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(UPLIFTING MUSIC)
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BOY: (SHOUTS) Read all about it!
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Read all about Christ's return!
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Read all about it!
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I'd like to see the view from up in those clouds.
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WOMAN: You will soon enough. We all will.
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BOY: (SHOUTS) Read all about Christ's return!
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Don't forget your paper!
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Read all about it!
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MAN: I'll take a copy, lad.
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So, people find intrigue in the news of the Lord's return?
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Well, people want to hear about the end of the world, sir.
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(TOWNSPEOPLE CHATTER NEARBY)
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(COINS JINGLE)
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BOY: Read all about it!
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Read all about Christ's return!
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(ARTILLERY FIRE AND EXPLOSIONS ECHO)
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MAN: (SHOUTS) Captain Miller, sir?!
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MAN: (SHOUTS) No! No more!
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(EXPLOSIONS AND SHOUTING CONTINUE)
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MAN: Captain, we've got no more rounds!
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Captain?! Captain?!
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Captain Miller?!
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(GASPS)
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(BREATHES RAPIDLY)
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(GASPS)
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(READS) “But how conceive a God supremely good,
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“Who heaps his favours on the sons he loves,
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“Yet scatters evil with as large a hand?
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“A God came down to lift our stricken race -
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“He visited the earth and changed it not.”
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(PIG GRUNTS)
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The children have asked for you.
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Will you take them some bread with butter and cheese?
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Yes, my dear.
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(SIGHS) And what are you thinking about today, Mr Miller?
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Voltaire.
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Voltaire believes there is a supreme power.
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But he does not accept that God has anything to do with us personally.
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I...survived that battle in Plattsburgh, Lucy and...
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..I have to know why.
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And Voltaire's words provide no answers, then?
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(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)
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God reached down to the battlefield to...meddle in the lives of men?
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It goes against reason, William. It's not logical.
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If you had seen the shells and the blood that day,
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you'd know the only explanation for our victory
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was some sort of divine intervention.
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And what of the men and boys who died around you?
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Was it the hand of God that put them in the grave?
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I don't have the answer for that, Abner.
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All I know is I should be dead and I am not.
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Perhaps the Bible has an answer.
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Come now, Mr Miller.
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The Bible is an ancient fairytale. You have no proof of its validity.
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WILLIAM: You don't have proof to the contrary.
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Both views require a leap of faith.
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Surely one demands as much attention as the other.
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So, now an ancient text is your authority on all things?
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It just may have the answers I seek.
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Well, I'll tell you what I seek.
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Another pint.
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William...
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Hello.
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We need a minister for today's service...
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(INDISTINCT CONVERSATION CONTINUES)
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(CHURCH ORGAN PLAYS)
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Abner has fallen ill.
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- Oh. - So, they...
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They've asked me to read the sermon.
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And your response was...?
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This is what I get for speaking in front of Mother.
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I told her that I would next read the sermon when Elihu was away.
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She...must have told one of the elders.
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“Indeed, all parental instructions, unless enforced by becoming examples,
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“will expose not only the truths taught,
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“but the parents themselves...”
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“Many remained hardened,
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“thoughtless of God who created them and of Jesus who bled to redeem them.”
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(MAN COUGHS)
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“Be not deceived, beloved parents.
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“If you would train up your children in the way they should go,
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“you must not merely instruct,
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“but your actions must corres...
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“..corres...
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“..your actions must correspond to God's calling on your heart.”
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(WHISPERED MURMURING)
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(READS) “For God so loved the world,
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“that he gave his only begotten Son,
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“that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish,
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“but have everlasting life.”
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“I have loved thee with an everlasting love,
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“therefore with loving...”
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“I am the Lord, your God, your Saviour...”
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“So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many,
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“and unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time...”
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“And if I go, I will come again.”
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Little one...
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What is it?
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The baby bird is dead.
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Oh...
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My sweet child.
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There, there.
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It's going to be alright.
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No.
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It's not.
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Come.
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Let us lay this gentle creature to rest.
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Papa...
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..I don't want to die.
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Oh, my precious one.
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Mmm.
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You will yet live for many, many years.
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But...
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..each of us must one day pass from this earth.
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Aren't you afraid of that?
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No.
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Not anymore.
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For I have found a friend in Jesus.
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“August 16th, 1818.
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“Now, after two years of study,
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“I am satisfied that many of the prophetic promises in the Bible
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“have been fulfilled.
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“I must wonder, then,
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“why not the promise of his Second Coming?”
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LUCY: Back to Daniel's vision, are we?
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Well, speak up, so the whole family can hear.
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“Then I heard one saint speaking...
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..“'How long shall the vision
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“'concerning the sanctuary and the host be trodden under foot?'
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“And he said unto me,
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“'Unto two thousand and three hundred days -
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“'then shall the sanctuary be cleansed'.”
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Hmm, that's a long time to wait in Daniel's day.
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More than that, I think.
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The sanctuary here refers to the earth...
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..and...
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The sanctuary refers to the earth
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and the cleansing
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must be the...cleansing of the earth
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after the Second Coming of Christ.
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If each day represents one year...
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William, what is it?
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Christ is coming.
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The glorious appearing, yes.
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Some day. Our blessed hope.
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Lucy, you do not understand.
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If...
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..each of Daniel's days is one year,
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and...then the 2,300 days
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will be 2,300 years until the Second Coming of Christ,
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and the time period begins at 457 BC,
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as indicated in Daniel 9, and confirmed by historians,
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then that brings us to...
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..1843.
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Christ is coming.
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My Saviour from Plattsburgh is coming.
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1843.
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(CLOCK CHIMES)
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(CLOCK TICKS)
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William?
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William, my love?
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- (GROANS) - Come to bed.
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(SIGHS)
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The Bible holds the answer to the timing of our Saviour's return.
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God's Word has lasted these many centuries.
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It will still be there in the morning.
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Can you believe what the Lord has shown us?
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Indeed.
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I shall never again doubt the faithfulness of Scripture.
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“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet
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“and a light unto my path.”
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(HORSE NEIGHS AND SNORTS)
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MAN: Just...
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LUCY: What have they hit?
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I'm unsure.
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Whatever it is, it will not move.
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LUCY: Mm.
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The ground is as stubborn as the man who holds the title.
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Lucy...
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I have explained my position.
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The Baptists, the Methodists, the Presbyterians,
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they all believe that Christ will return
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at the end of the millennium foretold in Revelation.
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As if...we could usher in a thousand years of peace on our own!
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(SIGHS)
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If these many years of studying the Bible have shown me anything,
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it's that Christ will return to cleanse the earth
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at the beginning of the thousand years, not at their end.
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This must go beyond just our family.
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You must tell others, William.
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I am no theologian.
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Nor has anyone asked me to be the watchman.
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Is that so?
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(SIGHS) Lucy...
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..I'm a gentleman farmer.
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I shall soon be 50. I'm too old to take on such a challenge.
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And “How, then, shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed?
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“And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard?
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“And how shall they hear without a preacher?”
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I shall make a covenant with God.
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I shall speak if I am asked.
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Well, it's your choice.
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Are you the rock or are you the plough?
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And how long will it be before someone steps forward
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and asks to hear your wisdom?
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(KNOCK AT DOOR)
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LUCY: Come in.
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- Irving. - Aunt Lucy.
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To what do we owe this unexpected visit?
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Uh, the pastor of our Baptist church has been called away.
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So, Mother and Father were hoping you could speak in his place tomorrow.
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They thought you could minister on the prophesies
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you've been studying in the Bible.
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WILLIAM: I'm not a theologian,
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nor has anyone asked me to be the watchman.
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LUCY: Are you the rock or are you the plough?
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And how long must it take before someone...?
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WILLIAM: I shall make a covenant with God.
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I will speak if I am asked.
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No!
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God! No!
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I cannot preach!
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I'm not qualified, nor am I a watchman.
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I beg You, do not put this burden upon my shoulders!
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Send someone else!
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(SOBS)
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But I made You a promise.
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How can I do less now?
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Can I deny the only One who has ever truly forgiven me my failings -
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who has saved me from myself?
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(SIGHS) I cannot.
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As we know, there is much evidence in Daniel's vision
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that the cleansing of the sanctuary
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is symbolic of Christ's return to cleanse our suffering earth,
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which we have ravaged with war and sullied with sin.
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But the proof is strong that Daniel's vision
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began 457 years before Christ.
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Now...
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..take 457 from 2,300
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and you are left with 1,843 years after Christ,
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when the vision will be fulfilled.
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The conclusion must be that some time about 1843,
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our Saviour, Jesus Christ, will come to take us home.
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(GASPING AND MURMURING)
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I think your brother-in-law has gone mad.
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My dear friends and family,
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are you prepared for this great and important event?
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Are you ready for Jesus to return?
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Here...
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..here is strong evidence that the time is not far off.
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Remember the old world?
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They thought Noah was a maniac, but the flood came.
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Be warned - fly to the ark,
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take refuge in the beautiful promise of Jesus Christ,