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Amazing Facts

Doug Batchelor

Worshiping the Creator

This presentation is brought to you by the Friends of the Amazing Facts Ministry.

Did you know most baby mammals, birds and even some fish instinctively identify and bond with their parents in the very early stages of their lives.

But if the parents aren't available, well, some strange things can happen.

In the 1930s, Austrian zoologist Conrad Lorenz conducted some of the first experiments on the imprinting of precocial birds, those that leave the nest soon after hatching.

When he presented himself to a newly hatched group of mallard ducklings and he quacked softly to them, they recognized him as their mother and consequently followed him everywhere.

Cross-species imprinting has been observed many times, even among some species that are naturally enemies like cats and squirrels or lions and antelope.

Did you know that in a spiritual sense we humans can also be imprinted?

That's why it's so important that we fix our eyes on Jesus.

So join me today as we explore the Bible facts about how we can be imprinted by our Heavenly Father and have a life-changing experience with Jesus.

We've got a verse, everything we're doing in this series, we're basing it on Revelation 14, and I want to tell you why this fits into our study tonight.

You look in verse 6 and it pictures 3 angels flying in the midst of heaven.

Flying in heaven, these are good, godly messengers.

The angels on earth and the beasts, they're all down below.

An angel flying is a symbol of a message that goes to the world.

And God's...the messages of angels usually go through people.

You'll often find angels will tell people to give messages.

And so it's telling about this message that goes around the world, and of course you've got 1st, 2nd, 3rd angels message, and then if you look in verse 14, I behold there is a white cloud and 1 on the cloud like the Son of Man coming.

So after these messages go to the world, just at the end of time, Jesus comes.

In verse 6, Revelation 14, 6, I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth to every nation, tribe, tongue and people saying, here it is, with a loud voice fear God, and the loud voice there is megaphone in Greek megaphone, you all know what that means right?

Megaphone, It's saying loud voice, fear God and give glory to Him, glorify God, the hour of His judgment is come clearly near the end, right?

And it says, and worship Him that made the heaven and the earth and the sea and the springs of water." This is dealing with a quote from the 10 Commandments.

For in 6 days the Lord made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and the fountains of waters.

And you'll see that in Exodus 20, verse 11.

So after God makes man, how many days in creation?

6 days of creation, but how many days in a week?

After God created everything, He then created a period of time, a dimension of time, a day for communion, for fellowship, to put aside the distractions of work and things like that for focusing on relationship.

And he said this has to happen on a regular basis for love and relationship to be strong with each other and with God.

We need that time and he knew that we'd get distracted and that's why in the 10 Commandments it says, remember because we're prone to forget.

How many of you remember in the story of the Exodus when Moses comes to the Pharaoh and he says, God has sent me to say let my people go, and the Pharaoh said I'm not going to let them go, And he said to Moses, you are causing the people to Shabbat from their labours.

Do you know that's the word that the Pharaoh used?

See when Moses came out of the wilderness and God sent him, he first met with the elders of Israel.

And he said, God is getting ready to act in a mighty way to deliver you from your slavery.

You need to re-consecrate yourselves to God.

Turn back, obey Him, remember His Sabbath.

He said, I've heard you're causing the people to Shabbat.

And then the Pharaoh said, I'm gonna make sure that they cannot rest, I'm not gonna let them have straw anymore, they're gonna have to collect their own straw, I'm gonna intensify their labor so that they work, work, work and they can't think about their God anymore.

Moses is like Jesus saying, let my people go.

The pharaoh is saying, work, work, work, and don't think about God.

Jesus said, beware, be careful that your hearts are not overcharged with eating and drinking and the cares of this life, so that day, whether it's your death or the second coming, that day overtakes you as a thief.

Some people plan on changing 1 of these days and they never do.

God says we need to pause and keep recalibrating and making sure that God is our priority.

So question number 1, we got a lot to cover.

Genesis 2, verse 1 through 3, Thus the heavens and the earth and all the host of them were finished.

And on the seventh day, he ended his work which he had done, and he rested on the seventh day.

First book of Genesis, first book, second chapter.

This is why Jesus said the Sabbath was made for man way back in the beginning.

Question number 2, what day of the week is the Sabbath?

And then you look again in Genesis 2, let's read the rest of that, And on the, what's it say?

Seventh day, God ended his work which he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work that he had done, and then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because he rested from all his work which he had created and made.

Now did God say, I want you to remember A seventh day?

Did God say A seventh day is the Sabbath, or did He say the seventh day?

If I were to say to you now, can you please bring me a book?

You could grab the hymnal in the back of the seat there, you could grab a Bible, you could grab a Harry Potter, you can grab anything.

Hopefully there's no Harry Potter books here.

It could be your phone book in your top pocket.

But if I said, bring me the book, You'd look around and you'd go, wonder who has the book?

So when God says, the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord, it's as definite as the language can make it.

Now if you're wondering well what day is the seventh day?

We don't really know anymore, calendar's been changed, you've probably heard that.

No, no calendar change has ever affected the weekly cycle.

The Merriam-Webster dictionary, I typed in the word Saturday, the definition is the seventh day of the week.

So we know what day is the seventh day, and if you doubt that, there's about 16 million Jews in the world that still know what day it is.

About 500 years ago we transferred from the Julian calendar that goes way back before Christ to Julius Caesar, to the Gregorian calendar.

But here's a question, what day followed Thursday?

No change in the calendar has ever affected the weekly cycle.

So there's no question about the days of the week.

People have no problem with that until they learn the Sabbath truth.

Number 3, how are we to memorialize the Sabbath?

God tells us, it says in Isaiah 66, verse 23, and it will come to pass that from 1 new moon to another and from 1 Sabbath to another, and from 1 Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship." Or does it say all Jews?

It says all flesh, it means all people, come to worship before me, says the Lord.

It's talking about in the new earth, from month to month, from week to week, all flesh will come to worship before me.

Again, Exodus 20 verse 8, Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy, 6 days you should labor and do all of your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God, in it you shall do no work.

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