Jan. 21, 2025

The Death of an Emperor, a Flood, a Plague: The Spirit Raises Up a Standard Against the Mongols - (Enmity with the Seed – Part 3 - From Islam to Azusa) – Episode 33

Send us a text Discover the astonishing rise of the Mongol Empire and explore how a group of nomadic tribes united under Genghis Khan to form the largest contiguous empire in history. We promise you'll gain insights into the innovative military tactics that propelled the Mongols across vast territories, transforming the art of warfare with their unparalleled cavalry and strategic use of terror. Uncover the far-reaching impact of their conquests, from the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty in C...

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Discover the astonishing rise of the Mongol Empire and explore how a group of nomadic tribes united under Genghis Khan to form the largest contiguous empire in history. We promise you'll gain insights into the innovative military tactics that propelled the Mongols across vast territories, transforming the art of warfare with their unparalleled cavalry and strategic use of terror. Uncover the far-reaching impact of their conquests, from the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty in China to their enduring influence on geopolitics and culture today.

The episode takes you through the dramatic narratives of the Mongol incursions into Europe and the circumstances that stopped them in their tracks. Imagine standing at the edge of a historical turning point as the Mongol forces, seemingly unstoppable, were abruptly halted by the death of their leader—a twist seen by many as divine intervention. Through this lens, we discuss the theological interpretations that intertwined with historical events, reflecting on how faith and divine power have been perceived amidst adversity.

We conclude by emphasizing the belief in God's unwavering power, illustrating how no earthly empire, no matter how mighty, can withstand divine intervention. By drawing parallels with modern events and historical references, we reinforce a message of hope and resilience. The relentless spirit of faith emerges as a guiding force, reminding us that when challenges loom large, the Spirit of God raises a standard against them, offering protection and empowerment to His followers.

00:00 - Rise of the Mongol Empire

09:25 - Mongol Empire's Territorial Conquests and Influence

30:06 - Mongol Empire's Failed European Invasion

37:39 - Mongol Empire's Devastating Impact

57:03 - God's Defeat of the Mongol Empire

01:03:56 - God's Power and Victory

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Well, glory to God.

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We've been talking about many, many, many different levels of how the Holy Ghost is raising up a standard against the Antichrist every time, every time, everybody say every time, every time that the Antichrist tries to come against the seed, that the Antichrist tries to come against the seed.

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We've been talking about how Antichrist tried to exterminate the seed in the days of Jesus and, following that, we talked about how, even though the church had been born and even though there was nothing that the devil could do about it, couldn't take back the fact that he crucified Jesus, couldn't take back any of that.

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He still decided he was going to pursue the church, try to press it out of existence.

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We talked about for several weeks what happened in Spain and what happened in Constantinople, as the Mongol or not the Mongol, but the Muslim armies, shortly after the death of Muhammad, had tried to invade Constantinople, consequently invaded Spain and housed a series of two important battles in both fronts, in Spain and in Constantinople caused the Muslims to be pushed back into Africa and cease their attempts to try to invade Europe, amen.

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The purpose was to try to get to the heartland of Christianity, which at that time was not Rome, it was in Vienna, in Austria, they were trying to push into that.

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We're going to look at now.

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We're going to change.

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We're going to go forward about 500 years.

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Let me tell you something how serious this is with the Antichrist.

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The Antichrist abandoned his own religion, islam, and turned to this disassociated group of tribes in a God-forsaken place on the planet and moved on them to become the strongest, most powerful empire that has ever been on the planet, with one objective, and one objective only, and that was to invade Europe from another angle and push Christianity into the Atlantic Ocean.

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But God, everybody say, but God, but God, hallelujah.

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There was a man whose name was Genghis Khan.

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The only reason you may know of him is because John Wayne played him in a movie which is the most historically inaccurate and cultural appropriation mistake in the history of movies.

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Glory to God.

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But Genghis Khan forged the Mongol Empire in Central Asia and at that time, when he came on the scene, it was a loosely knit group of people.

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They didn't have a national identity, they didn't have an international identity, they were just a bunch of tribes.

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They were a bunch of tribes of people who lived in what is now Mongolia, which has always been geographically just a place in the high deserts of Central Asia, just south of Siberia.

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Just imagine as cold as you can possibly get in the wintertime.

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Imagine reindeer.

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That's just horses, I mean, it's just.

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They live in tents, one of the most uninhabitable places in the earth, and this is where they started the Mongol Empire.

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They didn't start as an empire.

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They just started as a group of tribes that didn't really like each other Amen.

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When Genghis Khan grew of age and married his wife, one of the rival tribes stole his wife and tried to make her the wife of that tribal leader.

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Genghis Khan gained a reputation by going after that leader and teaching him that that was not a very good idea.

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Glory to God, but he was born in 1162.

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So we're talking about something that is now close to 900 years old 850 years old.

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And he spent his formative years trying to unite the various tribes of this people that would eventually become the Mongols, and he would bring them under his rule.

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By his early 40s he had unified these Mongol tribes into basically what would become a nation.

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Now, they didn't know, they didn't have, they didn't you know.

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There was no such place as Mongolia at that time.

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Mongolia was the name that they gave that area and it still exists because of the name Mongol, amen, Mongolia Mongol came from that, but it didn't have that name to begin with.

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And after he had unified the Mongols and taught them how to extend their rule and reign, he began to extend this rule into other areas and other people, groups and with that simple beginning of one man started the largest land-based empire in history.

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Somewhere along in this thing, I'm going to give you some statistics about how big it was.

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We're not there yet, amen, but know this, this statistic will One in every 200 people on the planet can trace their DNA to Genghis Khan.

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One in 200.

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Now, that number may not mean anything to you, but what that means is that there are 40 million people on the planet right now, the population of the size of California, more people than live in Texas, the size of California, more people than live in Texas, almost as many people that live in Texas and Florida put together can trace their DNA lineage to Genghis Khan.

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That's how extensive that empire was.

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Think Asian, think Chinese, think that kind of look.

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So we're part Mongol, huh, no, mongol, probably Mongol, probably not.

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But think of this, think of this and I'm going to tell you all these things in a little bit.

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But they had major influence, major positional influence.

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Think of this, and I'm going to tell you all these things in a little bit.

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But they had major influence, major positional influence.

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They conquered China.

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They conquered significant parts of India.

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Okay, if you get into those population centers and they have what a fourth of the people on the planet just in those two countries, you can do the math, praise god.

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So what made them so unique?

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Let me, before I, before we go there, let me show you something else.

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Okay, let me show you this.

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I can't it, but I'm just going to talk through it.

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Okay, let me show you this.

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This is a time lapse.

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You can see the date at the bottom.

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It goes for about 200 years or 100 years.

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Actually, in 100 years, this is what happened Went all the way down into Vietnam and the Southeast Asia, down in this corner, down here, all of China, northern part of India, all of the Middle East, turkey, all of Russia at that time, all the way into Eastern Europe.

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Here, where we're going to be looking at in this discussion is right here in Austria and Hungary.

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You can just see how much of the and you know nobody was living up there at that time, you know.

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So the extent of their empire was literally unbelievable.

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What they were able to do in 100 years.

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Now, the reason they were able to do that I'm going to leave that up there for a few minutes the reason they were able to do that is because they did things that nobody else did.

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One of the most impressive and amazing things that they did was that they'd had no infantry.

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Most armies even yet today, most armies, the army moves on the ground.

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In those days, most of the army moved on the ground and there were a few people that had horses and rode horses to do special things.

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That was true all the way up to World War I, when horses were still used, amen.

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Then it changed from horses to tanks and mobile artillery and things like that.

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But the point is still, most people move on the ground and there are things that move along with those things.

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The Mongols did not do this.

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They were expert horsemen and they had bunches of horses, amen.

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So they use horse mounted horse tactics against people who had never seen this happen before.

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So here you are, you're in a castle, you've got, or in a town and you've got, you know, a few guys with spears and clubs and you know and everything.

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And then over the over the hill around the town comes several thousand men on horse.

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You could have heard them coming for miles, you know.

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And the ground starts to shake eventually and all of a sudden you see this dust cloud coming and out of the dust cloud comes maybe 10,000 men on horses, and then they just come over this ridge and into the town.

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And what are you going to do?

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There was not anything people could do.

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They couldn't even build forts, they couldn't even build castles Because of the sheer numbers of what they did.

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Not only did they use horses in such an unconventional way, if you will, but they used intentional terror and extortion on an international scale.

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They displayed, over a 200 to 300 year period, a consistent ruthlessness that has seldom been seen on the earth.

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They didn't just go in and take a few prisoners and, you know, kill a few soldiers.

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They seriously depopulated major areas of population in Central Asia, northeast Persia I'm talking, I'm going.

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In some cases they depopulated 90% of the population.

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Every city or town that resisted them was not just destroyed, it was completely leveled and everybody, every living thing in it, was killed.

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They did this a few times and then they didn't have to do it.

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They didn't have to do it so much anymore.

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They just said you remember that town over yonder?

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Anybody know what happened to them?

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Well, that's going to happen to you If you don't essentially become our slaves.

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And what they did was then they enslaved the population.

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They had to pay taxes to them, they had to serve them with their agricultural products and all that sort of thing.

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An army of several hundred thousand people requires a lot of food, and so they went plundering.

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Their idea was not to kill everybody, it just seemed that way.

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But they used that history that they had of convincing future people, which is why you call it extortion.

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They extorted their lives and livelihood out of them by threatening them with what they had done to other people.

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You know, as they moved continually east and south, I mean the word would get out.

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You know they're coming.

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Oh no, they're not coming here, they're coming here.

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You should have seen what they did over there.

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We've all seen enough.

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You know land barren kind of Western movies.

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You know where people come in.

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They got a small army of guys and they take over the town.

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They buy up all the property and run everybody off.

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We've seen that these guys, these guys if they didn't invent it, they wrote new chapters.

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I mean, what they did makes that kind of stuff look like kindergarten.

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And invading.

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Their invading army was not just an army that was designed to defeat other armies, they were designed to exterminate.

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Each person in the army was given a quota of people to kill.

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For example, in one place where they actually had the records, each Mongol army and an army unit of about 20,000 troops was required to execute 24 people.

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That's one every hour.

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They stayed up all day.

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Amen, well, okay, you know, that's a lot of people.

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No, that's a half a million people.

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No, that's a half a million people.

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Those 20,000 in that army unit, at that quota, would exterminate a half a million people, and they did this regularly Between Russia, china, germany and a few others.

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Hundreds of millions of people exterminated, but that's just because the population got bigger.

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This was in a day when the population wasn't nearly that big and the numbers here are just astronomical.

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Glory to God, they conquered by either voluntary submission or by extermination.

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You can see up here on this map that they conquered in here this whole area of Central Asia, the Caucasus, syria, turkey, parts of Palestine.

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They actually got over into Israel, into Gaza.

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They took over all of China down into Southeast Asia.

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The invasions of China are some of the most significant because they replaced dynasties that were in place in China and replaced them with their own representatives.

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They extended their rule into Korea and into Tibet and in 1271, they established what's called the Wan Dynasty.

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They established what's called the Wan Dynasty and this dynasty is a direct forebearer of modern day.

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China Goes through a couple more dynasties to get there, but it can trace its roots right back to that dynasty that the Mongols put in place and they ruled China from that place for dozens, if not hundreds, of years.

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I want you to think about that now.

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What we have in China today is a direct result of what happened 800 years ago.

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How many of you know what the Great Wall of China is?

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How many have heard that?

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How many of you know what the Great Wall of China is?

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How many have heard that?

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It's such a striking architectural feature that it's one of the few things that can be identified from space.

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If you're in one of those space things that's going around, you know and you can fly over China and you get nice clouds there, nice mountains there, and I said, oh, there's the Great Wall.

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You can't.

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You can't say, oh, there's the Empire State Building or there's Texas Stadium or you know there's.

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You know you can't do that, but you can see the Great Wall.

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The Great Wall was built because of the Mongols Mongols, after they quit being in China, being a political and military force in China, and sat up their dynasty and kind of withdraw the next dynasty that came in, the first thing they started doing was building the Great Wall.

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We're not having any more Mongols in here.

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Hello, just think about that.

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A wall that goes all the way across the northern perimeter of China into the sea was built because of this invasion from the Mongol Empire.

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They captured almost all of Russia that existed in that day.

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You can see up here in this portion, right here.

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See that red portion up here in this section.

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This is all Russia, what existed of Russia in that day.

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They conquered almost all that.

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They almost leveled every city in Russia.

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Because they resisted, they invaded.

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Let me show you they invaded.

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This is the Ukraine, right here.

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Poland is right here.

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All of this stuff you're reading about today.

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Hungary is right here.

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Austria is right here.

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Czechoslovakia is in here.

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All of these places you're reading about today, that are at war right now, were conquered by the Mongol forces.

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You notice when you look at pictures of the Kremlin and you see those nice little dome kind of shape.

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That's all Mongol architecture.

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It all dates back to when they invaded those countries.

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Hungary has a language that is unlike any other European language, but it is very common to the languages spoken out in Mongolia.

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Now, that's the kind of influence I'm trying to talk about.

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It is impossible to overestimate the influence of this empire.

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We don't study it enough in the West because it's over there, but the fact of the matter is that it was Antichrist's replacement for Islam.

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Because Islam had failed in coming into Europe from the South on two forks and because they had failed, antichrist turned to another place so that he could mount a charge from the west or from the east and push at them across Poland, hungary, germany and that way, and push Europe into the sea.

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Glory to God, europe into the sea.

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Glory to God.

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Over the course of three years, right before the time that we're about to look at today, the Mongols leveled all major cities of Russia.

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At that time.

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Listen, you know.

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If you don't know your history, you won't understand anything that's going on.

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If you don't know your history, you won't understand anything that's going on.

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Russia has always seen the Ukraine as part of their country Because, in fact, kiev, which is the capital of the Ukraine, used to be the capital of Russia before they moved it to Moscow.

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Listen to this.

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Before they moved it to Moscow, listen to this.

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The Pope sent an envoy to Genghis Khan and he traveled through Kiev, which was the Russian capital in 1246.

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He wrote this the Mongols attacked Russia, where they make great havoc, destroying cities, fortresses, slaughtering men.

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They laid siege to Kiev, the capital of Russia, after they had besieged the city for a long time.

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They took it and put all the inhabitants to death.

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When we were journeying through that land, we came across countless skulls and bones of dead men laying on the ground.

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Kiev had been a very large and thickly populated town, but now it had been reduced to nothing.

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At the present time, there are scarcely 200 houses there, and the inhabitants that are left are kept in total slavery.

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200 houses left out of what was the capital of Russia.

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The Mongols displaced populations on a scale never before seen in Central Asia or Eastern Europe.

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Nobody had ever seen anything like this.

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There is a cost to doing this.

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Back to the example of the army ordered to kill a half a million people.

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You just don't wake up some morning and say let's have at it.

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Let me just help you out here.

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The United States had the atomic bomb at their disposal Two days in August of 1945, they dropped two of those bombs, one on Hiroshima and the other on Nagasaki.

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Not even on those days did they kill a half a million people.

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They firebombed Tokyo with napalm.

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They burned 16 square miles to the ground 16 square miles to the ground and killed over a hundred, well over a hundred thousand people, but they didn't even come close to a half a million.

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It takes some major work to kill a half a million people and you don't even know what you're going to do with the bodies.

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What are you going to do with a half a million bodies?

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You can't even imagine the scale of death.

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You can't even imagine the stench of death that went up through a country when these people were here.

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They were immune to it.

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They had to be Glory to God when the word of the Mongol horde approaching spread terror and panic.

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The violent character of their invasions was a catalyst for further violence as they kept moving on.

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Hallelujah, listen to this.

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There is a thing in history called the great divergence.

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Now, that applies to a couple of different things, but one thing it can it.

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One thing it does is it talks about the decrease in the numerical and literary skills of Eastern Europeans as opposed to Western Europeans.

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You don't.

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There are a few people that came out of Poland, germany, austria, hungary and those areas in Russia that were of note in the 15, 16, 1700s, but not nearly to the number that were in Western Europe France, italy, spain, england, germany, spain, england, germany and one of the main reasons is because of the pounding that Eastern Europe took at the hands of the Mongol hordes.

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They came in and literally destroyed cities, towns, universities, places where people would learn.

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They destroyed the people that had the knowledge.

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They destroyed the libraries.

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We'll get into more of that later.

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They destroyed the people that had the knowledge.

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They destroyed the libraries.

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We'll get into more of that later.

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They didn't have.

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You know, since there wasn't an internet, there wasn't modern communication, there wasn't electricity, you know, they would have had to import people from Western Europe to come to there to replenish that information.

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That would take centuries at the speed in which they were doing, and besides that, it would have required books to be translated into their own languages, which would have taken a long time and a lot of money, and it would have had to have been handwritten, because Gutenberg wouldn't invent the printing press for another 300 years.

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What am I saying?

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It had a major impact in the education level of Eastern European peoples that we're probably still seeing unto this day.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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Let me give you just a couple of pieces of information as to what made their armies so different.

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There are several sources that mention that the Mongols had firearms, they had gunpowder, they had weapons and they were able to fashion bombs that they could hurl with catapults, that they could hurl with catapults.

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So you've seen the old movies of catapults with stones and catapults with you know oil and catapults they would.

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You know they actually, the Mongols, actually practice an early form of biological warfare.

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They would have animals that were contagious anthrax, stuff like that and they'd just throw them with catapults into a city and all of a sudden a plague would break out.

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But their most famous thing that they had that nobody had ever seen before was stirrups.

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And because they had stirrups, they could stand up on their horse.

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And because they could stand up on their horse and because they could stand up on their horse.

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And they had the second invention, which was the S-bow, which is a bow that's shaped like that.

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It's shorter but it delivers more thrust than a normal longbow.

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Because they had that bow, they could stand up in their stirrups.

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Longbow, because they had that bow, they could stand up in their stirrups and they could fire rapidly from horseback, running at full speed and more accurately and more distance.

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They would invade a place, they'd come up, they would scout the place out and they would know how far the enemy's bows could reach.

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They'd just back up 10 yards and then they just waited until the arrows didn't come anymore, because they ran out, and then they'd start firing because their arrows would go that far and they just it was, like you know, fish in a barrel, very smart, and on top of that they use the tactics of terror, of extortion, of mass extermination, of depopulation.

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They were just not a match for anybody that they came up against.

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Amen.

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So let me show you this.

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Okay, so here's what we're talking about, or been talking about In the latter part of the 600s 670 something, 667 I think, through 717, there was a series of attacks on Constantinople right here, coming up out of Syria and across the Mediterranean.

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Those attacks, as we've talked about over the past few weeks, failed.

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They then turned about 50 years later and mounted an attack into Spain.

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That attack was successful.

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However, when they got to try to attack the northern part of Spain or move into France, those attacks became repulsed and it began an 800-year expulsion of the Muslims out of Spain and back to Africa.

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So this attack basically failed.

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This attack basically failed because they were looking to get right here.

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This is where the seat of Christianity was at that time, the seat of the Holy Roman Empire.

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They wanted to get here and push, get here and push, and they couldn't get in there.

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So, instead of they kept on trying.

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It didn't keep them from trying, but Antichrist came up with a different tactic, and this one was to empower this guy called Khan, out here in the middle of nowhere, and he marched across, actually marched across this way, this way, this way, this way, and trying to get to this point, which is Austria, and he was almost there, at the point of where our story picks up today, in 1241.

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So this is the.

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This is.

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I wanted to show you this and don't think, don't think that I got this out of a book or I got this out of a, this map out of a book and I copied it.

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There's nobody that tells this story because nobody wants you to know that Antichrist tried here, tried here, gave it up and came across here when this failed and dispensed over a 300-year purpose basis.

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Then he came back here in 1453 and finally conquered Constantinople and then he came here, and then he came here, and then he came here in the 20th century with an invasion of immigrants from the Middle East and has now virtually taken over Europe.

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If the Antichrist is anything, he's persistent, glory to God.

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But we're talking about this attack right here.

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During 1241, most of the Mongol forces were on a plane right here, at the border of Hungary, a large flat place, lots of vegetation, lots of food for the horses, and the plan was to push through the center of the Holy Roman Empire defense in Hungary.

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Because right immediately back of Hungary, here is Austria, and Austria is the seat of the Holy Roman Empire.

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So if we could get through Hungary and get into Austria, we're there, or where we want to be Now.

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Up until this point there had been only marginal resistance from the Christian forces.

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They were totally unprepared for this cavalry kind of approach.

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They had knights in armor, they had castles.

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There were very few horses.

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The knights that had horses were because they had money.

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Most people couldn't afford horses.

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They eat too much, they're a big problem.

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They didn't have that kind of thing.

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Their defenses were not set up to handle the Mongols.

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And so here they were on this plane in the latter part of 1241, and they expected that their proven battle tactics were going to be successful and push them right into the heart of Christendom.

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And from Vienna they could just move across Europe and lay siege to it, bring their tactics to it and push Christian religion right off the planet, and they were going to take over Europe.

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That was the plan, even though their tactics didn't work well in mountains and they didn't work well in forests.

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They didn't work well in forests and you can just imagine trying to use horses in mountains and forests.

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But they figured that just by intimidation and everything else they could get it done.

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However, all of a sudden, in March of 1242, they broke off the siege and began to withdraw.

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Well, there we are, upside down.

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They started to go back this way.

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The most common reason that's given is that the grandson of Genghis Khan, who was in the position of the great Khan or the emperor of the empire, decided he was going to have a hunting vacation, and I don't know.

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It was someplace back where the headquarters was.

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And he's back there and they're on a hunting trip back there and they're on a hunting trip and he becomes totally and bizarrely drunk and dies.

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Now, it was their custom.

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They didn't have the custom that the firstborn son took over.

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All of the nearest kin had a shot at it, and they had to all go back to where this guy died and present themselves and they would elect a new emperor.

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Well, the guy that was leading the army against Hungary was one of those people, and so he had to just quit the field and go back all the way across Asia back to where they could elect the new Khan.

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They left some other guys in charge, amen, but they didn't have the say-so that the guy that left did.

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Besides this, it forced most of the Mongolian army to retreat backwards toward Mongolia so that the princes of the blood could be present for the election of the new Khan.

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This is attested to by one primary source at the time who, after visiting the Mongol court, stated that the Mongols withdrew specifically for that reason, because the great Khan had died.

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So the whole army, the main guy, went, the whole army followed him and he further stated this that God had caused the great Khan's death to protect Christendom.

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This was a stated by somebody who lived at the time.

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This was a stated by somebody who lived at the time Also in conjunction with this.

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But you know which is God?

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Just, you know, doesn't leave anything unturned, amen.

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You know there's a lot of things that could go wrong with a guy dying, you know, thousands of miles away.

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You know, I mean, how's he, how these?

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You know the timing of all of that is is.

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You know a lot of things could go wrong, so God didn't leave it all up to that.

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This is data that can be tested.

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There is weather data preserved in the tree rings of that time points to a series of very warm and dry summers prior to 1242.

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But all of a sudden, the temperatures dropped and the rainfall increased.

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So the local climate changed to a wetter and cooler environment, which in turn caused the grasslands that the horses were feeding on to turn into a flooded marsh.

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Well, if you know anything about horses, they don't do well in mud.

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They don't do well in that kind of terrain.

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Not only do they do not do well, but it floods their food.

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You you know, even though they're large animals, they are not hippopotamuses.

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They don't eat their grass off of the bottom of a marshy pond.

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So not only did they lose the place for them to be, but they lost the sustenance for them.

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So between the flood that happened and the death of the Khan, the army just pulled back and said we can't attack under these conditions.

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We've lost our leader, we've lost the field that we're on, we've lost the food.

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They lost their place to encamp, they lost their ability to be mobile.

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They lost their place to encamp, they lost their ability to be mobile, they lost their pasture lands and their whole plan was to go through this place in Hungary, this plain in Hungary, which was the perfect staging place, and all of a sudden there was a flood.

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Holy to God.

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So they hastened their retreat, believe in God.

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So they hastened their retreat.

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So the Lord, not wanting to make a thorough work of this, added another third leg to the stool, and that was an outbreak of bubonic plague.

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So here's this massive army of hundreds of thousands of guys, hundreds of thousands of horses, a track record of destroying everything in their path.

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They have depopulated most of Central Asia, most of Southern Asia, invaded China, invaded India.

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Do you know that the person that they put in charge of India ruled in India until the 1800s?

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So they get to this place in Hungary, amen.

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What happens?

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Their main leader dies, self-inflicted, you know, just gets drunk and dies.

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There's a flood.

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They can't sustain anything about the way that they are.

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And then, in the midst of their retreat, a bubonic plague breaks out and starts to decimate their forces.

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Can you say God lifted up his hand?

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Can you say it was like not this far and no further?

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It was like not this far and no further.

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They kept hitting, they kept invading up here in Russia, latvia, estonia, places like that, poland and everything, but they never could again come back through here the way they planned.

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I mean, look how close this is to this compared to this.

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I mean, they were almost there, glory to God.

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So stepped in Hand grenades and horseshoes.

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Listen to some of the things that I can tell you about how this the legacy of what they did, not only on their push through into Europe but all throughout this area.

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If you don't count the mortality that resulted from the bubonic plague, it is possible that up to 57 million people were killed by the Mongols between 1206 and 1405, 200 year period Period.

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Fifty seven million people yeah, that doesn't even count the plague, the havoc that they, that they that they raised on people for battles, sieges, biological warfare, massacres, unbelievable carnage.

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And that doesn't even include the plague, hallelujah.

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And even though the empire started to fragment after 1260, conflict between Mongols and European countries continued for centuries.

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The Mongols continued to rule in China until the 1300s and their influence continued through the subsequent Ming and Qing dynasties into the 20th century.

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The last Qing dynasty was in 1906, I think, terminated then.

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Those two dynasties are the direct descendants of the Mongol dynasty.

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Their influence in Persia lasted until the 15th century and their influence in India was up until the 19th century.

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On the Taj Mahal, the corner post of the Taj Mahal, has those same kind of tops to it that you see in the Kremlin.

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That influence is not Muslim, that influence is from the Mongols.

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One estimate is that 15% of the world's population was killed either during or immediately after the Mongol invasions.

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Like I said, approximately 60 million people in Europe and in Asia, and if those calculations are accurate, the events would be the deadliest acts of mass killing in human history.

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For example and we'll get to this possibly in the next couple of weeks but even the 20th century between Germany and China and Russia and the various mass killings that went on there, that didn't even come close to 15% of the world's population.

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In World War II, the total number of deaths from all ways was 3% of the world's population.

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In World War II, the total number of deaths from all ways was 3% of the world's population.

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It is said that their terror and mass exterminations of anyone opposing them was a well-tested tactic and the alternative to submission was total war.

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And their resistance, if anybody resisted, caused the Mongol leaders to order the collective slaughter of all populations and the destruction of all property.

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They weren't a typical army, you know, like we talked about the last time when the Muslims invaded France, they got slowed down because they went to one city and sacked that city and took all the possessions Well, carrying all that loot around and all those prisoners slowed them down and allowed the French to build a defense and that defense was their undoing.

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So their greed caused them a lack of mobility.

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The Mongols did not have that problem.

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Praise God.

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Listen to some of these numbers.

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I'm not telling you all this just to impress you with numbers.

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You can read and get that.

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I'm trying to build a case here.

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Persia it's estimated that 2 million people were killed in Persia.

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Okay, that's a lot of people.

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No, that's 90% of the Persian population in that day.

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China 60 million were killed.

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60 million were killed, 50% of their population.

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And today that would be 750 million people.

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Just think about it.

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In the Ukraine and Hungary, 50% of the population was exterminated.

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There was a siege in Baghdad in 1258, where all of the libraries, all of the books, all of the literatures and all of the hospitals were burned.

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Those that weren't burned, the books that weren't burned, were thrown into the river Euphrates in such quantities or not, the Euphrates, the Tigris, tigris River that it was sufficient to turn the Tigris River black with ink for several months, according to legend, in one week.

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Libraries and their treasures that had been accumulated over hundreds of years.

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We're talking about, you know, just down the road from Babylon, so you can imagine some of the books that were in these libraries.

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Hundreds of years of books and documents were burned and otherwise destroyed.

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And documents were burned and otherwise destroyed.

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This writer says this.

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So many books were thrown into the Tigris River that they formed a bridge that would support a man on horseback to cross.

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The Mongols' systematic destruction of the irrigation systems of Iran and Iraq turned back millennia of effort in building irrigation and drainage infrastructure in these regions.

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Because of the lack of irrigation, there was such a loss of available food that the result may have led to the death of more people from starvation than from actual battle and killing by the army.

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The Islamic civilization in the Persian Gulf area did not recover for hundreds of years.

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Now I can't show you there's not a map that I can show you that gives you a picture for this.

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You saw the beginning map, how it expanded.

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You can see the circle that's sitting in there in red.

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That tries to give you an idea of how big their empire was Amen.

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At the peak of its empire, the Mongols controlled almost half of the landmass on the earth.

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If you exclude Antarctica, that includes North America, south America and Antarctic, in addition to Africa, europe and Asia.

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They had half of the earth's landmass, but at that time they did not know about North America, south America or Australia.

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So if you just count what they knew, which is Europe, asia and Africa, their empire took up almost three-fourths of the landmass of the known earth in their day.

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I want you to think about that for a minute Three-fourths of the landmass that was known in their day of Africa, europe and Asia and half of the whole world.

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We haven't seen anything.

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And half of the whole world.

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We haven't seen anything, anything even close.

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The only thing that comes even remotely close to that is the British Empire of the 18th and 19th century.

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Spanish Empire of the 16th century.

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Had they not been turned back at the gates of the Holy Roman Empire at Hungary, there would be no Reformation, there'd be no Luther, there'd be no King James Bible.

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As a matter of fact, there wouldn't be any of these Bibles on the wall here.

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You wouldn't know If somebody was alive now.

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They would not know the story of Abraham, isaac, jacob, they would not know the story of Moses, they would not know about David, they wouldn't know about Jesus.

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None of those things would have.

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If they did happen, there was no vehicle for them to get to us because Christ, christendom would have been destroyed in Europe.

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I mean, you didn't, you didn't, you didn't learn about Jesus from a missionary from China or a missionary from you know Singapore, or missionary from Sierra Leone or anywhere.

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You didn't learn.

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You learned about from, about Jesus from somebody who came from Europe.

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Hallelujah.

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