Participants: Steve Wohlberg
Series Code: 12ASIC
Program Code: 12ASIC000007
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00:20 Our speaker for this session is Pastor Steve Wohlberg.
00:24 He is the speaker director for White Hors Media 00:28 and Pastor Steve has just an incredible ministry. 00:32 He's been involved in as a TV producer, 00:36 as a radio host and he's actually been a guest 00:39 on more than 500 different radio and TV programs. 00:44 He's been by special invitation a speaker 00:47 at the Pentagon and the US Senate. 00:50 And I am just really looking forward to hearing 00:52 what he has to say. 00:53 I asked Pastor Steve, "How things were going 00:56 with White Horse Media" and he said, 00:59 "The Lord is really blessing." 01:01 In fact he shared a little story 01:04 that I just have to squeeze it in a couple seconds. 01:06 He said that someone called him, the media recently and said, 01:12 "We've been looking for a program 01:15 to put on our coast to coast live TV station, 01:20 a program on Bible prophecy." 01:23 They did an internet search and they found 01:26 White Horse Media's website. 01:29 I believe the angels helped them to do that 01:32 and they gave them the call just out of the blue. 01:35 They talked to Pastor Steve and they said, 01:38 "Would you be interested in taking a prime time slot 01:40 for the next year?" 01:42 And of course they said yes. 01:44 And a friend of the ministry said, 01:49 I am going to sell my condo to help cover the cost 01:51 and they covered the cost. 01:53 And now from cost to coast on prime time live TV 02:00 we are going to be able to hear Bible prophecy 02:03 shared by Pastor Steve Wohlberg, 02:05 a program called "His Voice Today." 02:09 God is amazing, isn't He? 02:11 How He works, praise the Lord. 02:13 So let us prepare our hearts and minds to receive 02:17 the message that God has for us this morning. 02:35 Oh, to see the dawn 02:40 of the darkest day 02:44 Christ on the road 02:47 to Calvary 02:52 Tried by sinful men 02:56 Torn and beaten, then 03:01 Nailed to a cross of wood 03:07 This, the power 03:11 of the cross 03:15 Christ became 03:19 sin for us 03:23 Took the blame, 03:27 bore the wrath 03:29 We stand forgiven 03:32 at the cross 03:44 Oh, to see the pain 03:48 written on Your face 03:51 Bearing the awesome 03:55 weight of sin 03:59 Every bitter thought 04:03 Every evil deed 04:06 Crowning Your bloodstained brow 04:13 This, the power 04:16 of the cross 04:20 Christ became sin for us 04:27 Took the blame, 04:31 bore the wrath 04:33 We stand forgiven 04:36 at the cross 04:53 Now the daylight flees 04:57 Now the ground beneath 05:01 Quakes as its Maker 05:05 bows His head 05:09 Curtain torn in two 05:13 Dead are raised to life 05:17 Finished the victory cry 05:23 This, the power 05:27 of the cross 05:30 Christ became 05:34 sin for us 05:37 Took the blame, 05:41 bore the wrath 05:43 We stand forgiven 05:46 at the cross 05:56 Oh, to see my name 06:00 Written in the wounds 06:03 For through Your suffering 06:06 I am made free 06:10 Death is crushed to death 06:14 Life is mine to live 06:17 Won through Your selfless love 06:23 This, the power 06:27 of the cross 06:30 Son of God 06:34 slain for us 06:37 What a love, 06:41 what a cost 06:43 We stand forgiven 06:46 at the cross 07:01 Thank you very much. 07:03 I appreciate that song. 07:06 Good morning everyone. 07:07 Good morning. God is so good 07:09 and I am so thrilled to be here. 07:10 I have had a dream for a long time to share 07:14 what I am going to share with this group this morning. 07:17 And today, my dream has come true. 07:19 So if you have a Bible, 07:21 I invite you to open up to the Book of Revelation 18. 07:26 I will confess I had a cold for three or four days 07:29 and so my voice is not strong 07:33 as it often is but I read a promise 07:37 just about 20 minutes ago that God's powers made perfect 07:40 in weakness and I love that promise. 07:44 So let's bow our heads and let's just pray. 07:46 Let's pray. 07:48 Dear Father in heaven, 07:50 God, thank you so much for this group 07:52 and for Your power and especially above all things 07:58 for Jesus Christ and for the cross. 08:00 And we pray that as we get into 08:02 this topic of the message of the righteousness 08:04 of Jesus Christ during earth's last crisis 08:08 that the Holy Spirit will be here mightily. 08:11 Please Father, work through me 08:13 and speak to all of our hearts and to people around the world, 08:16 in Jesus name we pray, amen. 08:20 All right, well I got a lot to share in a short time 08:23 so I am going to get right in. 08:25 is one of my favorite verses 08:30 in the Bible in the Book of Revelation. 08:31 It's a-- it's a dream, it's a vision of what God 08:35 wants to do through His people and what He will do, 08:39 someday soon around the world. 08:41 Verse 1, "And after these things 08:43 I saw another angel come down from heaven, 08:47 having great power; and the earth 08:49 was lightened with his glory." 08:54 Don't you want to see that happen, 08:56 the earth being lightened with God's glory? 08:57 I will tell you a little story, about five years ago, 09:00 my family was living 09:01 in Auberry California, north of Fresno. 09:05 And my son was about three years old 09:08 and we were up in our house looking out 09:10 through the living room window out into the distance, 09:12 we were living up in the hills 09:13 and we saw it was about 8:30 at night, 09:16 it was dark but we saw on the horizon lightening flashing, 09:20 a storm was approaching and we just sat there 09:23 in the living room watching the lightening 09:24 getting closer and closer and closer and finally wham, 09:28 a big bolt hit our-- hit the area 09:31 at least it hit the power somewhere 09:32 and we were in pitch black, 09:35 pitch darkness and my little boy, 09:37 he was quite frightened, 09:38 so we all got together on our couch, 09:41 we grabbed our flash lights and little Seth, 09:43 he was three years old and he said daddy 09:45 we need to pray, we need to pray, 09:47 so we knelt down and he prayed this prayer, 09:51 little three year old prayer, he said, it was very short, 09:53 he said dear Jesus, he said, 09:55 please turn the lights on, that was his prayer. 09:58 Dear, Jesus, please turn the lights on. 10:01 And then I would still remember he opened his eyes 10:03 and it was still dark and he looked at me 10:05 and he said daddy, it's still dark. 10:08 And I said, I said Seth, 10:09 just give the Lord a little time to answer your prayer. 10:12 Well, on that night we all slept in our bed in the bedroom, 10:16 three of us and we were there and we went to sleep 10:20 and at about 1 o'clock in the morning, 10:22 I could hear the heater upon the roof kick in, 10:25 so I knew the power was back on. 10:26 And at about 6 o'clock, Seth gets out 10:29 of bed and he's feeling around in the bedroom 10:31 and he whispers to me. 10:32 He says daddy, he said I want to play with my toys, 10:35 where is the flash light and I knew 10:38 that the heater was off, that the electricity was on 10:40 so I said to him, I just whispered and I said, 10:42 Seth, just go, just go flick on the light, 10:44 flick on the switch and so he got out of bed went around, 10:48 he flicked the switch and the light went on 10:50 in the bed room and I looked at him and he looked at me 10:52 and his mouth just dropped open and he said daddy, 10:55 wow he said Jesus answered my prayer. 11:00 The lights are on and that just little scene 11:03 just impressed me so much and I've shared this many times 11:07 as I think about that little family experience, 11:09 I think about the darkness of this world, 11:12 I think about the storm that is on the horizon. 11:15 I think about the pitch blackness 11:18 that is all around us morally, I think about Revelation 18:1 11:23 that says an angel is gonna come down from heaven 11:25 and lighten the earth with its glory 11:27 and I strongly believe that one of these days coast to coast 11:31 people are gonna be saying wow, 11:33 we have never seen light like that, 11:36 power like that and that's what we need. 11:38 That's the power that we need 11:39 and that's what Revelation 18:1 says. 11:42 "After these things I saw another angel come down 11:44 from heaven and he had great power; 11:47 and the earth was lightened with his glory." 11:50 Back up a couple of pages to Chapter 14 Revelation 14, 11:53 if you've studied Revelation carefully 11:57 which I know many of you have. 12:00 You know that the angel that comes down in Revelation 18:1 12:05 is often referred to as the fourth angel. 12:08 And he comes down to basically join 12:11 the Three Angels' Messages especially 12:14 the Third Angel's Message during the time of earth's last crises. 12:19 And that's what the Three Angels' Messages 12:21 are all about, pointing us to a final period. 12:24 warns about the beast. 12:28 It warns about the image of the beast. 12:31 Verse 9 and 10 warns about the Mark of the Beast 12:35 and then verse 12 talks about the people 12:38 who don't get the mark and who are ready 12:40 for the second coming. 12:42 Revelation 14:12, let's read it- let's read it together 14: 12, 12:46 the Bible says, "Here is the patience of the saints, 12:50 here are they that keep the commandments of God, 12:55 and the faith of Jesus." 12:57 Right, I strongly believe that just like John 3:16 13:02 is the most famous verse in the Bible. 13:06 I believe that this verse is soon going to become 13:10 the most quoted verse all over the planet. 13:14 14:12, people are gonna be saying this first on the radio, 13:18 on television, it's gonna be quoted on the internet, 13:21 it's gonna be all over the planet. 13:23 People are gonna be hearing it, 13:24 they are gonna be reading it on their cell phones, 13:27 on their apps, on their Bible programs. 13:30 Here is the patience of the saints, 13:32 here are they that keep the commandments of God 13:36 and the faith of Jesus during the final crises. 13:40 Now what I'm gonna share with you right now as we get in, 13:43 I'm going to try in a very simple way 13:46 to show you how during the final crisis, 13:50 the verse that you just read Revelation 14:12 13:54 is going to have a pulsating heart and that heart 13:57 is going to be the message 13:59 of the Jesus Christ, our righteousness. 14:02 And I'm gonna make that plain to you. 14:04 I have got a quotation here, it's on a little brochure 14:06 that we have at our booth, 14:08 this is from an inspired pen in believe, 14:12 volume six of the Testimonies, page 19. 14:15 It's right on the cover of our little brochure here. 14:18 This is what it says, in the days ahead 14:21 the law of God is to be magnified. 14:25 Its claims must be presented in their true and sacred character 14:33 that the people maybe brought to decide for or against the truth. 14:39 Yet the work will be cut short in righteousness. 14:41 Now listen to this. 14:43 The message of Christ's righteousness is to sound 14:47 from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth 14:51 to prepare the way of the Lord. 14:55 This is the glory of God which closes 14:59 the work of the Third Angels' Message. 15:03 Does that speak to your heart, 15:05 it speaks to my heart, that one of these days 15:08 the message of Christ's righteousness 15:10 is to sound and that paragraph is really a comment 15:14 upon this verse, verse 12. 15:16 "Here is the patience of the saints, 15:18 here are they that keep the commandments of God, 15:20 and the faith of Jesus." 15:21 Now let me explain this to you. 15:23 I want to take your mind back 15:26 to a fateful day September 11 2001. 15:31 I think we all remember that day. 15:34 It's over ten years ago, when the twin towers 15:38 came down in New York City. 15:40 There was a lot of different ideas, 15:42 speculation, opinions, interpretations 15:45 about the significance of 911. 15:49 Well, I'm gonna share with you my take 15:51 on what I see as the biggest significance of that day 15:55 and of that week and some very, very powerful lessons 15:59 that we can learn today. 16:01 Here's a quiz question for you. 16:02 I often do this in front of my audiences. 16:04 How many of you remember 16:05 what day of the week September 11 fell on? 16:11 Okay Tuesday, that's right, 16:12 it was Tuesday morning, that's correct. 16:16 Tuesday morning the crisis hit. 16:18 Tuesday morning the stock market plummeted. 16:20 Tuesday morning fear rippled out across the world 16:24 because people were very concerned 16:26 that what happens to the financial center 16:28 of the most powerful nation upon the earth 16:32 could affect the global economy. 16:35 And so it was a big day. 16:36 I remember thinking of myself, 16:38 when I watched on live television, 16:40 the first tower go down and the second tower go down, 16:42 I thought to myself, wow this is definitely 16:44 an apocalyptic moment. 16:47 So that was on Tuesday, three days later was what day? 16:52 Three days later was Friday. 16:53 Now I don't know if any of you watched on television 16:56 but that Friday in inside the national cathedral 17:01 in Washington D.C., there was a major, 17:04 you could call it a church service, 17:05 a gathering, a prayer service that took place 17:09 in the national cathedral, it was televised live. 17:12 There were every living president was there, 17:16 senators, congressmen, politicians, religious leaders 17:19 from around the world on the platform 17:21 was Billy Graham representing the Protestant world. 17:25 There was a Rabbi representing Judaism. 17:27 There was an Imam representing Islam. 17:29 There was-- I don't know where the Pope was 17:31 but there was a catholic cardinal 17:32 representing the Roman Catholic religion 17:34 and there were and all of these different leaders 17:36 addressed the crowd and basically 17:38 what they said was we need to pray, 17:41 we need to come together and pray for unity 17:43 and pray that God will do something to help America 17:47 and the world in this crisis. 17:48 How many of you watch that church service? 17:51 Okay, quite a few of you did. 17:53 Well, I watched that with great interest 17:56 and I'm certainly in favor of prayer, 17:58 people need to pray during crisis. 18:00 But as I watched that I thought to myself, 18:02 okay this is very significant. 18:04 Tuesday, the crisis hit and now Friday three days later 18:09 is a very strong movement for unity. 18:11 Now, two days later would be what day? 18:15 Two days later was a Sunday. 18:18 Can any of you think of anything significant? 18:22 Highly significant that happened on the Sunday 18:25 following the Tuesday when the towers came down. 18:30 Okay, I heard somebody say it, don't miss this. 18:33 Church attendance in America and around the world 18:38 went through the roof. 18:41 People there were more people in church, 18:43 the Sunday following September 11 18:46 that had been to church in a long, long time. 18:50 And it wasn't just in America, it was in Australia, 18:53 it was in Europe, because people knew, 18:56 people sensed something big is going on that could affect 19:00 the global economy and people were quite frightened. 19:04 So I looked at that and I watched 19:06 this with great interest, I'm a student of the Bible, 19:09 I'm looking at events taking place in the world 19:11 and I saw something that to me was just as clear 19:15 as a bell and that was this. 19:18 There was a crisis on Tuesday that was followed by a movement 19:22 toward unity on Friday and that was followed by Sunday church 19:26 attendance going through the roof around the world. 19:29 And I thought about that and the words just kept ringing 19:31 in my ears crisis, unity, Sunday, crisis, unity, Sunday. 19:39 To me that's very significant. 19:41 Whenever a major crisis hits, 19:44 the result is people are going to-- 19:46 they would be going to church. 19:47 You heard the expression there is no atheist in foxholes. 19:50 Have you heard that expression? 19:52 Well, the same thing happened during the week of 911. 19:55 Now it's no secret, to a lot of people in the world, 19:58 even secular people and especially those of us 20:01 that are studying our Bibles 20:03 that we're on the edge of a much bigger crisis 20:07 than what happened during the week of September 11? 20:11 Isn't that right? 20:12 The Book of Daniel tells us in Chapter 12 verse 1, 20:15 that sometime in the future there will be a time of trouble 20:19 such as never was, never was 20:24 ever since there's been a nation. 20:26 There are many verses in Mathew 24 and Luke 21, 20:30 lots of verses that tell us that we're on the edge 20:33 of an overwhelming crisis and it's gonna be much bigger 20:37 than the one that happened during the week of 911. 20:42 We know that those of us who are studying 20:43 our Bibles we know that. 20:45 Now what is going to be the spark 20:47 of that final global crisis 20:51 that has been predicted in Bible prophecy, 20:54 I don't know, I'm not a prophet? 20:57 It could be a series of disasters, 20:59 of natural disasters, it could be 21:01 a gigantic solar storm, people are talking a lot about 21:04 the power of the sun and these storms 21:06 that could knock out the power grid, I'm not sure. 21:09 It could be an economic melt down, 21:11 the collapse of the dollar, I don't know-- 21:14 things are I do know the things 21:15 are being held together by a thread. 21:17 How God is holding this world together is amazing. 21:21 How He can do it? It could be a well placed terrorist attack 21:28 on the computer system, the computer grid, 21:31 I just don't know, but I do know that it's coming. 21:36 And I also know that September 11 21:38 hit on a clear blue sky, out of a clear blue sky, 21:41 people just weren't expecting this and all of a sudden wham, 21:43 there it was, we woke up the next day or that day 21:45 and all of a sudden we were in the midst of this 21:47 and something similar is gonna happen at the end. 21:50 The final end, when the final crisis hits. 21:53 And I do know that just like what happened 21:56 during the week of September 11, the same dynamics 22:00 are gonna be at work. 22:02 there is no question about it. 22:04 And to me that's the big significance 22:05 of what happened on September 11 22:07 that we're gonna see once again, 22:08 that was just like a little window. 22:11 It was an example of what's coming in the future, 22:15 that we'll see again crisis followed by unity 22:19 or a move toward unity and that will be followed 22:22 by Sunday attendance around the world. 22:25 It's just-- it's not a mystery. 22:28 It's a no-brainer. 22:30 It's easy to figure out. 22:32 It's easy to look at that and realize 22:34 that that's going to happen. 22:36 Now, if we get into another crisis a big crisis, 22:39 a final crisis that hits this world really hard. 22:44 During the week of September 11 22:45 the market went down, they stop trading, 22:47 but as time went on the trading continued 22:50 and the market came back, right. 22:52 We got out of that crisis, didn't we? 22:54 But what happens if another crisis hits 22:57 and we don't get out of it. 22:59 What happens if things get, 23:01 things start to spiral out of control 23:04 and the crisis gets deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper 23:07 and there just seems to be no way out. 23:13 What's gonna happen then, 23:15 when that time comes, which it will? 23:18 What will happen then I can-- 23:20 I don't know how much money you have, 23:22 it's a phrase, you can bet your bottom dollar, 23:24 you may not have very, many dollars, 23:27 but if you did have you get my point, 23:30 you can bet your bottom dollar that this is what will happen. 23:34 That if we don't get out of this crisis, 23:37 that eventually Sunday attendance 23:40 which we'll see again is going to shift. 23:43 It's gonna shift in the crisis, 23:45 it's gonna shift in the midst of an hour of desperation. 23:50 And it's going to shift to Sunday legislation. 23:55 There are Sunday laws that are on the books now, 23:58 if you do your homework in history, 24:00 Sunday legislation has taken place in Europe, 24:02 it's taken place in England, 24:04 it's taken place in colonial America. 24:06 There was strict blue laws 24:08 during the time of the early colonies 24:10 and there is a movement today. 24:12 I think about the European Sunday Alliance 24:15 I think about the efforts of Pope Benedict 16th. 24:19 There are lot of people today that would like to see Sunday 24:24 once again become legislated by law. 24:28 And if we come into a final crisis, 24:31 that's what's going to happen. 24:34 We believe that's what Bible prophecy predicts 24:37 that that will happen 24:38 and it will happen as a result of people 24:41 trying to come to God in a crisis 24:46 and say Lord, you got to help us 24:48 because if You don't do something, 24:50 the planet is in peril. 24:52 We got to get out of this somehow 24:53 and only You can do it. 24:55 And so Sunday attendance will shift to Sunday legislation 25:00 and it will be done as an effort to try to bring America 25:03 and the world back to God in a time of crisis 25:05 and in emergency measure 25:07 when you're in a emergency force must be used 25:12 and at least that's what they think. 25:14 That's what's going to happen 25:15 and those that don't go along with it. 25:18 Those that don't flock to church on the first day of the week, 25:23 they're going to stick out like Shadrach, Meshach, 25:27 and Abednego on the plains of Babylon. 25:30 When everybody bow down 25:32 and they were bowing down 25:33 to the image of King Nebuchadnezzar, 25:35 there were three people that said, 25:37 our conscience tells us we can't do this. 25:40 Our conscience tells us we can't do this. 25:42 Now what I am sharing with you 25:45 maybe a new idea to many of you, 25:47 I'm not sure, I don't imagine that 25:49 all of you here are completely familiar with this scenario. 25:52 This maybe a new idea to you, 25:54 for those that watch this on television the same thing. 25:57 I'd like to share with you 25:59 what Seventh-day Adventist believe is on the horizon. 26:03 And I ask that you think about it, 26:06 ponder it, pray about it 26:08 and take a look at it from the Bible. 26:12 What's wrong with Sunday legislation anyway? 26:15 It happened in Europe, Constantine did it. 26:18 It's happen in British history, colonial American history. 26:22 It happened many times. 26:23 What's wrong with Sunday legislation? 26:25 If Sunday-- if people are going to church, 26:28 we're in a crisis they are praying 26:30 and the government says, you got to go to church, 26:32 we're in emergency. 26:33 Churches and governments unite around the world 26:35 in a time of crisis and so Sunday is enforced by law. 26:40 What's wrong with that? Isn't that a good thing? 26:43 There's two major things 26:44 that are wrong with Sunday legislation. 26:47 Number one is, it's the wrong day. 26:50 If you look at the Ten Commandments, 26:51 the big ten and if you go down one, two, three, four 26:54 and look at the Fourth Commandment. 26:55 The Fourth Commandment tells us 26:56 that what day is the Sabbath day. 26:59 It's the seventh day, 27:01 not the first day of the week. That's right. 27:03 And so first of all what's wrong with it 27:05 is it is the wrong day being enforced by law. 27:09 It's not the day of the Ten Commandments. 27:11 I think anybody with an open heart 27:13 looks at the law of God will recognize that. 27:15 Second problem with Sunday legislation 27:20 and somebody just tell me what it is? 27:22 It's pretty obvious for those of us 27:24 that at least thought about it. 27:27 Okay, that's right, that right, it's the use of force, 27:31 it's the use of force in religion. 27:34 Its government and churches 27:36 trying to force people to be religious 27:39 and to go to church. 27:40 Jesus Christ never used force to compel obedience. 27:46 He only used the power of love. 27:48 He doesn't do that. So that's it. 27:50 And when that time finally comes 27:52 and we're in a big crisis and there is unity 27:54 and there's Sunday attendance 27:56 and then Sunday legislation 27:58 and it's happening around the world 28:00 and there is a whole lot of us that have a problem with this 28:03 and think there's something wrong, 28:04 it's the wrong day, its forced 28:07 and especially if we know our Bibles, 28:09 if we know what Revelation 14 says. 28:12 We know what the Third Angel's Message says 28:14 that we're gonna be in the time of the final crisis 28:16 and we have a message to get to the world. 28:19 When that time comes 28:21 we need to be able to explain to our friends, 28:25 to our families, to our neighbors, 28:28 to reporters, to the media 28:31 what this crisis is all about, right. 28:34 We need to be able to explain what's going on. 28:40 I fully believe by the grace of God 28:42 that White Horse Media is going to be 28:45 operating at that time. 28:47 This is the goal of our ministry. 28:49 This is our dream 28:51 to be a part of God's last message to the world. 28:54 And I can guarantee you 28:56 that if we are a functioning organization 28:59 when the final crisis hits around the world, 29:02 we're gonna send out press releases 29:04 which we've been doing in the past. 29:06 We've learned how to engage the media, 29:08 I've learned how to get on television shows 29:11 and radio shows as a guest. 29:13 I don't know how many of you are local 29:14 but who have you have listened to Billy Cunningham 29:17 on the Big One 700-AM WLW? 29:20 How many of you are from Cincinnati 29:22 ever listened to Billy Cunningham, anybody? 29:24 You guys, you must all be from out of town. 29:27 Anybody that lives in Cincinnati 29:30 is well aware of the radio station WLW 700-AM, 29:35 it's the biggest one in Cincinnati. 29:37 And one of the biggest talk show host out there 29:39 is the man name Billy Cunningham. 29:41 He has recently gone with Fox News. 29:43 He has got a national television show as well. 29:46 I've been Billy's guest at least five times 29:49 discussing different things. 29:51 Just about a week ago 29:52 I was a guest on the Rob Pratte show. 29:55 The Weekend Magazine with Rob Pratte 29:56 it's a CBS affiliate KDKA station in Pittsburgh. 30:00 That's a large station on the east coast. 30:03 I've been on all kinds of shows, 30:04 hundreds and hundreds of shows. 30:06 And we talk about all kinds of media issues. 30:09 We talked about the Colorado murder massacre, 30:11 the massacre that was the last program 30:13 I was on with Rob Pratte. 30:16 And when the crisis hits, 30:18 we're gonna send out a press release 30:20 and try to engage the media. 30:22 I hope to get on Fox News, I'd like to have the producer 30:25 of the Bill O'Reilly show contact me and say, 30:27 Steve Wohlberg, Bill would like to interview you 30:30 about Sunday legislation 30:31 and your views of Bible prophecy. 30:34 I'd love to be on the No Spin Zone with Bill 30:37 and to discuss this. 30:39 Anyway when this time finally comes, 30:42 God is gonna have a people around the world 30:44 that are gonna be getting on the radio, 30:47 getting on television, talking to the reporters, 30:49 talking to the newspapers. 30:51 And they're gonna be explaining 30:53 what the Bible says about this final crisis. 30:57 Are you ready for that time? 30:59 Do you know what to say when the crisis hits? 31:04 Well, we're gonna open up our Bibles 31:05 and we all need to do this back to Revelation 14. 31:08 And we need to explain in a simple way. 31:10 Verse 9, who the beast is? We got to do it. 31:15 We're gonna say what the image of the beast is. 31:17 We're gonna talk about the Mark of the Beast. 31:20 We're gonna explain that in a simple way, 31:22 and then we're gonna go down to verse 12, 14:12 31:26 and we're going to say this verse. 31:28 And let's say it together. 31:30 "Here is the patience of the saints, 31:33 here are they that keep the commandments of God, 31:37 and the faith of Jesus." Right. 31:40 And that's the quote that I read earlier 31:43 from 6 volume of the Testimonies, page 19, 31:46 it says that the law of God is to be magnified. 31:50 Its claims must be presented 31:53 in their true and sacred character 31:56 that the people may be brought to decide 31:59 for or against the truth. 32:02 When the final crisis hits when we get on the radio 32:04 and television and we're interviewed by these people, 32:06 we need to open our Bibles, we need to read verse 12 32:09 that talks about those who keep the commandments of God. 32:12 Let's just say that again "keep the commandments of God." 32:16 Now then what we're gonna do is 32:17 we're gonna open up our Bibles to Exodus 20 32:19 and we're gonna go down through 32:20 the Ten Commandments one by one. 32:22 Ands this is what's gonna be happening all over the world. 32:26 People are gonna be opening their Bibles 32:28 and telling people, let's look at the law of God, 32:32 let's look at the big ten 32:35 that God wrote with His own finger on stone. 32:38 The first commandment 32:40 "You shall have no other gods before me. 32:43 That verse is gonna be shared around the world. 32:45 The second commandment "No idols." 32:48 The third commandment "Don't take God's name in vain." 32:51 The fourth commandment 32:52 "Remember don't forget the Seventh day, 32:54 the Sabbath and to keep it holy." 32:58 The fifth commandment "Honor your father and mother." 33:01 Number sixth "Don't murder." 33:03 Number seventh "Don't commit adultery." 33:06 Number eight "Don't steal." 33:08 Number nine "Don't lie." Number ten "Don't covet." 33:12 And I strongly believe that 33:14 when that time finally comes the crisis hits, 33:16 God's gonna have people around the world 33:18 that are directing people to His law. 33:21 When that time finally comes, 33:23 it will not be a time for a marshmallow Christianity, 33:27 it will not be a time for fluff, 33:29 it will not be a time for side issues, 33:31 it will not be a time for all kinds 33:33 of different interpretations about strange things 33:38 that are blowing around the world. 33:41 It's gonna be a time when the fourth angel comes down 33:45 from heaven uniting with the third angel 33:47 to direct people all over the planet 33:50 to the holiness of the big ten, 33:54 the Ten Commandments. Not the ten suggestions 33:57 but the Ten Commandments 33:58 that Got wrote with His own finger on stone. 34:01 That are summarized into two big commandments 34:04 to love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength 34:07 and your neighbor as yourself. And I want to be a part of that. 34:12 And I'm deeply convicted 34:14 that God can't use me to lift up His law 34:17 to magnify His law if I'm breaking His law on myself. 34:21 The only way God can use me to really communicate 34:25 the importance of the Ten Commandments 34:28 is if I am a commandment keeper. 34:30 And so that's what's gonna be happening, 34:32 we're gonna be lifting up the law around the world. 34:34 Now follow this thought, don't miss this point. 34:38 When we are in the midst of the final crisis 34:40 which we will be soon 34:43 and the Mark of the Beast is enforced by law 34:45 around the world which will happen. 34:48 And God has a people 34:50 that are lifting up the Ten Commandments 34:53 and showing people number one, 34:55 number two, number three, number four, 34:58 all ten of them, especially the fourth one. 35:02 And the Holy Spirit is speaking with great power 35:07 and people's eyes are being open 35:08 and they are going wow, I've never seen that before. 35:11 And the finger that wrote the law 35:14 is speaking to people's hearts. 35:16 Commandment by commandments saying this is my law, 35:19 this is nonnegotiable. 35:21 God wrote it with His own finger on stone. 35:27 When that time comes 35:29 and the world at least those that are open are convicted 35:33 that they've broken the Ten Commandments. 35:39 Then what, then what happens? 35:43 Here's a few Bible verses. 35:45 1 John 3:4 says 35:47 "Sin is breaking the law." We know that. 35:49 Romans 3:23 says 35:51 "All have sin and come short of the glory of God." 35:54 Roman 6:23 says "The wages of sin is death." 35:58 Roman 3:19-20 says 36:00 "The whole world will become guilty before God." 36:07 14:12 says "Here are they that keep." 36:11 Here's a very important point, don't miss this point. 36:15 Before anyone becomes a commandment keeper, 36:21 they first must realize that they are what? 36:25 They are commandment breakers. That's right. 36:26 And if God has people around the world 36:28 that are lifting up His law and showing people 36:30 that they've broken all the different commandments 36:32 and the fourth commandment is being broken 36:33 and the Holy Spirit is speaking with power 36:35 to human hearts, impressing people. 36:40 People realize that they are guilty, 36:41 that they are sinners, that they've broken God's law, 36:44 His moral law, then what? Then what? 36:50 Do we just tell people do I go to Bill O'Reilly 36:53 or Billy Cunningham and say Billy or Bill or Rob 36:58 or whatever show I'm on. 37:01 Really the Fourth Commandment points to the seventh day, 37:03 not the first day of the week and if you'll just shift days 37:06 from the first day of the week to the seventh day, 37:09 everything is fine. 37:11 You'll go to heaven that way. 37:14 Is that what we're supposed to say during the final crisis? 37:17 No. Don't miss this. 37:20 When the law of God is lifted up as this quote says magnified 37:25 and its claims are presented 37:27 in their true and sacred character 37:29 that the people maybe brought to decide 37:31 for or against the truth. 37:33 When that time comes all around the world 37:35 and the Spirit of God is trying 37:37 to convict people one last time. 37:43 And the world feels its need at least those that are open 37:48 that they are guilty of breaking the law of God. 37:52 Don't miss this. 37:54 That moment is going to become heaven's finest hour. 38:00 That moment is going to be the moment 38:02 when the greatest light 38:04 that has ever burst upon this world 38:07 is gonna flash from sea to sea, 38:09 from shore to shore all around the world. 38:12 It is in the midst of that final crisis hour 38:16 that God's people 38:18 through the power of the Holy Spirit 38:20 are going to lift up, lift up 38:23 higher and higher and higher. 38:26 One man and all eyes are going to be directed 38:31 to one man, to one man 38:35 and its not gonna be Steve Wohlberg. 38:37 I'm not trying to offend anybody 38:39 but it's not gonna be Doug Batchelor, 38:40 its not gonna be Mark Finley, 38:41 its not gonna be anyone of those that the Lord is using. 38:46 Its not gonna be you, its not gonna be Danny 38:49 or Jim or any of us 38:52 because as Danny Shelton so often correctly says 38:55 "it's not about us." Right? 38:59 Its not about me who's it about? 39:02 It's about Jesus. That's right. 39:04 And in the final crisis, listen to what she says. 39:08 The same quote after the law of God is magnified it says 39:12 "The message of Christ's righteousness 39:15 is to sound from one end of the earth to the other 39:19 to prepare the way of the Lord. 39:22 This is the glory of God 39:24 which closes the work of the Third Angel." 39:30 When the Ten Commandments are lifted up 39:32 and people realize that they are sinners 39:34 which is the first half of verse 12 39:36 the commandments of God, then the next half of verse 12 39:40 is gonna be lifted up higher 39:41 and higher and higher and higher. 39:43 And people are gonna look at Jesus 39:45 and they're gonna be told, 39:46 John 3:16 "That God so loved the world, 39:50 that he gave his only begotten Son." 39:52 The 2000 years ago, a baby was born in Bethlehem, 39:55 2000 years ago He came down, 39:58 the One whose finger wrote the law came down 40:02 and became a baby and became a man. 40:05 And during 33 years of living 40:09 walking the dusty roads of Galilee, 40:13 the shores of Judea. 40:15 For 33 years, a man name Jesus Christ, a God man 40:21 kept every single one of those commandments perfectly. 40:25 He kept the Sabbath. 40:26 says 40:27 "He went into the synagogue 40:29 on the Sabbath day stood up to read." 40:31 He kept the Fifth Commandment. 40:32 Honor your father and mother 40:33 when He was subject to Joseph and Mary in Luke 2. 40:36 When He resisted the devil in the wilderness. 40:38 And said, it is written, 40:41 worship the Lord your God and serve Him only. 40:43 He kept the first commandment and put His Father first. 40:46 When He said, I tell you the truth. 40:48 He never lied, He kept the Ninth Commandment. 40:51 He didn't bear false witness. 40:53 Jesus Christ kept every single one 40:55 of the Ten Commandments perfectly, 40:58 from birth to grave. 41:00 And who did He do it for? 41:03 He did it for you and for me, that's right. 41:05 Now Jeremiah 23:5, 6 says 41:08 That Jesus is gonna have a special name. 41:10 And the name is the Lord our righteousness. 41:14 If you read your Bibles, you'll discover Romans 9:31, 41:17 Romans 8:4 that God's law, 41:20 His Ten Commandments is the law of righteousness. 41:22 It tells us what's right and what's wrong, 41:24 it tells us, it's wrong to lie, it's wrong to steal, 41:26 it's wrong to commit adultery. 41:28 It's wrong not to honor our parents. 41:30 It's wrong not to keep the Sabbath. 41:32 It's wrong to bow down to idols. 41:33 God has a law, 41:34 He has the standard of right and wrong, 41:36 its nonnegotiable, 41:37 it doesn't change no matter what the world says, 41:41 God's big ten stand today. 41:43 It's a law of righteousness showing us 41:45 what's right and what's wrong. 41:48 And the good news is that Jesus Christ came down 41:51 here as a man and He kept 41:53 every single one of those commandments. 41:54 He loved His Father with all His heart, 41:56 soul, mind, and strength. 41:57 He loved His neighbor as Himself. 41:59 He kept the law of God perfectly 42:01 and He earned the right 42:02 to become the Lord, our righteousness. 42:06 And then at the end of 33 years of holy living 42:10 in the Garden of Gethsemane, 42:14 He suffered and He agonized and He drank a cup. 42:17 I don't have time to develop this right now 42:19 but the Third Angels' message says 42:20 that those that get the Mark of the Beast 42:22 will eventually drink the wine of the wrath of God 42:25 which is poured out into a cup. 42:27 That's what Revelation 14:10 says in your Bible. 42:31 And I am deeply convicted 42:33 that in the Garden of Gethsemane, 42:35 Jesus Christ drank that cup. 42:38 He trembled with that cup. 42:40 The destiny of the human race trembled in that trying hour. 42:44 And Jesus drank that cup 42:45 and He said, "Father if you're willing, 42:47 take this cup from Me. 42:50 Nevertheless not my will but Your will be done." 42:52 He took our justice, so He could give us His mercy. 42:57 He took the wrath of the Third Angel's Message. 42:59 The just wrath of God. 43:02 He took it in His on mind and in His own heart. 43:05 He loves us more than we'll know. 43:07 And during the final crisis, 43:09 we lift up the Ten Commandments 43:11 and then we lift up Jesus. 43:12 He is on righteousness. 43:14 At the end of His life, 43:15 He took, He gathered to Himself 43:17 the sins of the whole world. 43:19 All the commandment breaking that you've ever done, 43:22 that I've ever done, that every religion has done 43:25 whether its Catholic, or Baptist, or Wiccan 43:28 or Muslim, or Jewish, 43:31 whatever it is, all the Ten Commandments 43:34 that have been broken all over the world, 43:36 all the sin was gathered and placed in the mind 43:39 and in the heart of Jesus Christ. 43:42 And He paid, He suffered, and He agonized, 43:45 and He drank that cup in Gethsemane on the cross 43:49 and He died-- He died for you 43:52 and for me and for the whole world. 43:54 And during the final crisis that needs to be that cry, 43:58 the loud cry needs to be lifted up. 44:02 Jesus needs to be lifted up higher and higher and higher. 44:06 The finger that wrote the law was on a hand 44:09 that was nailed to a cross. 44:14 Two mountains, Mount Sinai where He gave His law. 44:18 Mount Calvary where He paid the price. 44:22 The heart of the Third Angel's Message, 44:24 the Commandments of God, 44:25 the faith of Jesus, the law, the gospel, 44:28 these truths come together in the final crisis. 44:32 The laws lifted up, and the cross is lifted up, 44:35 and Jesus Christ is lifted up. 44:36 He is my righteousness, He is my Savior, 44:40 He loves me, He suffered for me, 44:42 He took all my sins, He died for me, 44:45 and He rose from the death. 44:47 And He offers me and He offers you 44:50 a pure white robe of perfect righteousness 44:53 to cover all of our sins. 44:55 And that message must be preached 44:58 during the final crisis with tremendous power. 45:02 With latter rain, Holy Ghost power 45:04 like we've never seen because that's it. 45:08 I mean, that's the bottom-line. 45:10 People have broken God's law 45:12 and they need a Savior, they need Jesus. 45:14 This is not a side message, this is not a rabbit trail, 45:16 this is not a one of the devil's diversions. 45:20 It's the final message of God to the world 45:22 as described in the Bible, it's the Third Angel's Message. 45:26 It's right there in scripture and those that hear the message 45:30 during that final time, 45:31 they will have to make a final choice. 45:34 And they'll have to respond, they'll know they're guilty, 45:37 they've broken the law, 45:38 there is a law enforcing the wrong day, 45:41 now they see the right law, they see the right day, 45:44 and they see the right man, 45:45 the right savior who is their righteousness, 45:48 who loves them, who paid the price, 45:50 whose arms are open, 45:51 and who says come to me right now. 45:54 This is your last chance, 45:56 this is your last chance, this is it. 45:59 And those that make the right choice 46:01 and yield to Jesus as their Savior, 46:03 trust Him as their righteousness, 46:06 they will be forgiven, they will be clothed 46:08 with the white robe, they'll have the Holy Spirit 46:11 coming into their hearts with power 46:13 and He will write that law in their hearts. 46:14 The finger that wrote the law was nailed to a cross 46:17 and then that same finger will write the law 46:18 in their hearts and in their minds. 46:21 And then by the grace of God, 46:23 they will then become commandment keepers 46:25 like this verse says. 46:26 "Here are they that keep. 46:27 First they know they have broken 46:29 and then they know they need Jesus and then they become those 46:32 that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus 46:35 through the power of the Holy Spirit." 46:38 Commandment keepers will be born during that final crisis. 46:44 And I want to be one of those people. 46:46 I want to be a commandment keeper. 46:49 Don't you? I'll tell you a quick story. 46:54 Actually let me show you that. 46:56 Most of you know that a few months 46:57 from now a very fateful day is coming December 21, 2012. 47:02 I've written the book about this 2012 the end of the world. 47:05 If you happen to watch this program on television 47:07 after that date is passed, then you'll have to find another book 47:10 to share as a missionary book. 47:12 But I've written a little book on this, 47:13 we got that at our booth. 47:15 And it talks about December 21, 47:17 the day when the Mayan calendar comes to an end 47:18 and all the speculation about this and it's got 47:22 the Third Angel's Message right in 47:23 and it's got the Ten Commandments in it, 47:24 and it's got Jesus in it, the gospel in it, 47:26 His law, and His love is in it. 47:29 And anyway I bring out in my book 47:32 and I've done this on the radio many times 47:33 and I'll do it again as we get closer to December 21. 47:37 That I personally believe that December 21, 2012 47:41 is going to be a very significant day. 47:44 Something big is going to happen on that day. 47:48 And you're wondering what are you talking about. 47:51 Well, I tell you, December 21, 2012 47:54 my little girl, her name is Abby. 47:57 Abigail Rose Wohlberg, she will turn five on that day. 48:03 December 21, 2012 is her birthday. 48:09 To me that's the only significance of the day. 48:13 Anyway last December right around December 21 48:17 we had a birthday for Abby and when she turned four, 48:20 we had some church friends in our home, 48:22 grandma and grandpa were there 48:23 and Abby had little stack of presents. 48:26 And grandma and grandpa had bought her this big present, 48:30 it was gigantic bigger than my daughter. 48:33 And it was a dollhouse. 48:35 And I'll confess you that I do play with dolls sometimes. 48:39 When my little girl grabs my hand 48:40 and says daddy will you play with me in my dollhouse. 48:43 She is hard to resist. 48:44 Well, she didn't know she had a dollhouse in this big box. 48:49 So we all got around and time came open the presents 48:52 and she pulled out and she pulled off the wrapper 48:54 and she looked and she saw this big image 48:57 of a gigantic dollhouse in this box 48:59 and she was so shocked to see this. 49:02 And she looked at it and she looked at grandma and grandpa 49:06 and this is what she said, it was so mooting to me. 49:09 She looked at them and she said, she said, 49:12 grandpa is this really for me? 49:17 Is this really for me? 49:20 And of course they looked at her and said, 49:21 yes honey, this is all for you. 49:24 This is all for you. 49:25 Well, I want to tell you and we need to be saying 49:27 this with the loud voice all around the world 49:31 especially during the final crisis. 49:33 That 2000 years ago God came down and became a man 49:39 was that all for you? It was. 49:43 2000 years ago for 33 years Jesus Christ 49:48 kept the Ten Commandments perfectly with love 49:50 in His heart, unselfish love to become the Lord, 49:54 our righteousness, your righteousness 49:57 and mine because we haven't done it. 50:00 Did He do that all just for you? 50:05 At the end of His life in Gethsemane, 50:07 He wrestled, Father, if it's possible 50:11 take this cup from me. 50:13 But it wasn't possible if we were to be saved. 50:17 So Jesus chose to drink that cup to take the justice 50:21 so we could receive His mercy. 50:25 Did He do all of that, was He separated 50:27 from His Father in Gethsemane and on the cross all for you? 50:34 Yes. And then He finally stretched out 50:37 His arms and He said, "It is finished." 50:41 And He died. 50:45 Was that all for you? Yes, it was. 50:47 And then He rose from the dead, He rose from the dead. 50:50 It was all for you and it was all for me. 50:55 And that's what we need to preach. 50:57 The message of Christ, our righteousness 51:00 during earth's final crisis with a loud voice through the power 51:04 of the Holy Spirit so that this verse is fulfilled 51:08 and God has the people all around the world 51:11 who are among the saints, here are they that keep 51:15 because they love Him for what He has done for them. 51:19 Here are they that keep the commandments of God 51:22 and the faith of Jesus. 51:25 And when that people is fully formed 51:27 and everyone makes their choice, 51:29 then the door in heaven will close the plagues will fall, 51:33 those that make the right choice who are on Jesus' side 51:36 will be protected during the final crisis, 51:39 the final time of plagues and then the sky will crack open 51:44 and the Son of God will come down to get His people 51:48 who are His saints, who love Him, who want Him, 51:51 who have given Him their whole lives and say Lord, 51:53 get me out of here. 51:55 And it will be the greatest airlift 51:57 in the history of humanity. 51:59 And we'll be going up to glory, hallelujah, 52:02 and we won't have any more ASI Conventions. 52:06 May God hasten that day. 52:08 Let's bow our heads and let's pray. 52:12 Dear Father, Holy Father in heaven, 52:15 thank you for the message of the Third Angel, 52:18 the message of Jesus Christ and His righteousness. 52:22 How much Jesus loves us, how much He has done for us. 52:26 Oh, Lord, thank you so much. 52:27 Please be with all of us. 52:30 Write your law in our hearts. 52:32 Put your love inside of us and help us to love you, 52:35 to love our neighbor as ourselves, 52:37 to be commandment keepers in the midst of a lost world 52:40 so that light, that great light that people will go wow, 52:46 look at that light, I've never seen it like that before. 52:49 It will be shining around the world. 52:51 May we be a part of that, we pray in Jesus' name, amen. |
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