We are racing towards the
global crisis at the close.
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God is going to set
up His kingdom on earth.
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Preparation for the
tribulation and the translation
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is to develop a
character like Jesus Christ
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to reach every
hamlet, every village,
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every man, every
child, every person in India,
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every person in South America
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must hear these
Three Angles' Messages.
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These are
stories that illustrate
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the kind of fabric of character
and perseverance that we need
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to go through the tribulation
just as certainly as they did.
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The Bible makes it very clear
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we are living
in an unusual hour.
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The last grains of sand
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are trickling
through the hourglass of time
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and the door of probation
is about to swing shut.
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Amazing prophecies for America.
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Psalm 62:8, let's
read it together in unison.
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"Trust in Him at all times,"
especially in the end of time.
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"You people, pour out
your heart before Him,
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God is a," what?
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"Is a refuge for us."
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So the Bible says, number
one, trust in Him at all times
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especially in the end of time.
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As the last grains of sand
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are trickling through
the hourglass of time,
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as we are minutes to midnight,
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I believe that this
priceless precious promise
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comes ringing down
the quarters of time
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with very strong
relevance tonight.
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You have to learn to
trust Him at all times.
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Would you agree,
that's what life is all about,
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learning to trust in a
loving Father in heaven.
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And so the Bible says here,
pour your heart out to Him.
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Trust Him and pray.
Pray and have faith. Amen.
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How many agree, if
you're talking to Jesus
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and you have faith in
Jesus, you will make it?
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Can you say amen?
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And so, He's our
refuge. Well, let's travel.
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This is the
cheapest ticket you'll get.
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We're going to Egypt here,
right now, hopping on a plane,
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we're going to
the land of the Nile.
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And there at the
land of the Nile,
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we come to ancient Egypt,
a land of massive pyramids,
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mighty
pharaohs, ancient mummies,
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buried treasures,
narrow secret passageways.
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Can you say claustrophobic.
I know, I've been there.
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Many false gods and
colorful hieroglyphics.
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Well, let us go back in time
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way before the
boy king, King Tut.
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And we're going back
to the days of Joseph,
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the days of Joseph.
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Joseph was greatly
favored with an understanding
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of prophetic dreams,
symbolic prophetic dreams
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that help to save ancient Egypt.
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It pays to know Bible prophecy
because you'll be able to help
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a whole lot of
people including your family
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because ignorance is not bliss.
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And so, in
Genesis 41, we discover
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that the pharaoh of
Egypt had two dreams
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and they were
intimately connected.
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What was pharaoh's
first dream that Joseph
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by God's
miraculous divine providence
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through a strange turn of events
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or event from the, from
the prison to the palace?
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And so there at the
life giving Nile River,
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you remembered that pharaoh
relayed the dream to Joseph
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who had a reputation
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of being able to
understand decipher
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and rightly interpret
these prophetic dreams.
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He did it in prison.
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Now, he had an opportunity
of a lifetime, would you agree?
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This was his
moment. This was his time.
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And so pharaoh said, "I
had a dream and I dreamed
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that there at the Nile
River there were seven fat cows
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that came up
there by the River Nile
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and they were fat cows,
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and then there
were seven skinny cows,
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and something strange happened.
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The seven skinny cows
ate the seven fact cows."
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Now would you agree
that's a interesting twist?
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And so along the
banks of the Nile
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conditions were
ideal for growing crops.
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I mean, everywhere
else if you just go
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just a little bit
away from the Nile River,
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desert, barren.
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The two great life
forces of life in Egypt
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were the sun and
they worshipped the sun,
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pyramids radiating
the rays of the sun.
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They worshipped
the sun, the sun God,
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and they worshipped the Nile.
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Now what was
pharaoh's second dream?
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What was his second dream?
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Then Pharaoh of Egypt dreamed
of seven ripe ears of corn.
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Notice the number seven.
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Which were swallowed
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by seven thin
scorched ears of corn.
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Very strange.
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However these dreams indicated
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something that
was about to happen,
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about the eminent
future of ancient Egypt.
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Egypt was a mighty
empire at this time.
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To Joseph, the
dream was crystal clear.
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To Joseph, both the dreams were,
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both twin dreams
were highly symbolic
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and they
contained shocking truth.
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And Joseph had divine wisdom
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to unlock the
mysteries of these dreams.
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What did Joseph say
the twin dreams meant?
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"Egypt was about to
face an unprecedented crisis
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of epic proportions.
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Joseph told pharaoh
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that there would
be plenty of crops,
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very fertile soil thereby
the Nile River for seven years.
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That would be followed
by a famine for seven years.
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And Joseph made it clear
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there must be
preparation for seven years.
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So he got a
cluster of sevens there.
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They were going to
face a terrible food crisis.
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Do we have food
crises in the world today?
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Are millions of people dying
each year because of famine,
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ravages of
starvation, and abject hunger?
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Oh yes.
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Severe pervasive
famine. Crops will wither.
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Cattle will
starve. People will starve.
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Death and destruction
will inevitably prevail.
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Unless you prepare Pharaoh
for the impending crisis.
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Joseph saw it.
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The dreams revealed it
and Pharaoh was contemplating.
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Then the dreadful famine came
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just as God had
warned in the two dreams.
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Who was put in charge
of the preparation process?
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Who was put in charge to
implement a rescue program,
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a prevention
program to deal with this
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upcoming crisis
looming in the horizon?
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Joseph was the man of the hour.
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Because he could
interpret prophecy,
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he was favored by God with
an understanding of prophecy
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and he was favored
by God to be used by God
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to help a whole lot of people.
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How many believe,
if you know prophecy,
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God will use you to
help a whole lot of people?
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There was seven years of
famine just as the prophecy,
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the twin dreams
specified there would be.
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Joseph was favored by God.
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The granaries,
the silos, they were,
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they were jammed
to overflowing because
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they had properly
prepared for the crisis.
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I repeat, they
prepared for the crisis.
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And so Joseph was favored by God
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and his brothers came to him.
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The brothers
that had betrayed him,
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the brothers that
threw him into the pit.
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The Brothers that
sold him into slavery.
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The brothers
that laughed at him,
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and ridiculed him
when he told them as a boy,
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the dream, the
dreams that he had
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that one day
they would bow to him.
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Well, guess what?
They bowed to him.
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And so you remember
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that he had
mercy upon his family.
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He had mercy upon his, his
brothers that betrayed him.
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And he was used by
God to save his brothers
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who didn't save him.
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Sold him.
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And so,
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he was used by God to
prepare for the future.
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Does God want to favor you
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with an understanding
of end time prophecies?
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Absolutely, beyond
a shadow of a doubt.
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You are favored by God
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when you put on your
father's colorful robe.
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Remember Joseph,
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remember Joseph had the
special favor of his father
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and it was manifest in the fact
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that his father
gave him a coat of what?
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Of many colors.
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Well, I am here to tell
you, that symbolizes the fact
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that we are
special to our father
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because Jesus paid the
price to give us a coat
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that's beyond that
coat of many colors.
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Can you say the robe
of Christ's righteousness?
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How many agree,
you put on that robe,
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you are highly favored by God?
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Bible makes that crystal clear,
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so I'm going to ask a
plain question tonight.
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Did you walk in naked tonight,
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or do you have on the
robe of Christ's righteousness?
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I say, leave dressed
tonight. Can you say amen?
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And so the Bible
makes it very clear
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that we are to help our
family get ready for the future.
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Does God want us to help
others prepare for the future
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just like Joseph did?
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A resounding yes.
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Is our world about to face
a global crisis, a prophetic,
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on a prophetic
proportions on a global scale?
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Why study Bible prophecy?
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Because you can
be more prepared.
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I'm repeating myself, aren't I?
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Because you can be more prepared
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to face the future.
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You need to know
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what is the
nature of the events,
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what are going to be
the big game changing events
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that are going to all
of a sudden burst upon us.
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How many agree,
there are some big changes
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that are around the corner?
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A course of history is
about to change dramatically
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and suddenly and we
need to be prepared.
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How many agree,
when that famine came,
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it came on suddenly?
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Seven years,
boom, just like that.
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Well, guess what?
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There are some things
that the Bible forecasts,
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some dire, ominous predictions
of what's going to happen
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in the United States
of America and the world.
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And it's about to occur
and you and I need to know
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what's going to happen
and how to be prepared.
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And so, does God want us to know
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the secrets of
end time prophecy?
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I love this
scripture, in Deuteronomy 29:29.
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Can you read it
with me? Let's go.
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"The secret things
belong to the Lord our God,
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but those things which
are revealed belong to us
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and to," who everyone?
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"To our children,
our grandchildren."
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Another words, God
reveals things to you
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so that you can share them
out of love and compassion,
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winsomely, tactfully, faithfully
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to your children
and grandchildren.
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All right, we
continue, "The secret things
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belong to the Lord our God,
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but those things
which are revealed
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belong to us and
our children forever,
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that we may do all
the words of this law."
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Deuteronomy 29:29.
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Now, what phobias do you have?
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Because many people,
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many people are scared
to study about the future.
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What phobias do you have?
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Most people have at
least one or hundred phobias.
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Top phobias, how about spiders?
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Do we have spider
phobia here tonight?
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All right. How
about phobia of heights?
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I have to raise
my hand on that one.
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And I think that might run
in the family a little bit,
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but all heights, you know.
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Some people, you
know, if there's a precipice
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and it goes down
of thousand feet,
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Grand Canyon or whatever,
they want to go right up there.
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Not me, man, I'm
like way back here saying,
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okay, it's probably beautiful.
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And so listen, how
about phobia of dogs?
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I won't name the dogs
because you might have one.
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All right. Mice, rats, phobias.
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Thunder and lightning, phobias.
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Well, many have a
fear of the future,
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and the Book of Revelation.
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They're scared to death.
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They would never knock
on the doorstep and say,
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I'm going to
come, learn prophecy.
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No, they are trying
to make a detour around
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any of these prophecies
of Daniel and Revelation.
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But God wants us to study it.
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Does Jesus want us to
study the Book of Revelation?
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We already discovered
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we need to study the
Book of Daniel as well.
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And we really focus
on that smashing prophecy
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of the multi-metallic image,
that Daniel said it's awesome.
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And so Revelation
1:1-3, let's go there with me.
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Go there with me,
Revelation Chapter 1.
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Last book in the Bible, I think
you can find it. All right.
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Revelation Chapter 1,
your time's up. All right?
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Verse one,
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and I'm going to ask
you to fill in the blanks.
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The revelation of scary beasts.
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Now there are some
nightmarish beasts in here
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to be sure.
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But the main
upshot, the main thrust,
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the overarching theme,
the foundational teaching
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of the Book of
Revelation is what?
00:15:07.54\00:15:09.07
A revelation of Jesus Christ.
00:15:09.10\00:15:11.44
How many love Jesus tonight?
00:15:11.47\00:15:12.84
I believe you do, that's
why you came here tonight.
00:15:12.87\00:15:15.48
"The Revelation of Jesus Christ,
00:15:15.51\00:15:17.15
which God gave to Him
to show to His servants,
00:15:17.18\00:15:20.05
things or events or developments
00:15:20.08\00:15:22.15
which must shortly take place.
00:15:22.18\00:15:24.92
And He sent
signified it by His angel
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to His servant John,
00:15:26.99\00:15:28.72
who bore witness
to the word of God,
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and to the testimony of Jesus,
00:15:30.53\00:15:32.73
to all things that he
saw in panorama prophecy."
00:15:32.76\00:15:36.23
He saw visions, he
was highly favored of God
00:15:36.26\00:15:40.20
and as you and I
study the same prophecies,
00:15:40.24\00:15:42.70
understand the same prophecies
00:15:42.74\00:15:44.77
and decode the
symbols and so forth,
00:15:44.81\00:15:47.48
we are favored by God.
00:15:47.51\00:15:51.01
"Blessed," read verse 3 with me.
00:15:51.05\00:15:53.35
"Blessed is he who reads
00:15:53.38\00:15:55.45
and those who hear the
words of this prophecy,
00:15:55.48\00:15:58.42
and keep those things
which are written in it,
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for the time is near."
00:16:00.69\00:16:03.02
The time is near.
00:16:03.06\00:16:04.49
So there is a threefold blessing
00:16:04.53\00:16:07.40
right here at the very outset,
00:16:07.43\00:16:09.83
the very front page of
the Book of Revelation,
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the first page.
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A free full blessing pronounced
00:16:14.00\00:16:16.37
and offered to anyone
who will invest the time.
00:16:16.40\00:16:21.18
Can you say a
multi-week seminar?
00:16:21.21\00:16:24.38
Invest the time to read here
00:16:24.41\00:16:30.02
and keep the Book of Revelation.
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How many agree, you
can't keep something
00:16:33.22\00:16:34.56
you don't read and hear about?
00:16:34.59\00:16:36.19
And so the Bible
makes it very crystal clear
00:16:36.22\00:16:39.03
that this is a diamond prophecy,
00:16:39.06\00:16:41.76
a diamond promise.
00:16:41.80\00:16:43.73
This is
valuable. Can you say amen?
00:16:43.77\00:16:45.83
More priceless
than rubies. Amen.
00:16:45.87\00:16:47.97
Would you agree, God is saying,
00:16:48.00\00:16:50.91
I want you to take time
to study this book? Amen?
00:16:50.94\00:16:55.84
Now, Revelation 22:7,
00:16:55.88\00:16:57.78
the last page in
the Book of Revelation.
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Revelation 22, Revelation 22:7,
00:16:59.88\00:17:06.12
we have kind of an
echo of the promise
00:17:06.15\00:17:09.69
pronounced in Revelation 1:3
00:17:09.72\00:17:12.89
and here it's kind
of reverberates now.
00:17:12.93\00:17:15.76
In Revelation 22:7,
00:17:15.80\00:17:19.13
the words are in
red who is speaking?
00:17:19.17\00:17:22.97
Jesus. All right?
Let's read it together.
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All righty, let me hear you
in loud volume now, all right?
00:17:25.61\00:17:28.41
You ready?
00:17:28.44\00:17:29.78
"Behold, I am coming quickly.
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Blessed is he
who keeps the words
00:17:33.01\00:17:35.68
of the prophecy of this book."
00:17:35.72\00:17:38.05
Everybody say this book.
00:17:38.09\00:17:39.92
Say it again, this
book. Say it again, this book.
00:17:39.95\00:17:43.02
All right, that's
good enough. All right.
00:17:43.06\00:17:44.86
"Behold, I am coming quickly."
00:17:44.89\00:17:47.70
How many agree,
you got to get ready?
00:17:47.73\00:17:50.83
You got to get ready to
spend eternity with God.
00:17:50.87\00:17:54.60
The Bible says,
"Prepare to meet thy God."
00:17:54.64\00:17:57.67
"Prepare to meet thy God."
00:17:57.71\00:17:59.31
You don't just say,
okay, well, whenever.
00:17:59.34\00:18:01.78
No, everyday is
the day of preparation.
00:18:01.81\00:18:04.31
We don't know
the day or the hour,
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Matthew 24:36.
00:18:05.71\00:18:07.32
So the Bible tells us,
Jesus tells us, just be ready.
00:18:07.35\00:18:11.12
He tells us just be ready.
00:18:11.15\00:18:13.02
So whether he comes this
year or ten years from now,
00:18:13.05\00:18:17.33
you and I are going to be
ready by the grace of God,
00:18:17.36\00:18:19.93
standing ready, heart ready,
faith up, chin up, look up.
00:18:19.96\00:18:25.77
Amen?
00:18:25.80\00:18:27.14
And so I want
you to notice here,
00:18:27.17\00:18:28.50
"Behold, I am coming quickly."
00:18:28.54\00:18:30.11
Blessed or highly favored.
00:18:30.14\00:18:34.34
You will arise
00:18:34.38\00:18:36.11
and have mercy upon Zion
for the time to favor her.
00:18:36.14\00:18:38.95
Yes, the set time
has come. Blessed.
00:18:38.98\00:18:43.45
This is a time to understand
the end time prophecies.
00:18:43.49\00:18:47.46
"Blessed is he who
keeps," put your name in there,
00:18:47.49\00:18:51.89
insert your name there.
00:18:51.93\00:18:53.73
"Blessed is," put
your name in there.
00:18:53.76\00:18:56.00
"Who keeps the words of
the prophecy of this book."
00:18:56.03\00:18:59.93
God wants us and He
promises to bless us
00:18:59.97\00:19:03.84
if we read and
hear and keep the words,
00:19:03.87\00:19:09.08
priceless inspired words
00:19:09.11\00:19:11.18
embraced in this 22
chapter book of Revelation.
00:19:11.21\00:19:16.99
And so, to be blessed
00:19:17.02\00:19:19.02
with an understanding
of Revelation means
00:19:19.05\00:19:21.32
you are favored by God.
00:19:21.36\00:19:24.26
Amen.
00:19:24.29\00:19:25.69
"And now I have told you
before it comes, Jesus said,
00:19:25.73\00:19:28.53
that when it does come
to pass, you may believe."
00:19:28.56\00:19:32.67
John 14:29.
00:19:32.70\00:19:34.37
Why study Bible prophecy?
So you can have more faith.
00:19:34.40\00:19:38.81
You have faith
tonight, faith cometh by hearing
00:19:38.84\00:19:42.64
and hearing of the word of God
00:19:42.68\00:19:44.28
and this should
be a word in season,
00:19:44.31\00:19:46.82
a live call to give the
trumpet a certain sound just--
00:19:46.85\00:19:50.39
How many agree, God led
you here tonight to hear,
00:19:50.42\00:19:52.89
just what you needed to hear?
00:19:52.92\00:19:54.69
Amen?
00:19:54.72\00:19:56.06
God is always on time,
00:19:56.09\00:19:57.43
He knows, He
doesn't play with us.
00:19:57.46\00:19:59.26
He is loving and kind
00:19:59.29\00:20:01.53
and He knows just
what we need to hear
00:20:01.56\00:20:04.10
to wake up and look up.
00:20:04.13\00:20:06.60
Amen.
00:20:06.63\00:20:07.97
And so the Bible
makes that crystal clear.
00:20:08.00\00:20:09.64
Matter of fact, take your Bible
00:20:09.67\00:20:11.54
and turn with me
to Luke Chapter 21.
00:20:11.57\00:20:13.54
You've heard me say
twice now, look up. All right?
00:20:13.58\00:20:16.91
In the context of
signs of the times,
00:20:16.95\00:20:20.05
in the context of a
catalog of signs of the times.
00:20:20.08\00:20:23.49
Harbinger, omens,
precursors, mileposts,
00:20:23.52\00:20:27.56
foreshadowing of the
Lord's imminent return.
00:20:27.59\00:20:30.66
In that context, Luke
21, we read this, all right,
00:20:30.69\00:20:35.23
verse 28.
00:20:35.26\00:20:37.80
Now when these
things begin to happen,
00:20:37.83\00:20:40.47
look in what direction?
00:20:40.50\00:20:42.77
Look up.
00:20:42.80\00:20:44.14
Would you agree, as
you watch the evening news,
00:20:44.17\00:20:45.97
it can be
downright discouraging,
00:20:46.01\00:20:48.11
you can look down.
00:20:48.14\00:20:51.48
You got to look up
00:20:51.51\00:20:52.85
because the bad news is
reminder of the good news,
00:20:52.88\00:20:54.82
He's coming.
00:20:54.85\00:20:56.18
So look up.
00:20:56.22\00:20:57.55
Prophecy is all
about looking up to Jesus.
00:20:57.59\00:21:01.12
Looking up to Jesus.
00:21:01.16\00:21:02.49
How many agree,
you fall on your face
00:21:02.52\00:21:04.63
before God at the foot
of the cross every day?
00:21:04.66\00:21:07.80
And you look up and you
see Jesus hanging on the cross.
00:21:07.83\00:21:11.07
But then you realize,
He is now a living savior,
00:21:11.10\00:21:15.67
He came forth from that
tomb that early Sunday morning.
00:21:15.70\00:21:20.21
And now we look up.
00:21:20.24\00:21:21.74
Remember, they looked up
and they saw Jesus ascending
00:21:21.78\00:21:24.28
and they said, the same
Jesus is going to come back
00:21:24.31\00:21:26.31
in the same way you've
seen Him go into heaven,
00:21:26.35\00:21:28.82
Acts 1:11.
00:21:28.85\00:21:30.19
So they look up, look up.
00:21:30.22\00:21:32.52
As you look up
right now, I see Jesus
00:21:32.55\00:21:34.56
like Stephen said in Acts 70,
as he was being stoned he said,
00:21:34.59\00:21:39.13
I see Jesus standing
at the right hand of God.
00:21:39.16\00:21:42.20
Hallelujah.
00:21:42.23\00:21:44.90
And then, and then John,
00:21:44.93\00:21:48.07
the Revelator, he's looking up,
00:21:48.10\00:21:51.64
he's looking up to Jesus
00:21:51.67\00:21:53.81
because soon Jesus is going
to cease His intercessory work.
00:21:53.84\00:21:58.05
How many agree, He's
not coming as a high priest,
00:21:58.08\00:21:59.85
He's coming as King of
kings and Lord of lords,
00:21:59.88\00:22:02.32
Revelation 19.
00:22:02.35\00:22:03.69
How many agree,
00:22:03.72\00:22:05.05
soon He's going to take
off those priestly garments
00:22:05.09\00:22:06.49
of His high
priestly mediatorial work,
00:22:06.52\00:22:08.76
His intercessory work
00:22:08.79\00:22:10.13
and He is going
to come in glory,
00:22:10.16\00:22:12.66
and the Bible makes it
clear, look up, because, what?
00:22:12.69\00:22:16.03
Your redemption draws nigh.
00:22:16.06\00:22:18.73
You see, the gospel is
not just Jesus died for you.
00:22:18.77\00:22:22.30
Perhaps it's not just
Jesus is interceding for you,
00:22:22.34\00:22:28.18
present.
00:22:28.21\00:22:29.54
But it's also,
He who died for you,
00:22:29.58\00:22:31.91
who intercedes for
you, He's coming for you.
00:22:31.95\00:22:35.18
That's the everlasting gospel.
00:22:35.22\00:22:36.55
How many of you want
to hear the full gospel
00:22:36.58\00:22:38.79
in the seminar night by night?
00:22:38.82\00:22:40.39
And so the Bible make--
00:22:40.42\00:22:41.76
That's called the
everlasting gospel,
00:22:41.79\00:22:43.12
Revelation 14:6, 7,
00:22:43.16\00:22:45.56
that's going to
go around the world,
00:22:45.59\00:22:46.93
its past, present or future.
00:22:46.96\00:22:48.46
The gospel is all about
what Jesus has done for you.
00:22:48.50\00:22:52.33
How many agree,
He's done a lot for you?
00:22:52.37\00:22:54.07
And what He is doing for you?
00:22:54.10\00:22:55.44
How many agree, He's
doing a lot for you right now.
00:22:55.47\00:22:59.07
And thirdly, what
He's going to do for you.
00:22:59.11\00:23:02.24
How many agree, eye has
not seen, nor ear heard,
00:23:02.28\00:23:05.81
neither have entered
into the heart of man
00:23:05.85\00:23:07.92
the things that God has prepared
00:23:07.95\00:23:09.35
for those who love Him."
00:23:09.38\00:23:10.72
1 Corinthians 2:9.
00:23:10.75\00:23:12.09
Sudden changes are about to
catch the world by surprise.
00:23:13.25\00:23:17.09
Amazing Bible
prophecies are fast fulfilling.
00:23:17.13\00:23:20.46
Do ancient prophecies predict
the sudden economic collapse?
00:23:20.50\00:23:24.07
Will the Middle East
crisis erupt into World War III?
00:23:24.10\00:23:27.67
Are we living on
the eve of Armageddon?
00:23:27.70\00:23:30.24
How will the final moves
of the antichrist affect you?
00:23:30.27\00:23:33.58
What is the future of
the United States of America?
00:23:33.61\00:23:36.71
How will natural disasters
usher in the mark of the beast?
00:23:36.75\00:23:40.92
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How many agree, with Him
there is a future and a hope?
00:24:16.42\00:24:19.85
Jeremiah 29:11.
00:24:19.89\00:24:21.86
And so the Bible says
here, look up, look up.
00:24:21.89\00:24:25.36
The Bible says here, look up,
00:24:25.39\00:24:28.00
lift up your heads because
your redemption draws nigh.
00:24:28.03\00:24:31.47
Look to your
neighbor and say look up.
00:24:31.50\00:24:35.44
That means cheer
up, that means faith up.
00:24:35.47\00:24:39.17
That would mean wake up.
00:24:39.21\00:24:40.54
How many agree,
the signs of the times
00:24:40.58\00:24:41.91
are all about wake
up, heads up, faith up,
00:24:41.94\00:24:46.28
look up, and soon
we're going to go up?
00:24:46.31\00:24:48.88
Can you say amen?
00:24:48.92\00:24:50.25
And so how does
the prophet Daniel
00:24:50.29\00:24:51.69
describe the near future?
00:24:51.72\00:24:53.72
We focused on this last night.
00:24:53.76\00:24:56.49
Once again let's
do a double take,
00:24:56.52\00:24:59.56
Bible forecast, Daniel
12:1, that in the last days
00:24:59.59\00:25:03.90
there would be a period of time
known as the time of the end.
00:25:03.93\00:25:07.20
And in a portion of that
00:25:07.24\00:25:08.57
there would be a time of trouble
00:25:08.60\00:25:10.67
such as never was
since there was a nation.
00:25:10.71\00:25:13.64
Unprecedented
global prophetic crisis.
00:25:13.68\00:25:18.55
Is the United States of America
00:25:18.58\00:25:20.18
on the verge of a
stupendous crisis?
00:25:20.22\00:25:24.49
Is America in Bible prophecy?
00:25:24.52\00:25:27.56
We've got messages
coming up on that one.
00:25:27.59\00:25:30.16
Is there a hope
in America's future?
00:25:30.19\00:25:34.00
I love this country
00:25:34.03\00:25:35.73
but all is not
well in this country.
00:25:35.76\00:25:39.67
If you were to ask me,
00:25:39.70\00:25:41.04
Mark, if you had any
place to live in the world,
00:25:41.07\00:25:42.74
where would you like to live?
00:25:42.77\00:25:44.11
Right here.
00:25:44.14\00:25:45.47
Right here, not
putting down any other country.
00:25:45.51\00:25:47.74
I'm just saying
this is my first choice.
00:25:47.78\00:25:50.55
I thank God for this country,
00:25:50.58\00:25:53.31
the land of the
free and the brave,
00:25:53.35\00:25:55.55
at least we would like
to believe then I thank God,
00:25:55.58\00:26:01.12
my country, 'tis of thee.
00:26:01.16\00:26:03.29
Sweet land of
liberty. I love this country.
00:26:03.32\00:26:07.46
I thank God for those
who have fought for this,
00:26:07.50\00:26:09.70
the freedom of this country.
00:26:09.73\00:26:11.23
How many of you have fought?
00:26:11.27\00:26:12.60
Some of you have
been in the Air Force
00:26:12.63\00:26:14.90
and military and so forth.
00:26:14.94\00:26:16.27
Thank God for freedom.
Let freedom continue to reign.
00:26:16.30\00:26:20.68
But all is not well.
00:26:20.71\00:26:22.64
Could it be the torch of Liberty
00:26:22.68\00:26:24.35
is beginning to flicker
00:26:24.38\00:26:26.48
and that tired woman is
beginning to lower her hand?
00:26:26.51\00:26:31.32
I'm asking you tonight,
00:26:31.35\00:26:33.76
are you like a lot of Americans?
00:26:33.79\00:26:36.29
CNN Poll: December 31, 2009,
00:26:36.32\00:26:40.93
Americans less
hopeful about the future.
00:26:40.96\00:26:46.47
It's more punctuated tonight.
Why study Bible prophecy?
00:26:46.50\00:26:50.17
So you can be more awake
to the signs of the times.
00:26:50.21\00:26:54.04
Do you know, right now we
have more ready easy access,
00:26:54.08\00:27:00.25
easy access to
what's going on in the world
00:27:00.28\00:27:04.15
so you and I live
on the edge of eternity
00:27:04.19\00:27:07.32
when we can know and
have a grasp on a handle
00:27:07.36\00:27:10.63
on the signs of the
times more than ever before?
00:27:10.66\00:27:13.63
Would you agree,
00:27:13.66\00:27:15.00
now because of
advances in mass communication
00:27:15.03\00:27:17.70
you can know
exactly what's going.
00:27:17.73\00:27:19.37
Pick a country and you can know
00:27:19.40\00:27:20.74
what's going on in that country,
00:27:20.77\00:27:22.10
right now go home.
00:27:22.14\00:27:23.47
You what to know
what's going on in Italy?
00:27:23.51\00:27:24.84
No problem, you can find out.
00:27:24.87\00:27:26.21
You want to go,
know what's going on
00:27:26.24\00:27:27.58
in South America?
00:27:27.61\00:27:28.94
No problem. What
country in South America?
00:27:28.98\00:27:30.31
You can know, you can know.
00:27:30.35\00:27:31.68
Would you agree,
there is no excuse,
00:27:31.71\00:27:33.05
we can know,
behold, I come quickly.
00:27:33.08\00:27:36.28
And so the Bible
makes that crystal clear.
00:27:36.32\00:27:39.15
So what is one
word this summarizes
00:27:39.19\00:27:41.06
how many people
feel about the future
00:27:41.09\00:27:43.06
and what is
happening in the world today?
00:27:43.09\00:27:44.89
Fear.
00:27:44.93\00:27:46.59
Poignant, nagging,
penetrating fear of the future.
00:27:46.63\00:27:52.50
For example,
the economic crisis.
00:27:52.53\00:27:55.04
I don't have much time
to deal with this situation
00:27:55.07\00:27:57.67
but it is dire, it is ominous.
00:27:57.71\00:28:00.38
Washington Post
editorial entitled, looking back
00:28:00.41\00:28:03.98
at the first ten
years of the 21st century,
00:28:04.01\00:28:07.05
"Decade of dread."
00:28:07.08\00:28:09.68
Decade of dread. Time Magazine.
00:28:09.72\00:28:12.22
Look back and call
the first ten years,
00:28:12.25\00:28:14.32
the decade from hell.
00:28:14.36\00:28:16.99
And I'm here to tell you
00:28:17.03\00:28:18.46
that I don't believe
it's going to get much better.
00:28:18.49\00:28:22.80
Bankruptcies,
foreclosures, job losses,
00:28:22.83\00:28:25.87
credit debt and the
list goes on and on.
00:28:25.90\00:28:28.84
Have you been to New York City?
00:28:28.87\00:28:30.97
Have you seen that
debt clock in New York City?
00:28:31.01\00:28:34.74
You know, blink an
eye, if you snap a picture,
00:28:34.78\00:28:37.78
guess what,
tomorrow it's obsolete.
00:28:37.81\00:28:41.08
Because it just
keeps on ticking.
00:28:41.12\00:28:43.02
I think you can go online
and see what the debt clock is,
00:28:43.05\00:28:46.55
and that you can just
put it up on your computer
00:28:46.59\00:28:48.42
and just keep it live, you know.
00:28:48.46\00:28:52.09
I'm here to tell you
00:28:52.13\00:28:53.73
that we have an
astronomical debt.
00:28:53.76\00:28:56.20
What is one of the
biggest economic fears today?
00:28:56.23\00:28:59.20
How are we going
to handle this debt?
00:28:59.23\00:29:02.37
How we're going to handle these
00:29:02.40\00:29:03.74
trillions and
trillions of dollars?
00:29:03.77\00:29:05.74
Nobody knows, nobody knows.
00:29:05.77\00:29:08.94
We are a nation
raised up and blessed by God
00:29:08.98\00:29:12.75
just like Israel was.
00:29:12.78\00:29:14.12
How many agree,
God favored Israel,
00:29:14.15\00:29:16.18
God has favored America?
00:29:16.22\00:29:19.55
Now listen carefully.
00:29:19.59\00:29:22.12
In Leviticus and Deuteronomy
God gave a litany a list,
00:29:22.16\00:29:28.36
a catalog list of
blessings if Israel would obey
00:29:28.40\00:29:32.70
and corresponding
curses if they disobeyed.
00:29:32.73\00:29:36.64
And I think we can learn
00:29:36.67\00:29:38.54
from the checkered
history of ancient Israel,
00:29:38.57\00:29:44.91
we can learn.
00:29:44.95\00:29:46.75
And let's see
what the Bible says,
00:29:46.78\00:29:48.38
Leviticus 26:19.
00:29:48.42\00:29:50.69
"I will break the
pride of your power."
00:29:50.72\00:29:53.66
We discovered last night
00:29:54.69\00:29:56.02
we're the sole
remaining superpower.
00:29:56.06\00:29:58.43
It doesn't matter,
00:29:58.46\00:29:59.79
I will break the
pride of your power.
00:29:59.83\00:30:02.46
You know we are losing.
00:30:02.50\00:30:04.77
We are losing
ground in many fronts
00:30:04.80\00:30:07.20
in the United States of America.
00:30:07.24\00:30:09.27
Could there be a
food crisis ultimately?
00:30:09.30\00:30:11.44
"I will hold back the
rain, so the sky above you
00:30:11.47\00:30:14.11
will be like iron."
00:30:14.14\00:30:15.71
Now that can be
applied in a variety of ways.
00:30:15.74\00:30:19.05
Leviticus 26:19.
00:30:19.08\00:30:21.48
Can you expect,
for example, you know,
00:30:21.52\00:30:23.32
there's been the bail outs?
00:30:23.35\00:30:26.42
Well, let's see
what the Bible forecasts.
00:30:26.45\00:30:28.52
There's going to
be a sudden change,
00:30:28.56\00:30:30.73
Revelation Chapter
13. Revelation Chapter 13.
00:30:30.76\00:30:36.46
What does the Book
of Revelation predict
00:30:36.50\00:30:40.44
about the
economic, the economic world
00:30:40.47\00:30:44.51
and the economic world
and the religious world?
00:30:44.54\00:30:47.08
How they're coalesced and
what's going to be enforced?
00:30:47.11\00:30:50.51
The mark of the beast.
00:30:50.55\00:30:52.38
And what's going
to be along with that?
00:30:52.41\00:30:55.18
What's going to
be added to that?
00:30:55.22\00:30:56.55
What's going to
be in the package
00:30:56.58\00:30:58.15
of enforced mark of the beast?
00:30:58.19\00:31:00.99
What's going to
go along with that?
00:31:01.02\00:31:02.59
The government will
impose an economic boycott,
00:31:02.62\00:31:07.60
economic sanctions upon anyone
00:31:07.63\00:31:10.60
who dares to
dissent or dares to disagree
00:31:10.63\00:31:14.27
and does not want to go along
with this mark of the beast
00:31:14.30\00:31:17.07
that will be popular.
00:31:17.11\00:31:19.31
Majority will go along with it.
00:31:19.34\00:31:22.04
And so, I want you to
notice here in Revelation 13:16.
00:31:22.08\00:31:26.21
And I'm going to show
you in a future presentation
00:31:26.25\00:31:28.42
that this is the
United States of America.
00:31:28.45\00:31:31.32
But we know the
mark of the beast
00:31:31.35\00:31:32.69
will be enforced globally.
00:31:32.72\00:31:35.32
That's not my opinion,
don't believe anything I say
00:31:35.36\00:31:37.39
unless you can back
it up in the scriptures.
00:31:37.43\00:31:39.46
Unless we back it
up with scriptures
00:31:39.49\00:31:40.83
you can go home
and check it out.
00:31:40.86\00:31:43.20
But my Bible tells
me the mark of the beast
00:31:43.23\00:31:45.70
is going to be
enforced around the world.
00:31:45.73\00:31:48.57
And the Bible
makes it very clear,
00:31:48.60\00:31:51.24
"He causes all,
both small and great,
00:31:51.27\00:31:52.97
rich and poor, free and
slave, to receive a mark
00:31:53.01\00:31:55.24
on their right hand
or on their foreheads,
00:31:55.28\00:31:56.64
enforce mark of the beast.
00:31:56.68\00:31:58.51
And that no one may buy or sell
00:31:58.55\00:32:02.28
except one who has the
mark or the name of the beast,
00:32:02.32\00:32:04.39
or the number of his name."
00:32:04.42\00:32:05.75
That is an economic boycott.
00:32:05.79\00:32:08.56
You will be all
locked out of commerce,
00:32:08.59\00:32:11.49
you will be restricted
from buying or selling
00:32:11.53\00:32:15.20
if you don't go along
with what the majority
00:32:15.23\00:32:18.07
and what the polls will indicate
00:32:18.10\00:32:19.97
is a good thing for the country.
00:32:20.00\00:32:22.34
How many agree, it
will even look Christian?
00:32:22.37\00:32:25.84
And so because
the devil comes in
00:32:25.87\00:32:27.51
as an angel of
light, doesn't it?
00:32:27.54\00:32:29.44
According to the
scriptures, 2 Corinthians 11.
00:32:29.48\00:32:32.51
You know, you say, well, Mark,
how could they really control
00:32:32.55\00:32:35.35
buying and selling?
00:32:35.38\00:32:38.35
Well, listen, I am not
saying don't use a credit card,
00:32:38.39\00:32:42.12
I am not saying don't
use electronic banking.
00:32:42.16\00:32:45.69
But I am here to tell
you we're all plugged in
00:32:45.73\00:32:48.63
and you can be
digitally disabled in a second.
00:32:48.66\00:32:53.44
Come on, now how many of
you have lost your credit card
00:32:53.47\00:32:55.90
and you call them
up, "Could you please,
00:32:55.94\00:32:57.77
I don't know where
my credit card is?"
00:32:57.81\00:33:00.18
And they said, "No problem."
00:33:00.21\00:33:02.28
Disable it,
giving you another one.
00:33:02.31\00:33:04.81
How many of you
had that experience?
00:33:04.85\00:33:06.18
All right.
00:33:06.21\00:33:07.55
Good.
00:33:07.58\00:33:08.92
Somebody is not alone,
right? How about this one?
00:33:09.62\00:33:14.62
You have an unusual
buying pattern, buying spree
00:33:14.66\00:33:19.13
and you're at Sears,
you've been at the mall
00:33:19.16\00:33:21.13
and you've gone to
this store and that store
00:33:21.16\00:33:23.03
and this store and that
store, it's you know adding up.
00:33:23.06\00:33:26.10
And you go to
Sears, it's your last store
00:33:26.13\00:33:29.00
and it's a $100
item and they say,
00:33:29.04\00:33:31.41
"Sir, you know, or
man, you've been denied
00:33:31.44\00:33:35.24
or they would
like to talk to you."
00:33:35.28\00:33:38.41
"And yeah we just want
to make sure is this you."
00:33:38.45\00:33:41.32
"Yeah, this is
me." "Are you okay?"
00:33:41.35\00:33:43.82
How many of you know
what I'm talking about?
00:33:43.85\00:33:45.19
Have you ever
had that experience?
00:33:45.22\00:33:46.55
All right. Very good.
00:33:46.59\00:33:48.39
You can be digitally
disabled in this virtually
00:33:48.42\00:33:51.63
cashless
society that we live in.
00:33:51.66\00:33:54.10
And we're going to
deal much more with this
00:33:54.13\00:33:56.10
in future presentations.
00:33:56.13\00:33:58.20
And so did you know that
the Bible also forecast that
00:33:58.23\00:34:01.20
in the last days
there will be a growing gap
00:34:01.24\00:34:04.17
between the rich and the poor,
00:34:04.21\00:34:06.84
between the have
and the have nots.
00:34:06.88\00:34:09.94
There is nothing
wrong with having wealth.
00:34:09.98\00:34:11.91
If you have it, praise the Lord.
00:34:11.95\00:34:13.28
Just use it for Jesus.
00:34:13.31\00:34:15.32
But the Bible makes it
very clear that ultimately
00:34:15.35\00:34:17.82
your riches are corrupted,
they have rotted, James 5:2.
00:34:17.85\00:34:23.32
So no wonder there
will be some economic fears.
00:34:23.36\00:34:27.30
Now, what affect
will the plagues--
00:34:27.33\00:34:28.86
The Bible says if you
receive the mark of the beast,
00:34:28.90\00:34:30.67
you'll get the
seven last plagues.
00:34:30.70\00:34:32.63
And it will
devastate ravage the earth.
00:34:32.67\00:34:35.97
So what affect
will the plagues have
00:34:36.00\00:34:37.81
on the national
and global economy?
00:34:37.84\00:34:39.87
It'll be crippled and
it will collapse overnight.
00:34:39.91\00:34:43.24
"For in one hour such
great riches came to nothing."
00:34:43.28\00:34:47.32
The Bible forecasts sudden
changes in the economic world.
00:34:47.35\00:34:51.95
It's going to happen.
And so Revelation 18:17.
00:34:51.99\00:34:57.13
How did Elijah pray
for his backslidden nation?
00:34:57.16\00:35:00.66
How did he pray for them?
00:35:00.70\00:35:02.43
"Elijah was a man
with a nature like ours,
00:35:02.46\00:35:04.67
and he prayed earnestly
that it would not rain,
00:35:04.70\00:35:06.70
and it did not rain on the land
00:35:06.74\00:35:08.67
for three years and six months."
00:35:08.70\00:35:10.77
Did you catch
that? James 5:16, 17.
00:35:10.81\00:35:13.74
How many believe that all
scriptures inspired by God?
00:35:13.78\00:35:16.24
2 Timothy 3:16, 17.
00:35:16.28\00:35:20.18
I ask you this, I ask you
with your reasonable mind,
00:35:20.22\00:35:25.32
is Elijah a type of how
God wants to raise up modern
00:35:25.35\00:35:30.66
Elijahs in the last days?
00:35:30.69\00:35:33.53
Bible talks about
the return of Elijah.
00:35:33.56\00:35:35.66
We got a whole
message coming up on that.
00:35:35.70\00:35:38.17
But what is the
mission and the message
00:35:38.20\00:35:40.04
of Elijah in the last day?
00:35:40.07\00:35:42.27
To get ready for
the coming of Christ.
00:35:42.30\00:35:44.87
We'll deal with
that in the future.
00:35:44.91\00:35:46.24
But I want you to notice,
00:35:46.27\00:35:47.61
Elijah was known
as a man of prayer.
00:35:47.64\00:35:50.28
How many would like to be
known as a person of prayer?
00:35:50.31\00:35:53.98
Come on, say amen out there.
00:35:54.02\00:35:56.05
Come on, now let me see if
you got holes in your knees,
00:35:56.08\00:35:58.05
in your pants there.
00:35:59.19\00:36:00.89
Listen.
00:36:03.46\00:36:04.79
Jesus said in Luke 21:36,
00:36:06.13\00:36:09.43
in the context of
the signs of the times,
00:36:09.46\00:36:12.40
He said pray always
that you will escape
00:36:12.43\00:36:15.64
all these things and
stand ready when I come.
00:36:15.67\00:36:19.31
You have to be a
person of prayer.
00:36:19.34\00:36:21.74
You got to learn, I tell
my children, talk to Jesus.
00:36:21.78\00:36:25.08
If you and I
learn to talk to Jesus,
00:36:25.11\00:36:28.58
you're going to make it,
00:36:28.62\00:36:30.05
you're going to be all right.
00:36:30.09\00:36:31.42
Amen.
00:36:31.45\00:36:32.79
And so, I want you to
notice here that he prayed.
00:36:32.82\00:36:34.32
So how should we pray for
the United States of America?
00:36:34.36\00:36:38.53
Should we pray, Lord, just
keep loading on prosperity,
00:36:38.56\00:36:42.46
Lord, just keep on
richly blessing America.
00:36:42.50\00:36:46.10
Give us more, more, more.
00:36:46.13\00:36:52.67
Elijah prayed
that it would rain.
00:36:52.71\00:36:55.58
So I leave that to your
reasonable mind and you take--
00:36:56.88\00:37:00.32
Ho many agree, that's
something to really look at
00:37:00.35\00:37:02.55
and think how should we pray?
00:37:02.58\00:37:04.69
Because my Bible
tells me in Isaiah 26.
00:37:04.72\00:37:10.03
Go there with me.
00:37:10.06\00:37:11.93
It says there in a
powerful scripture.
00:37:11.96\00:37:15.36
I spent a lot of time thinking
about this message tonight.
00:37:15.40\00:37:19.73
And I feel impressed to
share the scripture with you.
00:37:19.77\00:37:23.24
Isaiah 26.
00:37:23.27\00:37:26.44
Isaiah 26, verse number.
00:37:26.47\00:37:31.95
Verse number.
00:37:31.98\00:37:34.55
Let's look
there, verse number 8.
00:37:34.58\00:37:38.59
Twenty six and
looking there at verse 8.
00:37:38.62\00:37:42.29
"Yes, in the way
of Your judgments,
00:37:42.32\00:37:44.83
O Lord, we have waited for You,
00:37:44.86\00:37:46.36
The desire of our
soul is for Your name
00:37:46.39\00:37:48.56
And for the remembrance of You.
00:37:48.60\00:37:50.70
With my soul I have
desired You in the night, Yes,
00:37:50.73\00:37:55.17
my spirit within me
I will seek You early,
00:37:55.20\00:37:58.17
For when Your
judgments are in the earth,
00:37:58.21\00:38:02.98
the inhabitants of the
world will learn righteousness."
00:38:03.01\00:38:06.88
Would you agree
that judgments of God
00:38:06.92\00:38:09.42
are already falling
on America and the world
00:38:09.45\00:38:12.85
and they are teaching us,
00:38:12.89\00:38:15.56
get ready
because Jesus is coming.
00:38:15.59\00:38:19.19
The judgments of God are to
teach us to do what's right,
00:38:19.23\00:38:23.33
to teach us repentance.
00:38:23.37\00:38:24.97
The judgments of God come
with the divine purpose to wake
00:38:25.00\00:38:29.14
people up that they might
come to the cross of Christ,
00:38:29.17\00:38:32.21
that they might fall on
their face before God and say,
00:38:32.24\00:38:34.91
God be merciful to me, a sinner.
00:38:34.94\00:38:37.25
Luke 18:13, and so the
Bible makes it very clear.
00:38:37.28\00:38:42.15
Notice here, verse 11.
00:38:42.18\00:38:44.22
Notice here, verse 11.
00:38:44.25\00:38:46.65
"Lord, when Your hand is
lifted up, they will not see.
00:38:46.69\00:38:49.09
But they will see and be ashamed
00:38:49.12\00:38:51.09
for their envy of people,
00:38:51.13\00:38:52.46
yes, the fire of Your
enemies shall devour them."
00:38:52.49\00:38:55.40
I want you to notice
here and for your judgments
00:38:55.43\00:38:59.43
on the earth, then it talks
about that they will visit,
00:38:59.47\00:39:02.50
they will visit you Lord.
00:39:02.54\00:39:04.01
They will visit you.
00:39:04.04\00:39:05.71
And so I want you to notice
here, that the Bible talks
00:39:05.74\00:39:08.71
about the judgments
falling and people going to God.
00:39:08.74\00:39:13.65
Most people who come to God,
00:39:13.68\00:39:15.92
come during a
crisis in their life.
00:39:15.95\00:39:22.29
There is no atheist in
a foxhole during a war.
00:39:22.32\00:39:25.59
And so the Bible
makes that clear.
00:39:29.20\00:39:32.97
And the instant I
speak concerning a nation
00:39:33.00\00:39:36.57
and concerning the kingdom
to build and to plant it.
00:39:36.60\00:39:42.58
"If it does evil in my sight
00:39:42.61\00:39:44.88
so that it does
not obey my voice,
00:39:44.91\00:39:47.08
then I will relent
concerning the good with which
00:39:47.12\00:39:49.18
I said I would benefit it."
00:39:49.22\00:39:52.05
Jeremiah 18:9, 10.
00:39:52.09\00:39:54.12
Powerful
prophecy. Powerful prophecy.
00:39:54.16\00:39:57.43
You know in the
city that never sleeps,
00:39:57.46\00:39:59.06
you learn to sleep
through the unabated noise.
00:39:59.09\00:40:04.37
I've done a couple of crusades,
long seminars in New York City,
00:40:04.40\00:40:08.80
I know what I'm talking about.
00:40:08.84\00:40:10.51
I mean there, it's the
city that never sleeps.
00:40:10.54\00:40:14.71
You hear the sirens at
night, all during the night,
00:40:14.74\00:40:17.98
you hear the car
alarms, you hear the traffic,
00:40:18.01\00:40:20.62
the honking of horns.
00:40:20.65\00:40:22.08
But you learn to
ignore it all and snooze.
00:40:22.12\00:40:28.69
But you know what?
00:40:28.72\00:40:30.29
You cannot ignore
00:40:30.33\00:40:31.79
the dramatic signs
of Jesus soon return,
00:40:31.83\00:40:34.46
because if you ignore them,
you will sleep on to your loss.
00:40:34.50\00:40:41.14
And so we need to be awake.
00:40:41.17\00:40:43.24
And the Lord said
in the days of Noah,
00:40:43.27\00:40:46.04
"My spirit shall not
strive with man forever,
00:40:46.07\00:40:49.14
for he is indeed
flesh that yet his days
00:40:49.18\00:40:52.28
shall be one
hundred twenty years."
00:40:52.31\00:40:54.08
God withdrew His spirit.
00:40:54.12\00:40:57.15
Would you agree, 120 years,
00:40:57.19\00:40:58.52
that was the time
of the end for them?
00:40:58.55\00:41:00.56
Then the end came at
the close at that timeline.
00:41:00.59\00:41:02.76
But there was a time
at the end for 120 years.
00:41:02.79\00:41:07.33
And during that time
00:41:07.36\00:41:08.70
Noah was
preaching the final message,
00:41:08.73\00:41:10.87
the final message of mercy.
00:41:10.90\00:41:12.40
How many agree, he
gave the last call,
00:41:12.43\00:41:15.27
"Get in the ark."
00:41:15.30\00:41:16.64
And more animals went
into the ark then people
00:41:16.67\00:41:19.17
how you figure?
00:41:19.21\00:41:21.94
Eight people, eight people.
00:41:21.98\00:41:25.25
I believe God wanted
to save a whole lot more.
00:41:25.28\00:41:29.75
Holy Spirit was withdrawn
00:41:29.78\00:41:31.35
because they were
hardening their hearts.
00:41:31.39\00:41:33.62
Do you know the Holy
Spirit is being withdrawn
00:41:33.66\00:41:35.49
from the earth right now?
00:41:35.52\00:41:37.36
Upon those are defined
00:41:37.39\00:41:38.73
hardening, hardening,
hardening their heart,
00:41:38.76\00:41:41.06
Holy Spirit is withdrawn.
00:41:41.10\00:41:42.70
You know the whole world
00:41:42.73\00:41:44.07
will commit the unpardonable sin
00:41:44.10\00:41:45.90
except those who come
to the foot of the cross
00:41:45.93\00:41:48.87
and plead the blood of Jesus.
00:41:48.90\00:41:51.44
Thank God, that if
your heart is being soften,
00:41:51.47\00:41:54.78
you will receive the
outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
00:41:54.81\00:41:57.81
Two things are happening,
polarization of the world.
00:41:57.85\00:42:01.28
Two groups, two camps.
00:42:01.32\00:42:03.25
Those are going to be
saved, those who are not.
00:42:03.28\00:42:05.12
Those who get the
mark of the beast,
00:42:05.15\00:42:06.49
those who get the seal of God.
00:42:06.52\00:42:09.06
Those who go up
to be with the Lord,
00:42:09.09\00:42:10.59
and those who are lost.
00:42:10.63\00:42:12.73
And the Bible makes
it very crystal clear,
00:42:12.76\00:42:14.80
either you're going to
totally harden your heart
00:42:14.83\00:42:17.93
and the Holy
Spirit's withdrawn from you.
00:42:17.97\00:42:20.90
Or you're going
to open your heart
00:42:20.94\00:42:22.77
more and more and be
filled with the Holy Spirit.
00:42:22.80\00:42:25.67
And the Bible
says in Ephesians 5,
00:42:25.71\00:42:27.94
it says, be
filled with the spirit.
00:42:27.98\00:42:30.85
Can you say amen?
00:42:30.88\00:42:32.78
If you are going through a
personal crisis in your life,
00:42:32.81\00:42:35.78
if you are facing
financial challenges,
00:42:35.82\00:42:38.19
if you are
suffering from health problem,
00:42:38.22\00:42:40.29
if your marriage
is needing a miracle,
00:42:40.32\00:42:42.59
if you have a special
concern for your children?
00:42:42.62\00:42:45.16
Whatever you need
maybe give us a call
00:42:45.19\00:42:47.26
and we will pray with you.
00:42:47.30\00:42:48.63
For your prayer requests,
00:42:48.66\00:42:50.00
call us at 1-855-336-FREE.
00:42:50.03\00:42:54.24
"If the Son sets you
free, you are free indeed."
00:42:54.27\00:42:57.67
John 8:36.
00:42:57.71\00:43:00.11
What cluster of
cities were destroyed by fire
00:43:00.14\00:43:02.71
because of their
exceeding sinfulness?
00:43:02.74\00:43:05.48
Sodom and Gomorrah.
00:43:05.51\00:43:06.85
And there was actually
four cities there on the plane
00:43:06.88\00:43:09.52
on the south
end of the Dead Sea.
00:43:09.55\00:43:11.45
I've been there. It
was Sodom and Gomorra.
00:43:11.49\00:43:15.66
These luxurious, beautiful,
00:43:15.69\00:43:18.63
used to be very beautiful there.
00:43:18.66\00:43:20.46
And on the eve
of the destruction
00:43:20.50\00:43:22.36
of Sodom and
Gomorrah, God dispatched,
00:43:22.40\00:43:25.23
two heavenly
angels were sent by God
00:43:25.27\00:43:27.80
on a two fold
mission to save and destroy.
00:43:27.84\00:43:32.11
Who lived in Sodom and Gomorrah?
00:43:32.14\00:43:34.34
Lot and his family.
Who was the uncle of Lot?
00:43:34.38\00:43:39.28
Abraham.
00:43:39.31\00:43:40.65
And were there three strangers,
one of them being the Lord
00:43:40.68\00:43:45.29
who came to Abraham and said,
00:43:45.32\00:43:47.12
we're going to
destroy Sodom and Gomorrah?
00:43:47.16\00:43:48.99
And Abraham interceded
00:43:49.02\00:43:50.76
for his nephew
Lot and his family,
00:43:50.79\00:43:53.70
said, please, save them.
00:43:53.73\00:43:55.46
And the request was granted.
00:43:55.50\00:43:58.57
It pays to pray for loved ones.
It pays to pray for loved ones.
00:43:58.60\00:44:03.37
I wouldn't be here
if people didn't pray
00:44:03.41\00:44:05.97
for this pastor's protocol care.
00:44:06.01\00:44:09.21
I'm here to tell you
there's power in prayer.
00:44:09.24\00:44:11.95
But they came, they came there.
00:44:11.98\00:44:14.75
And the Bible says he
overthrew those cities,
00:44:14.78\00:44:17.59
Genesis 19:25.
00:44:17.62\00:44:19.85
The complete destruction
of Sodom and Gomorrah
00:44:19.89\00:44:22.62
is a type,
00:44:22.66\00:44:23.99
an example of the
fate of other wicked cities
00:44:24.03\00:44:28.66
of today in America.
00:44:28.70\00:44:32.57
It's just like
Billy Graham's wife.
00:44:32.60\00:44:37.14
Well, said, she
put it just right.
00:44:37.17\00:44:41.34
If Jesus doesn't come
soon He'll have to apologize
00:44:41.38\00:44:44.68
to Sodom and
Gomorrah who we destroyed
00:44:44.71\00:44:48.42
because we're, I believe--
00:44:48.45\00:44:51.45
I believe, what do you think?
00:44:51.49\00:44:52.92
Why did God destroy
00:44:52.95\00:44:54.29
the cities of
Sodom and Gomorrah?
00:44:54.32\00:44:56.06
Why did he do that?
00:44:56.09\00:44:57.89
Is America just a sinful
00:44:57.93\00:44:59.63
and corrupt this
Sodom and Gomorrah?
00:44:59.66\00:45:02.60
You be the judge.
00:45:02.63\00:45:03.97
Likewise as it was
also in the days of Lot,
00:45:04.00\00:45:05.80
they ate, they drank,
they bought, they sold,
00:45:05.83\00:45:07.50
they planted, they built,
00:45:07.54\00:45:08.90
but on the day that
Lot went out of Sodom
00:45:08.94\00:45:10.71
it rained fire and
brimstone from heaven
00:45:10.74\00:45:12.37
and destroyed them all.
00:45:12.41\00:45:13.74
Even so will it be in the day
00:45:13.78\00:45:15.11
when the Son of Man is revealed,
00:45:15.14\00:45:16.54
Luke 17:28-30.
00:45:16.58\00:45:18.48
And Jesus said, be
aware, don't be caught up
00:45:18.51\00:45:20.78
and carousing and
drunkenness, Luke 21:34.
00:45:20.82\00:45:24.75
I was caught up in it.
00:45:24.79\00:45:28.26
Borderline alcoholic, in drugs,
00:45:28.29\00:45:30.86
High school
dropout after ninth grade,
00:45:30.89\00:45:32.73
I was there
during the hippie era.
00:45:32.76\00:45:35.06
How many remember discotheques?
00:45:35.10\00:45:39.63
Let me tell you something,
I was all lost young man.
00:45:39.67\00:45:44.61
Oh, you'd see me laugh.
I was hollow in the inside.
00:45:46.54\00:45:52.38
And then I, then ultimately
attended a series of meetings
00:45:52.41\00:45:55.98
just like this by an evangelist
by the name of Mark Finley.
00:45:56.02\00:46:02.06
I attended his
meetings night by night.
00:46:02.09\00:46:05.06
It took me 45 minutes.
00:46:05.09\00:46:06.70
I was going with my fiancé
who I did not end up marrying
00:46:06.73\00:46:10.37
but I attended these
meetings just like this,
00:46:10.40\00:46:12.93
hearing the same
thing you're hearing.
00:46:12.97\00:46:15.17
God minister to my heart
and one night Mark Finley said,
00:46:15.20\00:46:20.01
can I talk to you
afterwards because he knew me,
00:46:20.04\00:46:22.54
because he was a
friend and a colleague
00:46:22.58\00:46:24.58
of my father who was a
pastor there in Connecticut.
00:46:24.61\00:46:27.58
This was in Massachusetts.
00:46:27.62\00:46:29.25
And I said, yeah,
you can talk to me.
00:46:29.28\00:46:30.95
So after the people dispersed,
00:46:30.99\00:46:32.32
we sat down at
the edge of the stage.
00:46:32.35\00:46:33.92
And he said, Mark, I
want to share with you
00:46:33.96\00:46:35.39
a priceless promise.
00:46:35.42\00:46:37.19
Joel 2:25 is what he opened to.
00:46:37.23\00:46:39.66
"I will restore
to you all the years
00:46:39.69\00:46:42.13
which the
swarming locusts has eat--
00:46:42.16\00:46:44.43
Swarming locusts?
00:46:44.47\00:46:45.80
He is a Mark, let
me explain it this way.
00:46:45.83\00:46:48.07
The years you
have given over to sin,
00:46:48.10\00:46:50.87
to drugs and drinking.
00:46:50.91\00:46:53.68
Mark, if you give
your heart to Jesus,
00:46:53.71\00:46:56.95
He'll restore
you, He'll restore you.
00:46:56.98\00:47:01.18
Some time after that time.
00:47:01.22\00:47:03.52
Some time after that,
that encounter with Mark Finley
00:47:03.55\00:47:06.86
and that, hearing that
promise I did just that,
00:47:06.89\00:47:09.89
I gave my heart to Jesus Christ.
00:47:09.92\00:47:11.63
A little that I ever dreamed
00:47:11.66\00:47:13.33
that I would be
doing the same thing
00:47:13.36\00:47:15.40
that he was doing because
God is a God of miracles.
00:47:15.43\00:47:19.23
Can you say amen?
He's a God of miracles.
00:47:19.27\00:47:21.84
But I needed a Savior.
00:47:21.87\00:47:23.37
I know what it's like to
be in Sodom and Gomorrah.
00:47:23.41\00:47:26.68
But thank God,
He has set us free.
00:47:26.71\00:47:29.31
Can you say amen?
He has set us free.
00:47:29.34\00:47:31.38
Take your Bible and turn with me
00:47:31.41\00:47:32.75
to 2 Peter 2, 2 Peter 2.
00:47:32.78\00:47:36.05
Are we learning
something tonight?
00:47:36.08\00:47:37.82
2 Peter 2, all right?
00:47:37.85\00:47:39.85
We're going there are
about Sodom and Gomorrah.
00:47:39.89\00:47:43.63
We have a couple of insights
00:47:43.66\00:47:45.33
that I think are
absolutely fascinating
00:47:45.36\00:47:48.66
and pertinent tonight.
00:47:48.70\00:47:51.10
2 Peter 2,
looking there at verse 6.
00:47:51.13\00:47:56.54
"And turning the
cities of Sodom and Gomorrah
00:47:56.57\00:47:59.07
into ashes,
00:47:59.11\00:48:01.24
condemned them to destruction,
making them an example
00:48:01.28\00:48:04.35
to those who
afterward would live ungodly."
00:48:04.38\00:48:06.51
How many agree, these
are beacons of warning
00:48:06.55\00:48:08.68
for the cities of
America and the world?
00:48:08.72\00:48:12.02
"And delivered righteous Lot,
who was," notice this, listen.
00:48:12.05\00:48:16.09
"Who was oppressed
00:48:16.12\00:48:17.99
by the filthy
conduct of the wicked."
00:48:18.03\00:48:22.80
The sorted lifestyle,
the deviant behaviors,
00:48:22.83\00:48:26.37
the perverted sexual stances,
00:48:26.40\00:48:30.07
lifestyle of
these decadent people
00:48:30.11\00:48:32.01
in Sodom and Gomorrah
was oppressive, painful,
00:48:32.04\00:48:36.11
tormenting to the soul of Lot.
00:48:36.14\00:48:41.08
He wanted to shield his family
from this decadent behavior,
00:48:41.12\00:48:46.62
this free
exhibition of homosexuality,
00:48:46.65\00:48:51.73
lesbians and so forth.
00:48:51.76\00:48:53.43
By the way, God loves
everyone but He hate sin.
00:48:53.46\00:48:57.80
And if you don't
believe me, look at the cross,
00:48:57.83\00:49:01.20
it took the blood of
Jesus to pay the price for sin.
00:49:01.24\00:49:04.27
Sin is very costly.
00:49:04.31\00:49:07.18
So, Bible says a
Lot was oppressed.
00:49:07.21\00:49:12.25
Don't you think
that we're living
00:49:12.28\00:49:13.62
in Sodom and Gomorrah today?
00:49:13.65\00:49:15.02
And if we're following
the Lord, and we're righteous,
00:49:15.05\00:49:18.12
that we will be
oppressed as well.
00:49:18.15\00:49:20.99
I don't know about you but...
00:49:21.02\00:49:22.36
as I dance through the channels,
00:49:25.13\00:49:26.80
looking for some good,
00:49:26.83\00:49:28.16
how many agree,
there's a lot of smut?
00:49:28.20\00:49:31.53
There's a lot of
stuff that you cannot pause,
00:49:31.57\00:49:36.57
you got to just keep
going on, put your filter on,
00:49:36.60\00:49:42.01
right here.
00:49:42.04\00:49:45.58
Oppressed, tormented.
00:49:45.61\00:49:49.68
Bible makes it
very crystal clear
00:49:49.72\00:49:51.62
that in the last
days, God will have a people
00:49:51.65\00:49:55.09
that are
oppressed by what they see
00:49:55.12\00:49:58.69
going on in the world.
00:49:58.73\00:50:00.66
Same sex marriages...
00:50:00.70\00:50:04.90
legalized.
00:50:04.93\00:50:07.60
That's Sodom. That's Sodom.
00:50:07.64\00:50:12.14
Adultery,
00:50:12.17\00:50:13.51
pregnancy outside
of marriage, rape.
00:50:16.34\00:50:21.75
One out of four
girls are sexually abused.
00:50:21.78\00:50:28.19
And the list goes
on. Prostitution rampant.
00:50:28.22\00:50:34.40
Immorality widespread.
00:50:34.43\00:50:37.07
We are a sin jaded generation.
00:50:37.10\00:50:43.20
The Bible says you
ought to be oppressed
00:50:43.24\00:50:46.34
because no wonder
Jesus was a man of sorrows.
00:50:46.37\00:50:49.71
And if you have Jesus in
you, there will be some sorrows,
00:50:49.74\00:50:52.75
you will weep at times
00:50:52.78\00:50:54.45
for trying to save people
who are in Sodom and Gomorrah.
00:50:54.48\00:50:58.09
How many have loved ones,
00:50:58.12\00:50:59.45
you know they're right in there,
00:50:59.49\00:51:00.82
you got to love them out of it?
00:51:00.86\00:51:04.16
Those angels went to
Lot and his family and said,
00:51:04.19\00:51:07.70
you got to get out.
00:51:07.73\00:51:09.80
And Lot, Lot went to his,
to his family and he said,
00:51:09.83\00:51:13.97
we got to leave.
00:51:14.00\00:51:16.54
And the Bible says his
two daughters had husbands
00:51:16.57\00:51:19.97
and they thought it was joking.
00:51:20.01\00:51:24.15
Prophecy, you, you
believe that stuff.
00:51:24.18\00:51:27.35
Oh, come on, don't, don't
get wild eyed about that stuff.
00:51:27.38\00:51:30.35
You don't play
prophecy, come on now.
00:51:30.39\00:51:35.32
They joked.
00:51:35.36\00:51:36.69
The Bible says in 2 Peter 3,
00:51:36.73\00:51:38.73
that in the last days
there would be scoffers
00:51:38.76\00:51:41.00
walking after their own
loss, scoffing at the idea
00:51:41.03\00:51:43.77
that the world is
going to come to an end.
00:51:43.80\00:51:45.33
But it's going to happen
like it did in the days of Noah.
00:51:45.37\00:51:48.57
And so the Bible says here
00:51:48.60\00:51:50.11
that Lot and
his family lingered.
00:51:50.14\00:51:54.44
They uses the word, Genesis 19,
00:51:54.48\00:51:56.01
they uses the
word "they lingered",
00:51:56.04\00:51:58.51
they lingered and
almost lost their salvation.
00:51:58.55\00:52:03.79
But the angels had
mercy, God had mercy and pull,
00:52:03.82\00:52:07.52
practically pull them
out of Sodom and Gomorrah.
00:52:07.56\00:52:10.29
How many are
thankful that God sometimes
00:52:10.33\00:52:12.89
takes hold of you
and pulls you out of sin?
00:52:12.93\00:52:15.36
Can you say amen to that?
00:52:15.40\00:52:18.27
sometimes, okay, I know
I need to give up that sin,
00:52:18.30\00:52:20.94
I'm coming.
00:52:20.97\00:52:22.87
How many agree,
when Jesus comes in,
00:52:22.90\00:52:25.37
He takes hold of
us and sets us free?
00:52:25.41\00:52:29.68
And so the Bible
makes it very clear here
00:52:29.71\00:52:31.61
if the Son has set you
free, you're free indeed,
00:52:31.65\00:52:34.35
John 8:36.
00:52:34.38\00:52:35.72
And so the Bible
makes it very clear,
00:52:35.75\00:52:38.12
the Bible makes it very clear,
00:52:38.15\00:52:39.65
we continue here, 2 Peter 2.
00:52:39.69\00:52:41.59
Our time is running out.
00:52:41.62\00:52:43.06
2 Peter 2, and look
here at verse number 8,
00:52:43.09\00:52:48.16
"Tormented for
this that righteous man,
00:52:48.20\00:52:51.33
dwelling among them,
tormented his righteous soul
00:52:51.37\00:52:55.47
from day to day by seeing
00:52:55.50\00:52:58.04
and hearing their lawless deeds.
00:52:58.07\00:53:01.58
Then the Lord
knows how to deliver
00:53:01.61\00:53:03.48
the godly out of temptations
and to reserve the unjust
00:53:03.51\00:53:07.15
under punishment for
the day of judgment."
00:53:07.18\00:53:10.79
You know they used to
call Las Vegas, the Sin City.
00:53:10.82\00:53:16.42
Mobsters, show girls, drinking,
00:53:16.46\00:53:21.30
parties, orgies, prostitution.
00:53:21.33\00:53:24.87
Guess what, now it's everywhere.
00:53:24.90\00:53:28.14
Like Las Vegas,
that's everywhere.
00:53:28.17\00:53:32.14
It's everywhere.
Las Vegas is everywhere.
00:53:32.17\00:53:35.58
Sodom and
Gomorrah is everywhere.
00:53:35.61\00:53:38.41
But we've become desensitized.
00:53:38.45\00:53:41.98
Now it's like... whatever.
00:53:42.02\00:53:46.39
I saw a bumper sticker one time
doing a crusade in Connecticut.
00:53:46.42\00:53:49.59
Back of a jeep, "Whatever."
00:53:49.62\00:53:51.23
Beloved, Bible says that
Jesus will come at an hour
00:53:54.93\00:54:01.60
when most are just preoccupied
00:54:01.64\00:54:05.57
with the cares of this
life in the pursuit of pleasure.
00:54:05.61\00:54:11.25
We were praying for a
child for quite some time
00:54:11.28\00:54:15.45
and ultimately we
were in El Paso, Texas.
00:54:15.48\00:54:21.89
I was the
reluctant dad, I told my wife
00:54:21.92\00:54:24.76
I don't want to
have a child yet,
00:54:24.79\00:54:26.16
I want to pray about it.
00:54:26.19\00:54:27.80
She would come
with, to me with tears,
00:54:27.83\00:54:29.70
can we have a child
now, I'm praying about it?
00:54:29.73\00:54:33.67
Well, finally, she comes
to me and says I'm pregnant.
00:54:33.70\00:54:39.61
What? That wasn't
supposed to happen.
00:54:39.64\00:54:43.85
But her prayers
won over my prayers.
00:54:43.88\00:54:47.92
I was just
praying, God's will be done,
00:54:47.95\00:54:49.62
I just didn't know it was
going to happen like that.
00:54:49.65\00:54:52.69
How many agree
God is in control.
00:54:52.72\00:54:56.56
Months later, she
is fully expecting,
00:54:56.59\00:54:58.86
we were living in a
three bedroom chalet
00:54:58.89\00:55:00.76
in Poconos of Pennsylvania.
00:55:00.80\00:55:02.43
A two thousand foot
elevation, cold mucho frio.
00:55:02.46\00:55:07.44
And about ten days
prior to her due date
00:55:07.47\00:55:11.07
she's fully expecting
and I'm happy as a lark
00:55:11.11\00:55:14.98
and she's glowing ever since
she told me she's pregnant,
00:55:15.01\00:55:17.65
she's been glowing ever since.
00:55:17.68\00:55:19.65
And so we were walking
along and it was snowing out
00:55:19.68\00:55:24.39
and we were just having
a good time and then we,
00:55:24.42\00:55:27.42
we went back to the house.
00:55:27.46\00:55:29.59
Next thing I know she's
outside, shoveling snow.
00:55:29.62\00:55:35.30
And I said,
Honey, would you please--
00:55:35.33\00:55:37.37
I pulled her aside,
00:55:37.40\00:55:39.20
push to open the sliding
glass window, the glass door.
00:55:39.23\00:55:43.84
I said, come on, honey, get in.
00:55:43.87\00:55:45.51
"Oh, I just got to
finish up here a little bit."
00:55:45.54\00:55:47.41
Honey, you-- come on.
00:55:47.44\00:55:49.41
Eventually she came
in, next thing I know
00:55:49.44\00:55:52.41
I hear furniture
moving around upstairs.
00:55:52.45\00:55:56.58
And I am
thinking what is going on.
00:55:56.62\00:55:57.95
So I scramble up stairs,
sure enough there she is,
00:55:57.99\00:56:01.22
she decided 10 days
prior to her due date
00:56:01.26\00:56:04.09
to rearrange the furniture
without even asking me to help.
00:56:04.13\00:56:08.56
I don't know about you mothers
how you have this, these feats,
00:56:08.60\00:56:12.80
these dramatic acts of heroism
00:56:12.83\00:56:15.60
just before you
have contractions.
00:56:15.64\00:56:19.41
Sure enough she's upstairs.
00:56:19.44\00:56:22.28
"I think I feel
something" Hello.
00:56:22.31\00:56:26.72
Not surprised.
00:56:26.75\00:56:29.78
She went through terrible
00:56:29.82\00:56:31.72
17 hours of intense
frequent contractions.
00:56:31.75\00:56:36.39
There was some weeping,
there was a whole lot of pain.
00:56:39.13\00:56:44.73
Hats off to mothers.
00:56:44.77\00:56:48.74
Then Caleb came out.
00:56:48.77\00:56:51.31
Wide eyed like his
daddy, and he wasn't crying,
00:56:51.34\00:56:56.28
he was just kind
of like he was saying,
00:56:56.31\00:56:57.65
okay, I am here, now what?
00:56:57.68\00:57:01.65
And I was so happy, I pull--
00:57:01.68\00:57:03.69
I had a Bible promise book
in my pocket, I pulled it out.
00:57:03.72\00:57:07.19
"Weeping may tarry for the night
00:57:07.22\00:57:09.19
but joy comes in the morning."
00:57:09.22\00:57:11.19
Sure now. That was a little
past noon but I'll take it.
00:57:11.23\00:57:14.96
Psalm 30:5, beloved, can you see
00:57:15.00\00:57:19.50
that weeping may
tarry for the night,
00:57:19.53\00:57:22.17
during these
prophetic fulfillments.
00:57:22.20\00:57:25.84
The joy is coming.
00:57:25.87\00:57:27.94
Very soon it'll be worth
it all when we see Jesus,
00:57:27.98\00:57:30.58
we're almost home.
00:57:30.61\00:57:34.02
Look up for your
redemption draws nigh.
00:57:34.05\00:57:38.45
Although sudden
and alarming changes
00:57:39.89\00:57:42.19
are sweeping across the globe,
00:57:42.22\00:57:44.33
you and your
family can be prepared
00:57:44.36\00:57:46.06
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