EP. 10 - Hope for the End Times | Until the Whole World Hears - Series 2

>>ANNOUNCER: TODAY ON THE JOHN ANKERBERG SHOW: JESUS SAID, "GO INTO ALL THE WORLD AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL THE NATIONS." BUT HOW CAN THIS BE DONE WHEN SO MANY MILLIONS OF PEOPLE KNOW VERY LITTLE ABOUT JESUS? WHY IS IT THAT MANY OF THE PEOPLE ARE SO IMPRESSED WITH THE AUDIO BIBLES? MY GUEST TODAY WHO WILL TELL US IS MORGAN JACKSON, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF FAITH COMES BY HEARING. >>MORGAN JACKSON: AND IN ONE OF OUR MEETINGS MY FATHER, WHO KEEPS HEARING ME

SHARE THE STORY SAID, "YOU KNOW MORGAN, ACTUALLY THIS IS AN END-TIME TOOL." EVERYBODY THINKS ABOUT THE WRITTEN BIBLE BUT FROM THE VERY EARLY STAGE THERE WAS ONE COPY OF THE BOOK OF THE LAW. THE PEOPLE GATHERED EVERY SEVEN YEARS TO HEAR. DURING THE TIME OF CHRIST, THE ONLY PLACE YOU COULD HEAR THE SCRIPTURES WERE IN THE SYNAGOGUE AND YOU DID NOT HAVE A PRIVATE COPY THAT YOU READ AT HOME. IT WAS READ PUBLICLY. >>ANNOUNCER: WE INVITE YOU TO JOIN US TO HEAR WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE HEAR THE BIBLE IN

THEIR OWN LANGUAGE FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME ON THIS SPECIAL EDITION OF THE JOHN ANKERBERG SHOW. ♪ >>DR. JOHN ANKERBERG: WELCOME TO OUR PROGRAM. I’M JOHN ANKERBERG, AND FOR MANY, MANY MONTHS, MANY OF YOU HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS PROGRAM, BECAUSE WE HAVE MORGAN JACKSON FROM FAITH COMES BY HEARING WITH US. AND YOU LOVE LISTENING TO HIS STORIES ABOUT THE AUDIO PROCLAIMERS AND HOW THEY’RE REACHING PEOPLE. AND TODAY WE’RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT HOW THE PROCLAIMERS THAT YOU HAVE BEEN PROVIDING IS WHAT H

E CALLS AN END-TIME TOOL. ACTUALLY, YOUR DAD CAME UP WITH THE PHRASE, DIDN’T HE? >>MORGAN JACKSON: YES. >>ANKERBERG: TELL US WHY. >>JACKSON: WELL, MY DAD HAD BEEN PUSHING DIGITAL, PHONE. I MEAN, HE WAS, I MEAN, IF YOU COULD REACH THE WHOLE WORLD WITH DIGITAL, AND YOU DIDN’T NEED PROCLAIMERS - YOU COULD JUST PUSH IT OUT - THAT WOULD BE GREAT. BUT OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS, AS I’VE BEEN CALLING AROUND THE WORLD, WE HAVE 1900 LANGUAGES THAT WE’VE NOW RECORDED. WE HAVE SCRIPTURE FOR ALMOST 90% OF TH

E WORLD’S POPULATION. AND SO, AROUND THE WORLD, THROUGH OUR 700-PLUS PARTNERS, WE’VE BEEN SENDING OUT THESE DEVICES. AND MOST OF YOUR VIEWERS KNOW THIS WELL. >>ANKERBERG: RIGHT. >>JACKSON: THIS IS CALLED A PROCLAIMER. IT’S ABLE TO BE PLAYED LOUD ENOUGH FOR 1,000 PEOPLE TO HEAR; IT CAN CARRY FOUR DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. THE LANGUAGES ARE DRAMATIZED; THEY’RE WORD FOR WORD, USUALLY THE NEW TESTAMENT, SOMETIMES THE WHOLE BIBLE. >>ANKERBERG: YES. I’M GLAD THAT YOU’RE EXPLAINING IT, BECAUSE WE HAVE SO MA

NY NEW STATIONS. WE KEEP FORGETTING THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE NEVER HEARD ALL THE STUFF WE’VE SAID BEFORE. >>JACKSON: RIGHT. >>ANKERBERG: THIS IS A MACHINE THAT YOU GUYS HAVE INVENTED BASICALLY. AND IT’S TERRIFIC BECAUSE OF THE CHARACTERISTICS THAT YOU JUST EXPLAINED. NOW, TELL US A LITTLE BIT MORE. >>JACKSON: WELL, FIRST OF ALL, JOHN, AS YOU KNOW, 50% OF THE WORLD IS FUNCTIONALLY ILLITERATE; 70% ARE ORAL. NOW, IN ORAL CULTURES, PEOPLE GATHER IN COMMUNITY. THEY’RE NOT LIKE US. THEY LIVE IN AREA

S WHERE THERE’S NO ELECTRICITY; THEY WALK EVERYWHERE; THEY SIT OUTSIDE. AND SO, THEY’RE COMMUNAL. THEY’RE ALWAYS IN CONTACT WITH THE COMMUNITY. >>ANKERBERG: YES. LET ME GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE. IF YOU WOULD FLY INTO NIGERIA AND YOU FLY OUT OF THE CAPITAL, YOU GOT LIGHTS IN THE CAPITAL, AND YOU GET UP IN THE AIR AND YOU START FLYING OVER NIGERIA, AND ALL OF A SUDDEN IT’S BLACK DOWN BELOW. THERE ARE NO CITY LIGHTS, THERE ARE NO LAMPPOSTS, THERE’S NOTHING. IT’S JUST BLACK. BUT WHAT YOU HAVE IS, YOU HAV

E THEM ALL IN COMMUNITIES IN NIGERIA WHERE THEY’RE SITTING AROUND THE FIRE. THEY WORKED ALL DAY TOGETHER, AND AT NIGHT THEY SIT THERE AND THEY TALK. THAT’S ALL THEY DO. >>JACKSON: AND TELL STORIES. THEY TALK. >>ANKERBERG: SO THE AUDIO PROCLAIMER IS MADE FOR THOSE COMMUNAL PEOPLE, WHICH IS BASICALLY WHAT YOU’VE GOT ACROSS THE WORLD. >>JACKSON: THAT’S RIGHT. SO, THE PROCLAIMER WAS MADE SPECIFICALLY WITH THAT THINKING. NOW, REMEMBER, ALL SCRIPTURE HAS ALWAYS BEEN HEARD. EVERYBODY THINKS ABOUT THE W

RITTEN BIBLE. BUT FROM THE VERY EARLY STAGE, THERE WAS ONE COPY OF THE BOOK OF THE LAW THAT PEOPLE GATHERED EVERY SEVEN YEARS TO HEAR. DURING THE TIME OF CHRIST, THE ONLY PLACE YOU COULD HEAR THE SCRIPTURES WERE IN THE SYNAGOGUE, AND YOU DID NOT HAVE A PRIVATE COPY THAT YOU READ AT HOME. IT WAS READ PUBLICLY. SO THAT’S WHY TIMOTHY, REMEMBER, PAUL EXHORTED HIM TO REMEMBER THE PUBLIC READING OF SCRIPTURE- PREACHING AND TEACHING, AND THE PUBLIC READING OF SCRIPTURE. THAT WAS HOW THEY HEARD THE WORD

OF GOD WAS IN COMMUNITY. THE LETTERS, WHEN YOU LOOK AT GALATIANS, EPHESIANS, THEY WERE NOT WRITTEN TO AN INDIVIDUAL. THEY WERE WRITTEN TO A CHURCH. THE EXPECTATION WAS THE WHOLE COMMUNITY WOULD GATHER AND HEAR. SO THE NEW TESTAMENT IS WRITTEN FOR COMMUNITIES TO GATHER AND HEAR IT IN COMMUNITY. REVELATION 1:3, "BLESSED IS THE ONE WHO READS THESE WORDS ALOUD, AND BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO HEAR IT READ." SO, USING A PROCLAIMER, WE’RE FOLLOWING THE SCRIPTURAL MODEL OF COMMUNAL HEARING, AND WE’RE WORKIN

G IN COMMUNITIES WHERE THIS IS NATURAL. SO, WHEN YOU COME INTO A COMMUNITY AND SAY, "WE HAVE THE WORD OF GOD IN YOUR LANGUAGE," ONE, THEY’RE IMMEDIATELY INTRIGUED BY THE BLACK BOX. WHAT IS ON THAT BLACK BOX? THEY’VE NEVER HEARD ANYTHING IN THEIR LANGUAGE, MOST OF THEM; THERE’S NOTHING IN THEIR LANGUAGE. YOU PUSH THE BUTTON, AND OUT OF IT COMES THEIR LANGUAGE. SHOCK. THEY’LL GRAB A GONG-GONG IN AFRICA, GO THROUGH THE WHOLE VILLAGE, BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM. EVERYBODY IN THE VILLAGE WILL COME AND SIT UNDER

THE TREES. YOU TAKE OUT THE BLACK BOX, THE PROCLAIMER, AND THEY LISTEN. NOW, THIS ONE, 1,000 PEOPLE CAN HEAR. 80% OF THE PLACES WE GO, THEY WANT THE SMALLER ONE, BECAUSE THEY CAN CARRY IT EASIER; MOST OF THE LISTENING GROUPS ARE 35-100 PEOPLE. >>ANKERBERG: 300 PEOPLE, THOUGH, CAN LISTEN TO THAT THING CLEARLY. >>JACKSON: 300 PEOPLE CAN HEAR IT EASILY. IT CAN CARRY FOUR LANGUAGES. BATTERIES RECHARGE 3,000 TIMES THROUGH THE SUN. SO, THIS ONE IS EQUALLY POWERFUL. NOW, I’VE BEEN FOLLOWING UP ON THE

GIFTS THAT YOUR DONORS HAVE GIVEN AND ARE PROVIDING TO SOUTHEAST ASIA, TO AFRICA, TO PERU, TO BRAZIL, TO LATIN AMERICA. AND AS I’M CALLING THESE COMMUNITIES, THEY WILL BRING THEM OUT OF THESE MOUNTAINS, TWO DAYS, TO A SMALL CITY OR PLACE WHERE THERE’S SOME KIND OF CONNECTIVITY. >>ANKERBERG: YES. >>JACKSON: AND I WILL TALK TO THE ILLITERATE PASTORS, OR THE ILLITERATE USERS, AND HEAR FROM THEM THEIR STORIES. THE WORD OF GOD, HAS TRANSFORMED THEIR COMMUNITY. I WAS TALKING TO A PASTOR IN PERU. HE SA

YS, "WE’VE HAD THIS FOR 12 YEARS, AND IT STILL WORKS BEAUTIFULLY." >>ANKERBERG: YES. >>JACKSON: NOW, I WAS TRYING TO ENCOURAGE THEM TO USE THEIR PHONES, AND I WOULD GET THIS, "HMM," KIND OF THIS, "HMM." AND I STARTED GOING, "WHY ARE THEY RESISTANT?" AND AS I BEGAN TO DO THE RESEARCH AND TALK TO THEM, WHAT I FOUND IS, THEY DIDN’T HAVE ANY ELECTRICITY. SO THEY HAD A CELL PHONE, BUT THEY HAD TO GO A DAY’S JOURNEY TO A MARKET VILLAGE WHERE SOMEBODY HAD BATTERIES, WHO CAME FROM THREE DAYS FROM A CITY

WHERE THEY CHARGED THE BATTERIES. AND SO THEY HAD TO PAY A HALF A DAY’S WAGES IN ORDER TO GET THE CHARGE ON THE PHONE, WHICH ONLY WOULD LAST AN HOUR. SO WHEN THEY GOT IT BACK TO THE VILLAGE, THEY DON’T USE IT FOR MAKING CALLS, THEY DON’T HAVE ANY CONNECTIVITY. THEY USE IT TO TAKE A PICTURE OF THEIR ANIMALS, SO WHEN THEY COME BACK TO THE MARKET VILLAGE, THEY DON’T HAVE TO BRING THE SHEEP, THEY CAN SHOW IT. THEY USE IT VERY DIFFERENTLY THAN WE DO. THEY STORE THEIR MONEY ON IT. AND SO, THE IDEA OF

THEY WERE GOING TO PLAY IT: ONLY 10 PEOPLE COULD LISTEN; IT WOULD ONLY LAST A HALF HOUR; AND THEN THEY WOULD HAVE TO PAY. BUT THEY’RE SAYING, "THE PROCLAIMER, WE NEVER HAVE TO PAY. WE DON’T HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN BUYING FOOD AND BUYING BATTERIES OR PAYING TO CHARGE THE PHONE. WE DON’T HAVE TO DO THAT, BECAUSE IT JUST CHARGES AUTOMATICALLY. THE BATTERIES NEVER GO. AND WE CAN USE IT PLACE AFTER PLACE. AND IT’S NOT SOMEBODY’S PERSONAL DEVICE OR PHONE. AND IT DOESN’T BREAK—12 YEARS LATER, 15 IT’S S

TILL PLAYING, WHEREAS THE PHONE TWO, THREE YEARS LATER, IT’S BROKEN." AND SO, I WAS TALKING TO THE TURKANA CHURCH PLANTERS, THE TIMOTHY INITIATIVE. AND THESE CHURCH PLANTERS WERE TALKING ABOUT HOW THEY HAD BEEN GOING OUT AND PREACHING THE GOSPEL IN VILLAGE AFTER VILLAGE AFTER VILLAGE WITH ALMOST NO RESULT. THEY SAID WHEN YOU GO INTO A VILLAGE, PEOPLE WELCOME YOU BECAUSE YOU’RE A STRANGER. THESE ARE HERDING PEOPLE, CATTLE, SHEEP, GOAT PEOPLE. AND THEY LIVE 35 MILES APART, BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO HAV

E ROOM FOR THEIR HERDS. >>ANKERBERG: YES. >>JACKSON: THEY ALSO LIVE ALONG A LAKE, SO THEY’RE FISHERMEN. HE SAID, "BUT WHEN WE BRING A PROCLAIMER, THEY’LL WELCOME US. BUT WHEN WE PULL OUT THE BLACK BOX AND THEY HEAR THE WORD OF GOD IN TURKANA, EVERYBODY IS INTRIGUED. AND SO, WE WILL LEAVE THE PROCLAIMER BEHIND. WE’LL COME BACK THREE MONTHS LATER, THERE’LL BE 15 BRAND NEW BELIEVERS. WE PRAY WITH THEM, IF THERE’S WATER, WE BAPTIZE THEM. OFTENTIMES THERE’S NOT WATER, SO WE HAVE TO WAIT." HE SAID, "T

HEN WE COME BACK THREE MONTHS LATER AND THERE’S 40 PEOPLE UNDER THE TREE THAT HAVE NOW COME TO FAITH IN CHRIST. THE NEXT TIME THERE MAY BE 50 OR 60." BUT HE SAID, "THE VILLAGES ARE 35 MILES APART. WE ONLY HAVE 50 PROCLAIMERS. THERE’S 500 VILLAGES. I HAD A QUESTION IN MY HEART GOING, WHY CAN’T THEY HAVE 500? ♪ ♪ >>JACKSON: THEN I’M TALKING TO A NIGERIAN PRISON, AND I’M TALKING TO THE WARDEN,... >>ANKERBERG: YES. >>JACKSON: ...AND THE CHAPLAIN, AND THEY’RE TELLING ME HOW THE PROCLAIMER,... NOW THE

Y’RE USING THE BIG ONE. >>ANKERBERG: RIGHT. >>JACKSON: THE WARDS ARE 300 PEOPLE PER WARD; THEY HAVE 13 WARDS; AND THEY HAVE THREE PROCLAIMERS. AND THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT HOW WHEN YOU GET A PROCLAIMER, THEY SAY, WHEN YOU LOOK IN THE EYES OF THESE PRISONERS, IT’S LIKE LOOKING INTO THE EYES OF THE DEVIL HIMSELF, MANY OF THEM. THEY’RE VISCERALLY VIOLENT. YOU KNOW, OF COURSE, OTHER PEOPLE IN THOSE PRISONS ARE TERRIFIED BECAUSE THEY’RE THERE. SOME OF THEM HAVE BEEN THERE 3 TO 5 YEARS WITHOUT ANY TRIAL.

AND THERE’S A HOPELESSNESS. NOW, THESE ARE THE MOST ILLITERATE PEOPLE OF ALL PEOPLE. MANY TIMES, PRISON FELLOWSHIP AND OTHERS, THE ONLY MATERIALS THEY HAVE HAD ARE IN ENGLISH, BECAUSE THAT’S THE SYSTEM OF EDUCATION IN NIGERIA. BUT THESE PEOPLE DON’T SPEAK ENGLISH. IF THEY SPEAK ENGLISH, IT’S THE LOCALIZED PIDGIN ENGLISH. THEY DON’T UNDERSTAND. SO, JESUS IS FOR THE GOOD PEOPLE. BUT THEY SAID WHEN THEY PUT THE PROCLAIMER OUT, AND IT’S IN THE MOTHER TONGUE, IT JUST PIERCES TO THE HEART. AND, OF CO

URSE, JESUS SAID, "I DIDN’T COME FOR THE HEALTHY, I CAME FOR THE SICK. I CAME FOR THE SINNER. I CAME FOR THE PRISONER." SO, ALL OF A SUDDEN, THEY REALIZE JESUS IS FOR THEM, NOT FOR THE PRIEST, BUT FOR THEM! AND SO, AS THEY LISTEN, WHEN THEY COME TO A PLACE OF FAITH, HE SAID THE TRANSFORMATION IS SO DEEP THAT ONE DAY THEY’RE VISCERALLY VIOLENT, THEY’RE DARK, THE NEXT DAY THERE’S LIGHT IN THEIR EYES, AND THEY LIVE FOR PEACE. THEY CONFESS THEIR SIN WHEN THEY NEVER CONFESSED BEFORE. THEY ADMIT WHAT

THEY DID WAS WRONG, BEFORE THEY JUSTIFIED IT. AND THERE’S A COMPLETE TRANSFORMATION. THEY’RE GETTING OUT OF PRISON EARLY. ALL THESE TRANSFORMATIONS. THE GUARDS HAVE LIMITED WORK TO DO NOW BECAUSE THEY’RE NOT FIGHTING, THEY’RE NOT KILLING EACH OTHER. THE GUARDS WANT TO LISTEN. HE SAID THE GUARDS SOMETIMES ARE WORSE THAN THE PRISONERS. BUT HE SAID, "MORGAN, WE ONLY HAVE THREE." SO HE SAID, "WHAT WE’RE GOING TO DO IS WE’RE GOING TO ROTATE THESE FROM THESE THREE WARDS TO THE NEXT WARD." NOW, MY IMME

DIATE REACTION IS, THAT’S GREAT, THAT’S GREAT. THOSE THREE PROCLAIMERS ARE GOING TO BE USED THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE PRISON UNTIL HE STARTS SAYING, "BUT AS WE’RE DOING IT, THE PRISONERS THAT HAVE IT BEGIN TO WEEP. THEY BEGIN TO CRY OUT. THEY JUST LITERALLY SCREAM IN ANGUISH. AND THEY’RE JUST CALLING OUT TO US SAYING, 'NO, DON’T, HOW CAN WE LIVE WITHOUT GOD’S WORD? HOW CAN YOU TAKE GOD’S WORD FROM US? HOW CAN WE LIVE WITHOUT GOD’S WORD?'" AND SO THE WARDEN IS SAYING, "MORGAN, WHY, WHY CAN’T WE HAVE 2

0? WHY CAN’T WE HAVE ONE FOR EACH ONE OF THE WARDS? WHY CAN’T WE HAVE ONE FOR, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A MORNING SHIFT, A MID-SHIFT, WHY CAN’T WE HAVE EACH ONE FOR THE SHIFT? WHY CAN’T WE HAVE ONE FOR THE WOMEN’S PRISON? WHY?" >>ANKERBERG: YES. FOR THE GUARDS. >>JACKSON: WHY? AND SO I’M GOING, AND I HAVE THAT QUESTION AGAIN, I GO, "LORD, WHY? WHY CAN’T THEY HAVE ONE?" >>ANKERBERG: IT’S BECAUSE WE HAVEN’T PROVIDED THOSE FOR THOSE PEOPLE YET. >>JACKSON: SO, THEN I CALLED ONE OF OUR WORKERS, AND THEY’RE

WORKING WITH SCHOOLS IN UGANDA. IN ALL OF AFRICA, ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS WILL BE IN THE VILLAGE AREAS. THE TEACHERS AND THE PRINCIPALS SAID THEY WERE JUST HAVING TOTAL CHAOS, BECAUSE WHEN THEY WERE TRYING TO PUT THESE KIDS DOWN TO SLEEP, SO MANY OF THEM WERE HAVING DEMONIC EXPERIENCES AND DREAMS THAT THEY WERE SCREAMING, THEY WERE SHOUTING. AND SO THE KIDS WEREN’T SLEEPING BECAUSE THEY WERE TERRIFIED. THEY HAVE TO SLEEP TOGETHER. AND SO, OUR STAFF CAME IN, PROVIDED PROCLAIMERS, ADVISED THEM TO HAVE

A LISTENING GROUP EACH EVENING BEFORE THEY WENT TO BED, SO A HALF HOUR OF LISTENING, CONVERSATION. AND THEN TO START THE NIGHT OUT BY JUST HAVING THE PROCLAIMER PLAY. AND AGAIN, IT’S LOUD ENOUGH FOR THE WHOLE DORMITORY TO HEAR. AND SO, THE GIRL’S DORMITORY, BOYS, THAT THEY WOULD JUST HEAR. AND THEY SAID WITHIN A WEEK IT WAS COMPLETELY DEMON FREE. I MEAN, DEMONS HATE THE WORD OF GOD, SO WHEN YOU PLAY IT, THEY WERE GONE. AND SO, I’M JUST PLEASED TO HEAR THIS — UNTIL ANOTHER PRINCIPAL IS PATCHED IN

ON THE ZOOM CALL, AND THEY START TO TELL ME ABOUT HOW MANY SCHOOLS THEY HAVE. AND THEY SAID, "WHY CAN’T WE HAVE A PROCLAIMER AS WELL? WE HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM, SO WHY CAN’T YOU...?" >>ANKERBERG: AND THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF SCHOOLS. >>JACKSON: OH, THOUSANDS. AND SO, I GET OFF THE PHONE AND I JUST, AND I’M GOING, EACH ONE OF THEM WILL PLAY IT IF IT’S PROVIDED, BUT THEY DON’T HAVE IT. AND SO, I’M SAYING TO MYSELF, WHY? NOW, THE PRISONS, THERE’S NO PHONES, THERE’S NO WAY OF SOLVING THAT; THE SCHOOL S

YSTEMS, THEY’RE NOT GOING TO LET THE KIDS USE PHONES OR HAVE PHONES; THERE’S NOT ELECTRICITY. AND SO, I’M JUST SAYING, "LORD, WHY?" >>ANKERBERG: WHILE YOU’RE DOING THIS, FOLKS, I WANT YOU TO NUMBER THESE IN YOUR MIND. WE’RE GOING THROUGH DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD WHERE THE NEED FOR PROCLAIMERS IS ABSOLUTELY ASTOUNDING, AND WE DON’T HAVE THEM. AND AT THE END OF ALL OF THIS, I WANT YOU TO THINK ABOUT WHICH PART WOULD YOU LIKE TO GIVE TO, ALL RIGHT? WE’VE DONE PRISONS; WE’VE DONE SCHOOLS; WHAT’S

NEXT? >>JACKSON: WELL, THE NEXT IS CHURCH PLANTERS. YOU KNOW, CHURCH PLANTERS ARE GOING ON PLANTING CHURCHES. AND MANY OF THEM ARE GOING OUT TO PLANT CHURCHES IN RURAL COMMUNITIES, VILLAGES, AND LANGUAGES WHERE NOBODY READS OR WRITES. AND WHEN THEY USE A PROCLAIMER, THEY HAVE 25% MORE CHURCHES PLANTED; THEY HAVE OVER 20% MORE BELIEVERS THAN THOSE CHURCHES; AND THE CHURCHES LAST; AND THEY’RE NOT SYNCRETISTIC. AND SO, THEY’RE SAYING, “PLEASE, CAN WE HAVE ONE AUDIO BIBLE PER CHURCH WE’RE PLANTING?

" BUT THE NEXT ONE, I’M TALKING TO A MILITARY COMMANDER, AND I’M TALKING TO A CHAPLAIN. NOW, IN THE MILITARY COMMANDERS WE PROVIDE BOTH. WE PROVIDE THESE MILITARY BIBLESTICKS. >>ANKERBERG: BIBLESTICKS. >>JACKSON: BECAUSE WHAT YOU FIND IS, THIS GUY WAS TELLING ME, YOU KNOW, IN UGANDA, HE SAYS SOLDIERS - BRAZIL THE SAME, BRAZIL, THE SOLDIERS WILL NOT WEAR THEIR UNIFORMS WHEN THEY TRAVEL BECAUSE IT CAN GET THEM KILLED—PEOPLE HATE THE SOLDIERS BECAUSE THEY SEE THEM AS DRUNKARDS, THEY SEE THEM AS RAP

ISTS, THEY SEE THEM AS THIEVES. THEY DO NOT SEE THEM AS WE SEE OUR SOLDIERS. WHERE WE HONOR OUR SOLDIERS, THEY DON’T HONOR THEM. SO, WE PROVIDE ONE OF THESE PER SOLDIER IN THEIR MOTHER TONGUE, AND THEN WE PROVIDE ONE OF THESE PER BARRACKS SO THAT THOSE SOLDIERS CAN GATHER TOGETHER TO HEAR. AND THEY WERE TELLING ME HOW, IN THEIR BARRACKS, THEY HAD BEEN DIVIDED BY TRIBE. >>ANKERBERG: YES. >>JACKSON: AND THEY WERE, THEY WERE SAYING, "THESE GUYS ARE THIEVES, THEY ARE LIARS." >>ANKERBERG: YES. I LOVE

THE LITTLE BIBLESTICKS, BECAUSE YOU’VE GOT EARPHONES ON THE END OF THOSE. SO,.. >>JACKSON: THEY SHARE THEM. >>ANKERBERG: THEY SHARE THEM, BUT THEY CAN LISTEN TO THEM PRIVATELY AS WELL. >>JACKSON: THAT’S RIGHT. >>ANKERBERG: AND THEY LOVE THEM FOR THAT REASON. >>JACKSON: THEY DO. AND SO WHAT’S HAPPENED IS, AS THEY WERE THEN TELLING ME, THE TREMENDOUS TRANSFORMATION, THEY’VE GOT 2,000 GUYS UNDER HIS COMMAND, AND THE CHAPLAIN AND THEM WERE TALKING ABOUT HOW THESE GUYS HAD BEEN TRANSFORMED FROM DRUN

KARDS, FROM RAPISTS; THAT THEY’RE REPENTING, AND THEY’RE LISTENING TO WHAT JESUS IS SAYING. AND, OF COURSE, JESUS ADDRESSED SOLDIERS, "WHAT SHALL WE DO?" YOU KNOW, BE SATISFIED WITH YOUR WAGES, AND DON’T," YOU KNOW, " DON’T TAKE MONEY FROM PEOPLE THAT’S NOT YOURS." SO, THEY’RE HEARING WHAT GOD TELLS THEM TO DO. SO, I’M REALLY HAPPY — UNTIL THEY PATCH IN ANOTHER COMMANDER. AND THIS OTHER COMMANDER IS SAYING, "I’VE GOT 2,000 SOLDIERS. DON’T YOU LOVE ME? WHY CAN’T I HAVE...? MY SOLDIERS ARE SUFFERI

NG, DYING, THEY’RE EVIL, THEY NEED CHRIST. WHY AREN’T YOU HELPING ME?" AND SO I WALK AWAY FROM THAT, AND I SAY THE SAME THING. I GO, "WHY CAN’T THEY HAVE ONE?" AND SOMETHING HAPPENED IN MY HEART WHERE I WENT, OKAY, YOU’RE TRYING TO FIND A WAY TO HAVE LESS PROCLAIMERS SO THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE LESS EXPENSE, AND YOU CAN USE THE PHONE. BUT THE FACT IS, 30% OF THE WORLD WILL NEVER HAVE ELECTRICITY. >>ANKERBERG: THAT’S RIGHT. >>JACKSON: THEY’RE ASKING ME FOR GOD’S WORD; 12 YEARS LATER, IT’S STILL W

ORKING. AND IN ONE OF OUR MEETINGS, MY FATHER, WHO’S BEEN PUSHING THE DIGITAL, KEEPS HEARING ME SHARE THE STORY. HE SAID, "YOU KNOW, MORGAN, ACTUALLY, THIS IS AN END-TIME TOOL." AND I HAD JUST BEEN CAMPED OUT IN REVELATION, AND I WAS READING REVELATION 5 AND REVELATION 6 AND REVELATION 7. AND I’M READING WHERE, YOU KNOW, UNDER THE THRONE THERE ARE THESE PEOPLE, AND THEY’RE SAYING, "WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?" >>ANKERBERG: YES. LET ME READ IT FOR YOU. "THEN ONE OF THE ELDERS ASKED, 'THESE IN WHITE ROB

ES — WHO ARE THEY, AND WHERE DID THEY COME FROM?' AND I ANSWERED, 'SIR, YOU KNOW.' AND HE SAID, ‘THESE ARE THEY WHO HAVE COME OUT OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION; THEY HAVE WASHED THEIR ROBES AND MADE THEM WHITE IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB.'" WHAT ELSE DID YOU THINK WHEN YOU HEARD THAT? >>JACKSON: WELL, WHEN I’M HEARING IT, IT’S SAYING THESE HAVE COME OUT, AND THEY’RE FROM EVERY LANGUAGE, FROM EVERY TRIBE, AND EVERY NATION, EVERY PEOPLE. AND I’M SAYING TO MYSELF, OKAY, REVELATION 6 IS SAYING THEY WERE KIL

LED, AND THEY DIED FOR THE WORD OF GOD AND THE WORD OF THEIR TESTIMONY. HERE IT’S SAYING THESE PEOPLE ARE COMING OUT OF THE TRIBULATION FROM EVERY LANGUAGE, TRIBE, NATION, AND PEOPLE. AND I’M SAYING, HOW DID THEY GET THE GOSPEL? AND SUDDENLY I’M THINKING TO MYSELF, IN EVERY ONE OF THESE COMMUNITIES, BY 2033 ILLUMINATIONS, WYCLIFFE, BIBLE SOCIETIES, ARE LOOKING - WITH FAITH COMES BY HEARING DOING ORAL BIBLE TRANSLATION - WE WILL HAVE A TRANSLATION OF SCRIPTURE IN EVERY LANGUAGE OF THE WORLD. SO,

THAT’S, THAT’S NECESSARY TO FULFILL THE GREAT COMMISSION, BECAUSE WE’RE SUPPOSED TO MAKE DISCIPLES OF EVERY NATION, EVERY LANGUAGE. MATTHEW 24:14, GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM PREACHED TO THE WHOLE WORLD, TO EVERY NATION. >>ANKERBERG: AND WE HAVEN’T HAD IT SINCE JESUS GAVE US THAT COMMAND. >>JACKSON: RIGHT. AND SO, WE’RE GOING TO,... WE’RE THERE. BUT JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE IT, I’M THINKING WHEN CHRIST RETURNS, AND ALL OF US ARE GONE, THE JASHOW IS GOING TO BE OFF - THE PRINCE OF THE AIR CONTROLS THE AIR

WAVES — BIBLE.IS, YOUVERSION, ALL THE DIGITAL STUFF IS GOING TO BE CLEANED OFF. NOBODY’S GOING TO BE ABLE TO ACCESS THE WORD OF GOD. BUT WHEN THE MISSIONARY IS GONE, THE BELIEVERS ARE GONE, THE PASTORS ARE GONE, EVERY COMMUNITY WILL HAVE THE WORD OF GOD ON A LITTLE BLACK BOX THAT SPEAKS THEIR LANGUAGE. AND MY BROTHER IS CREATING THE NEXT GENERATION WHERE YOU CAN TAKE AN ANDROID PHONE CORD, PLUG IT IN, AND YOU CAN TAKE THE AUDIO BIBLE AND PUT IT ON YOUR PHONE. AND SO, IT BECOMES A REPRODUCER OF T

HE AUDIO AND VIDEO FILES FROM THE DEVICE. SO YOU’LL NOT ONLY HEAR IT, BUT YOU CAN COME AND GET IT. AND SO EVERYWHERE, IN EVERY LANGUAGE OF THE WORLD, THESE PEOPLE WOULD BE SAYING, "WHERE DID THE CHRISTIANS GO? WE HEARD THE BLACK BOX. WE HEARD IT SAY THAT THIS WAS GOING TO HAPPEN. WHERE’S THE BLACK BOX THAT SPEAKS GOD’S WORD?" AND SO, IN THOSE COMMUNITIES, IN THOSE CHURCHES, IN THEIR PRISONS, THE BLACK BOX WILL COME OUT, AND PEOPLE DURING THE TRIBULATION WILL HEAR GOD’S WORD. AND SO, WHEN YOU PRO

VIDE A PROCLAIMER, IN THE FIRST YEAR 90 PEOPLE ARE GOING TO HEAR THE WORD OF GOD; 90 PEOPLE, HALF OF THEM WILL BE PEOPLE WHO COME TO FAITH IN CHRIST, ON AVERAGE. THERE’LL BE FOUR LISTENING GROUPS. BUT 12 YEARS LATER, THAT PROCLAIMER IS STILL GOING TO BE PLAYING. BUT WHAT’S HAPPENING IS, THE DEMAND FOR THESE AUDIO BIBLES HAS GROWN BECAUSE THEY’RE SO EFFECTIVE. FOR EVERY $500 THAT ONE OF YOUR DONORS GIVES, IT COVERS THE COST OF YOUR BROADCAST, YOUR PRODUCTION. AND IT ALLOWS ONE PROCLAIMER TO GO OU

T AND START A FAITH COMES BY HEARING PROGRAM. WE'VE HAD AN ANONYMOUS DONOR THAT WILL MATCH PROCLAIMER FOR PROCLAIMER, BUT WE HAVE ANOTHER DONOR, A DOCTOR AND HIS WIFE WHO ADDED ANOTHER PROCLAIMER. SO MANY OF YOUR DONORS HAVE FUNDED A PROCLAIMER AND AN ADDITIONAL TWO PROCLAIMERS HAVE BEEN GOING OUT. YOU'RE PROVIDING AN END-TIME GIFT OF THE WORD OF GOD TO THE PEOPLE NOW AND THE PEOPLE THEN WHO WILL HEAR GOD’S WORD AND COME OUT OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION HAVING HEARD GOD’S WORD. >>ANKERBERG: YES. AND

MANY OF YOU, YOU HAVE GIVEN, AND WE’RE ASKING YOU TO CONTINUE TO GIVE, BECAUSE THERE’S STILL PEOPLE TO BE REACHED. AND WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY TO THOSE FOLKS BEFORE WE END HERE? >>JACKSON: WELL, YOU KNOW, I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU. YOU KNOW, THE JOHN ANKERBERG DONORS, YOU HAVE BEEN GIVING OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS, AND AS YOU’VE BEEN GIVING, IT HAS ALLOWED US, WE STARTED WITH 600 LANGUAGES WHEN WE FIRST STARTED WORKING TOGETHER, TODAY WE HAVE OVER 1900 LANGUAGES DONE. AND THE FACT IS, WITH ORAL B

IBLE TRANSLATION THAT WE’RE WORKING ON, WE’RE LOOKING TO SEE EVERY SINGLE LANGUAGE HAVE SCRIPTURE. BUT YOU HAVE BEEN THE HELPER. YOU HAVE PROVIDED THE FUNDS TO ALLOW PROCLAIMERS TO GO ON. THE FUNDS YOU GIVE, YOU KNOW, AS YOU KNOW, IT GOES TO PROVIDE A PROCLAIMER, BUT IT ALSO COVERS THE COST OF THE JOHN ANKERBERG PROGRAM TO GO TO 200 DIFFERENT NATIONS. BUT BY DOING THAT, YOU HAVE MADE PEOPLE AWARE, AND YOU HAVE GIVEN THE GIFT OF ETERNAL LIFE TO PEOPLE WHO DID NOT EVEN KNOW JESUS CHRIST EXISTED. I

MEAN, I STILL REMEMBER AN OLD MAN IN A VILLAGE: "WE’VE JUST FINISHED THE BIBLE, WE HAVE IT IN AUDIO. IT’S THE STORY OF JESUS CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD. WOULD YOU LIKE TO LISTEN?" AND THE OLD MAN, 94 YEARS OLD, SAID, "I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF JESUS CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD." THAT DAY HE DID; THAT DAY HE ACCEPTED CHRIST; TWO DAYS LATER, HE DIED. PEOPLE ARE DYING WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST. YOU ARE HELPING US TO PROVIDE THAT. SO THANKFUL FOR THAT. THANK YOU. >>ANKERBERG: YES. AND, FOLKS, I WANT TO SA

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