Good morning, everybody, and welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church.
It's wonderful to see everybody here this morning.
If we can find our seats, we will get started with this morning's first song.
And if we can all grab a hymnal, we'll turn to song number 49.
Song number 49.
Let's all sing that out together.
open up the service now with a word of prayer.
Lord, we love you so much and we just thank you once again
for an awesome Sunday to come and worship you
and sing unto you, Lord.
We just ask that you fill this room with your spirit
and help us sing out.
And it's in Jesus' name, we pray.
Amen.
All right, for our next song, let's go to song number 88.
Just gonna ask that we pay attention on the timing.
It changes a few times during this one.
Song number 88.
Sometime we'll understand song number 88
Thank you for coming to St. Baptist Church.
If you didn't already get a bulletin,
you would like one, just lift your hand nice and high.
One of ushers can come by and get you guys a bulletin.
On the front, we have our Bible memory passage.
We're working on Jude 1, verse 17,
on the inside service and soul winning times, church stats.
On the right is a list of several expecting ladies.
Please be in prayer for them.
Upcoming events, our men's retreat is this upcoming weekend.
If for some reason you hadn't signed up or something,
please let us know, but we're looking forward to this.
We typically meet here around 9.30 or so in the morning
and then just head out there if you want a caravan
or if you just want to meet us directly out there, you can.
and there's lunch provided on Thursday morning.
Some people don't necessarily make it out for the morning.
You can obviously come and join us for the evening or whatever.
I'll be preaching that Thursday, Pastor Enrique Reyes of Springcrest Baptist Church
will be preaching that Friday evening.
Even if you're not coming to the conference and you just want to come out to hear the preaching,
either Thursday or Friday night, you're welcome to just come out and participate.
And if you need that address or if you need that information, please let us know.
You can even just sign up and that way and just say like I'm only gonna be there for the preaching. That's great as well
We also have the FBBF conference, August 27th to the 31st.
I want to make a couple announcements about that,
just as some quick reminders.
We are going to offer a free valet service.
And what that's going to look like, though,
is it's going to be off-site parking.
So we're not going to valet people here at the church.
We're going to valet only off-site.
So if people want to park on-site,
they just have to do self-parking.
Obviously, we want to fill this up as much as we can, but we realize we probably have
some overflow, and so if people want to, we'll have some of our ushers and men helping just
take vehicles a little bit off-site.
It's about a block and a half away, and it's just kind of a large parking area that's just
not really utilized.
I would obviously recommend if anybody's planning on using that, just don't keep any valuables in
the car. It's just a good habit of practice and everything like that. But essentially, our men
will help with this. All you have to do is just drive up to the front. We'll have a valet team
there, and they can help just take your vehicle. And then when you're ready to leave, you can just
go up to the front again, and they'll bring your car for you. We're planning on just doing this
as a sample.
Not next Sunday morning, but the following so Sunday the 24th that am service if you want to just help us out
And you're willing to allow us to just just get some experience doing some ballet you can do that
So but we're really looking forward to the conference and we have a lot of different events being scheduled Wednesday night
It's gonna be the first night of the conference. So I'm not gonna be doing our normal Bible study at 7. It's actually gonna be an hour earlier
It's gonna be 6 p.m. Is when that service is going to start Pastor Corbin Russell is gonna be preaching for us
and so you don't want to miss it you don't want to be late and
We have a lot of activities Thursday morning. We have a family-friendly activity that we'll be having
We have soul winning in the afternoons
Thursday
Friday are also going to be 6 p.m. service times. So they're going to be that Friday morning
There's also a family-friendly activity at 11. Then there's going to be a singles event from 12 to 2
We also have soul winning
Friday night we'll have normals preaching at six like the other few nights Saturday morning
We have our kids spelling bee. So if you've been working on that and then we'll still have soul winning
We'll have a park day and we'll have men's football. There's also a
It's hard to remember all the different things. We have like a men's broom ball event on the
Friday evening, I believe it is or is it Thursday? I can't remember now. Is it Friday or Thursday?
It's on the website folks, okay, but I think it's that Friday evening late
There's a late pickleball tournament.
It's going to be pretty much from 9 to midnight
is the time ranges.
And we don't know.
We're going to make brackets if you enter in the competition
and we'll sign times.
So you'll know specifically when you show up,
but I don't know right now.
And anybody that signs up basically allowing anybody
to sign up until Wednesday night of the conference
is the final registration.
We'll make brackets and we'll disseminate that to all the
people that signed up.
basically Thursday night will kick off some of those competitions. We have
men's, women's, mixed, and youth if we have enough people sign up for those. And
we have some pretty cool prizes. So I'm excited about that. Saturday is gonna be
a men's football event.
And we'll have preaching, I believe that's the only night that's different. It's 5 p.m. So it's it's normally it's it's 6 on
That Wednesday Thursday Friday, it's 5 p.m. On on Saturday and then Sunday morning should be our regular service times
We are gonna have pastor Reyes preaching for our Spanish service in the morning
We'll have I'll preach in the morning and then he'll preach in the evening. So a lot of different fun activities and events
Please just really help us out with guests and visitors
and things like that.
Try to be really nice if they sit in your seat
or whatever, they don't know where to go.
Please try to help them.
Also.
We'll have lots of goodies and stuff to just hand out and and giveaways and things like that
But if you just help our visitors make sure that they know what they're doing that they feel welcome that you're not mad that they're there
Also because of seating we're gonna try and add some extra chairs in here
But we'll also probably clear out a large section on the stage
And we may if you are willing to allow a lot of your children to sit up here
probably five to about
15 that kind of range, you know that kind of an age range if they're well-behaved and they can set up here for the services
That'll be really helpful if you're a lady who typically does not
Stay in the service like you pretty much know I'm not gonna stay in the service
I would we would just ask you don't just take up a rocker in each section with your kids that you would just start in one
Of these mother-baby room areas that way we're not
Thinking you're gonna utilize that area and then you're not of course if you
Want to be in a rocker and then eventually you have to go that's fine
It's just if you just kind of know like hey, I'm not gonna use it then we just ask to try and not use it
Also, our ushers are gonna be trained to basically move people around
So if you need to be adjusted or moved they kind of are prietra is a single guys get the least priority
So you're most likely to get moved and then our members are second
So we would probably ask a member to try to move or adjust if we can just to accommodate people
We also may add some extra chairs just in this walkway area once everybody's seated,
and we'll try to get them out immediately right after the service so people can freely walk again.
But I don't know how many people to anticipate for.
I do think it's going to be a lot. It's going to be packed, but we're going to have a lot of fun, so...
Just pray for the conference pray that everything will go smoothly, but I'm really looking forward to it and
It's it's exciting to put on these kind of events down below. We also have the missions trip Mexico City September 8th to the 12th
Tyler, Texas soul winning marathon September 27th. There is a soul winning seminar
It's going to be at the church.
It's kind of like a soul-winning blitz
plus a seminar on October 4th.
This is going to be help led by Brother Marcel
and he is going to kind of emphasize working
on just making your gospel presentation
a little bit more efficient.
And really, if you're planning on going to the Bahamas,
this would be a great event to attend
just because at the Bahamas it's so receptive.
that it's best if you can present the gospel really efficiently,
just to maximize the use of your time.
So if you feel like...
You could improve, especially this is great. If you're going to the Bahamas, this is great.
Brother Marcel's been to the Bahamas before, so he has a lot of experience with that.
He's a very good soul winner, and so we're looking forward to him giving us some tips on just
being a little bit more efficient with our gospel presentations. If you're new to soul winning,
or you've never been soul winning, or you want to learn more about soul winning,
these are great events to come to as well, just to get a little bit more experience. So
everything to follow, so to really put it into practice right afterwards.
Our mission's trip to the Bahamas is October 6th to the 11th.
If you'd like to participate, you just have to send us your itinerary, your flight itinerary.
That lets us know that you signed up.
Brother Kenton the bomb was like how many people are coming I was like I have no idea because we don't we don't know yet
Exactly, but we'll have a big group. And so I
Don't know what that looks like yet as far as total numbers yet, but last time I think we had around 60
People that came out there with us. I would anticipate it's probably going to be similar or more
and so in that case
We'll probably what we'll do is we'll divide up into two bigger group two groups and one group will go to schools one day
or vice versa, so we won't necessarily all be coming to one particular school area or something.
But if you go to the Bahamas, there'll be more than likely opportunities to preach in schools,
maybe go to their university, plus just normal soul winning there in just neighborhoods and busy
areas is still very receptive. It's a lot of fun. So if you want to go, it's probably about $750,
$800 for a round trip flight. That's about how much it's been costing people.
And you probably made me spend $300 or $400 on food.
So, you know, probably conservatively,
maybe like for $1,200, you could probably go on this trip.
And if you signed up, if you sign up
in the first section of group, we have housing.
We don't have housing necessarily for everybody
if we have way more sign up.
But, you know, you could probably even figure out
some kind of solution on that too.
But we do have like at least 40 plus spots.
of housing already designated, so people sign up, so it's a great opportunity, it's a lot of fun.
Everybody that went said it was like a trip of a lifetime, so you can ask whoever you want,
and really it was an incredible experience the last time we went, and I anticipate this year is
Pray for that trip as well men's retreat. Oh, here we go. I just got I got ahead of myself leave by the church at 9
so we'll meet at 9 not 9 30 and
Some friendly reminders bring a Bible
Definitely this bring sheets pillow toilet trees towels. So the first year we showed up. I think nobody had that
and it was like prison camp, literally.
So, but you know, it's the mighty men,
so you know, it just is what it is.
But definitely, you basically get like a rigid bunk bed
with a prison mat, and that's about it.
But honestly, it's pretty nice other than that,
so it's only a couple nights.
All right, no one comes for the sleeping.
On the back is our prayer list.
Please be in prayer for our church family.
That's pretty much all I have as far as announcements.
We'll go ahead and sing our Psalm of the week.
Psalm 139, do not I hate them, O Lord.
Psalm 139 and our special Psalms and hymn binder.
Sing it out nice and loud.
All right, the Psalm 139, let's all sing it out together.
Surely now we'll slay the wicked
Surely now we'll slay the wicked, oh God
Depart from me, therefore ye bloody men
Do not hate them, O Lord, that hate me, do not hate them, O Lord, that hate me, and am not agreed with those that rise against me.
Do not hate them, O Lord, that hate me, for they scream against me.
They speak against thee with ghibli
And thy name in vain
Those that rise up against me
Great singing everybody. Now as the offering plates are being passed around, go ahead and open your
Bibles to the book of Genesis chapter one. That's Genesis chapter number one.
Genesis 1, the Bible reads,
God said let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters and let it divide the waters from the waters and
God made the firmament and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters
Which were above the firmament and it was so
God called the firmament heaven and the evening in the morning were the second day and God said
Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place and let the dry land appear
And it was so and God called the dry land earth and the gathering together of the waters called
He sees and God saw that it was good and God said
Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after
his kind, whose seed is in itself upon the earth, and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass
and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself
after his kind, and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the third day.
Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night,
and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years.
And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and it was so.
And God made two great lights, the greater light to rule the day,
and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also.
And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night,
and to divide the light from the darkness, and God saw that it was good.
And the evening and the morning were the fourth day, and God said,
Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
And God created great whales and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind, and God saw that it was good.
And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth, and the evening in the morning were the fifth day.
Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing,
and beast of the earth after his kind, and it was so."
And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and God saw that it was good.
And God said, Let us make man in our image after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him, male and female created he them.
And God bless them and God send unto them be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it
and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over every living thing that moveeth upon the earth.
God said behold I have given you every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth and every tree
In the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed to you it shall be for me
And to every beast of the earth and to every fowl of the air and to everything that creepeth upon the earth were in there
Is life I have given every green herb for me and it was so
God saw everything that he had made and behold it was very good and the evening in the morning were the sixth day
Let's bow our heads for a word of prayer
Father in heaven, we thank you for this day
And I pray Lord God that you fill Pastor Shelley with your spirit and help him to
Preach this sermon to us and Lord God I pray that you help us to
Pay attention to the message and to learn something new from your word this morning. We love you and in Jesus name
I pray amen amen
The Bible keeps reading in chapter 2 thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the host of them and
On the seventh day God ended his work what she had made he rested on the seventh day from all his work
Which he had made and God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because that and it he had rested from all his work
Which God created
made. These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were
created in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. So the
Bible describes very clearly in Genesis 1 leading into Genesis chapter number
two the creation of our world and what I want to preach this morning is a sermon
called the history of the world. That's a pretty daunting task, it's a pretty
daunting sermon title to do in you know one hour but it's gonna be more like a
You say, how long is I?
I don't know, but I have a book with me.
It's called that exact time.
It's the history of the world that I want to reference here
because I want to contrast for a minute.
what the Bible says versus what the world will teach you
about the history of the world. Now, the Bible is very clear that God
created the heavens and the earth in six literal
days. What we would think of is generally 24-hour periods of time.
If you keep your finger here and go back to Exodus or go forward to Exodus chapter 20,
we have a couple other clues here about just the timeline.
Some people
We'll reject Genesis is literal history. They'll say this is just a metaphor. I don't believe that I believe Genesis 1 is literal history
It really happened
Not only that when it talks about the evening in the morning
I believe it's really a 12-hour period of time a 12-hour period of night a 12-hour period of day
And it was approximately a 24-hour period of time that happened in one week if you understand our calendar works
Virtually all of our dating and time
comes from our solar system when it comes to just the sun and how it interacts with our planet.
We get a day from the Earth's rotation, we get a year from the Earth rotating around the sun,
we have a month generally about the moon rotating around the Earth,
but there's one particular item that's not found in our just astronomical calendar and that's the week.
We get the week from Genesis chapter number one
and leading in the chapter number two here
about the six days and then the seventh day.
That's why we have a week.
And mankind still has all of these modes of calculating time,
keeping track of time.
We still live on a seven day cycle.
Isn't that interesting that Genesis 1 told us a seven-day cycle?
We still live in a seven-day cycle, and yet the whole world lives in a seven-day cycle.
We're all locked in. Not only that, it's 2025 from when we estimate Jesus Christ's birth.
So everything's about Jesus Christ, everything's about the Bible.
We have to understand that that's true. And plus Exodus chapter 20 verse 11 says this.
For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day
wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
The children of Israel observed a literal Sabbath day in the Old Testament,
and it wasn't a long period of time, it wasn't thousands of years, millions of years, it was a day,
it was their week. They had six days of labor, they had one day of rest,
and that continued for the entire Old Testament leading up into Christ,
and was fulfilled in Christ as He is our Sabbath rest. Of course, this is a picture of the gospel,
how we do nothing and
That is a picture of our salvation.
We do literally nothing.
We simply rest in Jesus's finished work.
God finished the work and we entered in the Sabbath rest.
Jesus did all the work for our salvation.
He died on the cross, was buried in Rose again.
All we do is put our faith in Jesus Christ
and that's what gives us salvation.
People say that sounds easy, it is easy.
Salvation is easy, it's free.
You say, what kind of works do you have to do?
None.
You do no work.
You simply believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
and He gives you that salvation.
And that's what the picture of the Sabbath was.
So there's all kinds of different symbolism here.
Now,
If you look in Matthew and Luke, it gives genealogies, and we might get there in a second,
but it gives genealogies essentially from Joseph's side and Mary's side, and it has
names that pretty much can be traced all the way back and go all the way back to Genesis
when we have Genesis chapter number five and we have the list of all the different names,
understanding of how long that would approximately be
is going to fit with the timeline of what the Bible gives essentially of how long the earth has existed.
Now I believe that the earth has existed around
6,300 years. I had a chart made that
is just kind of an estimate that I think a lot of people have. If you don't have one, you can lift your hand, maybe we can get you one, but
it says 6,309 years.
I am not dogmatic on it being exactly 6,309 years.
This is just a general estimate,
and I'm just giving you some kind of a number here.
There's a few things on this particular document
that we could really...
You know discuss and try to figure out like what's the exact right interpretation?
But just generally speaking give or take at least a hundred years. It's probably dialed in
I mean it's probably not much more off than you know a hundred years or so from that particular range
But why do you come to this particular conclusion?
How could you say the year that's 6,300 years old when you have books like this called the history of the world by
Alex Wolf that is gonna say something completely different if I asked Google
If I ask AI, if I ask the public school today,
what are they gonna tell me?
They're gonna tell me some kind of an evolutionary theory
suggestion of history.
Now, what's interesting about this book is it's pretty much chronological as far as how this book is laid out,
but the very first chapters or parts of this book is pretty much in line with what you'll learn in public school,
what you'll learn in college, what you'll learn, what Google will say.
These are kind of just the hive mind of ideas.
And they would say that the prehistoric world starts around 7 million years ago up to about 10,000 B.C.
So this is human origins and this is the first sentence in this book.
I'm just going to read the first sentence in this book.
The first written records of human activity date from about 5,500 years ago.
Anything that happened before that time is known as prehistory.
We know about this distant era only through the archaeological excavations of ancient settlements and the painstaking work of anthropologists
examining ancient bones and fossils.
So even this book will admit everything before 5,500 years is imagination.
And and that's because it is it's really just they're imagining things okay
So I just want you to kind of have an idea when you go to the public school system
Or if you talk to just people out in the world, they'll think yeah, the universe is potentially billions of years old
Humans have been on the earth for a really long period of time. This is suggesting seven million
Now, this book could be out of date as far as just what's even most current because they
change these things and evolve these things all the time.
Most of the people will suggest that the earth itself is about four and a half billion years
old which is an inconceivable number.
None of us can actually truly fathom because this is what's so funny is like our position
a young earth creation position.
And this one's a funny man,
6,300 years doesn't seem that young.
I mean, you ask a woman her age after she's like 25
and she's mad about it.
You know what I mean?
Think about if she was 6,300 years old, right?
I mean, that's pretty ancient if you think about it.
I mean, honestly, if you understood about just
this area, the Dowsford area,
a couple hundred years ago,
it doesn't look anything like it does today.
In fact, 20 years ago, it doesn't look anything like it did.
I was actually living here in the Keller area when I was about two years old to about seven
eight years old.
I lived in the Keller area.
It was virtually just grasslands.
It was just like nothing.
And now when I revisit those areas, it is just housing and businesses literally everywhere
that did not exist.
It looks radically different, radically different.
I mean 30 years, and in about 30 years it's just radically different, and it's really hard for you young people, you kids, you teenagers, to understand how much things have changed and the world that you live in is maybe not exactly as it seems.
And history is often kind of just a lot of lies, and when it comes to the public education system, who are you going to trust?
Well here's the thing, I just say this is literal history and it's all true.
And then where this generally maps up,
I say that's probably true.
And again, this is gonna be pretty much the same thing
as like an AI, the internet, just the general.
Go to college and you get educated.
They all kind of have a general consensus.
But you know, you ask Catholics,
they'll have different versions of history.
You ask people that are of Muslim descent,
they have a little bit different history.
People from Asian countries,
whether that be China, Japan,
they have different,
little bit different versions of history.
You know, everybody kind of has
their little bit different versions of history
and different understandings
and different nuances and stuff like that.
The Bible has its own version of history and world history.
And what you'll notice is a pattern of the Bible.
The Bible doesn't necessarily talk about everybody,
every civilization, every area.
It kind of just focuses in on the narrative of God's people.
And God kind of just focuses history on God's people.
And you know, I want to talk about
is the history of the world from a biblical perspective.
And it's kind of like identifying
and going through God's people for the most part.
Now I brought a board with me
and I'm going to try and illustrate things
because I'm kind of a visual learner.
But I just want to plot some things and we'll just kind of talk about how we arrived at some of these conclusions.
So, I
have a chart there that tells you exactly where I'm coming to these numbers.
So I'm not necessarily going to belabor every single point.
But you can basically add up all kinds of different things in the Bible to get some general
timelines of events. I believe that
creation that we read about in Genesis chapter 1 happened around
4,285 BC.
So, this is when we have our creation event.
In 2629 BC, this is when we have the flood.
Now this is 1,656 years.
This number is pretty much agreed upon by almost everybody as far as how long this took.
Maybe this date will be different, but I'm just saying the distance between these two dates
is typically always understood because we can just add up the ages of Adam and his descendants
in Genesis chapter number five.
So Genesis chapter number five just kind of gives us a genealogy, it gives us different
ages and then we basically arrive at this particular conclusion of 1,656 years.
From Noah's descendants, we have Peleg, which what the Bible says is in his days
was the earth divided. Now, I
kind of understand that to probably be related to the Babel event that's described in the Bible.
Okay, so that's kind of what I'm putting here. Really when you study a lot of even secular
sources.
Now they'll range in dates, they'll sometimes say about 3,000, 3,500, sometimes they'll say 2,500 but most of the more reliable things they'll say around this period of time is when we start seeing written documentation, civilizations, all kinds of different things happening in this particular area,
and an explosion in different parts of the world. Why wonder why? Well, it makes sense in the biblical narrative that the whole world was destroyed,
Noah and his family gets off the Ark, takes a little bit of time to populate.
Then when you have this babble event that's described in the Bible,
where everybody's language is divided and they spread,
then you're going to start having civilizations pop up all around generally at the same time.
And they weren't ugabugas, they were actually intelligent.
Now...
Here's again the problem with secular history is they just have weird views about humans, okay?
In this particular book, it talks about the first evidence as being of humans.
It says the oldest known hominoid fossil is between six and seven million years old
discovered in Chad and Northern Africa.
The second thing they bring up is the Australopithecine, which is four million years old.
These are just numbers they made up, but they say about four million years old.
Then they bring up Lucy, they bring up about two million years old, and then they literally
have a picture here.
I'm just going to show you a picture.
This is a picture of one of these early quote hominoids.
Now, here's what you have to understand about humans.
A lot of what we understand about evolution and this belief is coming from Charles Darwin
and it's coming from the British and the British were very racist and people don't understand
our history very much but the British would go to Africa and they would go to Australia
and they literally believed that the aboriginal people were these type of people still and
collect their skulls and put them in museums in Britain to teach this doctrine and say that these are the kind of people.
This is Wicked False Doctrine, it's lies, you know, all mankind was created at the same time, we're not descendants of animals,
you know, this is just ridiculous. In fact, I think the British Museum, even in the most recent
Timeline, I mean maybe 10, 20 years ago, had to like make a big deal about returning some of these fossils,
some of these skulls that they still had in their museum.
as collection of their evolutionary theory of relics from Australia and these indigenous type people.
So, you know, that's what you get with secular history is this kind of stuff.
You know, with the Bible, hey, we're all the same race. We're Adam's race.
There's no such thing as races.
And really, what you understand is that evolutionary thinking is extremely racist.
And the Nazis were extremely racist in their viewpoints.
They thought that different people, groups were more advanced than others,
and there's all these different, you know, basically tears of humans.
And he was trying to create a master race of white, you know, white skin, blonde hair, blue eyes.
This is kind of like the idea.
And there's charts and stuff where you can see
where they teach these different things.
And they would say that people with darker skin
were lower on the totem pole.
They kind of put Jews at the bottom.
They were considered the most inferior
from a racial perspective.
So there was just a lot of just like hatred
for these type of...
physical characteristics that are meaningless
from a biblical perspective.
God's not a respecter of persons.
God doesn't care.
We were all created around the same time.
And the variations we have in mankind
are mostly derived by two different things.
Number one, that the language was divided here
and so everybody spread across the face of the earth
and then based on the earth's physical characteristics,
it draws out distinctions in mankind.
And you can just look it up, this is not my personal opinion,
this is what the internet will say, this is what everyone will say,
is that skin color is very tightly coupled with your proximity to the equator.
Okay. Now, since technology and future advancement, we've had a lot more, you know, exceptions
to this particular rule. But just generally speaking, the closer you are to the equator,
countries that are closer to the equator typically have darker skin, people that are the furthest
away typically have lighter skin, and that has to do with a couple different aspects
But it you know skin color is not like make you better or worse or anything like that
It's just how you deal with the literal Sun, right?
Do you need to stay away from getting sunburned to a crisp or do you need that extra sunlight exposure to not die from?
The harsh winter conditions and that's basically why a lot of that exists the languages and just the physical
characteristics of the earth just dictate different things that are necessary and the human
demographics. And that's why we have the divisions we have. Plus, if you have any group of people
living in the same area for a long period of time without interruptions, they all start
to look alike. That's just kind of how it is. That's why, you know, you go back a hundred
years. It doesn't matter what country you visit. You go to Germany. Germany, they all look
German. You go to India. They all look Indian. You go to Japan. They all look Japanese. You
go to China. They all look Chinese. They all have like a, like certain physical characteristics
that are very similar because there's not a lot of mixing and over time people start
very similar one to another.
America, we have no concept of this
because we're such a big melting pot
and we've had so much mingling in the last 60 years.
So in 1960, from 1900 to 1960,
America was demographically 89% white.
and about 11% African-American or 10% African-American
with like only 1% or 2% Hispanic potentially.
And then it wasn't until the 1960s
that we've had just major demographic overhaul.
So, and we're one of the biggest melting pots
of any countries in the world.
We have one of the most diverse populations
as it is right now.
And so just kind of giving you some ideas of things.
We want, I want to talk about that
in a couple other contexts here in a minute, but.
We should just understand why things are the way that they are now. Does skin color matter? No, I don't really care
It doesn't matter. It's meaningless, but everybody else makes a big deal about it now
Go over what the first Chronicles chapter the number one. I want to show you that verse and
2277 BC
This is approximately when we have Abram
In 1987, B.C., this is when we basically have the children of Israel sojourning in Egypt.
In 1557, B.C., we have the exodus in 1037.
And I'm just highlighting some major events here.
In this P-leg, I had you turn to 1 Chronicles, chapter 1,
look at verse 19.
And under Eber, we're born two sons.
The name of the one was P-leg because in his days,
the earth was divided and his brother's name was Jocktan.
So there's one reference.
It also brings it up in Genesis, chapter number 11.
We'll go there in a second.
A couple hundred years later, we have Abraham,
who we know as Abraham, and his descendants.
Eventually, Jacob and his 12 children, Sojourn in Egypt, they are there for about 430 years.
At that point, then they have the Exodus where Moses delivers the children of Israel
out of the wilderness.
Now, if you look up, again, if you look up secular, if you just type into AI or one
of these things, they're going to give you different dates.
I gave you a chart to explain why I'm having the specific dates that I have.
But most of the things aren't even that far off,
but I'm just saying they will sometimes have some different dates here on these elements.
Fast forward about 480 years,
we have Solomon and his reign,
and that's actually mentioned in First Kings chapter number six.
Go if you would to the First Kings chapter number six.
And I want to look at something that's mentioned there and we can kind of talk
something about that on that chart here.
606 BC, we have the destruction of Jerusalem, 536 BC, we have Cyrus
Birth, April 6th, 30 A.D., 3 to 4 p.m., we have death, and I'll get to the resurrection
in a second.
So here in 1037 B.C., 1 Kings chapter number 6, let me see if I can turn there real quick
with you too.
Solomon's reign and it says it's talking about the fourth year of his reign.
Verse one, and it came to pass in the 480th year after the children of Israel
come out of the land of Egypt and the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel
and the month of Ziph which is the second month that he began to build the house of the Lord.
So that's an interesting verse to help us with our timeline chart.
So how do we get to this point so far?
Well,
Creation is Genesis 1, so we'll kind of just put that over here.
Genesis chapter number 1, then when we have the flood, like getting to this point, we
have these ages, we have basically Genesis chapter number 5.
So Genesis chapter 5 gives us all of these different ages and timelines that kind of
gets us to this particular point in our biblical timeline.
From here down, we have Genesis chapter number 11.
And that's going to give us another timeline particular chart,
giving us all kinds of ages you can just keep adding up, the ages.
This particular period in time, this is like Genesis 12.
If you think about it to about Genesis 50, I'll put like a six here.
Genesis chapter number 50 as far as like a biblical period of time from Abraham unto the Egypt period of time and
Then while they're dwelling in Egypt. This is kind of like your Exodus
One through
About 12 approximately
Then this is going to be your Exodus
12
Earth well 13 edges of 12 fine just to overlap there to about first Kings
Okay, so we can add up the ages in Genesis chapter 5, get to this flood period.
We can add up the ages in Genesis 11, keep going.
Then we have Abraham, then we have his few descendants, so when we get it to Jacob,
then we know the Bible says that they dwelt in Exodus, or they dwelt in Egypt, I'm sorry, for 430 years.
Then we get to this period where in 1 Kings chapter number 6, it says that 480 years after...
that you have the fourth year of Solomon, okay?
Now, there is something on here that we could argue a little bit.
Go to Acts chapter number 13, if you would.
There's kind of a 40 year option here
as far as deciding like how you wanna interpret
that first king's sixth piece of the puzzle,
because...
It says after they left. You could take like the day that they left as when you start counting the 480 or
another way that I've kind of put on the chart is you you keep the 40 years of wandering in the wilderness and you start the
Timeline basically once they've kind of left and they're actually in
The promised land so it's like you're counting the journey as part of that particular process
Why I would do that is act shop number 13 is the Apostle Paul kind of describing
a loose
Timeline of events here.
And I want to get the start of verse 20.
And after that he gave it to them judges about the space of 450 years.
So, you have 450 years from the judges under the Samuel the prophet says after they desired
a king and gave unto them Saul the son of Sys, a man of the tribe of Benjamin by the
sases 40 years and when he removed him he raised up unto them David to be their king.
So
Obviously, I want to go back to verse 18, though, too.
It says,
And about the time of forty years suffered he, their manners in the wilderness.
So you kind of have him talking about forty years in the wilderness,
a 450-period time of judges of Samuel,
and then if you understand the Bible,
Saul has forty years,
David has forty years,
and then you have the four years of Solomon.
So, if you say, okay, the 40 years they wanted the wilderness, when it was being described
about Solomon, that's not necessarily when that counted.
We started not the day they walked out, but maybe the day when they arrived.
So, it's just basically add that 40 years.
Then you have 450 plus Saul's 40, plus David's another 40.
I think if you understand Samuel's life actually ends just shortly before King Saul dies.
So, really, all you have to do is add David's 40.
That would get you about 490.
And again, he's saying about 450 years,
about the space of 450 years.
So he's probably rounding a little bit.
So that'll get you pretty close to the 480
that we see mentioned in Solomon's era.
This is why I'm saying that, yeah,
can I be super dogmatic about this?
No, could we be off 40 years here or there?
Yeah, maybe we could in this section.
Maybe somebody would take that 40 away that I have mentioned there of them wandering,
and they would just go straight from that Exodus to the 480 years of Solomon's reign.
But, kind of matches what...
the Apostle Paul saying, and we see here,
so that's why we have that little mention here
on that particular chart of where you have 480.
Then you give Solomon another 36 years
because he reigned for 40 years.
So you understand, Saul 40, David 40, Solomon 40 years.
Then it pretty much just goes into succession
of all kinds of different random kings,
and you can chart this through kings and chronicles
of their different reigns.
Some of them are probably gonna overlap a little bit.
There's one thing that's highlighted, orange.
It's the six years that Athalia reigned over the land.
I kind of just had to put the number in there
slightly different at seven,
just because some of these things you have
like three months reigning, three here or there,
and it kind of gets off a little bit.
So that's only a one-year adjustment.
Everything else is just pretty much,
you look at the amount of time they reigned,
and then we get to the point where Jerusalem is destroyed.
Jerusalem's destroyed.
And then the Bible says that they rested for 70 years.
It says it multiple times.
History will tell you that Cyrus, the great,
he is anywhere from 539 BC to this 536 BC number.
So I'm not dogmatic on that either.
It could be a three-year difference here.
History will say 539, maybe made the proclamation of 538 or 537, or maybe 536.
It's pretty much one of those particular dates.
So we can basically say, okay, history tells us this is when Cyrus made the proclamation.
Go back 70 years, that's where we have this, and then we can just go back, and then we
arrive here at 4,285.
How do you get 4,285 BC as approximate creation of the world?
Well, you start with Cyrus Proclamation, go back 70 years here,
then you count all the ages of the reigns of the kings in succession,
you get to Solomon, you go back 480 years to when they arrived,
and you add the 40 years of wandering in the wilderness,
you add the 430 years that they were in Egypt,
then you add just the ages of those men.
and you have 4,285, which, you know, you fast forward here
and you come to 2025, that would put us at 6,300
and nine years is the approximate age of the earth.
Now, Jesus' birth at 6 BC.
A lot of people think it's at zero.
First of all, there is no such thing as year zero.
It doesn't exist.
So our calendar went from one BC,
As soon as it was December 31st, 1 B.C., and it changed the next day, it went to January 1st, 180.
So there was no year zero, so you have one year off there, okay?
That's another adjustment you have to make on the particular chart.
But there is ways to track astronomy that's very accurate.
You can basically track where stars are coming.
Somebody had tracked a really special star around 6 BC,
which is believed to be the star of Bethlehem.
And that's where Jesus' star is.
So it's estimated that that would be around this 6 BC figure.
I believe that it's accurate.
You fast forward because there's no year zero.
That would mean that Jesus Christ let's just assume his birthday was after April 6
We don't know is this December 25th, but let's just say it was after this that would mean that Jesus Christ was
34
About to turn 35 that year when he died
So that would kind of fit again the Bible doesn't say that he had a 3 3 1 2 3 and a half year ministry. That's just
Folklore that's just what people believe. It's very likely. That's pretty accurate though. If you think about it. He's about 30 years old
And he dies when he's 34, about 35, that's around that same timeline.
He could have been close to 31 or something when it said he was about 30 years old or something like that.
This particular date, April 6th, is a date in which the Passover happens on a Thursday.
And I've already done huge timeline charts to explain how Jesus actually died on Thursday.
He would have died at the ninth hour, which is 3 p.m., somewhere between 3 and 4 p.m.,
probably just shortly after it turned 3 p.m., is when he died.
He rose again three days later, would have been April 9th, 30 AD, sometime between, you know, and I'm just, these are loose estimates.
Sometime between 1 and 5 a.m. The Bible says that he rose very early on the first day of the week.
So that'll be our... So we have three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
We have Thursday day, Friday day, Saturday day.
Then you have Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday night,
and he rose early on the first day of the week,
so you have the three days and three nights
in the heart of the earth, he rose again.
Then of course we fast forward 2000, almost 2000 years,
and that's where we are, which is kind of interesting
because there's a lot of agendas for a 2030,
have you ever heard about this 2030 agenda?
That would be exactly 2000 years
from when Christ was killed and rose again.
That's just an interesting anecdote to just throw out there, okay?
I'm not saying that at the end of the world is 2030, okay?
I'm not date setting.
I'm just saying it's an interesting observation that that would be to conclude.
So this is just a rough history of the world.
What's a rough history of the world?
About, you know, 6,300 years ago.
Now, if you ask a Jew, they'll say that the earth is like 5700 or 5900 years, they all,
I think there's some disagreement there, but they all try to go under the 6,000 number.
And we all know how Jews are about numbers in history, okay?
Could be 6,000, 6 million, you never know.
But...
This this number is definitely over 6,000 if you believe what the Bible says
There's really no way to go under they just kind of want this magical mystical number to just like hit 6,000 right when Christ returns
But you know if you study a lot of the dates in the Bible nothing's like super magical
It's like the floods one thousand six hundred and fifty six years
What's special about that particular number?
You know you just have you just have like different numbers throughout time
And I don't think God wants us to know the exact things that are happening or whatever
So, let's talk about some other things, though, because the goal of this sermon is not just
necessarily to understand this, but it's to understand a lot of different things.
Go, if you would, to just go to Luke chapter 3 for a second.
Again, if you go to Matthew chapter number one, it has a genealogy, and that's...
believe to be Joseph's genealogy and you can track all the names. I have that on
that particular chart. You can see Matthew 1 is the first column and it has
the 14 generations from Christ unto Jechinias and then Josias and Solomon
and then from David to Abraham. So you have those 14 plotted. Then you have the
genealogy that's coming from Mary and at some point
In their distant past, they actually cross back over and then they have the same genealogy.
But there is enough generations that kind of separate them.
In Luke chapter number three, look at verse 23.
And Jesus himself began to be about 30 years of age, being as was supposed the son of Joseph.
Now why as supposed?
Because Joseph is not his real father.
So, this is the kind of the clue that this is the Mary genealogy.
This is his lineage from Mary specifically, which is the son of Heli.
So, Heli would have been Mary's dad, and then you just keep going back, right?
Which was the son of Methat, which was the son of Levi.
That's where you get this other list.
I kind of just combined that first 14 on the Luke side just so you can kind of see.
But then around 15 he gets the semi and keeps going straight down.
You'll notice that these names start to align at David.
If you look at the 42nd in the genealogy for Mary's lineage,
David is there and it's the same as you keep going back.
The Matthew genealogy kind of stops with Abraham.
But we can keep going back from Abraham all the way, look at verse 38, which was the son
of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.
So anybody that, you know, wants to know about this and has general interest, you don't have
to go through this whole chart, you don't have to remember all these dates, you don't
have to do these things.
This is the few things that I say, hey, let's go to Luke 3.
It has Jesus Christ right here.
which is the Son of God, and I'll go to one more place, Exodus 2011,
which we already read, and it says,
For in six days the Lord made the heaven, the earth, the sea,
and all that in them is in rest of the seventh day.
So we can go all the way back to Adam.
We know it was just another tag on six days.
That can't be billions of years old.
This is not a genealogy of billions of years old.
This obviously is going to fit this general timeline,
and you can kind of see these names fitting through history,
and so that kind of gives us an idea.
So, that's just kind of give you some way to explain these somewhat more difficult concepts
in a pretty relatively quick fashion.
If they don't believe, hey, this is an actual genealogy of Jesus, or that God made it in
six days, they're just not going to believe it.
I mean, there's not really much more you can do, but that's just an easy way to kind
of illustrate some of these particular facts.
Go back to Genesis chapter 10, if you would, Genesis chapter number 10.
Let's talk about some of this, the way the world looks, why the world is the way that
Well Genesis chapter number 10 look at verse 1 now
These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth and under them were sons born after the flood
The sons of Japheth, Gomor and Magog and Maidae and Javan and Tubul and Meshach and Tyrus and the sons of Gomor, Ashkenaz,
Rifath and Togomar and the sons of Javan,
Elisha and Tarshish Kiddum and Dodanum. By these were the Isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands everyone after his tongue after their families in their
nations. Now it goes to Ham.
flip. All right. And I can't do that. Sorry. I drew this wrong. I'm going to have to rotate it.
All right. So just to give you some kind of an idea.
the world and hopefully you can kind of generally see this outline this is our
Europe this is our Spain this is your Italian boot so Italy kind of looks like
a boat boot here's Greece and Athens here's kind of Asia Minor or Turkey as
we would describe it and if my proportions are off please forgive me
this is not an accurate to scale drawing whatsoever all right neither are any
maps that you ever see in fact you know it's the weirdest thing Russia is not
So, Russia is actually like almost double the size on a map than it is in real life.
So, if you ever look at a map because of the flat, because when you spread it out, it just like really gets elongated.
Russia is still very large, but it's just not as large.
So, sometimes things look differently on a flat map because we live on a globe.
Sorry, Flat Earthers.
This is the Arabian Peninsula, here's Africa, you know, Egypt's kind of in this region, generally speaking.
Somewhere here in the mountains of Ararat we have
Noah and his sons getting off the ark, okay?
And from this particular point is where we're going to kind of have this spread.
The Bible talks about the sons of Japheth and their descendants,
and you can look up all kinds of maps, other people's beliefs,
and I think it's just generally true. They're going to say that the sons of
Japheth are basically going to inhabit, you know, this part of the world
and this kind of part of the world. It's kind of the northern section. This is where Japheth went.
Specifically, Javan is basically understood as Greece.
Okay, so Javan is understood as going here as Greece.
Then you're gonna have the sons of Shem.
They're basically gonna inhabit this particular area
that we know, and this is where you get the idea
of a Semiite.
And when they say people are anti-Semitic,
what they're saying is the descendants of Shem.
And what most people don't understand
is the descendants of Shem is not Jews.
Jews are A.
classification within the broad umbrella of Shem or Semitic.
But Semitic includes also Ishmael,
and it includes all of the Muslims
and any of those group of people.
So if you're quote anti-Semitic,
truly, you would just be against everybody
from the Middle East, not just a particular
specific group of bankers, okay?
Now, then Ham, Ham has understood as Africa for sure.
Pretty much pretty much kind of the only discrepancy or the only thing that was kind of difficult to
ascertain and I don't know the right answer on this, but it's kind of like what happened over in the Far East and
If you asked online if you asked the hive mind of ideas, this is this is kind of what they'll say is they'll say that
It's actually descendants of ham now if you skip down to verse 17
It says in the high-vite in the archive and the Psy night now Psy night
Most likely is for sure referring to the Peninsula of Sinai here the Arabian
Peninsula here would be part of that
but then it's also believed that this group of people kind of then continue to migrate East and
That's where you get China and you get the Asian
countries and Japan and those different areas that are over there that's coming from ham ham kind of is taking that area
Another theory is that it's also shim. It's probably even likely it could be a combination
There's there's no way that didn't necessarily ascertain that but there's another verse in Isaiah if you would go to Isaiah 49
Because China and like those parts of the world are not really mentioned very much in the Bible, if at all, it's kind of just
loose understandings. The Bible talks about wise men from the east, Jesus Christ,
birth. We don't know exactly how far east we're talking about. Job's also described as being someone from the east.
The continent of India is referenced in the Bible, especially with King Ahasuerus.
That part is mentioned a few times so there is some mentions of parts of the east but it's
for the most part not mentioned a ton in the Bible but look at verse number 12 the Bible says this
behold these shall come from far and low these from the north and from the west and these from
the land of Sinim. A lot of people would tie like some of the Chinese dynasties names to that root
Again, maybe it's a coincidence, we don't know, but a lot of people just assume that
Ham is kind of taking that whole eastern section as well.
But generally speaking, we talk about Russia, we talk about all the north side, Russia,
Eastern Europe.
All of this is basically Jaypeth, generally speaking.
The Middle East is Shem, Africa is Ham, and this kind of part, and then we kind of have
Some people even say it could be Japheth.
It's the least likely scenario.
It's most likely a ham or a combination of ham and shem
or something like that.
So that's just kind of give you an idea
of why the world looks the way that it does.
If you're, I hope you, if you stayed in Genesis 10,
I want to read a little bit more here.
Now this is what's also very interesting though.
I kind of wanted to understand like,
what is the oldest language that is still and used today?
So, if we were to try to understand like, what's the, like there's going to be very old languages that like Sumerian I believe is like considered one of the oldest languages, but it's nobody there speaking Sumerian, but like the oldest language that's still in existence today is actually Greek.
So, Greek is considered the oldest language that is still in use today, and has had probably
some, like, the least evolution of most of the languages that, you know, are kind of
like a historic language.
There are other languages that are like this that have, like, that trace back pretty far.
But according to the internet and online, just the secular history, they'll say it
which is not that far off from when we see Peelag and the land being divided,
which is interesting because it's almost like confirming exactly what the Bible is saying.
Now when it comes to language, that's a really big animal. I want to tackle that in just a second,
but let's keep going here. Genesis chapter 10 verse 6 says this specifically about
Ham and his particular descendants.
And the sons of Ham, Cush, and Mizrayam, and Ft. and Canaan,
and the sons of Cush, Siba and Havala, and Sabta and Rehma,
and Saptika, and the sons of Rehma, Siba and D'dan,
and Cush, we got Nimrod, and it began to be a mighty one
in the earth.
He was a mighty hunter before the Lord,
wherefore it is said, even as Nimrod,
the mighty hunter before the Lord.
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel,
and Erech, and Acad, and Calne, and this land of Shinar.
Out of that land went forth Asher, and builded Nineveh,
between Nineveh and Cali, and the same is a great city.
And Miserain begette Ludem and Aenem, and the Habem,
and the Tufem, and Pathrusem, and Castelluhem,
out of whom came Philistem and Captorm.
So you might notice there in verse 14, Philistem.
What is that, the Philistines?
So Cain, I'm sorry, Cainan, the land of Cainan
is kind of what we would understand
is this Middle East section.
and the Canaanites are a group here,
but the Philistines and a lot of hams
dwelt right here in this strip,
which as we know today is like the Gaza Strip.
And Gaza is kind of an area where a lot of these people were,
but the Canaanites had spread throughout this entire region,
especially before the children of Israel come
and take it all over.
So hams kind of like this little strip here and down,
and then like all this area, maybe also parts of here.
Shem again is kind of here.
That's kind of where they start obviously at any point in time these things keep evolving and changing
If we read verse 17 in the high-vite
Oh, sorry, verse 15.
And Canaan begat Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth,
and the Jebusidon, the Amorite, and the Gershidon,
the Hivite, and the Archite, and the Sinite,
and the Arvidite, and the Zemmerite, and the Hamathite,
and afterward, where the families of the Canaanites
spread abroad.
And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon,
as they come as to Gerar, under Gaza.
So again, Sidon's kind of up here.
It's coming down into Gaza,
so it's kind of talking about this particular strip.
As they go, it's under Sodom and Gomorrah,
These are the sons of Hammett after their families, after their tongues in their countries and in their nation.
So, it's pretty obvious that once they land from the mountains of Errat,
you know, Jepeth is kind of tracking this water,
Hamm's kind of tracking this water,
and they eventually come down to the Nile, which is very plenteous,
and Shem kind of comes over here.
Let's keep reading here and get into Shem.
And unto Shem, verse number 20,
and unto Shem also the father of all the children of Eber,
the brother of Japheth the elder,
even to him were children born, the children of Shem,
Elam and Asher and our faxed and Ludd and Aram.
And the children of Aram, us and Ul and Geethe and Mash.
And our fax said we got Selah, and Selah we got Eber,
and under Eber were born two sons.
The name of the one who was Peleg for in his days
was the earth divided, and his brother's name was Jaktan.
So, you know, after they get off,
they're pretty much just clumped.
At some point, we have that Tower of Babel event.
Now, how many particular languages were there?
I don't know.
The Bible kind of gives us more details than here in Genesis chapter number 11
Look what it says in verse 1 and the whole earth was of one language and of one speech
So they get off the Ark makes sense. They all speak the same language. It's only one tongue. They're building this great tower
Trump Tower and they basically, no, I'm just kidding,
but they're building some tower and God gets mad
at them being united and he wants them to be divided.
If you skip down to verse six and the Lord said,
behold, the people is one and they have all one language
and they begin to do and now nothing will be restrained
from them which they have imagined to do.
Go to, let us go down and they're confound their language
that they may not understand one another's speech.
So the Lord scattered them.
abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth and they left off to build the city. Therefore
is the name of it called Babel because the Lord did their confound the language of all the earth
and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
So again, this will say, you know, nothing exploded.
billions of years ago and it became bacteria and the bacteria became little tiny, you know,
fish things and then the fish grew and then the fish somehow started walking on land and
then the fish became animals and then the animals became like walking and then those
walking things became hominoids and then those hominoids became people.
It's just, it's insane, okay.
It's just insanity, it's nonsense, there's nothing to do with the Bible.
The Bible talks about special creation, everything's created in six days,
and that makes perfect sense, especially considering how many different organisms and systems depend upon each other.
You kind of have to have grass and at the same time as you have animals and they kind of you know
A lot of animals even eat each other. We eat animals. We need grass. We need all I mean like all these things are super important
A lot of a lot of things to say it's also important, you know to find a mate to reproduce
It's like even if you had like what if you just had a miracle like out of nothing something was created
Well, if it didn't have a mate it wouldn't survive
it would still die. So again, like all this stuff is just nonsensical.
What does the Bible teach? Well, God created Adam and Eve, they populated the
world,
God has mad at them, killed all of them, except for no one in his family.
They landed here. Then his three sons start
repopulating the world. About a hundred years later, they have the Tower of Babel.
There, God confounds the language so much that all these people just start to spread
and they have that spread that we talked about.
Japheth is kind of going north and over here.
Shem is kind of staying here towards Mesopotamia and then we have Ham staying here with this
little Gaza Strip and down into Africa and that's kind of as their journey starts.
Over time, these borders are just continually increasing, getting larger and larger and
larger and larger and God is pretty much focused here.
You ask secularists to say, oh yeah, human population started somewhere around here or
which is exactly the Bible saying, it's just they give, they make updates
when it comes to that particular stuff.
So, why do we have all the languages that we have?
Why do we have so many advanced languages?
Why do they all pop up at the same time?
Because God can found all the languages at the same time and these people were smart.
They were not ugabugas walking around being dumb.
They were very smart, very intelligent, had a lot of technologies that we have today just
in different forms.
And I think that people just don't understand how smart people could have been in the past
and how they could have had some of things.
Now, is it the exact thing of the Flintstones?
Is Flintstones a documentary?
And at the end of the day, they probably still had a lot of things that would surprise us
as far as just even indoor plumbing, showers, medical devices, all kinds of different things
that we think of that didn't exist in some forms or some fashions.
They didn't have a computer, okay?
If you can go on the internet, you'll find people that think they had computers and stuff.
It's weird, okay?
When it comes to languages, I think there's all kinds of different numbers here.
language like major classifications of languages and even within that there's
like thousands and thousands of languages that exist. If you look at just
major family groups, this is not all of them, just major family groups, it's
estimated to be about six major family language groups. The number one is the
Indo-European language.
It has 2.9 billion approximate speakers, and it accounts for 450 to 580 languages that
are sub-languages from that.
What are the key regions?
Europe, South Asia, and the Americas.
What are notable languages within this?
English, Spanish, Hindi, Russian, and French.
Now, if you look at the back of that chart that I gave you, it actually has a little
family tree.
And this is just specifically the Indo-European languages, okay?
Indo-European, again, being kind of this region.
this Japheth region and then also some mixing.
There's also Indo-European, there's Indo-Iranian.
So there's a pretty big split when it came
to the Indo-European languages
and then it came to the Indo-Iranian languages.
And you'll kind of notice the Indo-Iranian
also journeyed down into here.
There's where you have a lot of Indian languages
like Hindi, those kind of languages on the right hand side.
You'll see you have Spanish, Portuguese, English, German, all of these European languages.
It's really hard to find Greek on this particular chart.
But it's because if you look at the European route and you just keep going directly straight,
it'll just be like Hellenic and then just Greek.
And notice Greek doesn't ever like keep branching and branching and branching,
because it's like Greek is for some reason just been one of the most stable languages from history.
makes a lot of sense why God would want the New Testament to be written in Greek
because it's just this super stable language.
Also, you could argue that because the Bible was put in Greek,
is why it stayed so stable as well.
So there's a lot of different correlations there.
But you see all these different languages, and again, European languages have a lot of commonality, a lot of similar words, a lot of borrowed words.
When it comes to science and mathematics, we're pretty much all borrowing Greek words.
Whether you're talking Spanish, Portuguese, English, any of these things, we're pretty much just all using the exact same root Greek words when it comes to some of these advanced topics.
So Greeks are really, really important language from a historical perspective.
Plus, it's covering just a huge portion of this throughout history.
Other major languages groups, Sino-Tibetan, Niger-Congo, Afro-Asiatic, Austronesian, Transnuginian,
and they also say Dravidian could potentially swap there with Transnuginian, but those are
some different languages.
But what is the most important language as far as just influence number of people speaking
today?
Indo-European is just takes the cake.
It's not even close.
The second closest is 1.3 billion speakers.
what the next language group is like.
Revelation chapter 17.
Go view it there at Revelation chapter 17.
I still have a few more things that I want to just,
I kind of want to just label here
before we kind of finish this,
but I want to talk about some empires
that the Bible brings up.
Now, Daniel also brings up
various empires in the Bible, and it kind of, the book of Daniel is kind of starting in the middle of
that particular scope of understanding, but Revelation chapter 17 verse 7 is kind of talking about the end times and
it describes us a little bit of history here.
And the angel said to me,
wherefore did itst thou marvel?
I will tell thee the mystery of the woman
and of the beast that carryeth her,
which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
The Bible talks about a great whore mystery Babylon.
And it says, hey, I'm gonna tell you what this was about.
Like I'm gonna give you some descriptions of this.
It says, verse eight,
the beast that thou sawest was and is not
and shall send out of the bottoms pit
and go into perdition.
And they that dwell on the earth shall wonder
whose names were not written in the book of life
from the foundation of the world.
when they behold the beast that was and is not and yet is,
and here is the mind which hath wisdom,
the seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sitteth.
And there are seven kings, five are fallen and one is,
and the other is not yet come,
and when he cometh, he must continue a short space,
and the beast that was and is not,
even he is the eight and is of the seven,
and goeth into perdition."
And the Bible brings up these kingdoms
that have this Babylonian spirit.
We have to understand that this is not saying that these are the only empires the only kingdoms ever exist or
That'll ever happen in them in history
It's more just like these are the major empires that have this Babylonian spirit that the Bible is highlighting and focusing on
And if we kind of understand again, I I wish I could just flip this I got to turn it but
We talk about those kingdoms that said there was five that have fallen
One is and then there's one to come, okay?
Seems pretty obvious that what these are is this is going to be the Egyptian is the first one
This is the first kingdom that we had of that's Babylonian spirit now their timeline is
Arguably two different options here from a biblical perspective and secular history will say this is the peak of the Egyptian Empire
I could argue that it's also just this period of time too.
But either way, it's basically this period of time.
When the children of Israel were here,
Joseph accumulated a huge amount of wealth,
and Egypt became extremely rich.
But even after their decimation,
we have to understand that King Solomon
was still bringing all kinds of gold and precious goods
out of Egypt at that particular time.
And Egypt is still considered a very powerful
kingdom throughout this period of time.
In fact, the destruction of Jerusalem,
relied upon or looked upon as someone that could help them defeat the Babylonians.
So the Egyptians have this kind of this first major kingdom.
The second is going to be the Assyrians.
And I think I wanted to go to a place in the Bible just to give you some kind of a reference.
Go to 2 Kings chapter 19. Go to 2 Kings chapter 19.
But this is kind of understood as the 9th to the 7th century.
here in between Solomon and the destruction of Jerusalem.
This is where we have the Assyrian Empire.
Now in 2 Kings chapter 19 and verse 35,
notice what it says,
And it came to pass that night that the angel Lord went out
and smote in the camp of the Assyrians
a hundred four score in five thousand.
And when they arose early in the morning,
behold, they were all dead corpses.
Now this is the king Hezekiah.
So obviously to get that many number of people
It didn't happen that day.
I'm talking about a long period of time.
So in this period of the kings, we have the Assyrian Empire.
So kind of prior to we have, and again,
Canaan was dwelling here when they were in Egypt.
Canaan was dwelling in the land of Canaan.
The Canaanites, they got wiped out completely.
They're just decimated and they're just only intermingled a little bit.
We have the Egyptian Empire, though,
ruling and reigning at this period of time.
Then we kind of have the Assyrian Empire.
You could argue you have a little bit of a
Davidic Empire for a little bit David and Solomon kind of have a little bit of a run
But they're not part of the Babylonian spirit. So that's why they're not mentioned
Okay, what's the next one that comes? Well, the next one is going to be the Babylonians and of course the Babylonians are going to be here
And I want to make sure I have yeah, they're going to be about
626
to 539 BC and again this is they get wiped out in like one night by the
Medo-Persian Empire and that's exactly what the Bible says. The Medo-Persians
are gonna start again these these kingdoms are gonna have overlap because
you can't just take over a whole area and one day they grow up real big and
then they eventually come in and conquer and take over. The Medo-Persians are
700 BC to 330.
And then you have Greek, and then Roman.
And I'm just gonna, for a sake of time,
I'm just gonna write these real quick.
Greek is about 359 BC to 31 BC.
And then Roman is 573 BC to 476 AD for the west,
and 1453 AD for the east.
Okay, so let's talk about this for a second.
Babylonians,
Take over the whole world basically around the 600 BC timeline.
They destroy Jerusalem, take the children of Israel into captivity for 70 years.
At the end of the 70 years, the Mido-Persian Empire comes and wipes out the Babylonian Empire
and takes over that whole region.
Then, a little bit later, fast forward, 359 BC,
You know and forward it's not this exact timeline the Greeks are getting you know big and then eventually they come in and wipe out the
Medo Persian Empire take over that whole area all the way up to about I think it was like 70
AD 70 BC when the Romans took over Jerusalem specifically that area
But about this time the Greeks are completely decimated and then we have the Roman Empire
This is kind of helpful for me to looking at this as like a like a chart of the world. Again. I got it. Sorry. I got to rotate it
Kind of one thing that you'll notice though is if you look at these empires at the height of their empire
They kind of just start to just get bigger and bigger and bigger over time. So we go back to the Egyptian the Egyptians
basically kind of had
This region so when the Egyptians were in power
They basically kind of have at the peak
They kind of are ruling this particular area
And that was you know
2000 BC to about a thousand BC some more in those those timelines then the Babylonians. I'm sorry then the Assyrians come in
And, the Assyrians are coming from this northern part and a little bit eastern part.
They actually are coming from this area, and so they ended up adding.
So this is where you get the Assyrians.
And they're basically still taking in all of this.
the night to the seventh century, period of time.
This is where you have the kings
that are constantly being attacked by the Assyrians
and they subdue a lot of different things.
Then you have the Babylonians coming in.
They're gonna fill in even more of this
and go a little bit further up
and kind of shade in some of this.
So then at the height of the Babylonian kingdom,
they basically have this, this is gonna be again,
600 to 539 BC.
Then you have the Medo-Persians. Now, you kind of notice this theme like the Egyptians are here.
The Assyrians are here building up their army like in risk, and then they come and wipe through and take this out.
Then the Babylonians are building here, and then they come and they take the white coat. The Medo-Persians are right here
building up their particular army, and so then when the Medo-Persians come, they basically fill in
and then take all this because you know in risk you spread yourself to thin you
only have one army on each little these little continents or whatever and then
the guy just comes and wipes through with his particular army. So the Medi
Persians basically come and expand that particular kingdom and in fact this goes
all the way down into India because the Bible brings us up about King Hazaris
being in parts of India. He ruled over 127 provinces is what the Bible says
about King or Hazaris is rain and this particular area. Then you have the
Which where are they building their army up?
Greece, okay, it's it's pretty it's pretty self-explanatory. I know you're bored, but here's here's Greeks
And they come in and they basically just fill in this entire area
And then they they can go all the way down in here as well and take all of that particular area now the Romans
Where are they building?
Rome, yeah, do you notice this theme?
It's like, hey, they're just an outsider
just building up a huge army, waiting,
and then they just basically take over.
So then you have the Romans,
now the Roman Empire is vast, okay?
This is gonna be,
they've got all of Spain,
they've got all of this area, Germany, France, Belgium.
All the way here they've got
Obviously Roman Italy they've got all of this like southeastern portion of Europe
Greece all of this now
They didn't necessarily have as much of this but there was a Roman road and we have different things throughout history like the Silk Road
To China that the Romans are kind of building and we have different pathways, but the room. Oh, they have all this northern
Africa strip and section as well
So we just kind of have this just giant empires that just keep growing and growing growing.
So at the time of Christ, this is kind of what the world looked like.
The world looked like this is a Roman Empire, you have Jerusalem right here.
But what's this is what's really interesting is this is all a Greek area for the most part
other than like Rome itself.
Like the whole world is basically Greek because the Greeks had taken over.
approximately. This is where you have, you know, Jerusalem and you have the
disciples and Jesus and everything. Well, whenever Jesus ascends, they get
scattered, right? And they go into Corinth, which is kind of in this south
portion of Asia Minor, and that's where they're first called Christians. Now,
this being called Asia,
can be a little misleading, because when Christopher Columbus came and settled in America,
he called all the Native Americans Indians, because he thought he was in India.
But they had nothing to do with India or being Indian whatsoever, it was just kind of a labeling, right?
Asia, again, this area has nothing to do with China really or Asian countries whatsoever.
The name Asia is not necessarily indicating that.
This was a Greek culture under Roman rule and of course from here you plant all these churches.
You have the seven churches which are in Asia.
Then you have, obviously, churches going here.
They go into this Greek peninsula.
They have Crete.
They have all these different areas.
And eventually the gospel even gets to Rome
in the biblical narrative.
Okay, obviously, we understand people like Thomas
and others may have gone into India
and other parts of the world,
but this is kind of just understanding
how the gospel was spread throughout history.
I wanna go to Acts chapter number, well,
Just go to yeah, just go to Acts chapter 11. We'll finish with a few more verses here
Beyond this beyond like the Roman Empire
just to give real quick history and
400 and I think I had this this written down 476 the Western portion of
Rome kind of fell
fell for, and then that's kind of where they think that in.
But in Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire,
it lasted until 1453,
and that's when the Ottoman Empire specifically had come
and stretched all the way to this point and kind of took over.
And this is when you have those Greek manuscripts
from the Byzantine Empire, the Byzantine area,
flooding into the western portion of Europe,
and that's where you get Desiderius Erasmus making his comparison.
And then you start having people make translations into English and we get the King James Bible.
We have a lot of that particular history.
There's tons and tons of empires that have existed, though, throughout history.
That the Bible just doesn't really mention the Bible doesn't really bring up and even
You know from from that timeline from the biblical timeline and obviously in the future
There's a lot of things that aren't mentioned, but the Bible talks about a future coming kingdom
That's gonna be an anti-Christ kingdom
Obviously, it's gonna be much more expanded than this and if you understand things like other empires like the
Byzantine Empire, then you have the Arab Caliphate, you have the Mongol Empire,
you have the Ottoman Empire, some of these are expanding like just huge sections.
The British Empire though is kind of the culmination of probably the most powerful
empire in modern history.
Even online they would say the British Empire is the number one Empire and they conquered a lot of the world as far as just
amount of land that they
Were in possession of it's like something like 13
I'm gonna get the number wrong 13 point seven million naval
You know
Supremacy, I don't know exactly what how they're measuring that but it's the British Empire conquered the world in a lot of ways
So I would assume that the last empire, this antichrist empire,
which has the Babylonian spirit, is going to be a worldwide empire,
which is what the Bible alludes to.
I had you turn to Acts, didn't I?
Acts 11, look at verse 25,
then the part of Barnabas...
to Tarsus for to seek Saul and when he had found him he brought him unto Antioch and it came to pass that a whole year
They assembled themselves with the church and taught much people and the disciples were called Christians first and Antioch and in these days
Came prophets from Jerusalem to Antioch, so that's where we have that go to chapter 14 for a second
And what you'll understand is that in the New Testament the Bible is talking about Greeks often
Why because everybody basically has Greek culture. They're under Roman rule Greek culture
Acts 14 verse 1 and it came to pass an Iconium that they went both together in the synagogue of the Jews
And so spake that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed
Go to Matthew 2 if you would go to Matthew Romans 1 says for I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ
What is the power of God in salvation everyone that believe it to the Jew first and also to the
Greek so the Bible's constantly bringing up the Greek because that's just basically the vast majority of the world is Greek
Because they conquered the entire world
If you look up at history, China and Japan and stuff have like long histories where they just, they're kind of just doing their own thing.
I don't really know a lot about that. The Bible doesn't really bring up a lot about that.
But you have this, not just limited there, you have Vikings, you have, people are uncertain exactly when the Americas would actually develop,
but you have the Incans, you have the Mayans, you have all these different civilizations.
Care about the nations that don't really care about him
And when I talk about nations, I'm talking about giant groups of people.
He cares about every individual, no matter where they are on the planet,
if they actually seek him, want to be saved, or following his commandments.
But Matthew 2, verse 1,
Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem and Judea,
in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came Wisemen from the east to Jerusalem.
So there was people that were saved in the east.
Don't hear me wrong. I'm not saying there isn't saved people,
there isn't the gospel, there isn't Christianity over there.
But for the most part, it's just kind of ignored.
I just want to make a few conclusions as we finish.
Govahut to Isaiah 40.
I'm just going to read a lot of verses for you, but...
Here's some conclusions.
Number one, that the Bible's narrative fits secular history.
And we see that these major empires that the Bible brings up
were real empires they're prophesied of and they have followed the course of
history as expected.
We are coming a future anti-Christ
one world system. It's never happened. We never had an empire do that.
And probably the most powerful empire
Online everybody agrees the British Empire, but it doesn't really have the Babylonian spirit
because if you think about it the British Empire, especially when they do a lot of their
conquering throughout the world, it's actually had a good time in history.
So in 1588 the British defeated the Spanish Armada,
which was a really significant point in time where they basically get to rule the seas.
Now that's right before something pretty important.
How about the King James Bible being translated?
Now who do you want to travel to see?
Is the Spanish with their Catholicism
or the British with the Gospel message
where they can literally go and spread it
throughout the entire world.
And again, the British, they colonized
South Africa and all that region.
They had the East India Company
established in 1600.
In 1600 they established the East India Company
and they're all in this part of Asia
to where they can reach into China,
they can reach into India,
they can reach that entire part of the world.
Not only that, they're colonizing the Americas,
specifically, they're colonizing Australia
and all kinds of other areas.
So the British are basically colonizing everything
simultaneously while getting the King James Bible
and Christianity is getting kind of a fresh start
in the world.
1611, you have the King James Bible.
Obviously, other big events, 1776, we have the War of Independence where we kind of separated
from the British Empire, but the British Empire is known as like 1500 to 1914 is kind of like
the idea of the quote British Empire.
We've kind of picked the torch up and America is kind of the world's superpower at this
point where again, think about it, who, who's, we have the Roman Empire who's really close
that can build from a, Britain can sit here and build their little army and then take
And then who's next after that?
Oh yeah, America's over here building up our little army.
But here's the thing, eventually we run out of real estate in the world, don't we?
And eventually then it's just going to be a literal one-world government ruled by that anti-Christ.
And so these empires are kind of ebbing and flowing.
Obviously the Ottoman Empire and the Arab Caliphate and the Mongol Empire and some of these helped, you know...
Conquer a lot of these areas as well that we don't have on this particular map.
We don't have America on the map either because the Bible doesn't really bring it up either.
Other conclusions, you know, it's interesting to me that the Greek has always existed.
I mean, pretty much Greek's always been there. It's the most steady language.
That's why it makes sense it's using the New Testament.
It replaces
Japheth dwells in the tents of Shem.
You could argue a lot of different things that we talked about there.
The West has always existed.
Jeremiah 25, when Jeremiah is going out and preaching,
he's preaching to all these different areas
and talks about him going to the Isles
and the farthest parts of all the kingdoms
of the nations of the world.
But look at Isaiah 40 verse 17.
All nations before him are as nothing
and they are counted to him less than nothing in vanity.
So if I'm not bringing up a particular part of the world
or a particular country or particular empire or whatever,
it's just because I don't care.
But he doesn't think God doesn't care either. All nations before him are as nothing.
Why do we have the history that we have? Why are we talking about these things?
Why do I emphasize the things I emphasize? Because the Bible emphasizes them.
And of course, you know, European history is important because that's where the Bible's lineage kind of carries forward after this particular gospel message.
So if I emphasize these type of things or these type of areas or whatever, it's not that other parts of the world don't have their own history and they're doing the little thing and playing checkers or whatever,
but it's just, it doesn't really matter because the biblical narrative is focused on God's people and where they're at and the works that they're doing.
the Renaissance eras, and then now, in modern day,
America is pretty much the missionary leader of the world.
We see the Bible is right.
Look, people, groups that exist, and why they're divided,
the Bible explains that.
Languages, why do they exist, and why are they diverse?
The Bible explains that.
The Bible is historically accurate.
The Bible explains all the big players
throughout history perfectly.
It emphasizes God's people, and wherever God's people are
and submitted to the Bible, God's blessings come.
If you go to one more place, go to Psalm 9, that's the last place I'll have you turn.
The Bible warns about people and groups and nations and areas that would not adhere to God's word of the Bible.
And they're going to be doomed.
The Bible says now, with the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
And what you'll notice is the countries that have Christianity the best typically have freedom the best and the places that have the
Most restrictions on Christianity and we're talking about biblical Christianity not Catholicism or something
We're talking about true biblical Christianity
We see the most freedom in those areas and the most prosperity and blessing typically in those areas
Deuteronomy 4.7 says what nation is there so great that have God so nine of them as
Lord of God is in all things that we call upon Him for?
The Bible talks about when God's nine to you, you're a better nation than other nations.
The only thing that made America really good is that we were trying to draw night of God
and we had the King James Bible and we're basing laws on the Bible and we had a lot
of Christians here.
That's why God has blessed our nation.
Not for any other reason.
I mean, you have the Chinese and you have the Japanese and you have all these others.
And in America, you just have us getting raw land starting from scratch.
How did we catch up and surpass them so quickly?
Because of the Bible.
Not because we were better or anything like that.
It's just specifically because of the Bible.
In Deuteronomy 14, the Bible says,
For thou art a holy people, and the Lord thy God,
and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself,
above all the nations that are upon the earth.
The Bible says, hey, it shows that the children of Israel would be better than all the other nations in the world.
be special. And again, when you make the Bible your standard, you will be better than all
the other nations in the world, period. Psalm 33 says,
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord and the people whom he hath chosen for his
own inheritance. Any nation who makes God their Lord will be better than a nation that
doesn't. Canada just raised some graven image to some Hindu God. It's a giant curse on that
country and a giant, you know, reprehension on that particular country.
Psalm 9 verse 17 the wicked shall be turned into hell and notice this and all the nations that forget God
You may say this isn't fair. Well, that's just how the world works
Nations and areas in this world that don't want Christianity don't want God don't want the truth
They just turn into a hell hole literally and you find me areas that don't want the Bible and I'll show you a hell hole
I will not show you a paradise
And most of the best places in the world either currently have good standards towards Christianity
or had them for a long period in their most recent history
and they're now just slowly eroding in that it.
I mean Europe obviously had
interesting history, but obviously Britain in some of these areas had a lot more freedom and we're prospering in a Christian way.
The British Empire was thriving, but then they forgot God, didn't they?
And then now they're invaded by a bunch of Muslims. Okay, and so it's correlation.
America is the same way. We're very blessed, but in the last 60 years,
it's changed a lot, hasn't it?
And we've had a lot of diversity and not diversity because of Christianity diversity of religion diversity of ideas
And that's been corrupting our country degrading our country causing problems
We're still in my opinion the best place to live in the world though
And we still have the greatest churches,
we have the greatest missions movements,
we have the greatest opportunity,
we have a lot of wealth that we can use at our disposal.
But you know, there's other areas in the world,
you know, Philippines, the Bahamas,
areas that are really receptive right now
and getting a lot of people saved.
It seems like their economies are changing too.
They're getting more blessed,
God is giving them more favor.
And look, any nation or any country
that starts embracing Christianity
It's going to start getting way better over time and the nations that are not are going to get way worse over time.
Psalm 1171 says this,
Oh, praise the Lord all ye nations, praise them all ye people.
Look, we're all God's people in the sense that we're all His creation,
but we're not all His, the sons of God.
And so every nation is supposed to serve God.
It's like, oh, well we have our gods. No, you only have one God.
There's only one God. It's the Lord God. He's the Lord of both the Jew and the Gentile and
You're supposed to call upon him
you're supposed to believe in him to get saved and you're supposed to follow the Bible period and
We have to understand that the history of the world God wanted them to all serve God
but some people some people groups didn't some nations didn't and Ham didn't and Ham was a subservient
nation and group of people and always will be and
That doesn't mean that people within that descendancy can't
believe in Jesus Christ and get saved and move on,
but those nations as a whole are going to be inferior,
doomed, causing all kinds of problems.
And if we want our nation to be prosperous,
we have to adhere to the Bible to the Word of God.
So hopefully you don't believe in evolution
because you're an idiot.
Believe the Bible.
This is a lot of information, but I'm just trying to give you a big picture so then that way when we talk about other stuff
You kind of have some idea of why the world looks the way that it does and what happened in history
Let's close in prayer. Thank you heavenly father so much for giving us the Bible so that we could understand the world that we live in
Thank you for giving us the word of God in our English tongue so that we could use it.
We are very blessed people to live in America, to have the English Bible, to have the King James Bible,
to have the church that we have, to have great pastors and churches in this area.
I pray that we would understand how blessed we really are.
And to use that for the Gospel, to get people saved, to go out and preach the Gospel, to do missions, trips, to help other individuals,
and to help our nation remember why it's prosperous, why it's successful, why it's been blessed, is because of you and drawing near to you.
And I pray that we could have revival, we could have more people drawing near to you, learning history, learning what the Bible says,
learning the truth, getting saved, start reading the Bible and getting plugged into a good church so they can serve you.
because all the nations should give you honor and praise
and in Jesus' name we pray, amen.
Amen.
All right, for our last song,
let's go to song number 55.
Song number 55.
When the roll is called up yonder song number 55
of the day.