

585
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:34,000
For three rules, it's the cube of that.

586
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:37,000
I have 343 chances of losing for everyone of winning.

587
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:38,000
So it goes.

588
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:39,000
For four rules, it's 2401.

589
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:44,000
I've given you so far nine rules.

590
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:45,000
You have one chance.

591
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:49,000
If this is a random process, you have one chance in 40 million.

592
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:52,000
You have one chance of coming out okay.

593
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:57,000
The more rules you add, the more restrictive it becomes.

594
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,000
Would you like to try this, by the way?

595
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:05,000
Now assume you worked eight hours a day, 40 hours a week for 50 weeks a year.

596
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:10,000
That means you've got about 2,000 productive hours per year, and put those in minutes.

597
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:14,000
That's 120,000 minutes per year.

598
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:17,000
You've got seven to nine chances to try this randomly.

599
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:20,000
40 million attempts.

600
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:23,000
Let's assume it takes you 10 minutes to do a draft.

601
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:27,000
If it doesn't work, you take another 10 minutes to draw another draft.

602
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:36,000
Well in that case, it would take you about 3,362 years to come up with that design.

603
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:40,000
By the way, it gets worse.

604
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:43,000
I said there were 175 words.

605
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:47,000
There's 56 in the dress of the Lord, 119 in the rest of the passage.

606
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:50,000
In the introductory verses, it was 35.

607
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,000
Each one of these are multiple of seven exactly.

608
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:58,000
In other words, in the various groupings of the natural divisions of the passage, you'll

609
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:02,000
find it's always a multiple of seven exactly.

610
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:03,000
It goes on and on.

611
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:04,000
I won't badger this more than you need to hear.

612
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:07,000
There's something else you need to know about both Hebrew and Greek.

613
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:11,000
We're distinctive in that each letter has a numerical value and it is relevant that

614
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:12,000
way.

615
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:15,000
Here's a list of the Greek words.

616
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:19,000
The alpha is worth one, the beta, two, gamma three and so forth.

617
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:22,000
Right on through to the end.

618
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:26,000
The use of numerical values of letters is called gametria.

619
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:27,000
There's a gametrical value.

620
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:30,000
Every word thus has a numerical value.

621
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:36,000
The numerical or gametrical value of this, the total gametrical value of the passage happens

622
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:40,000
to be 106,663, which is a multiple of seven exactly.

623
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,000
Try doing that by accident.

624
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:46,000
If you take each one of these natural groupings, you'll discover each one has a gametrical

625
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:49,000
value of a multiple of seven exactly.

626
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:51,000
The first word, the middle word, the last word and so forth.

627
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:55,000
It goes on and on, as you can imagine here.

628
00:38:55,000 --> 00:39:01,000
That said, we had a vocabulary of 98 words, 14 not before in Mark, found later in the

629
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:02,000
New Testament.

630
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:06,000
35 occurrences.

631
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:11,000
The numerical value of them, again, is a multiple of seven exactly.

632
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:14,000
The verse 20 of vocabulary is 14.

633
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:18,000
It goes on and on in terms of words found here previously, words not found.

634
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:20,000
Everything's a multiple of seven exactly.

635
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:26,000
The total forms, 133, the value of those are 89, 663, which is a multiple of seven exactly.

636
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:29,000
Those that occur once is 112, which is a multiple of seven.

637
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:32,000
Curring more than once is 21 and a multiple of seven.

638
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:36,000
Curring 63 times, which itself is a multiple of seven, and we could go on and on like

639
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:37,000
this.

640
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:42,000
There's a word here, that's an unusual word, because it occurs nowhere else in the New

641
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:43,000
Testament.

642
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:47,000
It has a numerical value of 581, which is a multiple of seven exactly.

643
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:52,000
It's preceded by 42 vocabulary words in the passage of 126.

644
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:54,000
All these are multiples of seven exactly.

645
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:55,000
Now, I've gone.

646
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:56,000
I've added a lot on here.

647
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:57,000
We started out with just nine rules.

648
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:00,000
I've just given you 34 of them.

649
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:05,000
That's the chance of these rules having happened by just random chance.

650
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,000
Well let's take a look at that.

651
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:13,000
That's a 7 to 34th power, which is roughly 5 times 10 to the 28th tries would be needed.

652
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:21,000
You already had enough experience with the powers of 10 to realize these are big numbers.

653
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:24,000
Let's assume you'd like to try to simulate this, and I'll let you have a computer to

654
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,000
help you.

655
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:33,000
There are about three times 10 to the 7th seconds per year.

656
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:40,000
I'm going to give you a computer that can do 400 million tries per second.

657
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:44,000
That's a pretty good machine.

658
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,000
That means it would take about four times 10 to the 8th tries per second.

659
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:55,000
It would take about 4.3 million computer years.

660
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:56,000
That's pretty another way.

661
00:40:56,000 --> 00:41:06,000
I would need one million supercomputers working 4.3 million years to obtain this result by

662
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:08,000
randomness.

663
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,000
By randomness.

664
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:16,000
So this is again, and by the way, I've just used 34 conditions here.

665
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:20,000
Panin identified 75 of them.

666
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:23,000
So you can say some of those are not independent of each other.

667
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:24,000
That's true.

668
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,000
So two or three of those actually derive one from the other.

669
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:27,000
Okay, throw those out.

670
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:31,000
I got 75 to pick for them.

671
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:35,000
The New Testament, let me show you some other things that Panin discovered.

672
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:39,000
The New Testament consists of 27 books, right?

673
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:43,000
That means there's an opening and closing word to each of the 27 books.

674
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:45,000
It begins and ends with a word, right?

675
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:48,000
So two times 27, that means there's 54 words, right?

676
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:54,000
Among those 54 words, there's a total vocabulary of 28 words that are multiple of seven exactly.

677
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:58,000
In the gospels alone, there's multiple of seven exactly.

678
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:04,000
The total geometrical value of those words is also a multiple of seven exactly.

679
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:09,000
The value of the shortest word, which is one letter, is 70 and it's multiple of seven obviously.

680
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:14,000
The value of the longest word is multiple of seven, and this one's particularly interesting

681
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:17,000
that the longest word happens to be apocalypsis.

682
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:21,000
And it happens to be seven times six times six times six.

683
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:24,000
That's kind of interesting, I think.

684
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:25,000
There's this is the one I love.

685
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:32,000
I realize a lot of these things may be overkill here, but I want to show you the one that blows

686
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:35,000
me away completely.

687
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:38,000
We've discovered the vocabulary in the Greek that's unique to Matthew.

688
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:40,000
Now, I understand what I'm talking about.

689
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:44,000
The vocabulary of these are words that only Matthew uses.

690
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:50,000
If you go through the whole Bible and take all the words, there's a vocabulary that's

691
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:51,000
unique to Matthew.

692
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:57,000
It occurs only 42 times, a multiple of seven exactly, and those have 126 letters, a multiple

693
00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:59,000
of seven exactly.

694
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:06,000
Now what makes this particularly peculiar is let's assume for discussion that Matthew

695
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:09,000
tried to do this on purpose.

696
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:11,000
How would you do that?

697
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:17,000
If you're a Matthew and you decided you would like to have this characteristic in your gospel,

698
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:21,000
how would you go about making sure that the words that you alone use is a multiple

699
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:22,000
of seven exactly?

700
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:25,000
Well, you can only do it two ways.

701
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:28,000
You've got to sit down with all the other writers in the New Testament, assuming you can

702
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:31,000
figure out who they're going to be, and get them to agree not to use your little list

703
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:32,000
of words.

704
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:34,000
How many think that happened?

705
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:37,000
Not very likely.

706
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:43,000
Or you could argue that this feature is an argument that Matthew wrote last, because in

707
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:49,000
theory at least he could lay down everybody else's writings and make sure that it fit.

708
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So you could use this as an argument that Matthew wrote his gospel last.

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He either had prior agreement, that doesn't make sense, or his gospel was written last.

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So the gospel of Matthew has a vocabulary unique to itself that's a multiple of seven

711
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:09,000
exactly, but that sort of mark.

712
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:11,000
Well, I thought Matthew wrote last.

713
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:15,000
I thought Mark wrote last, because Mark also has a vocabulary unique to him that's a multiple

714
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:18,000
of seven exactly, but so does Luke.

715
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And so does John.

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00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:23,000
They each were written last, and obviously I'm a meek for sesus.

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And so did James, Peter, Jude, and Paul.

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Each one was written last.

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In other words, each one has a vocabulary that nobody else uses that happens to be an exact

720
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multiple of seven.

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00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:38,000
There's only one explanation for this that I can tolerate mathematically, and that is

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that the Holy Spirit was an overseer of every word, every letter in the New Testament.

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I think that's exciting.

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By the way, this even bridges the Old New Testaments.

725
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You know, I often joke that I'm going to have a conference and have an average conference.

726
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:57,000
We're going to tear out the page of the Bible tonight that's unnecessary.

727
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That'll smoke out all the fundamentalists, right?

728
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:03,000
And they were very ceremoniously open the Bible and tear out the page between the Old New

729
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:05,000
Testaments, because it's unnecessary.

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00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:12,000
There are words that have this heptatic feature if and only if you put the Old New Testament

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together.

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00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:17,000
The word hallelujah occurs 24 times in the Old Testament, four times in the New.

733
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Four plus 24 is 28, a multiple seven exactly.

734
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Hosanna, shepherd, Jehovah's Abioth.

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And I go through a list of these words that are not multiple of seven in either Old New

736
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:30,000
Testament, but they are a multiple seven when you put the Old New Testament together.

737
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I think that's kind of fun.

738
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All this of course is detailed in our briefing page called How We Got Our Bible.

739
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But the main point is these specifications that we talked about have been fulfilled.

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The specifications in the Bible says that he would be born of a virgin and he was.

741
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That he'd be born in Bethlehem and he was.

742
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That he'd be taken into Egypt and he was.

743
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That he would heal the sick and make people whole and he did.

744
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In each one of these is documented.

745
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:56,000
You can look up the verses.

746
00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:58,000
He would be crucified and he was.

747
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:01,000
And he would die for our sins and he did.

748
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:05,000
That he would be raised from the dead and he was.

749
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:07,000
And so why do we accept the Bible?

750
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Because these little numbers from Canaan, no, no, that's not the reason.

751
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:15,000
We do this because it's the authentication of Jesus Christ.

752
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:18,000
The Septuagint has over 300 detailed specifications.

753
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:20,000
He's fulfilled his lifetimes.

754
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:24,000
The seven weeks prophecy that we studied in Daniel chapter 9 is undeniable.

755
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:28,000
So we have the authentication of who Christ is, first of all.

756
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:32,000
The scripture authenticates who Christ was.

757
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:37,000
Then we can lean on the authentication by Christ of the Torah of Daniel, in fact of

758
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:39,000
the whole Old Testament.

759
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It's an integrated design.

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00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:41,000
That's our apologetic.

761
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:43,000
That's the one that's bulletproof.

762
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:50,000
That this, these 66 books penned by over 40 different guys were, virtually 2,000 years,

763
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is an integrated package and that it transcends the dimensionality of time itself.

764
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:57,000
No other book on the planet earth does that.

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00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:01,000
These six separate books by penned by 40 different guys who didn't even know each other.

766
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:08,000
Over several thousand years, their design anticipates in detail events before they happen.

767
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:13,000
So the, obviously, the source of this message is from outside our physical universe, outside

768
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:16,000
our time domain.

769
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:20,000
There are all kinds of hidden authentication codes in the scripture.

770
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:23,000
We've talked about some of the micro codes, these little numbers and so forth.

771
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:24,000
There are also macro codes.

772
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:29,000
We went through Genesis chapter 5 and the fact that we have the summary of the Christian

773
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:33,000
gospel tucked away in the genealogy in the Torah of all places.

774
00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:34,000
We have the macro codes.

775
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:38,000
We looked at those in Genesis 5, Genesis 22, the Akita, the Book of Ruth, the whole book

776
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:42,000
of Joshua and of course the transcendent numerical design that we've touched on here,

777
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:43,000
just as we go along the way.

778
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:45,000
But there is something else.

779
00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:46,000
How can you personally?

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00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:47,000
Say, check, I don't, I'm not a mathematician.

781
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:49,000
I don't want to get into all that stuff.

782
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:50,000
But how can I know?

783
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:52,000
How can you know?

784
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:55,000
And Jesus answers that for you in John 7 verse 17.

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00:47:55,000 --> 00:48:05,000
If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God or whether

786
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:07,000
I speak of myself.

787
00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:10,000
That's Christ's challenge to you.

788
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:14,000
Try him and see for yourself.

789
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:15,000
One integrated design.

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00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:17,000
The New Testament is in the Old Testament concealed.

791
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:20,000
The Old Testament is in the New Testament revealed.

792
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:21,000
And once you begin to discover that.

793
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:25,000
Once you begin to discover the integrity of the package, it will change your whole

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00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:27,000
perspective on everything that it says.

795
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:31,000
And when you know you can rely on it.

796
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:36,000
So we're going to now enter, in the next session, we'll actually enter the New Testament.

797
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We'll talk about the, obviously we'll enter the historical books, the Gospels, and the

798
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:43,000
interpretive letters will come separately in Revelation.

799
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:45,000
Along the way we'll do some summaries.

800
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:49,000
We'll have a whole eschatological summary of where end time prophecy is headed and so

801
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:50,000
forth.

802
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:52,000
We can't diversify different good scholars.

803
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:54,000
They have different views of some of these things.

804
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:57,000
But in the New Testament we have the five historical books.

805
00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:00,000
And next time we'll focus on Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

806
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:03,000
And we're going to take a little different approach.

807
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:07,000
With a limited opportunity we have, we're not going to go through each book individually.

808
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:11,000
We'll go, we'll talk about its distinctives first.

809
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:16,000
But then we'll go through a integration of all of them geographically.

810
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:17,000
Here's where he went.

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00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:18,000
There's what he did.

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And we'll put it all together for you geographically.

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When we do that.

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And one of the things that you'll learn that's kind of fun is that Matthew, Mark, Luke, and

815
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:31,000
John all have a different agenda.

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00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:32,000
Matthew's a Jew.

817
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:35,000
He presents Jesus Christ as the lion of the tribe of Judah.

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00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:38,000
He's the Messiah, the promised Messiah.

819
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:39,000
He's Jewish.

820
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:41,000
Very Jewish.

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00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:42,000
Mark is really writing for Peter.

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00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:48,000
But his emphasis is to present Jesus Christ as the suffering servant, the obedient to

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the Father.

824
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:51,000
He's a different kind of guy altogether.

825
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:52,000
Luke's a doctor.

826
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:55,000
He's interested in presenting in Jesus Christ as the Son of Man.

827
00:49:55,000 --> 00:50:00,000
The fact that God became man is what blew him away.

828
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:04,000
And John takes the flip side of that, that he's the Son of God.

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Each one of these has a distinctive mission as he writes his gospel and you'll discover

830
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:11,000
something interesting.

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00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:16,000
Everything in their respective gospels supports that particular emphasis.

832
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:18,000
The genealogy.

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00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:23,000
Matthew, being a Jew, starts as genealogs from Abraham and takes it through the legal line,

834
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:27,000
through Joseph, the legal father of Jesus Christ.

835
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:29,000
Mark is a servant, not interested in pedigree.

836
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:32,000
He's the only one without a genealogy.

837
00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:37,000
Luke, because he is the Son of Man, he obviously starts with Adam.

838
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And from Adam to Abraham, when he gets to Abraham to David, they're both the same,

839
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:43,000
Matthew and Luke.

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But when you get to David, Luke takes a left turn.

841
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:50,000
He doesn't go through the first surviving Son of Bathsheba, as Matthew does.

842
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:56,000
He goes through the second surviving Son down through a line that ends up with Mary.

843
00:50:56,000 --> 00:51:00,000
And so he has the bloodline and there's a whole thing we'll get into when we get there.

844
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:04,000
There's some fascinating mysteries behind all that.

845
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:07,000
And John has a genealogy, but most people wouldn't recognize it.

846
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:10,000
The first few verses is the genealogy of the pre-existent one.

847
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:13,000
And you can take a look at that and see what he says there.

848
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:15,000
So Matthew emphasized what Jesus said.

849
00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:17,000
Mark what Jesus did.

850
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:20,000
Luke what Jesus felt.

851
00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:21,000
He's the humanist of the bunch.

852
00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:25,000
And John, who he was, that's his emphasis.

853
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:31,000
So Matthew writes to the Jew, Mark to the Roman, Luke to the Greek, John to the church.

854
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:35,000
The first miracle, Matthew the first number would be a leper cleanse.

855
00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:37,000
That's a very Jewish emphasis.

856
00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:39,000
Leprese was a symbol of sin.

857
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:45,000
Mark and Luke both being Gentile oriented, demons expelled.

858
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:46,000
John's the mystic.

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00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:51,000
Water turned to wine is his first miracle in each one.

860
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:54,000
Matthew ends with a resurrection as any Jew would.

861
00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:56,000
Mark with the ascension.

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00:51:56,000 --> 00:52:01,000
Luke with the promise of the Spirit setting up his sequel, which is Acts of the Holy Spirit.

863
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:05,000
And then John of course, the promise of his return for the church of course.

864
00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:09,000
And John finishes that, sets himself up for revelation, if you will.

865
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:15,000
And so it's interesting when we study the camps and numbers, the East, West, South, and

866
00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:17,000
North had symbols.

867
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:21,000
The ensign for Judah was the lion, right?

868
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:23,000
And lion of the tribe of Judah.

869
00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:29,000
Mark was the west, the next one was the Ephraim, the ox, if you will.

870
00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:34,000
And Luke the man, the Reuben was a symbol of was a man and Dan the eagle.

871
00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:40,000
So we have the face of the lion, the ox, the man, the eagle that the camp represented,

872
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:47,000
the same as the face of the seraphim and the cherubim around the throne of God, fits the

873
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:48,000
four gospels.

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00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:54,000
You begin to realize there is a mystical overseer on how these things are designed.

875
00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:56,000
And so that's kind of, I think, kind of fun.

876
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:59,000
And there's also different styles in terms of groupings and snapshots and so forth.

877
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:00,000
We'll talk about all that next time.

878
00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:02,000
So that's what we're about.

879
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:05,000
And let's stand for a closing word of prayer.

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00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:11,000
Fun time coming.

881
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:15,000
We'll be going through a overview of the life of Christ where we'll put that all together.

882
00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:19,000
Up to the final week, we'll save a whole session for the final week because there's

883
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much, there's an awful lot of there that Mel Gibson didn't tell you or couldn't tell

884
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:25,000
you.

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00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:26,000
We'll talk about that.

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And I believe he did us a wonderful favor with this marvelous piece of work because

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he's given us the opportunity to open a conversation with anybody.

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00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:36,000
But there are some things that he wasn't in the position to be able to communicate that

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00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:39,000
we will extract from the text as we go forward.

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Let's bow our hearts.

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00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:42,000
Father, we thank you for who you are.

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00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:46,000
We pray, Father, that you would take these seeds that are planted in their lives.

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00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:49,000
We pray, Father, that you'd nurse them to fruition.

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00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:52,000
We pray, Father, that you'd illuminate that path before us, that we each might know what

895
00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:58,000
you would have of us as we go forward, as we just commit ourselves without any reservation

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00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:04,000
into your hands in the name of Yeshua, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, amen.