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Doug Batchelor: The Great Basin
bristlecone pine is one of the
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longest living
organisms on earth.
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Doug: Incredibly, it can
live more than 4,000 years.
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In fact, one specimen called
the Methuselah tree in the white
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mountains of California is
believed to be over 4,700 years
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old, and it's among the oldest
living trees on the planet.
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This tree was around when
the Egyptians were building
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the pyramids.
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Some of these ancient evergreens
found on lonely mountain tops
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have weathered thousands of
years of intense freezing wind,
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pounding rain, scorching sun,
and violent electrical storms.
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How have they managed to survive
for millennia of such harsh
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weather and adverse conditions?
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They do it by sending their
roots deep and wrapping them
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tenaciously around the
solid rock and hanging on.
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You know, friends, Jesus
tells us that there's a time of
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tribulation coming
just before His return.
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An intense, frightful storm
of trouble unlike anything we've
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ever seen.
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Is your life anchored on
the solid rock of Christ?
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Let's explore together from the
Bible just what will happen in
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the last days.
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Doug: You know, one of the
reasons that World War II was
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won by the Allies was because
of a major deception that took
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place about how they
were coming to Normandy.
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The English managed to capture
one of the enigma machines that
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the Germans used to communicate,
and so they already knew
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something about their plans.
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And then they began to send
false messages to lead them to
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believe that they were going to
do the landing up north, when,
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in reality, it was Normandy.
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And so what they did, they had
these plywood phony ships they
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put in the water, and they had
inflatable tanks in tents with
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nobody in it because, you know,
back then the airplanes didn't
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have the same kind of
photography that we have now.
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The German spy planes would fly
high over and saw the great, big
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phony army.
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And Hitler was convinced that
they were going to be landing at
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a different location, and
they directed all of their
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forces there.
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And because they didn't know how
they were coming, when the war
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began, they were successful.
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Well, you can spin that around.
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It's very important for us to
understand not only that Jesus
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is coming but something
about how He's coming or we can
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be deceived.
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Now, this whole series is based
on Revelation 14, but I want you
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to look especially right now at
Revelation 14, verses 14 and 15.
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"Then I looked, and behold,
a white cloud, and on the cloud
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sat One like unto the Son of
Man, having on His head a golden
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crown, and in His
hand a sharp sickle.
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And another angel came out of
the temple, crying with a loud
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voice to Him who sat on the
cloud, 'Thrust in Your sickle,
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reap, for the time has come for
You to reap, for the harvest of
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the earth is ripe.'"
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He's coming to reap the earth.
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He's coming in
the clouds of heaven.
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Now, what do they call Him?
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Son of Man.
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Who is that?
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That was one of the most
famous terms that Jesus used
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for Himself.
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Who would like to guess
how many names Jesus goes by
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in Revelation?
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Someone did a count, and I
think it's pretty accurate.
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Thirty-seven different
titles for Christ in the book
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of Revelation.
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He's called the first begotten
of the dead, the Prince of the
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kings of the earth, the
faithful Witness, the Amen.
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I mean, He's got so many titles
that tell different facets of
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His character.
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And you ever notice when
they introduce royalty, they got
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these long titles?
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Well, Jesus is the King of
kings, and He's got many titles
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that describe His territory and
His character, and He is coming
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as the conquering King, the
rightful owner of this world
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that He's redeemed.
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Amen?
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Now, you can read in Acts 1:11,
knowing something about how
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He came.
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"Men of Galilee," the angel
said when Jesus ascended up
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into heaven.
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"Why do you stand
here gazing up into heaven?
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This same JESUS,"
who is the Son of Man?
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Jesus, "who was taken
up from you into heaven,
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will so come in like
manner as you saw Him
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go into heaven."
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They what?
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They saw Him go.
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Will we see Him come?
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So the Bible says there in Acts
chapter 1, the angel said He's
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coming the same way He left.
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How did He leave?
Left in the clouds.
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How's He coming?
Coming in the clouds.
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Was He real when He left?
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Yeah, He said, "Touch me.
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Feel me. I'm not a ghost."
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He ate in front of him.
He'll be real when He comes.
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Did they see Him leave?
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Will we see Him come?
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Then will the
Rapture be a secret?
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See, the word "rapture,"
and we--I think most of us all
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believe that we'll be caught up.
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The question is, are
people caught up separately and
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secretly while
the world goes on?
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And that's what
many people believe.
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Let's find out what the
Bible teaches on this, okay?
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Question number two: Will Jesus
come quietly when He returns?
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Let's first just establish that.
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When the Lord
comes back, is it quiet?
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Is it secret?
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Let's see what the Bible says.
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You'll believe the
Bible, right, friends?
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"For the Lord Himself
will descend from heaven with
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a SHOUT, with the voice of
the archangel, and the TRUMPET
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of God."
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You know, I
think it's interesting.
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There's a story in the Old
Testament, one of my favorite.
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It's in Joshua chapter 2.
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It's the story
of Rahab the harlot,
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who's mentioned three
times in the New Testament.
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And it tells us that
Joshua was coming to Jericho.
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He's entering the Promised Land.
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They're claiming
the Promised Land.
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Do you know how to
say "Jesus" in Hebrew?
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Joshua. Yeshua.
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Same name. Yeshua.
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And they blew seven trumpets.
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Are there seven
trumpets in Revelation?
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And the men shouted,
and they blew the trumpet,
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and the walls fell.
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Was that a
notable, visible event?
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And Rahab and everybody
in her house was saved.
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God's going to save His church;
everyone else was destroyed.
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There's a judgment.
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It's a little picture--
miniature Old Testament picture
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of what's coming in the
future, and you see that?
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All right.
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The Bible says in Jeremiah
25:30, "The Lord will," do what?
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That's not a very good roar.
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"The Lord's going to roar from
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on high, and utter His voice
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from His holy habitation; He
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will roar," there it is again,
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"mightily against His fold.
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He will give a shout, for those
who tread on the grapes," and by
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the way, this is Old Testament.
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Jeremiah, grapes.
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Do you remember Revelation?
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It talks about the winepress
press of God's wrath that we
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read about.
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It's a parallel verse.
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Did I tell you there are
404 verses in Revelation, 278 of
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them can be found almost
verbatim in the Old Testament?
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If you want to understand
Revelation, you need to know the
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Old Testament because there's
a lot of parallels there.
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"The Second Coming is going to
be like a thief only because it
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will sneak up on
those that are not ready."
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The Bible says in Revelation
chapter 16:15, "Behold, I am
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coming as a thief."
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People say, "See?
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He's going to
snatch away the church."
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But you need to
read the whole thing.
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When Jesus comes like a thief to
rapture the saints, and I agree.
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He's coming like a
thief to rapture them up.
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But is it before or
after the tribulation?
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Let's read the whole verse.
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Second Peter
chapter 3, verse 10.
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Write that down.
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I think it's in your lesson.
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"The day of the Lord will come
as a thief in the night, in the
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which the
heavens will pass away."
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What happens in the day
when he comes like a thief?
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"The heavens will pass away with
a great noise, and the elements
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will melt with fervent heat, and
the earth and the works that are
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in it will be burned up."
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Does life go on for seven
more years when Jesus comes
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like a thief?
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No, clearly not.
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What other physical
events accompany Jesus's return?
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I'm going to have to move
along quickly here, so you stay
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with me.
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"There were noises and," what?
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"THUNDERINGS, lightnings;
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and there was a great,"
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and this is Revelation 16:18.
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"There's a great EARTHQUAKE,
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such a mighty and a great
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earthquake as had not
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occurred on the earth--
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since men are on the earth."
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It is--you're
talking about the big one.
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That's the big
one, when Jesus comes.
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Who will see
Jesus when He comes?
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Is it a secret?
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The Bible says, "Then shall the
sign of the Son of Man appear in
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heaven, and then," how many?
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"ALL the tribes of the earth
will mourn, and they will see
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the Son of Man coming
in the clouds of heaven."
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"They will see Him coming."
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What does it say?
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"They will see Him coming."
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Who?
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"ALL, with power
and great glory."
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And He sends forth His angels to
gather together His elect from
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the four corners of the earth,
meaning north, south, east,
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and west.
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Everyone a lot--now someone's
going to ask the question,
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"Pastor Doug,
the world is round.
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How can everybody in the world
see Him come at the same time?"
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Doesn't say "at the same time."
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The day He comes, He's going to
sweep around the world, the dead
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will be raised and they're
caught up to meet the Lord, and
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the righteous are raptured up to
meet the Lord, and He takes them
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back to glory.
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But everyone's going to see Him
that day when he comes, right?
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You know, in the next 24 hours,
the whole world is going to see
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the sun up in
the heavens, right?
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This is--that
shouldn't confuse you.
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Who will be with Jesus
when He returns in the clouds?
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I should really
emphasize "how many?"
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"When the Son of Man comes in
His glory, and all of the holy
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ANGELS with Him, then He'll
sit on the throne of His glory."
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First Thessalonians 3:13,
"At the coming of the Lord Jesus
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with all of His saints."
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Don't miss that. "All."
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It says He's revealed from
heaven with His mighty angels,
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coming in the
glory of the Father.
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"When He," Jesus, "opened the
seventh seal, there's silence in
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heaven for half an hour."
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Now, that's Revelation 8:1.
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What does that mean?
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This explains it: if Jesus comes
in the glory of the Father with
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all the angels, would it--who'd
be making any noise in heaven?
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Who'd be singing in heaven?
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Why is there silence in heaven?
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Now, it says "for about
the space of half an hour."
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In prophetic
terminology, a day is a year.
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We'll get to this
later, but we'll show you.
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And so, when you break it down,
a half an hour prophetically is
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about seven days.
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So the time that Jesus takes
to come and to rapture up the
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church and take them on a parade
through glory and bring them
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back to heaven, there's silence
in heaven for seven days because
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there's no one there.
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Christ and all the angels have
come like a victorious parade to
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rescue His redeemed.
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That's why
there's silence in heaven.
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What will happen to the
righteous at Christ's return?
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"The Lord Himself will descend
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from heaven with a shout,
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with the voice of the archangel,
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with the trumpet of God.
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And the dead in Christ
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will RISE first."
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You know, there's two
resurrections, Jesus said.
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There's a resurrection of
the just and the resurrection of
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the unjust.
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There's the first resurrection.
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It says in Revelation 20, "The
rest of the dead do not come
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forth until the
thousand years are finished."
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That's your second resurrection.
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The dead in Christ rise first,
and we are caught up to meet Him
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in the air.
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And so, you've got a
resurrection happening.
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"Then we who are alive and
remain," by the way, this is
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1 Thessalonians 4.
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You can read 16 on
through the end of the chapter.
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"We shall be," what?
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"CAUGHT UP together
with them in the clouds."
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We go up together with them
to meet the Lord in the air.
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This is the Rapture.
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The Rapture means
to be carried away.
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Thus, we shall
always be with the Lord.
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Can you say amen?
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He's going to come
send His angels together.
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How's it going to happen?
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First Corinthians 15:52, "In
a moment, in the twinkling of an
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eye, at the last trumpet.
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For the trumpet will sound,
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and the dead will be raised
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incorruptible, and we
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will be CHANGED."
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So when the Lord comes, you
know, some of us here, you may
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not need to die.
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And I know years ago,
I thought, "Oh, I'm in.
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The Lord's going to
come before I get old."
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But a day with the Lord is like
a thousand years I've learned.
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But I think we're living in that
generation where if God doesn't
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come soon, there
won't be much left.
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And it's exciting to think--I'd
like to live and remain and be
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translated, be transformed
without ever tasting death.
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And all of a sudden, you go from
this body, and proof, you get
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a glorified,
immortal, perfect body
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caught up to meet
the Lord in the air.
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How wonderful will that be?
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"And He'll send His angels with
the sound of a great trumpet,
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and they will gather together
His elect from the four winds of
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the--from four winds, from
one end of heaven to the other."
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So as He sweeps around
the world, the graves of the
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righteous are opened,
and they are resurrected with
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glorified bodies.
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And if they've died and they've,
you know, been cremated, He'll
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reassemble--whatever He has
to do, and they're going to be
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caught up to
meet Him in the air.
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So, considering what we've just
looked at--and we've just given
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you a few scriptures.
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We'd be here all night if I
gave you all the scriptures.
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Have we learned that the
coming of Jesus is literal?
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Personal?
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It says that He
Himself is coming.
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Visible?
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Is it audible?
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Trumpet, a roar, shout.
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Is it vitalizing?
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A resurrection.
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Is it glorious?
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All the angels like lightning.
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It's climatic.
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Does it sound
like a secret to you?
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No.
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What solemn warning did Jesus
give about His Second Coming?
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Now, this is why
this is so important.
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"For many will come in My name,
saying, 'I am the Christ,' and
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will DECEIVE many."
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Jesus said, Matthew 24, "FALSE
Christs and FALSE prophets will
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rise and show great signs
and wonders and DECEIVE, if
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possible, even the very elect."
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If the very elect God-saved
people are almost deceived, then
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how convincing
are the deceptions?
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That's why you've got to know
what's going to keep us from
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being deceived.
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You've got to know what
the Bible says, friends.
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Therefore, if they say He's
in the desert, do not go forth.
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If He's--boy, what a prime time
for Him to suddenly appear in
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Jerusalem right now on the
verge of a terrible conflict.
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Just before the Second Coming,
Satan, disguise as Jesus, and
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his demons will pour out a mass
deception on the world in their
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final attempt to confuse the
church and to deceive people.
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You don't have to be deceived.
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So how can I be sure that I'm
not deceived in the last days?
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The Bible says the
Bible is the answer.
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"To the law and
to the testimony!
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If they do not speak according
to this Word--" the Bible is
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called the law and the prophets.
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That's an Old Testament--they
called it--Jesus called it the
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law and the prophets.
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Sometimes he says "the law
and the prophets," and "Moses."
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Sometimes he says "Moses and
the prophets," but it's talking
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about the Word of God.
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What keeps us
from being deceived?
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How did Jesus
meet every temptation?
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The Bible.
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You need to know your
Bible because the devil reads
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the Bible.
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Amen.
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"To the law and the testimony!
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If they do not speak according
to this WORD, it is because
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there is no light in them."
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Christ says, "Look, I
have told you beforehand."
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He says, "I am warning you
in My Words so you will not
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be deceived."
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He wants us to
know what's coming.
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What can we know
about Jesus coming?
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And you notice what it says
about "when," not just "how,"
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but now we're talking a little
bit about when he's coming.
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Well, for one thing, you read in
Matthew 24, verse 33, "So also,
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when you see all
these things," what things?
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The signs that He gives.
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"Know that it is NEAR."
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Can we know when
his coming is near?
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"Even at the doors."
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But what do we need
to be careful to avoid?
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"But of that day and
that hour KNOWS no one."
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Nobody knows.
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"Not even the angels of
heaven, but My Father only."
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No one knows
the day or the hour.
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Setting dates is not God's will.
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But notice again, He says in
Luke 21, verse 28, similar to
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Matthew 24, "Now when these
things begin to happen, look up,
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lift up your heads, because
your redemption draws near."
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Can we tell when it is near?
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The Bible compares the signs of
Christ coming to a woman having
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a baby.
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It's birth pangs.
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And father of five children,
I know something about how that
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all works.
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And, you know, mama gets big,
and at first she starts having
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some contractions.
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It's just warm-up.
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Don't get excited.
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You know, usually first
time they run to the hospital
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every time and
doctor sends them home.
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They have these Braxton Hicks
contractions, and the body is
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just getting ready for liftoff.
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Doesn't mean anything.
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You might have weeks.
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And--but then, as the time
gets closer, you start noticing,
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"Ooh, another one.
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Ooh, another one."
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You call the doctor, you
know what he's going to say?
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"How far apart are they?
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Don't bother me.
I got to go golfing.
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You got plenty of
time, especially if it's the
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first one."
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But then, as--you
know what happens?
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As they increase in frequency
and intensity, you know soon
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you're going to have a baby.
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We've always had
wars and rumors of wars.
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There have been earthquakes.
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There's always been
problems in the world.
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But when you have world wars and
world pandemics and an increase
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in natural disasters, you're
seeing the birth pangs getting
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closer and closer together,
and studies support that.
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Let's look at what
some of those signs are.
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One of the signs you look, for
instance, in Daniel 12, verse 4.
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"But you, Daniel, shut up the
words, and seal the book until
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the time of the end; many will
run to and fro," the time of the
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end, what happens?
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"Knowledge will be increased."
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Now, has something happened
to human knowledge in the last
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hundred years?
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It is extraordinary.
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You realize for the first 6,000
years of human history, people
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got around on
foot or horses, right?
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If you wanted to telephone
somebody, you went over to
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their house.
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That's how we communicated.
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Number 10: will there be an
opportunity to repent during
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the Second Coming?
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No, it's like a sign out in
front of the Baptist church.
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It said, "Repent
now, and avoid the rush."
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Because the Bible tells us
in Revelation that when they see
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Jesus coming, all the
tribes of the earth will mourn.
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It'll be too late then.
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Someone was talking to a rabbi,
and they said, "When is the best
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time to repent?"
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The rabbi said, "The
last day of your life."
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And he said, "Well, what if I
don't know when the last day of
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my life is?"
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He said, "Exactly.
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Do it now."
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You know, whenever the Bible
calls a person, Jesus said,
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"Today, if you hear His voice."
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Now is the acceptable time.
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He says, "Come down
quickly," He said to Zacchaeus.
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He calls us to Him.
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There's an
urgency to come to Him.
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So there will be no
extra probationary time.
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The secret Rapture doctrine
teaches that after the church is
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raptured, that those who maybe
were not ready will then get
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another seven years.
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They'll have to go through the
Tribulation, but then they can
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maybe repent and be saved again.
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And then they've got the
righteous reigning over the
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wicked for a thousand
years, and that just seems
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really strange to me.
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Righteous with immortal,
glorified bodies reigning over
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the wicked that are dying?
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It's really bizarre.
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The Bible tells us that when we
enter that 1,000 years, there is
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no more sin and
suffering for God's people.
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So study this
prayerfully and carefully.
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I want you to be ready.
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What will happen to the
wicked when Christ returns?
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"That lawless one will be
revealed, whom the Lord will
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CONSUME with the breath of
His mouth and DESTROY with the
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brightness of His coming."
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When does the
Antichrist get destroyed?
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Brightness of His coming.
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He doesn't get 3 1/2
years to sit in the temple.
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The coming of the
Lord destroys him.
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Is that clear?
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You know, on a--if you take a
flashlight out into the woods at
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night and you turn over a log
and turn on the light, all the
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cockroaches sort of run from the
light, but the moths will come
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to the light.
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The coming of the Lord is going
to be kind of like that, and
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there's going to be the saved;
they're going to come to Christ,
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and then you're going to have
the lost that are going to run
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like cockroaches.
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So what do you want to be,
a butterfly or a cockroach?
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Ever think of it that way?
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Do you want to welcome His
coming, or are you going to run
00:21:39.13\00:21:41.43
from the
brilliance of His coming?
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"The rest were KILLED with the
sword which proceeded from the
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mouth of Him who sat on
the throne--on his horse."
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So, first of all, is Jesus going
to have a sword in His mouth
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when He comes?
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No, it's a symbol for
the Word of God in His mouth.
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They're slain.
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The Bible says they're
all judged by the Word.
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They've been warned.
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Number 12: what is the primary
purpose for the Second Coming?
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Why is Jesus coming?
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To get even with the wicked?
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No.
00:22:09.52\00:22:10.86
He said, "I go to
prepare a place for you.
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And if I go to prepare a place
for you, I will RECEIVE you to
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myself; that where I
am, you may be also."
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He wants us to be with
Him more than anything else.
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The whole purpose of the plan of
salvation--for the joy that was
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set before Him--He endured the
cross so you could be with Him.
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He desperately wants you to be
saved, and it breaks His heart
00:22:32.65\00:22:36.38
for those that don't get ready.
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Since we're living just before
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the Second Coming, how should we
00:22:40.49\00:22:43.06
relate to this glorious event?
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See if we can time things so we
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repent on the last day to get
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ready then, or does the Bible
00:22:49.46\00:22:51.03
say, "Therefore also be READY."
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When could you be
ready for the Second Coming?
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By the time we
have closing prayer.
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If you tell the Lord, you
here, you who are watching.
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If you tell the Lord and
say, "Lord, I want to be ready.
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I don't know how to do it, but
I believe that you're going to
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make it possible."
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And you give yourself to
Him, He will get you ready.
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Do you believe it, friends?
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Jesus is coming very soon in the
clouds, and he wants you to be
00:23:17.29\00:23:22.00
ready to meet Him.
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Interesting story from history.
00:23:24.00\00:23:25.87
I think many of us recall that
when Pearl Harbor happened and
00:23:25.90\00:23:30.67
when second World War began,
America entered the war, we had
00:23:30.71\00:23:34.44
a lot of troops that were
stationed in the Philippines,
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and they just were not
prepared for this attack.
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And thousands of troops, British
and English, were trapped
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in Corregidor.
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Roosevelt told MacArthur, "You
need to get out while you can.
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You're one of the
most important generals."
00:23:51.59\00:23:54.20
He managed to barely escape,
and before he left, he said,
00:23:54.23\00:23:57.77
literally, "I shall come again."
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A lot of those troops, they
fought to the bitter end, and it
00:24:02.17\00:24:04.51
was the biggest surrender in
American history aside from the
00:24:04.54\00:24:07.98
Civil War.
00:24:08.01\00:24:09.84
Two more years went by and there
was a lot of fighting, and true
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to his word, MacArthur then
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with 270,000 soldiers fighting,
and they took it back, and they
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liberated the
troops that survived.
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If he would keep that promise
and say, "I will come again.
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I haven't forgotten about you."
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Would Jesus leave when He
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Do you believe Him?
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"Let not your heart be
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believe in Me.
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In My Father's
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I will come again."
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Do you want to be ready?
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Doug: Friend, God came to earth
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His name was Jesus.
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to show us how to live, and
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