Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: AFP
Program Code: AFP000039
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00:01 THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE
00:03 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:08 >> COMING UP NEXT ON AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS: 00:11 >> BY THE WAY, AND DON'T EVER FORGET THIS, YOU AND THE LORD 00:15 ARE A MAJORITY. IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT 00:18 THE ENEMY HAS. AND WHEN YOU'RE TEMPTED, 00:19 REMEMBER, YOU AND JESUS ARE A MAJORITY. 00:27 >> FOR OVER 40 YEARS, AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED 00:30 TO SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 00:33 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR 00:35 BEST TELEVISION BROADCASTS. WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK 00:40 AND ENJOY THIS EDITION OF "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS." 00:46 TODAY'S PRESENTATION IS AN EXCERPT FROM 00:48 "THE MOST AMAZING PROPHECIES" VIDEO SERIES. 00:55 >> A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO WHEN ALEXANDER THE GREAT WAS GOING 00:59 FORWARD WITH HIS CONQUEST AND HE WAS MARCHING HIS ARMIES THE 01:04 THOUSANDS OF MILES THAT HE DID GOING THROUGH THE KHYBER PASS. 01:09 HE HAD REACHED A POINT IN HIS CONQUEST WHERE HE WAS 01:11 ESSENTIALLY MARCHING OFF THE MAP. 01:14 BECAUSE UP TO THAT TIME, THEY HAD NO CHARTS OR MAPS THAT 01:18 SHOWED THE LANDS THAT HE WAS ENTERING. 01:21 CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, WHEN HE WENT SAILING OUT INTO 01:24 THE ATLANTIC, WHEN IT GOT TO A CERTAIN POINT, IT WAS JUST 01:27 BLANK AND THEY HAD SEA MONSTERS THERE SAILING OFF THE MAP. 01:32 WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENING IN HISTORY NOW, THIS 01:35 GENERATION HAS ENTERED AN ERA WITH WHAT WE SEE HAPPENING 01:40 IN THE DIFFERENT FIELDS OF TECHNOLOGY AND WAR. 01:44 WE HAVE MARCHED OFF THE MAP. AND PEOPLE ARE WONDERING DOES 01:48 THIS MEAN THAT ARMAGEDDON IS AT OUR DOORS? 01:51 ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A QUOTE FROM 01:52 GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR. HE SAID, "IF WE DON'T FIND 01:55 SOME BETTER WAY TO RESOLVE OUR DISPUTES, ARMAGEDDON WILL BE 01:58 AT OUR DOORS." AND MANY PEOPLE HAVE ASSUMED 01:59 THAT MEANS ARMAGEDDON IS SOME TITANIC BATTLE. 02:03 NOW I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE YOU, IF YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLES, GO TO 02:07 YOUR BIBLES AND WE'RE GONNA BE READING FROM REVELATION 16. 02:11 "AND I SAW THREE UNCLEAN SPIRITS LIKE FROGS COMING OUT 02:15 OF THE MOUTH OF THE DRAGON, OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE BEAST, 02:18 AND OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE FALSE PROPHET. 02:21 FOR THEY ARE THE SPIRITS OF DEMONS, PERFORMING MIRACLES, 02:24 WHICH GO OUT TO THE KINGS OF THE EARTH AND THE WHOLE WORLD, 02:27 TO GATHER THEM TO THE BATTLE OF THE GREAT DAY OF GOD ALMIGHTY." 02:30 NOW NOTICE HERE THE MENTION OF THE BATTLE. 02:32 IT PAUSES AFTER IT SAYS THAT AND SAYS, 02:34 "BEHOLD, I'M COMING AS A THIEF. NOW WAIT A SECOND HERE. 02:39 I WANT YOU TO THINK. I'M GONNA READ ON IN A SECOND, 02:41 BUT I JUST WANT YOU TO THINK. MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT 02:44 THE PLAGUES HAPPEN AFTER THE RAPTURE. THEY BELIEVE THE BATTLE 02:49 OF ARMAGEDDON IS ONLY FOR THOSE WHO ARE LEFT BEHIND. 02:53 BUT HERE IT'S TELLING US THAT THE BATTLE HASN'T HAPPENED YET 02:56 AND JESUS HASN'T COME YET AND THIS IS AFTER THE SIXTH PLAGUE. 03:01 THAT OUGHT TO MAKE YOU SIT UP AND THINK. 03:03 WE'RE GONNA BE TALKING A LITTLE ABOUT THE SEQUENCE OF THE 03:06 BATTLE AND THE SECOND COMING IN OUR STUDY TONIGHT. 03:09 "BEHOLD, I COME AS A THIEF. BLESSED IS HE WHO WATCHES, 03:11 AND KEEPS HIS GARMENTS, LEST HE WALK NAKED 03:15 AND THEY SEE HIS SHAME." THEN IT RESUMES. 03:17 VERSE 16, "AND THEY GATHERED THEM TOGETHER TO A PLACE CALLED 03:22 IN THE HEBREW, ARMAGEDDON." NOW THAT WORD IS AN ENIGMA 03:27 FOR MANY BIBLE SCHOLARS. AND THERE'S ALMOST NO LIMIT 03:30 TO THE NUMBER OF INTERPRETATIONS OF WHAT THAT MIGHT MEAN. 03:33 AND I'M GONNA THROW MY HAT IN THE RING TONIGHT. 03:35 FIRST I'LL TELL YOU WHAT WE DO KNOW. 03:37 THE WORD "HAR," OR AR, MEANS HILL OR MOUNTAIN OF. 03:42 AND I BELIEVE THE WORD, "MEGIDDON," THERE COMES FROM 03:45 MEGIDDO OR VALLEY OF MEGIDDO. 03:49 SO WHAT IS THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON? 03:53 WELL, YOU KNOW OF COURSE THEY'VE PUT A MOVIE OUT CALLED, 03:56 "ARMAGEDDON" AND THEY SAY IT'S A METEOR OR AN ASTEROID OR SOME 04:00 COMET THAT'S GONNA STRIKE THE EARTH. 04:03 THEN OTHERS ARE SAYING ARMAGEDDON IS SOME PLAGUE 04:05 THAT'S GONNA SWEEP. IT'S THE AVIAN FLU. 04:08 THERE'S ALL THESE DIFFERENT IDEAS ABOUT WHAT THE BATTLE 04:11 OF ARMAGEDDON IS. IS IT GONNA BE AN ASTEROID 04:13 HITTING THE WATER CAUSING A TIDAL WAVE? 04:15 IS IT GONNA BE FROM STARVATION? WHAT IS ARMAGEDDON? 04:20 PEOPLE USE IT TO DESCRIBE SOMETHING THAT IS OMINOUS, 04:24 DESTRUCTIVE, APOCALYPTIC IN NATURE. 04:27 WELL, VERY QUICKLY I'LL TELL YOU WHAT I BELIEVE IT IS, AND 04:30 THEN I'M GONNA SHOW YOU FROM THE BIBLE. 04:32 ARMAGEDDON IS THE LAST BATTLE. NOTICE WHAT HAPPENS HERE. 04:36 WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT ARMAGEDDON, IT'S THE END OF 04:38 THE SIXTH PLAGUE. THE SEVENTH PLAGUE IS JESUS' COMING. 04:41 ARMAGEDDON IS HAPPENING IN THE MIDST OF THE SEVEN LAST PLAGUES. 04:46 IT'S THE FINAL BATTLE WHERE THOSE WHO WORSHIP THE BEAST 04:50 AND HIS IMAGE TRY TO EXTERMINATE THOSE WHO WORSHIP GOD. 04:53 THAT'S THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON. LET'S LOOK AT SOME VERSES. 04:56 REVELATION 12:17, "THE DRAGON WAS ENRAGED WITH THE WOMAN, 05:00 AND HE WENT TO MAKE WAR WITH THE REST OF HER OFFSPRING, WHO KEEP 05:04 THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS." 05:07 THE DRAGON MAKES WAR WITH GOD'S PEOPLE THAT OBEY HIM. 05:10 GO TO REVELATION 13:7. THIS IS THE CHAPTER THAT'S GOT 05:13 THE MARK OF THE BEAST IN IT. AND IT SAYS, "IT WAS GRANTED 05:16 UNTO HIM TO MAKE WAR WITH THE SAINTS." 05:20 THERE AGAIN, THE DEVIL MAKING WAR WITH THE SAINTS. 05:24 REVELATION 17:13-14, "THESE ARE OF ONE MIND, AND THEY WILL GIVE 05:30 THEIR POWER AND AUTHORITY TO THE BEAST. 05:33 AND THESE WILL MAKE WAR WITH THE LAMB." 05:36 SO WHO IS THE DRAGON MAKING WAR WITH? 05:39 THOSE WHO-THE SAINTS AND WITH THE LAMB. CHRIST AND HIS PEOPLE. 05:43 ISN'T THAT CLEAR? WE'RE NOT DONE YET. 05:45 REVELATION 19:19, "AND I SAW THE BEAST, THE KINGS OF THE 05:50 EARTH, AND THEIR ARMIES, GATHERED TOGETHER TO MAKE WAR 05:53 AGAINST HIM WHO SAT ON THE HORSE AND AGAINST HIS ARMY." 05:58 SO DO WE NEED TO GUESS WHAT THIS BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON IS? 06:01 IS IT NOT A POLITICAL BATTLE. JESUS SAID IN MATTHEW 24, 06:04 "THERE'S GONNA BE WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS." 06:06 HE SAID, "THAT'S NOT IT." 06:08 THERE HAVE BEEN WARS EVER SINCE THE TIME. 06:10 I READ SOMEWHERE THAT FROM 3,600 B.C. TO THE PRESENT, 06:17 THERE HAVE BEEN 214 YEARS OF PEACE AND EVERY OTHER YEAR 06:21 HAS BEEN A YEAR OF WAR. THAT 4 BILLION, 500 MILLION 06:28 PEOPLE HAVE DIED IN THESE WARS. I MEAN, THERE'S BEEN WARS 06:33 ALL ALONG. THE FINAL WAR IS NOT GONNA BE MAN AGAINST MAN. 06:38 IT'S NOT GONNA BE NATION AGAINST NATION OR KINGDOM 06:40 AGAINST KINGDOM. IT'S THE KINGDOM OF THE DEVIL 06:43 AGAINST THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST. IT'S THOSE WHO WORSHIP 06:46 THE BEAST AGAINST THOSE WHO WORSHIP GOD. 06:48 IT'S TELLING US GOD WILL FIGHT FOR HIS PEOPLE WHEN IT LOOKS 06:50 HOPELESS. BY THE WAY, AND DON'T EVER 06:52 FORGET THIS, YOU AND THE LORD ARE A MAJORITY. 06:57 IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT THE ENEMY HAS. 06:59 AND WHEN YOU'RE TEMPTED REMEMBER, YOU AND JESUS ARE 07:02 A MAJORITY. WHAT ARE SOME OF THE PROPHETIC 07:05 SIGNS JESUS GAVE COUNTING DOWN TO THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON? 07:09 I THINK THE BEST RESOURCE TO GO TO TO FIND OUT WHAT ARE THE 07:12 SIGNS OF THIS FINAL BATTLE AND THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST. 07:16 IS IT CLEAR TO EVERYBODY THAT THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON IS THE 07:19 FINAL BATTLE WHERE JESUS RIDES WITH HIS HORSE AND HE 07:23 ULTIMATELY COMES. HE'S PICTURED, OF COURSE, 07:26 RIDING THE HORSE. I DON'T KNOW THAT HE'S 07:27 GALLOPING ON A CLYDESDALE WHEN HE COMES. 07:29 IT'S JUST ONE OF THE VISUAL IMAGES WE SEE IN REVELATION. 07:33 HE'S ALSO GOT A SWORD COMING OUT OF HIS MOUTH IN THESE 07:35 PICTURES SO YOU REALIZE THEY'RE SYMBOLIC. 07:38 THAT MEANS THE WORD COMING OUT OF HIS MOUTH. 07:40 "BEWARE OF FALSE CHRISTS AND FALSE PROPHETS." 07:42 YOU KNOW, ONE REASON THAT'S SO IMPORTANT? 07:45 WHEN JESUS CAME THE FIRST TIME, WERE HIS PEOPLE, THE JEWISH 07:51 PEOPLE, DID THEY HAVE BIBLES? DID THEY HAVE THE SCRIPTURES 07:53 BACK THEN? DID THEY HAVE SCRIPTURES THAT HAD PROPHECIES 07:56 ABOUT HIS COMING? WERE THEY READY FOR HIM WHEN HE CAME? 08:00 DID THEY HAVE A LOT OF MISINTERPRETATIONS AND A LOT OF 08:03 TRADITIONS THEY WERE FOLLOWING THAT JUST WERE NOT RIGHT? 08:05 EVEN THE DISCIPLES WHO WERE SPIRIT-FILLED WERE CONFUSED. 08:11 THEY DIDN'T UNDERSTAND. 08:12 THEY KEPT THINKING THE MESSIAH WAS GONNA COME AND HE WAS GONNA 08:13 JUST SIT ON THE THRONE OF DAVID AND OVERTHROW THE ROMANS. 08:16 AND THEY'D BE A WORLD EMPIRE. THEY HAD ALL THESE VERY 08:20 APPEALING IDEAS, BUT THEY WERE NOT TRUE. 08:24 COULD THAT HAPPEN AGAIN AT THE SECOND COMING? 08:27 ARE THERE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT THINK THAT WE'RE JUST GONNA GET 08:29 ZAPPED AWAY AND NOT HAVE ANY TROUBLE WHEN JESUS COMES? 08:33 AND WHEN YOU SAY FALSE CHRISTS AND FALSE PROPHETS, THERE MAY 08:37 BE SOME LOVELY PEOPLE OUT THERE, BUT THEY'RE GIVING FALSE 08:39 PROPHECIES. THEIR TEACHING IS WRONG. 08:44 MANY OF THE SCHOLARS SAY THESE POPULAR NOTIONS ABOUT LEFT 08:46 BEHIND ARE REALLY FANTASY. THEY'RE NOT IN THE BIBLE. 08:49 SO WE'VE GOTTA BE CAREFUL TO FIND OUT WHAT DOES 08:51 THE BIBLE REALLY SAY. AND, OF COURSE, THERE ARE ALSO 08:53 THEN THE DERANGED FALSE PROPHETS THAT ARE OUT THERE. 08:56 THERE'S NO SHORTAGE OF KOOKS OUT THERE THAT SAY THAT, 08:59 "I AM JESUS." BUT, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT SO MUCH 09:02 WORRIED AND THE JIM JONES AND THE DAVID KORESH AND THE MOONS. 09:07 I'LL TELL YOU WHO I'M WORRIED ABOUT IS WHEN SATAN SEEKS 09:11 TO IMPERSONATE CHRIST. THE MASTERPIECE OF DECEPTION 09:15 BEFORE JESUS COMES BACK IS WHERE SATAN IS GONNA SAY, "I'M 09:18 GONNA REALLY DO A FIRST-CLASS JOB AND DO SIGNS AND WONDERS." 09:24 DIDN'T WE READ THERE IN REVELATION 16, "THESE UNCLEAN 09:26 SPIRITS THAT COME OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE BEAST, THE DRAGON, 09:28 THE FALSE PROPHET, THEY GO FORTH TO THE KINGS OF THE EARTH 09:32 AND PERFORM SIGNS AND MIRACLES TO DECEIVE THEM." THERE'S GONNA 09:36 BE A LOT OF MIRACLES, BUT THEY'RE DIABOLICAL MIRACLES. 09:40 SO YOU GOTTA BE CAREFUL TO BASE YOUR CONCLUSIONS ON WHAT THE 09:42 BIBLE SAYS 'CAUSE IF YOU'RE BASING IT ON SIGNS AND WONDERS, 09:45 THE DEVIL CAN COUNTERFEIT THOSE, CAN'T HE? 09:47 SECONDLY CHRIST GOES ON IN HIS ANSWER AND HE SAID, 09:50 "THERE WILL BE WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS." 09:52 ARE THERE STILL RUMORS OF WARS TODAY? 09:55 NOT ONLY ARE WE ALL TIED UP IN IRAQ, AND THAT WAS VERY CLOSE 09:59 TO MY HEART BECAUSE WE HAVE A DAUGHTER THAT WAS IN THE ARMY, 10:02 A SON THAT JUST GOT OUT OF THE MARINES. 10:03 HE WAS IN IRAQ AND VERY PROUD OF OUR SOLDIERS THAT ARE 10:07 SERVING IN THOSE CONTESTS, BUT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT 10:09 IF SOMETHING ELSE COULD EVOLVE IN IRAN. WHAT'S NEXT? 10:13 FOR A WHILE THERE NORTH KOREA WAS TESTING MISSILES AND WE 10:16 THOUGHT, "OOPS, IS THAT WHERE WE'RE GOING NEXT?" 10:18 RUMORS OF WARS, NOT JUST WARS. THEN POLLUTION IS ANOTHER SIGN 10:23 THAT WE'RE GETTING CLOSER TO ARMAGEDDON. 10:25 THAT'S A SIGN THAT I THINK IS VERY CURRENT FOR US TODAY. 10:28 BECAUSE WE'RE NOW LIVING IN AN AGE WHERE MAN HAS THE CAPACITY 10:33 TO DESTROY THE EARTH. DO YOU KNOW THAT'S IN REVELATION? 10:35 REVELATION 11:18, LISTEN TO THIS. IT SAYS, 10:39 "THAT YOU SHOULD DESTROY THOSE WHO DESTROY THE EARTH." 10:44 NOW, YOU KNOW, FOR THE FIRST 6,000 YEARS OF MAN'S HISTORY, 10:48 THE MOST DEVASTATING THING THAT MAN COULD DO TO THE PLANET IS 10:51 THEY COULD SHOOT BOWS AND ARROWS AND THROW SPEARS AND LOB 10:53 CANNON BALLS WHEN THEY BECAME MORE SOPHISTICATED. 10:56 OUR POLLUTION WAS BANANA PEELS AND COCONUT SHELLS. 11:02 I MEAN WE JUST REALLY COULDN'T DESTROY THE EARTH BACK THEN. 11:05 BUT WE ARE NOW IN A GENERATION THAT WITH OUR WEAPONS AND 11:10 WITH OUR CHEMICALS AND OUR POLLUTANTS, DO WE NOW HAVE THE 11:13 CAPACITY TO DESTROY THE EARTH? THAT IS ONE SIGN. 11:17 PEOPLE SAY, "OH, PASTOR DOUG, PEOPLE HAVE TALKED ABOUT 11:19 SIGNS OF CHRIST'S COMING FOR 2,000 YEARS NOW. 11:22 WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THINGS ARE DIFFERENT NOW?" 11:23 THEY ARE DIFFERENT NOW. THIS GENERATION IS A DIFFERENT 11:26 GENERATION THAT WE'RE LIVING IN. I THINK WE'RE LIVING 11:29 IN THE LAST GENERATION. MATTER OF FACT JESUS SAID, 11:32 MATTHEW 24:22-"UNLESS THOSE DAYS WERE SHORTENED, 11:38 NO FLESH WOULD BE SAVED." THAT WORD, "FLESH" THERE 11:41 DOESN'T JUST MEAN PEOPLE. IT MEANS NOTHING WOULD SURVIVE. 11:44 YOU DON'T NEED TO WORRY ABOUT THAT. 11:47 YOU'RE SAYING, "PASTOR DOUG, WAIT A SECOND HERE, 11:48 YOU'RE MAKING ME NERVOUS. 11:51 I'VE ALWAYS BELIEVED-" AND WHEN I FIRST BECAME 11:53 A CHRISTIAN, I WORSHIPED WITH A FELLOWSHIP THAT BELIEVED 11:55 IN WHAT WE CALL THE SECRET RAPTURE. 11:58 I'LL TALK MORE ABOUT THAT LATER. 11:59 BUT I WORSHIPED WITH A GROUP THAT BELIEVED THAT THE 12:02 TRIBULATION HAPPENED AFTER THE CHURCH WAS TAKEN AWAY 12:06 AND SO THEY FELT GREAT COMFORT IN THAT. 12:08 "YOU'RE MAKING US NERVOUS, PASTOR DOUG, SAYING THAT WE'RE 12:10 GONNA BE HERE WHEN THE SEVEN LAST PLAGUES FALL." 12:14 WELL, I WANT TO GO BY WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS, FRIENDS. 12:18 AS APPEALING AS IT MIGHT BE TO THINK THAT JESUS IS GONNA COME 12:22 AND WHISK US AWAY AND THEN THINGS GET UGLY DOWN HERE, 12:25 BUT WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT IT 'CAUSE WE'RE NOT HERE. 12:28 THAT'S NOT WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES. 12:30 THE SEVEN LAST PLAGUES THAT YOU FIND IN REVELATION 15-16 ARE 12:33 PARALLELS OF THE TEN PLAGUES THAT FELL ON ANCIENT EGYPT. 12:36 HERE'S MY QUESTION FOR YOU. HERE'S THE MILLION DOLLAR 12:38 QUESTION, WHEN THE PLAGUES FELL ON ANCIENT EGYPT, WERE 12:41 THE ISRAELITES IN EGYPT? WERE GOD'S PEOPLE THERE? 12:46 DID GOD PRESERVE THEM THROUGH THE PLAGUES? 12:50 DO WE NEED TO FEAR THE PLAGUES? A THOUSAND MAY FALL AT YOUR 12:53 SIDE, 10,000 AT YOUR RIGHT HAND. 12:54 IT WILL NOT COME NIGH AND TO ONLY WITH YOUR EYES WILL YOU 12:57 SEE AND BEHOLD THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WICKED. 12:59 NO PLAGUE WILL COME NEAR YOUR DWELLING. 13:01 I'M PARAPHRASING PSALM 91. WHY? 13:04 BECAUSE WE TRUST IN THE LORD. HE'LL TAKE CARE OF HIS PEOPLE. 13:07 THERE'S NATURAL DISASTERS. JESUS TALKED ABOUT EARTHQUAKES 13:11 WHICH IS A NATURAL DISASTER. WE'LL GET TO THAT IN JUST 13:13 A MINUTE, BUT THAT WOULD INCLUDE STORMS. 13:16 HAVE WE SEEN THAT ON AN UNPRECEDENTED SCALE COUPLE 13:19 OF YEARS AGO? WAS IT 2004 DECEMBER 26TH, 13:24 NOT EVEN 2 YEARS AGO YET, WE HAD THE BIGGEST EARTHQUAKE 13:28 IN RECORDED HISTORY, 250,000 LIVES WERE SNUFFED OUT. 13:35 SOMEONE WONDERED IS THAT IN THE BIBLE? WELL, SOME HAVE 13:38 WONDERED IF JESUS WAS REFERRING TO THAT WHEN YOU GO TO LUKE 21 13:42 PARALLEL PASSAGE WHEN HE TALKS ABOUT THAT. 13:45 HE SAID, "THERE'LL BE SIGNS IN THE SUN, AND IN THE MOON, AND 13:49 IN THE STARS; AND ON THE EARTH DISTRESS OF NATIONS WITH 13:54 PERPLEXITY," NOTICE THIS, "THE SEA AND THE WAVES ROARING; 13:59 AND MEN'S HEARTS FAILING THEM FOR FEAR." 14:03 WE TALKED IN THAT PREVIOUS VERSE IN LUKE 21, MEN'S HEARTS 14:07 FAILING THEM FOR FEAR. WHAT IS TERRORISM? 14:11 WHAT IS THE WEAPON OF TERRORISM? 14:14 IS IT PLASTIC EXPLOSIVES OR IS IT FEAR? 14:18 AND ALL THESE CHANGES THAT WE'VE HAD AND THESE FREEDOMS 14:20 THAT WE'VE LOST. WHY? BECAUSE WE'RE AFRAID. 14:24 FAMINE, JESUS SAID IN DIFFERENT PLACES. 14:28 DO WE STILL HAVE FAMINE IN THE WORLD? 14:30 THEY HAD AN EARTHQUAKE IN PAKISTAN, 73,000 PEOPLE DIED 14:34 IN THE EARTHQUAKE BUT THE AFTERMATH WAS ALMOST AS BAD 14:37 BECAUSE THE ROADS IN WERE CLOSED. 14:39 WINTER SET IN AND THE PEOPLE WERE STARVING. 14:43 FAMINE ISN'T JUST BECAUSE OF CROPS, IT'S OFTEN BECAUSE 14:45 OF WAR, CATASTROPHES. TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE PER DAY ARE 14:51 DYING FROM EITHER MALNUTRITION OR STARVATION. VIOLENCE. 14:57 JESUS SAID, AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH, SO SHALL IT BE 15:00 IN THE DAYS THAT PROCEED THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN. 15:03 WHAT WAS IT LIKE BACK IN THE DAYS OF NOAH? 15:06 THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT THE THOUGHTS OF MEN'S HEARTS 15:09 WERE ONLY EVIL CONTINUALLY, VIOLENCE FILLED THE LAND. 15:14 JESUS SAID, MATTHEW 24:14, "AND THE GOSPEL OF THIS KINGDOM WILL 15:20 BE PREACHED IN ALL THE WORLD FOR A WITNESS UNTO ALL NATIONS, 15:23 THEN THE END WILL COME." AND HE DIDN'T SAY THE GOSPEL 15:26 WILL BE BELIEVED BY EVERYBODY. HE SAID, "THE GOSPEL IS GONNA 15:29 BE PROCLAIMED EVERYWHERE THEN THE END WILL COME." 15:32 AND NOW THROUGH SATELLITE TELEVISION, THROUGH THE PRINTED 15:36 PAGE, THROUGH THE COMPUTER, THROUGH TAPES, MISSIONARIES. 15:42 THE GOSPEL IS GOING INTO ALL THE WORLD. 15:43 THROUGH RADIO. NOW BASED ON THE SIGNS, 15:48 HOW MANY OF YOU BELIEVE JESUS IS COMING SOON? AMEN. 15:53 NOW I THINK WE NEED TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT KNOWING 15:56 SOMETHING ABOUT HOW HE IS COMING. 15:58 THERE ARE A LOT OF MISUNDERSTANDINGS. 16:00 THERE WERE MISUNDERSTANDINGS WHEN HE CAME THE FIRST TIME. 16:02 THERE ARE GONNA BE MISUNDERSTANDINGS AGAIN. 16:04 IT IS NOT GOING TO BE A SECRET. THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT PEOPLE 16:09 ARE GONNA KNOW. NOW OF COURSE THERE'S A LOT OF 16:11 DEAR PEOPLE THAT BELIEVE IN THE SECRET RAPTURE. 16:14 THERE ARE TWO PROMINENT VIEWS AMONG CHRISTIANS. 16:16 ONE IS OF COURSE THE SECRET RAPTURE THAT HAS BEEN 16:19 CHAMPIONED BY TIM LAHAYE AND HAL LINDSEY AND OTHERS. 16:23 BUT EVEN TIM LAHAYE ADMITS IN HIS BOOK, 16:26 "NO FEAR OF THE STORM" THERE'S NO SINGLE VERSE SPECIFICALLY 16:29 THAT STATES CHRIST WILL COME BEFORE THE TRIBULATION. 16:31 IT'S BECOME A VERY POPULAR TEACHING THAT'S APPEALING, 16:34 THAT IS FANCIFUL AND COLORFUL, BUT IT'S NOT BIBLICAL. 16:38 THEY SAY, "OH, BUT THE BIBLE SAYS JESUS IS COMING AS 16:39 A THIEF." YEAH, LET'S READ THE WHOLE THING. 16:44 WHEN IT SAYS JESUS IS COMING AS A THIEF, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? 16:46 LISTEN TO THIS, 2 PETER 3:10, "THE DAY OF THE LORD WILL COME 16:51 AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT." AND A LOT OF PEOPLE STOP 16:53 RIGHT THERE. IT DOESN'T STOP THERE, NOTICE. 16:56 IN WHICH, WHAT HAPPENS IN THE DAY WHEN HE COMES AS A THIEF? 16:59 WHAT'S HAPPENING ON THAT DAY WHEN HE COMES LIKE A THIEF? 17:01 "IN WHICH THE HEAVENS PASS AWAY WITH A GREAT NOISE, AND 17:04 THE ELEMENTS MELT WITH FERVENT HEAT, THE EARTH ALSO 17:08 AND THE WORKS THAT ARE IN IT ARE BURNED UP." 17:10 DOES IT SOUND TO YOU LIKE LIFE GOES ON FOR ANOTHER 7 YEARS 17:13 AFTER JESUS COMES AS A THIEF? NO. THAT'S IT. 17:18 WHEN IT SAYS HE'S COMING AS A THIEF, IT MEANS IT'S 17:19 A SURPRISE. THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID, "IN SUCH 17:22 AN HOUR AS YOU THINK NOT, THE SON OF MAN COMES." 17:24 A THIEF DOES NOT SEND OUT AN ANNOUNCEMENT. 17:26 "I'LL BE COMING. I HOPE THAT YOU WON'T BE HOME. 17:30 LEAVE THE ALARM OFF." NO, IT'S A SURPRISE. 17:34 AGAIN, IS THE COMING OF THE LORD QUIET? 17:36 PSALMS 50:3, OUR GOD SHALL COME AND SHALL, WHAT DOES IT SAY? 17:40 "SHALL NOT KEEP SILENT." IT'S NOT A SECRET. 17:43 "IT SHALL BE VERY TEMPESTUOUS ABOUT HIM." 17:45 IT'S NOT GOING TO BE PEOPLE WALKING DOWN THE STREET AND 17:47 GOING POOF, DISAPPEARING. 17:49 AGAIN, 1 THESSALONIANS 4:16, "THE LORD HIMSELF SHALL DESCEND 17:54 FROM HEAVEN WITH A SHOUT, WITH THE VOICE OF THE ARCHANGEL, 17:58 AND THE DEAD IN CHRIST WILL RISE 18:01 FIRST." THIS IS ONE OF THE NOISIEST CHAPTERS IN THE BIBLE, 18:04 NOISIEST PASSAGES. IT'S NOT A SECRET. 18:08 VOICE OF AN ANGEL. TRUMPET OF GOD. 18:10 JEREMIAH 25:30 SAYS THAT THE LORD IS GONNA COME AND HE'LL BE 18:14 ROARING LIKE A LION. HE'S GOING TO ROAR FROM HIS 18:18 HOLY HABITATION. THERE ARE TWO COMINGS OF 18:20 CHRIST, PRINCIPLE COMINGS TO OUR WORLD BEFORE SIN IS 18:23 DEALT WITH. ONE HE COMES LIKE A LION, 18:26 ONE HE COMES LIKE A LAMB. THE DEVIL SWAPPED THEM. 18:30 THE DEVIL TOLD THE JEWISH NATION, "YEAH, HE'S COMING LIKE 18:32 A LION THE FIRST TIME TO CONQUER THE ROMANS." 18:34 AND THAT'S WHAT THEY WANTED TO BELIEVE. 18:36 NOW HE'S TELLING THE CHURCH, "YEAH, HE'S COMING LIKE A LAMB 18:38 THE SECOND TIME TO SECRETLY RAPTURE AWAY THE CHURCH." 18:40 HE SWAPPED THEM. AND THE CHURCH, GOD'S PEOPLE, 18:43 ARE NOT PREPARED FOR THE REAL EVENT. 18:46 AND THERE ARE DEAR, THEY'RE SPIRIT-FILLED PEOPLE. 18:48 I THINK THE LORD'S GONNA SAVE A LOT OF THESE PEOPLE WHO ARE 18:50 CONFUSED, BUT THEY'RE BEING MISTAUGHT. 18:52 AND I TELL YOU WHAT, MY BELIEF IS SAFER ANYWAY, 18:55 NOT ONLY 'CAUSE IT'S BIBLICAL. I'D RATHER BE READY AND IF I 18:58 GET RAPTURED UP AND I MEET YOU THERE, I'LL SAY, "WELL, 19:00 I GUESS I WAS WRONG, BUT PRAISE THE LORD." 19:02 BUT IF YOU'RE NOT READY AND WE'RE GOING THROUGH THE PLAGUES 19:06 YOU GO, "HOW COME WE DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THIS?" 19:07 I'LL SAY, "WELL, I TOLD YOU." RIGHT? 19:11 THIS IS THE SAFER BELIEF. PUT YOUR BELT ON. DON'T SAY, 19:14 "WE'RE ONLY GOING 5 MILES AN HOUR." PUT IT ON ANYWAY. 19:16 SOMEONE ELSE MIGHT BE GOING 50 AND HIT YOU, RIGHT? 19:20 WILL THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST BE VISIBLE TO ALL MEN? 19:24 REVELATION 1:7, "BEHOLD, HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS," 19:29 AND HOW MANY EYES? "EVERY EYE WILL SEE HIM." 19:32 THAT MEANS EVERY EYE OF EVERYBODY ALIVE IN THE WORLD. 19:35 MATTHEW 24:30, "AND THEN SHALL APPEAR THE SIGN OF THE SON OF 19:38 AND THEN SHALL ALL THE TRIBES OF THE EARTH 19:42 MOURN, AND THEY SHALL SEE THE SON OF MAN COMING IN THE CLOUDS 19:47 OF HEAVEN WITH POWER AND GREAT GLORY." IS IT A SECRET? 19:52 DO PEOPLE JUST DISAPPEAR? IS THIS WHAT JESUS SAID? 19:55 WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF JESUS' COMING? 19:57 ANSWER, REVELATION 22:12. HE'S COMING TO GIVE REWARDS. 20:03 "AND BEHOLD, I COME QUICKLY; AND MY REWARD IS WITH ME, 20:06 TO GIVE TO EVERY MAN ACCORDING AS HIS WORK SHALL BE." 20:09 WHEN HE COMES, THERE'S NOT ANOTHER 7 YEARS 20:11 FOR THE TRIBULATION. REWARDS ARE DISPENSED 20:14 WHEN HE COMES. WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE 20:17 RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE WHEN JESUS COMES THE SECOND TIME? 20:20 ANSWER, 1 THESSALONIANS 4:16, WE TOUCHED ON THIS ALREADY. 20:24 "FOR THE LORD HIMSELF WILL DESCEND FROM HEAVEN WITH 20:27 A SHOUT, AND THE DEAD IN CHRIST WILL RISE FIRST." 20:32 WHEN HE COMES, THERE'S A RESURRECTION. IS THAT A SECRET? 20:36 AGAIN, 1 CORINTHIANS 15:52-53, "THE DEAD WILL BE RAISED 20:41 INCORRUPTIBLE, AND WE WILL BE CHANGED. 20:43 FOR THIS CORRUPTIBLE MUST PUT ON INCORRUPTION, 20:46 AND THIS MORTAL SHALL BE PUT ON IMMORTALITY." 20:49 AND THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE. 20:52 DOESN'T MEAN THAT YOU'RE GONNA TWINKLE YOUR EYE 20:54 AND ALL OF A SUDDEN PEOPLE ARE GONNA DISAPPEAR. 20:55 THE CHANGE THAT THE SAVED RECEIVE IS A TWINKLING 21:00 OF AN EYE. THEY GO FROM MORTAL TO 21:01 IMMORTAL BODIES. THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS INSTANTLY. 21:05 THEN WE WHO ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN, THE RIGHTEOUS WHO ARE 21:09 LIVING, THEY'RE CAUGHT UP TO MEET THEM IN THE CLOUDS. 21:12 THEY MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR. THAT'S THE RAPTURE. 21:15 WHEN WE ARE CAUGHT UP. THE WORD "RAPTURE" MEANS WE 21:17 ARE CAUGHT UP. NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT WORD 21:19 EVEN THOUGH IT'S NOT IN THE BIBLE AS YOU FIND IT HERE. 21:22 IT MEANS TO BE CAUGHT UP TO MEET THE LORD. 21:25 AND THAT'S WHEN IT'S GONNA HAPPEN. BUT IS IT A SECRET? 21:28 TRUMPET, RESURRECTION, EARTHQUAKE, ALL THESE THINGS 21:32 HAPPENING AT THE SAME TIME. WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO 21:34 THE WICKED WHEN JESUS COMES? THEY'RE BEING TOLD THEY GOT 21:38 7 MORE YEARS TO WORK IT OUT. THEY GET A SECOND CHANCE. 21:41 2 THESSALONIANS 2:8, WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN TO THE WICKED? 21:45 IT TELLS US, "AND THEN SHALL THAT WICKED ONE BE REVEALED, 21:48 WHOM THE LORD SHALL CONSUME WITH THE SPIRIT OF HIS MOUTH, 21:52 AND SHALL DESTROY WITH THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS COMING." 21:56 THE BRIGHTNESS, THE GLORY OF CHRIST'S SECOND COMING, 21:58 IT'S GONNA BE GOOD NEWS FOR THE SAVED AND BAD NEWS 22:00 FOR THE LOST. AND THEN AGAIN, REVELATION 6:15. 22:05 THIS IS A TROUBLING VERSE, BUT YOU WANT THE PROPHECIES, 22:07 DON'T YOU? "AND THE KINGS OF THE EARTH, 22:10 AND THE GREAT MEN, AND THE RICH MEN, AND THE CHIEF CAPTAINS, 22:13 AND THE MIGHTY MEN, AND EVERY BONDMAN, AND EVERY FREE MAN, 22:17 THEY SAID TO THE MOUNTAINS AND THE ROCKS, FALL ON US AND HIDE 22:20 US FROM THE FACE OF HIM THAT SITS ON THE THRONE, AND FROM 22:23 FOR THE GREAT DAY OF HIS WRATH IS 22:27 COME; AND WHO SHALL BE ABLE TO STAND?" THIS IS THE BATTLE OF 22:31 ARMAGEDDON, WHEN JESUS COMES TO RESCUE. 22:33 THERE'S ONLY TWO SIDES. JESUS SAID, "THERE'S A WAR. 22:36 YOU'RE EITHER WITH ME OR YOU'RE AGAINST ME. 22:40 YOU'RE EITHER WITH ME OR YOU'RE WITH THE ENEMY." 22:42 HE'S EITHER GONNA BE THE ONE WE LOOK FOR AND SAY, 22:45 "THIS IS OUR GOD. WE'VE WAITED FOR HIM 22:46 AND HE WILL SAVE US." OR WE'RE GONNA RUN 22:48 FROM THE WRATH OF THE LAMB. THERE'S NO MIDDLE GROUND. 22:51 NOW LOOK AT WHAT WE'VE DISCOVERED. 22:54 THE COMING OF JESUS IS NOT GONNA BE SECRET. 22:55 IT'S TELLING US THAT IT'S GONNA BE LITERAL, PERSONAL, VISIBLE, 22:59 AUDIBLE, PHYSICAL, VITALIZING, A RESURRECTION TAKES PLACE, 23:03 GLORIOUS, CLIMATIC. NOBODY'S GONNA READ ABOUT IT 23:07 IN THE PAPERS THE NEXT DAY AND SAY, "YOU KNOW, THE RAPTURE 23:08 TOOK PLACE, AND WE WERE LEFT BEHIND." 23:12 THAT'S NOT WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES. 23:16 WE'RE LIVING IN THE LAST GENERATION, FRIENDS. 23:18 WE'RE LIVING IN A GENERATION WHERE MAN CAN DESTROY THE 23:20 EARTH, WHERE THE GOSPEL CAN GO INTO ALL THE WORLD. 23:23 WHEN KNOWLEDGE IS INCREASED AND YET MAN HAS NOT BENT HIS 23:26 KNOWLEDGE TO LOVE HIS FELLOW MAN BUT WE BEND IT TO DESTROY 23:28 EACH OTHER. HOW CAN I BE CERTAIN THAT I'LL 23:32 BE READY WHEN JESUS COMES BACK? THAT'S WHY WE DO THESE 23:34 SEMINARS. DO YOU KNOW THAT BY NOW? 23:37 WE WANT YOU TO BE READY. JESUS PROMISES IN JOHN 6:37, 23:43 "HIM THAT COMES TO ME I WILL IN NO WISE CAST OUT." 23:47 COME TO JESUS. JUST COME TO HIM. YOU CAN COME TO HIM TONIGHT. 23:51 AGAIN, JOHN 1:12, "AS MANY AS RECEIVED HIM, TO THEM HE GAVE 23:56 POWER TO BECOME THE SONS OF GOD." 23:59 HE'LL GIVE YOU POWER TO LIVE A NEW LIFE. 24:01 YOU'LL BE A NEW CREATURE WITH A NEW HEART. 24:03 COME TO JESUS, HE'LL RECREATE YOU. 24:06 WHAT DANGERS DOES THE LORD WARN AGAINST, SOLEMNLY WARN AGAINST 24:10 IN CONNECTION THE SECOND COMING? 24:11 MATTHEW 24:44, "THEREFORE BE FOR IN SUCH AN HOUR AS 24:17 YOU THINK NOT THE SON OF MAN COMES." 24:19 JESUS SAID, "AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH AND LOT." 24:22 LIFE WAS GOING ON. THEY WERE BUILDING AND EATING 24:25 AND DRINKING AND THEN THE FLOOD CAME AND THEN THE FIRE CAME. 24:30 SO DON'T BE THINKING THAT IT'S GONNA BE IN THE HEADLINES, 24:32 "JESUS COMES TOMORROW" AND YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TIME LIKE 24:34 PREPARING FOR YOUR TAXES. BE READY. 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