Can we Trust the Bible? On the Trustworthiness of Scripture (Dr. Dan Biddle, Genesis Apologetics)

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April 19, 2021

Can we trust Scripture? Is the Bible reliable? Watch this presentation to see how Manuscripts, Archaeology, Prophecy, and Special Creation fully establish the Bible as credible and authoritative.

00:33: So I'd like to just share one opening passage today that I think is really profound that speaks to this.
00:40: And then I wanna draw a little bit from Genesis and then we'll get into my PowerPoint deck. I do have 80 slides, but I'm a quick talker.
00:47: I really do only hope to keep you here for about an hour tonight. I'll keep a good eye on it and then we'll try to open up for some time for some
00:54: Q &A. But here's what the word has for us tonight in Psalm 78. It says this, and really study these words and try to think what the writer's getting at.
01:04: Psalm 78 verses one through five, "'Give ear, O my people, to my law.'"
01:10: And if you turn that word into the Hebrew, it says, "'Give ear to my Torah.'" That's the word being referred to.
01:17: That's the first five books of the Old Testament starting with Genesis. So it says, "'Give ear to my people, to my
01:24: Torah, "'to my law, incline your ears to the words of my mouth. "'I will open my mouth in a parable.
01:31: "'I will utter dark sayings of old.'" So he's taking something out of the deep, distant past here.
01:38: "'Which we have heard and known "'and our fathers have told us.'" So he's talking about something from the past that our fathers have told us that have been carried on for generations.
01:48: And then he says, "'We will not hide them "'from their children, showing them to the generation "'to come the praises of the
01:57: Lord and his strength "'and his wonderful works that he has done.'" Translation, we will take this word that has been passed down to us from the patriarchs, the writers of the scripture, and we will tell them to the generations to come of the works of the
02:14: Lord. What is the work of the Lord? It's creation, it's Genesis.
02:20: So this is a command from scripture to take what the Genesis writers wrote.
02:26: It's not parable, it's not allegory, it's not myth, you take that from the past and you teach it to the future generations.
02:33: We have to hand the baton. Because if you look right now around the landscape of this world and you look into the churches, there's something sweeping the nation.
02:44: And they are turning Christian seminaries, Christian colleges, and many churches are turning this book into a fable to try to make it convenient to attract people.
02:56: There are about 100 colleges left in America, Christian colleges, that will teach this word under the authority of Genesis, teach it as a real creation.
03:06: But you guys, all you have to do is turn to Luke chapter three, and Luke chapter three talks about the 70 generations, the 70 genealogies that connect
03:16: Christ all the way back to Adam. Who was before Adam? Nobody.
03:22: That's what the word says, not a population of 10 ,000 homo erectus creatures trying to strive and eat their way and outmurder their way of all the other apes to become homo sapiens.
03:33: That's a lie, it didn't happen. Who was there millions of years ago? Nobody. God himself is the inventor of time that he wound up and started just thousands of years ago.
03:45: The word is clear, people just don't wanna eat it, they don't wanna buy it. A lot of people nowadays are saturated in Nova and History Channel and Marvel movies and everything else, and they're approached with the word, and they're like, wow,
04:00: I can't believe that the two things at the same time, the world has so indoctrinated them that when they start hearing the
04:06: Genesis message all the way from the Old Testament to the New Testament, they start developing smoke up in their brain called cognitive dissonance, it's friction.
04:15: People think, how in the world can this exist and this exist at the same time? We had a young gal that walked up to our
04:21: Noah's Ark exhibit, we've got like a four -foot model and she walked up and she saw a little theropod dinosaur on the
04:27: Ark, and she said, wait a minute, what's that doing there? The dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago and humans came into existence 200 ,000 years ago.
04:38: And I said, that's not what the Bible teaches. And you could see, she was at that moment as an 18 -year -old, the smoke was happening in her head where she's trying to reconcile years and years and years of framework and her knowledge membranes in her brain trying to unlearn this framework of evolution that had solidified in her head, but then someone comes in and drops a glistening seed of truth in there and it will grow, it's just gonna take time.
05:07: But there is a myth and there is a lie being spread around the nation all over the place and what is it?
05:14: The Bible calls it the lie. Romans 1 says that if you reject your creator, you're gonna have a darkened conscience.
05:21: You're not gonna be able to understand these truths because people suppress the truth in unrighteousness.
05:27: Now, let me take you to this scary verse. The scary verse is in the New Testament in 2
05:33: Peter 3, where Peter, under the anointing of the Holy Spirit says, hey everybody,
05:39: I've written to you guys a lot of stuff, I've said a lot of things to you guys, but above all else, above everything else
05:46: I ever taught you, know this, that scoffers will come in the last days scoffing, saying, where is this coming?
05:53: Because creation's gone on ever since it happened in the beginning, teaching the idea of uniformitarianism, long ages, there's been no
06:02: God, no special creation, and Peter warns and he says, they're going to scoff God and they're gonna be willingly ignorant, which means they're gonna teach against two things, and he lies them out for us.
06:14: A special creation breathed into existence by God, that's target number one of these scoffers in the end time, and target number two is, a cataclysmically destroyed world by the flood.
06:27: And I would challenge anyone today, bring me a college textbook that doesn't attack those two things.
06:33: So something's happening in this age that we're living in that we have to wake up and realize it's revival time.
06:40: And if you start mythologizing Genesis and throwing it out, well then that's like throwing an anchor off of a bridge in Jesus's shackle to the other side of the anchor.
06:51: Because Jesus referred back to the Old Testament 42 times and every time he did, he treated it like a real history book.
06:59: Jesus said not a jot or a tittle will disappear from the Torah until everything's been fulfilled.
07:05: So Jesus, he also referred back to the Old Testament and Genesis, he said, haven't you guys read that at the beginning,
07:12: God made them male and female? Not after millions of years of some evolution thing. So it's very, very clear, we know what's been taught.
07:19: But here, I wanna get even more specific and I wanna paint a picture of the lie that the enemy is using today.
07:26: That's it's penetrating some churches, it's penetrating many colleges, every secular college and some
07:32: Christian colleges. And it's simply this, they're trying to undermine, Satan can't take all the
07:40: Bibles and stack them up in a big pile and pour gasoline on them and light them on fire.
07:45: That'd be a little bit too obvious, right? If Satan wants to come against Christianity, he's not gonna stack up the
07:50: Bibles and burn them. What is he gonna do? He's gonna take away, he's gonna try to take away their power by turning them into myth.
08:00: So people have the Bible sitting on their coffee table, but they're not gonna surrender to it, they're not gonna believe it because it's lost the authority in their minds.
08:09: It's not scientifically credible, they think, or it's not historically viable. So the Bible's sitting there, but they disregard it.
08:17: And that's what's happening to our youth today in high schools and in colleges. But I wanna bring up just one word to just listen to this.
08:26: This is Genesis chapter seven, verse 11. And this is, the writer of Genesis is writing this and he says, in the 600th year of Noah's life, in the second month, in the 17th day of the month.
08:42: Is that history or allegory? That's history. Someone's writing a history, a chronology of what's going on.
08:50: Do you know in the first 11 chapters of Genesis, there are 37 patriarchs given for whom we have their birth, lifespan, or death years.
09:00: That's not poetry, guys, that's history. So it goes on here and it says, on the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up and the windows of heaven were open.
09:14: Here's the challenge. That sounds to me like an omnipresent omniscient, a
09:21: God who's everywhere and knows everything, wrote that through man and downloaded it into the
09:28: Bible. Because many people, what they're doing today in the colleges is they're spinning Genesis and they're saying, well, you know what?
09:35: Genesis was actually written by a bunch of sheep farmers 3 ,500 years ago and they had these little quill feather pens and they have parchments out and they're just writing stuff up in what they call the ancient near Eastern culture and context.
09:49: They weren't scientists. They were just writing down what they were writing down in their little limited
09:54: Babylonian understanding. There's a problem with that. The problem is that. How would
09:59: Noah have known that the fountains of the great deep, all of them were breaking open?
10:07: How do you know that as a man, if you're just sitting there, you just made the ark, you just took about 75 years to build the ark and how would you know that all the fountains of the great deep are going on?
10:18: That's a submarine tectonic event. How did Noah know that? He didn't.
10:24: God downloaded it to him and the windows of heaven were open. So you have a choice.
10:29: You have to think that somehow the writer is making this stuff up or God downloaded the truth of scripture to man.
10:37: Now I can prove to you with science, when you come back and we talk about the flood, God knew that that happened and it actually really did happen because in the 1990s,
10:47: God pulled aside six PhD geophysicists, some of the leading minds in the world and revealed to them through their careful study and standing under the authority of scripture that it really did happen.
11:01: It's called runaway subduction. It's called catastrophic plate tectonics. Pangaea catastrophically was torn apart just like the
11:10: Bible says. And the proof for that is unbelievable. It's a 40 ,000 mile rift system.
11:16: It's a linear rift system that covers the earth 1 .6 times over. Many of you have looked at a globe and you can see right in the middle, it's called the
11:25: Mid -Atlantic Ridge. That's the largest split. It's a huge split that goes down where the subduction was happening.
11:31: The sea floor was splitting apart. It's a 10 ,000 mile tear like a baseball seam that goes right down the center of the earth.
11:38: The Bible says that the submarine canyons, the fountains of the great deep broke forth all at once, all of them.
11:47: And that's exactly what we can see. You don't have to look further than a globe today, a sixth grade classroom globe and you're looking at the flood.
11:55: The flood evidence is quite obvious, but it's been obfuscated. That's a fancy word for saying it's been covered up.
12:03: It's been hidden. It's been disguised in millions of years. It's been disguised in Darwinism, disguised in earth history books.
12:10: It's been hidden. But when God opens your eyes, you're gonna have an experience like what I went through six or seven years ago, when
12:18: I finally told the Lord, I'm willing to stand under your word. I'm willing to submit to its history, to its authority.
12:25: I'm not gonna be a confused wishy -washy Christian. I'm gonna trust it. And then what happened to me, metaphorically speaking, was the
12:32: Lord was almost like sitting back in the room and saying, oh really, you're gonna trust my word like a kid? Okay, let's go on a tour this summer.
12:41: And God, through a bunch of circumstances, led me on a little journey. I went up to Canada. I went up to Montana.
12:47: I went to places where you can look at a 14 mile spread that's filled with not hundreds, not thousands, but tens of thousands of dead dinosaurs buried with fish, clams, birds, and mammals.
13:02: And something happens to your spirit when you see that and you're like, my gosh, this earth was cataclysmically judged.
13:10: And what does that do? It makes you stand under the word. What happens when you stand under the word?
13:16: Your family gets blessed. You get blessed. I'm not preaching prosperity gospel. I'm preaching
13:21: Psalms one. Blessed is a man who does not stand in the counselor of the sinner, but believes and trusts in the word of God.
13:29: It will profoundly change your life. For me, as a person who's got a PhD and is a behavioral scientist,
13:36: I spent two decades testifying as an expert in statistics and research. I have a pretty solid command of the scientific method, but God doesn't care about that.
13:46: He wanted to take me and sit me down like a little child and say, look at those dinosaur bones. They don't look millions of years old, do they?
13:53: And then I sort of run the science behind it like, oh my gosh, they're not. They're now up to 16 bio -organic materials that are found in dinosaur bones showing they can't be millions of years old.
14:04: And when I learned that, it was like being born again, again. Because I didn't know it, but I was walking around with a shift, a disconnect.
14:14: Who's been to the chiropractor before? Okay, people been to the chiropractor. I had a vertebrae, so to speak, out of adjustment between my mind and my heart.
14:23: My heart knew the Lord was real. I knew his word was real. I knew his Holy Spirit was real.
14:29: I felt his power. Experientially, I knew the Lord was real, but my brain, because it had been cooked and stewed in the world for 40 years, wasn't quite sure.
14:39: And I didn't even know how much I wasn't quite sure until the Lord himself revealed it to me through two things, dinosaurs and Noah's flood.
14:48: And those are the two things that got me. And it was such a profound experience. I had to go back to my first two older kids because when
14:58: I grew up with raising my first two kids, they'd ask me, hey, Dad, when they were going to public school, they would ask me, well,
15:03: Dad, what about the cavemen? And I would say, well, honey, if Earth is old, this is your answer. But if Earth is young, here's your answer.
15:10: Well, Dad, what about the saber -toothed cats and the cave bears and all the ice age creatures? And I said, well, if Earth is old, here's your answer.
15:16: If Earth is young, here's your answer. Because that's genuinely what I thought. I was a saved Christian, but like many
15:21: Christians, I wasn't sure if there maybe might be a few million years tucked in here and there, or we really don't know, or maybe the gap theory is true.
15:28: I was compromised in that area. I was a spirit -filled Christian. I love my church,
15:33: I serve God. But at that time, I had not yet been enlightened. So now that I've woken up to the truth of Genesis 1 to 11 as real history,
15:42: I had to go back to my first two kids and retrain them. So now when they ask me about what about the dinosaurs?
15:49: Straight answer. What about cavemen? Straight answer. What about the ice age?
15:55: Straight answer, because you know what? When you trust this as history, you only have one answer about those things.
16:00: Now, there's a lot of things I don't know and that we'll never know. I'm a very honest scientist practitioner.
16:06: For years, I've been riding my bike around Lake Natomas, and there are some amazing flood features over there.
16:13: You've got huge layers of ash, you've got rounded river rocks. And but you know what? It's probably a lot of it's ice age runoff, but a lot of it's tectonic.
16:21: Some of it could be pre -flood, some of it could be during the flood, but a lot of it's probably after the flood.
16:27: I've taken two really trustworthy creation scientists to go look at this place in full.
16:32: So I'm like, you got 200 feet and there's about 50 feet of ash here and then rounded river rock. And sometimes they're a little bit too confident in trying to explain exactly what they see happen there.
16:43: And you know what? I kind of doubt it. I kind of doubt that even they know exactly what happened.
16:49: Now, I know it either had to be something before the flood 4 ,500 years ago or during the flood or something after the flood.
16:56: But sometimes geology is such a complex thing to look at, we can't put our faith there.
17:02: We have to put our faith here because the God who is above everything downloaded it to man and he told us all he wants us to believe about this stuff.
17:12: A lot of people want to get into scary advanced topics and what about the Nephilim? What about the giants?
17:18: What about this and that? Well, yeah, there's 20 passages in this word that talk about giants and Nephilim and all that stuff.
17:24: But there's a lot of extra books that try to expand on that stuff that get it pretty mixed up sometimes.
17:30: All I need is right here. That's what I need to know about those topics. And there's a lot of things I don't know, but if I just saturate here, this is a living, active, breathing book that has power to it and it gets earth history correct.
17:47: Okay, so that is my brief introduction here, guys. So, all right, so am I on the wireless mic okay?
17:53: You guys still hear me? Okay, great. Okay, so I'm gonna stand over here so you guys can see the screen as I go through and I can see it too.
18:01: So we have a nonprofit 501c3 ministry called Genesis Apologetics. And let's see if this clicker's working here.
18:10: Yeah, dim the lights a little bit. It would be great. And there we go. Okay, so just a little bit about Genesis Apologetics.
18:16: We have four different divisions of our ministry. We strengthen Christian schools. Dave Bisbee downstairs, talking with your kids today.
18:24: He's in pretty much every leading Christian school in the greater Sacramento area. Five or six of them, Victory Christian Summit.
18:30: All Lincoln Academy, lots of different schools that he's around teaching. And let's see,
18:36: I think I might need to get some help on the advancer back there. You'll have to help me through this, it looks like. We speak in local churches.
18:43: Before COVID, we were getting about 50 talks a year. Over the last two weeks, I think this is my 22nd talk.
18:49: So we've been cooking again. We've been up in Vacaville and Reading and everything. It's been great.
18:54: And next couple slides there. We do have an annual conference this year. We did it at William Jessup.
19:00: We had to delay it a couple times around, but this year we thought, you know what? Rather than delaying it again, because it went through a whole one year delay, we're just gonna do it online.
19:09: So rather than having about 700 people, we were able to stream it out to over 30 ,000 people, which was really great.
19:16: So just go to G1conference .com and you can go there and watch our videos.
19:22: But I think our largest impact and our broadest reach is on YouTube. We have about 111 ,000 subscribers, which is really cool, because we'll make a video on Friday, you post it out on YouTube, and it goes all over the world.
19:34: By Monday, it'll have thousands of views to it, which is really, really fun. And we have over 10 million views on YouTube and about 30 ,000
19:41: Facebook followers. And next one here. Dave is, again, he's downstairs.
19:47: He heads up our student zone. Dave is preparing 72 videos for your guys' kids. So K through eight, just go to the student zone on our ministry, and then you can start going through his library that he's producing on 72 different videos.
20:01: He breaks it up. I think it's kindergarten to second grade, third to fifth, and then sixth to eighth grade.
20:07: And it's all kinds of things. What about the dinosaurs, six days of creation, Noah's flood, all those things.
20:13: And next one here. So we have two different other aspects of our ministry. By the way, all of our stuff for students is free.
20:21: You can go to debunkevolution .com or 7myths .com, or you can go to our book table out front.
20:27: If you're a student, K to 12 or college, our books and resources are free to you guys. We hope the parents who are here can pay.
20:34: But if you're a student, grab the stuff for free. And for fifth and 10th grade students, we have a program called debunkevolution .com.
20:43: What we did is we took the top leading California textbooks in public school that teach the theory of evolution from sixth grade all the way to 10th grade, and we extracted the top 10 pillars of evolution teaching, and we address all 10 of them using the
20:59: Bible and scripture. And then if you have an 11th grader, you can go to 7myths .com,
21:05: and that's a great program where I was talking about a lot of the Christian colleges today don't teach the
21:10: Genesis as history. Well, this will prepare your student before going to any Christian college or a secular college.
21:17: So that's the 7myths .com program. And then the next one, here we go.
21:23: This is a fun book, probably one of my favorite. We have a guy that volunteers for our ministry.
21:29: His name's Zach. I'm hoping he'll be here later this week. But he monitors our social media pages like Facebook. We have to ban several atheists every week because we get attacked by all kinds of fun, interesting people.
21:41: But a lot of people are seeking questions, and they have a lot of questions about our ministry. We get a couple thousand questions every year.
21:47: We took the top 50 most frequently asked questions and wrote a book just on those questions.
21:54: And about 10 of these 50 Q &As actually have videos attached to them. So grab that book that's outside.
22:01: And then our YouTube channel, these are our four most popular videos. We've been fortunate enough to produce the leading flood video in the world.
22:09: And I'm not taking any credit for that. It's amazing. It was such a god thing. We got the prompting to do it, and we went around interviewing the four leading flood geologists in the world and took the flood account of catastrophic plate tectonics, how it happened, and produced a 23 -minute video for it that can show you in just 23 minutes the mechanics of what happened behind Noah's flood.
22:32: And the second one over here is called Miracles at the Crucifixion of Christ. The Gospel of Matthew says some amazing things happened when
22:40: Christ was crucified. You've got Roman legions, battle -hardened army guys that were converting based upon what was happening in heavens and earth when
22:50: Christ was crucified. The sun didn't give its light. Everything went dark. There was an earthquake.
22:55: People rose up out of their graves. There's historical and geological evidence that exactly what happened in that year when
23:03: Christ was crucified happened. So go check out that movie. And the last two ones are about dinosaurs.
23:10: So go ahead and move on from this one. And one more. There we go. We're trying to reach students today.
23:16: That's probably our number one focus. We wanna try to get after that next generation today. Where are our students?
23:22: Well, they're on their phones. 6 .7 hours a day on average. You know, good, bad, indifferent, do with it whatever you will, but we wanna get them where they're at.
23:30: So we've got about 100 ,000 people that have downloaded our mobile app. There was a gal at a conference that came up to me, and she was looking at me, and she was looking at our booth, and looking at the books and everything.
23:42: And she walks up and she shows us her app, our app on her phone. And she said, you guys do this app?
23:47: And I said, yeah. She says, this app changed my life, which was amazing. We give
23:53: God all the credit. She was at a Christian concert where they promoted the app. She downloaded it.
23:58: She was a, I believe she was somewhere in her college degree. She had to rethink and relearn her entire worldview.
24:07: So it just, and when you can start with a changed mind, a changed mind's gonna change behaviors and choices, and therefore outcomes.
24:14: So that's a great tool, just you can download that. And the next slide there. And yeah, this one delays it a little bit.
24:21: It will come up if you just hit it once. And this next slide features our two movies.
24:27: We actually came out with two feature films. I really want you guys to watch this. They're both free on our website.
24:33: You can access them. Genesis Impact is where we have a creation, a creation solid gal, a college gal, going to a museum docent presentation where there's this guy from a secular natural history museum giving this pitch on evolution.
24:51: She listens to everything in this 45 -minute movie and then asks him questions and unravels all the theories of evolution right then and there.
25:01: But she does it in a really meek and loving way. So that's Genesis Impact. And then there's Foundations.
25:06: It's a 23 -minute movie that shows just how important your worldview is because we take this character, a guy named
25:13: Parker, a young man, and we take his life through three different scenarios. What is his life gonna look like when he asks his parents about evolution and then his parents confirm, oh yeah, you're just evolved pond scum.
25:26: You just evolved from goo and then you went to zoo and then you went through all the process of evolution.
25:33: What does that do to his identity? What does that do to his worldview? And we play that out through his life, his marriage, his job, and his deathbed.
25:41: Then we rewind his life and take him through his life again as a compromised Christian. Could mean this, could mean that.
25:48: Go figure it out. The Bible's squishy, wishy -washy. And we play that out. How does that impact his life as he lives it out?
25:56: And then we play it under a third scenario where his mom and dad give him concrete Bible answers and teach him that the
26:03: Bible's both historically and scientifically valid. And so he stands on it.
26:09: He builds his life on it. His roots go down deep and he lives his life out. And it turns out much differently than the first two scenarios.
26:17: Okay, so next one here. So the first lie spoken in the universe, the first challenge of God's teaching was
26:27: Satan saying, did God really say? And that's exactly what's happening today all over America when youth are challenged about Genesis and challenged about evolution.
26:38: The question's being raised, did God really say? So just be mindful of that and we'll go on from here.
26:47: All right, so this is what is happening to students in public school. I'm not gonna stand up here and rant against public school.
26:55: I'm not gonna be super pro homeschool and super pro private Christian school. I had two kids successfully go through public school and I had two kids do a little bit of public school and then finish in private school.
27:06: So there's lots of choices. Every family has different situations. But I will say this, the public school is gonna take your kid and indoctrinate them in 50 hours of course room teaching on evolution, the idea they evolve from pond scum into monkeys and on into homo sapiens.
27:25: Over 250 pages and it used to start in sixth grade but now they backed it up to third grade.
27:31: So it's about 250 pages of curriculum. So if your kid's gonna be exposed to that, for goodness sake, if the world's gonna give them 50 hours teaching of evolution, give them 100 hours of creation teaching.
27:45: But don't do what the mistake I see some homeschool families make. This is not a general criticism but sometimes what happens in these settings is you raise your kid in a inoculated bubble, six days, 6 ,000 years,
28:00: God created evolutions, bad evolutions, bad evolutions, bad. You gotta teach them what the world teaches too.
28:06: They really have to know what evolution theory is and why it's wrong. In fact,
28:12: I had a sweet homeschool gal come up to me once when I gave a talk about the age of the earth. This was a couple years ago.
28:18: She came up and she was just shell -shocked, about 18 years old, and she says,
28:23: I just have to tell you something. I said, what is it? She says, look, I've been taught creation my whole life and I've always believed it.
28:31: Sounds pretty plausible to me. But now for the first time tonight, I know why they're wrong and why we're right.
28:38: So if you don't do that, the world will do that. So make sure to get out ahead of them and say, here's what evolution teaches and here's why it's not practically true and here's why it's not biblically true.
28:52: There's a lot of science that refutes evolution. Our webpages are filled with it. Thank you for those amens, that's wonderful.
28:58: All right, next one. So millennials today wanna know, how many pages do I have to flip before I run into truth?
29:06: If it doesn't start on page one, just stop me when I run into truth. So it has to start on the first page.
29:13: You gotta raise the kids knowing page one is where the truth starts. All right, the next one.
29:18: Let's go into the parable of the sower now. You guys know that there are many deep secrets of the word.
29:26: God only gave us one Bible, 66 inspired books. But if you get out your shovel and your pickaxe and you start digging, there's so much truth in there.
29:35: You're never gonna get it through some casual readings. Let's dig in real quickly to the parable of the sower where there is a, he talks about the seed, which is the word of God or about the kingdom of God.
29:46: The birds are by the wayside, the stony soil, the thorns, and then there's the fertile soil.
29:52: You guys have all heard the parable of the sower, right? I'm not gonna go through it too much again. We are gonna watch a short video that gives a quick recap of it.
29:59: So take it away here and then we'll go on. The parable of the sower. Behold, the sower went out to sow.
30:12: As he was sowing, some seed fell beside the road and the birds came and ate it up.
30:20: Other seed fell on the rocky ground where it did not have much soil. And immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of soil.
30:30: And after the sun had risen, it was scorched. And because it had no root, it withered away.
30:38: Other seed fell among the thorns and the thorns came up and choked it and it yielded no crop.
30:46: Other seeds fell into the good soil. And as they grew up and increased, they yielded a crop and produced 30, 60, and 100 fold.
31:01: Okay, so next slide please. Let's talk about how this applies towards creation because it actually does in some profound ways.
31:09: So go ahead and fly in some of those bullets here. So the devil comes away and he comes and takes away the word.
31:17: So the word will grow. It's a seed. It's got the power of God. If the seed, the word of God, gets in your mind and your heart, it will grow.
31:24: It's got the DNA. When it unpackages, it's gonna grow into truth. But Satan comes and takes it away.
31:30: And then there's people who have no root. They believe for a while. Well, why would they stop believing?
31:38: Television, movies, evolution theory, all kinds of things. Next one. And then sometimes they're choked with cares, riches, and pleasures.
31:46: And a couple more. And then there's of course a good ground who having heard the word with a noble and good heart, keep it and bear fruit.
31:53: Now let's find the next four. And we'll look here. The first one is the devil comes and takes away. Well, that's disbelief.
31:59: The ones that have no root, believe for a while, that's doubt. And then we have distraction. The world's really good at all these, isn't it?
32:07: But if you doubt, lots of distraction. But we want people to have roots and a deepening belief, but doubt.
32:13: Right here are the people who have no root. They believe for a while, but then they stop believing because they start asking the question, but how could it be true?
32:22: How could it be true? Evolution says this, creation says this. All right, next one. This is why they start doubting.
32:29: Look at this onslaught that's happening to today's culture. You get Bill Nye with his idea of science, evolution, millions of years, then the
32:38: Croods, and then do you know all these movies are propaganda for evolution?
32:44: I was on an airplane once, and the guy to my left is watching Lucy, this movie right here.
32:50: And Lucy talks about, oh, we only use 10 % of our brain, but if we could evolve to use 100%, then we would be just like God's kind of thing.
32:58: It's a really kind of a satanic lie. Don't go run out and watch that movie. Croods, same thing.
33:03: That's the idea of a family of Neanderthals, and one of them starts turning into Homo sapien, and he's a little bit smarter than the rest.
33:11: To solidify in the mind of your kids that evolution happened and took place. And of course, you've got life science, world history, biology, and physical geology.
33:20: All of these things are steeping the kids in evolution. Yeah, so next slide. So Luke 8 .13
33:27: says they took, they on the rock are they which, when they hear, receive the word with joy, and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation or tribulation or testing, they fall away.
33:42: We want that root to grow deep, but they start doubting because they're hitting an onslaught of evolution.
33:48: Next slide. This is what we want. Genesis, roots, because think about this for a second.
33:55: If you've got science versus the Bible, and oh, ape -man evolution, and deep time, and Charles Darwin, you guys, if you don't get roots, you don't have fruit.
34:03: To fruit, you need roots. And so many teenagers that we talk to nowadays that are going to churches that don't have discipleship, that aren't really getting kids into the word, and they're going to public school, this is what they look like.
34:19: Their roots are not going down because they're like, but evolution, but evolution, but evolution.
34:25: And they want to go down deep, but they're believing these lies, and so they're not having fruit in their lives either.
34:31: All right, next one. This is what we want, and then there's a couple slides after this. We want the book of Genesis. We want their roots to go down deep because these deep roots start in Genesis 1 to 11 regarding it as true history.
34:44: And this is what I had to do, you guys. This is amazing. These are some trees, some palm trees over in Hawaii that will grow a main root underneath the ground, but as they start growing up, they'll actually sprout external roots called stilt roots afterwards.
35:02: That's me. Anyone else like this? I grew up in the church and thought, well, maybe it's myth, maybe it's allegory, maybe it's some history, some of this.
35:11: I had to realize later in life, halfway through my parenting years, oh my gosh, you mean it's really true?
35:18: You mean it's historically true? You mean all that stuff about caveman and the ice age, I have to rethink about how
35:24: I shape all that stuff? So I had to go after my life and grow some more external roots.
35:30: Next one, or after, later in my life. This is what happened if you just have wide roots. You know, if you have a youth group that's just pizza and games, that's what's gonna happen.
35:41: And maybe I'm being critical of some church programs now tonight, but you guys, this is truth.
35:46: This is what I see. It's not some young Christians that are going to public school that are not getting the creation teaching.
35:54: It's most of them are falling over like this. They're turning into what's called a theistic evolutionist.
36:00: They're trying to compromise and weave it together. But all it takes sometimes is a little session like this.
36:07: I had a gal named Taylor. She wouldn't mind me using her name. Really smart gal, 4 .5
36:13: GPA. She was in high school biology. She took AP biology, just splitting smart.
36:20: She was on my couch with 12 other gals in a youth group sitting down and I was giving them a preview talk of Noah's flood.
36:27: 35 minutes into the talk, she derails me. What about this? What about the animal kinds? What about the races?
36:33: How'd he get all the animals on there? What about Cain? Where'd he get his wife? All these questions. And somehow the
36:38: Lord right there opened her eyes and she dumped the evolution teaching of her youth and she relearned her identity in Christ, her identity and origins.
36:50: She's no longer like a dog without pedigree. You know, she's not a mutt anymore.
36:56: What kids are taught today by the world is you don't have a pedigree. You're just evolved pond scum.
37:01: That's the lie of the world. But when we were able to convince Taylor that she had a place in God's history and it was recent and real and historical, you know what she did?
37:12: She went and did? She took a, it's called Usher's Chronology, the chronology, the genealogies of Genesis 10 to 11.
37:20: You can get this fold out book that's like 45 feet long that has the genealogies like a family tree going all the way back to Adam in a big long timeline.
37:30: She put the whole thing around her dorm room because she wanted to know every day when she got home where she sits in history.
37:38: God loves her, God has a plan for her and she wants to know that we all came from Adam and then
37:44: Adam got bottlenecked all the way down to Noah. She knows her place in history. It was a revolutionizing truth for her.
37:53: So you want, a lot of people have wide roots. We want people to have tap roots going all the way back into Genesis.
37:59: And the next couple slide. So here's what it looks like. This is Psalms one. It says this, blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly.
38:10: What is evolution teaching? It's counsel of the ungodly. Nor standeth in the way of sinners, but sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
38:20: But his delight is in the law, in the Torah of the Lord. And in his law, doth he meditate day and night.
38:28: So could you meditate on a book if it's not true? Think about this. This guy is saying you gotta meditate about this stuff because it's truth and it's history.
38:38: Day and night, and he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that bringeth forth its fruit in his season.
38:46: His leaf also shall not wither, and whatsoever he does shall prosper. The ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
38:56: Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the
39:01: Lord knoweth the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish. You guys, roots are dynamic.
39:09: Roots don't sprout once and then they're done. Every tree in your backyard has dynamic growing roots.
39:16: You guys have souls that have dynamic growing roots. You can change.
39:22: You can be stuck on evolutionary topics. You can be stuck on false doctrine, and you can grow.
39:28: You can eradicate bad roots. You can take the rocks out of your garden and let your roots start going down deeper.
39:36: All right, so I actually maintain this position by doctrinal practice.
39:42: I'm kind of a Baptocostal. I'm okay with the gifts. I'm not afraid of the gifts. So, and I believe that a
39:49: Christian's faith and eternal effectiveness will only be maximized if they fully believe in the history of the
39:56: Bible and are empowered by the Holy Ghost. Why would the Holy Spirit be supernatural if we're not supposed to do supernatural stuff?
40:05: I mean, I was given a class once at William Jessup, and I had just done a video about distant starlight.
40:12: And I was laying there in bed. I was super, super tired, getting ready to do my talk the next day. I'd already closed the laptop.
40:18: I was already finished. And I got some little inkling in my spirit, get up to speed on distant starlight.
40:25: Just some little hunch that I had in my spirit. I gotta go back and study distant starlight. And I'm like, well, that's kind of a weird hunch because I've already done that, just did the video.
40:34: That just must be some weird thought I had. And I got it again. Get up on distant starlight. It wasn't a voice, it was just an insight.
40:41: Like, what is going on here? Happened a third time. So I said, okay. I got out the video, and I went through our script, and I developed an acrostic,
40:50: S -T -A -R -S, stars, for an explanation, a little five -minute talk for distant starlight.
40:56: Went to William Jessup the next day, gave my talk. There was a young man in the third row, brown hair,
41:02: I'll never forget him. And you could see, this is just a talk about creation, Noah's flood, all these things.
41:07: He was starting to come along with me during the talk. He's like, wow, that makes good sense. What about that, what about that?
41:13: He's starting to believe the credibility of the Genesis account as I'm going through teaching this class of Genesis.
41:20: Then the class kind of fizzles out. We ended up, and he pops his hand up. And you know what I almost did?
41:25: I almost said, you're gonna ask me about distant starlight, aren't ya? I didn't do that, you know?
41:32: But sure enough, he pops up his hand. He says, you know, I used to be a Christian and all that, but then I went to Sonoma State, and I took a class in astronomy, and they showed me how distant starlight couldn't get here, and it proved the
41:42: Earth can't be young, and so I gave up my faith. I turned around to the whiteboard, and threw out my
41:50: S -T -A -R -S acronym, and taught him for five minutes, and I saw him shift again. So there are answers for all this stuff, but you have, why would
41:58: Ephesians 2 say that God has prepared good works for us to do in advance, if there wasn't a trail for us to follow to get there?
42:06: So we have to be prayerful. I'm not getting into supernatural crazy stuff. I'm just talking about be sensitive about the
42:13: Holy Spirit. The Bible does say you can grieve the Spirit, and you can be filled with the
42:18: Spirit. It's an action word, and so, you know, if you're gonna go on a mission trip on Monday, don't binge watch
42:25: Harry Potter on the weekends, right? Okay, so I know some Christians that try to get by with stuff like that, and I'm not going after fantasy movies necessarily either.
42:34: We got a video on Harry Potter. Go see that controversial topic then. But if you wanna be powerfully used by God, keep your vessel clear, you guys.
42:43: So what does that mean? It's real simple. Fellowship with Christians. Get in the Word every single day, and worship.
42:51: Find a little closet, and get in the prayer closet, and worship. Okay, so now we can get into the topic that we're really supposed to talk about tonight.
43:00: Okay, how is the Bible different than other books? Let's get into this. Second Peter 121, for the prophecy, the writing of Scripture came not in old time by the will of man, but holy men of God spake as they were carried about by the
43:16: Holy Spirit. They were moved by the Holy Spirit. Next one. One before that, 2
43:22: Timothy 316. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.
43:32: And Matthew 518, verily I say to you, till heaven and earth pass, this is Christ talking, not one jot or tittle, which is as small as two marks you can make are
43:42: Hebrew, will in no wise pass from the law until it all will be fulfilled. John 1717, sanctify them through thy truth.
43:52: Thy word is truth. So that's how the Bible testifies about itself. It's not like any other book you can get at any other bookstore.
44:00: Next one. Psalm 119, just the first couple lines there. Forever, O Lord, thy word is what?
44:07: Settled. Settled in heaven. There's no more Scripture being written like that.
44:13: Thy faithfulness is unto all generations. Next one. Okay, so go ahead and scroll through these bullet points here.
44:21: So God's word is always true. God cannot lie. It's unchanging. It's permanent. It's perfect.
44:28: It's a one and done situation, you guys. We don't get to add to it. And it's Psalms 138 actually says, look at this.
44:36: Tell me what you think about this. God says, I will worship towards the holy temple and praise thy name for thy loving kindness and for thy truth.
44:44: For thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name. So we better start teaching, treating
44:52: Scripture with reverence. It was downloaded from heaven. Okay, scroll through some of these.
44:59: So here's a quick review of the Bible. These are some of the statistics showing it had to be divinely inspired.
45:06: You've got 40 authors, three languages in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. 66 books written over a span of 1600 years, unchanged for 2000 years.
45:16: And it's accurate in all historic, geographic, and scientific details.
45:22: A one unified story of creation and a plan of redemption. Now, some people say, well, the Bible's not a science book.
45:28: And I would say, well, of course, it's not a science textbook. But when it says stuff like on day five,
45:33: God made birds and fish. And on day six, he made mammals and man. That's what he did.
45:39: He made those two different taxons of animals on different days. Okay, move on here.
45:46: So what is an errancy? An errancy is important. That's when we believe that the original autograph of Scripture was divinely inspired and was perfect.
45:56: Now, we have lots and lots and lots of copies, but we believe the original autographs were perfect. So if you guys are on board of an airplane and the pilot says, you know, guys, we're about to take off.
46:07: And one of my gauges is saying, danger, warning, something about this little flap over here.
46:13: I'm not sure what it is, but ah, forget about it. Let's just take off. You know, that's kind of a scary situation, right?
46:21: Wouldn't it be the same thing about this if it was filled with obvious and blatant errors? Take me off the train if it's not true.
46:29: I've soaked in this book for decades, you guys. It's solid. It's amazingly solid.
46:35: Next one. What about if you're getting your car repaired and you're going through and they said they did something, but they didn't?
46:45: They said they're gonna change the transmission fluid, but they didn't. You pull out the transmission fluid and it's just black as black can be.
46:52: They didn't change the transmission fluid. Is that going to give you doubt to your mechanic? He didn't do what he said he did, right?
47:01: Same thing with the Bible. If God didn't do what he said he did, it's gonna create doubt. But when you take the word and pressure test it over and over again with archeology, with science, with whatever you want, it will stand up, it will hold up under these pressures.
47:17: Okay, yes, praise God for that. So have you heard this before, things like this? Is the Bible full of errors?
47:23: Do we know the Bible was accurately copied over the century? Does it line up with archeology? And how do we know it was written by God?
47:31: Next one. So this is the acronym we're gonna follow tonight. This is something great that you guys can remember as we go through this talk tonight.
47:38: It's the MAPS, M -A -P -S. We're gonna look at manuscripts, archeology, prophecy, and a special creation.
47:45: So manuscripts is this next slide. There's a lot of different ways to look at this, guys, but, and I know it's hard to see.
47:52: These are a lot of the church fathers down here. This timeline says this is 250 A .D.
47:58: So the Bible was pretty much written and compiled that the New Testament was compiled by about 60 to 90
48:04: A .D., but something happened after those original penned autographs were made of the
48:10: New Testament. When all the writers like Paul and everything, they wrote the epistles of the
48:15: New Testament, these church fathers, all these ones down here, Jerome and Augustine and all these historians, these church fathers, well, they started taking, in many cases, the primary and the secondary copies of these epistles that were actually written by the people who wrote the
48:34: New Testament and older copies of the Old Testament, and they started writing them and quoting them back and forth, back and forth.
48:42: Well, Hillary would write this, and then Tertullius would write back and say, well, I think about this, and as the apostle Paul says, back and forth, do you know that if we burned up all the
48:50: Bibles, we could go back and reconstruct the entire New Testament except for 11 verses just based upon what these guys wrote of the
49:01: New Testament back and forth to each other. So we have tons of manuscript evidence.
49:07: We know what the Word of God says. Now, yeah, there are some things that there are some mechanical mistakes.
49:13: If you look at the Bible today, you can go back and look at older versions. There's a few minor little things, but certainly nothing to worry about.
49:20: So the entire New Testament can be reconstructed except for just 11 verses by taking just what the early church fathers wrote back and forth to each other because we have those documents.
49:31: So we've got a really clear idea of what the New Testament scriptures look like. So there's other
49:38: Old Testament documents or old time documents. If you look back in history, here's one from Caesar called the
49:45: Gaelic Wars that was written about 1 ,000 years away from the original occurrence or the original event.
49:51: Here's one by Tacitus. Here's one by Demetrius. Here's one by Homer Iliad, which you're gonna learn about in college that was written 400 years from the original.
50:01: And we have 643 copies of Homer's Iliad. But if you look at the
50:07: New Testament, we have over 5 ,000 copies of those manuscripts that are only 275 years away from the original.
50:17: So we have lots and lots and lots of reliable, dependable, historical data.
50:22: We know what the New Testament writers were saying. Yeah, there are some questions here back and forth, but 99 % of it is just straight out, dead written, no challenge.
50:34: So let's look at archeology real quick. We'll just take a couple highlights. You guys can check this out if you go to the
50:40: Biblical Archeological Society. There are 53 people in the Bible that have been confirmed by archeology, 53.
50:49: So when you're reading about all these old characters like Ur and you're looking at some stuff about Daniel and the temple and King David, we've actually found historical artifacts that validate and confirm these characters, 53 of them.
51:03: That's a whole lot of different characters. So there's a group here that you can look at called Defending Inerrancy.
51:10: It's a huge group. It's a petition that's been signed by 68 ,000 ministry workers attesting to the inerrancy of scripture.
51:20: So I know your church would hold to this. A lot of churches do, but you can just go to Defending Inerrancy and they define what they mean by inerrancy.
51:28: But there's a lot of people left in the remnant that will hold to the infallible written word of God in the original text.
51:36: All right, the next one. So here's one that's quite interesting. Move in the next slide, take a look at this here.
51:42: This mentions the house of David. Very interesting, a very, very old writing there in the next couple slides.
51:48: It's called the House of David Stone, found in Tel Dan in 1993. It's made on, it was carved in basalt, and it mentions
51:56: Beats David, or the House of David, the Dynasty of David. So it affirms right in the timeline that we would expect that King David and his dynasty existed.
52:07: That was about 1 ,000 years BC. Here's Hezekiah's Tunnel. You can go there today and check this out.
52:16: A lot of people used to doubt that this was a real thing. Then they found it. It dates back to 701
52:21: BC. It's mentioned in 2 Kings 20 and 2 Chronicles. And they discovered in 1838, it was written in Hebrew from the end of the eighth century, 1 ,700 feet from the
52:32: Shalom Pool. We know where that's at. And in 1880, these kids were swimming and they found this inscription.
52:39: And sure enough, it's Hezekiah's Tunnel. There's a lot of biblical history about that. You can go back and read those couple sections of scripture that talk about how
52:47: Hezekiah's Tunnel was used. But another, just a good example of real history. Here is
52:53: Caiaphas's Bone Box, the high priest. It's got his name carved right in the side.
52:59: It's a bone box. It's Caiaphas's ossuary or bone box. Very, very interesting. It's right there.
53:05: And again, these are just some highlights. Contained the bone of six people. They accidentally found it in the 90s in Aramaic.
53:11: And scholars now agree it was the high priest at the trial of Jesus. They've also found fossilized bones of ankles with nails driven through them, knowing that crucifixion was a thing that happened during the time of the
53:26: Romans. What I wanna give you next is just a five -minute snippet of a guy named
53:31: Dr. Carl Morgan, who is the curator of the Woodland Bible Museum. It's right up here in Woodland.
53:38: He's gonna go over a five -minute talk about the site that they've identified, that they believe is the
53:44: Biblical Sodom. Pay attention, especially close to the end, there's some amazing evidence that proves that he found it.
53:52: All right, the next one, crank up the volume on this one if you can. That is Biblical Sodom. Biblical Sodom, this
53:58: Tal is in Jordan, right northeast of the Dead Sea. And it's a large mound, and in Jordan they call them
54:05: Tals, in Israel they're Tels, in Jordan they're Tals, in Jordan at the northeast end of the
54:11: Dead Sea. It's a site that is believed be Sodom of the Bible and has been excavated for 15 seasons under the direction of Dr.
54:18: Stephen Collins of Albuquerque, New Mexico at Trinity Southwest University. Now, I have helped with 13 of these excavation seasons and plan to return again in February of 2022.
54:32: If anyone wants to go along, get in touch with me, you can go dig as well. The site is large, it's 67 acres, and has produced everything necessary for it to be classified as Biblical Sodom, as found in Genesis 13 through 19, in every detail.
54:48: Now, for many, the story of Sodom and Gomorrah is just that. It's a story, it's myth.
54:55: Well, this site has proven that to be totally incorrect. Now, what do you need?
55:01: First of all, you need the right location. And the location we have is at the northeast end.
55:08: And if you look at this detail, Babi Drah and Numero are the traditional sites of Sodom, and they're down at the southern end of the
55:14: Dead Sea. They don't fit. And the reason is why that doesn't fit. Abraham and Lot were at Bethel and I, or Bethel, and they looked eastward to the
55:23: Kakar, or the circular plain of the Jordan, that depression there. And you cannot see the southern portion of the
55:30: Dead Sea from the location they were at, but you get a perfectly good angle of the Kakar, and that's where we find our site.
55:38: It's the largest, and it sticks out very plainly. The other thing you need is the right time, which would be classified as the
55:46: Middle Bronze Period. That would be the 18th and 19th century BC, during the time of Abraham.
55:53: And this is a square that I dug in the second season, and it's in 2006, actually.
56:00: And as you see it, the lower portion is from the Middle Bronze II period, and that would be the time of Abraham.
56:07: We found there a full meter of ash, and we had to go down about 15 feet through what's called iron age segments of more recent occupations until we reached this.
56:18: But we did find everything needed there to place it in the right timeframe. We know that we had to have a walled city, and that was necessary.
56:28: We had to have a gate complex, because Lot sat in the complex, the gate plaza, when the angels came to destroy the city.
56:39: Well, this is the gate complex that was actually found. And you can see it a lot clearer here.
56:45: As we see, it's highlighted. You have towers, you have a gate complex. It's a very large area, very unique.
56:52: So we do have the towers and the gate plaza. Archeologist, architectural archeologist,
56:58: Lane Rittmeyer, did a reconstruction drawing of the lower city entrance. And this is how Sodom would have looked during the time of Abraham.
57:06: Now, what about the evidence? What happened? I think we figured that out completely, actually.
57:12: And after this summer, we will know even more as we are doing, we can't dig this season, but we're doing a lot of archeological analysis of the ash layer, of the soils, of the other objects that have been found, bones, things like that.
57:27: So this is a hard -fired mud brick, and it was, it's like stone.
57:34: You can fire mud brick, not usually for walls, but in this case, this is like stone, and it got extremely hot.
57:41: Another thing that got hot was roofing material. I have pieces of this, and this is where, it's just mud that you would put on your roof.
57:51: And it's called wado and daub. You can see the imprint of the reeds in this. This is hard as a rock, and it got fired extremely hard.
57:59: And then you have pottery that is glazed and also bubbled.
58:05: The middle bronze pottery shirt from the time of Abraham is on the left. On the right is trinitite.
58:12: Trinitite is the melted and fused silica material found at the site of the first nuclear bomb testing site in New Mexico.
58:20: And scientific testing that we've had done, several universities, has shown it took at least 10 ,000 degrees
58:26: Fahrenheit to accomplish this. So, the area of the present work is at a palace area on the top, and this is the upper tall, and this is the palace of King Barah that's mentioned in the
58:40: Bible. And hopefully, this will be where we will find cuneiform writings that will give us even more detail about this wonderful site.
58:48: So, what have we learned? A lot. We know that the destruction is at the right time, just as the
58:54: Bible said. We know that the destruction is at the right place, just where the Bible says it is.
59:00: We know that how it happened. It was a meteorite airburst that God used, and it lasted just a few seconds, and he wiped out this city with up to 10 ,000 degrees, and I anticipate we find it even be hotter than that with extreme winds.
59:18: All the foundations are shifted to the northeast because it came from the southwest. There's an ash layer of at least a meter.
59:26: The destruction temperature, again, 10 ,000 degrees Fahrenheit, and Dead Sea mineral content of 8 % is in the soil, and that indicates that a tsunami impact came when it came from the
59:39: Dead Sea area and brought with it mineral salts from the Dead Sea and hit our site. So, that may even explain
59:46: Lot's wife, who turned to a pillar of salt. There may have been many pillars of salt that day as these 10 ,000 degree mineral deposits hit that site.
59:56: So, what I'm getting at is that this occurred exactly as the Bible indicates. Now, I hope that this short presentation has encouraged you to do more study on your own concerning the relationship of archeology and the
01:00:12: Bible. Wow, that's amazing. God said that he torched
01:00:19: Sodom and Gomorrah, and we go here thousands of years later and find that God torched
01:00:25: Sodom and Gomorrah, and it burned 10 ,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Some of the things he didn't show that he'll talk about if you go visit his
01:00:32: Bible Museum in Woodland is they've got human tibias that were burned so hot so fast they split lengthwise, and they've done carbon analysis.
01:00:42: They've done all kinds of analyses and proven something hit this site that burned at 10 ,000 degrees at nuclear heat levels, and it was an airburst.
01:00:51: It was a meteorite that came down, didn't make contact, burst right before it hit the city, and blew part of the sea with all the salt right into the city with a whole meter of ash, and that's right in history.
01:01:06: You can go dig that stuff up. Amazing, amazing history. All right, next slide here.
01:01:11: Now, let's look at prophecy. This will be some real interesting things. I'll move ahead. There's actually,
01:01:17: I'm just gonna scroll through some of these really quickly because I want to get to the five -minute video. There are actually 43 very, very specific prophecies about Christ.
01:01:26: These are in some of our books about things like the Messiah will be born in Bethlehem. He'll be born of a virgin.
01:01:33: He'll come from the line of Abraham. He'll be a descendant of Isaac. All of these things were told, pre -told in Scripture, and now that we have the
01:01:41: Dead Sea Scrolls, we know that some of these things were written about Christ before he was even a character in history.
01:01:49: How do you pull that off? It has to be real history. And scroll through some of these more. So the
01:01:54: Messiah will be a prophet. He'll be preceded by Elijah, declared the son of God.
01:02:00: He'll be in Nazarene. All these things go on and on and on. There's 43 prophecies about Christ that are very, very expressly specific.
01:02:10: All right, so let's look at the Dead Sea Scrolls. This is probably, in our century, the number one proof that the
01:02:17: Bible is true prophetically and historically. Here's what the Dead Sea Scrolls look like.
01:02:23: You can go visit these caves today in Israel. Next one. And just scroll through some of these bullets here.
01:02:30: In 1847, this shepherd boy lost a sheep, grabbed some rocks, threw them up in a cave, and heard some what sounded like glass shattering.
01:02:38: He's like, oh, what's this? Goes up there, doesn't find the sheep, and finds all kinds of jars.
01:02:44: These earthen clay jars, some of them three or four feet tall. They'd had hundreds and hundreds of scrolls in them.
01:02:51: They were suppressed, and kind of kept off the market till 1948. But they revealed that they are identical, nearly 99 .9
01:02:59: % the same as the Bible that we have today, originally written by the Essenes. Let's see, a couple more slides here.
01:03:06: 40 ,000 scroll fragments. It wasn't just the one cave.
01:03:12: It was actually a whole network of 11 caves. They were produced prior to this period right here, about 67.
01:03:18: Some of them were written 100 to 200 years before Christ in the
01:03:23: Qumran community. And they contain samples of all Old Testament books except for Esther.
01:03:31: So I already showed you how we have tons of manuscript evidence for the New Testament, more than Homer's Iliad, and even closer to the timeframe.
01:03:40: Here we have something that's amazing that can confirm the Old Testament. So this is just one of the complete scrolls that was found by this shepherd boy.
01:03:51: Contains the entire book of Isaiah. It's called the Great Isaiah Scroll. How'd that sit alone in a cave for 2 ,200 years?
01:03:59: God was keeping that thing cloaked until the end times to whatever times we're in now.
01:04:05: You can go in and look. It's really, really good quality stuff. It's Hebrew. It's written from right to left.
01:04:11: This matches our Bibles today in an uncanny way. And I wanna drill in more specifically.
01:04:17: Here's the amazing part. And unfortunately, I've saved, I think to me, one of the most profound evidences for late in the night.
01:04:25: So stay with me here. This is amazing. Let's walk through this. In 700
01:04:31: BC, 2 ,700 years ago, this guy Isaiah, a prophet from God, writes the book of Isaiah.
01:04:40: He writes the whole thing out, 700 BC. That's what that first pillar represents. Then it was copied and copied and copied and copied.
01:04:49: By the Essenes over here, they buried their copy of the Isaiah Scroll in a cave about 125
01:04:55: BC. That's 100 years or more before Christ. Note that.
01:05:02: Then we have copies and copies and copies and copies. Before we found the Dead Sea Scrolls right here, one of the oldest copies that we had was called the
01:05:12: Aleppo Codex, written about 1 ,000 years ago. So now that we have the
01:05:17: Dead Sea Scrolls back here, we can go and see if all the copies we made from here to here are accurate.
01:05:25: We can validate and prove the Bible's transmission accuracy over 2 ,200 years now that we found the
01:05:34: Dead Sea Scrolls. What did we find? 99 .9 % the same as the
01:05:39: Bible that we have today. We can track it all the way over to today's translations.
01:05:46: Next slide. So what I wanna do now is we're gonna drill into just one chapter, Isaiah 53, which in many
01:05:54: Jewish circles is called a forbidden chapter. And they read all kinds of stuff in different Jewish schools but sometimes they'll kind of gloss over this.
01:06:04: There's a guy that made a YouTube video. It's amazing how many people raised in Jewish communities have not read this chapter because it really specifically foretells about Jesus Christ in 12 undeniable ways.
01:06:18: Check this out. This is Isaiah 53. And when I read these, just keep in mind, we know now for sure that these things were written before Christ even came into history.
01:06:30: This is 2 ,200 years old. And the first version of this was written 2 ,700 years old.
01:06:37: How is it that some ancient writer 2 ,200 years ago and over 100 years before Christ came could write these things about Jesus?
01:06:46: He said, this Messiah that's gonna come in the times of Christ would not be widely believed.
01:06:52: He would not have the look of majesty. And many people said there was nothing in his appearance that would draw us to him.
01:07:00: He wasn't this big, shining guy that would be attracted to through charisma or through his looks.
01:07:07: He would be despised and suffer. He would be concerns for others' wealth and die for our sins.
01:07:13: Pain and punishment would be for us. He would make a sacrifice for us. He would not respond to charges as a sheep brought before its shears would silent, so Jesus would also not offer a defense.
01:07:26: What did he do in front of Pilate? Nothing, he didn't defend himself. And they were amazed. They're like, dude, you're gonna die.
01:07:32: I'm gonna put you up on a stake. Why don't you defend yourself? And he didn't. He didn't defend himself.
01:07:39: So he would be oppressed to kill, would be buried with criminals in his life and death.
01:07:44: He would be buried in a rich man's tomb. He would be crushed and suffer, yet would still live, would bear our sins, and would have a portion with the great.
01:07:54: These were things written about Christ the Messiah before Christ came to earth, 12 really specific things.
01:08:02: And here's the scripture references showing how they were fulfilled. So now I'm gonna watch just a quick five -minute clip from one of our videos that unpacks this.
01:08:11: Let's check this out. 53 specifically foretold Christ's trial, crucifixion, and burial.
01:08:19: Isaiah 53 describes a Messiah, a savior, who would be despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, a man who would be despised and not esteemed by others, one who would bear the griefs and carry the sorrows of humanity.
01:08:34: These descriptions could apply to many people throughout history, but it gets more specific as it continues by saying that people would consider him to be stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted, and that he would be wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities, and the punishment for our peace would be set upon him.
01:08:51: Then it says, by his stripes, we would be healed, and that the Lord would lay upon him the iniquity or sins of us all.
01:08:58: The passage continues to be incredibly specific about Jesus's death and crucifixion by stating that he would be oppressed and afflicted, yet like a lamb led to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers would be silent.
01:09:10: He would not even open his mouth in defense. Well, what have you got to say for yourself now?
01:09:20: Speak, or say something.
01:10:02: Don't you want to defend yourself? Do you want to die? Don't you realize
01:10:09: I have the power to release you? I have you crucified. You would have no power over me if it had not been given you from above.
01:10:47: It even says that his grave would be made with the wicked and his death with the rich. Even the very purpose that Christ came was foretold by this chapter, stating that he would pour out his soul into death so that he would bear the sin of many.
01:11:08: He was despised and rejected of men, man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
01:11:19: He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth.
01:11:27: He is brought as a lamb to slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearer is dumb.
01:11:37: Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted, that he was wounded for our transgressions.
01:11:52: He was abused for our iniquities, and through his wounds we are healed.
01:12:04: Is there any other person throughout recorded history who fits these descriptions better than Jesus Christ? Not only does this chapter show how the
01:12:12: Bible predicted Christ's life, crucifixion, and burial, it demonstrates just how reliably the
01:12:17: Bible has been transmitted over the centuries. Consider this. There's the original book of Isaiah written in the eighth century before Christ.
01:12:25: Next, there's the copy found in the Dead Sea Scroll collection that dates about 125 years before Christ.
01:12:31: Then we have the copies that are from about 1 ,000 years ago. And finally, today's version. Now that the
01:12:37: Dead Sea Scrolls have been discovered, we have proof that these incredibly specific prophecies were written before Christ was even born, showing their divine inspiration.
01:12:47: We can now also test how reliably the Bible has been transmitted over a 2 ,200 -year period.
01:12:53: The results? Incredible. Famous theologian Dr. Norman Geisler writes, of the 166 words in Isaiah 53, there are only 17 letters in question.
01:13:04: 10 of these letters are simply a matter of spelling, which does not affect the sense. Four more letters are minor stylistic changes, such as conjunctions.
01:13:12: The remaining three letters comprise the word light, which is added in verse 11, and does not affect the meaning greatly.
01:13:18: Thus, in one chapter of 166 words, there is only one word with just three letters in question after 1 ,000 years of transmission.
01:13:27: And this word does not significantly change the meaning of the passage. Wow. Over two millennia of copying this text, and over 99 % of it matches an original written before Christ.
01:13:39: In the incredibly specific prophecies it tells about Christ, all of them came true. Okay, you guys are doing great.
01:13:47: Pastor, do I have five more minutes still? Okay, great. I know we're stretching out long tonight.
01:13:52: I'm kind of enthusiastic about this. I wanna go over our last part of the map. So just remember the acronym tonight,
01:13:59: M -A -P -S, and the S stands for special creation. Think about this for a minute.
01:14:05: Man says, show me and I'll trust you. God says, trust me and I'll show you.
01:14:12: Some of you are getting your eyes open tonight. The scales are falling off.
01:14:17: I hope and pray that's true. Just like what happened to me years ago when you start trusting in this stuff, because you humble yourself under the authority of scripture like a child, and then
01:14:25: God will show you the evidence to confirm your trust. It's a good circle you wanna start. So let's go ahead and fly in these ones things.
01:14:33: So we can't go back in the distant past, so I need to trust either what God says about the distant past, things like the flood and creation, or I can trust what man says.
01:14:43: The basis for authority of scripture is a special revelation. It's that God downloaded the scripture to people, and creation of earth and humans is obvious, but it's been hidden by the world.
01:14:57: The Bible talks about that. I trust that God created like he said and conveyed it to me in a way that I would understand.
01:15:05: Genesis 1 and Exodus 20, 11, God will be rewarding and blessing those who trust in his
01:15:13: Torah. When people challenge me about, oh, you're one of those homeschool fundamentalist creationist people, right?
01:15:19: That's the stigma that sometimes they wanna throw at me. I just say, look, let me ask you two questions.
01:15:25: So remember that this is a bonus thing tonight. Remember two questions. When people throw at you millions of years and gap theory and got stretched out the days over millions of years and everything, ask two questions.
01:15:36: Ask this. First, do you believe that God himself wrote the 10 commandments on stone tablets?
01:15:45: Exodus 31 says that. God wrote it on himself with stone tablets. Paleo Hebrew probably he just wrote it all out.
01:15:52: And most people will say, okay, I'll give you that. God wrote the 10 commandments on clay tablets.
01:15:58: And then ask him to read the fourth commandment. The fourth commandment says, for in six days
01:16:04: I created the heavens, the earth, the sea, and all that in them is and rested on the seventh day.
01:16:10: So God could have created in a twinkling of an eye. He could create it in a second or a day or a hundred years.
01:16:17: Why didn't he? He created over six days because he wanted to establish a work week, a cycle for us, because he knew we would have to have rest.
01:16:27: Who'd like to keep working seven days over and over and over again? Or work for a thousand days and take a rest? It just doesn't work.
01:16:33: So the next question is ask them this. Do you believe that because communication has a sender and a receiver, do you believe that when
01:16:42: God wrote that fourth commandment to the Israelites, that he wanted them to believe it was six normal days?
01:16:49: And an honest person has to say, yes. God wanted the
01:16:55: Israelites to believe it was six normal days because God was saying, hey guys, look, just how
01:17:00: I created in Genesis one in six days, which they knew really well, I want you guys to do the same routine with your work week and then rest on the seventh day.
01:17:09: You get it? The Israelites would have said, of course I get that. So the third question is this, why would
01:17:15: God want you to believe anything different? If he wanted the Israelites to believe that, now we don't get to believe that because of what man says, because of what science so -called says.
01:17:28: That reason alone is why I wanna be a creationist because I wanna stand under the 10 commandments.
01:17:34: I'm gonna stand under the authority of God. Are any of the other 10 commandments allegory or figurative?
01:17:40: Don't kill, don't steal, don't have adultery, don't, you know, they're not. And it's the same thing with the fourth commandment.
01:17:46: We've gotta stand under it. Okay, so next couple slides. So here in a moment,
01:17:51: I wanna share with you something that I've been speaking and talking about this stuff, giving hundreds of talks for maybe seven years about this topic.
01:17:59: I just this week ran smack face into what I think is the leading proof for creation.
01:18:07: And I just learned it this week. It was just, just came to my mind. Many of you guys have realized this before.
01:18:13: Maybe I'm slow on the uptake, but just consider this for a minute. I believe that interdependent machines with multiple components that had to be present all at the same time.
01:18:27: And here's what I mean. Move on, next slide. This is what the Bible says. This is in Isaiah or Psalms, I believe.
01:18:34: Sorry, I don't have the verse there. For thus says the Lord who created the heavens, who is God, who formed it, who formed the earth and made it, who has established it, who did not create it in vain, who formed it to be inhabited.
01:18:50: I am the Lord and there is no other. So we have from scripture God saying, look, I made the earth and I made biology and they go together.
01:18:59: Okay, next slide. Look at the solar system here. You got the earth and the moon and the sun, all these orbits.
01:19:07: Change one thing and try to have life on earth. Take the sun and move it further out 0 .0000001%.
01:19:20: Just move it out, budge it out a couple thousand miles. What happens to earth? We freeze. Now take the sun and move it a little bit closer.
01:19:26: We fry, right? Or take the moon and just tilt it just a little bit or take the earth on its axis and tilt it a little bit.
01:19:35: Nothing works ever anymore. We're spinning around here on our axis 66 ,000 miles per hour you guys, everything is tuned.
01:19:44: And here's the question. If you get this and you haven't got it before, it should blow your mind when you think about this.
01:19:50: It's the question, when? If all of those parts had to be put together for any of it to work, when was it put together and who put it there?
01:20:01: We're like little ants waking up to this thing. Let's look at the next one. So this is intelligent design, we say, if you make this little high school experiment here where you got the earth, it looks like someone made this little diorama thing here.
01:20:15: So maybe people say, well, a smart student made this little planetary diorama, but we call this a product of time and chance.
01:20:25: That's crazy. That's absolutely crazy. When you look at how finely tuned the universe has to be.
01:20:30: Next one. And so now let's talk about the quote simple cell, right, the simple cell.
01:20:36: You guys, that's a city is what that is. That's a city with an atomic power plant and a nucleus and a mitochondria and it's self perpetual energy.
01:20:47: It just keeps going and going and going. That's just as complex as the first thing I showed you. Go ahead, take something out of that and tell me that it works.
01:20:56: You can't. You can't take out anything. There's no vestigial leftovers there, you guys.
01:21:02: All that stuff had to be there. Next slide is our, look at this. Consider this, you got a lock and a key, right?
01:21:09: What does a key do for a lock system? If you don't have the lock system, the key's worthless.
01:21:15: Same with the lock system. If you don't have the key, the lock system's worthless. What about the starting system on your car?
01:21:21: Take a look at this one here. You've got your flywheel and you've got your starter and an alternator and you've got your power system, you've got a battery.
01:21:30: All these five components, when you get in your car tonight and turn that key, these five different systems have to work in unison.
01:21:39: Now try changing the order. Take your alternator and put it in front of your battery, not behind it, right?
01:21:46: You're gonna start blowing stuff up. So if you take away any one of these five interdependent things, engineers would say you don't have a machine anymore at all.
01:21:56: You have nothing. It won't do anything. Next one, let's look at your human ear system.
01:22:02: Okay, so when I'm pushing around air molecules here today, your outer ears, it's called the pinna, are designed for trapping sonar waves.
01:22:12: So if you push your ears back like this, you don't hear me very well anymore. If you cup it like this, you hear me even better because I'm pushing around these air molecules.
01:22:19: Well, who made that? God, of course, because it goes through this little three -inch tunnel and wiggles a little dime -sized tympanic membrane called your eardrum.
01:22:28: And behind that are three little tiny bones that amplify the pressure as I'm pushing around air molecules by a factor of 1 .7.
01:22:36: You guys, that's a leverage motor. That's what engineers call leverage. There's a hammer, an anvil, and a stirrup.
01:22:43: And look at this, look at how they're designed to use leverage force. As I'm wiggling around your little tympanic membrane here, it's wiggling these bones, amplifying the signal, being pushed with this little mounting system that's on your cochlea that's filled with hydraulic fluid that upsamples it again by a factor of 22 times more.
01:23:06: And then it goes from there into a chemical system with your little stereocilia, these little linking springs inside that changes, and a chemical bath that changes the ratio of potassium to calcium and creates a chemical reaction which then is converted into an electrical reaction that goes shooting down your auditory nerve that wraps around part of your brain.
01:23:29: So as I'm pushing around air molecules here, it's heard as speech and comprehended as communication instantly.
01:23:37: That took an engineer. Those are five interdependent pieces, and if you start taking the parts out or pulling them backwards, none of the system works.
01:23:48: I could take a bucket of amino acids and protein and stir it for five billion years.
01:23:54: You're never gonna get this to come out of it. So these are three systems.
01:23:59: If you look at the solar system and you look at a cell and you look at the human hearing system, here's the thing that should blow your mind is that when did those things happen?
01:24:11: If you would admit they can't develop over millions of years of random chance and mutations and everything, something like our hearing system or the complex cell or the solar system, when did it happen?
01:24:23: Well, the Bible says when it happened. Because if you look at Jesus' genealogy in Luke 3, there's nobody before Adam.
01:24:30: He's the first. There's not a bunch of monkeys back there. The Bible says that Adam named all the animals and he took dominion over the animals.
01:24:41: That's why we put them in the zoo and not the other way around, right? So that, for me,
01:24:48: I think is the S. It all has to do with the special creation, that God spoke this into existence.
01:24:54: I was speaking at a high school group tonight with about 50 kids and the speaker before me said, oh, we don't know about the mechanics of creation.
01:25:01: We don't know how it happened. It might be ancient or east, allegory and mythology. We're really not sure about this stuff.
01:25:07: I was following this guy and the first thing I said to the kids is how did God create? And no one knew the answer.
01:25:14: I said, what was the mechanism? How did God create? And no one knew it. And I said, you guys, he spoke.
01:25:22: That's how it is. You don't get a human ear system from some random million of ear things. I mean, that's just craziness.
01:25:29: Evolutionists say, well, that's because a little piece of a bone broke off of a mammal and accidentally formed into three other bones that connected to a chemical system and then an electrical system and a pneumatic system and a hydraulic system.
01:25:41: That's craziness. That's crazy talk, right? So anyhow, the special creation,
01:25:46: I believe, really proves it and God says, for then God said and he created. Then there was evening and morning, day three.
01:25:53: Then God said there was evening, morning, day four. And all the Psalms and Isaiah talks about God commanded and it stood firm.
01:26:00: That's the only way you get things like this is you have to have an amazing, loving designer that breathes this out into existence.
01:26:08: Okay, so the eye is even more amazing. I'm not gonna get into that. Let's do a couple more tonight. Just fast forward through this.
01:26:15: This is your eye lens that has all of these little tiny molecular filaments that are pulling it so when you can instantly focus by your eye being pulled and contracted and expanded, contract, expand, this is how we focus.
01:26:29: It happens instantly. So you look at something in front of your eye and something far away. The eye is about 10 times more magnificent than the ear.
01:26:38: And all this stuff had to be wired up. You can't evolve this. This had to be engineered.
01:26:44: All right, a couple more here. And I believe that all this, it's quite obvious that the components of these machines, as small as a cell, as large as the universe, had to be in place at the same time.
01:26:55: When did it happen? The Bible answers this. Just thousands of years ago and we have the genealogies that go back from Christ all the way to Adam.
01:27:03: So you guys have been great tonight. I think I probably went a half hour over but it was hard to stop.
01:27:10: So you guys, thank you very much. Pastor, you wanna close us in prayer and we'll take it from there. Thank you.
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