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,
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every village, every man,
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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
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that illustrate the
kind of fabric of character
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and perseverance that we need
to go through the tribulation
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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 shot.
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It's the last
prophecy of the Old Testament,
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it is startling, stunning,
prophetic and practical.
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Go with me to the last
page of the Old Testament.
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If you don't know where that is,
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go to Matthew, all
right and then back up.
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All right, Malachi 4:5-6,
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"Behold, I will send
you Elijah The Prophet
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before timing,
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the coming of the great
and dreadful day of the Lord,
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what would be his mission
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and he will turn or transform
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or convert the hearts of
the fathers to the children
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and the hearts of the
children to their fathers,
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lest I come and strike
the earth with a curse.
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These are packed words.
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This is the concentrated
passage of scripture
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that really has a
lot to do with our day
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and understanding what
God wants to accomplish
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through each one of us
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because God wants us to be
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part of his Elijah movement.
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Would you agree,
God is on the move,
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God is up to
something and what is He up to?
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He is moving us to
be part of his movement.
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Does that make sense?
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How many agree, got to move
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if you want to be
part of his movement.
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You got to move
in to his movement,
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it's the Elijah movement.
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Now listen carefully.
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I'll read it again.
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Behold, I will send
you Elijah the Prophet,
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would agree if
God sends a prophet,
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you better let him
sit at your dinner table.
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If God sends you a prophet,
you better show him respect.
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If God sends you a prophet,
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you better listen up
and take some notes, amen.
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And so Elijah is sent
to us to planet earth,
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and so the Bible says,
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behold, I will send you
Elijah not just anybody,
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I will send you
Elijah, this lone, rugged,
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singular prophet,
that stood tall in his day,
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he was towered
for the cause of God,
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he was bold with his message.
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The Bible says,
before the coming
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of the great and
dreadful day of the Lord,
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that sounds ominous, that
sounds like serious stuff.
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And so the Bible
makes it very clear
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that this Elijah
has a work to do.
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He has a
mission, he has a message,
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he has something to accomplish
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and it must be accomplish
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in preparation for
the day of the Lord
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in proximity of
time, in sequence of time.
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All right, would you
agree timing is everything?
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Here's the
sequence of final events.
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First Elijah
returns, he does his work,
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his preparatory work
and then, the Lord comes,
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before the coming of the great
and dreadful day of the Lord.
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Now we will discover
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that, that has
a dual application
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for the Lord's first coming
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and in preparation for
the Lord's second coming.
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All right, I just let the
bird out of the cage, all right.
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You know, I am just
helping you get the pace
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and tone of our topic tonight.
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What will he accomplish?
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He will turn, he
will change, he will turn.
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Would you agree,
when you are driving,
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turns are important?
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He will turn when you
are walking with the Lord,
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turns are important.
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How many agree, the
Bible says we follow Jesus.
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The Bible says
you will hear a word
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behind you
saying this is the way,
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walk in it, when
you turn to the left
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or when you turn to the right.
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How many of you agree, if
the Holy Spirit turns right,
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you go right,
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Holy Spirit turns
left, you go left.
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How many agree, you go
where the Holy Spirit leads you.
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It's called being
led by the spirit,
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Romans 8:14 and
the other scripture
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about letting the
Holy Spirit guide you,
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that's Isaiah
30:21, so watch this.
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He will turn the hearts of
the fathers to the children,
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we sing to him
faith of our fathers."
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Well, we know
that many young people
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are leaving the churches,
leaving the Christian church.
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What's
happening? What's happening?
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They are saying, I don't
want the faith of my father,
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I reject the
faith of my fathers.
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Would you agree
that's the ultimate insult
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to mom and dad,
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that they don't want
mom and dad's religion?
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They don't want mom and
dad's understanding of Jesus.
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Well, let me tell
you, if mom and dad
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had a false understanding
then the kids are justified,
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but if it's Jesus,
if it's truly Jesus,
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would you agree it's a travesty,
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it's a tragedy to leave
the faith of you fathers,
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when it's a genuine faith.
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He will turn the hearts of
the fathers to the children
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and the hearts of the
children to their fathers.
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In other words to
go back to the truth
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that was trampled upon.
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Go back to the truth,
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the truths that
were being trampled upon,
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go back to that truth.
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Go back, let it be restored.
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Go back to the faith
once delivered to the saints.
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It say in Jude verse 3,
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"Earnestly contend for the faith
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that was once
delivered to the saints."
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Go back to that girl
fashion religion, amen.
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Go back to the true revival.
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And so notice here it says,
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in the hearts of the
children to their fathers,
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lest I come and strike
the earth with a curse.
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Would you agree, there
is a curse upon this earth
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because we have left
the faith of our fathers?
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And would you agree
our world is cursed.
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Come on now, in
my backyard in Texas,
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there are thorns,
but I mean we got there,
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everything's big in
Texas they say but guess what?
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Big thorns.
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You know, really
I think about thorns
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that must have been
placed on Jesus' head,
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they must have
been like Texas' thorns.
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I mean they are unbreakable.
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They are like this
long, they are like nails.
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I mean these are thorns.
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And so I'm here to tell
you, it's a symbol of curse.
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Our world is cursed
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because we have left
the faith of our fathers.
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Would you agree,
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if we are going to be
ready for Jesus to come,
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there must be
preparation for translation,
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and Elijah was translated
without tasting death.
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Are you interested, yes or no?
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He had
preparation for translation.
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We are not just going to
go floating up to the sky
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unless we are
prepared to meet Him in glory.
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The Bible makes it very
clear, without holiness,
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no man shall see
the Lord, Hebrew 12:14.
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There is
preparation for translation
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and that's where the return of
Elijah comes in with importance
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and relevance and
practical application,
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we need to unpack this.
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We need to unfold this
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how does the Elijah
message impact my daily life.
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How many agree,
if it's not practical
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then it doesn't
affect your life.
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How many agree,
prophecy must be made practical.
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If you're in
agreement, say amen.
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And so the Old Testament
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contains this
power punched prophecy,
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so is Elijah, I get that out,
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is Elijah alive and
well on planet earth, is he?
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Well, maybe you've
heard of Yom Kippur,
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Orthodox Jews to this
day celebrate Yom Kippur.
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And did you know, on
the day of atonement,
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Yom Kippur, Orthodox Jews set
a place at their supper table
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for none other than,
who they are anticipating,
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who they are expecting,
who they are longing for,
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praying for, Elijah.
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You remember when
Jesus was on the cause
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and he cried out my God, my God,
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why hast thou forsaken me.
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And he said that
in Aramaic, remember.
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And what happened?
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They said, oh, he is calling
for Elijah, you remember.
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And so, they are
looking for Elijah.
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And by the way, you
remember at the transfiguration
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who showed up, Moses and Elijah,
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and so they expected the
literal return of Elijah.
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And guess what?
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Did you know that ultimately
Elijah will literally return.
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Would you agree
when Jesus comes,
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the Bible say in Revelation 8:1,
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there is silence in heaven,
the space of half an hour,
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that's prophetic
time for seven days,
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that translates seven days.
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Seven days when
Jesus comes down here
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and then we go on
that space journey
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that will last seven days.
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Are we going to
have fun, yes or no?
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This is the
ultimate kids day by the way.
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Come on now,
don't kids just love
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to do some fun things like this.
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Come on, there is
a kid in all of us,
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I don't know about you
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but I'm looking
forward to just you know fly.
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Do you have-- Do you still--
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Do you all still
have dreams about flying?
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I do and I'm thinking to
myself while I'm doing that,
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I'm thinking to
myself, this is real.
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I'm really hoping this is
not a dream, this is real.
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Anyway I do a fly over, okay.
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Anyway so, when
Jesus comes again,
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Elijah will come,
Elijah will literally return,
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but that's not the focus.
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The focus is
figuratively not literally,
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spiritually and not physically,
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they expect the
literal return of Elijah,
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is the prophecy of Malachi
4:5, 6 literal or symbolic?
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Let me validate
that it's symbolic.
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What does it means
that Elijah will return
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before the coming of the Lord?
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This is our probing question.
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So what is the message?
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This is the
fundament basic question
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that launches
us into this topic.
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What is the message
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and mission of Elijah
in the time of the end?
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If it's not to be
applied literally, physically
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but rather
figuratively and spiritually,
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then we must ask
the question, all right,
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what was the message of the man?
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What was the
mission of the prophet?
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Because it's
going to be repeated
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before the Lord returns.
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So therefore,
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the stories of Elijah
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illustrate the
prophecy of Elijah.
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Elijah is like a
walking, living prophecy
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because his life
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was a foreshadowing
of Jesus in some sense,
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John the
Baptist and God's church
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and its remnant
in the last days.
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I'll validate that in a moment.
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Come with me back to the time
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when Israel was
steeped in idolatry.
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They had backslidden big time.
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They had stumbled into
the pit of absolute rebellion
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and rejection of the
faith of their fathers.
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They were backslidden.
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Now remember, Elijah
is a type of the church.
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Would you agree
the Christian church
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now has backslidden big time?
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Would you agree the
Christian church of today
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has drifted into the world?
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Elijah is a type of the church.
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Would you agree, we need
Elijah more than ever before.
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What was his powerful ministry?
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1 Kings 16:30.
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Let's go there together.
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Are we ready to learn tonight.
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1 Kings 16 and
looking there at verse 30.
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The Bible says
"Now Ahab son of Omri
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did evil in the sights of Lord
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more than all
who ever before him."
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What a notorious reputation.
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What a checkered legacy.
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I want you to notice that
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this man really
outdid all his predecessors,
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when it came to evil.
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And so he was
the king of Israel.
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So "Ahab son of Omri did
more evil in the eyes of Lord
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than any of those before him."
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He not only
considered it a trivial thing
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to commit the sins of
Jeroboam son of Nebat,
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but he also married Jezebel."
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Would you agree that
was match made in hell.
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"Married Jezebel
daughter of Ethbaal,
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what does that
sound like Eth what?
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Baal. Ball was the sun god.
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They worshiped the sun.
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I love the sun but you
are not to worship the sun.
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You worship the one who
made the sun, SON, amen.
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So he married
Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal,
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king of Sidonians,
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and began to serve
Baal and worship him.
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Hey, I wonder why,
because he was influenced
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by his wife, so therefore,
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"He set up an altar for
Baal in the temple of Baal
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that he built in Samaria.
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Ahab also made an Asherah pole
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and did more to provoke
Lord, the God of Israel,
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to anger than did all the
kings of Israel before him."
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And so point, you
must not overlook.
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Sometimes loved once
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can influence you to
not follow the truth.
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And that doesn't mean
they are terrible people,
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it means that,
well, in this case
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Jezebel was a terrible person
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but sometimes your loved ones,
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who love you can
actually give you counsel,
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that's not biblical.
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They don't mean to,
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it wasn't intentional
but bless their heart,
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they just didn't have the truth,
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by which to
counsel you correctly.
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And so you must tell them,
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I love you but you know,
got to go by my conscience,
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I'm bound to follow
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what I understand
in the word of God,
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because now I know the truth
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and it has set
me free, John 8:32.
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So listen carefully.
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On one occasion
Peter told Jesus,
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I'm not going to let
you go up and be crucified,
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and Jesus said
get behind me Satan,
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Luke 9, Matthew 16.
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What was that all about?
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A loved one that
was trying to talk Jesus
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out of doing what
he was called to do.
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How many agree he was
born to die for our sins
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and so you know,
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sometimes loved ones
can give you wrong counsel,
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so how many
agree, Bible says here,
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if you love father or mother
or son or daughter more than me,
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you are not worthy of
me, that's Matthew 10.
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Bible says, sometimes
that the enemies are found
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in the household, Matthew 10.
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And so, however the
Bible says love your enemies.
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Can you say amen. Okay.
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Sometime loved
ones can influence you
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to not follow the truth.
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Now Elijah, here comes
Elijah, stepping into the story.
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"Now Elijah the
Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead,
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said to Ahab, 'As the Lord,
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the God of Israel,
lives whom I serve,
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there will be
neither dew nor rain
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in the next few
years except at my word."
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Bombshell exploding
there at the feet of King Ahab
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there in the royal palace
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as the king sat on
the edge of his chair.
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And I can see him looking
a little irate, red face,
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furiated but
there he is nonetheless,
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captivated by every syllable
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that came from the lips
of this lone prophet Elijah.
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So the Bible makes it very clear
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that Elijah had the bravery,
the courage to go in there
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and tell him something
he didn't want to hear.
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He told him, it's judgment time.
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Elijah's message was
the message of judgment
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and Elijah is a
type of the church.
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Would you agree, the
Elijah movement the last day,
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it's all about preparation
for the coming of the Lord,
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we've already established that.
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If you're going to be ready
for the coming of the Lord,
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you must hear a
message of judgment.
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How many agree it's judgment
in the house of the Lord,
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just as surely as
there was judgment
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in the house of the
Lord, in the time of Elijah.
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Are we
understanding this tonight.
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All right, let's keep
marching forward her now.
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It takes courage to stand up
for the truth before the King.
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Elijah had the truth, the king
didn't really want to hear it
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but Elijah was
bold, he was courageous,
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he was loyal to God,
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no matter how tall
and challenging the duty,
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he performed it
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and so he went
in before the king,
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stood up before the king.
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Now the king can, you know,
snap of a finger get the guards
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and have spears
and, you know, history...
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Elijah just did
what he was told to do,
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and let the chips
fall where they may.
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Would you
agree, it takes courage
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to stand up for the truth?
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Certainly when
the powers that be,
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for example your boss
might not want to hear you say,
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I need the Sabbath off.
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I need to have the Sabbath off.
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You know, I meet
thousands of people,
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and people will come to me,
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you know, I
believe the scriptures,
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it says don't work on
the seventh day Sabbath,
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but I got to work
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and my boss, I
said, well, wait a minute,
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who's your boss.
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Well you know,
I work at Wal-Mart
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or I work, you know,
I'm attorney or whatever.
00:19:07.14\00:19:10.45
I said, well, who's your boss.
00:19:10.48\00:19:12.08
They'll tell
you who the boss is.
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I say but who is
your ultimate boss.
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Well, I guess God.
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I say, well, have you
talked to your boss about that?
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You see, it requires faith
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and courage to stand
up for doing what's right
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even though the boss may
vent out like that of rage king,
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you want Saturday off?
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Why not stand up
for the Lord's day,
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and tell your
boss you will not work
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on the seventh-day Sabbath.
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Would you agree, you
got a take the prophecy
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and apply it
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and you must be
willing to stand up
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for the truth of Elijah,
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the truth, the
undiluted truth is,
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God wants us to
obey Him at any cost.
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But you know what?
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What you're hearing
today are smooth things.
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It doesn't matter
what day you keep.
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What?
00:20:04.47\00:20:05.80
I just read in
the Ten Commandments,
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it says the seventh-day
don't work on that day.
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Oh, Jesus did away with that.
00:20:09.27\00:20:11.74
Or they will say like
this, you mean to tell me
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we are all wrong in
this little group of--
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what does they say their name,
00:20:19.48\00:20:21.98
the issue is this, not
who is better than others
00:20:22.02\00:20:26.96
because God has His
people in all churches.
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The question is
where is the truth?
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Where is the truth?
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And so "Then the word
of the Lord came to Elijah:
00:20:37.97\00:20:41.34
'Leave here, turn, eastward
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and hide in the Kerith
Ravine, east of the Jordan.
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You will drink from the brook,
00:20:48.14\00:20:49.74
and I have ordered the
ravens to feed you there.''
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In other words, God is saying,
00:20:52.28\00:20:54.18
you are faithful,
I've got you covered,
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I've got you back covered.
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Is isn't just like God
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when he's asked you to
do something very difficult,
00:21:00.62\00:21:03.59
very challenging,
very dangerous or risky
00:21:03.63\00:21:06.70
and he's asked you to
follow Him no matter what.
00:21:06.73\00:21:08.96
And you stand up for Him,
let me tell you something,
00:21:09.00\00:21:10.87
He is there to prove
Himself, 1 Chronicle 16:9,
00:21:10.90\00:21:16.67
it says, "He
shows himself strong
00:21:16.71\00:21:19.91
in behalf of those whose
heart is loyal towards him."
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How many agree, these days not
too many people that are loyal.
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God wants us. What
does it mean to be loyal?
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It means no matter
what you go through,
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you remain loyal.
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Amen.
00:21:33.76\00:21:35.22
All right, so I
want you to know,
00:21:35.26\00:21:39.16
God says, I am
going to send the ravens.
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Hey, can you imagine that.
00:21:42.36\00:21:43.70
Hey, Elijah seeing
in and coming out there
00:21:43.73\00:21:46.07
to interview him out
there in the wilderness.
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Hey, Elijah we hear you
are out here hiding out,
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you know, how you eating.
00:21:51.51\00:21:53.27
He said, look up, look up.
00:21:53.31\00:21:54.74
Yeah, yeah, and
the cameras go up.
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Yep, here comes those ravens.
00:21:56.31\00:21:57.65
Yeah, there are gonna
bring me my breakfast.
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They are bringing
my breakfast, say what?
00:21:59.05\00:22:01.25
Zoom in, zoom in,
00:22:01.28\00:22:02.72
you know, can you Imagine,
00:22:02.75\00:22:05.55
Hollywood can't
keep up with these stuff.
00:22:05.59\00:22:07.56
"So he did what
the Lord had told him.
00:22:07.59\00:22:10.29
He went to the Kerith Ravine,
00:22:10.33\00:22:12.56
east of the
Jordan, and stayed there.
00:22:12.59\00:22:14.23
You know, many times
people will say to me
00:22:14.26\00:22:17.57
or they will imply,
well, if I follow this,
00:22:17.60\00:22:22.04
you know what
repercussions are going to be.
00:22:22.07\00:22:24.74
If I say I'm going
to keep the Sabbath,
00:22:24.77\00:22:26.21
you realize how that's
going to alter my life.
00:22:26.24\00:22:28.91
Do you realize what my family is
00:22:28.94\00:22:30.51
going to say,
I'll be ostracized.
00:22:30.55\00:22:33.05
It doesn't happen in all
cases, but sometime it does.
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Well, I say this,
00:22:36.75\00:22:38.35
the Bible says
Elijah did what he was told.
00:22:38.39\00:22:41.16
He didn't say, well, Lord,
00:22:41.19\00:22:42.52
let me calculate
and let me contemplate,
00:22:42.56\00:22:45.49
what's going to
happen if I do this,
00:22:45.53\00:22:47.30
because I am not so sure.
00:22:47.33\00:22:48.66
No, he just said, Lord,
you give me my marching orders
00:22:48.70\00:22:51.47
and I'm going to march.
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And so I want you to notice,
the ravens brought him bread
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and meat in the morning,
00:22:56.74\00:22:58.27
bread and meat in the
evening and he drank from brook,
00:22:58.31\00:23:01.58
1 Kings 17:5, 6.
00:23:01.61\00:23:04.15
God took care of this
faithful, lonely prophet.
00:23:04.18\00:23:10.25
Then came 'A Test of
Faith,' another test of faith.
00:23:10.29\00:23:13.15
"Some time later
the brook dried up.
00:23:13.19\00:23:15.39
Bad things
happen to good people.
00:23:15.42\00:23:18.49
Lord, if you were leading
me then why did my job dry up?
00:23:18.53\00:23:22.80
I took a stand for the
Sabbath and now I lost my job.
00:23:22.83\00:23:26.60
It happens sometimes.
00:23:26.63\00:23:28.54
Some times your
brook will dry up
00:23:28.57\00:23:30.54
but God will take care of you.
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God led you to--
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Do you think Elijah
said, now the brook dried up,
00:23:35.28\00:23:37.98
God you forsook
me, I though you led--
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No, it's just that when
there is a setback is a set up,
00:23:40.45\00:23:44.95
God is in transition
with his prophet, amen.
00:23:44.99\00:23:47.82
You know, when
God closes a door,
00:23:47.86\00:23:49.82
he is opening a window
00:23:49.86\00:23:52.39
or whatever he
wants to do, amen.
00:23:52.43\00:23:54.26
God is never,
never, never inactive.
00:23:54.30\00:23:59.53
The Bible says He doesn't sleep.
00:23:59.57\00:24:02.37
I can picture Him pacing
the floor though at times,
00:24:02.40\00:24:05.74
thinking, oh, my child
when will you listen to me.
00:24:05.77\00:24:09.61
And if you, you doubt that,
00:24:11.31\00:24:13.31
my Bible says that
Jesus is the man of sorrows
00:24:13.35\00:24:16.65
and he is the same
yesterday, today and forever.
00:24:16.69\00:24:18.55
Let me tell you something,
my Jesus sweeps at times.
00:24:18.59\00:24:21.52
Oh, but there is joy
over one sinner who repents,
00:24:21.56\00:24:24.59
how He is able to do both,
00:24:24.63\00:24:25.96
I'll ask Him when I go to glory.
00:24:25.99\00:24:27.60
Some time later,
the brook dried up
00:24:27.63\00:24:29.80
because there had
been no rain in the land.
00:24:29.83\00:24:32.27
Why, because Elijah prayed
there wouldn't be any rain.
00:24:32.30\00:24:35.27
How would you like that?
00:24:35.30\00:24:36.77
He prayed there
would not be prosperity.
00:24:38.04\00:24:40.28
He prayed there
would not be crops.
00:24:40.31\00:24:42.04
He prayed that they
would all wither up and dry up.
00:24:42.08\00:24:44.88
He prayed that
they would be humble.
00:24:44.91\00:24:47.95
He prayed that they would return
00:24:47.98\00:24:49.45
to the faith of their fathers,
00:24:49.48\00:24:51.15
mighty man of
prayer that's who he was.
00:24:51.19\00:24:53.82
He prayed and he
got mighty answers.
00:24:53.86\00:24:57.43
You have not because
you asked not, James 4:2.
00:24:57.46\00:25:00.70
Ask anything in my
name and I will do it,
00:25:00.73\00:25:03.53
John 14:13 and 14.
00:25:03.57\00:25:05.27
I say this, you
start, you go to Wal-Mart
00:25:05.30\00:25:09.37
and you get
yourself a miracle book,
00:25:09.40\00:25:11.47
and you start recording miracles
00:25:11.51\00:25:13.68
that God is
working in your life.
00:25:13.71\00:25:16.11
You going to do it?
00:25:17.28\00:25:18.91
Those who're
watching by television,
00:25:18.95\00:25:20.58
I'll challenge you, and
write down those miracles
00:25:20.62\00:25:24.09
and then you get back
with me, you email me,
00:25:24.12\00:25:26.39
you call me, you
write me and you tell me,
00:25:26.42\00:25:28.52
you know what, I know
what you are going to tell me.
00:25:28.56\00:25:30.36
Why didn't I do this
00:25:30.39\00:25:32.16
when I first became a Christian?
00:25:32.19\00:25:34.50
Why, you know, what happens,
00:25:34.53\00:25:35.96
God works
miracle, after miracle,
00:25:36.00\00:25:38.23
after miracle in our life
00:25:38.27\00:25:39.93
and we don't mean
to but we forget it
00:25:39.97\00:25:43.64
or it becomes kind of a
blur, which is kind of a hazy,
00:25:43.67\00:25:45.94
you know, I
think he did a miracle.
00:25:45.97\00:25:47.94
No, we got to keep him fresh
in our mind end of parenthesis.
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All right, here we go.
00:25:52.58\00:25:53.92
Some times later
the brook dried up
00:25:53.95\00:25:55.48
because there have
been no rain in it,
00:25:55.52\00:25:57.05
and 1 Kings 17:7, so
God wanted them to move on.
00:25:57.09\00:26:01.42
God is a God that can
say it anytime, all right,
00:26:01.46\00:26:04.79
time to make a change.
00:26:04.83\00:26:06.76
Are you telling me I
should leave the church
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that I am going to?
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Are they keeping Sunday instead
of the seventh day of the week.
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God says it's time to become
part of the Elijah movement
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and move on
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because God has your
best interest in mind.
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God has
something special for you.
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You know, the Bible says
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in 1 Peter 2:9 and 10,
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you know, what it says there?
00:26:34.02\00:26:36.36
It says there that we
are His own special people.
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All right, let me
tell you something.
00:26:42.30\00:26:43.93
My Jordan and my Caleb
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and my wife are
very special to me.
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I thank God we are very close
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and my mom and dad, very
close with my mom and dad,
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they are very special to me,
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but Jesus say to us,
you are the apple of my eye.
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Would you agree,
that's as special as it gets.
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Well, the Bible says he
carries us on His heart.
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All right, we got to move on.
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God wanted him to move on.
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How long was Elijah
hiding in the wilderness?
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Remember, remember, remember,
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Elijah is a type of the church.
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Did the church
ever go in hiding,
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we read in a Revelation 12,
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they went into hiding for three
and a half prophetic years.
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Elijah would go into hiding
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for three and a
half literal years.
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Is there a match?
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There it is.
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There you have it.
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So listen, Elijah was a
man, this is New Testament.
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"Elijah was a man just like us."
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Oh, that's
encouraging, where is he?
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He is in heaven, we have hope.
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Look to your neighbor and
say, I think he got a shot.
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"He prayed earnestly
that it would not rain,
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and it did not rain on
the land" for how long?
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How long timing everything,
there and a half years.
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This is not a coincidence.
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You understand that he
is a type of foreshadowing,
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a living prophecy of the church,
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God's remnant church.
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And so, for
three and a half years
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not only of the remnant church
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but God would have a
faithful people living in hiding
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but then he would come
out at the end of that hiding.
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I am getting ahead of myself.
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"Again he prayed,
and the heaven gave rain,
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and the earth
produced its crops."
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James 5:17, 18.
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"I tell you the
truth,' he continued,
00:28:32.01\00:28:33.58
'no prophet is
accepted in his hometown.
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I assure you that there
were many widows in Israel
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in Elijah's time,
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when the sky was shut
for three and a half years
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and there was a severe
famine throughout the land."
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Luke 4:24, 25.
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Well, the Bible
makes it very clear.
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This was three and
a half literal years.
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Did you know that for three
and a half prophetic years,
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which is 1,260
days, which translates,
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"I have appointed thee each
day for a year" Ezekiel 4:6.
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So in Bible prophecy a day
equals a year, very good class.
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And so therefore
1,260 days or 1,260 what?
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Years.
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This is spending the Dark
Ages and during that time,
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God's people were
in hiding in seclusion
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and obscurity in the caves,
00:29:22.42\00:29:25.69
in the woods, hiding
out just like Elijah.
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God was taking
care of them in hiding.
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And so the Bible
made it very clear
00:29:33.23\00:29:34.90
there was a famine
and during the Dark Ages,
00:29:34.94\00:29:37.67
was there a famine
of the word of God,
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Amish 8 made it very clear,
00:29:40.48\00:29:43.71
that there would be
a famine in the land.
00:29:43.75\00:29:49.18
Daniel 8:12 says
that the antichrist,
00:29:49.22\00:29:51.62
the Roman papal power,
the Roman Catholic Church
00:29:51.65\00:29:53.92
would cast truth to
the ground, Daniel 8:12.
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And so there was a severe famine
00:29:58.73\00:30:00.96
for three and a half years,
Elijah a type of the church,
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"After a long
time, in the third year,
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the word of the
Lord came to Elijah: 'Go
00:30:07.37\00:30:09.60
and present yourself
to..." Oh, not him again.
00:30:09.64\00:30:13.07
Ahab, wasn't he the guy
00:30:13.11\00:30:15.18
that was wanted to
kill Elijah probably,
00:30:15.21\00:30:18.25
well, not probably he was,
00:30:18.28\00:30:20.18
"And I will
send rain on the land
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So Elijah went to
present himself to Ahab."
00:30:21.72\00:30:24.65
Do you noticed, how
he was a man of dispatch,
00:30:24.69\00:30:27.69
a man of diligence, a
man of just prompt obedience.
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Those of you have children,
00:30:33.03\00:30:34.96
do you like it
when your children
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are prompt with obedience.
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I'll tell you that is wonderful.
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It happens once in
a while in the fact.
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Okay, here we go, "And
Ahab went to meet Elijah.
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When he saw
Elijah, he said to him,
00:30:48.98\00:30:50.61
'Is that you, you
troubler of Israel?'
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Lets apply it, God's
church in the last days
00:30:53.55\00:30:56.22
would be called a cult or
all sorts of name calling.
00:30:56.25\00:31:00.92
Jesus was called names.
00:31:00.96\00:31:02.49
He's born of fornication.
00:31:02.52\00:31:03.86
He is Beelzebub,
he is not legitimate,
00:31:03.89\00:31:09.36
he is an
imposter, he has a devil,
00:31:09.40\00:31:11.90
they said all sorts of
different thing about Jesus
00:31:11.93\00:31:13.97
and Jesus said if
they treated me this way,
00:31:14.00\00:31:16.07
they are going
to treat my people,
00:31:16.10\00:31:17.44
my church that way.
00:31:17.47\00:31:19.21
So the Bible says that the devil
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is the accuser of the
brethren, Revelation 21:10.
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So let me tell you something,
00:31:23.95\00:31:25.28
Jesus said if
everybody likes you,
00:31:25.31\00:31:28.62
there is something wrong.
00:31:28.65\00:31:30.15
So listen carefully.
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If Elijah is a
type of the church,
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then the apostates
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and the Sunday churches
00:31:38.46\00:31:40.63
are going to look
down on the remnant,
00:31:40.66\00:31:43.97
and talk disparagingly,
00:31:44.00\00:31:46.63
trying to discredit
00:31:46.67\00:31:48.40
God's Elijah
movement in the last days.
00:31:48.44\00:31:52.34
"And Ahab went to meet Elijah.
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When he saw
Elijah, he said to him,
00:31:54.11\00:31:55.51
'Is that you, you
troubler of Israel?"
00:31:55.54\00:31:58.21
And what was Elijah respond,
00:31:58.25\00:32:00.15
he was no pushover,
he was not spineless,
00:32:00.18\00:32:02.78
he was stalwart
00:32:02.82\00:32:04.45
and he said, "I have
not made trouble for Israel,
00:32:04.49\00:32:06.45
Elijah replied.
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'But you..."
00:32:07.86\00:32:09.19
Oh, oh, he was
bold, finger pointing
00:32:09.22\00:32:12.16
"But you and your
father's family have."
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Notice here is the
issue, here's the core issue.
00:32:16.40\00:32:19.07
What was at the core,
the center of the apostasy?
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And this is the type
of what the remnant church
00:32:24.24\00:32:27.34
would seek to
call people out of.
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Here it is.
00:32:29.51\00:32:30.85
"You have
abandoned the Lord's commands
00:32:30.88\00:32:34.22
or commandments and
have followed the Baals."
00:32:34.25\00:32:36.79
False worship.
00:32:36.82\00:32:38.15
So Elijah said you
have cause this apostasy
00:32:39.09\00:32:44.76
and the nature and scope of
this apostasy is number one.
00:32:44.79\00:32:48.96
You are breaking
the commandments of God.
00:32:49.00\00:32:51.90
Number two, you are engaged
00:32:51.93\00:32:54.04
in false worship
among God's people.
00:32:54.07\00:32:58.01
What is Sunday observance?
00:32:58.04\00:32:59.47
False worship that break
the commandments of the God.
00:32:59.51\00:33:03.51
That's what it is,
are you saying that
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all those people who keep
Sunday are going to be lost?
00:33:04.95\00:33:06.82
No.
00:33:06.85\00:33:08.58
I'm saying that
God has His people
00:33:08.62\00:33:10.49
in all different folds
but He is calling them out.
00:33:10.52\00:33:13.05
How many agree,
God doesn't want people
00:33:13.09\00:33:14.42
to stay in
falsehood all their life.
00:33:14.46\00:33:16.62
He wants to call them out.
00:33:16.66\00:33:18.43
And so listen carefully,
00:33:18.46\00:33:19.79
and I know this
may be new and stunning
00:33:19.83\00:33:21.40
but what did you
expect is the Elijah message.
00:33:21.43\00:33:25.03
So "what was the
cause of trouble?"
00:33:25.07\00:33:28.27
"You have abandoned
the Lord's commands."
00:33:28.30\00:33:31.94
You have abandoned
the Lord's commands.
00:33:31.97\00:33:34.34
The popular churches
will consider the Commandment
00:33:34.38\00:33:37.21
keeping church as
the source of trouble,
00:33:37.25\00:33:40.35
the eye sore, the problem.
00:33:40.38\00:33:43.69
"Now summon the
people from all over Israel
00:33:44.85\00:33:47.46
to meet me on Mount Carmel.
00:33:47.49\00:33:49.59
And bring four hundred
and fifty prophets of Baal
00:33:49.62\00:33:52.66
and four hundred
prophets of Asherah,
00:33:52.69\00:33:55.56
who eats at who's
table, jezebel's table."
00:33:55.60\00:33:59.47
You think they were influenced
00:33:59.50\00:34:00.84
by the one who was feeding them.
00:34:00.87\00:34:03.17
So I want you to notice here.
00:34:03.20\00:34:05.17
You can do the math,
00:34:05.21\00:34:07.44
compute 850 false prophets.
00:34:07.48\00:34:12.68
What an assortment they were,
00:34:12.71\00:34:14.48
850 false
prophets, false prophets,
00:34:14.52\00:34:19.05
saying things that are not true
00:34:19.09\00:34:22.62
and people
believing them being gullible
00:34:22.66\00:34:25.13
against this one prophet.
00:34:25.16\00:34:26.96
"So Ahab sent word
throughout all the Israel
00:34:29.73\00:34:32.30
and assembled the
prophets on Mount Carmel."
00:34:32.33\00:34:34.80
Number of years ago,
I went to Mount Carmel,
00:34:34.84\00:34:36.71
it's not a very
impressive mountain
00:34:36.74\00:34:38.51
but they called it about."
00:34:38.54\00:34:41.18
And Elijah went
before the people and said."
00:34:41.21\00:34:43.14
Are you ready,
00:34:43.18\00:34:44.98
so this is, when you are talking
00:34:45.01\00:34:47.25
about the return of Elijah,
00:34:47.28\00:34:48.62
you are talking about
the return of the spirit
00:34:48.65\00:34:50.59
and the power and the mission
00:34:50.62\00:34:52.22
and the message of
Elijah being replicated,
00:34:52.25\00:34:55.26
duplicated, repeated.
00:34:55.29\00:34:56.93
Moment of truth came...
00:34:58.89\00:35:00.23
assembled on Mount Carmel.
00:35:01.90\00:35:04.63
Essentially he said,
it's time for a showdown.
00:35:04.67\00:35:07.17
It's time to put truth and
false teaching to the test,
00:35:08.34\00:35:14.38
that's the nature of Elijah.
00:35:14.41\00:35:18.01
God wants people to
put everything to the test.
00:35:18.05\00:35:24.22
Okay, is Sunday
observance the truth?
00:35:24.25\00:35:26.55
All right, let's test it.
00:35:26.59\00:35:28.02
Let's go to the
Bible, let's test it.
00:35:28.06\00:35:29.39
Where is it in the Bible?
00:35:29.42\00:35:30.99
How many agree,
this is the test.
00:35:31.03\00:35:33.03
This is the test.
00:35:33.06\00:35:34.40
Elijah said, let's
have a showdown test.
00:35:34.43\00:35:38.00
Let's see if
your way is God's way
00:35:38.03\00:35:41.04
or if it's of the devil.
00:35:41.07\00:35:43.17
So Elijah said,
all right, let's see.
00:35:45.81\00:35:50.98
Here is his message.
00:35:53.78\00:35:55.18
"How long will you
waver in," decision,
00:35:56.58\00:36:01.46
"between two ways, two opinions?
00:36:02.56\00:36:06.26
If the Lord is God, follow him,
00:36:07.30\00:36:09.96
but if Baal is God, follow him.'
00:36:11.03\00:36:14.70
But the people said nothing."
00:36:14.74\00:36:16.74
I believe they
were under conviction.
00:36:16.77\00:36:18.74
"Then Elijah said to them,
00:36:21.78\00:36:24.18
'I am the only one of
the Lord's prophets left,
00:36:24.21\00:36:27.65
but Baal has four
hundred and fifty prophets.
00:36:27.68\00:36:30.29
Get two bulls for us.
00:36:30.32\00:36:31.89
Let them choose
one for themselves,
00:36:31.92\00:36:33.46
and let them cut into
pieces and put it on the wood
00:36:33.49\00:36:36.29
but not set fire to it."
00:36:36.32\00:36:39.69
These are the specific
instructions of prophet
00:36:39.73\00:36:42.90
that is proposing this test
00:36:42.93\00:36:44.63
then as they are
orchestrating it,
00:36:44.67\00:36:46.10
he says as they're preparing
in their mind for this,
00:36:46.13\00:36:49.07
"I will prepare the other bull
00:36:49.10\00:36:50.67
and put it on the wood
but not set fire to it.
00:36:50.71\00:36:53.91
Then you call on
the name of your god..."
00:36:53.94\00:36:55.91
Who is their god?
00:36:55.94\00:36:57.28
Baal, Baal is the sun God.
00:36:58.21\00:37:01.38
So what is he saying here?
00:37:01.42\00:37:04.15
"You call on the
name of your god"
00:37:04.19\00:37:06.19
that has to do
with, how many agree,
00:37:06.22\00:37:08.16
the sun, another
word for sun is fire.
00:37:08.19\00:37:10.96
"Then you call on
the name of your god,"
00:37:12.49\00:37:15.53
that claims to be
the sun god, fire.
00:37:15.56\00:37:19.10
"And I will call on
the name of the Lord."
00:37:19.13\00:37:21.14
The god who
answers by fire-he is god.'
00:37:21.17\00:37:25.41
Then the people said,
'What you say is good."
00:37:25.44\00:37:27.21
Yeah, we serve, you
know, Baal worship, sun.
00:37:27.24\00:37:29.84
Yeah we worship the
sun, our sun is gonna put up.
00:37:29.88\00:37:33.62
You are right,
let's put it to the test,
00:37:33.65\00:37:36.52
and then he
emphasizes no cheating guys,
00:37:36.55\00:37:38.55
you can't trust
the false prophets.
00:37:38.59\00:37:40.69
"Elijah said to
the prophet of Baal,
00:37:40.72\00:37:42.12
'Choose one of the
bulls and prepare it first,
00:37:42.16\00:37:44.26
since there are so many of you.
00:37:44.29\00:37:45.63
Call on the name of your
god, but do not light the fire.
00:37:45.66\00:37:49.96
So they took the bull
given them and prepared it.
00:37:50.00\00:37:52.93
Then they called on the name of
Baal from morning till noon."'
00:37:52.97\00:37:57.01
That was the long
religious service,
00:37:57.04\00:37:58.84
'O Baal, answer us!'
00:37:58.87\00:38:00.21
they shouted."
00:38:00.24\00:38:01.58
That was a loud church service.
00:38:01.61\00:38:03.45
"But there was no
response; no one answered.
00:38:03.48\00:38:06.31
And they danced around
the altar they had made."
00:38:06.35\00:38:09.72
Some people
think in some churches
00:38:09.75\00:38:11.42
that the more you move
around and dance around
00:38:11.45\00:38:13.42
and flare your
arms and everything,
00:38:13.46\00:38:15.12
the more you have
the Spirit of God,
00:38:15.16\00:38:16.62
not necessary.
00:38:16.66\00:38:19.86
However some
churches are so dead.
00:38:19.89\00:38:24.40
If you hear somebody say amen,
00:38:24.43\00:38:25.83
they crane their neck
like that must be a visitor.
00:38:25.87\00:38:29.67
They all go, well, I
have to get used to things.
00:38:29.70\00:38:31.57
All right, anyway
that's another sermon.
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"At noon Elijah
began to taunt them.'
00:38:33.58\00:38:37.55
Shout louder!' he said."
00:38:37.58\00:38:39.95
Can I say this, Elijah
was a man of heavenly humor.
00:38:39.98\00:38:44.52
"'Shout louder!' he said.
00:38:44.55\00:38:45.89
Surely he is a god!
00:38:45.92\00:38:47.26
Perhaps he is deep in
thoughts, or busy traveling.
00:38:47.29\00:38:49.79
Maybe he is sleeping
and must be awakened.
00:38:49.82\00:38:52.89
So I justify the
little bit of heavenly humor,
00:38:52.93\00:38:55.16
it's okay to laugh, amen.
00:38:55.20\00:38:57.47
"So they shouted louder
00:38:57.50\00:38:59.03
and slashed
themselves with swords
00:38:59.07\00:39:00.84
and spears, as was their custom,
00:39:00.87\00:39:02.54
until their blood flowed."
00:39:02.57\00:39:04.37
This is orated.
00:39:04.41\00:39:06.78
"Midday passed,
00:39:07.94\00:39:09.28
and they continued
their frantic prophesying."
00:39:09.31\00:39:11.68
It's wearing me
out to read this,
00:39:11.71\00:39:13.05
"Until the time for
the evening sacrifice.
00:39:13.08\00:39:15.48
But there was no
response, no one answered,
00:39:15.52\00:39:17.05
no one paid attention."
00:39:17.09\00:39:19.35
Like all that for nothing,
00:39:19.39\00:39:21.62
I mean, there you know,
00:39:21.66\00:39:22.99
blood is
spilling on to this altar,
00:39:23.02\00:39:25.39
then Elijah said to all
the people come here to me.
00:39:25.43\00:39:27.80
He was the only one that
seem to make any sense now.
00:39:27.83\00:39:31.07
All the others
their voice is hoarse.
00:39:31.10\00:39:33.64
They are just utterly tired out,
00:39:33.67\00:39:36.74
licking their
wounds, no pun intended,
00:39:36.77\00:39:38.47
"They came to him and
repaired the altar of the Lord,
00:39:38.51\00:39:41.38
which was in ruins.
00:39:41.41\00:39:42.74
So the false prophet had
ruined the altar of worship,
00:39:42.78\00:39:45.61
but Elijah repaired it.
00:39:45.65\00:39:46.98
If he is the type of the church,
00:39:47.02\00:39:48.42
God's remnant church
is going to restore things
00:39:48.45\00:39:51.69
that were
destroyed by false prophets
00:39:51.72\00:39:54.12
and false churches.
00:39:54.16\00:39:55.72
God's church is a
church of restoration
00:39:57.03\00:40:01.40
to restore truths
that were once delivered
00:40:01.43\00:40:03.97
to the faith of our fathers.
00:40:04.00\00:40:06.80
How many agree
we need to go back
00:40:06.84\00:40:09.00
to the truth of the Word of God,
00:40:09.04\00:40:10.54
back to the commandments of God,
00:40:10.57\00:40:12.47
back to the Bible Sabbath,
00:40:12.51\00:40:14.14
back to Bible
immersion, not sprinkling.
00:40:14.18\00:40:18.48
And so I want
you to notice here,
00:40:18.51\00:40:19.85
notice that Elijah's work,
00:40:19.88\00:40:24.15
the churches work,
00:40:24.19\00:40:25.55
last day's
restoring, repairing, repairing.
00:40:25.59\00:40:30.73
Go very quickly
and I'll show you
00:40:30.76\00:40:32.76
what God's church would be
repairing in the last days.
00:40:32.79\00:40:35.53
Are you learning
something tonight thunder out?
00:40:35.56\00:40:38.73
All right, Isaiah 58,
00:40:38.77\00:40:41.54
this is my
wife's favorite message.
00:40:41.57\00:40:44.21
I think you can
see the import of this.
00:40:44.24\00:40:47.24
Isaiah 58:12 and onward.
00:40:47.28\00:40:52.31
"Those from among you"
00:40:52.35\00:40:54.18
speaking of God's people
00:40:54.22\00:40:55.55
"shall build the
old waste places,
00:40:55.58\00:40:58.72
you shall raise up
00:40:58.75\00:41:01.26
the foundations
of many generations,
00:41:01.29\00:41:05.03
you shall be called the
Repairer of the Breach,"
00:41:05.06\00:41:09.76
the breach in God's law.
00:41:09.80\00:41:11.70
Particularly the Sabbath
00:41:11.73\00:41:13.07
as you will see the
restorer of streets to dwell in.
00:41:13.10\00:41:15.40
What was the breach?
00:41:15.44\00:41:16.77
What was knocked down?
00:41:16.81\00:41:18.14
What was knocked
down that would be,
00:41:18.17\00:41:19.51
that would be built up?
00:41:19.54\00:41:21.01
Would you agree, these
prophets want top of the altar
00:41:21.04\00:41:24.71
and they were
trampling on the altar, right.
00:41:24.75\00:41:26.95
They were trampling on
these 12 stones, right.
00:41:26.98\00:41:30.35
They were trampling upon
it knocking down these stones,
00:41:30.39\00:41:35.62
leaving them in disarray.
00:41:35.66\00:41:37.66
And so Elijah came to put it
00:41:37.69\00:41:40.06
back together
build it up, restore.
00:41:40.10\00:41:43.10
Well, here is the
same kind of language here,
00:41:43.13\00:41:46.60
it's talking about,"
00:41:46.63\00:41:47.97
If you turn away your
foot from the Sabbath,"
00:41:48.00\00:41:51.37
that's what was
being knocked down.
00:41:51.41\00:41:53.14
Would you agree the
Sabbath has to do with worship?
00:41:53.17\00:41:55.71
Worshiping our Creator,
00:41:55.74\00:41:57.35
worshiping Jesus who died for us
00:41:57.38\00:41:59.28
had rested on the seventh day?
00:41:59.31\00:42:01.68
So by creation and the cross
00:42:02.85\00:42:05.32
it's inseparably
linked to the Sabbath.
00:42:05.35\00:42:08.52
The word Sabbath means rest.
00:42:08.56\00:42:09.96
How many agree, when
you believe He made you
00:42:09.99\00:42:12.23
and He died for
you, you can really rest?
00:42:12.26\00:42:14.60
The Sabbath is a
reminder of your rest in Jesus.
00:42:14.63\00:42:18.50
I want you to notice,
00:42:18.53\00:42:19.87
"If you turn away
your foot from the Sabbath,
00:42:19.90\00:42:21.24
from doing your
pleasure on My holy day,
00:42:21.27\00:42:23.51
call the Sabbath a delight,"
00:42:23.54\00:42:26.01
something that you delight in
00:42:26.04\00:42:27.38
is something
you look forward to.
00:42:27.41\00:42:30.55
The Sabbath is something
you need to anticipate.
00:42:30.58\00:42:34.45
"The holy day of
the Lord honorable,
00:42:34.48\00:42:36.15
you shall honor Him,
not doing your own ways,
00:42:36.18\00:42:38.05
nor finding your own pleasures."
00:42:38.09\00:42:39.89
It's not a day to
go to the flea market.
00:42:39.92\00:42:42.32
It's not a day
to go to the mall.
00:42:42.36\00:42:43.73
You got six days to do that.
00:42:43.76\00:42:46.19
Why even Saturday night
00:42:46.23\00:42:47.60
after the sun goes
down then you can do it.
00:42:47.63\00:42:49.96
But my friends, some
things are still holy.
00:42:51.03\00:42:54.20
The Word of God is
holy, God's house is holy,
00:42:54.24\00:42:57.21
and God's day is still holy.
00:42:57.24\00:42:58.97
How many agree,
don't come in here
00:42:59.01\00:43:00.34
and play sports in God's house?
00:43:00.38\00:43:02.58
You don't throw the Bible
00:43:02.61\00:43:06.48
on the bottom of
all the books you have
00:43:06.51\00:43:08.45
put it on the bottom.
00:43:08.48\00:43:10.02
No, you know, you
don't stand on your Bible
00:43:10.05\00:43:14.86
and you don't do
whatever you want
00:43:14.89\00:43:16.29
on seventh day Sabbath.
00:43:16.32\00:43:17.66
How many of you agree,
some things are still holy?
00:43:17.69\00:43:21.16
And so I want
you to notice here,
00:43:21.20\00:43:23.16
then you shall--
00:43:23.20\00:43:24.53
oh, notice "Nor
finding your own pleasure,
00:43:24.57\00:43:26.10
nor speaking your own words,
00:43:26.13\00:43:27.47
then you shall
delight yourself in the Lord,
00:43:27.50\00:43:29.20
and I will cause you to ride
on the high hills of the earth,
00:43:29.24\00:43:31.77
and feed you with the
heritage of Jacob your father.
00:43:31.81\00:43:33.74
The mouth of the
Lord has spoken."
00:43:33.78\00:43:35.11
Is it clear that
God will have a church
00:43:35.14\00:43:36.98
that are
restoring the Bible Sabbath?
00:43:37.01\00:43:40.05
I want to be part of that
Elijah Movement in last days.
00:43:40.08\00:43:42.78
Can you say, amen?
00:43:42.82\00:43:44.19
Repair the altar of worship
in your home, family worship.
00:43:44.22\00:43:48.82
This is the
faith of your fathers.
00:43:48.86\00:43:50.29
How many agree,
fathers must rise up
00:43:50.33\00:43:52.26
and if you don't have
the father in the home
00:43:52.29\00:43:53.63
mothers rise up and begin
to erect the altar of worship
00:43:53.66\00:43:57.57
that time has knocked down.
00:43:57.60\00:43:59.83
How many agree, Jesus said,
00:43:59.87\00:44:01.20
watch out the
cares of this world
00:44:01.24\00:44:02.57
they are just crowded all out.
00:44:02.60\00:44:04.27
Don't let that happen.
00:44:04.31\00:44:06.07
"Elijah took twelve stones,
00:44:06.11\00:44:08.38
one for each of the
tribes descended from Jacob,
00:44:08.41\00:44:11.01
to whom the word of the
Lord had come, saying..."
00:44:11.05\00:44:13.25
12 the number of the church.
00:44:13.28\00:44:14.82
"'Your name should be Israel.'
00:44:14.85\00:44:17.02
With the stones
he built an altar
00:44:17.05\00:44:19.05
in the name of the Lord,
00:44:19.09\00:44:20.82
and he dug a trench
around it large enough
00:44:20.86\00:44:23.36
to hold two seahs of seed.
00:44:23.39\00:44:25.69
He arranged the wood,
cut the bull into pieces
00:44:25.73\00:44:28.00
and laid it on the wood.
00:44:28.03\00:44:30.23
Then he said to them,
'Fill four large jars with water
00:44:30.27\00:44:33.60
and pour it on the
offering and on the wood.'
00:44:33.64\00:44:35.94
'Do it again,' he
said, and they did it again.
00:44:35.97\00:44:39.41
'Do it a third time...'"
00:44:39.44\00:44:41.44
By the way
what's three times four?
00:44:41.48\00:44:45.21
Twelve, twelve is a number
associated with the church.
00:44:45.25\00:44:48.58
"He ordered, and they
did it the third time.
00:44:48.62\00:44:51.52
The water ran
down around the altar
00:44:51.55\00:44:53.89
and even filled the trench."
00:44:53.92\00:44:55.26
Now, you know, this
may seem paradoxical,
00:44:55.29\00:44:57.56
may seem contradictory.
00:44:57.59\00:44:58.99
You know, think about it,
00:44:59.03\00:45:00.36
you go out
camping here in Missouri
00:45:00.40\00:45:02.26
and you are going out camping
00:45:02.30\00:45:03.67
and you get out
to your camp site,
00:45:03.70\00:45:05.67
you are gonna
think oh, it's cold, man,
00:45:05.70\00:45:07.27
we got to build
our self a nice fire
00:45:07.30\00:45:10.14
and hang around
that fire for a while.
00:45:10.17\00:45:12.34
And you say, okay,
we got to start a fire.
00:45:12.37\00:45:14.68
All right, boys and girls,
go out and get some water.
00:45:14.71\00:45:16.95
Get a lot of water
00:45:16.98\00:45:18.31
because we need to pour
water all over these logs.
00:45:18.35\00:45:20.75
We got to have a
good fire tonight.
00:45:20.78\00:45:22.98
No, if anything
you go to your vehicle
00:45:23.02\00:45:26.29
and pour out
some kerosene, right.
00:45:26.32\00:45:28.86
Wrong, don't do that.
00:45:30.03\00:45:31.36
But you see,
00:45:32.96\00:45:34.60
what Elijah was
trying to demonstrate is
00:45:34.63\00:45:38.07
you cannot explain this away.
00:45:38.10\00:45:41.10
You know why,
because false prophets
00:45:41.14\00:45:43.17
love to explain things away.
00:45:43.20\00:45:45.77
Do you see that the Bible says
00:45:45.81\00:45:47.48
you need to not
work on the Sabbath?
00:45:47.51\00:45:49.21
You see, it says go to church
on the seventh day Sabbath.
00:45:49.24\00:45:51.68
What will they
do? Oh, no, no, no.
00:45:51.71\00:45:53.62
Paul says this and
Jesus said that and so forth.
00:45:53.65\00:45:56.58
Find way of setting
aside the commandments of God
00:45:56.62\00:45:59.75
that you may
keep your tradition.
00:45:59.79\00:46:01.99
Paul's teaching is very slick.
00:46:02.02\00:46:04.66
How many agree the devils
that snakes slithering in,
00:46:04.69\00:46:07.26
slithering about.
00:46:07.30\00:46:09.10
And so at the time of
the sacrifice by the way,
00:46:09.13\00:46:12.60
the sacrifice represents
Jesus, represents Jesus.
00:46:12.63\00:46:16.91
The Elijah Movement is
all about the sacrifice.
00:46:16.94\00:46:20.61
How many agree, you
can't separate Elijah
00:46:20.64\00:46:22.51
from this big
showdown on Mount Carmel
00:46:22.54\00:46:26.28
that's reminiscent of the
great showdown on Mount Carmel
00:46:26.31\00:46:29.68
that had to do
with the Mount Calvary,
00:46:29.72\00:46:32.25
that had to do
with the sacrifice.
00:46:32.29\00:46:33.79
How many agree? Can
you see the parallels?
00:46:33.82\00:46:35.99
There was a fire at the
end of three and a half years
00:46:37.79\00:46:41.26
consuming the sacrifice
00:46:41.30\00:46:42.83
and after three and a half
years of Jesus' public ministry
00:46:42.86\00:46:46.03
there was a fire.
00:46:46.07\00:46:47.40
Our God is a consuming fire.
00:46:47.44\00:46:48.77
How many agree
Jesus sacrificed Himself
00:46:48.80\00:46:51.07
on the altar of
sacrifice on Mount Calvary?
00:46:51.11\00:46:55.64
The fire consumed the sacrifice
00:46:55.68\00:46:59.11
after three and a half years.
00:46:59.15\00:47:01.38
"At the time of sacrifice,
00:47:01.42\00:47:02.88
the prophet Elijah
stepped forward and prayed..."
00:47:02.92\00:47:05.25
Oh, listen to this
moving touching prayer.
00:47:05.29\00:47:10.59
"O Lord, the God of Abraham..."
00:47:10.63\00:47:12.23
He is not praying
wildly like the other.
00:47:12.26\00:47:14.56
Some people think if
you pray really, really loud
00:47:14.60\00:47:16.97
that really gets
God its attention.
00:47:17.00\00:47:19.20
No, it makes the angels go like,
00:47:20.30\00:47:21.70
could you not--
all right, anyway.
00:47:21.74\00:47:23.64
"O Lord, God of
Abraham, Isaac and Israel,
00:47:25.07\00:47:27.98
let it be known today
that you are God in Israel
00:47:28.01\00:47:31.28
and that I am your servant
00:47:31.31\00:47:32.65
and have done all
these things at your command.
00:47:32.68\00:47:35.22
Answer me, O Lord, answer me,
00:47:35.25\00:47:36.72
so these people
will know that you,
00:47:36.75\00:47:38.45
O Lord, are God,
and that you are" what?
00:47:38.49\00:47:41.12
"You are turning
their hearts back again."
00:47:41.16\00:47:44.33
Revival of the
commandments of God.
00:47:44.36\00:47:46.19
Revival the
worship and the creator.
00:47:46.23\00:47:48.46
Revival in the
church. Revival in the land.
00:47:48.50\00:47:51.33
"The prayer of a righteous
man is powerful and effective."
00:47:51.37\00:47:55.14
James 5:16.
00:47:55.17\00:47:56.50
"Then the fire of the Lord fell
and burned up the sacrifice,
00:47:56.54\00:48:00.08
the wood, the
stones and the soil..."
00:48:00.11\00:48:01.48
And I love that.
00:48:01.51\00:48:02.84
"Also licked up the
water in the trench.
00:48:02.88\00:48:04.68
When all the people saw this,
00:48:04.71\00:48:06.18
they fell
prostrate and cried out,
00:48:06.21\00:48:09.58
'The Lord-- he is God!
00:48:09.62\00:48:11.39
The Lord-- he is God!'"
00:48:11.42\00:48:13.15
Our God's presence was manifest
00:48:13.19\00:48:17.03
on that day in a
dramatic unprecedented way
00:48:17.06\00:48:20.90
when the fire
fell, would you agree
00:48:20.93\00:48:23.23
fire is just a symbol
of the presence of God.
00:48:23.26\00:48:27.50
On the day of Pentecost,
00:48:27.54\00:48:29.00
they had cloven tongues
of fire hovering over them
00:48:29.04\00:48:31.87
because they were being
filled with the Holy Spirit,
00:48:31.91\00:48:35.01
the baptism of fire.
00:48:35.04\00:48:37.25
And so the fire
was falling all to God
00:48:37.28\00:48:40.25
that we might be baptized
00:48:40.28\00:48:41.62
in the fire of the
Holy Spirit everyday.
00:48:41.65\00:48:44.39
How many agree,
00:48:44.42\00:48:45.75
you get the fire at
the altar of sacrifice?
00:48:45.79\00:48:49.76
When you sacrifice
your heart you are filled.
00:48:49.79\00:48:52.76
How many agree, this
was an altar of sacrifice
00:48:52.79\00:48:54.86
where this was happening?
00:48:54.90\00:48:56.23
What does the Bible say,
00:48:56.26\00:48:57.60
"Present your
bodies a living sacrifice
00:48:57.63\00:49:00.20
holy and acceptable unto God,
00:49:00.24\00:49:01.90
which is your
reasonable service."
00:49:01.94\00:49:03.37
Romans 12:1, 2.
00:49:03.41\00:49:04.97
How many want to
just say, Lord, consume me
00:49:05.01\00:49:09.14
and fill me with Your holy fire?
00:49:09.18\00:49:12.35
Oh, the parallels,
00:49:12.38\00:49:13.72
the applications
are just boundless.
00:49:13.75\00:49:16.28
Listen to what it's saying
there, they fell prostrate.
00:49:16.32\00:49:19.12
"When all the people saw
this, they fell prostrate
00:49:19.15\00:49:21.86
and cried out, O
God, I will follow him.
00:49:21.89\00:49:25.53
And the Lord-- he is
God! The Lord-- he is God!"
00:49:25.56\00:49:27.43
This gave Elijah's
message a powerful impact!
00:49:27.46\00:49:31.27
Oh, I'm telling you, I
may, when I get up here
00:49:31.30\00:49:34.37
and preach, I look
forward to the time
00:49:34.40\00:49:37.91
when there will be
fire coming down behind me.
00:49:37.94\00:49:39.67
But you know what,
00:49:39.71\00:49:41.24
if it doesn't happen
fire is falling in your life.
00:49:41.28\00:49:45.98
How many sense the fire
00:49:46.01\00:49:47.35
of the Holy
Spirit in this seminar?
00:49:47.38\00:49:48.98
How many sense the
fire of the Holy Spirit?
00:49:49.02\00:49:50.85
How many agree that is powerful
00:49:50.89\00:49:52.95
because that's
the presence of Jesus,
00:49:52.99\00:49:55.42
that's the presence of Jesus.
00:49:55.46\00:49:56.89
You get the fire at
the altar of sacrifice
00:49:56.93\00:50:00.76
that is to say you get
the power at the cross.
00:50:00.80\00:50:03.47
How many agree, the cross
00:50:03.50\00:50:04.83
is the altar of
sacrifice of Jesus?
00:50:04.87\00:50:08.30
Elijah's message
was against sun worship,
00:50:08.34\00:50:11.24
against false worship,
00:50:11.27\00:50:12.61
against willfully
breaking the Ten Commandments,
00:50:12.64\00:50:14.54
against wavering
between God and Baalim,
00:50:14.58\00:50:16.68
it's against indecision.
00:50:16.71\00:50:18.28
You know what the
Elijah's message is,
00:50:18.31\00:50:19.65
you are hearing
at thunder tonight,
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make up your mind.
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Is what you heard
in the seminar truth?
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Then follow it.
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If it's not truth,
then don't follow it
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but make up your mind.
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The Elijah message I
bring it to you tonight.
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It's a message of,
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are you gonna keep
the commandments of God
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or the commandments of man?
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How many agree, when you hear--
00:50:38.17\00:50:39.53
when you are on Mount Carmel
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you can't say, oh, I'm not here
00:50:40.94\00:50:43.00
when you are in I bring
you tonight to Mount Carmel.
00:50:43.04\00:50:45.77
You are on
Mount Carmel right now
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and its decision
time and the decision is
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between the commandments of
God or the commandments of man.
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Who else worked in the
spirit and power of Elijah?
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His name, cousin of
Jesus, John the Baptizer.
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"Many of the people of
Israel will he bring back,
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bring back to the Lord your God.
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And he will go
on before the Lord,
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in the spirit
and power of Elijah,
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to turn the hearts of
the fathers to their children
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and the disobedient to
the wisdom of the righteous--
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to make ready a people
prepared for the Lord."
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Elijah's message,
John the Baptist's message,
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the remnant's message
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is all about
preparation for translation.
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Well, in the time
of John the Baptist
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it was preparation for
Jesus return and first coming.
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"And if you are
willing to accept it,
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he is the
Elijah who was to come.
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He who has ears, let him hear."
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Matthew 11:14.
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Okay. So we move on.
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"The disciples asked him,
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'Why then do the
teachers of the law
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say that Elijah
must come first?'
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Jesus replied, 'To
be sure, Elijah comes
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and will restore all things.'"
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God's church, John the Baptist,
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Elijah do the same
thing, restore true worship.
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Restore the
truths of law side up.
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Elijah's message
called people to obedience
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to God's commandments.
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Elijah's message
restored true worship.
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What is the
third angels' message?
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Go with me to Revelation 14.
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Do you want to see Elijah's
message in the last days,
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it's the Three Angels' Messages,
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this constitutes
Elijah's last call,
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Revelation 14 and you know what,
00:52:27.78\00:52:29.34
God is calling us
out of every church
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and there are
many false prophets,
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many false churches that
have God's people in them
00:52:34.48\00:52:37.59
and God calls them out
and into His one Elijah,
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one true church,
one fold, one woman,
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one remnant, one faith.
00:52:47.20\00:52:49.56
The Bible says that He is
calling them out of Babylon,
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the mother church,
the Roman Catholic church
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and our apostate Sunday
keeping Protestant churches
00:52:55.17\00:52:57.77
and He is calling them
out and He is calling them in.
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"Other sheep I have,
which are not of this fold,
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them also I must bring,
and they shall hear my voice,
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and there shall be one fold,
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and one shepherd" John 10:16.
00:53:05.75\00:53:08.88
And if you are His
sheep you hear His voice
00:53:08.92\00:53:10.82
and you follow that voice
00:53:10.85\00:53:12.19
no matter how
challenging it may be.
00:53:12.22\00:53:15.12
No matter what kind
of changes you must make
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I say, make it for Jesus,
that's the Elijah message.
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It's the message of change,
it's a message of change.
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And so God is
calling every person,
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every believer out of churches
00:53:26.40\00:53:28.24
that are not
preaching Elijah's message.
00:53:28.27\00:53:31.64
How many agree, you don't
want to be part of a church
00:53:31.67\00:53:33.48
that's not
preaching Elijah's message
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and here you
see the scope of it.
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God's message is clear.
00:53:38.18\00:53:40.68
"Come out from among
them and be separate."
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2 Corinthians 6:16, 17.
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"Come out of her, my people."
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Revelation 18:4.
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Come out of mystery
Babylon, the mother of harlots
00:53:50.33\00:53:53.40
and having daughters of
apostate Protestant churches.
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And so to come out, come out
of every church expect the one
00:53:56.97\00:53:59.73
that's preaching the
Three Angels' Messages
00:53:59.77\00:54:02.00
and there is only one.
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Verse 6, "Then I
saw another angel
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flying in the midst of heaven,
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having the
everlasting gospel to preach
00:54:07.58\00:54:09.21
to those who
dwell on the earth--
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to every nation,
tribe, tongue, and people
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saying with a loud voice,
00:54:12.68\00:54:14.18
'Fear God and give glory to Him,
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for the hour of
His judgment has come."
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that's Elijah's message.
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"And worship Him who
made heaven and earth,
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and the sea and
springs of water."
00:54:22.99\00:54:25.13
In contrast to verse 9,
00:54:25.16\00:54:28.03
"Then a third
angel followed them,
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saying with a loud voice,
00:54:29.50\00:54:30.83
'If anyone worships
the beast and his image,
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and receives his mark on
his forehead or on his hand,'"
00:54:32.73\00:54:35.64
Would you agree in the last days
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Elijah's message
is still the same?
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Worship the creator
or worship the beast,
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make up your mind.
00:54:42.51\00:54:43.85
To worship the beast
00:54:45.18\00:54:46.51
means you go along
with beast teachings
00:54:46.55\00:54:48.98
and one of the beast
teachings is Sunday observance.
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It came from the beast,
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Bible makes
that's clear verse 12.
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Who is gonna
preach these messages?
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Here is the
patience of the saints.
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Here those who keep
the commandments of God
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and the faith of Jesus.
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Now go to Revelation Chapter 12.
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How many want
to be in that group
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that keep the
commandments of God
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and have the
genuine faith of Jesus?
00:55:10.71\00:55:12.41
How many agree
there is a spurious faith?
00:55:12.44\00:55:15.68
The Bible says, he
that says I know him
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and does not keep his
commandments is a liar
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the truth is not
at him" 1 John 2:6,
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I'm sorry 1 John 2:3, 4.
00:55:24.59\00:55:27.82
Revelation 12:6,
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"Then the woman fled
into the wilderness,"
00:55:31.69\00:55:33.56
like Elijah "where she
has a place prepared by God,
00:55:33.60\00:55:38.13
that they should feed her there
00:55:38.17\00:55:39.57
one thousand two
hundred and sixty days."
00:55:39.60\00:55:41.54
Twelve hundred and
sixty years, dark ages.
00:55:41.57\00:55:44.31
Then the woman
would come out of hiding
00:55:44.34\00:55:47.51
and here is she is in
the last days the remnant.
00:55:47.54\00:55:50.25
Verse 17, "Then the dragon
was enraged with the woman,
00:55:50.28\00:55:55.48
and he went to make war
with the rest of her offspring,"
00:55:55.52\00:55:58.09
the remnant "who keep
the commandments of God
00:55:58.12\00:56:02.12
and have the
testimony of Jesus Christ."
00:56:02.16\00:56:04.46
Do you see how simple
that is, brothers and sisters.
00:56:04.49\00:56:07.70
I've come here to
Missouri with a message...
00:56:07.73\00:56:10.77
and it's very clear
come out from Babylon,
00:56:11.77\00:56:17.87
come in to the remnant.
00:56:17.91\00:56:20.71
It's just that simple.
00:56:20.74\00:56:22.24
Elijah's message
makes up your mind,
00:56:22.28\00:56:25.71
make up your mind.
00:56:25.75\00:56:27.08
Commandments of
God, commandments of men.
00:56:27.12\00:56:28.78
Worship the
Creator or worship Baal?
00:56:28.82\00:56:31.89
In the last days
worship the beast
00:56:31.92\00:56:33.79
or worship the Creator?
00:56:33.82\00:56:35.96
Those who preach it
00:56:35.99\00:56:37.33
they keep the
commandments of God
00:56:37.36\00:56:38.69
including the
seventh day Sabbath.
00:56:38.73\00:56:40.06
Who preaches it
they have endurance.
00:56:40.10\00:56:42.46
Who preaches it they
have the faith of Jesus.
00:56:42.50\00:56:44.77
Who preaches it the
church that came out of hiding
00:56:44.80\00:56:47.74
sometime after 1798,
00:56:47.77\00:56:50.21
remember that when the
pope was taken into captivity.
00:56:50.24\00:56:52.44
Listen here...
00:56:52.47\00:56:53.81
Elijah came out of hiding
after three and half years
00:56:55.11\00:56:58.61
and gave his last call.
00:56:58.65\00:57:00.45
God's remnant church comes out
of hiding after the dark ages,
00:57:02.48\00:57:06.86
after 1798 and
gives the last call.
00:57:06.89\00:57:10.53
Commandments of
God, testimony of Jesus.
00:57:12.56\00:57:17.03
Do you see, beloved, God
has led you into the truth.
00:57:17.07\00:57:22.74
"If you know these things,
00:57:24.54\00:57:27.38
happy are you if
you do them" John 13:17.
00:57:27.41\00:57:33.55
"I made haste,
00:57:33.58\00:57:35.88
and did not delay to
keep thy commandments"
00:57:35.92\00:57:40.39
Psalms 119:60.
00:57:40.42\00:57:42.62
Although sudden
and alarming changes
00:57:43.96\00:57:46.16
are sweeping across the globe
00:57:46.19\00:57:48.20
you and your
family can be prepared
00:57:48.23\00:57:50.03
to face the
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00:57:50.07\00:57:52.73
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