Hello, friends, and welcome
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to another Wednesday
night Bible study here
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at the 3ABN Worship Center.
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And don't adjust the
sound on your televisions
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or whatever
you're listening through.
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This is my winter voice.
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And I can't hold on
to it for very long,
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but I won't be singing tonight
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I have someone
that's gonna be singing
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our theme song for us.
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And you could also
join in if you'd like.
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But I am having a
wonderful time tonight in that,
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this topic is gonna
really open your mind
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to hear something
about the truth of God's Word
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concerning the Second Coming.
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And the topic tonight is
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"The Truth about
the Secret Rapture"
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we'll show you
that in just a moment
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on our television screen.
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But if you'd like a copy
of the lesson to follow along,
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go to the following
website asf.3abn.org,
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download lesson number 22
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"The Truth about
the Secret Rapture."
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And for the next hour or so,
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we'll walk
through the Word of God
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and dispel another myth
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that has found its way
into the Christian circle.
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But before we
have our theme song
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and do anything else,
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let's bow our
heads and invite the Lord
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to be with us.
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Let's pray together.
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Our Heavenly
Father, we thank You
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that Your truth
continues to march forward.
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And that those of us
who hold the banner of truth
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to the glory of Your name,
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we pray that, Lord, we
can share this faithfully,
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but also with the
mindset and the understanding
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that many that are
watching this program
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may be people who
believe in the secret rapture
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or whatever
topic we're covering.
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So we want the love
of Christ to be conveyed,
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but we want the truth of
the Word of God to be clear.
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So, Lord, send Your Spirit
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to those who are
tuning into tonight,
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and may their
hearts and minds be open
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to simply receive
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what the Lord
has said in His Word.
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And now that we're living
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in preparation
for the Second Coming,
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may this myth about
the return of our Lord
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be turned back tonight,
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may it be
counteracted by the truth.
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In Jesus' name we pray.
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Amen.
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Now we're gonna
sing our theme song,
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and as I said a moment ago,
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the song is "Victory in Jesus"
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but Celestine is gonna
come and she's gonna lead,
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sing along with the audience.
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Celestine is my secretary,
and she's a wonderful singer.
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So you can join us at home
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the words will not
appear on your screen.
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It'll be on ours here.
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But since we have
given our hearts to the Lord
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because the "Victory in Jesus"
let's sing the song tonight,
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our theme song.
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I heard an old, old story
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How the Savior came from glory
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How He gave His life on Calvary
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To save a wretch like me
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I heard about His groaning
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Of His precious blood's atoning
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Then I repented of my sin
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And won the victory
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O victory in Jesus
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My Savior, forever
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He sought me and bought me
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With His redeeming blood
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He loved me ere I knew Him
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And all my love is due Him
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He plunged me to victory
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Beneath the cleansing flood
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I heard about a mansion
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He has built for me in glory
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And I heard about
the streets of gold
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Beyond the crystal sea
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About the angels singing
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And the old redemption story
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And some sweet
day I'll sing up there
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The song of victory
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Key change.
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O victory in Jesus
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My Savior forever
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He sought me and bought me
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With His redeeming blood
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He loved me ere I knew Him
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And all my love is due Him
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He plunged me to victory
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Beneath the cleansing flood
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He plunged me to victory
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Beneath the cleansing flood
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Amen? Amen.
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Thank you, Celestine,
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appreciate that very, very much.
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And I was singing bass,
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just getting to do that tonight.
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I don't know what this is
it's probably everybody has it.
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None of us knows what it
is, but it's probably a cold.
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But pray for me.
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Tonight, the topic is
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"The Truth about
the Secret Rapture.
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The Truth about
the Secret Rapture."
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Now let me just
lay the foundation
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by making a few statements here
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that I think are
very, very important.
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Now in this new series entitled
"The Truth about the Truth,"
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we have uncovered
two false teachings
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that have found its
home in the Christian church.
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Two false teachings
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that are in many
Christian circles today.
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The first one we dealt with was
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what the Bible teaches
about the nature of man
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that we do not die
and go directly to heaven,
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but that we are all
waiting for the resurrection.
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What are we waiting for?
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Resurrection. The resurrection.
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Everyone is in the grave
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waiting for the coming of Jesus.
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And then we'll
take a journey together.
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The dead in Christ who rises,
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then we who are alive and remain
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will be caught up together
to meet the Lord in the air.
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That was one of
the first teachings
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that we sought to counteract.
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As you know, the mission of 3ABN
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is to counteract the...
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Counterfeit. Counterfeit.
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There are many counterfeits,
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but today one of
the challenges is
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that churches nowadays are
not teaching doctrine anymore.
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As a matter of
fact, my wife reminded me
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that there's a
worldwide movement
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called the non-denominational.
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Have you heard about that?
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Non-denominational churches.
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And there are
many churches that say,
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"We don't teach doctrines."
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Well, the problem with that
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is if you don't teach doctrines,
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you don't teach
what the Bible says
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about specific
topics that Jesus taught.
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So the word doctrine is
simply another word teaching.
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What's the word there? Teaching.
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So if you choose not to teach
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what the Bible
says about the Sabbath,
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about the
condition of man in death,
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about the
Second Coming of Jesus,
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then people
largely remain ignorant.
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No one knows what
the Bible teaches.
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And so what happens is,
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we went and
covered that first topic
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that people are in the
grave waiting for Jesus to come.
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Second thing
that we counteracted
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was this idea that
Sunday is a sacred day,
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that somehow God
changed the Sabbath
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from Saturday to Sunday,
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that somehow now
we honor the first day
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in light of His resurrection
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that's not taught
anywhere in the Bible.
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And we talked about that.
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And if you missed that one,
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you can go to the
same website asf.3abn.org
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and download lesson number 21
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"The Truth about the Sabbath."
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But tonight,
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we're gonna talk about a topic
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that has millions of
Christians around the world
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looking for something
that is not going to happen.
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Right?
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Now let me ask you a question.
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And this is how I
can illustrate that.
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If I said,
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"I'll look forward
to having you visit me
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next year on February 31st,"
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How many of you
would come visit with me?
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No. Nobody.
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Because there is no February 31.
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And so the secret
rapture is like February 31st.
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There is no such thing.
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And a couple of times,
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a few years ago, as
well as more recently,
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Discovery Channel
and the History Channel
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did a one hour documentary
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on what people in
different denominations
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commonly teach concerning
the Second Coming of Christ.
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And they made this
statement which I already knew
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'cause I've been
teaching what the Bible says
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about the Second
Coming of Christ,
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how it counteracts the
idea that there's gonna be
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a secret
snatching way of the church.
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But I was amazed to hear
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that the History Channel
and National Geographic said
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millions of Christians
today have embraced the idea
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that there is a "Secret Rapture"
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and then the
following statement,
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I said, "What?"
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They said a teaching that
has no scriptural support.
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Can you say amen to that? Amen.
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So they said in
their own research,
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it has no scriptural support.
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So now if I want to sneak
something into your house,
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what time of day would
be the best time to do that?
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Somebody tell me? Night.
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Why at night?
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Come on. This is an easy answer.
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Why at night?
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Because it's dark.
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And in most cases,
the people are sleeping.
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What many of us have missed
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is something in
history called the Dark Ages.
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Say that with
me again, the what?
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The Dark Ages,
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which there was a period of time
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that lasted at least
"1,260 years" officially
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where Bibles were taken
away from common people,
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no one was
allowed to own a Bible.
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So therefore,
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if the Bible is the Word of God,
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the light was what?
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Turned off.
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It was
nighttime for 1,260 years.
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People were in
scriptural darkness,
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they did not know
what the Bible taught.
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During that time,
many of the teachings...
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Let me just rephrase that.
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Most, if not, all the teachings
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that are now
embraced by modern Christendom
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were formulated
during the Dark Ages.
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Satan came into the
house of Christianity,
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while the lights were turned off
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and put teachings in there,
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that when the
lights came back on,
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people thought those
teachings were always there.
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Now if your lights in your house
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was off for 1,260 years,
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how many things could
I take out of your house?
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Come on, somebody tell me.
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Almost everything.
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And when the lights eventually
come back on generations later,
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the generations that were
born when the lights were off,
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when the lights come on,
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they'll think that this
furniture was always here.
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And that's what's
happened in Christianity.
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So now today, the
church in the world
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is pretty much
involved in the social gospel.
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People don't teach the
truth of God's Word anymore.
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And nothing wrong
with social gospel
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that means doing
things for the community,
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helping the poor,
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relieving the
suffering of the sick,
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building houses,
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making sure people
have their needs met.
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That's good.
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But if you leave out
the truth of God's Word,
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then the
statement that Jesus made
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is of no effect.
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He said, John 17:17,
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"Sanctify them."
Go there with me.
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Let me just... Let you see that.
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John 17:17.
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Let's make this
our first scripture.
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Look at what Jesus said.
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Very powerful words.
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And it's amazing
to me that this word,
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the word that Jesus uses here
is kind of almost been deleted
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from the
vernacular of Christianity.
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He says in John 17:17.
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Let's read that together.
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The Bible says,
"Sanctify them," through what?
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"Your truth.
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Your word is," what?
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"Truth."
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That word truth
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has kind of been
left on the back burner
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because people say what's truth?
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And I even got a letter
from a pastor once said to me,
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"You have your
truth, I have my truth."
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And I said to him respectfully,
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"Sir, I don't have any
truth and neither do you."
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And the Bible does
not support two views
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that are in
opposition to what Jesus said.
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Amen?
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And so what's happened today
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is there are teachings
in the Christian church
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that were never
found in the Bible.
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So tonight to lay the foundation
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about the truth
about the secret rapture,
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we're gonna dive into it.
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And as you know, if we
don't finish it tonight,
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we just roll it over
to the next broadcast.
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But I want to tell you
and give you some history.
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And by the way,
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I'm gonna say
this a little slowly.
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A few years ago,
I did a series here
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at 3ABN called?
the Final Events,
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the Final Events.
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And that is a
five-part DVD series.
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In the Final Events DVD,
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I covered the history
of the secret rapture.
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Who started it
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and how it made
its way down the line
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from the
originator of the theory
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all the way to our modern day.
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One of the
greatest modern contributors
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is a man by the
name of Tim LaHaye,
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and his writer, Jerry Jenkins,
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and the whole
rapture Left Behind series.
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Have you heard about that?
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Millions and millions
of books have been sold.
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And Christians today
have been gobbling that up.
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But if you take...
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If you have a copy of that book,
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anyone to the
Left Behind series,
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do yourself a favor,
don't look at the front cover,
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turn that book
around on the back
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and look into the bottom right
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and you'll see in
very tiny letters,
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fiction.
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It's amazing.
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All of the authors
in that entire series
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they had to do that
because it is fiction.
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But Christians don't
read the back of the book.
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They read the front cover
where it says Left Behind,
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and they gobbled
it up like its truth.
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Well, Francisco
Ribera born 1537, died 1591.
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He was a Spanish
Jesuit theologian
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commissioned by the
Roman Catholic Church
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to get the eyes of
the Protestant reformers
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off of the
Roman Catholic Church.
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I'm giving you some history.
Can you follow carefully?
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Because the
Protestant reformers...
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Let me give you one
of the more common names
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that you know Martin Luther,
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what was his name?
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Martin Luther.
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He's considered
like the grandfather
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of the Protestant Reformation.
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When you follow Bible prophecy,
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there are four kingdom
that the Bible talks about
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Babylon, let's say the next one,
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Medo-Persia,
what's the next one?
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Greece. And the next one?
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Rome. Okay, here it is.
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Babylon, the
first worldwide kingdom,
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Medo-Persia, the
second, Greece, the third,
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and the fourth one, Rome.
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Now the entire New
Testament was written
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under the existence
of the Roman Empire,
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the pagan Roman Empire.
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When the Protestant
reformers in the 1500s
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began to
decipher Bible prophecy,
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what simply they did
was went back to the Bible.
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Martin Luther began a
back to Bible movement.
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What do you say to that?
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And in translating the
Bible from Latin to German,
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he discovered things that
were not heretofor understood,
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thereby identifying
the four world empires.
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And Martin Luther
existed under the empire of Rome
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because he was a part
of that whole Jesuit order
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or a theologian not a Jesuit
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but a theologian
under the reign of Rome.
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When he discovered in the Bible
that the Bible identified Rome
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as a part of the
system of antichrist,
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the Protestant
reformers began to preach that,
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that Rome is the fourth
beast of Daniel Chapter 7.
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The fourth
kingdom that will reign
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from the Middle Ages
to the very end of time.
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But in order to get
their eyes off of it,
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they
commissioned a Spanish Jesuit
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by the name of Francisco Ribera.
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And by the way, you
can do this study yourself.
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Francisco. F-R-A-N-C-I-S-C-O.
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Ribera. R-I-B-E-R-A.
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Do your homework
and you will discover...
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And I'll just give
you a quote very quickly.
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"In order to remove the
papacy of the Catholic Church
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from
consideration as the antichrist,
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Francisco Ribera began
writing a 500-page commentary
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on the Book of Revelation."
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And in a nutshell, he said
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that after Revelation Chapter 4,
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the church is gonna be gone.
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So there's no need to
even know Chapter 5 on.
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So what happens?
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You get a whole
bunch of Christians
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that are ignorant
of Revelation Chapter 5
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to Revelation Chapter 22,
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it is like Jesus
didn't have to write that.
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And he taught
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that the 3.5-year period
in the Bible, in prophecy
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was a time where the
antichrist would reign.
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And so he said,
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the antichrist could not
be a part of the Roman system
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it's gonna be the single guy
coming way down in the future.
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So nowadays, people believe that
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when the 3.5-year
period starts on earth
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just before the tribulation,
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there's gonna be an antichrist.
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Have you heard that?
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And then the antichrist
is gonna reign for 3.5-years
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and the Jews are
gonna be converted,
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then they're gonna make a
whole lot of false teachings.
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But because it was existing
00:17:13.83\00:17:16.43
at the beginning of
the Protestant Reformation,
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by the time the
churches began to grow
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out of the
Protestant Reformation,
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they didn't reexamine
what the Bible taught.
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And today, the greatest mystery
00:17:25.47\00:17:29.44
that is going to
be unfolded tonight,
00:17:29.48\00:17:31.08
the greatest secret,
00:17:31.11\00:17:32.45
which I say the
greatest untruth ever told
00:17:32.48\00:17:35.72
is about the
Second Coming of Christ.
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Christians are
looking for an event
00:17:37.79\00:17:40.32
that is not
supported by the Bible.
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The secret
rapture after this program
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will no longer be a secret.
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What do you say? Amen.
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So let's tonight begin
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by looking at some of
the questions that we have.
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And what we're gonna begin with
00:17:53.47\00:17:54.80
is first unfolding
what the Bible teaches
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about the
Second Coming of Jesus.
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My wife and I
were talking about this
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on the way over here tonight,
00:18:04.01\00:18:05.35
and we reminded
ourselves or she reminded me
00:18:05.38\00:18:08.35
that is that it
was not until the 1830s
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that the preaching about
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the Second Coming
of Christ resurfaced.
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Up until that point,
00:18:15.66\00:18:16.99
churches didn't teach
about the Second Coming.
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And I wanna also
add the point today
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churches today are not
talking about the Second Coming.
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They have taken a
line from Francisco Ribera,
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and they believe
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that Jesus is going to
reign on earth for 1,000 years.
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That's another lie taught by
00:18:31.71\00:18:33.07
the same Spanish
Jesuit Francisco Ribera.
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So when we're done,
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the truth is gonna
be abundantly clear.
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But if you want
more information,
00:18:41.62\00:18:42.95
remember, Last Day Events,
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call 3ABN to get a copy
of that Last Day Events DVD.
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Let's go to question
number one for tonight.
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Question number
one, for tonight.
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All right.
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And here's the question.
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What main truth has Jesus taught
00:18:57.60\00:19:00.54
about His Second Coming?
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What main truth has Jesus taught
00:19:02.74\00:19:05.61
about His Second Coming?
00:19:05.64\00:19:07.74
We gonna go to Revelation 1:7.
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Revelation 1:7.
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I am so glad
00:19:13.35\00:19:14.68
that the Word of
God still exists today.
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Can you say amen to that?
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If we didn't have light,
00:19:18.72\00:19:20.09
we be in darkness,
just like the Dark Ages.
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But this is not
the era of darkness.
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Revelation 1:7, here's
what the Bible teaches.
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All right,
00:19:27.30\00:19:28.63
let's read this
first one together.
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It's on the screen.
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And if you're at home,
00:19:31.40\00:19:32.73
you can read it
with your family there.
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The Bible says,
"Behold, He is," what?
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"Coming with clouds,
00:19:36.94\00:19:38.31
and every eye will see
Him, even they who," what?
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"Pierced Him.
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And all the tribes of the
earth will mourn because of Him.
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Even so, Amen."
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So let me ask the question,
00:19:54.19\00:19:55.86
how many eyes
are gonna see Jesus
00:19:55.89\00:19:57.23
when He comes back?
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Every.
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And the reason
why it's important
00:20:00.00\00:20:01.33
to read this text
is it the Bible...
00:20:01.36\00:20:02.70
Lot of people teach, and
I understand the thinking
00:20:02.73\00:20:04.93
because people that
are rapturists they say,
00:20:04.97\00:20:08.64
"Well, okay,
yeah, the Second Coming,
00:20:08.67\00:20:10.27
every eye will see Him,
00:20:10.31\00:20:11.64
but the churches are
gonna be snatched away
00:20:11.67\00:20:13.01
before that visible return."
00:20:13.04\00:20:14.74
That's the misconception
that's been planted there.
00:20:14.78\00:20:18.65
But there's no such
support in the Bible for that.
00:20:18.68\00:20:21.08
And we'll talk about
those verses in the Bible
00:20:21.12\00:20:22.75
that are often used
to back up that theory
00:20:22.78\00:20:25.82
that once again has
no scriptural support.
00:20:25.85\00:20:28.06
The Bible says when Jesus comes,
00:20:28.09\00:20:29.79
how many eyes are gonna see Him?
00:20:29.82\00:20:31.76
Every eye.
00:20:31.79\00:20:33.26
So that means when Jesus comes
everyone who has ever lived,
00:20:33.29\00:20:38.17
everyone who's on the earth
00:20:38.20\00:20:40.10
is going to see the Lord return.
00:20:40.14\00:20:41.64
And it didn't just say
the righteous, it says,
00:20:41.67\00:20:44.44
all the tribes of
the earth will mourn.
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You know what that word mourn,
there's a better word mourn.
00:20:48.51\00:20:51.68
They're gonna be an anguish
because some that our mourning
00:20:51.71\00:20:55.95
because of Him
are gonna be those
00:20:55.98\00:20:57.52
who are not ready
for His soon return.
00:20:57.55\00:20:59.65
All the tribes of the
earth, every eye will see him.
00:20:59.69\00:21:03.53
Italy, the islands of
the sea, the Caribbean,
00:21:03.56\00:21:06.56
the United States, Canada, Asia,
00:21:06.59\00:21:09.23
the entire world
is going to see Jesus
00:21:09.26\00:21:11.00
when He comes back,
every eye will see Him.
00:21:11.03\00:21:13.67
So if you answer
question number one,
00:21:13.70\00:21:15.47
what main truth has Jesus taught
00:21:15.50\00:21:17.11
about his Second Coming?
00:21:17.14\00:21:18.81
It will be visible
to the whole world.
00:21:18.84\00:21:22.04
It will be visible to
how much of the world?
00:21:22.08\00:21:25.11
The whole
world, the whole world,
00:21:25.15\00:21:26.92
every eye, all the
tribes of the earth,
00:21:26.95\00:21:31.12
every eye will see Him,
even those who pierced him.
00:21:31.15\00:21:33.86
That means those
who persecuted Jesus
00:21:33.89\00:21:36.39
in the judgment hall.
00:21:36.42\00:21:38.39
They insisted, they said,
00:21:38.43\00:21:40.10
"We adore you,
are you the Christ?"
00:21:40.13\00:21:42.86
And Jesus says "I am.
00:21:42.90\00:21:45.07
And you will see Me
coming in the clouds of heaven
00:21:45.10\00:21:48.50
with power and great glory."
00:21:48.54\00:21:51.44
Even they will be resurrected
00:21:51.47\00:21:53.48
to see the one
that they have pierced.
00:21:53.51\00:21:55.48
So it's not gonna be invisible.
00:21:55.51\00:21:56.88
It's gonna be visible
to how much of the earth?
00:21:56.91\00:21:59.55
All the earth.
00:21:59.58\00:22:00.92
Okay, question number one.
00:22:00.95\00:22:03.15
Now go to question number two.
00:22:03.18\00:22:05.89
How will the return
of Jesus in the clouds
00:22:05.92\00:22:08.12
affect the world?"
00:22:08.16\00:22:10.03
How will His
return in the clouds
00:22:10.06\00:22:13.06
affect the world?
00:22:13.09\00:22:14.43
Matthew 24:30 is
where you are turning.
00:22:14.46\00:22:18.63
Matthew 24:30.
00:22:18.67\00:22:21.64
All right, we're gonna
see what the Bible says
00:22:21.67\00:22:24.37
because it's important.
00:22:24.41\00:22:25.74
I tell you, one of the things
00:22:25.77\00:22:27.11
that's missing in
Christianity nowadays
00:22:27.14\00:22:28.48
is people don't go to the Bible.
00:22:28.51\00:22:30.15
They pretty much say, they say,
00:22:30.18\00:22:31.61
"Reverend, what
should we believe?
00:22:31.65\00:22:33.38
Pastor, what we should believe?
00:22:33.42\00:22:34.75
Priest, what should we believe?
00:22:34.78\00:22:36.79
Bishop, what should we believe?"
00:22:36.82\00:22:38.49
Well, you know, if your pastor
00:22:38.52\00:22:39.85
or any spiritual
leader that you have
00:22:39.89\00:22:41.99
disagrees of the Bible,
you need to hit the road.
00:22:42.02\00:22:45.59
Amen?
00:22:45.63\00:22:46.96
Run for the hills.
00:22:47.00\00:22:48.33
Run to the Adventist church.
00:22:48.36\00:22:50.53
Right. Just to make it
clear. Thank you, honey.
00:22:50.57\00:22:52.53
Run to the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
00:22:52.57\00:22:55.90
where we believe in
the truth, the whole truth,
00:22:55.94\00:22:57.71
and nothing but the truth.
00:22:57.74\00:22:59.97
Humbly, but praise the Lord,
00:23:00.01\00:23:02.01
we don't believe in
dealing in darkness.
00:23:02.04\00:23:04.18
Matthew 24:30.
00:23:04.21\00:23:05.71
How will the return of Jesus
in the clouds affect the world?
00:23:05.75\00:23:08.88
Here's what the Bible says.
00:23:08.92\00:23:11.45
"Then the sign of the Son of Man
00:23:11.49\00:23:14.62
will appear," where?
00:23:14.66\00:23:16.09
"In heaven,"
00:23:16.12\00:23:17.46
That's right above
the earth's atmosphere,
00:23:17.49\00:23:18.99
"and then," how
much of the tribes?
00:23:19.03\00:23:21.56
"All the tribes of
the earth will mourn,"
00:23:21.60\00:23:24.50
just like John said,
00:23:24.53\00:23:26.33
"And they will,"
what's the next word?
00:23:26.37\00:23:28.44
"See the Son of
Man coming," how?
00:23:28.47\00:23:31.57
"On the clouds of
heaven with," what two things?
00:23:31.61\00:23:34.91
"Power and great glory."
00:23:34.94\00:23:38.05
So once again, all
the tribes of the earth,
00:23:38.08\00:23:42.68
Jesus is not gonna sneak back
the greatest event of the ages.
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You know, it's like the rescue.
00:23:47.96\00:23:49.29
I remember years ago,
and I heard the story,
00:23:49.32\00:23:51.29
I wasn't alive at the
time, I'm not that old.
00:23:51.33\00:23:55.16
But I heard the story
when many American soldiers
00:23:55.20\00:23:57.97
were held in
prison camps in Asia
00:23:58.00\00:24:00.40
during, I think it
was the World War II,
00:24:00.44\00:24:02.40
which one was General MacArthur?
00:24:02.44\00:24:04.71
Second World War.
00:24:04.74\00:24:07.44
Yeah, it was in the Philippines.
00:24:07.48\00:24:08.88
And he said, "I will return."
00:24:08.91\00:24:12.05
And I remember
hearing the stories
00:24:12.08\00:24:14.35
and reading
throughout history books
00:24:14.38\00:24:16.12
that when they heard
all these planes, I mean,
00:24:16.15\00:24:18.25
you cannot miss the
sound of many, many planes.
00:24:18.29\00:24:22.36
And those who
were in the POW camps,
00:24:22.39\00:24:24.49
they said, "General MacArthur
has fulfilled his promise."
00:24:24.53\00:24:28.53
It was so loud,
00:24:28.56\00:24:29.90
they knew without
a shadow of a doubt
00:24:29.93\00:24:32.33
that it was American planes
coming to rescue all of those
00:24:32.37\00:24:35.87
that have been held by
the prisoner-of-war camps.
00:24:35.90\00:24:39.41
You see, the event of the ages,
00:24:39.44\00:24:41.68
the greatest
event of human history,
00:24:41.71\00:24:44.11
the eradication of sin,
the deliverance of the saints.
00:24:44.15\00:24:47.55
Amen to that?
00:24:47.58\00:24:49.02
And our deliverance
from this sin cursed earth
00:24:49.05\00:24:52.69
in our journey home,
00:24:52.72\00:24:54.06
it is gonna be
anything but secret.
00:24:54.09\00:24:57.33
It's gonna be
anything but secret.
00:24:57.36\00:24:59.43
All the tribes of the earth
are gonna be affected by it
00:24:59.46\00:25:01.53
because they're gonna
see the Son of Man coming
00:25:01.56\00:25:03.50
on the clouds of heaven
with power and great glory.
00:25:03.53\00:25:06.67
I cannot imagine what
the glory is gonna be,
00:25:06.70\00:25:09.00
you know, we
think the sun is bright.
00:25:09.04\00:25:11.17
But when the Lord returns
and as Revelation 19 says
00:25:11.21\00:25:14.14
10,000 times 10,000
00:25:14.18\00:25:15.94
and thousands of
thousands of angels.
00:25:15.98\00:25:19.68
And when you read the
stories in the Old Testament,
00:25:19.71\00:25:21.58
one Angel was able to
destroy an entire army.
00:25:21.62\00:25:25.25
Boy, 10,000 times 10,000
00:25:25.29\00:25:27.39
and even more than
the millions of angels,
00:25:27.42\00:25:30.43
the Son of Man,
00:25:30.46\00:25:32.19
shining in
power and great glory.
00:25:32.23\00:25:35.63
All right, let's
look at the other one.
00:25:35.66\00:25:37.00
Question number three.
00:25:37.03\00:25:38.37
So the answer to
question number two,
00:25:38.40\00:25:39.73
how will the return of Jesus
in the clouds affect the world?
00:25:39.77\00:25:43.61
They'll all see Him.
00:25:43.64\00:25:45.24
They'll all
mourn the entire earth.
00:25:45.27\00:25:48.21
Nowhere in the scriptures,
00:25:48.24\00:25:49.58
do you find Jesus
want to sneak back.
00:25:49.61\00:25:51.91
"Let Me get back
before anybody knows
00:25:51.95\00:25:53.48
and snatch people out of here
00:25:53.52\00:25:54.85
and then go and
nobody knows about it."
00:25:54.88\00:25:57.85
There's gonna
be something secret
00:25:57.89\00:25:59.22
about the
Second Coming of Jesus,
00:25:59.25\00:26:00.59
and the Bible says,
00:26:00.62\00:26:01.96
"No man knows the
day nor the hour," right?
00:26:01.99\00:26:03.79
Matthew 24:36.
00:26:03.83\00:26:05.16
Nobody knows what
the day is gonna be.
00:26:05.19\00:26:07.53
But if you keep
going, Jesus said,
00:26:07.56\00:26:10.03
"Learn the
parable of the fig tree."
00:26:10.07\00:26:13.47
Right now we're in winter
here in Southern Illinois,
00:26:13.50\00:26:17.57
and a lot of the
trees don't have leaves.
00:26:17.61\00:26:19.94
Matter of fact,
some of the leave
00:26:19.97\00:26:21.31
are still in our backyards,
00:26:21.34\00:26:23.65
but the trees
look like they're dead.
00:26:23.68\00:26:25.28
But when the
spring begins to come,
00:26:25.31\00:26:26.82
what happens?
00:26:26.85\00:26:28.18
What happens? Somebody tell me.
00:26:28.22\00:26:30.62
The leaves, the
trees begin to bud.
00:26:30.65\00:26:33.46
And, you know,
that what's coming?
00:26:33.49\00:26:35.12
The summer is on its way.
00:26:35.16\00:26:37.33
The summer is coming.
00:26:37.36\00:26:38.99
In the very same
way the Lord says,
00:26:39.03\00:26:40.36
"When you see all
these signs of the end
00:26:40.40\00:26:42.56
know that My coming is near.
00:26:42.60\00:26:44.73
You don't know what day it is.
00:26:44.77\00:26:46.10
But when you see these
signs, you better be ready."
00:26:46.13\00:26:48.47
Right?
00:26:48.50\00:26:49.84
Question number three.
00:26:49.87\00:26:51.21
Here it is.
00:26:51.24\00:26:52.57
"Will the return of Jesus
00:26:52.61\00:26:53.94
be visible only
to the righteous?"
00:26:53.98\00:26:56.48
That's another teaching
00:26:56.51\00:26:58.15
that is encapsulated
in the secret rapture
00:26:58.18\00:27:00.52
because only the righteous...
00:27:00.55\00:27:01.88
Have you ever seen those signs?
00:27:01.92\00:27:03.49
I've seen them sold
in Christian bookstores.
00:27:03.52\00:27:05.15
And it just sickens me
00:27:05.19\00:27:07.99
that all these
Christians that love the Lord
00:27:08.02\00:27:10.06
are being lied to.
00:27:10.09\00:27:11.83
I went to a Christian bookstore
00:27:11.86\00:27:13.19
once where they had the
entire Left Behind series.
00:27:13.23\00:27:16.87
And I couldn't help it ask,
"Why do you guys sell fiction?"
00:27:16.90\00:27:21.17
And they actually had a section
called Christian fiction.
00:27:21.20\00:27:24.27
What an oxymoron.
00:27:24.31\00:27:26.34
Christian fiction?
00:27:26.37\00:27:28.91
Is that like ,let
me stop right there.
00:27:28.94\00:27:32.18
Is that like
Christian marijuana?
00:27:32.21\00:27:35.85
It's like Christian alcohol?
00:27:35.88\00:27:37.29
Which one is this?
00:27:37.32\00:27:39.82
Christian fiction.
00:27:39.85\00:27:41.36
And that's what the devil does.
00:27:41.39\00:27:42.92
He merges the two together
00:27:42.96\00:27:45.09
to make the latter more
prominent than the former.
00:27:45.13\00:27:48.66
Did you get what I say?
00:27:48.70\00:27:50.37
Christianity gets
diluted by fiction.
00:27:50.40\00:27:54.84
But it puts the word
Christian to make it palatable.
00:27:54.87\00:27:56.84
This is our
Christian fiction section.
00:27:56.87\00:27:58.71
And I said, "That's a
travesty to sell a lie
00:27:58.74\00:28:01.04
in a Christian bookstore."
00:28:01.08\00:28:02.54
But that's what he's
done. But that's what he's done.
00:28:02.58\00:28:04.55
Here's the answer.
00:28:04.58\00:28:05.91
Will the return of Jesus
00:28:05.95\00:28:07.28
be visible only to the righteous
00:28:07.32\00:28:08.65
Mark 14:61, 62.
00:28:08.68\00:28:13.15
Mark 14:61, 62.
00:28:13.19\00:28:17.59
Okay, I just made
reference to this.
00:28:17.63\00:28:19.83
But now you
have the actual text.
00:28:19.86\00:28:22.06
Here it is on the screen.
00:28:22.10\00:28:23.97
And this is when
Jesus was being...
00:28:24.00\00:28:25.83
They were demanding that
Jesus disclose His identity.
00:28:25.87\00:28:30.61
And He said...
00:28:30.64\00:28:31.97
They said,
00:28:32.01\00:28:33.34
"But He kept silent
and answered nothing.
00:28:33.38\00:28:35.84
Again the high priest asked Him,
00:28:35.88\00:28:38.35
saying to Him,
00:28:38.38\00:28:39.71
'Are you the Christ,
the Son of the Blessed?'"
00:28:39.75\00:28:44.32
And then Jesus
responded, "He said, 'I am.
00:28:44.35\00:28:48.66
And you will see the Son of Man
00:28:48.69\00:28:50.83
sitting at the
right hand of Power,
00:28:50.86\00:28:53.73
and coming with the,'" what?
00:28:53.76\00:28:55.90
"Clouds of heaven."
00:28:55.93\00:28:58.33
What do you
think those clouds are?
00:28:58.37\00:28:59.70
Somebody tell me.
What do you think they are?
00:28:59.73\00:29:01.20
Angels, so many
00:29:01.24\00:29:03.77
that they're gonna
look just like clouds.
00:29:03.81\00:29:05.64
Angels.
00:29:05.67\00:29:07.01
Clouds are often,
00:29:07.04\00:29:08.38
the kind of clouds we
like a white, bright clouds.
00:29:08.41\00:29:10.81
Can you imagine when the earth,
Mike, is wrapped with clouds?
00:29:10.85\00:29:13.62
And these clouds are
bright, shining angels,
00:29:13.65\00:29:16.05
and each one has a trumpet,
00:29:16.08\00:29:17.42
and they're shaking the earth
with the blast of that trumpet,
00:29:17.45\00:29:21.46
with the sound of that trumpet.
00:29:21.49\00:29:22.82
So yes, Jesus said,
00:29:22.86\00:29:24.29
"I'll be coming
back and we have a date."
00:29:24.33\00:29:28.16
He said that to
those who persecuted Him,
00:29:28.20\00:29:29.80
"We have an appointment."
00:29:29.83\00:29:31.63
And you may not like it.
00:29:31.67\00:29:33.00
But today, when I return,
00:29:33.03\00:29:34.90
you're not gonna
see handcuffed Jesus
00:29:34.94\00:29:36.91
or where the crown of thorns.
00:29:36.94\00:29:40.14
"I'm gonna be king of
kings and Lord of lords.
00:29:40.18\00:29:42.64
And we'll be talking again
00:29:42.68\00:29:44.41
under different
set of circumstances."
00:29:44.45\00:29:46.68
We need to be Jesus and peace.
00:29:46.72\00:29:48.05
Amen?
00:29:48.08\00:29:49.42
Okay, so the
answer to number three is
00:29:49.45\00:29:50.89
will the return of Jesus
00:29:50.92\00:29:52.25
be visible only
to the righteous?
00:29:52.29\00:29:53.62
A single answer
is absolutely, no.
00:29:53.66\00:29:55.92
No, not at all.
00:29:55.96\00:29:57.33
Even those who persecuted Him
00:29:57.36\00:30:00.36
will be affected
by His soon return.
00:30:00.40\00:30:03.57
All right, now
let's go to a book
00:30:03.60\00:30:05.10
in the Old Testament.
00:30:05.13\00:30:06.47
So far we've used
the New Testament.
00:30:06.50\00:30:08.50
Go to Psalms 50:3 and
here's the next question.
00:30:08.54\00:30:11.47
Question number four.
00:30:11.51\00:30:13.21
Question number four.
00:30:13.24\00:30:14.91
"How do we know that
Jesus will not return secretly?"
00:30:14.94\00:30:19.78
How do we know that?
00:30:19.81\00:30:21.15
Well, we know that
because of the Bible
00:30:21.18\00:30:22.52
but if I just
gave you that answer,
00:30:22.55\00:30:24.52
I'll be just as
authoritative as anybody else
00:30:24.55\00:30:26.55
who just pulls an
answer out of the hat.
00:30:26.59\00:30:28.62
I like to give the
answer from the Bible.
00:30:28.66\00:30:31.03
Okay, Psalm 50:3,
00:30:31.06\00:30:34.93
when you have more
than one verse it's Psalms,
00:30:34.96\00:30:36.36
but I just put Psalms
00:30:36.40\00:30:38.73
because that's
the name of the book.
00:30:38.77\00:30:40.10
All right,
00:30:40.14\00:30:41.47
here's what the Bible says
about the return of Christ.
00:30:41.50\00:30:43.20
Now what I want
you to notice so far,
00:30:43.24\00:30:45.17
the earth people on
earth are gonna be mourning,
00:30:45.21\00:30:47.61
they're gonna be upset
00:30:47.64\00:30:48.98
that they're not ready
for the coming of the Lord.
00:30:49.01\00:30:50.38
All the tribes of the
earth are gonna mourn, right?
00:30:50.41\00:30:52.61
All the tribes.
00:30:52.65\00:30:53.98
And then those who
pierced Him are gonna be upset
00:30:54.02\00:30:56.32
because they
have an appointment.
00:30:56.35\00:30:57.69
Jesus made an
appointment 2,000 years ago
00:30:57.72\00:31:00.16
that's gonna be
fulfilled that is Second Coming.
00:31:00.19\00:31:01.89
"You're gonna see Me,
but this time it's gonna be
00:31:01.92\00:31:03.59
a different set
of circumstances."
00:31:03.63\00:31:06.39
But now when He comes back,
00:31:06.43\00:31:08.06
what does David the Psalmist say
00:31:08.10\00:31:10.50
about the return of our Lord?
00:31:10.53\00:31:12.33
Psalm 50:3, here's
what the Bible says.
00:31:12.37\00:31:15.77
Bible says,
"Our God shall come,"
00:31:15.80\00:31:18.71
and let's say
that together, "and..."
00:31:18.74\00:31:21.91
Come let's get it
with a not a silent voice.
00:31:21.94\00:31:24.18
"And," what?
00:31:24.21\00:31:25.55
"Shall not keep
silent," but not only that,
00:31:25.58\00:31:28.58
"a fire shall devour before Him,
00:31:28.62\00:31:32.75
and it shall be very
tempestuous all around Him."
00:31:32.79\00:31:38.13
You know what that fire is?
00:31:38.16\00:31:40.43
Our God is a consuming fire.
00:31:40.46\00:31:42.26
That is the
blazing glory of the Lord.
00:31:42.30\00:31:45.53
And by the way,
this is something else.
00:31:45.57\00:31:47.20
His glory is a
consuming fire to the wicked
00:31:47.24\00:31:52.21
but a sign of
deliverance to the righteous.
00:31:52.24\00:31:54.91
Amen. Amen.
00:31:54.94\00:31:56.78
So that glory is
what we wanna see,
00:31:56.81\00:31:58.81
"Lo, this is our God,
we have waited for Him."
00:31:58.85\00:32:01.22
Isaiah 25:9.
00:32:01.25\00:32:02.98
But to the wicked,
that's why they're running,
00:32:03.02\00:32:04.75
it's gonna start heating up.
00:32:04.79\00:32:06.82
It's gonna heat up pretty badly.
00:32:06.86\00:32:08.62
So how do we know
that Jesus will not return?
00:32:08.66\00:32:12.19
Will not return secretly?
00:32:12.23\00:32:13.90
The Bible says, "He
will not keep silent."
00:32:13.93\00:32:16.30
Amen to that?
00:32:16.33\00:32:19.23
You guys are silent.
00:32:19.27\00:32:21.44
Amen to that? Amen.
00:32:21.47\00:32:23.27
He's not gonna be silent.
00:32:23.30\00:32:24.87
There'll be no
silent return for Jesus.
00:32:24.91\00:32:27.48
He's not gonna
say, "Yana, Yana, shh!
00:32:27.51\00:32:30.98
Come, let's go."
00:32:31.01\00:32:34.82
That's not how
Jesus is coming back.
00:32:34.85\00:32:37.12
He's been
planning for this event.
00:32:37.15\00:32:39.22
I'm restricted tonight.
00:32:39.25\00:32:40.59
I can't get too excited.
00:32:40.62\00:32:41.96
I don't wanna blow my voice out.
00:32:41.99\00:32:43.32
But I wanna shout
right now, but I can't.
00:32:43.36\00:32:44.69
I got to save it
for the teaching.
00:32:44.73\00:32:46.36
But I tell you this is the event
00:32:46.39\00:32:47.73
that we've all been waiting for.
00:32:47.76\00:32:49.10
Amen, church?
00:32:49.13\00:32:50.47
And He's gonna do
anything but sneak up on us.
00:32:50.50\00:32:52.57
Matter of fact,
00:32:52.60\00:32:53.94
if the Olympics is
always announced by a trumpet.
00:32:53.97\00:32:58.24
If they have such
fanfare for the Super Bowl,
00:32:58.27\00:33:02.68
if the World Series is something
00:33:02.71\00:33:04.41
that is seen on every
continent of the earth,
00:33:04.45\00:33:07.05
and the NBA Finals,
man, every language,
00:33:07.08\00:33:10.69
the world is covered.
00:33:10.72\00:33:12.99
How will the coming
of the King of kings
00:33:13.02\00:33:15.96
and Lord of lords
00:33:15.99\00:33:18.93
be a silent event only to
those who purchase the ticket?
00:33:18.96\00:33:24.90
He said, "No, no, no,
00:33:24.93\00:33:26.30
I'm letting the
devil know I'm coming
00:33:26.33\00:33:28.30
because this is the end of it."
00:33:28.34\00:33:29.74
Amen, church?
00:33:29.77\00:33:31.67
He will not be
silent. And you'll see Him.
00:33:31.71\00:33:34.41
That's what that
fiery stream and it says
00:33:34.44\00:33:36.81
it shall be very tempestuous.
00:33:36.85\00:33:38.41
That means if you wanna use
another word for tempestuous,
00:33:38.45\00:33:40.75
it will be
awesome, a grand around Him,
00:33:40.78\00:33:43.75
something that the human eye
will only be able to look at,
00:33:43.79\00:33:47.72
but with no description.
00:33:47.76\00:33:50.33
I tell you, our
tongues will fail
00:33:50.36\00:33:51.76
at the description
that evening or that day.
00:33:51.79\00:33:54.96
Question number
five. Question number five.
00:33:55.00\00:33:57.57
And by the way,
00:33:57.60\00:33:58.93
if you're looking
at question number six,
00:33:58.97\00:34:00.30
I actually
intended to put A, B, and C
00:34:00.34\00:34:01.84
into question number five.
00:34:01.87\00:34:03.34
So kind of, I'm
gonna give you three parts
00:34:03.37\00:34:05.57
to the next question, all right?
00:34:05.61\00:34:07.78
Question number five.
00:34:07.81\00:34:09.44
"In what way will Jesus'
return affect the entire world?"
00:34:09.48\00:34:15.22
In what way will
the return of Jesus
00:34:15.25\00:34:16.85
affect the entire world?
00:34:16.89\00:34:20.49
What we know so
far it won't be silent,
00:34:20.52\00:34:22.52
it's gonna be a bright,
00:34:22.56\00:34:24.19
fiery, stream issuing,
and coming forth from before,
00:34:24.23\00:34:27.46
all the tribes of the
earth are going to mourn.
00:34:27.50\00:34:29.46
But John the Revelator
gives us some specifics.
00:34:29.50\00:34:33.30
Revelation 6:14-17.
00:34:33.34\00:34:36.60
Revelation 6:14-17.
00:34:36.64\00:34:40.11
Wow, what an
event, what an event.
00:34:40.14\00:34:44.01
Here's what the Bible says.
00:34:44.05\00:34:45.81
The Bible says,
00:34:45.85\00:34:47.18
"Then the sky
receded as a scroll
00:34:47.22\00:34:51.39
when it is rolled up,"
00:34:51.42\00:34:53.09
or when it is roll together
as the King James Version says,
00:34:53.12\00:34:55.56
"and every mountain
and island was," what?
00:34:55.59\00:34:58.93
"Moved out of its place.
00:34:58.96\00:35:01.53
And the kings of the earth,
the great men, the rich men,
00:35:01.56\00:35:06.63
the commanders, the mighty men,"
00:35:06.67\00:35:09.10
notice covering everybody,
00:35:09.14\00:35:10.57
"every slave
and every free man,"
00:35:10.61\00:35:12.44
what did they do?
00:35:12.47\00:35:13.81
"Hid themselves in the caves
00:35:13.84\00:35:16.18
and in the rocks
of the mountains,"
00:35:16.21\00:35:18.11
and what did they do?
00:35:18.15\00:35:19.48
"And said to the
mountains and the rocks,
00:35:19.51\00:35:22.05
'Fall on us and hide
us from the face of Him
00:35:22.08\00:35:25.85
who sits on the throne
00:35:25.89\00:35:28.02
and from the
wrath of the Lamb!'"
00:35:28.06\00:35:29.92
Last part together.
00:35:29.96\00:35:31.29
"For the great day
of His wrath has come,
00:35:31.33\00:35:34.10
and who is able to stand?"
00:35:34.13\00:35:37.17
What an event.
00:35:37.20\00:35:38.83
The earth is
gonna be in pandemonia,
00:35:38.87\00:35:41.34
people are gonna
have nowhere to hide.
00:35:41.37\00:35:44.51
I feel badly for
people in Florida
00:35:44.54\00:35:46.17
because there are no mountains,
there are no rocks to run to.
00:35:46.21\00:35:49.64
And we have very little
here in Southern Illinois.
00:35:49.68\00:35:51.95
Hey, But I
don't worry about that
00:35:51.98\00:35:53.31
because I'm not gonna be run
00:35:53.35\00:35:54.68
into the rocks
and the mountains,
00:35:54.72\00:35:56.05
I'm gonna be run to
Jesus, anybody else?
00:35:56.08\00:35:57.75
We're not running away.
00:35:57.79\00:35:59.25
We're gonna be
running toward the majesty
00:35:59.29\00:36:01.59
because we will be
clothed in immortality.
00:36:01.62\00:36:04.83
We will have put on
His robe of righteousness.
00:36:04.86\00:36:07.76
Mortality will
have been replaced
00:36:07.80\00:36:09.86
with an
incorruptible immortal body.
00:36:09.90\00:36:12.23
We're not gonna
be trying to hide,
00:36:12.27\00:36:13.87
but those who have been on
the wrong side of the fence.
00:36:13.90\00:36:17.31
Matter of fact, go
with me to Revelation 19.
00:36:17.34\00:36:19.07
I want you to see something.
00:36:19.11\00:36:21.18
This is extra credit.
00:36:21.21\00:36:22.74
Revelation Chapter 19.
00:36:22.78\00:36:24.71
And Revelation Chapter 19.
00:36:31.19\00:36:34.32
Some of you need to
share with your neighbors.
00:36:34.36\00:36:35.86
Okay.
00:36:35.89\00:36:37.23
Revelation 19:11.
00:36:37.26\00:36:40.03
The Bible says,
00:36:40.06\00:36:41.83
Wow, this is
powerful, this is powerful.
00:36:41.86\00:36:47.17
Verse 11,
00:36:47.20\00:36:48.54
"Then I saw heaven
opened, and behold, a,"
00:36:48.57\00:36:51.17
what kind of horse?
00:36:51.21\00:36:52.54
"White horse.
00:36:52.57\00:36:53.91
And He who sat on him
was called Faithful and True,
00:36:53.94\00:36:58.08
and in righteousness
He judges and makes war."
00:36:58.11\00:37:01.85
Now let's go ahead
and get this flame of fire
00:37:01.88\00:37:03.59
that David was talking about.
00:37:03.62\00:37:05.05
Here's the description.
00:37:05.09\00:37:07.59
Here's the description.
00:37:07.62\00:37:08.99
"His eyes were
like a flame of fire."
00:37:09.02\00:37:12.63
So when the Bible says,
00:37:12.66\00:37:14.40
"The fire was very
tempestuous around Him,
00:37:14.43\00:37:17.10
His eyes are
like a flame of fire."
00:37:17.13\00:37:19.73
And it says,
00:37:19.77\00:37:21.10
"And on His head
were many crowns.
00:37:21.14\00:37:24.77
And He had a name written
00:37:24.81\00:37:26.14
that no one knew except Himself.
00:37:26.17\00:37:28.74
He was clothed with
a robe dipped in blood,
00:37:28.78\00:37:33.38
and His name is
called," what, church?
00:37:33.42\00:37:36.22
"The Word of God.
00:37:36.25\00:37:37.69
And the armies in
heaven, clothed in fine linen."
00:37:37.72\00:37:42.52
That's the
angels, white and clean,
00:37:42.56\00:37:44.99
followed Him on white horses,
00:37:45.03\00:37:47.73
the symbol of military strength.
00:37:47.76\00:37:51.23
And it says in verse 13,
00:37:51.27\00:37:52.87
"Now out of His mouth
go with a sharp sword,
00:37:52.90\00:37:54.87
that with it He
should strike the nations.
00:37:54.90\00:37:57.87
And He Himself will
rule them with a rod of iron.
00:37:57.91\00:38:01.78
He Himself treads the winepress
00:38:01.81\00:38:05.21
of the fierceness
of the wrath of God.
00:38:05.25\00:38:08.35
And He has on His
robe and on His thigh
00:38:08.38\00:38:10.52
a name written," what is that?
00:38:10.55\00:38:11.99
Together.
00:38:12.02\00:38:13.36
"King of kings and," what?
00:38:13.39\00:38:14.72
"Lord of lords."
00:38:14.76\00:38:16.09
Now look at this.
00:38:16.12\00:38:17.46
"Then I saw an
angel standing in the sun,
00:38:17.49\00:38:19.89
and he cried with a loud voice,
00:38:19.93\00:38:21.73
saying to all the birds
00:38:21.76\00:38:23.57
that fly in the midst of heaven,
00:38:23.60\00:38:25.43
'Come and gather together
00:38:25.47\00:38:27.97
for the supper of the great God,
00:38:28.00\00:38:31.74
that you may eat
the flesh of kings,
00:38:31.77\00:38:33.68
the flesh of captains.'"
00:38:33.71\00:38:35.04
That's Revelation Chapter 6,
00:38:35.08\00:38:36.51
"The flesh of captains,
the flesh of mighty men,
00:38:36.54\00:38:39.08
the flesh of horses and
of those who sit on them,
00:38:39.11\00:38:42.88
and the flesh of all people,
00:38:42.92\00:38:44.39
free and slave,
both small and great."
00:38:44.42\00:38:47.72
"And I saw the beast,
00:38:47.76\00:38:50.53
the kings of the
earth, and their armies,
00:38:50.56\00:38:53.46
gathered together
to make war against Him
00:38:53.50\00:38:56.03
who sat on the horse
and against His army."
00:38:56.06\00:38:59.27
And I want to end this,
"And the beast was captured,"
00:38:59.30\00:39:01.90
praise God,
00:39:01.94\00:39:03.27
"and with him the
false prophet who worshiped,
00:39:03.30\00:39:06.01
who worked
signs in his presence,
00:39:06.04\00:39:08.38
by which he deceived those
00:39:08.41\00:39:10.08
who received the
mark of the beast."
00:39:10.11\00:39:12.31
That's why we're
teaching this message
00:39:12.35\00:39:13.95
'cause people are deceived.
00:39:13.98\00:39:15.62
And it says,
00:39:15.65\00:39:16.99
"And those who
worshiped His image.
00:39:17.02\00:39:18.95
These two were cast
alive into the lake of fire
00:39:18.99\00:39:22.62
burning with brimstone.
00:39:22.66\00:39:24.53
And the rest were
killed with the sword,"
00:39:24.56\00:39:26.49
that is the Word of God,
00:39:26.53\00:39:27.86
"which proceed
from the mouth of Him
00:39:27.90\00:39:29.36
who sat on the horse.
00:39:29.40\00:39:31.70
And all the birds were
filled with their flesh."
00:39:31.73\00:39:34.77
What a scene!
00:39:34.80\00:39:39.64
I've never seen
a movie like that.
00:39:39.67\00:39:41.94
Never seen a program like that.
00:39:41.98\00:39:43.65
But what I wanna point out here
00:39:43.68\00:39:45.08
is the reason why
Revelation 6:14-17 says,
00:39:45.11\00:39:48.48
"They're gonna be running."
00:39:48.52\00:39:49.85
You get the exploded
vision of it right here.
00:39:49.88\00:39:52.22
They're gonna be
running. Why are they running?
00:39:52.25\00:39:53.89
Because, man,
if you see the Lord
00:39:53.92\00:39:55.26
coming back on a white horse,
00:39:55.29\00:39:56.62
and it's like thundering,
heavenly thunder coming back,
00:39:56.66\00:39:59.46
and all those angels coming back
00:39:59.49\00:40:00.83
with all that power and glory,
00:40:00.86\00:40:02.36
and you're on the
wrong side you would run too.
00:40:02.40\00:40:05.10
Ain't that right?
00:40:05.13\00:40:06.47
We'll all be taken off.
00:40:06.50\00:40:07.84
But praise the Lord, our
job and our opportunity tonight
00:40:07.87\00:40:11.14
is to be on the right side.
00:40:11.17\00:40:13.07
Praise God for that.
00:40:13.11\00:40:14.61
Question number six.
00:40:14.64\00:40:16.04
Question number six.
00:40:16.08\00:40:17.81
All right, all right.
00:40:17.85\00:40:20.02
Number five was... Yeah.
00:40:20.05\00:40:21.78
Okay, let's answer number five.
00:40:21.82\00:40:23.28
That's right. Sorry.
00:40:23.32\00:40:24.65
I just said there
were three parts to that.
00:40:24.69\00:40:26.35
And what way will Jesus'
return affect the entire world?
00:40:26.39\00:40:29.36
First of all, the
heavens will open.
00:40:29.39\00:40:33.90
Heavens open,
00:40:33.93\00:40:35.26
that's the first
one that I pulled out.
00:40:35.30\00:40:37.47
The second one,
mountains and islands move.
00:40:37.50\00:40:42.34
Mountains and islands move.
00:40:42.37\00:40:45.21
That's a great
worldwide earthquake.
00:40:45.24\00:40:49.18
And thirdly, thirdly,
sinners run for cover.
00:40:49.21\00:40:56.15
That's a solemn thing,
can't even smile about that
00:40:56.18\00:40:59.92
'cause Satan has
deceived so many.
00:40:59.95\00:41:01.99
They won't
understand until then,
00:41:02.02\00:41:05.29
that the one that
they have rejected
00:41:05.33\00:41:07.86
is the one that
they don't wanna see.
00:41:07.90\00:41:10.23
And it's amazing the Bible calls
00:41:10.27\00:41:11.63
the wrath of the Lamb.
00:41:11.67\00:41:13.47
How many lambs have wrath?
00:41:13.50\00:41:15.67
When they only
have one set of teeth?
00:41:15.70\00:41:18.57
Wrath of the lamb,
they don't have fangs,
00:41:18.61\00:41:20.78
but the lamb that lowly Jesus,
00:41:20.81\00:41:23.75
who to us, is the
God of deliverance,
00:41:23.78\00:41:26.95
to them, they see the lamb
00:41:26.98\00:41:28.32
as the one who
brings their lives
00:41:28.35\00:41:31.02
to a terrible end,
the wrath of the Lamb.
00:41:31.05\00:41:34.12
All right, question number six.
00:41:34.16\00:41:36.42
Question number six.
00:41:36.46\00:41:37.89
"Did Jesus teach
that His unready servants
00:41:37.93\00:41:42.33
would have a second chance?"
00:41:42.36\00:41:45.07
Did Jesus teach that?
00:41:45.10\00:41:47.30
Matthew 24:44.
00:41:47.34\00:41:50.27
And by the way, it
has three sections,
00:41:50.31\00:41:51.67
but there's only
one single answer.
00:41:51.71\00:41:53.74
The A, B, and C actually applied
00:41:53.78\00:41:55.11
to question
number five, all right?
00:41:55.14\00:41:57.35
Did Jesus teach?
00:41:57.38\00:41:58.71
Let's go to Matthew 24:44,
00:41:58.75\00:42:02.48
Matthew 24:44.
00:42:02.52\00:42:05.85
Okay.
00:42:05.89\00:42:07.99
It's amazing how Jesus
00:42:08.02\00:42:09.36
continually
repeated this phrase,
00:42:09.39\00:42:10.73
be ready, be
ready, be ready, be ready.
00:42:10.76\00:42:12.46
Now why would
you say to somebody
00:42:12.49\00:42:13.83
be ready if
you're gonna come back?
00:42:13.86\00:42:16.23
If you miss them, I'll be back.
00:42:16.26\00:42:18.60
I've been to airports.
00:42:18.63\00:42:20.24
And when the plane leaves...
00:42:20.27\00:42:24.31
I missed that flight.
00:42:24.34\00:42:26.14
Somebody once said, and
I always appreciated this.
00:42:26.17\00:42:29.64
It almost sounded
when I first started...
00:42:29.68\00:42:32.11
It almost sounded like
he had a private agreement
00:42:32.15\00:42:34.55
between Himself
and the airlines.
00:42:34.58\00:42:35.95
He said, "I made an
agreement with the airlines,
00:42:35.98\00:42:38.85
that if I show up on
time, we leave together.
00:42:38.89\00:42:41.09
But if I show up late,
you go ahead and leave."
00:42:41.12\00:42:44.89
Yeah, right.
00:42:44.93\00:42:46.26
They're gonna
leave if we're not ready,
00:42:46.29\00:42:47.96
ain't that right?
00:42:48.00\00:42:50.97
When they say flight leaves at,
00:42:51.00\00:42:53.34
you know, 2:19 by
then it's too late,
00:42:53.37\00:42:56.47
they already left the gate.
00:42:56.50\00:42:59.14
Oh, man, I
remember that in Australia?
00:42:59.17\00:43:02.11
Oh, no, Hawaii. Oh,
man, I remember that.
00:43:02.14\00:43:04.08
I cannot forget that
00:43:04.11\00:43:05.45
my wife and I
were on our way once.
00:43:05.48\00:43:07.08
The first time
we went to Australia
00:43:07.12\00:43:09.02
that is by ourselves,
00:43:09.05\00:43:10.39
we didn't know we needed a visa.
00:43:10.42\00:43:13.02
So we were living in
California at the time
00:43:13.05\00:43:14.46
and we were in the
San Francisco Airport,
00:43:14.49\00:43:15.89
and they asked us when
we were getting our tickets,
00:43:15.92\00:43:18.79
"Can I see your visa?"
00:43:18.83\00:43:20.96
I thought that it
was my credit card.
00:43:21.00\00:43:23.43
I said, "I don't have a visa."
00:43:23.47\00:43:26.80
They said, "Well,
you're not going to Australia."
00:43:26.84\00:43:30.31
But we have to go to Australia.
00:43:30.34\00:43:31.67
I'm gonna be
preaching in two days.
00:43:31.71\00:43:34.01
Well, you're not going
to Australia without a visa.
00:43:34.04\00:43:36.61
So what do I need to do?
00:43:36.64\00:43:38.31
Well, they said,
00:43:38.35\00:43:39.68
"Well, you can wait
till Monday morning."
00:43:39.71\00:43:41.05
I can't wait to Monday morning
00:43:41.08\00:43:42.42
because, you know,
you already lose a day.
00:43:42.45\00:43:46.05
I can't wait because
they already day ahead of us.
00:43:46.09\00:43:49.99
I'm gonna be
speaking in two days.
00:43:50.03\00:43:51.96
And I said so, "How far can I go
00:43:51.99\00:43:53.63
and still get a
chance to get a visa?"
00:43:53.66\00:43:56.03
They said, "You
can go as far as Hawaii
00:43:56.06\00:43:57.97
there is a counselor in Hawaii."
00:43:58.00\00:44:00.77
I said, "Is there a chance
that we can catch the plane?"
00:44:00.80\00:44:04.21
"Really slim
chance." Honey, remember that?
00:44:04.24\00:44:06.68
We didn't have
any priority access,
00:44:06.71\00:44:08.31
we were just
regular in the crowd.
00:44:08.34\00:44:10.65
We ran with all
the strength we could,
00:44:10.68\00:44:12.98
got through all the check.
00:44:13.01\00:44:15.25
When we got on the
plane, we were sitting there
00:44:15.28\00:44:16.99
our throats were
just when I say sand dry.
00:44:17.02\00:44:20.66
The flight attendant
looked at us and said,
00:44:20.69\00:44:22.29
"Do you need some water?"
00:44:22.32\00:44:25.46
And normally you only
get that in first class
00:44:25.49\00:44:27.93
or business class at
those long distant flights.
00:44:27.96\00:44:30.63
"Do you need some water?"
00:44:30.67\00:44:34.34
And she brought us some water.
00:44:34.37\00:44:35.70
Man, we just got in there.
00:44:35.74\00:44:37.21
And it's since
we got in there...
00:44:37.24\00:44:38.71
When the minute after we
got near the doors were closed.
00:44:38.74\00:44:41.11
And Angie and I
said to ourselves,
00:44:41.14\00:44:42.48
"Well, you know, if
we don't get a visa,
00:44:42.51\00:44:44.91
it's great to be
stuck in Hawaii."
00:44:44.95\00:44:48.12
Ain't that right?
00:44:48.15\00:44:49.48
But we got to Hawaii,
00:44:49.52\00:44:51.12
got our visa, the
Lord turned upside...
00:44:51.15\00:44:54.12
Turned the world upside down.
00:44:54.16\00:44:55.76
And we went to the consulate
saw a very mean looking lady
00:44:55.79\00:44:59.06
behind a double
bulletproof glass
00:44:59.09\00:45:01.00
she wouldn't smile at all.
00:45:01.03\00:45:02.70
And we thought,
00:45:02.73\00:45:04.07
"Man, who's this guy
sitting in the waiting room?"
00:45:04.10\00:45:06.63
And we found
out he was a doctor.
00:45:06.67\00:45:09.30
And when we got back,
he was still sitting there.
00:45:09.34\00:45:10.81
And I said he,
"Angie, he's a doctor,
00:45:10.84\00:45:12.67
and he still
hasn't gotten his visa,
00:45:12.71\00:45:14.54
what's the chances
of us getting ours?"
00:45:14.58\00:45:16.95
Walked up to window and
that lady would not smile
00:45:16.98\00:45:18.78
and she just said,
"Here's your visa."
00:45:18.81\00:45:23.32
I couldn't care less
whether she smiled or not
00:45:23.35\00:45:25.12
as long as I
made that plane, amen?
00:45:25.15\00:45:27.52
I don't care people smile or not
00:45:27.56\00:45:29.19
as long as I make the
flight when Jesus leaves, amen.
00:45:29.22\00:45:32.29
What do you say?
00:45:32.33\00:45:34.06
Long as the
door shuts behind us.
00:45:34.10\00:45:36.60
That's all that really matters.
00:45:36.63\00:45:38.37
That's why this
text is so important.
00:45:38.40\00:45:39.73
Matthew 24:44.
00:45:39.77\00:45:41.37
Let's read this
together. Together.
00:45:41.40\00:45:43.51
"Therefore you also,"
what are the next words?
00:45:43.54\00:45:46.57
"Be ready, for the
Son of Man is coming
00:45:46.61\00:45:51.78
at an hour you do not expect."
00:45:51.81\00:45:54.95
That's the only secret
about the coming of the Lord.
00:45:54.98\00:45:57.72
He's not telling you.
00:45:57.75\00:45:59.09
I'm coming back
at 2:35pm central.
00:45:59.12\00:46:01.66
No, when probation closes.
00:46:01.69\00:46:04.16
That's it.
00:46:04.19\00:46:05.59
When the doors
of the ark closed,
00:46:05.63\00:46:07.83
probation for humanity closed.
00:46:07.86\00:46:10.27
When Revelation
22:12, verse 11 is repeated,
00:46:10.30\00:46:14.50
"He that is unjust,
let him be unjust still,
00:46:14.54\00:46:16.77
he that is
righteous, let him be right."
00:46:16.81\00:46:18.14
When that is
repeated, probation closes.
00:46:18.17\00:46:22.04
And then if you've ever
seen turbulence and tribulation,
00:46:22.08\00:46:28.75
it'll be displayed at that time.
00:46:28.78\00:46:31.95
So this idea
that there's gonna be
00:46:31.99\00:46:33.32
the second chance,
00:46:33.36\00:46:34.69
and that's what I'm
talking about tonight,
00:46:34.72\00:46:36.06
this idea that
if you're not ready,
00:46:36.09\00:46:37.43
don't worry about it
you got seven more years.
00:46:37.46\00:46:40.06
That's not true.
00:46:40.10\00:46:41.43
That's not in
the Bible anywhere.
00:46:41.46\00:46:42.80
And I'll tell you
on our next program,
00:46:42.83\00:46:44.83
we'll actually
show you the prophecy
00:46:44.87\00:46:46.94
where that came from
00:46:46.97\00:46:48.37
because when Francisco
Ribera formulated this thing
00:46:48.40\00:46:51.47
known as the
dispensational view,
00:46:51.51\00:46:53.27
also known as the "gap theory"
00:46:53.31\00:46:55.31
between the 69th and
70th week of Daniel Chapter 9.
00:46:55.34\00:46:59.78
When he formulated that
00:46:59.81\00:47:01.62
he had to take
it from somewhere.
00:47:01.65\00:47:03.35
So he said, he said,
00:47:03.39\00:47:05.32
and I'm just
gonna give you a hint
00:47:05.35\00:47:07.06
because in the Bible,
00:47:07.09\00:47:08.59
there's a 70-week prophecy
00:47:08.62\00:47:10.86
in Daniel 9:24-27.
00:47:10.89\00:47:16.43
Now here's the choices you get,
00:47:16.46\00:47:21.40
either that last
seven-year period one week,
00:47:21.44\00:47:24.91
applies to the
ministry of Jesus,
00:47:24.94\00:47:27.64
or it applies to the antichrist.
00:47:27.68\00:47:29.84
That's the only choice you get,
you don't get a third choice.
00:47:29.88\00:47:32.21
Francisco Ribera,
00:47:32.25\00:47:33.82
instead of it
applying to the Christ,
00:47:33.85\00:47:36.95
he said it
applies to the antichrist.
00:47:36.99\00:47:39.72
We're not gonna
go there tonight.
00:47:39.75\00:47:41.16
You can read it
and prep yourself
00:47:41.19\00:47:42.86
for the next program coming up.
00:47:42.89\00:47:44.43
So we'll show you
that here's the key.
00:47:44.46\00:47:46.29
If that seven-year
period was fulfilled,
00:47:46.33\00:47:48.96
then there is no such thing
as a seven-year tribulation.
00:47:49.00\00:47:52.27
But if it wasn't, then
there's a choice for you.
00:47:52.30\00:47:54.07
There's a chance for you
00:47:54.10\00:47:55.44
but then you know
the answer already.
00:47:55.47\00:47:56.81
I'm telling you
that there is no choice.
00:47:56.84\00:47:59.04
There is no opportunity.
00:47:59.07\00:48:00.41
There is no possibility
of a seven-year tribulation
00:48:00.44\00:48:03.71
coming in the future
00:48:03.75\00:48:05.08
whereas people
get a second chance
00:48:05.11\00:48:06.78
if they miss the first flight.
00:48:06.82\00:48:10.15
And that's the lie
behind the Left Behind movie.
00:48:10.19\00:48:12.85
They show that people
disappearing out of airplanes,
00:48:12.89\00:48:15.36
and buses, and cars
crashing in traffic,
00:48:15.39\00:48:17.79
and people at the dinner
table, at the breakfast table,
00:48:17.83\00:48:20.26
and they turn
around and Yannick is gone,
00:48:20.30\00:48:21.86
and his wife is still there,
even though you're not married.
00:48:21.90\00:48:25.67
But, I mean, it's
sad. It's really sad.
00:48:25.70\00:48:28.00
And then they sell stickers
at Christian bookstores.
00:48:28.04\00:48:30.41
This car will be unmanned
in the event of the rapture.
00:48:30.44\00:48:33.61
And I think to myself,
00:48:33.64\00:48:35.28
somebody get some ice
and put on the foreheads
00:48:35.31\00:48:38.01
of the people
producing that stuff.
00:48:38.05\00:48:39.38
Somebody is out of their minds,
00:48:39.41\00:48:40.78
but they're selling lies
and people are buying it.
00:48:40.82\00:48:43.49
And what's making it
sad is these are people,
00:48:43.52\00:48:46.32
that as far as I'm
concerned, non-judgmentally,
00:48:46.35\00:48:48.79
I believe they
all love the Lord.
00:48:48.82\00:48:51.06
But they have been
taught a bill of lies.
00:48:51.09\00:48:53.46
And you hear statements
00:48:53.50\00:48:54.93
like this nowadays, even preach.
00:48:54.96\00:48:56.56
When you hear
statements like this, you know,
00:48:56.60\00:48:58.00
that they
believe in the rapture.
00:48:58.03\00:48:59.37
When people say,
00:48:59.40\00:49:00.74
"Jesus could come
at any moment now,"
00:49:00.77\00:49:02.17
that's rapture talk.
00:49:02.20\00:49:04.71
But according to Bible prophecy,
00:49:04.74\00:49:06.34
He's not gonna show
up tomorrow or next week
00:49:06.37\00:49:08.81
because there are
certain prophecies
00:49:08.84\00:49:10.25
that will not be
deleted from the Bible
00:49:10.28\00:49:14.02
that are
Harbingers or time markers
00:49:14.05\00:49:16.22
to the close of human probation.
00:49:16.25\00:49:18.09
That's what
prophecy is all about.
00:49:18.12\00:49:19.55
But Francisco Ribera said,
00:49:19.59\00:49:21.52
"Hey, let's delete
Revelation Chapter 5
00:49:21.56\00:49:23.39
all the way to
22, you don't need it
00:49:23.43\00:49:25.49
because with
that you'll be gone."
00:49:25.53\00:49:27.30
Now I got to give you
a glimpse at the text.
00:49:27.33\00:49:29.86
Do you want to see it?
00:49:29.90\00:49:31.23
Let me show you the text
that Francisco Ribera uses
00:49:31.27\00:49:33.44
to give you the idea
00:49:33.47\00:49:35.04
that you're
gonna be out of here.
00:49:35.07\00:49:36.40
Go to Revelation Chapter 4.
00:49:36.44\00:49:37.97
Revelation Chapter 4.
00:49:38.01\00:49:40.74
I'll give you a
glimpse at the text
00:49:40.78\00:49:42.24
and then we'll look at
it more closely next week.
00:49:42.28\00:49:45.28
And I know I'm not gonna get
to question number 14 tonight.
00:49:45.31\00:49:49.28
But that's how it is
here at Sharper Focus.
00:49:49.32\00:49:52.09
Revelation Chapter 4.
00:49:52.12\00:49:53.46
I want you to see something
and look at the language here.
00:49:53.49\00:49:56.29
And you'll see
00:49:56.32\00:49:57.69
how if you take
it from its context,
00:49:57.73\00:50:00.40
then you'll be able to
give it any kind of application.
00:50:00.43\00:50:05.07
Revelation 4:1-2.
00:50:05.10\00:50:10.24
Now he only reads verse 1,
and leaves the rest of it out.
00:50:10.27\00:50:14.28
Now we're gonna
read just verse 1
00:50:14.31\00:50:15.84
and I'll show you
how he applies this
00:50:15.88\00:50:18.18
to be the secret
snatching way of the church.
00:50:18.21\00:50:21.25
"After these things
I looked, and behold,
00:50:21.28\00:50:24.22
a door standing open," where?
00:50:24.25\00:50:27.06
"In heaven.
00:50:27.09\00:50:28.42
And the first
voice which I heard
00:50:28.46\00:50:30.66
was like a," what?
00:50:30.69\00:50:32.93
"Trumpet speaking
with me, saying," what?
00:50:32.96\00:50:36.33
"Come up here, and
I will show you things
00:50:36.36\00:50:39.53
which must take
place after this."
00:50:39.57\00:50:42.27
So Francisco Ribera
took this verse and said,
00:50:42.30\00:50:45.11
"See, the church is
called out of the world,
00:50:45.14\00:50:47.44
the churches
told to come up here.
00:50:47.48\00:50:49.21
And after this,
00:50:49.24\00:50:50.58
I'll show you everything
else is gonna happen."
00:50:50.61\00:50:53.01
But that was not
about the church.
00:50:53.05\00:50:54.58
That was an
invitation to John the Apostle.
00:50:54.62\00:50:56.69
Look at the next verse.
00:50:56.72\00:50:59.49
"Immediately," John
says, "I was," what?
00:50:59.52\00:51:02.52
"In the Spirit, and
behold, a throne set in heaven,
00:51:02.56\00:51:07.13
and One sat on the throne."
00:51:07.16\00:51:09.40
John was envision,
00:51:09.43\00:51:11.30
you know what
bothers me is lies are so...
00:51:11.33\00:51:16.91
When I was growing
up my mom used to say,
00:51:16.94\00:51:18.61
"I can't stand
a liar and a thief
00:51:18.64\00:51:20.01
'cause they're both the same."
00:51:20.04\00:51:21.64
A liar will steal from you
and thief would lie about it.
00:51:21.68\00:51:25.08
A lie, you take the verse
00:51:25.11\00:51:27.38
and pull it out of
the rest of the context.
00:51:27.42\00:51:29.68
And so they say...
00:51:29.72\00:51:31.05
And then they
add the word trumpet.
00:51:31.09\00:51:32.42
They said, "See trumpet there,
00:51:32.45\00:51:33.79
there is another trumpet
in 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4."
00:51:33.82\00:51:35.92
So when you add
the word trumpet,
00:51:35.96\00:51:37.29
they take the word trumpet
00:51:37.33\00:51:38.66
and make
another event out of it.
00:51:38.69\00:51:40.10
When in fact, the
voice soundslike a trumpet,
00:51:40.13\00:51:41.83
but this is not the
Lord blowing the trumpet
00:51:41.86\00:51:43.57
of the second return.
00:51:43.60\00:51:46.94
But because you put the
word trumpet there, they said,
00:51:46.97\00:51:49.47
"Ah, that's the same trumpet
00:51:49.50\00:51:50.84
blown in 1
Thessalonians Chapter 4."
00:51:50.87\00:51:53.64
As the kids used to say
when we were growing up,
00:51:53.68\00:51:55.31
"No, it's not true,
it's not scripturally sound."
00:51:55.34\00:51:59.25
That is simply John
being caught away envision
00:51:59.28\00:52:03.02
to be shown what
God wanted him to write.
00:52:03.05\00:52:06.12
And then what did he write?
00:52:06.15\00:52:07.92
Chapter 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17,
00:52:07.96\00:52:14.60
18, 19, 20, 21, and...
00:52:14.63\00:52:19.07
But Francisco Ribera
says, "Don't read past Chapter 4
00:52:19.10\00:52:22.40
'cause you will be gone."
00:52:22.44\00:52:23.84
That's satanic, that's satanic,
00:52:23.87\00:52:26.31
deleting the Bible
00:52:26.34\00:52:27.84
for the purpose
of bringing darkness
00:52:27.88\00:52:29.41
where God wants
there to be light.
00:52:29.44\00:52:31.28
Okay, question
number... Did we answer this?
00:52:31.31\00:52:34.88
Did we answer it? No.
00:52:34.92\00:52:36.55
We just read the text,
but we didn't answer did we?
00:52:36.58\00:52:38.79
Okay, so did Jesus teach
that His unready servants
00:52:38.82\00:52:41.86
would have a second chance?
00:52:41.89\00:52:43.49
What did He say? What He say?
00:52:43.53\00:52:45.99
Be ready. Come
on, say that together.
00:52:46.03\00:52:48.26
"Be ready for the
Son of Man is coming
00:52:48.30\00:52:50.83
at an hour you do not expect."
00:52:50.87\00:52:53.23
Why would you say be ready?
00:52:53.27\00:52:57.31
Because no
matter what hour I come,
00:52:57.34\00:52:59.07
you better be ready.
00:52:59.11\00:53:01.24
Parents say that to children.
00:53:01.28\00:53:03.81
"You better be
ready. I'm on my way home."
00:53:03.85\00:53:05.81
"What time are you getting here?
00:53:05.85\00:53:07.18
Parents say,
"That's not what I said.
00:53:07.22\00:53:08.68
I said, be ready." Right?
00:53:08.72\00:53:10.72
And then I can tell you,
00:53:10.75\00:53:12.09
I'll be there in 3 hours
and 32 minutes and 44 seconds.
00:53:12.12\00:53:15.52
He said, "You better be ready
00:53:15.56\00:53:16.89
'cause if I come
and you're not ready,
00:53:16.93\00:53:19.19
forget about waiting."
00:53:19.23\00:53:21.53
Here we hear that.
00:53:21.56\00:53:22.90
Yeah, my wife we
raised some nieces.
00:53:22.93\00:53:25.30
And they kind of predicted
when Angie used to come home.
00:53:25.33\00:53:28.87
And they knew
that if she got home
00:53:28.90\00:53:30.24
and their room was
messy, they were in trouble.
00:53:30.27\00:53:32.81
So they figured, "Okay,
it's 3:15 we have time."
00:53:32.84\00:53:37.61
But if she came home
early, what was that?
00:53:37.65\00:53:39.88
They hear the
garage door opening,
00:53:39.91\00:53:41.25
they know it's her.
00:53:41.28\00:53:42.62
You know, what they do?
00:53:42.65\00:53:43.99
They take that clothes and
throw it all in the closet.
00:53:44.02\00:53:47.16
And she comes into room and say,
00:53:47.19\00:53:48.52
"Is your room clean?" "Yes."
00:53:48.56\00:53:51.09
And she opens the
closet and the avalanche.
00:53:51.13\00:53:55.80
The coming of the
Lord is not gonna be any...
00:53:55.83\00:53:57.63
You can't get
ready at the last moment
00:53:57.67\00:53:59.23
'cause here's
something that people miss.
00:53:59.27\00:54:01.64
Here's something
that people miss.
00:54:01.67\00:54:03.07
When you see...
00:54:03.10\00:54:05.97
When the sign of the Son
of Man appears in the heavens,
00:54:06.01\00:54:09.04
it's too late.
00:54:09.08\00:54:11.81
It's like in the days of the ark
00:54:11.85\00:54:13.18
when the door closed,
and the first raindrop fell,
00:54:13.21\00:54:16.32
no umbrellas were being sold.
00:54:16.35\00:54:20.72
Am I telling the truth?
00:54:20.76\00:54:24.03
"Noah, we believe you now
00:54:24.06\00:54:26.23
just open the door,
guys, everything's fine.
00:54:26.26\00:54:28.20
We're just kind of little late.
00:54:28.23\00:54:29.76
Could you open the door?"
00:54:29.80\00:54:31.63
"I didn't shut it.
00:54:31.67\00:54:33.54
God Shut it."
00:54:33.57\00:54:36.10
So this ideology that
00:54:36.14\00:54:37.67
well, if you
miss the first flight,
00:54:37.71\00:54:39.47
there'll be
another one in seven years.
00:54:39.51\00:54:40.91
That's the lie that
tribulation theory teaches.
00:54:40.94\00:54:44.05
That's the lie sown in
these Left Behind books.
00:54:44.08\00:54:48.72
Do I sound emphatic?
00:54:48.75\00:54:50.15
I want people to wake up.
00:54:50.19\00:54:51.52
If you say it once,
it kind of bounces off
00:54:51.55\00:54:53.32
like salt on hard ice.
00:54:53.36\00:54:56.59
But if you're reading
the Left Behind series,
00:54:56.62\00:54:59.43
throw the whole thing
away and read your Bible.
00:54:59.46\00:55:02.00
Amen.
00:55:02.03\00:55:04.23
Because there's
nothing but lies.
00:55:04.27\00:55:06.74
And the people made
millions of selling lies.
00:55:06.77\00:55:10.31
But that's what
the devil promises.
00:55:10.34\00:55:11.84
You'd be famous.
00:55:11.87\00:55:13.21
You sell lies.
I'll make you famous.
00:55:13.24\00:55:15.41
Okay, so is Jesus
teaching second chance?
00:55:15.44\00:55:17.58
Yes or no?
00:55:17.61\00:55:18.95
Absolutely not.
00:55:18.98\00:55:21.02
Okay, question number seven.
00:55:21.05\00:55:24.15
Wow, we had 14,
and we got to number 7.
00:55:24.19\00:55:26.72
Okay.
00:55:26.76\00:55:28.09
Wow.
00:55:28.12\00:55:29.46
So we got to
answer the question.
00:55:29.49\00:55:31.79
"What will
happen to those servants
00:55:31.83\00:55:35.20
not ready for
the second coming?"
00:55:35.23\00:55:38.23
We got to go back
to Matthew Chapter 24.
00:55:38.27\00:55:40.54
But this time,
we're gonna look together
00:55:40.57\00:55:42.00
at verse 50 and verse 51,
00:55:42.04\00:55:44.27
verse 50 and verse 51.
00:55:44.31\00:55:46.14
You got to give the answer.
00:55:46.17\00:55:47.51
If there's no second chance
00:55:47.54\00:55:48.88
and what's gonna happen to them?
00:55:48.91\00:55:50.25
This is important.
00:55:50.28\00:55:51.61
And the reason
why I read this text
00:55:51.65\00:55:52.98
is because it's gonna show
you there's no second chance.
00:55:53.01\00:55:55.48
Verse 50, says,
00:55:55.52\00:55:58.09
"The master of that
servant will come on a day
00:55:58.12\00:56:02.62
when he is not looking for him
00:56:02.66\00:56:05.73
and at an hour
that he is not aware of,
00:56:05.76\00:56:09.33
and will cut him in two
00:56:09.36\00:56:11.57
and appoint him his
portion with the," what?
00:56:11.60\00:56:15.50
"Hypocrites.
00:56:15.54\00:56:16.87
There shall be weeping
and gnashing of teeth."
00:56:16.91\00:56:20.48
Does that sound like
you're getting a second chance?
00:56:20.51\00:56:25.21
Absolutely, not.
00:56:25.25\00:56:26.85
It's like a kid
kicking a tantrum
00:56:26.88\00:56:28.45
because mom left him home,
00:56:28.48\00:56:30.79
on the way to Toys "R" Us
to buy his Christmas gifts.
00:56:30.82\00:56:34.82
Mom says, "If you
ready, I'll take you
00:56:34.86\00:56:36.62
and you could pick
whatever you want."
00:56:36.66\00:56:37.99
Do you think they'll be
weeping and gnashing of teeth
00:56:38.03\00:56:39.36
if he's not ready?
00:56:39.39\00:56:41.20
But do you think that's weeping
and gnashing teeth over a toy
00:56:41.23\00:56:43.73
when you miss out on the
greatest event of all ages?
00:56:43.77\00:56:46.87
Because you bought into some lie
00:56:46.90\00:56:48.47
that you'll get a second chance.
00:56:48.50\00:56:49.94
And, you know,
what that also does?
00:56:49.97\00:56:51.44
That also makes you think that
it doesn't matter how you live
00:56:51.47\00:56:54.31
'cause I've seen
one of those movies.
00:56:54.34\00:56:56.21
Where, you know,
00:56:56.24\00:56:57.65
I think it was
the pastor's wife.
00:56:57.68\00:56:59.01
I think his wife
left and he wasn't,
00:56:59.05\00:57:00.38
he didn't go anywhere.
00:57:00.42\00:57:01.75
So that show the
pastor was unrighteous.
00:57:01.78\00:57:04.15
So the pastor
now had seven years
00:57:04.19\00:57:05.52
before he could be ready
for connecting with his wife.
00:57:05.55\00:57:08.99
And he gave his life to the Lord
00:57:09.02\00:57:11.99
and became converted now
00:57:12.03\00:57:13.36
and began to
preach and live straight.
00:57:13.40\00:57:15.66
That's not what
the Bible teaches.
00:57:15.70\00:57:17.63
Be ready at such an hour
00:57:17.67\00:57:19.20
as you do not think
the Son of Man will come,
00:57:19.23\00:57:22.30
and He will
appoint him his portion
00:57:22.34\00:57:24.47
with the hypocrites.
00:57:24.51\00:57:25.84
So the Lord wants
us to be ready tonight.
00:57:25.87\00:57:27.31
Can we all say amen to that?
00:57:27.34\00:57:29.28
See, on our next broadcast,
00:57:29.31\00:57:30.65
we're gonna dive in even further
00:57:30.68\00:57:32.21
and help you understand
00:57:32.25\00:57:33.58
that there's som
significant things that happen
00:57:33.62\00:57:35.42
as we related to the
Second Coming of Christ,
00:57:35.45\00:57:37.82
there's gonna be no secret.
00:57:37.85\00:57:39.62
Get rid of those
secret rapture books,
00:57:39.65\00:57:41.39
if it's written by Tim LaHaye
00:57:41.42\00:57:42.76
and Jerry
Jenkins and Hal Lindsey,
00:57:42.79\00:57:46.23
all that stuff
is not in the Bible.
00:57:46.26\00:57:48.50
Read the Word of
God and then prepare
00:57:48.53\00:57:51.57
for the greatest
event of the ages
00:57:51.60\00:57:53.34
'cause when Jesus comes
00:57:53.37\00:57:55.50
if you're not
ready, it'll be too late.
00:57:55.54\00:57:57.17
If it doesn't make sense,
keep studying and one day,
00:57:57.21\00:57:59.51
it will come
into a Sharper Focus.
00:57:59.54\00:58:02.24
God bless you.
00:58:02.28\00:58:03.98