All language subtitles for Chuck Missler - Learn the Bible in 24 Hours - Session 01 - Introduction

does

Well, welcome to our excursion called, Learn the Bible in 24 Hours.

It's one of the most exciting adventures I've ever had, and we certainly hope it will

be for you, too.

And whenever we take on something like this, of course, the first thing we should do is

take it to prayer.

So let's borrow our hearts for a word of prayer.

Almighty God, our Heavenly Father, we come before you this day in awe and thanksgiving

for the opportunity to discover the extremes that you have gone to on our behalf.

We acknowledge our need to learn the real truth about you, the real truth about your

creation, and the real truth about ourselves.

We seek and solicit your Holy Spirit to open your word to us and to open us to your word.

And to guide us as we explore this adventure between the miracle of our origin and the

mystery of our destiny.

May your will be accomplished in each of us as we listen to these words and seek your

eternal truth as we commit ourselves into your hands.

In the name of Yeshua, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, amen.

You know, they say no person's education is complete if they do not know their Bible.

And this essential completeness has been outlawed in our government schools.

Many of our children are actually in enforced paganism, so it's a real challenge before

us.

And one of the things we need to do is repair our own illiteracy about the Bible and to

assist those around us to really understand how far God has gone on our behalf.

You know, George Washington said, it is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and

the Bible.

The veneration of the Word of God characterized the earlier leadership which established our

precious heritage.

Abe Lincoln also said, I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.

All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book.

You know, it's sobering to really acknowledge the preciousness of our heritage that has

come to us at such a high price and yet how tragically we have fallen.

Patrick Henry said, the Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.

And for the past two thousand years, it is a treasure that millions willingly died for.

And yet we all tend to take this for granted.

Even Napoleon said, the Bible is no mere book, but it is a living creature with a power that

conquers all that oppose it.

See, even secular leaders have acknowledged its uniqueness.

In fact, Napoleon was technically correct.

If you look at Hebrews 4, 12, it is alive and powerful.

You know, there's another quote that is so often misquoted.

Many of us heard the phrase Jack of all trades, master of none.

That's attributed to Ben Franklin, but it's actually a misquote.

That's not what he said.

He actually said, Jack of all trades, master of one.

His whole concept of education was that a cultured person is one who knows something

about everything and everything about something.

For a Christian, of course, his specialization has to be the Word of God, the Bible itself.

And your presence here in this project is a key step in correcting our biblically illiterate

times.

Daniel Webster said, if we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on

prospering and to prosper.

But if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden

a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.

We are on a treacherous precipice, more treacherous than we can possibly imagine.

We do have authority crises.

Take your pick, whether it's parental authority, marital authority, political authority, academic

authority, or ecclesiastical authority.

Do your own analysis and assessment.

So if we look at the leading cultural indicators in the past 30 years, population has increased

41%, gross domestic product has increased by 300%.

Social spending has increased by 500%.

And yet, there's been a 560% increase in violent crime, 400% increase in illegitimate births,

400% increase in the divorce rate, a 300% increase in the single parent homes, a 200%

increase in teenage suicides, and a 75% drop in SAT scores.

Why?

What happened?

Since 1963, the divorce rates, the breakup of family units, the acceptance of homosexuality,

the teenage pregnancies, the murder of inconvenient babies, and crime rates have all escalated

off the charts.

What happened in 1963?

Up till then, these things were improving pretty much.

And from that point on, they've all taken a sharp move to catastrophe.

In 1963, we outlawed the Bible from our schools.

Well, what's ahead?

What's in front of us in this project is what I call the ultimate literary adventure.

And we hope that this brief excursion will result in a practical grasp of the entire Bible,

a perspective from which you will be able to navigate your personal adventure through

the rest of your lifetime and more.

It is the greatest drama of all time.

We're going to reach far beyond the Earth's prehistory, behind the myths of legend and

folklore, to discover the greatest drama of all time, and of all literature.

We're going to encounter the greatest evils, betrayals, revenge, deceptions, and the ultimate

prince of darkness.

We'll also encounter the greatest good, the highest achievements, the noblest courage,

the most demanding sacrifices, in fact, the ultimate sacrifice, the kinsman-redeemer of

all mankind.

We're going to find ourselves in the greatest romance, a courtship between a sovereign

God and His rebellious offspring.

We will also explore the ultimate ironies of all literature, with hidden surprises on

every page.

We will experience the rise of great empires as well as their fall.

Through dreams, visions, and secret, encrypted messages, great leaders will discover letters

written to them personally from extraterrestrial sources outlining their careers and achievements

in advance, and giving them instructions as to how to proceed.

We will thrill the heroes seizing victories against impossible odds, betrayals of thrones

and retributions and vendettas and conspiracies tumbling proud empires.

We will probe the greatest mysteries ever to confront mankind, the nature of time, the

paradox of predestination and free will, the purity of God and the frustrations of man

in the search for good amidst the reign of evil.

And the nature of evil, where did it come from and why?

We will discover this ancient record anticipates the very latest scientific discoveries of particle

physics, cosmology, of hyperspaces and time travel.

The discovery that we are dwelling within a virtual reality that is transcended by a

larger one into which both benevolent and malevolent super beings intervene from other

dimensions.

And we will stagger in awe of the biography of an actual Superman, his origin, his mission,

and his manifest destiny, his understated powers, his betrayal, which was even under his own

control.

And the other which he was to accomplish his mission impossible.

The creator himself entering his creation to repair the damage introduced by a dark

intruder who had previously ruled the planet Earth.

We will discover that we are in fact in a cosmic war.

We will discover that we are in fact in possession of an integrated series of messages from an

extraterrestrial source that described the origin, the career, and the destiny of super

beings which are behind the scenes of our physical universe.

A universe which scientists now discover is actually a digital simulation contained within

a much larger reality.

The field of particle physics has totally altered our conceptions of reality.

Scientists now tell us that our universe consists of at least 10 dimensions.

There are some investigators who believe that much of what we call paranormal phenomena

are simply dimensional episodes intruding from a larger reality.

We also now discover that we are actually engaged in a cosmic warfare, a hyperdimensional

conflict between good and evil that will come to a climax on our near horizon.

We are the hostages of a prince of darkness that makes Darth Vader look like a boy scout.

And we find that each of us are both the pawns and the prize in this cosmic warfare.

Yet this isn't fictional entertainment.

It will be the determinant of our own personal destinies.

This is our ultimate adventure.

It's the ultimate love story written in blood on a wooden cross that was erected in Judea

some 2,000 years ago.

We're going to undertake the ultimate adventure involving each of us in this interval between

the miracle of our origin and the mystery of our destiny.

If this series is successful, it should ignite a passion, perhaps even an obsession, that

will inflame a lifetime of adventure, excitement, insight, and satisfaction not available through

any other pursuit.

This excursion is intended to be an enticement and a broad background against which to undertake

detailed studies with a verse by verse commentary of each book in a lifetime hobby that is the

gateway to eternity.

We've presumed to take on this ambitious project because of our unique advantage.

That's based on two discoveries.

We have 66 books that we call the Bible.

And even though they're penned by over 40 different people who didn't even know each other over

a period of virtually 2,000 years, the great discovery is that these 66 separate books,

although penned by over 40 different individuals, over several thousand years, we discover are

an intricate, skillfully designed, integrated message system.

And I don't simply mean that the theme of the Old Testament so filled in the new.

No much more than that.

We discover every number, every place name, every detail in the text is there by deliberate

design.

And once you discover that for yourself, that leads you to the second discovery.

And that is that this design you can prove had to have its origin from outside our space

time.

That is outside our time domain.

You say you can't prove the Bible.

Yes you can when you discover it's the integrity of its design and then recognize that it had

to have its origin from outside the dimensionality of time altogether.

One integrated design, the New Testament is in the Old Testament concealed and the Old

Testament is in the New Testament revealed.

Now if you copy, that's before we go on.

We do have to recognize that the Word of God is inexhaustible.

You can't learn everything about it in 24 hours.

24 years would be insufficient.

But we do hope you can gain a navigational, strategic view of it all.

And the truth is in the details.

The difficulty of a survey like this is we need to have a grasp of the details to understand

the integrity of that design.

Every detail in the Scripture, every place name is connected with every other.

Our goal is a strategic grasp of the entire design.

We hope that you will gain a conceptual grounding in the major truths but also have a navigational

awareness so you can fit it all together.

And now we have some advantages that were not available in the past.

Many of the skeptical theories that pervade our culture have been disproven.

The historicity of the patriarchal accounts is now well established.

People have denied that it was writing in Moses' day.

That's nonsense.

We have substantial evidence of it being established much earlier.

The gospels and epistles have been dated to the second century.

Nonsense.

Recent discoveries have made them contemporaneous with the apostles.

Much to be learned by the refutations that come from archaeological discoveries, recent

documentary discoveries, and competent analysis of that which we have.

So the facts and the science and the evidence is on our side.

Some preliminaries.

First, one of the things we always have to do, and they're taking a study like this,

is to blindfold our prejudices.

We somehow need to shed the baggage of our preconceptions and our misconceptions that

we can be bringing to the table here.

The only sure barrier to truth is the presumption you already have it.

So you want to set aside the myths and legends that have misled us and go at this with a

fresh look.

20th century science has vindicated the biblical perspectives of reality.

The more you know about the frontiers of science, the more comfortable the creation

account in Genesis reads.

And we'll show you some of that.

See we know today that we live in a finite universe.

That's the great discovery of 20th century science.

Is that the universe is finite.

We also are indebted to Dr. Einstein and other discoveries in discovering that time is a

physical property.

The discovery of the nature of time is an essential foundation to really understand

much of the biblical truth.

And the realization of hyperspaces, that there are spaces of more than three dimensions we

directly experience.

That's been proven in the laboratory and is fundamental to really understanding much

of what the Bible has to say.

We have finite boundaries.

We know that the universe had a beginning.

That's what leads scientists to speculate on the so-called Big Bang models and so forth.

Scientists also know that it's all winding down.

Ultimately, our thermodynamic universe will eventually wind down and they speak of what

they call a heat death.

So they see the universe having started at the singularity.

They call it the Big Bang and it goes to an ultimate wind down.

We are in a finite universe within a finite spirit, within a finite span of time.

I want to talk a little bit before we get into the actual study some background things

about the nature of reality.

And I want to give you a quick glimpse of what we call in mathematics a hyperspace.

Let's go back and recall what we may have learned in high school or college in trigonometry.

You may recall that we had a triangle that had three angles.

If we added up the angles of a triangle, it added up to what?

180 degrees.

No matter what triangle we took, it was always the angles would add up to 180 degrees.

And suppose we were confronted with a triangle in which the angles add up to more than 180

degrees.

If we go out into a large field and lay out a very large triangle and we bring in the figures

and we add up the angles that we measured and we discover they add up to more than 180

degrees, your first reaction might be that, gee, we made a mistake.

No.

We simply have encountered the curvature of the earth.

This little rule that we all learned that angles of a triangle add up to 180 degrees

is only true for a universe of two dimensions.

And when you find a rule like that being violated, it's a hint that we may have encountered

an additional dimension.

If you take a course in navigation, part of that course will include some elements of

spherical trigonometry in which you can have 90 degrees in each of the angles.

In fact, you can also, if you encounter a triangle that has less than 180 degrees, you

have encountered a hyperbolic paraboloid.

Now most of us aren't going to be concerned with that, but the point is these little

rules are true of a universe of only two dimensions.

That's why they call it plane trigonometry or plane geometry.

Well, it was those kinds of insights that gave Dr. Einstein his insight when he was grappling

with the nature of space.

The special theory of 1905 dealt with the relativity of mass, velocity, and time relative

to the velocity of observer.

That's the special theory of relativity.

But that led 10 years later to his general theory, the general theory of relativity by

Dr. Einstein.

And we won't get to the math, of course, but it's important for each of us to understand

the significance of that discovery was that we live in more than three dimensions.

He realized there's no distinction between time and space, that we don't live in three

dimensions, we live in at least four.

One of those is time.

And that's, we call it the theory of relativity, but it's been confirmed over 14 different

ways to 19 decimal places.

So for practical purposes, it's well established.

But we need to understand the nature of time because it will undergird so much of what

we're going to encounter as we get into our Bible studies.

Let me give you another example.

There are atomic clocks that are accurate to better than one second in a million years.

There's one of these located at the National Institute of Standards and Technology at Boulder,

Colorado.

There's an identical clock, virtually identical clock, at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich,

England.

Both these are very elaborate scientific devices that are incredibly accurate.

They're accurate to better than one second per million years.

And this, I'm always reminded whenever I encounter this, when I was on the board of a company

that was acquiring a company that made CGM clocks in Boston, when we were in this acquisition,

the proud president was presenting to our board the fact that they made these clocks

that are this accurate.

And I said, I only have two questions as an acquiring director.

How do you know?

And who cares?

Well, the way you know is from the residents of the CGM atom, and I won't go into that

all here, but who cares?

The accuracy of your ability, the accuracy of your measurement of time determines the

accuracy of your navigation.

And these clocks, this kind of clock, makes the global positioning satellite system possible.

But the point is, these two super clocks in Boulder, Colorado, and at Greenwich, England

are differing every year by five microseconds.

The one at Boulder is five microseconds a year faster than the identical clock at Greenwich.

The question is, which one is correct?

The answer is they both are.

The clocks are not inaccurate.

Time is different.

You see, in Boulder, Colorado is at 5,400 feet altitude above sea level.

In Greenwich, England, it's 80 foot above sea level.

And time is actually different at those two places because of a difference in gravity,

among other things.

These atomic clocks, if I had atomic clock here on the platform and raised it one meter,

it would speed up by one part in 10 to the 16th.

And I was 10 with 16 zeros after it.

Not much, not enough to change your schedule, but it's predictable and it is measurable.

And they actually did this.

They set aircraft around the world, eastward, with such a clock and one at rest at the observatory.

They also set one around the world westward.

And they gained and lost exactly what Einstein's theory would have predicted due to the relative

motions and so forth.

But another example that perhaps we'll get this across, if you read a physics textbook

in this area, you'll almost always talk about two hypothetical astronauts.

And we're going to leave one right here and we're going to send the other one to the nearest

star.

If you go out to the night sky, there is a star called Alpha Centauri.

It's four and a half light years away, light years of measurement of distance.

And we're going to send one of these imaginary astronauts to Alpha Centauri and back.

Well, Alpha Centauri is four and a half light years away.

So if we send him there at half the speed of light, it'll take nine years to get there

and nine years to come back.

It's an 18 year deal.

That's on Earth time.

If he takes a clock with him, he'll discover something strange.

On his clock, his clock, because of the travel and so forth, will speed at a different rate.

And since he's traveling at 50% of the speed of light, you can apply the Lorentz transformations

to make that correction.

And you'll discover that when he gets back, he will end up being two years, five months

younger than his twin brother.

Here are two astronauts born at the same instant.

One goes on this trip, and when he gets back, he'll be more than two years younger than

his twin brother.

And if that doesn't bother you, you weren't listening carefully.

This is an example of what we call the dilation of time.

Time is a physical property.

It varies just as length, mass, and other things vary due to Einstein's theory of relativity.

And so let's, to dramatize this further, suppose we could send him, assume we could, send him

at almost the speed of light, say 99.99% speed of light.

Four and a half light, your trip, round trip would be nine years.

On our clock, on his clock, it would be 33 days.

So that gives you a feeling for, it should help you understand that time is not an absolute,

it's variable.

It's not uniform.

Time is a physical property that varies with mass, acceleration, and gravity, among other

things.

And this is an insight that is profoundly useful as we approach some of the subjects we're

going to talk about in this study.

You and I, we now know, exist in more than three.

In fact, more, the experts tell us we live in ten dimensions, more than three.

See, all of us think of time as being linear.

When we were in school, the teacher went to the blackboard and wrote a line, starting

at the left and going over to the right.

And the beginning, the left end of the line was the birth of the famous person, the founding

of an empire, what have you.

And the right end of that line would be the death of that person or the fall of that empire.

All of us have made timelines in school.

Well because that background, it's natural for us when we encounter the concept of eternity,

we tend to jump to the conclusion that it's sort of like a line that starts at infinity

on the left and goes to infinity on the right.

In other words, we think of eternity as having lots of time.

Well that's good poetry.

It makes a nice verse and amazing grace, the fourth verse and what have you.

But it's bad physics because let me ask you a question.

Is God subject to the restrictions of mass or acceleration or gravity?

Hardly.

He is not simply somebody with lots of time, as we tend to imagine eternity, but he's rather

he is outside dimensionality of time altogether.

And that is his uniqueness and he uses that to authenticate his messages to you.

That's what Isaiah means when he says, thus say it the high and lofty one that inhabited

eternity.

Since God is the technology to create us, he certainly has the technology to get a message

to us.

The challenge is how does he authenticate his message?

How does he let us know that the message is really from him and not some kind of contrivance

or a fraud of some kind?

Well one of the ways he authenticates it, there are several ways.

One of the ways, he declares the end from the beginning and from ancient times the things

that are not yet done.

In other words, he writes history before it happens.

We call that prophecy.

Many people ask you, Chuck, what's your profession?

I say, I'm a history teacher.

I teach history in advance.

And of course I'm being only a little bit facetious there.

The geometry of turn, if I take this line that we have on the screen here and if I bring

it out to you in three dimensions, imagine this curved line is coming out at you from

the screen.

It's a line.

And we are at a point in this line that we'll call the present.

Behind us is the past ahead of us is the future.

For us, life is a sequence of events.

And we can move forward and look back.

We can't look forward or move back, but that's a whole other discussion for another time.

For someone who is outside the dimension of that linear length of time, say an eternity,

that person that's outside that line can see the past, the present, and the future simultaneously.

Let me give you an analogy.

Suppose you're watching a parade, the Rose Parade, the first of the year or whatever your

hometown might have.

For you as you're sitting on the curb around the corner comes the marching units, the

bands, the floats, the whatever.

For you, the parade is a sequence.

They come around the corner, they go by you and they go around the next corner.

So that's like life is, it's a sequence.

But for someone who's not in the plane of that parade's existence, say in a helicopter

above the parade, they can see the staging area where all the floats are getting prepared

where they start.

They can see the whole parade route and they can also see the other end where they disband.

They can see the beginning and the end simultaneously.

That comes the analogy, but it gets the idea across, I think.

My favorite quote from Dr. Einstein, this people like us who believe in physics know

that the distinction between the past, the present, and the future is only a stubbornly

persistent illusion and indeed it is.

So the point I want to get across with all this is important for you to really understand

that nature of time, it's a physical dimension and it varies with mass acceleration and gravity.

There's a footnote I'd like to add here a little bit about some architecture.

I'm obviously using a computer here that consists of micro circuits and a memory and

all kinds of hard wire, wires and resistors and all kinds of electronic parts.

And it also inside the computer is software.

There's an operating system, there's all kinds of languages and messages going around

and so forth.

If you knew everything there is to know about every piece of hardware in this computer,

could you predict its behavior?

And the answer, of course not.

It's simply an environment within which the software operates.

Its behavior, how it responds to things is a function of the software that's in it.

Now let's talk a little bit about software.

You see, the physical equipment is equivalent to our physical bodies, our flesh, bones,

our circulatory systems and all of that.

But that's what I'll call hardware.

Our real self call it soul, spirit, mind, thoughts, whatever, we use those words pretty

loosely.

As I look out at the audience here, my frustration is I can't really see you.

It's not because the lights are so bright.

I can't see you because I can only see the temporary residences that you're in.

The real you, as I say, call it soul, spirit, whatever, that's vocabulary, is software

not hardware.

Now here's the point.

Let's talk a little bit about software.

If I take a little diskette, you all have seen one of these little diskettes in our current

computer age, if I take a blank cassette and put it on a postal scale, it will weigh about

seven tenths of an ounce.

But if I load that blank cassette, I spend hundreds of dollars and load it with a million

bytes of software and then put it on a postal scale, what will it weigh?

Intensive ounce.

In other words, software has no mass.

A light switch weighs the same with its on or off.

It carries one bit of information.

But a computer registers the same thing.

The information that doesn't have weight, it has no mass.

In fact, I can even send it through the airwaves.

The big thing today is wireless because these messages do not require embodiment.

They can exist on their own right.

So software has no mass.

Now what does that mean?

If time is a physical property and software has no mass, it has no time to mention.

What that really means is the real you, the real you is eternal.

Whether you are saved or not, the issue is where are you going to spend it?

If you're perfect, you can spend it in the presence of our Creator.

If you're not, He has other plans.

So we need to understand that.

Want to talk also a little bit more about hyperspaces.

Not just the fancy word mathematicians use for spaces of more than three dimensions.

Most of us have been brought up in school with what we call Euclidean geometry.

But one of the most important lectures in mathematics was given on June 10th of 1854

when George Riemann invented a thing called metric tensors.

It took 60 years for Deline Stein could use that mathematics to develop his four dimensional

space time that underlies the theory of relativity.

Einstein went to his death frustrated because he couldn't resolve some other issues which

if he'd gone to one another level up, they would have yielded.

And Colusa and Klein did that in 1953 by using more than four dimensions and reconciled light

and supergravity in the field of physics.

And in 1963, Yang and Mills and other duo resolved electromagnetic and both the weak and strong

nuclear forces by recognizing the additional dimensions.

And since about 1984 onwards, people in this, that deal in these things are now exploring

the, the, the apparent reality of superstrings that we now live, we begin to understand we

live in 10 dimensions.

And I always find that rather interesting because there's an ancient Hebrew sage by the

name of Nachmanides who wrote in the 12th century, Nachmanides by simply studying the

Hebrew text of Genesis chapter one concluded that the universe has 10 dimensions.

He's in his vocabulary, only four were knowable.

The other six were in his terms, not knowable.

I find that rather interesting because we've spent millions of dollars on atomic accelerators

that have caused particle physicists to conclude that we live in 10 dimensions for our directly

measurable, the three spatial dimensions we know in time.

Six are curled in less than 10 to the minus 33 centimeters and thus are infirmable by

only indirect means.

And I think that's fascinating that the leading frontier of quantum physics is now caught up

to where Nachmanides was 12th in the 12th century.

But there are only two kinds of people that seem to be able to deal comfortably with hyperspaces

of more than three dimensions.

And that's mathematicians with special training and small children.

If I was going to try to communicate to you aspects of four dimensional or five dimensional

space, we'd both be having a tough time because outside our direct experience.

But we can get some feeling for hyperspaces by going down a dimension.

Let's as three dimensional people, let's examine a two dimensional universe with two dimensional

people living in it.

I want to introduce you to two friends of mine, Mr. and Mrs. Flatt.

I want you to be kind and passionate here because they have a very serious handicap.

They only live in two dimensions.

And so we're going to Mr. and Mrs. Flatt live in a two dimensional world.

We are three dimensional beings.

I want you to notice some of the advantages that we have over Mr. and Mrs. Flatt.

First of all, we can no matter where Mr. and Mrs. Flatt are within their two dimensional

universe, we can be more intimate with both of them simultaneously than they can be with

each other.

I could put my finger in theory one millionth of an inch away from Mr. Flatt and one million

of them in this from Mrs. Flatt no matter where they are, I could have intimacy with

both independent of their spatial relationships because I enjoy that extra dimension.

Furthermore, if I should thrust my finger through their two dimensional universe, the

only thing that they would be sensitive to, they would see what?

Not my finger, they would see a ring, they would see a circle, they would see a two dimensional

representation of this three dimensional person that's intruded into the universe.

If a severe tumbles through the universe, they would see it as a point that would expand

to a circle and then shrink to a point as it disappears.

So we begin to realize that the communication of a three dimensional object to the two dimensional

people has some challenges.

How would we go about that?

How would you communicate a three dimensional object to these two dimensional people by

a two dimensional projection is one suggestion.

So we could try to project say a three dimensional cube to get it into two dimensions to help

them understand it.

That would be probably less than satisfactory.

How would we see a three dimensional representation of a four dimensional hypercube?

There are such things and you can go on the internet and see them and play with them,

but the more you play with them, the more you realize there's no way you'll understand

them from a three dimensional vantage point without special tools.

It's not very useful.

Another way you might unravel a three dimensional object in a two dimensions to communicate to

Mr. and Mrs. Flat would be to unravel it.

We take our three dimensional cube and flatten it and that would be one way, but again it

wouldn't be too useful.

That's actually been done with a four dimensional cube.

A four dimensional cube that's unraveled into three dimensions is called a tusseract

or a hinting cube.

There's only one place I've ever encountered as being useful and I found it in a very surprising

place.

Salvador Dali uses a hypercube in his famous painting Corpus Christi.

So I was actually astounded to discover that Salvador Dali was that sophisticated mathematically

to really understand the implications of a four dimensional cube in a three dimensional

space, but we'll move on here.

Oh, before we do, Ephesians, I have to call your attention to Paul's writing in Ephesians.

Ephesians chapter 3, verse 17 through 19, Paul says that Christ may dwell in your hearts

by faith that ye being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with all

saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height and to know the love of Christ

which passes knowledge that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.

A familiar passage, but I want to notice something.

I want you to know something.

How many dimensions is Paul talking about?

With all saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height?

In the Greek, one of those terms is the term for time, by the way.

We got four dimensions here, four dimensions in the text.

I think that's fascinating.

I'm not necessarily insisting that was Paul's intention, but I'm fascinated the Holy Spirit

in guiding him, kept him physically on his toes.

And we find examples of that all through the Scripture in some ways that will surprise

you.

Jesus goes on to give us some further instruction about understanding the text.

When I first visited Israel, I remember a rabbi pointing out to me, he says, we really

won't understand the text until the Messiah comes, but when the Messiah comes, he will

interpret the passages, in fact he will interpret the very words, the very letters,

in fact he will even interpret the spaces between the letters.

When I first heard that, I dismissed that as a colorful exaggeration.

Until I read, once again, Matthew 5, verse 17, 18, where Jesus himself says, think not

that I come to destroy the Torah or the prophets.

I come not to destroy, but to fulfill, for verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth

pass, one yawter, one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law till all be fulfilled.

A yawter, a tittle.

See, a yawt is one of the 22 Hebrew letters that you and I would mistake for an apostrophe.

It looks like a little blemish on the paper, just a little mark.

A tittle is the little decorative hook on some of the letters.

This is a hebraic way of saying, as we might say, not the crossing of the T or the doubting

of an eye.

This is a call by the Lord himself to take the text seriously, not one yawter, one tittle

shall pass from the law.

I take this as a call to taking the text literally.

And now that leads to another area that I want to just touch on.

Are there hidden messages in the Bible?

Well the Bible says there are.

In Proverbs 25, too, it says, it is the glory of God to conceal a thing and it's the duty

or honor of kings to search out a matter.

In fact, Rabbi Cordovaro in the 16th century records that the secrets of the Torah, that's

the Hebrew term for the five books of Moses, are revealed in the skipping of letters.

There are lots of hidden messages in the Scriptures, but we're going to just focus on one called

the equidistant letter sequence.

What on earth is an equidistant letter sequence?

Well, let me give you a contrived example here to get the idea across.

Rips is one of the scientists in this area, by the way.

Anyway, Rips explained that each code is a case of adding every fourth letter to form

a word.

Now, in this particular contrived example, if you take every fourth letter, an R, an E,

an A, a D, a T, H, E, C, O, D, E, it spells a message itself.

It says, read the code.

Now, in this case, it's just a simple contrivance, but to get across the idea that you can have

a message embedded in another message that is hidden.

It has to be found by knowing what spacing to use and so forth.

Now, with a computer, that's easily, you can try all spacing to see if there's a message

there to see if something's going, and that's exactly what they've done.

I want to share with you a discovery, I should say, a rediscovery, by Rabbi Weizmendel, who

was between World War I and World War II.

He made some discoveries in his study of the Hebrew text, which is a rediscovery of things

that the ancient rabbis knew long before.

He noticed some footnotes and some ancient documents.

He looked at, chased them down, and discovered something interesting.

This is the book of Genesis, the opening passages of the Bible.

Now, realize that the Hebrew goes from right to left.

We would look at it as going backwards.

You should understand that all languages flow towards Jerusalem.

Countries that are west of Jerusalem go from left to right, Greek, English, German, Russian,

whatever.

Countries that are east of Jerusalem go from right to left, Hebrew, Arabic, Sanskrit,

and others.

But the main point is, I don't know what you do with that piece of information, I just

throw out, because I think it's colorful.

But the word for Torah, the Torah, the law, is in Hebrew, it's four letters.

One letter, it's equivalent to R-T-O-R-H.

If you go to the first tau, which is like their T, and then count 49 letters, you come

to a vow which operates sort of like an O. And then you count 49 letters, and again,

you get a R-S-H, and then you count 49 letters again, and you get a H-A-Tau, vow, R-S-H,

which is equivalent to R-Spelling it to R-H, the English transliteration of that would

be Torah.

And again, Hebrew goes from right to left, English goes from left to right.

Now you say, gee, that's curious.

49 letter intervals, it's curious.

Don't make much of that.

It's just many people argue, well, that's just an accident of statistics.

It could have happened any of the number of ways.

Okay.

You go to Exodus, and you discover the same thing happens.

You go to the first tau, and then you count 49 letters, you get a vow, count 49 letters,

you get a R-S-H, then you get 49 letters, and you get a H-A-Tau.

And again, it spells Torah.

And you say, well, that's really a little more than coincidence, because it obviously

seems to be designed.

It happens again in Exodus.

The chances of those happening by chance start to become astronomically ridiculous.

You go to Leviticus, and you sort of relieve when it doesn't happen at all, but you go

to numbers, something even stranger happens.

You go, you find a H-A-Resh, a vow, and a H-A-T.

You find Torah spelled backwards.

I don't know how they discovered this.

It sounds like they had time on their hands, but the point is, again, we have 49 letter

intervals spelling out Torah, but backwards this time.

And you go to the next book, Deuteronomy, you have essentially the same thing again

occur with 49 letter intervals.

Well, so you stand back from all of this.

That's kind of strange, forward and forward, and then Leviticus says, let's take a look

at this.

Leviticus a little more closely.

And we notice not 49, which is seven squared, but seven letters, we find a intervals of

seven.

A Yot, a He, a Vav, and a He.

And the Yot, a Vav, He is the unpronounceable name of God in the Jewish community.

And now you stand back from this whole design.

You've got Genesis and Exodus going forward, and numbers in Deuteronomy going backwards,

and you discover that the Torah always points to Yahweh, or Yahova, or Yah-heh-vav-he is

the way some rabbis would deal with that.

Interesting.

Now, the question is, is this all happened by accident?

Hardly.

Is this evidence of design?

Yes.

What does it prove?

I'm not sure.

But there are so many of these things that are so profound that increasingly they come

to be regarded as authentication.

You try to draft some text with these kinds of properties.

You'll discover it's getting, it's not near impossible.

It's much more difficult than it looks to contrive these things.

Let me shift to another, since we're talking about information science as an effect here.

I want to acquaint you with another parallel that's rather provocative.

There is a thing called holography.

It's a form of lensless photography.

If we take a three-dimensional image and arrange a photographic plate in such a way that a

laser illuminates that plate, and that same laser illuminates the three-dimensional object

so that what the plate records, there's no lenses here in the sense that it's not like

a camera here, that that plate will record the interference between these, the direct

light and the reflected light.

And what gets on the plate is something that when you develop the film, looks like a dark

room mistake.

It's a cloudy, indistinct, looks like something you throw in a waste basket.

Looks like a mistake.

And yet, if you illuminate that developed plate by the laser that created it in the first

place, you get a three-dimensional window into the space that was in front of it.

And we call the image on there a Fourier transform that happens mathematically, a Fourier transform

of the image.

It has some very peculiar properties that you think you might be interested in.

If we take that plate, it says if we have some objects out there, no matter how you

look through that window, it says if you're looking into that three-dimensional space.

Let me give you an example.

I have a tie on, let's assume it's a tie with a distinct design of some kind.

If I held my Bible up and you took a photograph of me, you couldn't tell what kind of a tie

I'm wearing.

If you took a holograph of you, you could move your eye and look around my Bible and

see my tie.

In other words, you've captured in the hologram a three-dimensional space, not just a two-dimensional

representation of a three-dimensional space.

That's what makes the hologram rather provocative for many reasons, but it's a Fourier transform.

First of all, it requires proper illumination.

It's useless in natural light.

It has no form or comments that you would desire it.

The information that it contains is spread over the entire surface.

It's not like a photograph where I could cut a part of that photograph out.

If I had a photograph of three people, I could cut one of the people out and give you two

of them.

If it was a hologram, you could look around the hole and see all three.

See, the information, all the information is spread over the entire surface.

There's no loss from dropouts.

In other words, if I cut two holograms, it would give you both of them.

You both have a complete copy.

It may not be as sharp as the earlier one.

So it's resilient to specific interference.

A hologram, it's as if it anticipates hostile jambing.

Now, what's interesting, the Bible is like a hologram.

It has some Fourier transform properties.

It is transcendent of parallax and some other things.

Have you ever noticed in the Bible that there's no chapter on baptism?

There's no chapter on salvation?

Every truth of God is spread through the whole book.

And that has a property that if your communication's engineered, engineering, designing a communication

system in anticipation of hostile jambing, one of the things you do is spread your message

over the entire spectrum.

That is exactly the way the Bible is designed.

There's some number of interesting parallels between the properties of light and the attributes

of God.

The light we're talking about is laser light.

It has no parallax.

And it's as if it's located at infinity.

Its velocity is constant, which is suggestive of a constant source of power.

The photons lack locality.

All photons are immediately connected with all other photons in the universe.

That sounds bizarre, but they've just recently discovered that it's astonishing.

And of course, light is fundamentally the primary means of revealing other things.

And those are mathematically equivalent to the primary attributes of God.

Because if he's infinite, infinite power, omnipresent and omniscient.

So you can play with that a little bit.

But it's interesting that these things are intentional.

We find even in James every good gift, every perfect gift is from above and cometh down

from the father of lights with whom is no variableness nor shadow of turning.

That word, variableness in the Greek is parallaxes, which is the term from which we get parallax

or implying the very collimation that the lasers have.

So just as a hologram needs to be illuminated with a light that created it, it's useless

in natural light.

The information is spread over the entire bandwidth.

There's no loss from dropouts.

It's resilient to specific interference.

That's also true of the Bible.

In natural light, it looks like a collection of myths and folklore.

When it's illuminated by the Holy Spirit, it gives you an image, the image of the one

that we have to do, Jesus Christ.

Incidentally, if you illuminate the hologram with a laser of a different frequency, you

get a false image.

If you illuminate this with the wrong light, you'll get a false image there, too.

The information is spread over the entire Bible.

It's designed that way.

As if it anticipates hostile jamming.

That's exactly what Isaiah says in Isaiah 28, by the word of the Lord was unto them,

precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, hear a little,

there a little, and so forth.

It's deliberately spread.

Well, I've just touched on some of these things.

You may find that interesting.

It's not critical, but I thought it's provocative to those of you that have an interest in those

things.

We've talked a little bit about the nature of reality, the nature of time.

We put a little insert there about the nature of software.

We talked more about that later.

We talked a little bit about hyperspaces because that's what we're going to find ourselves

dealing with as we get into the script here.

We talked a little bit about the fact there are some hidden codes.

I will show you some astonishing ones as we go through, not to get in the details, but

to give you a respect for the total package.

The hidden codes are not to establish doctrine.

They're simply there, among other things, as a means of authentication.

And of course, I talked a little bit about the holographic model.

But now let's talk about an overview where we're headed.

The Old Testament, of course, is the story basically of a nation to set the stage for

the New Testament, which is the story of a person, the person of Jesus Christ.

And the Old Testament, I want you to understand something very important that most people

don't understand.

The Old Testament is incomplete.

The Old Testament is full of unexplained ceremonies, sacrificial rituals that in and

of themselves would seem to make no sense at all.

It is full of unachieved purposes, the covenants and so forth, many of which are yet to be

fulfilled.

The whole challenge in the Middle East today is the world's attempt to disavow the Abrahamic

covenant.

We'll talk about that when we get there.

The Old Testament is full of unappased longings.

The poetical books are full of these, it's just an example.

And of course, it's also perhaps the permanent importance is full of unfulfilled prophecies.

And those are, we're going to be looking at those in some detail.

These are all explained for you in John chapter 5 verse 39, where Jesus himself challenges

you.

He says, search the scriptures for in them you think you have eternal life, they are

they which testify of me.

And one of the secrets we're going to share with you is what do you do with the trial?

How many of you have read the Bible and found something that made no sense, found something

that seemed to contradict itself, something that just was not understandable?

How many of you have done that?

It doesn't have their hand raised up because it's not been studying the Bible seriously.

The next time you find something in the Scripture that you don't understand, I want you to

rejoice because you have an opportunity to conduct a laboratory experiment in the supernatural.

I want you to get a journal, go get a journal, your girls know what I'm talking about, the

men have no idea.

You go to a stationery store, you can buy bound books that are blank and it's called

a journal.

And what I want you to do is get one and vow that no one will ever see it but yourself.

And I say that so you'll be honest with yourself.

No one's ever going to see this thing, it's your own private treasure, it will be when

you're finished here.

The next time you come across a passage that you don't understand, enter into your journal,

put the date down, put the reference down and try to describe in your own words in it,

not in the pencil, why it's puzzling, why it doesn't seem to make sense to you.

Once you've done that, I want you to go to prayer, go before your Father and remind

Him that He promised that the Holy Spirit would teach you all things, not most things, all

things.

Lay claim on that promise.

And say, here's a passage in your word, Father, I don't understand.

And I commit it to you to illuminate my confusion.

And commit it in the Lord Jesus Christ in your own way.

Now it won't happen necessarily in the next ten seconds but I tell you what will happen.

Something will cross your path that will make that clear.

It might be a sermon you hear that Sunday, it might be something you happen to read,

it might be a conversation you over here in a restaurant.

It might be something you hear on a radio broadcast while randomly tuning.

I have no idea what will happen but what will happen is something will come across your

path that will make that passage that confused you clear.

I want you to go back to your journal, enter the date, document what it means.

You say, check that sounds exciting but why all the paperwork?

I'll tell you why.

Because the days will come when you will traverse the valley of doubts.

It will be times when you will just go through a valley of despair.

I want you to be able to pick up that journal and recount the footprints of the Holy Spirit

as He taught you the Scripture, not Chuck Missler or whoever your favorite Bible teacher might

be but the Holy Spirit.

And that will become a treasure that will be unique to you, that won't make sense to

anybody else but it will be very important to you.

Every time you find a passage in the Scripture that you don't understand, I will predict

that it will unravel to you and when it does, it will always involve some aspect of the

person of Jesus Christ.

His role, his mission, his accomplishments, his destiny, some aspect.

If you have a troubling area, put Christ right in the middle of it and watch what happens.

We'll show you examples of that as we go through the study.

We're going to undertake a panorama of all history and we're going to start from the

creation of the fall of man through the flood to Abraham all the way to the Exodus.

That's the book of Genesis.

It's a major portion of history, Genesis spans.

Genesis ends with the book of Exodus and after Exodus, we get, obviously from there we'll

get into the monarchy, obviously the life of David up to the exile when the house of

Israel is captive in the Babylon.

The rest of the Old Testament will take you from the Exodus to the exile.

There is a 400-year period between the end of the Old Testament and the beginning of the

New Testament.

Some people call it the silent years.

That's unfortunate because those years are detailed for you in the Bible.

They're in Daniel chapter 11 in advance.

Many people don't realize that.

Then of course we have the New Testament.

The Old Testament spans virtually almost 2,000 years.

The New Testament spans one lifetime and many of the documents are contemporaneous that

we have.

They're scraps we even have that were contemporaneous.

Now obviously the nation of Israel after the crucifixion of Christ has experienced the

diaspora.

But the Bible talks about and we're watching the restoration, the beginning of the restoration

of Israel.

And people say, why are we studying the Bible now?

Let me give you a big reason.

I'm going to put something on the screen that I hope you will doubt.

I want you to challenge this preposterous statement.

I'm going to put on the screen.

We believe that we are being plunged into a period of time about which the Bible says

more than it does about any other period of time in history, including the time that Jesus

walked the shores of Galilee or climbed the mountains of Judea.

Now that's a preposterous statement.

But we believe it.

We believe that you and I are being propelled into a period of time about which the Bible

says more than it does even about the gospel period.

Now, I hope you don't accept that.

I'm counting on you to challenge that, to challenge that you've got to do two things.

You've got to find out what the Bible says, not what Chuck Mr. says or whoever.

Find out what the Bible says.

The second thing you've got to do is find out what's going on.

And I'm going to suggest the more you know about what's going on in Israel, in Europe,

in China, in technology, and you name it, the more you know about what's going on on

our strategic horizon, the more you'll see a dovetail with a classic biblical scenario

that was written thousands of years ago.

Well, let's take a look at where we're headed.

The Old Testament, of course, consists of the Torah.

Some people would call it under the Greek, the Pentateuch, the Jews would call it the Torah.

The five books of Moses, the first five, the most venerated part of the Old Testament

to the Jewish community.

It's followed by 12 historical books, which really chronicle the history of Israel.

Then the literature of Israel, the poetical books, the Psalms, the Proverbs, and others,

five of those.

Then we have 17 books called the Prophets, writings that were inspired by God that talk

about the future and God's plan in overview.

It happens that five of those are large ones, that's why they're called major prophets.

Twelve of them are called minor prophets, but that's misleading.

That's a librarians designation.

It has nothing to do with content.

Some of those priceless little gems are when the so-called minor prophets.

By any case, we have 17 prophets which add up to a total of 39 books making up the Old

Testament.

Of course, the Torah is where we're starting.

The book of Genesis literally means the book of beginnings.

Then the book of Exodus, which deals with the birth of the nation Israel, that's where

it begins as a nation.

The law of that nation is codified in a book called Leviticus.

They wander in the wilderness for virtually 40 years, called the Wilderness Wandering,

before they enter the land.

Deuteronomy is the last three sermons by Moses in which he reviews the laws and gives them

guidance because he passes the baton to Joshua as they enter the land.

So that closes the Torah.

The book of Joshua, of course, follows because Joshua is the successor and handles the conquest

of the land of Canaan.

Of course, in the next session, we will undertake a beginning of the book of Genesis.

We're going to devote a substantial portion of time to Genesis and also to Revelation,

both ends because everything starts.

Every in the Bible that has a beginning begins in Genesis and has its climax in Revelation.

They are the bookends to the whole thing.

So, book of Genesis, of course, covers all the way up to the Exodus.

We'll be focusing next time on the creation and the predicament of mankind and how that

all started.

We'll actually take in the next hour, we'll take the first three chapters, the creation

itself and the fall of man.

And then we'll finish what they call prehistory.

We often take regard to the first 11 chapters of Genesis as sort of prehistory and as it's

called by some scholars and the flood and the Tower of Babel and all that.

And then we'll spend an hour on the patriarchs, the rest of the book of Genesis, Abraham,

Isaac, Jacob and Joseph and why they are important to every one of us today.

This is not just a question of Jewish history, it's a question of really understanding what

God is doing and how He's doing it.

And so, we just hope you really enjoy this adventure.

I predict that it'll be the most challenging thing that you've ever undertaken and the

most rewarding, most exciting thing you've ever done.

So, go at it prayerfully and we'll see you next time.