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Hello Friends,
welcome to another 3ABN Today
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actually, 3ABN A Sharper Focus
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which is happening today
here at the 3ABN Worship Center.
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Pray for me, I'm
still battling with a cold
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so, if I look a little
shinier than I'm supposed to,
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I forgot to put
on my makeup tonight
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but then again, you
didn't even know that.
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So, now you know
something about television
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that we don't normally say
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but we're
continuing in our study tonight
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on the truth about
the "Secret Rapture. "
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The truth about
the "Secret Rapture"
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and we're going to
be uploading that lesson
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in just about a minute or so.
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We thought we had it up
there but as I'm becoming aware
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I'm not as technically
savvy as I thought I was
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but in about a
minute after our theme song,
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we'll have you check
this following website:
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ASF.3abn. org
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ASF.3abn. org and download...
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now, here's what
we're going to do tonight,
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you'll download lesson number 22
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but on that website,
there's going to be something:
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22 and then there's going to
be a chart: the 2,300-day Chart.
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You want to download
that for the lesson tonight
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because we are
going to be covering
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the prophecy of Daniel chapter 9
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and I talked about this
last time we got together
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that the reason
why the "Rapture"
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or the "Secret Rapture" exists
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is because of a
misunderstanding of the prophecy
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of Daniel chapter 9
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particularly
verse 24 to verse 27.
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But before we go any further...
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and I am also
battling with this cold...
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and do pray for me tonight
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that I make it
through the Program.
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I know that on
important topics like this,
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the enemy doesn't
want it to go forth
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and it's been quite
a battle with my health
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and all the other stuff
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but we're going to put this
in the Lord's hand right now.
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So, let's bow our heads
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and ask for the Lord
to bless us this evening.
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"Our Father in heaven, we
thank You for your goodness,
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for Your mercy
and for Your grace
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and we know, Lord,
that as we open Your Word,
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You'll guide us
and You will lead us
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so we find confidence
in that, heavenly Father,
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and so, strengthen
us in our study tonight
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and in the
proclamation of Your Word,
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I pray in Jesus' name, amen. "
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Now, I'm going to
ask Celestine to come,
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she's going to walk us
through our theme song tonight,
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it is: Victory in Jesus
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and for those of you
who are joining us at home,
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as you know, you've been
singing this from week to week
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but you don't
really know the song...
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many of you do...
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I think many of
them know the song
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but for those of you
who don't know the song,
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you'll learn it tonight
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so join us as we sing our
theme song: Victory in Jesus.
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All right...
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Pause...
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more pause...
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Music...
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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 sins;
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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, thank you
so much Celestine.
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Now, what I'm
going to do tonight,
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I just made an
administrative decision.
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You know what that means?
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A singular decision.
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Now, just so not to interrupt
the flow of the Program,
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all of the questions are
going to appear on the screen
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so if you had your
lesson from last week,
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which most of you should,
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then you'll have all
the way to question number 9
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what I'm going to do
tonight after the broadcast,
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is, we're going to upload
the full and complete lesson
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which goes down to 22 questions
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but you have
what you need tonight
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and then the
graphics on the screen
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are going to be
very, very helpful
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in you following
the Program along
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and let me just lay
some foundation again,
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last week we ended
at question number...
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I believe it was number 7
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but we're going to begin
on question number 7 tonight
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and I'm still
making it through the cold
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so if any of you
could give me a tissue
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just as this cold is
perspiring itself out,
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I need to get rid of
it because my wife...
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first I was sick...
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then my wife got
sick with bronchitis...
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and then I got
sick with bronchitis
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and so, I didn't think
it wise to put on makeup
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and perspire that
television makeup off
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while I'm on television,
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it will look pretty awful to
have a brown flood taking place,
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don't you say?
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And it would look pretty bad
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so I said, "Well,
let me just go ahead... "
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thank you guys...
get an audience shot
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while I go ahead and dab
away this shiny stuff here,
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but I do
appreciate it very, very well.
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We're going to enjoy our lesson
tonight, can you say, "Amen. "
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Audience: Amen.
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And all the enemy has
done to try to prevent us
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from getting this lesson out,
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he has lost again
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because the graphics
people are on top of it
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and all the questions are
going to appear on the screen
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so, one of the
things I want to say
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in preparation for
the continuance is...
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the "Secret Rapture" is a
counterfeit to the 2nd coming.
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It's a counterfeit to what?
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To the second coming.
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So, here's the... here
are the choices you get.
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Either there is going to
be a second coming of Jesus
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visible, audible, earth
changing that everyone sees...
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Jesus is not going to
sneak in the back door
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and tap a few people on the
shoulder and say, "Let's go... "
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and then come
back in seven years...
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as the "Secret Rapture" teaches.
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And so, in order
for us to understand
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that the visible... second...
audible... earth-changing,
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earth shattering second coming
of Jesus is going to be literal
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then, we have to find a way
to dispel this false doctrine
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that has gripped millions
of Christians in the world
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called, "The Secret... " what?
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"The Secret Rapture. "
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And... the word
"Rapture" by-the-way
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is a word that
simply means "snatched away"
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now which... we are
going to be taken away,
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we're going to be
caught up to meet the Lord
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but it's not
going to be a secret...
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when it happens,
we're all going to know it.
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So, quick...
quick... quick review...
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we talked about
when Jesus comes...
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how many eyes are going to
see Him when He comes back?
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Audience: All.
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Revelation 1:7... every eye
will see Jesus when He returns.
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Not only that... He's
going to come in the clouds
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and the clouds are
going to be the holy angels...
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the same way He left...
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the disciples saw
Him leave in the cloud...
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it's the same
way He's coming back,
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He's coming back in clouds
with power and great glory
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and then Psalms...
in Psalm 50 and verse 3,
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David, the Psalmist
says, "Our Lord shall come
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and shall not keep silent,
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a fiery stream shall issue
and come forth from before Him
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and it shall be very
tempestuous round about Him... "
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so, when Jesus comes back,
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the skies are going
to recede as a scroll
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when it is rolled together
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the wicked are going
to be running from Him
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because they don't
want to see the Lamb
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and the righteous
are going to be saying,
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"Lo, this is our God,
we have waited for Him
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and He will save us. "
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So now, when Jesus comes back,
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there are going to be
two categories of people,
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what kinds of categories did
I say... how many categories?
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Two... the sheep and
the... Audience: Goat...
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The sheep and
the... Audience: Goat.
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The sheep and the goat.
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The weed and
the... Audience: Tares.
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So, Jesus is
going to be gathering
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the wheat into His barn.
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He's going to gather
the sheep unto Himself
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because He's the shepherd...
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but the goats... are
going to be running for cover
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when they see the Lamb of God.
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We've discovered that
in the Bible last week.
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We've also discovered
that Jesus teaches that...
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for the servant
that is not ready...
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as a matter-of-fact, let's begin
with Question number 7 tonight
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and the truth about
the "Secret Rapture"
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Question number 7, I
want to begin there tonight
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and we're going to
catapult that from the screen...
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here it is.
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"What will happen to the servant
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not ready for
the second coming?"
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Now, the reason
why we're going to lead
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with this question tonight
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is because there is a teaching
based on the "Secret Rapture"
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and I told you last week
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if you want to get a
full understanding of this,
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"What will
happen to the servants
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not ready for
the second coming?"
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When we lay that foundation,
the "Secret Rapture" says,
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"If the servant is not ready,
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that servant has seven
more years to get ready
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in which they call that
the "Seven-year Tribulation. "
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What's it called?
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"The Seven-year...
" what? "Tribulation"
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but you'll discover tonight
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when we walk through
Daniel chapter 9 verses 24 to 27
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that you only get two choices
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because the seven
years of Daniel chapter 9
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refer to the
baptism... the crucifixion...
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and the gospel going to the
Gentiles within seven years.
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Now, here is the challenge,
either Jesus was baptized...
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was crucified...
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and the gospel
did go to the Gentiles
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or, Jesus was never baptized...
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was never crucified...
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and the gospel never
went to the Gentiles...
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because you can't have both...
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you can't have both prophecies
in the same seven-year period.
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Now, the "Secret Rapture" says,
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that at the
beginning of the seven years,
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the Antichrist is
going to make a covenant...
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but the Bible says, "the Messiah
is going to make a covenant. "
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In the middle of the week...
the Antichrist is going to make
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is going to begin a... a... a...
make an agreement with the Jews.
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Pause...
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But that's not what's going to
happen in the middle of the week
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in the middle of the week,
the Messiah will be cut off...
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crucified...
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and at the end
of the seven years,
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the "Rapture" says, or
the "Secret Rapture" says,
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He's going to come back visibly
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for those who
didn't make the first trip.
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According to
Daniel 9 verses 24 to 27,
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at the end of
that seven-year period,
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the gospel will
then go to the Gentiles,
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can we say "Amen" to that?
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And so, the reason why
we are in the Movement,
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the reason why you
are in the Movement
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is because the gospel
did go to the Gentiles.
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So, the reason why we lead
with this question is because
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we want to make it very clear
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that you only get
one chance to be ready,
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that's why Jesus says, "Be
ready, be ready, be ready...
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at the hour that you...
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at the hour that you do
not expect... I'm coming
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and if you're not
ready, I'm leaving. "
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Look at the answer,
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Matthew chapter
24, verses 50 and 51.
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The Bible says, "The
master of that servant... "
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this is the Question number 7,
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"The master of that servant
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will come on a day
when he is not... " what?
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"looking for him
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and at an hour that
he is not aware of it,
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and will cut him
in two... " and what?
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"appoint him his
portion with the... " what?
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"hypocrites.
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There shall be...
" what? together...
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"weeping and... " what else?
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"gnashing of teeth. "
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That's... that's
the sound of regret.
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That's not a sound of,
"Oh, I'll get the next bus... "
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I don't want to be
cynical here at all
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but when you realize how many
millions of Christians are duped
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and then they read these books
by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins
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which is nothing but
nine volumes of lies,
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I have to be frank,
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there's not
enough time in the world
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to meander in the
maze of mediocrity.
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You've got to understand...
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the Bible is the
only foundation of truth,
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not 12,000 pages of fiction.
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Amen. Audience: Amen.
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And that's all it
is... it's fiction
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based on... what I told you,
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let me just reiterate this,
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if you want to get the
full historical outline of this,
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call 3ABN 618-627-4651
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during regular business hours
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and ask for this
set, "Final Events" DVD
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"The Final Events" DVD
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on that, I did two special
presentations out of five
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that completely outline
where the "Rapture" came from,
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how it got passed down
throughout Christianity,
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how it found its way
into many of the Study Notes
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in the Bibles
that many of you use,
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like the Scofield Study Bible...
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Scofield... Cyrus I.
Scofield was a believer
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and a proponent of
the "Secret Rapture. "
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That's why the
Scofield translation...
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all the Study
Notes lead you to believe
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that there's going to
be a seven-year tribulation
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but that's not true, my Friends,
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so the Bible says clearly...
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if you're not ready when Jesus
comes, what's going to happen?
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He'll point you... your
portion with the what...?
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Hypocrites...
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"and there'll be
weeping" and what else?
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"Gnashing of teeth. "
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That means, "Are you
going to get a second chance?"
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Weeping and gnashing of
teeth... that sounds of regret.
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"I've lost out... I'm
not going to make it. "
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Let's go to Question number 8.
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Question number 8...
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and I can move
on without having...
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because my charts... I
have my chart in front of me
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and I mentioned to you
if you go that website,
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ASF.3abn. org
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you've got to
download the chart...
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you've got to download the chart
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because we're going to show you
the chart on the screen tonight
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if we can make it there,
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I'm going to try to
move as quickly as I can,
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because I want to try
to do this in the old year
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because next week is,
you know, the holiday season
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and we're not going to get a
chance to hit this topic again
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until the new year
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but if we have to,
we'll go ahead and do that.
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Question number 8:
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"What two things will
the Lord do when He returns?"
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All right, and we're going to go
to Matthew chapter 24 verse 31
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to look at the answer.
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What two things will
the Lord do when He returns.
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Let's see what He's going to do.
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Matthew 24 and verse 31,
and here's what the Bible reads:
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and it says: "He
will send His angels"
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with a what Friends?
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"great sound of a trumpet"
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and they will
gather together His elect
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"from the" what? "four winds,
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from one end of
heaven to the... " what?
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"to the other... "
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so what's He going to be doing?
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He's going to be
gathering His elect.
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He's gathering them from
one end of heaven to the other,
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that means, the
whole earth... His elect...
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now somebody may say,
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"What about those
who are not His elect?"
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He's not gathering
them, that's that simple.
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If you have not accepted
Jesus as your Lord and Savior
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and made a covenant with Him,
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and you are not
following Christ as your Lord,
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then, you're not going
to be among those gathered.
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When you read... as a matter
of fact, Matthew chapter 26,
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you find there... He
talks about two categories.
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The goat and the sheep.
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He talks about those
who did the Father's will,
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but He never
anywhere in His writings
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in the book of
Matthew, Mark, Luke or John,
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does Jesus spell this
"second-chance Theology. "
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Let me go ahead and
give you an example.
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The Bible also says, "As
it was in the days of Noah"
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now, "in the days of
Noah," the Lord says,
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"so will it be in the days of
the coming of the Son of man. "
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This is a very
important reference point
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because the comparison
is, "as it was in Noah's day
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that's how it is going to
be when the Lord comes again. "
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How was it in Noah's day?
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When the doors of the ark
closed, was there a second boat?
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Audience: No.
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That was it.
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When that ark rose on
the waters of destruction,
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the flood came
and took them all away
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and the flood didn't
take them to a picnic...
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it took them to destruction.
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It took them all away.
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It didn't take them
anywhere they wanted to go,
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believe me.
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It took them all to destruction.
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We're going to see
that in just a moment
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so, "as it was in Noah's day,
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so also will it be in the days
of the coming of the Son of man"
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now, the suddenness of
it and the secrecy of it is,
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in the days of Noah, they
were eating... drinking...
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marrying and giving in marriage
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until the day Noah
entered into the ark
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and they did not
know until the flood came
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and took them away.
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The flood didn't say...
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the Lord didn't say, "Well,
you guys didn't get a chance"
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no, they did get a chance...
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the gospel went to everyone,
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they either accepted that
gospel or rejected that gospel.
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As a matter of fact,
Matthew 24, go with me there,
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Matthew chapter 24,
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one of the reasons why
we're preaching this message
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is to give you a chance...
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not to make you
complacent and say,
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"Well, I don't need to accept
Jesus, I'm going to have fun...
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party... do
whatever I want to do
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and if I miss it this time,
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I'll get a chance
the second time around. "
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No, that's not the way
the Bible communicates it,
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Matthew 24 and verse
14, look at what it says,
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Matthew 24 and verse
14, look at what it says...
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the Bible says,
let's read this together,
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"And this gospel of the
kingdom will be preached in... "
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how much of the world?
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"all the world"
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"as a witness
to... " how many nations?
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"all nations... and... " what?
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"then the end will come"
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not the "almost end"
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everybody's going to hear
it but notice it didn't say,
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"everybody is
going to be converted"
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but it's going to be a witness.
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You know the witness says,
"Your Honor, they heard it"
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what did they do?
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They accepted...
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they rejected...
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the gospel is a witness.
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Now, there are people today,
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many of you probably
know of people that say,
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"I don't want to
know about your Jesus,
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I don't want to
hear about your Lord,
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I don't care about the Sabbath,
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I don't care about what
you say the Bible teaches,
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I'm going to live my life
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and when I die and turn
into fertilizer, that's it. "
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That's not it...
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because there's a
judgment for everyone,
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we will come forth in
the first resurrection
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or the second
resurrection to face the judge
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but the Bible doesn't teach
that when the gospel is done
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then there's more time...
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it says, "the end will come"
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and nowhere does it teach
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that the Jews are going
to one day pick up the gospel
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and carry it to the world.
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That's a misinterpretation
of Revelation chapter 7
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and Revelation chapter 14
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and we'll touch
that at a later Program
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so I could get rid of all
those little roadblocks...
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those roadblocks to
understanding the truth
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about this message.
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Go to Question number 9,
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so the answer to
Question number 8,
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if you're putting that in...
if you're putting that in there,
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what two things
will the Lord do?
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"He will gather... He
will sound the trumpet,
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and He will
gather His angels... "
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now the reason
I put it that way,
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"sound the trumpet
and gather His elect"
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He will sound the
trumpet and gather His elect...
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I said, "Gather His angels"
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I can hear my wife saying,
"that's not what you meant"
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"He will sound the
trumpet, and gather His elect. "
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Now, the reason I
mentioned that is because
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people equate the
sounding of the trumpet
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to the "Secret Rapture"
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but we'll
discover in just a moment
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the "gathering" is talked about
in 1st Thessalonians chapter 4,
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a very familiar passage
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with those who
embrace the "Secret Rapture"
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let's go to that
one, Question number 9,
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and it leads into it
in a very profound way.
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Question number 9, all right,
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here it is:
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What earth-shattering
event will take place
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at the sound of the trumpet?
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"What earth-shattering
event will take place
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at the sound of the trumpet?"
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And by the way, this is
an A, B, C, D and an E...
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five things we're going to
get out of this, all right,
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let's go, I'm going
to try to move along
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just so we can try to get to
some of the other longer parts
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so, if I'm sounding
like I'm going fast,
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you can always
rewind the program
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or go to the website and
check it out a little later on.
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Here it is, 1
Thessalonians chapter 4
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verses 16 and 17 is
where we find our answer.
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"For the Lord Himself...
" will do what Friends?
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"descend from
heaven with a... " what?
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"shout... with the
voice of an archangel"
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with the what else?
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"trumpet of God.
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And the dead in
Christ will rise... " when?
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"first... "
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"Then we who
are alive and remain
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shall be caught up... " how?
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"together with
them in the clouds
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to meet the Lord in the air.
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And thus we shall
always be with the Lord. "
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Now, we're going to
write the five things down
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to show you that this text has
nothing to do with the secret.
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Five earth-shattering
things just happened here.
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First thing, he descended
from heaven with a shout...
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write that down... "shout"
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if I shout, believe
me, you will wake up
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and if the Lord shouts...
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He says, He's not going to just
shake the heavens this time,
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but He's going
to shake the earth
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and the Bible says,
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"He will roar
mightily from on high"
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You don't want to
hear the Lord roar.
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My mother used to tell
me, "if that was thunder...
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that's what thunder was. "
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As a matter of fact, when
I was growing in my house,
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it was, "God is
upset, He's talking. "
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That's what thunder was
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and I used to think
that... but I tell you what?
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When He roars...
the earth will shake...
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it will move back and
forth like a reed in the wind.
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First of all, He's going to
descend from heaven with a shout
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second thing... with
the voice or an archangel.
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The voice of an
archangel... that means...
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archangel means
the highest angel.
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That... that
voice will do something,
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we're going to talk
about that voice next.
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The voice is not only described
as the voice of the archangel
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and a shout but
this is what you...
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this is what's referred
to as a triple iteration
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or an iteration...
reiteration, reiteration...
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meaning, loud... loud... loud...
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shout... voice... trumpet...
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if you said somebody came...
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if you said somebody woke up
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and heard the
voice of an archangel,
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they'll say, "Well,
how... how loud was it?"
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"Like a shout...
like a trumpet... "
00:23:37.18\00:23:38.98
the Greek is reiterating
how audible this is going to be.
00:23:39.01\00:23:43.22
It's not going to
be a whisper tone.
00:23:43.25\00:23:45.82
Shout... voice
of an archangel...
00:23:45.85\00:23:47.92
that's the mightiest of angels
00:23:47.96\00:23:49.96
and He is going to
sound like a trumpet...
00:23:49.99\00:23:53.43
What is that
trumpet going to do?
00:23:53.46\00:23:55.70
Let's look at the four
things that's going to happen.
00:23:55.73\00:23:58.10
It's going to
cause a resurrection.
00:23:58.13\00:24:00.34
Write that down... it's
going to cause a... what?
00:24:00.37\00:24:02.40
Resurrection...
00:24:02.44\00:24:04.14
the trumpet voice is the
voice that called Lazarus forth
00:24:04.17\00:24:08.18
from the grave
00:24:08.21\00:24:09.54
but that... but in that story,
00:24:09.58\00:24:10.95
He specified Lazarus
00:24:11.01\00:24:12.45
and as one writer said,
"Had He not specified Lazarus,
00:24:12.48\00:24:15.92
it would have been a
general resurrection. "
00:24:15.95\00:24:17.32
In John 5 verses 28 and
29 is a verse you want to add
00:24:17.35\00:24:21.09
as a side reference
because everybody's in the grave
00:24:21.12\00:24:24.33
the voice of the Life-giver
is going to call them forth
00:24:24.36\00:24:26.86
and let's look at the
fifth thing He's going to do.
00:24:26.90\00:24:29.36
When the dead in
Christ rise first,
00:24:29.43\00:24:31.73
then the verse says,
00:24:31.80\00:24:33.13
"then we which
are alive and remain
00:24:33.17\00:24:36.07
shall be caught up
together with them.
00:24:36.10\00:24:39.04
Now, get this, the word there
00:24:39.07\00:24:40.74
"perousia" is the word...
"caught up" in the Greek.
00:24:40.78\00:24:44.41
Parousia... that means taken
away without your own strength,
00:24:44.45\00:24:47.62
caught up divinely.
00:24:47.65\00:24:49.42
We're going to be caught up
00:24:49.45\00:24:50.79
but we're not going to be caught
up in little beams of light
00:24:50.82\00:24:53.39
shooting all over
the place secretly,
00:24:53.46\00:24:54.92
we're going to be...
00:24:54.96\00:24:56.29
the dead and the living are
going to be caught up together.
00:24:56.32\00:24:59.39
The dead will no longer be
dead because of resurrection...
00:24:59.43\00:25:02.50
when the Lord calls them forth,
00:25:02.56\00:25:04.23
the dead in
Christ will rise first
00:25:04.27\00:25:06.97
say when? First...
00:25:07.00\00:25:08.60
then we which
are alive and remain
00:25:08.64\00:25:12.27
poof... dead in Christ raised...
00:25:12.31\00:25:15.54
those who didn't die but
are alive at the second coming
00:25:15.58\00:25:19.28
together... they're
caught up and they're going up
00:25:19.31\00:25:22.75
and what do they
do? They meet the Lord.
00:25:22.78\00:25:25.75
That's the...
that's the fifth thing...
00:25:25.79\00:25:27.72
shout... voice...
trumpet... resurrection...
00:25:27.76\00:25:31.36
and together we meet the Lord,
00:25:31.39\00:25:33.36
can you say "amen" to that?
00:25:33.40\00:25:36.20
Now, together we meet the Lord
00:25:36.23\00:25:38.93
which means... we're
going to go to our former topic
00:25:38.97\00:25:41.34
the dead will not meet the Lord
until the living meet the Lord.
00:25:41.37\00:25:46.27
The living saints
with the resurrected saints
00:25:46.31\00:25:51.48
will meet the Lord together.
00:25:51.51\00:25:53.92
That's in the text...
00:25:53.95\00:25:55.58
if you can flash that on
the screen one more time,
00:25:55.62\00:25:57.29
the second part of that verse,
00:25:57.32\00:25:59.35
"Then we who
are alive and remain
00:25:59.39\00:26:01.86
shall be caught up together...
00:26:01.89\00:26:04.29
shall be caught up together
to meet the Lord in the air
00:26:04.33\00:26:10.03
and thus we shall
always be with the Lord. "
00:26:10.07\00:26:12.27
That's 1st Thessalonians
chapter 4 verse 16 and 17,
00:26:12.30\00:26:15.44
and you have
that on your syllabus.
00:26:15.47\00:26:17.34
So, that's what's happening...
that's earth shattering...
00:26:17.37\00:26:19.34
anything secret in
that? Tell me, yes or no...
00:26:19.37\00:26:21.64
respond to me... yes or no...
00:26:21.68\00:26:23.18
talk to me tonight, yes or no?
00:26:23.21\00:26:24.55
Audience: No.
00:26:24.58\00:26:25.98
No... nothing secret about that.
00:26:26.01\00:26:27.35
If somebody's
going to be in my back
00:26:27.38\00:26:29.22
and I tell you, there's a
lot of graves in the world...
00:26:29.25\00:26:31.39
you know, lot of cemetery
plots where the saints are.
00:26:31.45\00:26:33.56
I don't want to be...
00:26:33.59\00:26:35.19
I don't want to be irreverent
00:26:35.22\00:26:36.89
but I'm sure that
many of these buildings
00:26:36.93\00:26:38.76
that have been built
throughout the centuries
00:26:38.79\00:26:40.63
are probably built on spots
00:26:40.66\00:26:42.80
where people that had
known the Lord have died
00:26:42.83\00:26:45.00
and maybe just fallen asleep
00:26:45.03\00:26:46.37
or maybe cemeteries
have been kind of leveled out
00:26:46.40\00:26:50.64
and they built
apartment buildings there
00:26:50.71\00:26:52.07
or maybe Walmart's...
00:26:52.11\00:26:54.24
I'm... I'm just trying to give
you a graphic realistic picture
00:26:54.48\00:26:57.95
because we're
talking about Millennia here
00:26:57.98\00:26:59.75
and so, all these graves...
00:26:59.78\00:27:02.28
people are going to be
coming through cement floors...
00:27:02.32\00:27:04.42
I mean, you're talking about
the earth-shattering aspects...
00:27:04.45\00:27:07.52
the Lord is going to be ripping
up the terrain of the earth
00:27:07.56\00:27:10.59
to bring His saints forth.
00:27:10.63\00:27:12.79
They're not coming
forth in spirit form
00:27:12.83\00:27:14.96
because Paul the
apostle in Philippians says,
00:27:15.00\00:27:17.07
"We look for the
coming of the Lord
00:27:17.10\00:27:19.13
where He's going to
change our... our vile bodies
00:27:19.17\00:27:22.77
that it may be fashioned
like unto his glorious body. "
00:27:22.80\00:27:26.37
So we're coming
forth in bodies...
00:27:26.41\00:27:28.14
no spirits are going
to heaven, no pfshhhh...
00:27:28.18\00:27:31.28
dust left at the table...
00:27:31.31\00:27:32.95
that's... that's
facade... that's fake...
00:27:33.01\00:27:35.02
that's not Scriptural
00:27:35.05\00:27:36.85
and by-the-way, I mentioned
this in the last program,
00:27:36.89\00:27:38.39
I reiterate this
again, do your own homework,
00:27:38.42\00:27:40.76
National Geographic
and the History Channel
00:27:40.79\00:27:43.63
did a Program on
this, and they said...
00:27:43.66\00:27:46.46
I've known this
for... for... for decades...
00:27:46.49\00:27:49.06
they said,
00:27:49.13\00:27:51.20
"Millions of Christians
believe the 'Secret Rapture'
00:27:51.23\00:27:53.47
a teaching that has no
Scriptural foundation. "
00:27:53.50\00:27:56.97
Pause...
00:27:57.01\00:27:58.74
but you know what?
00:27:58.77\00:28:00.11
More people rather
believe what somebody writes
00:28:00.14\00:28:02.08
than what the Bible
teaches, that's the problem.
00:28:02.11\00:28:04.15
Pray for them... pray for them.
00:28:04.18\00:28:06.92
Let's go to Question number 10,
we're going to move right along,
00:28:06.95\00:28:09.28
Question number
10, okay, here it is.
00:28:09.32\00:28:11.95
"What event
does Jesus compare...
00:28:11.99\00:28:14.52
To what event does Jesus
compare His second coming?"
00:28:14.56\00:28:19.93
To what event does Jesus
compare His second coming?
00:28:19.96\00:28:25.27
I kind of bridged this already
00:28:25.33\00:28:27.97
but it's good
reiteration wouldn't hurt...
00:28:28.00\00:28:29.64
Matthew 24 verse
37 to verse 39...
00:28:29.67\00:28:34.64
Matthew chapter 24
verse 37 to verse 39.
00:28:34.68\00:28:37.81
All right, let's
look at this together
00:28:37.85\00:28:40.72
and it will be on the screen,
00:28:40.75\00:28:42.58
here it is,
00:28:42.65\00:28:43.99
"But as the days of Noah were,
00:28:44.02\00:28:48.26
so also will the
coming of the Son of Man be. "
00:28:48.29\00:28:51.79
Now, verse 38...
00:28:51.83\00:28:53.33
"For as in the days
before the flood... "
00:28:53.36\00:28:57.00
together...
"they were... " what?
00:28:57.03\00:28:59.37
"eating" and what else?
00:28:59.40\00:29:01.10
"drinking" and what else?
00:29:01.14\00:29:03.04
"marrying" and what else?
00:29:03.07\00:29:04.97
"giving in marriage,
00:29:05.01\00:29:07.68
until the day that
Noah entered the ark
00:29:07.71\00:29:11.15
and did not know
until the flood came"
00:29:11.21\00:29:14.22
and did what?
00:29:14.25\00:29:15.58
"took them all away,
00:29:15.62\00:29:17.99
so also will the
coming of the Son of Man be. "
00:29:18.02\00:29:20.72
Now, hold that on
the screen really,
00:29:20.76\00:29:22.46
don't get rid of it
yet, I want to emphasize...
00:29:22.49\00:29:23.83
you see those four yellow
words, "took them all away"
00:29:23.86\00:29:26.66
I did that for a
particular reason,
00:29:26.70\00:29:28.16
now you can take
it off the screen,
00:29:28.20\00:29:29.66
I want to emphasize something.
00:29:29.70\00:29:31.23
"Took them all away. "
00:29:31.27\00:29:32.73
Here is... here is...
00:29:32.77\00:29:34.17
here is the misconception
and the misunderstanding
00:29:34.20\00:29:37.14
of that passage.
00:29:37.17\00:29:38.51
The "Secret Rapture" teaches
that... that... that the secret
00:29:38.54\00:29:43.91
takes the saints away...
00:29:43.95\00:29:46.51
and then it also teaches
that those who are left behind
00:29:46.55\00:29:51.89
get a second chance
00:29:51.92\00:29:53.25
but when you read the
Bible, you're going to discover
00:29:53.29\00:29:56.22
that when the
flood "took them away"
00:29:56.26\00:30:00.40
it didn't take them to safety...
00:30:00.43\00:30:04.50
it took them to destruction.
00:30:04.53\00:30:07.14
Let's go on further,
I want you to see this,
00:30:07.17\00:30:09.74
this is powerful...
00:30:09.77\00:30:11.11
Let's go to the next one,
00:30:11.14\00:30:12.47
let's see what that
"take them all away"
00:30:12.51\00:30:13.91
really means.
00:30:13.98\00:30:15.31
Who got taken and who got left
00:30:15.34\00:30:17.71
and the question is,
00:30:17.75\00:30:19.08
"Which category do
you want to be in?"
00:30:19.11\00:30:20.82
because according to
the "Secret Rapture,"
00:30:20.85\00:30:22.52
those who are taken are
great... they're gone already
00:30:22.55\00:30:25.29
and those who are
left, get a second chance
00:30:25.32\00:30:27.02
but let's see how
the Bible teaches it.
00:30:27.06\00:30:28.66
Let's go to Question number 11.
00:30:28.72\00:30:31.39
Question number 11,
00:30:31.43\00:30:32.99
the fact of the matter is,
00:30:33.03\00:30:34.36
they didn't know until the flood
came and took them all away.
00:30:34.40\00:30:36.33
"How did the flood
affect everyone on earth?"
00:30:36.36\00:30:38.83
It took them away.
00:30:38.87\00:30:40.34
If you were not in the
ark, you got taken away...
00:30:40.37\00:30:43.51
you got taken away.
00:30:43.54\00:30:45.34
Look at Question number 11,
00:30:45.37\00:30:47.61
"How did the flood
affect everyone on earth?"
00:30:47.64\00:30:51.11
I just said it, didn't I?
00:30:51.18\00:30:52.78
Okay, let's just go to Matthew
chapter 24 verse 40 to verse 42.
00:30:52.81\00:30:58.09
Matthew 24 verses 40 to 42.
00:30:58.12\00:31:01.79
This is one of the favorite
texts that are also used...
00:31:01.92\00:31:04.89
that are also used in trying
to support the "Secret Rapture"
00:31:04.96\00:31:08.33
you know that?
00:31:08.36\00:31:09.70
And I've visited...
00:31:09.73\00:31:11.07
I've visited with the many
people that used to believe this
00:31:11.10\00:31:12.83
and they said, "Pastor John,
00:31:12.87\00:31:14.27
praise God that you
guys study the Word of God. "
00:31:14.30\00:31:18.04
"Amen" somebody.
00:31:18.07\00:31:19.41
You guys need to
sound better than that,
00:31:19.44\00:31:21.54
you're looking at me like
this... now... truth is... Amen
00:31:21.61\00:31:24.01
Audience: Amen.
00:31:24.05\00:31:25.38
Amen... Amen means it's true...
00:31:25.41\00:31:26.78
It doesn't mean I'm
trying to trick you,
00:31:26.82\00:31:28.75
"Amen" means it's true,
00:31:28.78\00:31:30.12
that's what the Bible
uses the word "Amen" for
00:31:30.15\00:31:31.75
but there are some
people that would rather believe
00:31:31.79\00:31:35.22
what is not in the Bible...
00:31:35.29\00:31:36.62
we're trying to help you get
ready for the coming of Jesus
00:31:36.66\00:31:39.46
because you're not going
to get a second plane ride.
00:31:39.49\00:31:41.70
All right, let's
look at these verses now.
00:31:41.73\00:31:44.20
"How did the flood
affect everyone on earth?"
00:31:44.23\00:31:49.74
Here it is, "Then two
men will be in the field:
00:31:49.77\00:31:55.24
one will be... "
say it together...
00:31:55.28\00:31:58.15
"taken and the other... left.
00:31:58.18\00:32:00.72
Two women will be
grinding at the mill:
00:32:00.75\00:32:04.59
one will be taken
and the other left. "
00:32:04.62\00:32:07.62
And then the
Lord says in verse 42,
00:32:07.66\00:32:10.59
"Watch therefore,
00:32:10.63\00:32:12.89
for you do not know what
hour your Lord is coming. "
00:32:12.93\00:32:18.00
Okay, now let's pause here,
00:32:18.03\00:32:22.67
one taken... the other left...
00:32:22.70\00:32:27.28
now, the question is...
00:32:27.31\00:32:28.64
uh... I know you're ahead of me,
00:32:28.68\00:32:32.81
you can't have...
that's good... that's good...
00:32:32.85\00:32:35.55
they're on fire now...
00:32:35.58\00:32:36.92
I kind of flowed over into them
00:32:36.95\00:32:38.29
but all this discombobulating...
getting ready...
00:32:38.32\00:32:40.42
we're on the
same track right now.
00:32:40.46\00:32:42.72
You got to
understand what happened...
00:32:42.76\00:32:44.99
where did the flood take who?
00:32:45.03\00:32:47.00
Let's go to the next question.
00:32:47.06\00:32:49.00
Question number 12...
00:32:49.03\00:32:51.57
okay, so, I'm going to...
00:32:51.60\00:32:54.10
"How did the flood
affect everyone on earth?"
00:32:54.14\00:32:55.90
The flood came and
took them all away...
00:32:55.94\00:32:57.47
you can write that down,
"the flood took them all away"
00:32:57.51\00:33:00.88
the flood took Noah in the
ark and his family to safety...
00:33:00.91\00:33:04.28
the flood took those
who were not ready...
00:33:04.31\00:33:06.78
where did the flood take them?
00:33:06.82\00:33:08.18
Let's look at Luke...
Question number 12, here it is,
00:33:08.22\00:33:11.32
"Does the Bible
teach that the 'taken ones'
00:33:11.35\00:33:15.76
were taken to safety?"
00:33:15.79\00:33:18.73
Does the Bible teach
that the "taken ones"
00:33:18.76\00:33:22.93
were taken to safety?
00:33:22.96\00:33:25.80
Okay, let's go,
Luke chapter 17 verse 27.
00:33:25.83\00:33:31.51
Luke chapter 17... verse 27,
00:33:31.54\00:33:34.28
and I'm moving at a good
clip tonight, praise the Lord,
00:33:34.34\00:33:36.95
we're making some headway
and I appreciate that very much.
00:33:36.98\00:33:39.51
here it is,
00:33:39.58\00:33:41.98
"They ate, they
drank, they married wives,
00:33:42.05\00:33:49.39
they were given in marriage,
00:33:49.42\00:33:51.76
until the day that
Noah entered the ark,
00:33:51.79\00:33:54.86
and the flood
came... " and did what?
00:33:54.90\00:33:57.63
Audience: destroyed them all.
00:33:57.67\00:33:59.43
In Matthew it said,
"took them all away"
00:33:59.47\00:34:01.14
in Luke it says,
"destroyed them all"
00:34:01.17\00:34:04.21
so, if you got...
I'm using strange word...
00:34:04.24\00:34:09.54
"tooken" there's no such...
00:34:09.58\00:34:11.71
if you got taken, you got
taken in destruction, right?
00:34:11.75\00:34:14.88
but let's... let's
make that even clearer.
00:34:14.92\00:34:17.75
Let's make that even
clearer, because somebody says,
00:34:17.79\00:34:19.89
that's not what the
text says because Luke...
00:34:19.92\00:34:22.29
the question is
asked... go to Luke,
00:34:22.32\00:34:25.19
the question is asked
and the question is answered.
00:34:25.23\00:34:28.86
All right, so, to
answer the Question number 12,
00:34:28.90\00:34:32.53
"Does the Bible
teach that the 'taken ones'
00:34:32.57\00:34:35.37
were delivered to safety?"
00:34:35.40\00:34:36.74
What's the answer? Audience: No.
00:34:36.77\00:34:38.17
Just put No...
that's the answer.
00:34:38.21\00:34:39.84
Now we go to number 13
just to break this down.
00:34:39.87\00:34:41.84
okay, "How does
Luke further... "
00:34:41.88\00:34:44.95
Question number 13,
00:34:44.98\00:34:46.55
didn't emphasize that to
my people in the graphics,
00:34:46.58\00:34:48.98
"How does Luke further emphasize
00:34:49.02\00:34:52.49
that being 'taken'
means destruction?"
00:34:52.52\00:34:55.36
How does Luke further emphasize
00:34:55.42\00:34:57.69
that being
"taken" means destruction?
00:34:57.73\00:35:01.00
Okay, now, we're going to
go back to that same scenario
00:35:01.03\00:35:05.53
that Matthew used.
00:35:05.57\00:35:06.94
All right, here it
is, Luke chapter 17
00:35:07.00\00:35:09.40
verses 36 and 37...
00:35:09.44\00:35:12.14
I know on my paper I left out
the 17 but it's on the screen.
00:35:12.17\00:35:14.91
so if you're
watching... you got it.
00:35:14.94\00:35:16.88
Here it is... here it is,
00:35:16.91\00:35:19.55
"Two men will be in the field:
00:35:19.61\00:35:23.49
the one will be
taken and he other left.
00:35:23.52\00:35:27.09
Now verse 37,
00:35:27.12\00:35:29.09
"And they
answered and said to Him,
00:35:29.12\00:35:31.36
'Where Lord?'"
00:35:31.39\00:35:32.73
In other words,
"Where are they taken?"
00:35:32.76\00:35:34.23
So he said to them,
00:35:34.26\00:35:36.97
"Wherever the body is,
00:35:37.00\00:35:39.63
there the eagles will
be gathered together. "
00:35:39.67\00:35:42.94
So, where is the body...
00:35:42.97\00:35:45.61
where are they
going to be taken?
00:35:45.64\00:35:46.98
Wherever the body is...
the eagle will let you know...
00:35:47.01\00:35:49.71
because eagles are
going to be having lunch.
00:35:49.74\00:35:51.81
They're not
taken in the "Rapture"
00:35:51.85\00:35:55.55
that's what the "taken"
in the "Rapture" and left
00:35:55.58\00:36:00.16
so in the context here,
00:36:00.19\00:36:01.66
you don't want to
be taken by the flood,
00:36:01.69\00:36:05.43
you want to be left alive,
00:36:05.46\00:36:09.06
that is exactly what
Paul means when we segue now
00:36:09.10\00:36:14.04
to the very next question.
00:36:14.07\00:36:16.17
Here's the key, going
to just spin your head...
00:36:16.20\00:36:18.44
get you all straight out here...
00:36:18.47\00:36:20.31
"taken... " when the
flood came, it took them away.
00:36:20.38\00:36:24.01
It washed those bodies
North, East, South and West.
00:36:24.05\00:36:27.65
and Luke asks the
Lord, "Where Lord?"
00:36:27.68\00:36:31.89
He says, "Wherever the
eagles are gathered... "
00:36:31.95\00:36:34.32
the eagles knew
where to find the corpses,
00:36:34.36\00:36:36.96
that's what was left,
00:36:37.03\00:36:38.36
that's what happens,
that's what a flood does,
00:36:38.39\00:36:40.10
so, when the waters receded,
00:36:40.13\00:36:41.66
they found out where
the bodies were taken.
00:36:41.70\00:36:45.83
It's a sad reality,
because what do the eagles do?
00:36:45.87\00:36:49.37
Audience: Eat the dead bodies.
00:36:49.40\00:36:51.57
Lot of people...
eagles clean it up...
00:36:51.61\00:36:55.98
As a matter of fact,
that's what the scavenger birds
00:36:56.01\00:36:57.88
are supposed to do.
00:36:57.91\00:36:59.25
Whenever a deer dies
out here in our country,
00:36:59.28\00:37:01.12
or a squirrel or a raccoon
gets run over... or a possum...
00:37:01.15\00:37:03.89
we can always tell,
driving on the road...
00:37:03.95\00:37:05.95
not eagles... but a
whole bunch of crows...
00:37:06.02\00:37:08.02
scavenger birds...
they're gathered...
00:37:08.06\00:37:09.82
we can always tell
00:37:09.86\00:37:11.49
that something's
either dying or has died,
00:37:11.53\00:37:13.93
that's what the Lord is saying,
00:37:14.06\00:37:15.40
"If you were not... if
you were not in the ark,
00:37:15.43\00:37:18.57
floating in the
safety of God's protection,
00:37:18.60\00:37:22.00
you were taken away by
the destruction of the waters
00:37:22.04\00:37:25.34
that came as a
result of the flood.
00:37:25.37\00:37:27.24
Now, let's go and see
the context of this "taken"
00:37:27.28\00:37:29.98
because the word there...
00:37:30.01\00:37:31.35
the word there
that's used in... in Luke,
00:37:31.38\00:37:33.72
is... is... is a derivative
of what's used in the book of
00:37:33.78\00:37:37.09
1st Thessalonians
chapter 4 verse 15
00:37:37.12\00:37:38.79
so here's the
answer to Number 13?
00:37:38.85\00:37:40.26
"How does Luke further
emphasize that 'being taken'
00:37:40.29\00:37:42.62
means destruction?"
00:37:42.66\00:37:43.99
Because "wherever
the eagles were... "
00:37:44.03\00:37:45.36
wherever the body was...
00:37:45.39\00:37:47.33
that's where the
eagles were found.
00:37:47.36\00:37:48.76
All right, that's
the... that's the sad truth.
00:37:48.80\00:37:52.10
And if you read Revelation,
00:37:52.13\00:37:53.47
the Lord is going to once
again in Revelation chapter 19,
00:37:53.50\00:37:56.71
call the eagles together
to eat the flesh of captains
00:37:56.74\00:37:59.91
and the mighty
men and the horsemen
00:37:59.94\00:38:01.94
and every
chief... the chief captains
00:38:01.98\00:38:04.08
and every
bondman and every freeman
00:38:04.11\00:38:06.15
all those who were going
to fight against the Lord
00:38:06.21\00:38:08.28
at the second coming,
00:38:08.32\00:38:09.65
the Lord is going to once
again call the birds of the air,
00:38:09.68\00:38:12.19
the fowls of the air...
the eagles of the air...
00:38:12.25\00:38:14.46
to gather for the second meal.
00:38:14.49\00:38:16.52
So, if you're
not going to be risen
00:38:16.56\00:38:19.86
to meet the Lord in the air,
00:38:19.89\00:38:22.66
through third category...
00:38:22.70\00:38:25.40
the "Secret Rapture" teaches
there's a third category...
00:38:25.43\00:38:29.00
the "Secret Rapture"
teaches there's a fourth coming.
00:38:29.04\00:38:32.27
Now, I'll further develop that
00:38:32.31\00:38:34.54
but I'm going to try to cover
as much as I can right now.
00:38:34.58\00:38:38.05
Question number 14,
let's go to that one.
00:38:38.08\00:38:41.62
Question number 14.
00:38:41.65\00:38:43.35
All right,
00:38:43.39\00:38:44.95
"How does the apostle
Paul show that being 'left'
00:38:44.99\00:38:48.22
means remaining alive?"
00:38:48.26\00:38:51.66
How does the apostle
Paul show that being "left"
00:38:51.69\00:38:57.47
means remaining alive?
00:38:57.50\00:39:00.44
Okay, here we are,
00:39:00.47\00:39:03.14
1st Thessalonians chapter 4
00:39:03.17\00:39:06.21
and we're going to
look at that verse together.
00:39:06.24\00:39:08.71
All right, verse 15,
00:39:08.74\00:39:11.78
"For this we say to you
by the word of the Lord,
00:39:11.81\00:39:15.72
that we who are alive and... "
00:39:15.78\00:39:19.99
what's the next
word? Audience: remain
00:39:20.02\00:39:22.86
"remain until the
coming of the Lord
00:39:22.89\00:39:25.66
will by no means
precede those who are asleep. "
00:39:25.69\00:39:30.27
When you look up...
00:39:30.30\00:39:31.63
when you look up the
transliteration of that word,
00:39:31.67\00:39:33.74
"remain" it's left...
00:39:33.77\00:39:35.94
we who are alive and left...
00:39:36.00\00:39:37.34
we're left alive,
00:39:37.37\00:39:38.71
now we were alive and left,
00:39:38.74\00:39:40.21
now, why are we left alive?
00:39:40.24\00:39:41.71
because many will be destroyed
00:39:41.74\00:39:43.14
by the brightness of
the coming of the Lord.
00:39:43.18\00:39:45.51
The brightness of
the coming of the Lord
00:39:45.55\00:39:47.82
is going to kill many wicked
00:39:47.85\00:39:49.22
but if you survive
that, you remain...
00:39:49.25\00:39:52.49
and then, you are caught up to
meet the Lord in the air, amen.
00:39:52.52\00:39:59.09
So, so far, the
second coming is audible,
00:39:59.13\00:40:02.26
it's earth-shattering,
it causes the resurrection,
00:40:02.30\00:40:04.33
it's the sound of a trumpet,
00:40:04.37\00:40:05.70
it's a shout... a divine
shout from the highest angel
00:40:05.73\00:40:09.10
Christ Himself... the author...
the one above the angels
00:40:09.14\00:40:12.61
the mightiest of all,
00:40:12.64\00:40:13.98
a fiery stream shall issue
and come forth from before Him,
00:40:14.01\00:40:19.91
the heavens are going
to depart as a scroll,
00:40:19.95\00:40:21.72
we read that in
Revelation chapter 6,
00:40:21.75\00:40:24.35
and verse 14 to
17, we read that,
00:40:24.39\00:40:26.96
the heavens open... the
mountains and the islands move,
00:40:27.02\00:40:29.42
and the sinners run for cover.
00:40:29.46\00:40:31.29
It's going to be a visible,
audible, earth-shattering event.
00:40:31.33\00:40:34.43
By no means is it
going to be secret
00:40:34.66\00:40:37.47
but now, this is where my...
00:40:37.50\00:40:39.00
this is where my local audience
and those of you watching
00:40:39.03\00:40:42.00
have to follow along until
00:40:42.04\00:40:43.54
we get the updated
lesson into their hands
00:40:43.57\00:40:45.54
but on the screen,
we'll have the questions
00:40:45.57\00:40:47.81
for 15 all the way
down to 22, all right,
00:40:47.84\00:40:50.05
so now you're going to pay a lot
of attention, did you get it?
00:40:50.08\00:40:52.28
Praise the Lord, did you get it?
00:40:52.31\00:40:55.58
Hallelujah... thank you Jesus.
00:40:55.62\00:40:58.69
Thank you Celestine,
appreciate that very much.
00:40:58.72\00:41:01.59
I tell you, must
be that Filipino blood
00:41:01.62\00:41:04.53
ah ha...
00:41:04.56\00:41:06.93
if you go to the Philippines,
they don't ask, "How to do it?"
00:41:06.96\00:41:08.80
they just find a way to do it.
00:41:08.83\00:41:10.17
You got to know
what I'm talking about...
00:41:10.20\00:41:11.53
in India and the Philippines,
they don't ask "how"
00:41:11.57\00:41:13.90
they just find a way.
00:41:13.94\00:41:15.27
In America we
say, "How do we eat?"
00:41:15.30\00:41:16.91
If you don't give them
a fork, they just eat...
00:41:16.94\00:41:19.67
that's Philippines and
India, isn't that right?
00:41:19.71\00:41:22.38
So intuitive and so innovative.
00:41:22.41\00:41:24.31
Let's go to Question number 15,
00:41:24.35\00:41:25.85
could you get me one of those?
00:41:25.88\00:41:27.32
I need one of those
also, a nice completed copy,
00:41:27.35\00:41:29.65
that's all the way down to 22?
00:41:29.68\00:41:31.55
Praise the Lord, thank you guys,
00:41:31.59\00:41:33.39
that's sharing now,
they're actually sharing,
00:41:33.46\00:41:35.19
thank you.
00:41:35.22\00:41:36.56
Okay, did you get
this from the website?
00:41:36.59\00:41:39.46
Okay, praise the
Lord, it's up there...
00:41:39.49\00:41:42.40
okay, I'm happy
00:41:42.43\00:41:44.47
are you happy? Amen.
00:41:44.53\00:41:46.23
Okay, Number 15,
00:41:46.27\00:41:48.87
now this is where we
dive into some deep waters,
00:41:48.90\00:41:51.61
are you ready? Ready to dive?
00:41:51.67\00:41:53.01
Now, I can tell by the
clock we're not going to get
00:41:53.04\00:41:54.41
through this all,
00:41:54.44\00:41:55.78
but you're going to
see something tonight
00:41:55.81\00:41:57.15
that you haven't
seen in the past.
00:41:57.18\00:41:58.51
Question number 15,
00:41:58.55\00:41:59.88
"What fulfilled
Bible prophecy proves
00:41:59.91\00:42:03.92
the inaccuracy of
the Secret Rapture?"
00:42:03.95\00:42:07.76
What fulfilled
Bible prophecy proves
00:42:07.79\00:42:11.16
the inaccuracy of
the Secret Rapture?
00:42:11.19\00:42:14.50
I was going to... I was
going to use a different word
00:42:14.53\00:42:16.80
because it's not only
inaccurate... it's invalid.
00:42:16.83\00:42:18.87
Smiling...
00:42:18.90\00:42:21.10
But I was trying to be kind.
00:42:21.14\00:42:22.47
It's not only
inaccurate, Terry, it's invalid.
00:42:22.50\00:42:26.04
But let's see which one that is,
00:42:26.07\00:42:28.68
Daniel 9 verse 24,
00:42:28.74\00:42:32.18
Daniel 9 verse 24 is
where we find this one.
00:42:32.21\00:42:36.05
what prophecy?
00:42:36.08\00:42:37.42
And here it is on the screen.
00:42:37.45\00:42:38.79
What prophecy...
00:42:38.82\00:42:40.52
what fulfilled
Bible prophecy proves
00:42:40.56\00:42:41.99
the inaccuracy of
the Secret Rapture?
00:42:42.02\00:42:43.83
Let's look at
Daniel chapter 9 verse 24
00:42:43.89\00:42:45.66
and see what prophecy it is.
00:42:45.69\00:42:47.13
"Seventy weeks are
determined for your people
00:42:47.16\00:42:51.30
and for your holy city... "
00:42:51.33\00:42:53.50
let's look at the
things that must happen,
00:42:53.54\00:42:55.14
"To finish the
transgression... "
00:42:55.20\00:42:57.07
next together, "To
make an end of sins... "
00:42:57.11\00:43:00.54
the next thing,
00:43:00.58\00:43:01.91
"To make
reconciliation for iniquity"
00:43:01.94\00:43:04.18
the next thing...
00:43:04.25\00:43:05.71
"To bring in
everlasting righteousness... "
00:43:05.75\00:43:08.78
together...
00:43:08.82\00:43:10.15
"To seal up the
vision and prophecy... "
00:43:10.19\00:43:12.82
finally, "to
anoint the Most Holy. "
00:43:12.85\00:43:15.72
Now, before you run,
00:43:15.76\00:43:17.09
did you see anything in
there about an Antichrist?
00:43:17.13\00:43:19.09
When you anoint the Most Holy...
00:43:19.16\00:43:21.63
who is the Most Holy?
00:43:21.66\00:43:23.00
Somebody tell me, Jesus...
00:43:23.03\00:43:25.43
and by the way, Daniel is
in the province of Babylon
00:43:25.47\00:43:29.60
praying
00:43:29.64\00:43:31.07
because his
people are in captivity,
00:43:31.11\00:43:33.98
"How long are we
going to be here?"
00:43:34.01\00:43:36.34
"How long is
this going to happen?"
00:43:36.38\00:43:39.08
And in the
chapter prior to this,
00:43:39.11\00:43:41.75
there's a prophecy
about the 2,300 days...
00:43:41.78\00:43:44.92
which in fact, in prophecy,
00:43:44.95\00:43:46.29
I'm going to go ahead and bring
this up very quickly for you
00:43:46.32\00:43:49.09
as a matter of
fact, in prophecy...
00:43:49.12\00:43:50.99
do I have it on my screen here?
00:43:51.03\00:43:52.79
could I have not
put it on my own here?
00:43:52.86\00:43:54.90
I think I gave it
to my graphics people,
00:43:54.93\00:43:56.67
let's see if... do we
have that chart on there?
00:43:56.70\00:43:59.10
Did I leave it all
the way to the very end?
00:43:59.13\00:44:01.54
I may or may not
have put it in there,
00:44:01.57\00:44:03.97
therefore if...
00:44:04.01\00:44:05.87
there it is! beautiful,
00:44:05.91\00:44:07.24
well, they have
it on the screen.
00:44:07.28\00:44:08.61
Okay, on the screen, you
guys here... in a moment,
00:44:08.64\00:44:10.35
it's a secret to
those of you here
00:44:10.41\00:44:11.75
but this is the prophecy
that you're going to see
00:44:11.78\00:44:13.82
it's the...
it's in your chart...
00:44:13.85\00:44:16.92
you all have your
charts in your hand?
00:44:16.99\00:44:18.72
We're going to
walk you through that
00:44:18.75\00:44:20.49
right on the screen there
00:44:20.52\00:44:22.16
and you're going to see
that in great blazing detail
00:44:22.19\00:44:25.06
every particular
about that prophecy
00:44:25.09\00:44:27.83
you're going to see
come to pass tonight.
00:44:27.86\00:44:29.93
Every particular
about that prophecy...
00:44:29.96\00:44:31.77
you're going to see
come to pass tonight,
00:44:31.80\00:44:33.54
so hopefully, you have
in your hand this prophecy,
00:44:33.57\00:44:36.91
we're going to
walk you through it,
00:44:36.94\00:44:38.27
I've shown you on the screen
00:44:38.31\00:44:39.64
but you should
have downloaded this
00:44:39.67\00:44:41.01
from the website
00:44:41.04\00:44:42.38
and this gives you the specifics
that you can take the time
00:44:42.41\00:44:44.51
and ingest and study
00:44:44.55\00:44:46.88
because we're not going
to get the time to cover
00:44:46.92\00:44:48.75
all the verses included therein
00:44:48.78\00:44:51.45
but, you'll notice,
00:44:51.49\00:44:53.99
if you're looking at
the chart in your hand,
00:44:54.02\00:44:55.52
I want to spend a
little time on that,
00:44:55.56\00:44:56.89
you see on the very top of
page... a longer period of time
00:44:56.93\00:45:01.03
2,300 days or
2,300... what? Years.
00:45:01.06\00:45:05.47
In prophecy, a
day equals a year.
00:45:05.50\00:45:09.87
Now, but below that...
00:45:09.90\00:45:13.21
when the Bible says
in Daniel 9 verse 24,
00:45:13.24\00:45:16.21
that 70 weeks are
determined for your people,
00:45:16.24\00:45:19.11
the word "determined" there...
you can clear the screen now,
00:45:19.18\00:45:21.78
appreciate that very much
00:45:21.85\00:45:23.22
the word "determined"
there means "cut off"
00:45:23.25\00:45:26.09
it means "cut off"
00:45:26.12\00:45:28.26
so, if I give you
2,300 yards of cloth
00:45:28.29\00:45:31.89
I'll says, "Well, 70 of that
is determined for Thompsonville"
00:45:31.93\00:45:36.36
it's cut off...
it's allocated...
00:45:36.43\00:45:40.77
so, 2,300
years... out of that 490
00:45:40.80\00:45:45.07
because if you look at
the chart very carefully,
00:45:45.11\00:45:46.88
70 weeks...
00:45:46.91\00:45:48.44
how many days in a
week, somebody tell me,
00:45:48.48\00:45:49.81
this is not a trivia question,
how many days in a week?
00:45:49.84\00:45:51.18
Seven...
00:45:51.21\00:45:52.55
70 times 7 is what? 490.
00:45:52.58\00:45:56.52
In prophecy, a day
equals a year right?
00:45:56.69\00:46:01.52
so when you... when you go ahead
00:46:01.56\00:46:03.22
and you begin to compare this,
00:46:03.26\00:46:04.79
and by-the-way, this
is not even an issue,
00:46:04.83\00:46:07.70
because in the... in
the theory of the "Rapture"
00:46:07.73\00:46:10.17
they understand that,
00:46:10.20\00:46:11.53
that's why they take
the last seven years of this
00:46:11.57\00:46:13.13
and stick it way
down in the future.
00:46:13.17\00:46:15.14
Now, if you're looking at
the chart here in front of you,
00:46:15.17\00:46:17.94
you're going to see
that from Point C to Point E
00:46:17.97\00:46:22.48
bring that chart up on the
screen one more time for me,
00:46:22.54\00:46:24.91
I appreciate you guys so
much, I love my team there,
00:46:24.95\00:46:27.28
from Point C on the
screen to Point E...
00:46:27.32\00:46:30.95
that's the piece that was
taken out by Francisco Ribera
00:46:30.99\00:46:35.72
and applied to the Antichrist.
00:46:35.79\00:46:39.33
That was the piece stolen
and applied to the Antichrist.
00:46:39.36\00:46:44.43
That's the piece he
said never finished.
00:46:44.47\00:46:47.17
But I'll show you tonight,
maybe on the subsequent program,
00:46:47.20\00:46:50.84
that this entire
prophecy finishes.
00:46:51.14\00:46:52.91
Now, if you have
the chart in your hand,
00:46:52.94\00:46:54.71
let me show you why we are
walking on dangerous ground
00:46:54.74\00:46:57.51
when we say that the
70th week has not been done.
00:46:57.55\00:46:59.81
Because if you look
at the large chart here,
00:46:59.85\00:47:02.58
the 70 weeks at the very bottom
00:47:02.62\00:47:06.69
are taken from the
2,300 days at the top.
00:47:06.72\00:47:09.72
Or let me get into
the prophetic language
00:47:09.76\00:47:12.56
and make it sound
the way it should,
00:47:12.59\00:47:13.96
the 2,300 years... 490
years are borrowed from that
00:47:14.00\00:47:20.30
so, here is the challenge,
if the 490 years are not done,
00:47:20.34\00:47:25.27
then the 1810 can't start yet.
00:47:25.31\00:47:30.38
Is anybody
mathematically following me?
00:47:30.41\00:47:33.28
because when you
finish with 490...
00:47:33.31\00:47:36.12
when you add the 1810,
00:47:36.15\00:47:38.69
you get the whole
completed prophecy.
00:47:38.72\00:47:43.93
Pause...
00:47:43.96\00:47:45.86
But if you haven't
finished 70th week,
00:47:45.89\00:47:47.86
how are you going to
get to the next timeframe,
00:47:47.90\00:47:50.17
the 1810 years that
are left after that?
00:47:50.20\00:47:52.53
so this whole "Secret Rapture"
is discombobulated beyond repair
00:47:52.57\00:47:59.34
can't repair it... you
only got to get rid of it.
00:47:59.37\00:48:01.61
Okay, now, let's go
to the next question.
00:48:01.64\00:48:03.65
Question number 16,
00:48:03.68\00:48:05.58
Question number 16...
00:48:05.61\00:48:07.48
okay...
00:48:07.52\00:48:09.18
"With what event was the
70-Week prophecy to begin?"
00:48:09.25\00:48:14.72
With what event was the
70-Week prophecy to begin?
00:48:14.76\00:48:20.20
Let's look at
Daniel 9 and verse 25.
00:48:20.23\00:48:23.37
Daniel 9 and verse 25.
00:48:23.40\00:48:25.90
Okay.
00:48:25.93\00:48:28.37
And it says thus far,
00:48:28.40\00:48:30.57
"Know therefore and understand,
00:48:30.61\00:48:33.51
that from the going
forth of the command... "
00:48:33.54\00:48:36.51
to do two things...
say it with me... to what?
00:48:36.54\00:48:39.45
"restore and build
Jerusalem until the Messiah... "
00:48:39.48\00:48:46.42
I want you to
find as best you can
00:48:46.45\00:48:48.29
a word here that
identifies the Antichrist.
00:48:48.32\00:48:50.46
"until the Messiah the Prince,
there shall be... " what?
00:48:50.49\00:48:54.93
Break it down...
"seven weeks and... " what?
00:48:54.96\00:48:57.20
"sixty-two weeks; the
street shall be built again,
00:48:57.27\00:49:02.14
and the walls, even
in troublesome times. "
00:49:02.17\00:49:05.61
Now, if you study the
Bible... Ezra... Nehemiah...
00:49:05.64\00:49:09.78
you'll find that, yes,
when the commission was given,
00:49:09.81\00:49:13.92
and there were
three commissions given
00:49:13.95\00:49:15.58
and this is where...
this is where the clever,
00:49:15.62\00:49:17.65
manipulative
nature of the Dark Ages
00:49:17.69\00:49:22.82
have brought everybody
under this cloak of darkness
00:49:22.86\00:49:25.79
because there
were three degrees...
00:49:25.83\00:49:28.50
how many degrees
did I say? Three.
00:49:28.56\00:49:30.70
Look at your chart
on the paper right now
00:49:30.73\00:49:32.20
and I'm going to
walk you through this.
00:49:32.23\00:49:33.57
Point A, it's not on the screen
00:49:33.60\00:49:35.80
but it's on the
paper that you downloaded,
00:49:35.84\00:49:37.17
if you didn't download that,
00:49:37.21\00:49:38.54
we'll remind you
where to get a copy of that.
00:49:38.57\00:49:40.14
This is Point A,
the very first point,
00:49:40.18\00:49:44.01
this is the decree
given by Artaxerxes
00:49:44.05\00:49:47.82
for the complete restoration
of Jerusalem as a city
00:49:47.85\00:49:51.75
with its own Government,
00:49:51.79\00:49:53.12
not just the rebuilding
of the temple and the walls,
00:49:53.15\00:49:56.02
like the decree of
Cyrus and Darius...
00:49:56.06\00:49:58.93
or Dar... ius...
however you want to say it,
00:49:58.96\00:50:00.30
now, pause...
00:50:00.33\00:50:01.66
Cyrus gave a decree
to build the wall...
00:50:01.70\00:50:06.80
Darius gave a decree
to build the temple...
00:50:06.84\00:50:11.97
but, Artaxerxes gave the decree
to restore the whole city.
00:50:12.01\00:50:18.45
let me use a comparison,
you may have a city...
00:50:18.48\00:50:20.58
you may have a city hall.
00:50:20.62\00:50:22.12
One gives a decree to build
city hall... the building...
00:50:22.15\00:50:25.45
one gives a decree to
put a fence around the city,
00:50:25.49\00:50:28.62
but the other one
says, "Wait a minute,
00:50:28.66\00:50:30.79
what good is a city hall
and a fence without people
00:50:30.83\00:50:33.23
and the government?"
00:50:33.26\00:50:34.60
What do you need?
00:50:34.63\00:50:35.96
And when you go to Ezra,
let's look at this very quickly
00:50:36.00\00:50:38.67
when you go to the next
question, Question number 17,
00:50:38.70\00:50:41.64
let's walk through the 70 weeks,
00:50:41.67\00:50:43.44
okay great, we're going to
look at this chart very quickly.
00:50:43.47\00:50:46.04
Let us walk through the chart
of the 70 weeks, okay great,
00:50:46.07\00:50:48.61
it's going to appear
on our screen here guys,
00:50:48.64\00:50:50.38
let's look at this
together, here it is,
00:50:50.41\00:50:51.98
bring it up on the screen, okay,
00:50:52.01\00:50:53.35
great, here we are, in our...
00:50:53.38\00:50:54.72
now... Ezra chapter 7 verse 13
is what I want to show you first
00:50:54.75\00:50:58.52
Ezra chapter 7 verse 13,
00:50:58.55\00:51:00.36
look at what it
says on the screen.
00:51:00.42\00:51:03.59
"I will... I will
make a decree... "
00:51:03.63\00:51:05.83
I'm going to bring
it up on our screen,
00:51:05.86\00:51:08.03
"I will make... I make a decree,
00:51:08.06\00:51:10.60
that all they of
the people of Israel,
00:51:10.63\00:51:13.03
and of his priests
and Levites, in my realm,
00:51:13.10\00:51:19.31
which are minded
of their own freewill
00:51:19.34\00:51:22.34
to go up to
Jerusalem with thee. "
00:51:22.38\00:51:25.31
Now, who made that decree?
00:51:25.35\00:51:27.08
Somebody just tell me,
00:51:27.12\00:51:28.82
I gave you his
name a moment ago,
00:51:28.88\00:51:30.32
Artaxerxes...
00:51:30.39\00:51:32.25
A R T A X E X R E S
something like that...
00:51:32.29\00:51:39.79
Okay, A R T A R Z E R X E S
00:51:39.83\00:51:42.93
it's a hard name to remember,
00:51:42.96\00:51:46.00
I don't know of
anybody named Artaxerxes today
00:51:46.03\00:51:48.40
but I had a little
typo there on mine... which,
00:51:48.44\00:51:51.67
when you write a name
like that, it's admirable
00:51:51.71\00:51:54.58
or admirable or allowable...
00:51:54.61\00:51:56.41
but the decree given by
Artaxerxes was the only decree
00:51:56.44\00:51:59.95
to completely
restore the full city...
00:51:59.98\00:52:03.15
a full-functioning city...
00:52:03.18\00:52:05.05
and you read about that
story in the book of Ezra
00:52:05.09\00:52:07.79
and also Nehemiah.
00:52:07.82\00:52:09.16
As a matter of fact,
Nehemiah was very disheartened
00:52:09.19\00:52:11.73
when he heard about how far...
00:52:11.79\00:52:13.46
how much work
had not been done...
00:52:13.50\00:52:15.40
the walls are broken down...
00:52:15.43\00:52:17.07
the people were
left in disrepair
00:52:17.10\00:52:18.63
and Nehemiah heard about it,
00:52:18.67\00:52:20.00
he was under the
decree of Artaxerxes...
00:52:20.04\00:52:21.90
working for Artaxerxes
00:52:21.94\00:52:23.27
and Artaxerxes
said, "What do you need?"
00:52:23.30\00:52:26.74
And Nehemiah said,
"Whatever the Lord wills"
00:52:26.78\00:52:28.11
and he gave Nehemiah
letters to go and help Jerusalem
00:52:28.14\00:52:32.11
that was in disrepair.
00:52:32.15\00:52:33.48
Now, when you read about that,
let's look at the chart now,
00:52:33.52\00:52:35.95
let's look at the chart...
00:52:35.98\00:52:37.32
Artaxerxes gives
the decree at Point A.
00:52:37.35\00:52:40.62
Let's go back to that, at
Point A, he gives the decree.
00:52:40.66\00:52:43.43
I'm still straightening
mine out keep going
00:52:43.46\00:52:45.43
he gives the decree at Point A,
00:52:45.46\00:52:47.13
and then, that decree is to
restore and rebuild Jerusalem
00:52:47.16\00:52:51.83
at the bottom of the
chart, you see the R and R...
00:52:51.87\00:52:53.50
restore and rebuild Jerusalem
00:52:53.54\00:52:55.20
Now, the reason
why he says seven weeks
00:52:55.24\00:52:58.61
because it only took 49 years
00:52:58.64\00:53:01.31
from the time that rebuilding
and restoration was given
00:53:01.34\00:53:05.01
and then, 49 years
later, Jerusalem is rebuilt.
00:53:05.05\00:53:09.05
That's why it's
broken down seven weeks
00:53:09.08\00:53:12.15
and three score or 7 and 62.
00:53:12.22\00:53:15.42
That's why it's
broken down that way.
00:53:15.46\00:53:17.73
He could have simply
said, 69 or 70 in one big block
00:53:17.76\00:53:21.46
but the reason
why it says 7 and 62
00:53:21.50\00:53:23.80
is because when
you break it down,
00:53:23.83\00:53:25.77
each of those
numbers is significant
00:53:25.83\00:53:27.74
in the numerical system
00:53:27.77\00:53:29.10
because it took 49
years... 7 weeks...
00:53:29.14\00:53:32.27
7 days in a week... 7
times 7... together... 49...
00:53:32.34\00:53:38.11
it took 49 years from the
time that commission was sent
00:53:38.15\00:53:41.88
from the time that
commission was given
00:53:41.92\00:53:44.09
in the midst of the disrepair,
Nehemiah went and finished it up
00:53:44.12\00:53:47.09
and he only needed 52...
00:53:47.12\00:53:48.56
and he only needed 52 days
to finish it off, remember that?
00:53:48.62\00:53:51.36
But from the time it was given
to the time it was finished,
00:53:51.39\00:53:54.10
49 years... that's what
you get there in the chart.
00:53:54.13\00:53:56.83
That's between
Point A and Point B.
00:53:56.87\00:53:58.73
Now, let's go
ahead and look at that.
00:53:58.77\00:54:00.60
Let's go and look
at that on the screen.
00:54:00.64\00:54:02.44
Question number 18...
00:54:02.47\00:54:06.71
"The Decree to
Restore and Rebuild Jerusalem"
00:54:06.74\00:54:10.55
and these are points by
the way, let alone questions
00:54:10.58\00:54:13.01
these are points, I'm
going to make them very quickly
00:54:13.05\00:54:15.08
these are the points...
00:54:15.12\00:54:16.48
Decree to restore
and build Jerusalem.
00:54:16.52\00:54:18.52
Here it is... all right,
00:54:18.55\00:54:21.59
and I think I have that there,
00:54:21.62\00:54:25.29
it is Ezra chapter 6 verse 14,
00:54:25.36\00:54:28.96
open your Bibles there with
me, Ezra chapter 6 and verse 14,
00:54:29.00\00:54:31.93
notice that... I may
have not included that
00:54:31.97\00:54:34.20
but we're going to see
that on the screen very quickly.
00:54:34.24\00:54:37.27
Ezra chapter 6 and
verse 14, let's look at that.
00:54:37.31\00:54:40.04
Okay, when you...
00:54:40.08\00:54:43.68
when you look at the
beauty of this prophecy,
00:54:43.71\00:54:45.61
it just makes it so clear that
God knows what God is doing.
00:54:45.65\00:54:50.79
Amen, church...
00:54:50.82\00:54:52.15
here it is...
00:54:52.19\00:54:53.52
okay, Ezra 6 verse
14, here it is, got it.
00:54:53.56\00:54:57.96
okay, and it says,
00:54:57.99\00:55:01.13
"So the elders of...
00:55:01.16\00:55:04.27
so the elders of
the Jews builded,
00:55:04.30\00:55:07.70
and they prospered
00:55:07.74\00:55:09.74
through the prophesying
of Haggai the prophet
00:55:09.77\00:55:12.77
and Zechariah the son of Iddo.
00:55:12.81\00:55:15.01
And they builded,
and they... " what?
00:55:15.04\00:55:17.98
"finished it
00:55:18.01\00:55:19.45
according to the commandment
of the God of Israel,
00:55:19.48\00:55:23.39
and according to the commandment
of Cyrus, and... " what else?
00:55:23.42\00:55:28.02
"Darius, and
Artaxerxes king of Persia. "
00:55:28.06\00:55:32.13
But the "Secret
Rapture" does this,
00:55:32.19\00:55:34.26
it only uses Cyrus or Darius...
it leaves Artaxerxes out
00:55:34.30\00:55:38.47
and here's the challenge,
00:55:38.53\00:55:39.87
if you try to get
the prophecy fulfilled
00:55:39.90\00:55:41.80
without Artaxerxes
in it, it never happens.
00:55:41.84\00:55:43.94
You always come up with a gap...
00:55:43.97\00:55:45.44
that's why it's
called, "The Gap Theory"
00:55:45.47\00:55:47.88
that last week
never gets completed.
00:55:47.91\00:55:50.05
I may not get it
tonight my Friends
00:55:50.08\00:55:52.15
but let's go ahead
and go to the next one
00:55:52.18\00:55:53.82
and see if I can
get that in there,
00:55:53.85\00:55:55.75
and I put that in
there now, Number...
00:55:55.78\00:55:57.69
Number 20... is that where I am?
00:55:57.72\00:56:00.26
Number 20,
00:56:00.29\00:56:01.62
let's look at Number
20 very quickly here,
00:56:01.66\00:56:03.39
if I can get to that...
00:56:03.43\00:56:04.76
"The Messiah
Anointed by Baptism"
00:56:04.79\00:56:09.10
okay, Acts 10 and verse 38,
00:56:09.16\00:56:11.33
bring that up on
the screen for me, dear,
00:56:11.37\00:56:12.93
that's the next part
00:56:12.97\00:56:14.30
and by-the-way, that's
at the beginning of Point C.
00:56:14.34\00:56:16.97
A Messiah anointed
by baptism, here it is.
00:56:17.01\00:56:19.54
"How God
anointed Jesus of Nazareth
00:56:19.57\00:56:22.48
with the Holy
Ghost and with power:
00:56:22.54\00:56:25.41
who went about doing good,
00:56:25.45\00:56:27.12
and healing all that
were oppressed of the devil;
00:56:27.15\00:56:29.92
for God was with him. "
00:56:29.95\00:56:31.29
Can you say, "Amen. "
00:56:31.32\00:56:32.65
God anointed... the
Messiah means the anointed One,
00:56:32.69\00:56:35.76
look it up, the Messiah...
00:56:35.82\00:56:37.59
He was anointed by
baptism to begin His ministry
00:56:37.63\00:56:40.86
and it happened
in the year of...
00:56:40.90\00:56:43.13
in the 15th year of the
reign of Tiberias Caesar.
00:56:43.16\00:56:46.70
Tiberias Caesar began
reigning in the year 12 A.D.
00:56:46.74\00:56:50.21
Add 12 plus 15
gives you what? 27,
00:56:50.24\00:56:53.91
it's on your chart there,
00:56:53.94\00:56:55.28
that's why I gave you this chart
00:56:55.31\00:56:56.75
so you can follow
it very carefully.
00:56:56.78\00:56:58.21
I'm going to get to one
point, number 21 very quickly,
00:56:58.25\00:57:01.65
I'm going to give you
this one, Daniel 9:26,
00:57:01.68\00:57:04.49
"The Messiah is cut off
in the midst of the week. "
00:57:04.52\00:57:06.92
The Messiah is cut off
in the midst of the week.
00:57:06.96\00:57:09.16
As a matter of
fact, you know what?
00:57:09.19\00:57:10.53
I'm probably not
going to force this in here
00:57:10.56\00:57:12.53
because, you know, it's going
to try to put a big shoe...
00:57:12.56\00:57:15.06
bit foot in a
really tight shoe...
00:57:15.10\00:57:18.17
I'm going to give
you time to absorb that
00:57:18.20\00:57:19.80
and in our next
Program, what we're going to do
00:57:19.83\00:57:22.00
is, we're going to
backtrack just a little bit
00:57:22.04\00:57:24.17
and spend, maybe
the entire program
00:57:24.21\00:57:25.84
on this chart...
00:57:25.87\00:57:27.34
wouldn't that be great?
00:57:27.38\00:57:28.71
So that, when we're done,
you can see that unequivocally
00:57:28.74\00:57:31.95
God did not have any intention
00:57:31.98\00:57:34.98
of sneaking up on His
saints in the very end of time
00:57:35.02\00:57:37.79
but He was going
to make it sure...
00:57:37.85\00:57:39.45
make it very clear
00:57:39.49\00:57:41.22
that the prophecy
of His soon return...
00:57:41.26\00:57:43.49
the prophecy of His
visible, literal, audible,
00:57:43.53\00:57:46.23
earth-shattering second coming
00:57:46.26\00:57:47.60
would be known and
heard and seen by all
00:57:47.63\00:57:51.83
but here's the blessing,
00:57:51.87\00:57:53.97
if you're ready, you'll
be ready to go with Him,
00:57:54.00\00:57:56.34
if not, you'll be left behind,
00:57:56.37\00:57:57.74
but friends, keep studying...
it doesn't make sense
00:57:57.77\00:57:59.97
but it will come
into a sharper focus,
00:58:00.01\00:58:02.64
God bless you.
00:58:02.68\00:58:04.01