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And welcome back this week.

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Minor technical difficulties.

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Almost sent us out with a nice, pretty echo from our effects unit,

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which was completely unintentional as I was attempting to fix the audio-only part of the live stream.

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Oh, hello, hello, hello.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Exactly.

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Sounded like I was standing in the middle of a nice big cathedral somewhere.

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But it is great to be back.

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Brother Dennis, how are you doing tonight?

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All right.

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It's a Monday.

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You know, it's a Monday.

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It's a new day.

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About done with it, so I'm good with that.

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Hey, how do you like?

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This is the time of the year I prefer the most because we go back to standard time instead of the daylight saving time.

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and uh the one thing while i may like it better the one thing that i don't like about it

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is um when when we fall back you know it's it's now six o'clock in the evening

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and uh it feels like it's about eight o'clock yeah it was pitch dark at 4 30 yeah yeah that was that

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was pretty rough uh driving in today that was a shock for me to say the least brother brian how

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about you how you feeling this evening doing good brother doing good yeah absolutely can't complain

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too much no sir hey on the plus side i think everybody made it to church on time yesterday

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yeah i didn't see any stragglers coming in super well maybe some early people yesterday i saw some

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early people and then i i think i saw a couple of stragglers kind of coming in right as the service

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was getting going and i'm like you don't normally do this same thing even when we're fast what in

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world happen here but uh then again that was younger folks so you know i just enjoy picking

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at them so um well uh just the normal housekeeping stuff um if you're listening to us on live stream

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if you're listening to it live on rumble uh i do have the audio only portion of the live stream

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working again so anybody that happens to bounce in there will actually hear our voices this week

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And I do very much apologize for y'all not having that the last probably two or three weeks.

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Oops.

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But that is fixed to where I can toggle our mics on.

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So very much apologies for that.

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Sorry about that.

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The live stream still best place to hear us live rumble.

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And then we switch over.

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That will stay live until I get the edited version published.

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So it's just up and you can listen to it anytime until Wednesday when I publish the edited version.

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So I'm not losing sleep.

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A random thing that's not really housekeeping, but something to remind people of, hey, we're coming into Thanksgiving, coming up in a few weeks.

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Really rough time of year for some people, especially if you've lost family and stuff around Thanksgiving and Christmas.

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A lot of people, it's not quite as cheery as it is for the rest of us.

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So be praying for them and be looking out for folks that you might need to reach a handout to and just let them know, hey, everything's good.

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You know, and we have a hope and remind them of what that hope is.

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That's a good thing about being a Christian is you can always have a brother or sister remind you, hey, we're going home and we're going to get to be with them someday.

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And we're going to get to see them again and spend time together.

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So that's a good thing.

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The other thing this year, especially more so than in years past, some folks are going to be coming around asking churches for food, asking churches for help with stuff,

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because we do have some of those federal benefits that have been rolled back for a little while or are on hold for a unforeseeable amount of time,

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because apparently some people can't get along very well.

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So churches, guess what?

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This is what we're here for.

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It's your job.

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This is what we've supposed to have been doing this whole time.

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And boy, we've gotten lazy about it because we've been letting the government do it for us.

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Yeah.

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And it is time for us as Christians to step up.

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If it's not going to make your family do without, you've got to take care of your family first.

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But if it's not going to make your family do without, call your local churches that have food banks, that have food closets and things like that, and say, hey, what do you need?

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Swing by after you get paid and just pick up a little extra and drop it off with them.

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Like I say, don't let your family do without.

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You can take care of your family first.

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But if you've got extra and you've got enough to do that, it doesn't take much.

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And if everybody just puts in a little, it helps feed a lot of people really fast.

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And like we say, that's exactly what we are commanded to do.

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We really don't.

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This isn't an optional thing for us as Christians.

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We should have been doing this the whole time.

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And if you're looking for a good place to drop it off, Mount New Baptist Church would be a great place.

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We do have a food pantry.

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And I was just telling them we've helped 14 families in the last week, just since last week.

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So we're thankful for that.

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We're not saying that bragging, but we're just saying that's the need right now.

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And so if you're looking for a place to donate some food, get with us, and we'd love to take it.

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We can come pick up your donation, or you can deliver it to the church, and we can meet you here, whatever you want to do.

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Yeah, definitely.

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Reach out to us on Facebook.

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Reach out to the church account, Mountain View Baptist Church, or the podcast account.

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Either one, you send us a message on Facebook.

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We'll get it, and we will gladly meet you and take some food because we do.

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We have people that are needing it.

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And, you know, that's the thing.

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We pray for those folks.

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And, you know, we always, our food pantry and our foster care closet, we never ask any questions.

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We help out.

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We provide, and we make sure that you can at least have a meal and that it's not just nothing but junk.

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So, and you know, the other thing that I always tell people, I know a lot of times you have people, churches this time of years, when people start reaching out saying, hey, can you help us with bills?

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Can you help us with this?

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Can you help us with that?

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That's going to be a lot more this year.

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And don't be afraid to say yes.

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And don't be afraid to offer.

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And by the way, if you're somebody that if you happen to be listening and you're one of those people that you're in a tight spot where you really probably should be reaching out, but you're a little afraid to or you're nervous or you're embarrassed.

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Don't be.

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We all need help sometimes. Reach out. And hey, guess what? I know it makes a lot of people get defensive when the church says, well, let's take a look at your spending and let's let's sit down with you and talk about just just bring it and offer it.

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Because you might be surprised at what they can find that you didn't realize, oh, I'm spending a whole bunch of money on something I didn't realize I was spending money on or I'm spending a bunch of money and they might spot a problem with your power bill or something they can come by and fix for you and help you work on.

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I mean, it's not just about the budgeting.

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Everybody always assumes that's the only goal.

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No, it's because we want to help.

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And so if you're needing help, don't be afraid to reach out to your local churches.

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And all of these programs, they exist for a reason.

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People give to them for a reason.

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It's because we want to help.

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And we would much rather be a hand up rather than a handout.

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So we want to help you.

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We want to get you back on your feet.

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And we want to make sure that your kids don't starve.

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I mean, that's just the truth of it.

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And that you don't go hungry.

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So don't be afraid. Reach out. And if you're blessed and you can help out your church and help out, like he says here at Mountain View, please, we will love the donations.

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And I know other churches would as well. So that little bit of housekeeping done. Let's dive in.

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We are in Matthew 24, I believe, is what we're doing this week.

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Yes, yeah. Yeah, so Matthew 24 goes right along with the book of Revelation. It's actually Matthew 24 and 25. They're known as the Olivet Discourse, and they constitute the last three major discourses in the gospel.

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They're called the major discourses because of the extent and the content and the intent for them.

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And so we start out in this chapter with Jesus predicting the destruction of Jerusalem.

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He's denounced the religious rulers, and he has turned his back on Jerusalem and told their house that the temple is left desolate.

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So Matthew 24, Matthew 24, verse 1, and Jesus went out and departed from the temple and his disciples came to him for to show him the buildings of the temple.

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Jesus had told them that his kingdom will not yet come and the temple would be left desolate.

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Now, the temple was made of many buildings.

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It was the temple that Herod had built.

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The construction was still in progress.

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It was made of white marble.

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It was very large, very beautiful.

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The disciples couldn't believe that Jesus said it would be destroyed.

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And since man always knows so much better than God, they wanted to show Jesus around the building.

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They was like, come on, let's go look at this.

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You know, no, surely not.

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And then that kind of brings us into verse 2.

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You want me to read it?

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Yeah.

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And he said to them, do you not see all these things?

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Truly I say to you, not one stone here will be left upon another which will not be torn down.

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Yeah, that was a prophecy that came true pretty quickly, didn't it?

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It did, 70 A.D.

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70 A.D.

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The Romans destroyed it.

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They burned the wood in it.

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They tore all the building blocks apart to get the gold out of it and just completely leveled it.

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And that's what we see today, right?

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Just rubble.

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Absolutely.

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Yeah, it's just a bunch of rubble.

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And we somehow, you know, we think things are going to last forever.

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And I think that's what they were thinking there.

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You know, they were like, look, Jesus, this place is wonderfully built.

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It's one of the greatest constructions of our time.

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There's no way it's going to be destroyed.

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No way it's going to be destroyed.

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And we're a lot like them, right?

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We look around this world that we live in and we look at the land.

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We look at its beauty.

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We look at its wealth, and we just don't see an ending to it, right?

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But there is.

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There's an ending coming to it.

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Yeah, and this was a fulfillment of something that Daniel prophesied

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that we looked at last week, right?

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The people of the prince who is to come destroy the city.

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And Zechariah in chapter 14, he kind of goes along with this too.

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But, yeah, I mean, lots of things going on there that Jesus was predicting,

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and they were like, I just don't see this happening.

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He tells them not one stone is going to be left upon the other, right?

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So this revelation was something that shocked the disciples to their core,

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so they talked it over with each other, and they ended up coming up with these questions.

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So they end up coming up with these, actually, I guess, three questions.

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But they say in verse 3,

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And as he sat upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately,

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saying, Tell us, when shall these things be?

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And what shall be the time of the coming and of the end of the world?

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So when shall these things be?

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In other words, when is it that one stone will not be left upon another?

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What shall be the sign of thy coming?

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And really the answer to that question is found over in verse 23 through 51.

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And we'll kind of get to that in just a minute.

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But then the third question was, what shall be the sign of the end of the age or the end of the world, the completion of the age?

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The answer to that question is found in verses 9 through 22 when we get a little bit further into it.

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But Jesus is going to answer these questions, and we call his answers, like we said, we call his answers the Olivet Discourse because it took place on the Mount of Olives.

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Now, he's going to answer these questions, but we can't find them all in the book of Matthew, right?

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They're kind of spread out.

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So we find the answer to the question, when shall we see these things in the Gospel of Luke?

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And I'll read that in just a minute.

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And then in segments in Mark's gospel.

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Why didn't Matthew include this?

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Well, because Matthew's the gospel of the kingdom and he presents a king.

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That's kind of what his focus was.

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The destruction of the temple in AD 70 was something to do with the age that we live in,

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but nothing to do with the future when the king is coming back.

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So let's look at Luke, Luke 21, 23, 24.

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And when you shall see Jerusalem come past with armies,

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then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.

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Then let them which are in Judea flee to the mountains,

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and let them which are in the midst depart out,

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and let not them that are in the countries into there and to.

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For these be the days of vengeance,

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that all things which are written may be fulfilled.

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But woe unto them that are with child and give suck in those days.

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For there shall be great distress in the land,

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wrath upon his people, and they shall fall by the edge of the sword

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and shall be led away captive into all nations,

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and Jerusalem shall be trotted down of the Gentiles

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until the time to the Gentiles be fulfilled.

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So probably not a lot of people who heard these words were present in A.D. 70.

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But when the Roman army surrounded the city, laid siege to it,

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cut it off from the rest of the world,

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They finally breached the wall and they got in.

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And they destroyed the city in a really devastating way.

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And it took place, that was when the first part of the Olivet Discourse was fulfilled.

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And then the next two questions, what shall be the sign of the coming and the end of the age?

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Jesus will answer those two questions kind of in chronological order,

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or chronological and logical order, answering the last question first and the second question last.

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So I know I'm talking a lot.

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No, I'm sorry.

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So the first thing the Lord talks about here is the sign of the end of the age.

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The world never really ends.

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It's just made new.

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OK, in the Olivet Discourse, when Jesus talks about his coming, he's referring to his return to earth to establish his kingdom.

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This is not a picture of the church.

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But by the end of the age, the church will have already been removed and it'll be the last days of the nation of Israel.

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So so he's speaking about the great tribulation period and he labels it in this discourse.

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Okay, so that kind of gives us a quick little overview of those questions.

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But go ahead.

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No, no.

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No, go ahead.

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You're good.

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Roll, brother.

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You're good.

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You're good.

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You're rolling.

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You're rolling.

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Add to it.

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Read the next verse, whatever you want to do.

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All right.

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All right.

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Verse four, right?

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Yes, sir.

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And Jesus answered and said to them, see to it that no one misleads you.

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We won't go on or stop right there.

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Whatever you want to do.

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For many will come into my name saying, I'm the Christ, and will mislead many.

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And we see that, right?

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Yeah.

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And I believe, and correct me if I'm wrong, but I see the section from verse 4 to 14 is kind of being, he's answering the what, you know.

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Yeah.

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As being more of a general thing, a general thing where it's covering kind of all the ground between his resurrection and his second coming.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Because we see a lot of this stuff that we're about to read happening now.

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We've seen it in the past, and we're going to see it more in the future.

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Right, right.

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Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.

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Yeah, and we've got a lot of deceivers among us right now, right?

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Yeah.

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But it won't hold a candle to the deception that's going to take place during tribulation.

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I mean, it's – and Peter warns us of this in 2 Peter 2.1,

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But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that brought them and bring them themselves into swift destruction.

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So we do.

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We got a lot of false teachers between us or among us right now.

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How do we know if a certain teaching is false?

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Well, we read and study God's word.

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We pray over it.

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And we know that that is true.

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I had a guy come into the church last night who visited with us last night.

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And I got to talking to him after church.

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And he said, you know, he said, hey, he said, he was telling me he was a part of a certain religion and a certain denomination.

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And he said, I had to get out of it.

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He said, I started studying the word of God.

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And he said, my denomination said that you had to be baptized to be saved.

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And he said, I started reading God's word.

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And he said, I couldn't see that in there.

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He said, and I started, and I love this because this is something that I say a lot on Wednesday night.

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He said, I started figuring out it was Jesus plus nothing.

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Yeah, amen.

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I was like, come on.

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And I think his church, he discussed it with his church.

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And they said, well, you need to go to a Baptist church somewhere.

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He was here last night.

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That's the same thing that Paul deals with in Galatians, right?

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They were saying you have to be circumcised to be saved.

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Yeah.

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It was always something that you had to do in addition to his grace and his mercy.

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That's right. Amen. Amen.

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Looking on verse 5 there that you read, a couple of views here.

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There's many Bible teachers who would say that Jesus is talking about the great tribulation period here.

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There will definitely be great deception during that time.

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Sure.

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But of course, none will be like it will be when we see the Antichrist come.

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And the second thing, the second look that we could have or the second view that we have, we can't rule out the fact that there are many little Antichrists today.

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There's maybe not the big Antichrists, but there's many little ones.

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There have been many cult leaders and many deranged people who have claimed to be Christ throughout the years.

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and have made a pretty good business at it.

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Oh, yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I mean, there's even big guys that, you know, let you drink some Kool-Aid if you want to, right?

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Right.

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And I think that you would be either one of those views.

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I think you would be safe, you know, with either one, even through verse 8 at least.

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But after that, I think we said verse 14, and I'm not saying it doesn't.

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It may go on through verse 14 looking at that.

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But I see a lot after verse 8 that we start seeing a lot of great tribulation stuff there.

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Yeah.

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But definitely we also see some pictures of some things, like you said, that we're going through.

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There are all kinds of types.

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I'm not saying history is circular, but we do see a lot of types that happened before.

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It reminds me of Adolf Hitler, Third Reich.

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He was trying to set up the Antichrist kingdom.

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That's basically what he was doing there.

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it wasn't time that's right yeah yeah he was he was he was a he was a villain before his time yeah

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yeah yeah absolutely absolutely um verse six and you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars

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see that you be not troubled for all these things must come to pass but the end is not yet

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so people have linked wars as a sign of the end of the world but we know we've already had a lot

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wars that hadn't been the end of the world 20th century was crazy yeah yeah yeah and and just

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time battle after battle after battle uh so yeah just in the lifetime of our grandparents we've

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had uh there's been world one and two during world war one there were many books that came out

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during that time saying that that the the world was going to come to an end then i mean people

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were shouting this stuff out this is not new you know people that that are saying every time we

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have something come up this is it this is the end of the world world war ii uh and the atom bomb

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uh you know a truckloads of books hit the press claiming that this is gonna be this is it right

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here okay we thought it was in world war one but oh this has got to be it you know we got the atom

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bomb it's gonna blow us all up to smithereens then came the korean war and the vietnam war and the

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gulf war and and the battles that we've had in the middle east i mean yeah just everywhere

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Every part of the world, even the ones we haven't been involved in, they've just been all over the place.

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Yeah, yeah.

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But like you said, I mean, we can't look at today's events and try to, you know, make Scripture fit those.

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Fit those, yeah.

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Yeah, yeah.

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And we try to do that, don't we?

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Yeah, we look around and go, oh, yeah, see, that's the fulfillment of that.

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That's it.

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That's it.

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Maybe not.

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Yeah.

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You got to look at the whole thing.

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You do.

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You do.

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You got the big picture, right?

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Yeah.

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The big picture.

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Yeah.

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And, you know, Jesus has a handle on all this.

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He really does.

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Yeah.

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He told them, don't be troubled.

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All these things must come to pass.

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But the end is not yet.

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Right.

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So we need to understand that there will be no true peace until the Prince of Peace comes on the scene.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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The giver of peace, the source of all peace.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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Next one is you'll be hearing of war.

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Missed it.

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Verse seven.

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For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom.

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And in various places, there will be famines and earthquakes.

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Something interesting about this verse is in the Greek, let's say the word nation is in the Greek is ethnos.

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Yeah.

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Ethnos.

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It's ethnicity.

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It's a racial division.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Isn't that crazy?

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It is.

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And look at what we've got going on today.

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Yeah.

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All over the place.

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Yeah.

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And we've got all this illegal immigration going on and all this stuff.

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It's nation against nation what it is.

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And that word eros is the 70th week of Daniel too, right?

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I mean, it kind of lines up with all that, too.

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Yeah.

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So, wow.

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In verse, let's see, verse 7.

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Verse 8.

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8.

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Yeah.

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All these are the beginning of sorrow.

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So 7 and 8 kind of go together.

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And they're a continuation from verse 6.

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These are things that are going to take place leading up to tribulation.

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Yeah.

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Again, I believe.

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These are characteristics of an entire age.

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rather than signs of the end of the age.

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So real famine will come during the Great Tribulation.

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We see that in Revelation 6, verse 5 and 6.

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I won't take you there right now,

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but we know that a measure of wheat for a penny,

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three measures of barley for a penny,

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and so you hurt not the oil and the wine.

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So you start seeing a great famine taking place,

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and we'll get to that in Revelation 6.

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What we see today, all these are the beginning of sorrows.

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You're living in the age of the church.

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the church age, the age of the Holy Spirit, right?

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He's here.

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He's among us.

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And the Bible divides the world into three groups, Jews, Gentiles, and the church of God, right?

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Really, I mean, God's people, God's church.

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And so you may, and you could be a, if you're a Gentile and you're saved, you become part of the church, right?

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We're all Gentiles if we're not a Jew.

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But once we're saved, we become part of the church.

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That's God's people.

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Yeah, that's his desire.

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It's like there are no Jews or Gentiles.

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It's the church.

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And that birth pangs.

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I love that.

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What he's describing is that there'll be stuff happening here and there, here and there,

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slight stuff here and there, and then it gets more intense and closer together,

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more intense and closer together.

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Man, do we see that in today's world.

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Absolutely.

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Absolutely.

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We see it heating up, don't we?

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Yeah, and that's how we know.

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We're not making predictions here.

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The Bible does it.

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That's right.

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Right.

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Amen.

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We know it's at the door.

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Amen.

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We know it's getting closer and closer.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Absolutely.

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So this is the age he's calling out people to his name, Jews, Gentiles, to compose that

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third group, get that church group together.

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And you can be a Jew and be saved, and you can be a Gentile and be saved, and you can

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all be part of the church.

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That's right.

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Praise the Lord for that.

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But the third group, that third group, that church group,

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they're going to be taken out in a rapture.

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And when that takes place, that's when the great tribulation will begin.

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Even if we're off our timeline a little on prior verses,

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I believe that when you get to verse 9,

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it puts us kind of on track at the beginning of this terrible time.

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The next verse begins with a word that denotes time.

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But if you want to read that.

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Then they will deliver you to tribulation and will kill you,

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and you will be hated by all nations because of my name.

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Yeah, yeah.

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So we know there's going to be some tribulation,

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but then there's going to be a great tribulation.

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And, you know, the word then kind of marks the beginning of something, right?

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And I don't know.

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Again, we could be right on the verge of going into tribulation here,

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or we could be going straight into tribulation here when he gives us that then word.

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But the you is not the church here because if we're raptured out, we'll be gone.

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So, you know, I think he's probably talking about a nation.

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He's talking to a people, not to the church or not to an individual,

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but maybe to the nation of Israel there if the church is, you know, if the church is gone.

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The affliction that he's talking about here is, I think, going to be anti-Semitism, and it's going to be worldwide, especially during the Tribulation time.

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Everybody's turned against Israel.

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They'll hate them.

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As long as the church is in the world, there will not be a worldwide anti-Semitism, not on this level.

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And I don't want to get ahead of myself here, but to make the point, one more thing, 2 Thessalonians 2, verse 6 through 9.

468
00:28:10,830 --> 00:28:16,640
And now you know what withholdeth, that he might be revealed in his time.

469
00:28:16,990 --> 00:28:19,560
For the mystery of iniquity doth already work.

470
00:28:20,140 --> 00:28:23,920
Only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

471
00:28:24,620 --> 00:28:32,040
And then shall the wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy the brightness of his coming.

472
00:28:32,390 --> 00:28:38,580
Even him whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonder.

473
00:28:39,940 --> 00:28:49,460
So I don't see any I don't see any real Christian ever completely hating the Jewish people.

474
00:28:49,710 --> 00:28:49,920
Right.

475
00:28:50,300 --> 00:28:50,480
No.

476
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,560
I mean, I mean, we we know that those are God's chosen people.

477
00:28:53,800 --> 00:29:01,880
It's impossible to have the spirit of God living inside of you and hate the people that he's called his.

478
00:29:02,260 --> 00:29:02,560
Yeah.

479
00:29:02,890 --> 00:29:06,040
You know, there's been a lot of replacement theology.

480
00:29:06,500 --> 00:29:06,600
Yeah.

481
00:29:07,010 --> 00:29:09,260
I guess more around the turn of the 20th century.

482
00:29:09,700 --> 00:29:09,880
Right.

483
00:29:10,540 --> 00:29:15,240
That saying that the church has replaced Israel with all the Old Testament promises and everything.

484
00:29:15,500 --> 00:29:15,620
Yeah.

485
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:16,620
That's just garbage.

486
00:29:16,770 --> 00:29:16,960
Yeah.

487
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:17,780
It really is.

488
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:23,900
I mean, you can't have a serious reading of Scripture and see that that's anywhere close to true.

489
00:29:24,060 --> 00:29:24,360
That's right.

490
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:32,100
Well, and it's so crazy to me because, I mean, yes, there are a lot of the promises that we inherit, but we do not replace.

491
00:29:33,380 --> 00:29:34,780
We're just further down the line.

492
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:36,820
I mean, they're the same family.

493
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:38,560
They're a little bit older than us.

494
00:29:38,590 --> 00:29:39,720
They're a little bit further up the line.

495
00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:40,460
We're just the kids.

496
00:29:40,860 --> 00:29:40,980
Yeah.

497
00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:44,600
And there's so many types and likenesses.

498
00:29:44,940 --> 00:29:52,580
You know, I always try to when I'm in the Old Testament or even in the New Testament when he's still talking about the Jewish people,

499
00:29:53,100 --> 00:29:58,680
I always try to make it clear, especially if I'm preaching the message, okay, I understand that he's talking about the Jews here.

500
00:29:59,140 --> 00:30:05,960
But this does also give way to us or, you know, it's a type and likeness of us.

501
00:30:06,260 --> 00:30:08,540
But we do not replace them, right?

502
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:19,760
Well, and that, you know, to me, it's always been as simple as you just look at it and you go, there is no point in time where us Christians have had to go out and make sacrifices.

503
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:26,520
That is something that from the time of the founding of the New Testament church, we didn't have to do.

504
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:32,140
But the Jews came from that into the same thing that we have.

505
00:30:32,500 --> 00:30:40,680
We did have a little bit of a different promise at the beginning of our journey with God.

506
00:30:40,940 --> 00:30:44,280
I mean, we came in, we were grafted into the family at a different point.

507
00:30:44,740 --> 00:30:48,140
So there are things that, yeah, like you say, those types and those likenesses.

508
00:30:48,540 --> 00:30:51,520
And a lot of that stuff, it wasn't that it didn't necessarily apply to us.

509
00:30:51,660 --> 00:30:53,660
It's that those things were applied on the cross.

510
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:57,660
Yeah, and we know from prophecy that the sacrifices are going to happen again.

511
00:30:57,940 --> 00:30:58,240
Yes.

512
00:30:58,500 --> 00:30:59,880
The temple is going to be rebuilt.

513
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,880
It has to happen for these prophecies to be fulfilled,

514
00:31:02,940 --> 00:31:05,740
and the sacrifice has to be cut off at some point in the tribulation.

515
00:31:05,900 --> 00:31:06,700
Yeah, that's right.

516
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:06,880
Yeah.

517
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:07,300
Amen.

518
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:11,460
Yeah, and he says in Romans chapter 11, Paul says,

519
00:31:13,380 --> 00:31:13,800
he says,

520
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:17,340
For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery

521
00:31:17,420 --> 00:31:19,600
so that you will not be wise in your own estimation,

522
00:31:20,140 --> 00:31:22,180
that a partial hardening has happened to Israel

523
00:31:22,540 --> 00:31:25,180
until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

524
00:31:25,300 --> 00:31:25,500
Yeah.

525
00:31:25,980 --> 00:31:30,160
So I think God's got a count on he knows who's going to come in

526
00:31:30,180 --> 00:31:30,440
Absolutely.

527
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:33,960
And I think when that last Gentile hits the door, oof.

528
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:34,580
Right?

529
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:35,400
Yeah, absolutely.

530
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:36,120
Absolutely.

531
00:31:37,559 --> 00:31:40,780
And I think there will be that last one.

532
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:46,380
And I'm not saying – by saying that, it's not to say that it's up to us when this thing is going to end.

533
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:46,700
Right.

534
00:31:46,780 --> 00:31:48,720
Because we have no idea when the last one is.

535
00:31:48,900 --> 00:31:50,740
No, and it'll be during the tribulation too, right?

536
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:50,980
Yeah.

537
00:31:50,980 --> 00:31:56,960
But I think that as a church, for him to get to the point of taking us home –

538
00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:57,020
Yeah.

539
00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:09,560
That we need to be so focused on evangelism and so focused on leading people to Jesus that every person that we witness to might be the last one before he takes us home.

540
00:32:09,780 --> 00:32:09,940
Amen.

541
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:12,620
Because they're going to get to a point, and he says, okay, that one's it right now.

542
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:13,140
Take them home.

543
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:16,480
And the rest will be during tribulation time.

544
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:17,860
They've been appointed for that time.

545
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:18,260
Yeah.

546
00:32:18,500 --> 00:32:18,620
Yeah.

547
00:32:19,140 --> 00:32:20,620
We just made so sovereign.

548
00:32:22,780 --> 00:32:28,200
But we do know that the Jews are scheduled to be part of the church.

549
00:32:28,460 --> 00:32:28,980
Sure, yeah.

550
00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:31,340
And there would be neither Jew nor Greek, nor male nor female,

551
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:32,500
and all these things that Paul said.

552
00:32:32,620 --> 00:32:32,840
Yeah.

553
00:32:33,340 --> 00:32:34,260
They were all one.

554
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:34,620
Yeah.

555
00:32:35,140 --> 00:32:35,320
Amen.

556
00:32:35,700 --> 00:32:36,580
One in Christ Jesus.

557
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:41,420
Verse 10 or 10 and 11, whichever one you read.

558
00:32:42,580 --> 00:32:43,300
Am I up?

559
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:44,900
Yeah, you're up.

560
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:49,300
At that time, many will fall away and will betray one another

561
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:50,600
and hate one another.

562
00:32:55,220 --> 00:33:02,800
yeah so i mean we've seen earlier the church was warned about that right yeah yeah yeah and and we

563
00:33:02,980 --> 00:33:09,340
we see we see glimpses of that too right uh before the time of people falling away yeah

564
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:14,400
and and i think it's probably happened all throughout church history uh the people follow

565
00:33:14,410 --> 00:33:19,740
i mean hebrews is written to a bunch of believers that are tempted to fall away yeah absolutely but

566
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:24,180
But I think this will be on a scale that's unprecedented.

567
00:33:24,620 --> 00:33:25,900
Yeah, amen, amen.

568
00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:35,120
And when that happens, again, many false prophets will rise up and shall deceive many.

569
00:33:35,390 --> 00:33:38,780
Again, it's one of those things we've got going on right now.

570
00:33:39,740 --> 00:33:42,780
But is this intensifying here?

571
00:33:42,900 --> 00:33:43,920
Is it at a time?

572
00:33:44,410 --> 00:33:45,620
Yeah, he's talking about the birth pains.

573
00:33:46,300 --> 00:33:51,800
Well, you know, it's one of those things that we see slowly creeping in.

574
00:33:51,870 --> 00:34:00,260
I actually saw a YouTube video from somebody that was a YouTube short that she had posted talking about.

575
00:34:01,540 --> 00:34:02,880
I can't remember where the verse was.

576
00:34:02,890 --> 00:34:05,780
I think it was in Acts.

577
00:34:07,260 --> 00:34:08,379
I can't remember, but I looked it up.

578
00:34:08,379 --> 00:34:15,620
But basically she misquoted it, of course, saying that, you know, oh, we're going to start having visions and dreams and all this stuff.

579
00:34:15,820 --> 00:34:20,280
And I looked at her and I thought, well, first of all, it says your young man and your old man.

580
00:34:20,620 --> 00:34:21,340
Oh, accident.

581
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:21,679
Joel.

582
00:34:22,100 --> 00:34:22,260
Yeah.

583
00:34:22,399 --> 00:34:22,760
Yeah.

584
00:34:22,870 --> 00:34:22,960
Yeah.

585
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:28,500
And it's like your old men and your young men, which you're neither one of those things.

586
00:34:28,679 --> 00:34:28,840
Right.

587
00:34:30,039 --> 00:34:30,760
Miss prophetess.

588
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:31,159
Right.

589
00:34:32,459 --> 00:34:40,679
And then beyond, you know, and then and then to go beyond that, you know, it's you know, it was like, yeah, this is a thing that's been happening.

590
00:34:40,820 --> 00:34:46,980
And it's a thing that, you know, we are told is coming, that it's going to, like, as you say, it's going to intensify.

591
00:34:47,139 --> 00:34:48,419
It's going to become much more intense.

592
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:55,700
But again, we're not looking forward to getting new prophecies out of that.

593
00:34:55,840 --> 00:35:08,540
It's going to be clarifications of what is here and not some new testimony or New Testament or new whatever it was that the guy that did the Book of Mormon said, you know, it revealed these things to me.

594
00:35:08,540 --> 00:35:10,480
It's like, no, no, no, no, that's not that.

595
00:35:10,700 --> 00:35:14,580
And if you hear people saying that, they're one of these false prophets.

596
00:35:14,700 --> 00:35:15,020
Run away.

597
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:15,520
Yeah.

598
00:35:15,700 --> 00:35:18,740
We got prophecies now than what we know what to do with.

599
00:35:19,100 --> 00:35:19,300
Yeah.

600
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:20,040
We got plenty.

601
00:35:20,260 --> 00:35:22,640
We're still trying to wrap our heads around the ones we got.

602
00:35:22,940 --> 00:35:27,100
You know, I always assumed it would be that as we get closer and closer to the end, what

603
00:35:27,100 --> 00:35:31,100
we're going to start seeing are people doing like Daniel did, you know, where he shows up

604
00:35:31,100 --> 00:35:32,340
and he starts interpreting the dreams.

605
00:35:33,140 --> 00:35:35,460
And except they're going to be showing up, they're going to be saying, here, we're going

606
00:35:35,460 --> 00:35:35,720
to make this.

607
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:37,160
That's where it says it in the word.

608
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:37,420
Yeah.

609
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:38,540
Here's what it says.

610
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:40,060
and then you reference this and you reference that,

611
00:35:40,140 --> 00:35:41,680
and they're going to start, and we're going to go, oh.

612
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:43,860
And it's going to be obvious.

613
00:35:44,060 --> 00:35:45,580
It's going to be just like it was with Nebuchadnezzar.

614
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:47,860
There's no doubt that Daniel got it right.

615
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:51,300
There was no doubt that Joseph, when he gave his stuff to the Pharaoh,

616
00:35:51,580 --> 00:35:52,360
there was no doubt.

617
00:35:52,460 --> 00:35:53,400
He was spot on.

618
00:35:53,900 --> 00:35:55,420
And I think we're going to start seeing something like that.

619
00:35:55,460 --> 00:35:59,080
It's not prophesying like what we see in the Scripture, I don't think.

620
00:35:59,240 --> 00:35:59,340
Yeah.

621
00:36:00,660 --> 00:36:00,980
Amen.

622
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:01,620
Amen.

623
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:03,280
Verse 12.

624
00:36:03,720 --> 00:36:05,720
Verse 12, because lawlessness has increased,

625
00:36:06,100 --> 00:36:07,640
most people's love will grow cold.

626
00:36:09,460 --> 00:36:12,920
i don't like that we got birth pains of that going on right now i'll tell you that

627
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:19,200
lawlessness is everywhere man and and people this with social media right now

628
00:36:19,860 --> 00:36:25,220
they're love as cold as eyes oh yeah it's gone you care less and and and i see people who are

629
00:36:25,220 --> 00:36:31,640
supposed to be part of the church you know yeah but but sin is running rampant it's out of control

630
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:37,020
and there's nothing to hold it back.

631
00:36:37,290 --> 00:36:39,880
I mean, when tribulation starts,

632
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:43,800
because the Spirit of God's going to be gone.

633
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:48,080
The salt and light of the world is the church, right?

634
00:36:48,490 --> 00:36:50,160
It's the members of the churches.

635
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:51,080
Yeah.

636
00:36:51,910 --> 00:36:54,840
When sin abounds, love will leave town, right?

637
00:36:55,740 --> 00:36:56,580
It's gone.

638
00:36:56,820 --> 00:36:57,860
There's no other.

639
00:36:58,260 --> 00:36:59,020
Nobody cares.

640
00:36:59,900 --> 00:37:01,800
And that's true in any age.

641
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:02,520
It is.

642
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:05,900
But, yeah, especially at the end of this thing.

643
00:37:06,260 --> 00:37:06,360
Yeah.

644
00:37:06,450 --> 00:37:11,000
I don't think we realize how much salt and light we really are in our everyday lives.

645
00:37:11,260 --> 00:37:11,440
Yeah.

646
00:37:12,260 --> 00:37:14,920
And that's really going to be a void.

647
00:37:15,300 --> 00:37:15,360
Yeah.

648
00:37:15,820 --> 00:37:23,080
And I think people try to point to things today a lot of times and say that we're not showing love, we're not showing love.

649
00:37:23,090 --> 00:37:26,320
When we are, it's just it's not what they're wanting.

650
00:37:26,580 --> 00:37:30,100
They want somebody to coddle them and they want somebody to say anything you do is okay.

651
00:37:31,159 --> 00:37:34,180
And that's not what it's talking about when it says the love growing cold.

652
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:38,400
It's talking about exactly what we're seeing happen where people are doing exactly what I just said.

653
00:37:38,770 --> 00:37:39,220
Oh, it's okay.

654
00:37:39,310 --> 00:37:39,960
Go ahead and sin.

655
00:37:40,220 --> 00:37:40,340
Yeah.

656
00:37:40,540 --> 00:37:40,880
It's okay.

657
00:37:40,930 --> 00:37:41,520
You just go ahead.

658
00:37:42,460 --> 00:37:44,760
That is that's love being very cold.

659
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:54,520
Not only will there be an absence of love, there's going to be an absence of truth, except for what those 144,000 are preaching during that time, you know, tribulation.

660
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:57,060
But that absence of truth is just going to be.

661
00:37:57,220 --> 00:38:00,480
And again, we see that even intensifying right now.

662
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:01,040
Right now.

663
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:05,260
Yeah, it's like watching a volcano that's about to explode.

664
00:38:05,300 --> 00:38:07,460
Yeah, it's just starting to rumble.

665
00:38:07,720 --> 00:38:08,460
It's rumbling.

666
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:11,000
It's starting to really show signs.

667
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:12,900
And it's like, maybe we all start paying attention.

668
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:16,520
But then verse 13.

669
00:38:17,300 --> 00:38:18,320
Save you the good one.

670
00:38:18,940 --> 00:38:19,200
Yeah.

671
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:24,700
But he that shall endure to the end shall be saved.

672
00:38:25,330 --> 00:38:33,640
And so I think we really deal with tribulation saints during this because they're enduring this seven-year period.

673
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:35,420
And we're gone.

674
00:38:36,700 --> 00:38:41,320
We're not going to have to endure to the end because we've been saved, and he's going to take us out of here.

675
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:49,900
So let's talk about who will be saved during that seven-year tribulation and who will endure to the end.

676
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:54,960
In this, I want to talk about two groups of people who will be saved during this time,

677
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:59,700
but only one will endure as a group of people until the end.

678
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:02,820
People will endure as individuals and be saved, but one will.

679
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:06,500
Revelation 7, and this is getting ahead, but I just want to go ahead.

680
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:08,580
This is part of what we're studying here in Matthew.

681
00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:11,040
That first group is 144,000.

682
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:14,780
And after these things, I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth,

683
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:18,920
holding four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on earth,

684
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:20,600
nor on the sea, nor on any tree.

685
00:39:21,060 --> 00:39:23,220
And I saw another angel ascending from the east,

686
00:39:23,370 --> 00:39:25,340
having a seal of the living God.

687
00:39:25,510 --> 00:39:27,720
And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels

688
00:39:27,830 --> 00:39:30,540
to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,

689
00:39:30,820 --> 00:39:33,260
saying, hurt not the earth, neither the sea nor the trees,

690
00:39:33,650 --> 00:39:36,680
till we have sealed the servants of God in their foreheads.

691
00:39:37,060 --> 00:39:41,380
And I heard the number of them which were sealed,

692
00:39:41,750 --> 00:39:42,620
and they were sealed,

693
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:45,500
a hundred and forty and four thousand

694
00:39:45,980 --> 00:39:48,320
of all the tribes of the children of Israel.

695
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:50,560
So that means 12,000 from each, 12 tribes.

696
00:39:51,220 --> 00:39:53,960
Of the tribe of Judah were sealed 12,000.

697
00:39:54,010 --> 00:39:55,900
The tribe of Reuben were sealed 12,000.

698
00:39:56,220 --> 00:39:58,000
Tribe of Gad were sealed 12,000.

699
00:39:58,180 --> 00:40:01,400
Of the tribe of Asar were sealed 12,000.

700
00:40:02,260 --> 00:40:04,920
Of the tribe of Nephilium were sealed 12,000.

701
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:07,240
The tribe of Manasseh were sealed 12,000.

702
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:09,760
Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed 12,000.

703
00:40:09,970 --> 00:40:12,780
Of the tribe of Levi were sealed 12,000.

704
00:40:12,780 --> 00:40:15,660
Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed 12,000.

705
00:40:15,660 --> 00:40:18,320
Of the tribe of Zebulun were sealed 12,000.

706
00:40:18,420 --> 00:40:24,660
of the tribe of joseph were sealed 12 000 of the tribe of benjamin were sealed 12 000 so that that

707
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:33,820
makes up your 144 000 okay this is not like the jehovah's witness will tell you that only 144 000

708
00:40:34,060 --> 00:40:37,960
people are going to be saved that that you know of course that got blown out of the water when

709
00:40:38,180 --> 00:40:45,860
there began to be more than 144 000 of their religion and now they say 144 000 are going to

710
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:50,380
heaven and they'll have a special place and everybody else will be here on paradise and earth

711
00:40:50,580 --> 00:40:57,020
but um but they're you want to know how somebody got it wrong when they get caught out and they

712
00:40:57,180 --> 00:41:02,360
immediately try to change and backtrack and say no no no that's not what we meant yeah yeah yeah

713
00:41:02,820 --> 00:41:11,820
and they backtracked at 144,001 so uh but but these will be the only people who are actually

714
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:20,740
sealed okay uh those 144 000 will make it to the very end uh because he seals them for the reason

715
00:41:20,830 --> 00:41:25,820
of preaching the gospel during that entire seven year period so they're going to be they're going

716
00:41:25,860 --> 00:41:31,420
to make it to the end now there'll be other people to be martyred and die but the 144 000 are going

717
00:41:31,420 --> 00:41:36,700
to be sealed in the forehead um that's that's an important point because there are going to be lots

718
00:41:36,730 --> 00:41:40,940
and lots and lots of martyrs in there and what i don't think he's talking about salvation here

719
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:44,140
I think he's talking about will be delivered by the coming of Christ.

720
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:44,580
Yeah.

721
00:41:44,900 --> 00:41:44,960
Yeah.

722
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:49,900
Because a lot of people will misquote this and say, but the one who endures to the end, he'll be saved.

723
00:41:50,020 --> 00:41:50,220
Right.

724
00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:52,520
You know, to say that you can lose your salvation.

725
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:52,720
Right.

726
00:41:52,860 --> 00:41:54,500
And that's completely out of the way.

727
00:41:55,220 --> 00:41:58,860
The one who endures to the end is talking about the tribulation and he'll be delivered.

728
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:03,260
Now, during the tribulation, there's going to be at least three billion people killed.

729
00:42:03,540 --> 00:42:03,680
Right.

730
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:04,140
Yeah.

731
00:42:04,240 --> 00:42:05,520
There's a quarter die here.

732
00:42:05,580 --> 00:42:06,720
There's a third die here.

733
00:42:06,860 --> 00:42:07,020
Yeah.

734
00:42:07,240 --> 00:42:09,240
It's an ugly number.

735
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:09,520
Yeah.

736
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:09,940
Yeah.

737
00:42:10,340 --> 00:42:10,540
Yeah, absolutely.

738
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:15,480
So it's going to be a lot of people that are believers that will die in those cataclysms.

739
00:42:15,700 --> 00:42:16,120
Sure, sure.

740
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:19,420
And you've got to think, too, the ones that endure to the end,

741
00:42:22,100 --> 00:42:26,860
there won't be many people outside of that 144,000 that will endure to the end.

742
00:42:26,940 --> 00:42:28,480
There'll be a few that will make it.

743
00:42:28,660 --> 00:42:31,800
But if you don't take the mark of the beast, you're going to die.

744
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:33,580
You're going to starve to death.

745
00:42:34,620 --> 00:42:35,960
They're going to kill you, whatever.

746
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:44,260
So, yeah, so the second group, not what about everyone as a whole or not about everyone as a whole.

747
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:49,420
I've heard preachers preach that no one will be saved at all during this time.

748
00:42:49,700 --> 00:42:50,200
That's crazy.

749
00:42:50,290 --> 00:42:51,600
They haven't read the book of Revelation.

750
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:56,960
I've also heard some say that the Jews will be saved during this time and only the Jews.

751
00:42:57,420 --> 00:42:58,480
That's not correct either.

752
00:42:59,980 --> 00:43:03,880
Revelation 7, starting in verse 9.

753
00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:25,080
And after this I beheld, and lo, a great multitude, which no man could number of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hand, and cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God, which sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb.

754
00:43:25,260 --> 00:43:31,500
and all angels stood around the throne and about the elders and the four beasts and fell before the

755
00:43:31,500 --> 00:43:38,100
throne on their faces and worshiped God and one of the elders answered saying unto me what are these

756
00:43:38,460 --> 00:43:44,540
which are arrayed in white robes and whence came they and I said unto them sir thou knowest and he

757
00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:50,620
said to me these are they which came out of the great tribulation and have washed their robes and

758
00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:55,700
made them white in the blood of the lamb therefore are they before the throne of god and serve him day

759
00:43:55,840 --> 00:44:01,180
and night in his temple and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them they shall hunger no

760
00:44:01,340 --> 00:44:07,740
more thirst no more neither shall the sun light on them nor any heat for the lamb which is in the

761
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:13,600
midst of the throne shall feed them and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters and god shall

762
00:44:13,620 --> 00:44:20,400
wipe away all the tears from their eyes amen amen so so there'll be people from every tongue every

763
00:44:20,660 --> 00:44:27,140
tribe every nation that will be saved and when we look at revelation chapter 20 we see how they're

764
00:44:27,140 --> 00:44:33,960
going to be saved uh it says and i saw thrones and and they sat upon them and judgment was given unto

765
00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:39,640
them and i saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the for the witness of jesus and for the word

766
00:44:39,660 --> 00:44:43,760
of God and which had not worshiped the beast, neither his image, neither had received the

767
00:44:43,940 --> 00:44:46,200
mark upon their foreheads or in their hands.

768
00:44:46,620 --> 00:44:48,780
And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

769
00:44:49,620 --> 00:44:54,580
So so along with us, right, these people are going to be saved and they're going to be

770
00:44:54,680 --> 00:44:56,300
saved by not taking the mark of the beast.

771
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:59,680
They're going to be saved by they're going to have to trust in Christ just like everybody

772
00:44:59,880 --> 00:44:59,980
else.

773
00:45:00,220 --> 00:45:00,540
Oh, yeah.

774
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:01,140
Yeah.

775
00:45:01,240 --> 00:45:01,740
Yeah.

776
00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:02,340
Amen.

777
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:03,620
Serious adversity.

778
00:45:04,180 --> 00:45:04,360
Yeah.

779
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:04,880
Yeah.

780
00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:05,440
Yeah.

781
00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:09,900
You know, I don't want anybody to think that they can just wait.

782
00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:12,340
Oh, so you're saying that you'll get saved.

783
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:13,820
I'll get saved during that time.

784
00:45:14,060 --> 00:45:14,740
Okay, I'll be all right.

785
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:26,020
Well, I don't know that if you've heard the gospel on this side of the tribulation and you go into the tribulation and you've rejected it here.

786
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:29,560
I don't know that you'll I don't know that you'll accept it.

787
00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:31,360
It's going to be hard.

788
00:45:31,460 --> 00:45:34,800
I wonder about immediately after the rapture.

789
00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:39,440
We've got tons of people around, especially in this area, that I've heard the parents and grandparents talk about a rapture.

790
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:39,640
Right.

791
00:45:39,860 --> 00:45:44,680
And when everybody disappears like that and the churches, well, there'll be a few people left in church, I'm sure.

792
00:45:44,900 --> 00:45:44,960
Yeah.

793
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:47,680
But I ain't naming names.

794
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:48,240
Right.

795
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:51,300
But they'll go, oh, man, that was true.

796
00:45:51,940 --> 00:45:53,960
And they might get on their knees and step Christ right there.

797
00:45:54,220 --> 00:45:58,000
I'll tell you what, if you ain't got the guts to do it now, you won't have the guts to stick with it then.

798
00:45:58,100 --> 00:45:58,720
No, no.

799
00:45:59,000 --> 00:45:59,100
Right.

800
00:45:59,220 --> 00:46:00,080
It better be real.

801
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:01,040
It's got to be real.

802
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:01,440
Yeah.

803
00:46:01,620 --> 00:46:09,900
And I mean, it makes it very clear that the delusion and the deception that's going to be transmitted,

804
00:46:10,420 --> 00:46:13,280
that's going to happen during that time is going to be so convincing.

805
00:46:13,620 --> 00:46:18,840
It's going to be so, I mean, people talk about the AI stuff and all this and how they think.

806
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:20,840
It's like, it's going to be beyond that.

807
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:28,140
I mean, sorry, it's going to be something so convincing that people are going to be absolutely 100% sure that,

808
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:37,820
Nope, this person that's out here claiming to be a prophet or claiming to be the savior of the world, that's what they are.

809
00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:40,900
The most hardcore atheists are going to believe this and fall for it.

810
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:41,160
Yeah.

811
00:46:41,260 --> 00:46:42,820
That's how convincing this is going to be.

812
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:43,140
Yeah.

813
00:46:43,690 --> 00:46:44,340
And that's crazy.

814
00:46:44,670 --> 00:46:48,680
I mean, to think about that, I never really just completely thought about it in the way you just said.

815
00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:51,060
They're going to believe in a God.

816
00:46:51,140 --> 00:46:51,500
That's right.

817
00:46:51,540 --> 00:46:52,380
But a wrong God.

818
00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:52,880
That's right.

819
00:46:53,060 --> 00:46:53,220
Yeah.

820
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:55,020
They're going to believe in a false God.

821
00:46:55,030 --> 00:46:55,840
That's a great point.

822
00:46:56,060 --> 00:46:56,140
Yeah.

823
00:46:56,360 --> 00:47:03,640
I mean, you're going to have people who walk into the great tribulation who have never believed and they're going to believe, but they're going to believe in their own God.

824
00:47:03,820 --> 00:47:11,660
And I mean, if you if you really and truly want to know what this stuff is going to be, what you're going to be seeing, you you've got to go back.

825
00:47:11,820 --> 00:47:13,620
Go back to the story of Moses.

826
00:47:13,810 --> 00:47:26,080
Go back to what yeah, what he went through when he goes to get the children of Israel out and he goes and all these signs and wonders start happening in front of the king, turning rods into snakes that are devouring each other on the floor.

827
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:32,420
that's the kind of stuff that we're talking about here i mean this isn't something that you're

828
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:37,200
watching on a video and oh maybe you're gonna people are gonna be seeing things happen right

829
00:47:37,210 --> 00:47:40,560
in front of them they're gonna go oh well they're gonna get that proof they've always wanted right

830
00:47:40,700 --> 00:47:45,380
yeah yeah whatever that is and his false prophet's gonna cause miracles to happen right yeah

831
00:47:45,740 --> 00:47:51,340
raining from the sky and as is one of the examples revelation gives us yeah absolutely but man i it's

832
00:47:51,360 --> 00:47:55,220
It's going to be you're going to be hard pressed to deny that this is real.

833
00:47:55,450 --> 00:47:56,440
When that deception come.

834
00:47:56,620 --> 00:47:56,800
Absolutely.

835
00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:00,020
And you're going to be wanting to feed your starving children with that mark of the beast.

836
00:48:00,130 --> 00:48:06,620
Can you imagine when you're on your child looks at you and says, Dad, Dad, I got to eat something.

837
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:08,320
Dad, we haven't eaten in a week.

838
00:48:08,620 --> 00:48:10,820
You know, Dad, are we going to be able to eat tomorrow?

839
00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:12,380
Dad, can I have a drink of water?

840
00:48:12,850 --> 00:48:14,780
You know, I mean, just go take the mark.

841
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:15,300
Yeah.

842
00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:16,220
Just go get it.

843
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:16,540
Yeah.

844
00:48:16,680 --> 00:48:16,760
Yeah.

845
00:48:16,870 --> 00:48:18,000
You can feed your children.

846
00:48:18,110 --> 00:48:19,100
You can let go of this.

847
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:27,060
And you've got to think about what kind of faith is it going to take in Jesus to let yourself, your wife, and your children die.

848
00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:27,660
Right?

849
00:48:28,020 --> 00:48:29,080
It's going to be tough.

850
00:48:29,340 --> 00:48:29,880
Yes, it will.

851
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:32,120
So don't sit here and think, oh, yeah, I'll be all right.

852
00:48:32,260 --> 00:48:33,220
I'll just sweep on it.

853
00:48:33,500 --> 00:48:35,080
Number one, you may die before it comes.

854
00:48:35,240 --> 00:48:39,340
Number two, if you walk into it, if you didn't believe now, you may never believe then.

855
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:39,580
Right.

856
00:48:40,020 --> 00:48:40,140
Yeah.

857
00:48:40,460 --> 00:48:42,900
I mean, yeah, it's a deception.

858
00:48:43,180 --> 00:48:45,540
It is miracles happening in front of you.

859
00:48:45,720 --> 00:48:48,900
And then, yeah, you're going to have to let yourself starve to death.

860
00:48:49,020 --> 00:48:49,200
Yeah.

861
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:53,160
Yeah. That's the choice you're making. Now, there's going to be an underground. There's

862
00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:58,780
going to be people that are assisting the 144,000. They're getting assistance that is going to be

863
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:02,980
happening from others, helping them move around and things like that. And I mean, there's no doubt

864
00:49:03,180 --> 00:49:07,220
that, yeah, there will be assistance. There will be people that are rejecting what's happening,

865
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:13,900
but it's not going to be a big number of people. I mean, again, go back, just look at what we have

866
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:14,480
in the world today.

867
00:49:14,900 --> 00:49:15,020
Yeah.

868
00:49:15,340 --> 00:49:17,040
Just look at the way people treat things.

869
00:49:17,660 --> 00:49:18,020
Goodness.

870
00:49:18,840 --> 00:49:25,180
I've seen people react to Christians today in the world as though we are just Satan almost.

871
00:49:25,700 --> 00:49:30,560
And I'm like, goodness, people following right along with that and just following along with

872
00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:33,940
it and going, yep, yep, those Christians, they're just hypocrites and they're evil and

873
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:34,320
they're terrible.

874
00:49:34,420 --> 00:49:35,960
And I'm like, what in the world?

875
00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:38,800
Satan hates the church as bad as he hates Israel.

876
00:49:39,100 --> 00:49:39,800
I guarantee you.

877
00:49:39,960 --> 00:49:41,820
So what's going to be preached during that time?

878
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:44,000
Let's look at that next verse.

879
00:49:44,050 --> 00:49:44,500
I don't remember.

880
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:46,560
Is it whichever one wants to read it?

881
00:49:46,720 --> 00:49:47,540
Yeah, I think it was me.

882
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:54,320
This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

883
00:49:54,740 --> 00:49:55,020
Yeah.

884
00:49:55,480 --> 00:50:01,980
So the gospel of the kingdom, John preached it in Matthew 3, 1 through 2.

885
00:50:02,340 --> 00:50:09,140
In those days came John the Baptist preaching in the wilderness of Judea and saying, repent ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

886
00:50:09,580 --> 00:50:10,560
Jesus preached it.

887
00:50:10,900 --> 00:50:20,020
From the time Jesus began to preach in Matthew, Matthew chapter four, verse 17 says, for the time Jesus began to preach and say, repent for the kingdom.

888
00:50:20,820 --> 00:50:21,920
The kingdom is at hand.

889
00:50:22,570 --> 00:50:29,200
So and he sent his apostles out with that message in Matthew chapter 10.

890
00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:38,760
But but the message would change in chapter 11 and it would then be a message to all come unto me.

891
00:50:39,050 --> 00:50:40,380
Right. Come unto me.

892
00:50:40,660 --> 00:50:42,580
All you that are heavy laden, I'll give you rest.

893
00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:47,380
But during tribulation period, the gospel of the kingdom will again be preached.

894
00:50:47,700 --> 00:50:48,980
It will again come back.

895
00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:55,420
The gospel of the kingdom is not another gospel, but it's the same gospel with a different emphasis.

896
00:50:57,480 --> 00:51:01,700
Everyone that was saved before the cross looks forward to it, right?

897
00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:05,220
And everyone who came after the cross, we look back to it.

898
00:51:05,260 --> 00:51:14,340
We have no way of saying the kingdom is at hand in this day that we live in because we don't know the day or the hour.

899
00:51:14,860 --> 00:51:18,740
But when tribulation starts, the clock is going to be ticking.

900
00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:24,280
And in seven years, Jesus will come for his second coming and he'll set up his kingdom here on earth.

901
00:51:24,720 --> 00:51:30,540
So in other words, the message of the gospel that Jesus died for your sins and rose again on the third day will be the same.

902
00:51:30,960 --> 00:51:34,240
But Jesus is really going to be able to say and they're going to be able to know.

903
00:51:34,940 --> 00:51:40,900
Look, we got this seven year period that these 144,000 are telling us the kingdom of God is almost here.

904
00:51:41,140 --> 00:51:41,840
At hand.

905
00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:42,800
It's at hand.

906
00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:43,240
Yeah.

907
00:51:43,940 --> 00:51:44,720
Yeah, absolutely.

908
00:51:45,620 --> 00:51:45,860
Absolutely.

909
00:51:46,180 --> 00:51:46,280
Amen.

910
00:51:48,980 --> 00:51:49,240
So.

911
00:51:50,700 --> 00:51:51,440
The next verse.

912
00:51:51,660 --> 00:51:52,040
What are we on?

913
00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:52,560
15.

914
00:51:52,940 --> 00:51:53,120
Yeah.

915
00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:55,840
I think this is kind of a kind of a gear shift point here.

916
00:51:56,120 --> 00:51:56,200
Yeah.

917
00:51:56,740 --> 00:51:58,200
Where he gets into more of the details.

918
00:51:58,420 --> 00:51:59,160
Yeah, he does.

919
00:51:59,320 --> 00:51:59,540
He does.

920
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:03,560
do you want me to read just 15 or let me go on down a little bit

921
00:52:03,670 --> 00:52:04,180
whatever you want to

922
00:52:05,940 --> 00:52:08,120
there's a bunch of verses that go together here

923
00:52:08,120 --> 00:52:11,580
and I know that we're almost running out of time

924
00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:15,320
when you therefore see the abomination of desolation

925
00:52:15,550 --> 00:52:16,640
spoken by Daniel the prophet

926
00:52:17,460 --> 00:52:18,500
stand in the holy place

927
00:52:18,770 --> 00:52:20,220
who so readeth let him understand

928
00:52:20,760 --> 00:52:23,760
then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains

929
00:52:24,060 --> 00:52:25,780
let him which is on the housetop

930
00:52:25,940 --> 00:52:28,080
not come down to take anything out of his house

931
00:52:28,420 --> 00:52:33,340
neither let him that is in the field return back to take his clothes and woe unto them that are with

932
00:52:33,500 --> 00:52:37,720
child and give suck in those days but pray you that your flight be not in the winter neither on

933
00:52:37,780 --> 00:52:44,220
the sabbath day for then shall be great tribulation such as was not since the beginning of the world

934
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:51,320
to this time no nor ever shall be and except those days should be shortened there should be no flesh

935
00:52:51,480 --> 00:52:56,560
saved in other words if he didn't end it at seven years everybody would have died yeah but for the

936
00:52:56,580 --> 00:53:02,960
elect's sake those 144 000 for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened then if any man

937
00:53:03,120 --> 00:53:09,120
shall shall say unto you lo here's christ or there believe it not for there shall rise false christ

938
00:53:09,170 --> 00:53:15,020
and false prophets shall uh show great signs and wonders insomuch if it were possible they shall

939
00:53:15,160 --> 00:53:22,620
deceive the very elect behold i told you before wherewith if they if they shall say unto you

940
00:53:22,600 --> 00:53:29,000
behold he is the he is in the desert go not forth behold he is a secret chambers believe it not

941
00:53:30,860 --> 00:53:37,980
so after jesus gives us this overview of tribulation now he's going to zero on the most obvious zero in

942
00:53:37,980 --> 00:53:42,640
on kind of the most obvious signs right yeah yeah he hits uh he hits uh really right at the very

943
00:53:42,860 --> 00:53:46,940
beginning he hits on what kicks off the great tribulation right yes because we we learn from

944
00:53:47,080 --> 00:53:51,280
daniel is two three and a half year periods right that's right first three and a half is the the

945
00:53:51,300 --> 00:53:56,860
mild part where only a quarter of the world dies that's right yeah yeah just a quarter just just

946
00:53:56,990 --> 00:54:02,740
just a quarter a couple of billion no problem yeah but the abomination of desolation is what sets it

947
00:54:02,780 --> 00:54:08,020
off and that's what we looked at last week yeah yeah where this antiochus epiphanies dude has

948
00:54:08,180 --> 00:54:11,320
already done this before so they know what he's talking about and that's why he says let the

949
00:54:11,390 --> 00:54:16,040
reader understand yeah that this has happened before and it's going to happen again amen and

950
00:54:16,040 --> 00:54:20,580
this is why there's got to be a temple that's right amen yeah third temple has got to be built

951
00:54:20,640 --> 00:54:29,020
That's right. Yeah. Yeah. This will take place when the Jewish worship will return to the temple and then the Antichrist will step in.

952
00:54:29,120 --> 00:54:31,900
He'll desecrate the temple and he'll worship himself.

953
00:54:32,700 --> 00:54:39,320
Daniel 12, 11. And from that time, the daily sacrifice will be taken away in the abomination that maketh desolate set up.

954
00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:42,900
And there shall be a thousand two hundred ninety days. How long is that?

955
00:54:43,080 --> 00:54:47,440
Three and a half years with a three hundred sixty day calendar prophetic year.

956
00:54:47,580 --> 00:54:48,500
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

957
00:54:48,900 --> 00:54:52,000
So he's going to do this by setting an image up of himself.

958
00:54:52,820 --> 00:55:06,120
Second Thessalonians 2, 4, who opposeth and exalteth himself above that is called God or that is worship so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

959
00:55:06,400 --> 00:55:12,180
And this links into what you were saying a minute ago about all these atheists that are going to come along.

960
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:18,060
And he's going to convince them that he is God, right?

961
00:55:18,320 --> 00:55:19,940
He's solving all the problems in the world.

962
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:22,320
And there's all kinds of stuff.

963
00:55:22,370 --> 00:55:23,940
We don't know what's going to happen here.

964
00:55:24,800 --> 00:55:27,920
But, you know, we'll get into Revelation 13 later.

965
00:55:28,180 --> 00:55:30,100
But there's some crazy stuff.

966
00:55:30,270 --> 00:55:34,360
And I think, honestly, I think this Mark of the Beast, somebody asked me about it yesterday.

967
00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:40,080
it and uh and i honestly believe this is going to be something biological yeah that that makes us

968
00:55:40,120 --> 00:55:45,180
less human somehow yeah you you look at all the stuff going on right now that the antichrist that

969
00:55:45,280 --> 00:55:51,980
this guy controlled all the world with with starlink with spacex with neural link stuff implanted into

970
00:55:51,980 --> 00:55:57,740
your brain yeah with them trying to make a unity between us and the internet right yeah all the

971
00:55:57,920 --> 00:56:03,900
brains connected together right just oh that's scary it is it is it's horrifying to think about it

972
00:56:04,859 --> 00:56:13,360
and you know again in Daniel 9 27 we see the abomination of desolation he also is that when

973
00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:17,660
when he comes on the scene the Antichrist he's gonna bring a lot of persecution great the great

974
00:56:17,860 --> 00:56:24,000
persecution on Israel and even he's gonna establish his own his own center of worship in Daniel 7 25

975
00:56:24,779 --> 00:56:30,160
he shall speak great words against the most high and shall wear out the saints of the most high

976
00:56:30,540 --> 00:56:33,000
and think to change times and laws

977
00:56:33,500 --> 00:56:34,940
that they be given unto his hand

978
00:56:35,160 --> 00:56:37,400
until a time and times and dividing of times.

979
00:56:37,640 --> 00:56:39,820
There's that three and a half years again, right?

980
00:56:41,060 --> 00:56:42,600
Second Thessalonians 2, 3, and 4,

981
00:56:42,660 --> 00:56:44,260
let a man deceive you by any means

982
00:56:44,270 --> 00:56:45,620
for that day shall not come

983
00:56:46,220 --> 00:56:48,220
except there come a falling away first

984
00:56:48,660 --> 00:56:50,040
and that man of sin be revealed,

985
00:56:50,180 --> 00:56:50,820
the son of perdition,

986
00:56:51,210 --> 00:56:52,860
who opposeth and exalteth himself

987
00:56:53,440 --> 00:56:55,060
above all that is called God

988
00:56:55,540 --> 00:56:56,500
and that is worshiped

989
00:56:57,260 --> 00:57:00,140
so that he as God sitteth of the temple

990
00:57:00,160 --> 00:57:01,520
God showing himself as God.

991
00:57:02,400 --> 00:57:08,020
So those who endure, this is speaking, I believe, of physical and spiritual, right?

992
00:57:08,520 --> 00:57:12,880
I mean, if you're going to endure physically, I think you're going to have to endure spiritually, too.

993
00:57:13,200 --> 00:57:14,620
I think you're going to have to believe.

994
00:57:14,670 --> 00:57:15,480
You're going to have to trust.

995
00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:21,620
The great thing about this time is that Christ loves us so much, the gospel is going to be preached all over the world.

996
00:57:22,220 --> 00:57:22,360
Yeah.

997
00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:23,300
All over the world.

998
00:57:24,800 --> 00:57:24,920
Yeah.

999
00:57:25,720 --> 00:57:31,640
After Jesus gives us over to an overview of that tribulation,

1000
00:57:32,090 --> 00:57:33,560
those are the things that are going to happen, man.

1001
00:57:34,380 --> 00:57:37,020
It's just rapid speed, rapid speed, rapid speed.

1002
00:57:37,240 --> 00:57:37,360
Amen.

1003
00:57:37,810 --> 00:57:38,520
And this comes back.

1004
00:57:38,580 --> 00:57:44,100
We'll see it in Revelation again where Satan is basically trying to duplicate the Trinity.

1005
00:57:44,480 --> 00:57:44,640
Yeah.

1006
00:57:45,060 --> 00:57:48,680
And this Antichrist character is going to be, as people are going to be saying,

1007
00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:49,700
behold, here's the Christ.

1008
00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:50,240
There he is.

1009
00:57:50,520 --> 00:57:50,680
Yeah.

1010
00:57:50,800 --> 00:57:52,200
You know, he's out in the wilderness.

1011
00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:53,460
No, he's in the inner room.

1012
00:57:54,600 --> 00:57:55,280
Don't believe him.

1013
00:57:55,400 --> 00:57:55,860
Jesus did.

1014
00:57:56,060 --> 00:57:56,580
Don't believe him.

1015
00:57:57,180 --> 00:57:57,420
Amen.

1016
00:57:57,820 --> 00:57:58,080
Amen.

1017
00:57:59,580 --> 00:58:02,680
But he does give us a huge amount of urgency here.

1018
00:58:02,860 --> 00:58:06,020
When you see that happen in a temple, run for the hills.

1019
00:58:06,240 --> 00:58:06,380
Yeah.

1020
00:58:06,720 --> 00:58:07,160
Run.

1021
00:58:07,600 --> 00:58:09,100
Don't go back and get your clothes.

1022
00:58:09,420 --> 00:58:10,960
Don't take any water or food.

1023
00:58:11,160 --> 00:58:11,820
Just run.

1024
00:58:11,960 --> 00:58:12,160
Yeah.

1025
00:58:12,500 --> 00:58:12,600
Amen.

1026
00:58:12,760 --> 00:58:14,140
Because it's about to get ugly.

1027
00:58:14,260 --> 00:58:14,940
It's about to get bad.

1028
00:58:15,080 --> 00:58:16,000
It's about to get bad.

1029
00:58:16,340 --> 00:58:16,420
Yeah.

1030
00:58:16,520 --> 00:58:21,400
And I want you to see here, too, that I've got off my notes a little bit,

1031
00:58:21,440 --> 00:58:23,300
but I want you to see something, too,

1032
00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:24,920
that when we talk about,

1033
00:58:26,280 --> 00:58:27,140
when we talk about,

1034
00:58:27,340 --> 00:58:29,120
he starts describing all these things

1035
00:58:29,320 --> 00:58:30,920
that let them which are in Judea

1036
00:58:30,940 --> 00:58:31,660
flee to the mountains

1037
00:58:32,060 --> 00:58:33,800
and ones on the housetop come down

1038
00:58:33,880 --> 00:58:35,120
and not take anything out of his house

1039
00:58:35,380 --> 00:58:37,020
and woe unto them that are with child

1040
00:58:37,220 --> 00:58:37,800
that give suck

1041
00:58:37,940 --> 00:58:40,260
and all these different things.

1042
00:58:40,700 --> 00:58:43,220
And he's saying, look,

1043
00:58:43,380 --> 00:58:44,940
you don't want to live during this time.

1044
00:58:45,560 --> 00:58:47,180
You know, you don't want to have children

1045
00:58:47,340 --> 00:58:47,860
during this time.

1046
00:58:47,940 --> 00:58:49,740
You don't want to live during this time.

1047
00:58:50,320 --> 00:58:51,900
You better hold on to what you got.

1048
00:58:52,140 --> 00:58:52,280
Right.

1049
00:58:52,540 --> 00:58:57,000
Yeah, and you better know now that Jesus is Lord and Savior.

1050
00:58:57,320 --> 00:58:57,540
Amen.

1051
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:01,040
Do we want to stop that?

1052
00:59:01,120 --> 00:59:08,640
And I started saying we probably need to, at the very least, end on 2427 there, just to cap that out.

1053
00:59:09,680 --> 00:59:14,220
You know, we're talking about, you know, saying, you know, go, go, go, be ready.

1054
00:59:15,140 --> 00:59:17,260
Don't be looking when people say, there he comes, there he comes.

1055
00:59:17,400 --> 00:59:24,140
Because 2427 says, for just like the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so the coming of the Son of Man will be.

1056
00:59:24,580 --> 00:59:24,760
Yeah.

1057
00:59:24,890 --> 00:59:35,860
You know, again, that's not a thing to say that he hasn't given us what we need to know, but the exact timing, you know, and by the way, thunder precedes a lot.

1058
00:59:36,040 --> 00:59:38,680
You hear thunder after it starts lightning a little bit.

1059
00:59:39,060 --> 00:59:39,160
Yeah.

1060
00:59:39,300 --> 00:59:41,400
The lightning itself comes without much fanfare, though.

1061
00:59:41,610 --> 00:59:41,740
Yeah.

1062
00:59:41,780 --> 00:59:42,220
Boom.

1063
00:59:42,410 --> 00:59:42,780
It happens.

1064
00:59:43,100 --> 00:59:43,260
Yeah.

1065
00:59:43,380 --> 00:59:43,480
Yeah.

1066
00:59:43,680 --> 00:59:43,860
Yeah.

1067
00:59:44,080 --> 00:59:47,480
But I tell you, too, you know, it's just like everybody's going to see this.

1068
00:59:47,690 --> 00:59:47,820
Yeah.

1069
00:59:48,299 --> 00:59:49,060
Everybody's going to see this.

1070
00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:50,920
You know, the rapture, who knows?

1071
00:59:51,020 --> 00:59:54,580
We might just disappear and not be any crazy things in the sky.

1072
00:59:55,040 --> 00:59:59,860
But with this, our minds can't imagine what this might look like.

1073
01:00:00,040 --> 01:00:00,120
Right.

1074
01:00:00,220 --> 01:00:02,960
It's not going to take place in the sky directly over Jerusalem.

1075
01:00:03,070 --> 01:00:05,220
I think it'll take place in the sky all around the world.

1076
01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:05,900
It's a globe.

1077
01:00:06,460 --> 01:00:06,540
Yeah.

1078
01:00:06,800 --> 01:00:09,020
That everybody in the world is going to see this thing.

1079
01:00:09,160 --> 01:00:09,380
Yeah.

1080
01:00:09,550 --> 01:00:12,200
I mean, we go down all the way to verse 31 there.

1081
01:00:12,280 --> 01:00:16,240
And if we just want to cap this, I mean, you're going to see a glorious display.

1082
01:00:16,680 --> 01:00:20,400
I mean, this will be greater than any fireworks we've ever seen.

1083
01:00:20,920 --> 01:00:22,680
Christ will come in power and glory.

1084
01:00:24,500 --> 01:00:29,240
The tribes of the earth are going to mourn because they know that judgment is coming here.

1085
01:00:30,100 --> 01:00:32,020
There will be a gathering of his elect.

1086
01:00:32,180 --> 01:00:36,740
And this will be all those who have trusted Christ and not face martyrdom.

1087
01:00:36,920 --> 01:00:38,280
You know, they're still left here.

1088
01:00:39,660 --> 01:00:50,800
And then when you get to verse 32, Jesus begins to apply all these lessons that they've been learning in Matthew 21, 18 through 20, and all these things up through here.

1089
01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:54,860
All these things he has been talking about must come to pass, right?

1090
01:00:55,980 --> 01:01:01,260
They had not come to pass then, and they have not come to pass today, but this is a future event.

1091
01:01:01,480 --> 01:01:03,520
This is a future event that's going to happen.

1092
01:01:04,280 --> 01:01:13,780
The generation he's speaking of is not the generation he's talking to because they already had a kingdom taken away from them in Matthew chapter 21 and verse 43.

1093
01:01:14,700 --> 01:01:16,360
So we've got to think about that.

1094
01:01:19,660 --> 01:01:22,880
We'll stop right there because I do want to cover a few more things.

1095
01:01:22,920 --> 01:01:27,240
I don't want to make Matthew last forever, but there's a few more things I'd like to see there.

1096
01:01:27,240 --> 01:01:28,280
And then in Matthew 25.

1097
01:01:28,700 --> 01:01:29,020
So anyway.

1098
01:01:29,760 --> 01:01:30,300
Yeah, absolutely.

1099
01:01:32,160 --> 01:01:33,120
Well, it has.

1100
01:01:33,360 --> 01:01:35,980
Oh, man, it's goodness.

1101
01:01:37,460 --> 01:01:38,080
Yeah, he is.

1102
01:01:38,280 --> 01:01:38,920
He's coming back.

1103
01:01:39,220 --> 01:01:39,800
He's coming back.

1104
01:01:40,040 --> 01:01:40,820
He's coming back.

1105
01:01:41,120 --> 01:01:48,380
And what is going to look like after he raptures us out and when he comes back that last time to put an end to all of this?

1106
01:01:49,460 --> 01:01:50,120
I mean, it is.

1107
01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:53,840
It's going to be something that he will be seen arriving in the clouds.

1108
01:01:54,120 --> 01:01:57,740
And there's not going to be doubt in anybody's mind what's happening right there.

1109
01:01:57,980 --> 01:01:58,120
Yeah.

1110
01:01:58,400 --> 01:02:00,420
And we know that the armies are going to come against him anyway.

1111
01:02:00,820 --> 01:02:03,940
They're going to stand up and they're going to try to fight because they're desperate.

1112
01:02:04,400 --> 01:02:06,960
At that point, let's be very, very honest here.

1113
01:02:07,080 --> 01:02:10,740
You know, they are desperate for it not to be true.

1114
01:02:11,160 --> 01:02:11,260
Yeah.

1115
01:02:11,600 --> 01:02:14,020
Because they know they you you.

1116
01:02:16,700 --> 01:02:24,260
I fully, firmly, 100 percent believe that at that last battle, at that last moment, it is purely people going.

1117
01:02:25,160 --> 01:02:25,880
I was wrong.

1118
01:02:27,020 --> 01:02:27,940
I know what's coming.

1119
01:02:28,880 --> 01:02:31,000
And by golly, I'm going down kicking and screaming.

1120
01:02:31,780 --> 01:02:33,080
And that's all it is.

1121
01:02:33,500 --> 01:02:42,320
And it is the last death throes of an evil, evil, wicked world and the leader of that world.

1122
01:02:42,820 --> 01:02:44,060
And it's going to be bad.

1123
01:02:44,360 --> 01:02:47,100
But, hey, we're going to be coming with him wearing white.

1124
01:02:47,380 --> 01:02:47,800
That's right.

1125
01:02:48,200 --> 01:02:48,300
Yeah.

1126
01:02:48,800 --> 01:02:48,920
Amen.

1127
01:02:50,680 --> 01:02:53,560
There's just so much in Revelation that I can't wait to get to.

1128
01:02:54,260 --> 01:02:56,080
And I just want to jump ahead.

1129
01:02:56,680 --> 01:02:59,300
I got off my notes trying to jump ahead just now, but anyway.

1130
01:02:59,520 --> 01:03:00,900
Well, it's hard not to.

1131
01:03:01,320 --> 01:03:02,040
It's hard not to.

1132
01:03:02,140 --> 01:03:02,300
Yeah.

1133
01:03:02,700 --> 01:03:06,720
So join us next week, and we will continue going with Book of Revelation.

1134
01:03:06,920 --> 01:03:12,620
I believe we will probably be taking more Matthew 24 and 25.

1135
01:03:13,620 --> 01:03:14,980
Yeah, we'll be doing some more there.

1136
01:03:15,260 --> 01:03:19,860
And then we may end up taking a break or so sometime before Christmas.

1137
01:03:19,980 --> 01:03:20,520
We'll see.

1138
01:03:21,080 --> 01:03:28,140
And then hopefully when we get into December and stuff, we can plan out another nice little Christmas sing-along thing with the choir and everybody.

1139
01:03:28,520 --> 01:03:28,600
Yeah.

1140
01:03:30,020 --> 01:03:33,300
And this year they won't be caught off guard by the fact they're going to be on camera.

1141
01:03:34,780 --> 01:03:34,860
Yeah.

1142
01:03:35,200 --> 01:03:36,680
It messed all up last night.

1143
01:03:36,770 --> 01:03:36,920
Yeah.

1144
01:03:36,920 --> 01:03:38,500
They were really tore up about that.

1145
01:03:38,740 --> 01:03:38,800
Yeah.

1146
01:03:42,180 --> 01:03:45,700
So we will – looking forward to seeing everybody next week.

1147
01:03:45,770 --> 01:03:49,600
And, Brother Brian, if you'll pray and dismiss us, and we will be ready to go.

1148
01:03:49,860 --> 01:03:50,760
Lord, we thank you.

1149
01:03:51,040 --> 01:03:52,500
Thank you for your word.

1150
01:03:52,680 --> 01:03:53,060
Thank you.

1151
01:03:53,320 --> 01:03:54,780
It's so alive.

1152
01:03:55,620 --> 01:03:57,800
It just speaks to us.

1153
01:03:57,860 --> 01:03:58,960
It speaks to our hearts.

1154
01:03:59,100 --> 01:04:03,940
God, thank you for letting us be a part of this day and this time.

1155
01:04:04,780 --> 01:04:05,800
God, I'm not.

1156
01:04:07,740 --> 01:04:14,380
I know people say they wish they had walked with you in times past when you were here on this earth.

1157
01:04:14,420 --> 01:04:22,260
And God, we're walking with you closer than we ever have before, than any disciple could have during that time before the Holy Spirit came.

1158
01:04:22,440 --> 01:04:24,240
God, you're living inside of us.

1159
01:04:24,290 --> 01:04:26,180
And what a great time we live in.

1160
01:04:26,280 --> 01:04:27,780
What a great time to evangelize.

1161
01:04:27,900 --> 01:04:33,100
What a great time to study your word and your prophecies and all that you've given us.

1162
01:04:33,110 --> 01:04:40,360
What a great time to evangelize and tell people about Jesus that died on the cross and rose again on the third day.

1163
01:04:40,560 --> 01:04:42,200
And tell them about the empty tomb.

1164
01:04:42,340 --> 01:04:48,540
And God, I'm excited about who you are and all that you've given us and all that you're preparing for us.

1165
01:04:48,940 --> 01:04:53,800
Lord, let us be excited about that every day of our lives and let us tell the world about Jesus.

1166
01:04:54,040 --> 01:04:54,480
We thank you.

1167
01:04:54,530 --> 01:04:55,140
We love you.

1168
01:04:55,450 --> 01:04:56,940
And we praise you in Jesus name.

1169
01:04:57,310 --> 01:04:57,440
Amen.

1170
01:04:57,660 --> 01:04:57,840
Amen.