Participants: John Lomacang
Series Code: ASHF
Program Code: ASHF000070
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00:20 Hello Friends, welcome to another 3ABN Today 00:23 actually, 3ABN A Sharper Focus 00:28 which is happening today here at the 3ABN Worship Center. 00:32 Pray for me, I'm still battling with a cold 00:35 so, if I look a little shinier than I'm supposed to, 00:38 I forgot to put on my makeup tonight 00:40 but then again, you didn't even know that. 00:43 So, now you know something about television 00:45 that we don't normally say 00:46 but we're continuing in our study tonight 00:49 on the truth about the "Secret Rapture. " 00:52 The truth about the "Secret Rapture" 00:55 and we're going to be uploading that lesson 00:56 in just about a minute or so. 00:58 We thought we had it up there but as I'm becoming aware 01:03 I'm not as technically savvy as I thought I was 01:06 but in about a minute after our theme song, 01:10 we'll have you check this following website: 01:13 ASF.3abn. org 01:17 ASF.3abn. org and download... 01:21 now, here's what we're going to do tonight, 01:22 you'll download lesson number 22 01:24 but on that website, there's going to be something: 01:27 22 and then there's going to be a chart: the 2,300-day Chart. 01:32 You want to download that for the lesson tonight 01:35 because we are going to be covering 01:38 the prophecy of Daniel chapter 9 01:41 and I talked about this last time we got together 01:44 that the reason why the "Rapture" 01:47 or the "Secret Rapture" exists 01:50 is because of a misunderstanding of the prophecy 01:54 of Daniel chapter 9 01:56 particularly verse 24 to verse 27. 01:59 But before we go any further... 02:03 and I am also battling with this cold... 02:05 and do pray for me tonight 02:07 that I make it through the Program. 02:09 I know that on important topics like this, 02:11 the enemy doesn't want it to go forth 02:14 and it's been quite a battle with my health 02:16 and all the other stuff 02:17 but we're going to put this in the Lord's hand right now. 02:19 So, let's bow our heads 02:21 and ask for the Lord to bless us this evening. 02:22 "Our Father in heaven, we thank You for your goodness, 02:26 for Your mercy and for Your grace 02:28 and we know, Lord, that as we open Your Word, 02:32 You'll guide us and You will lead us 02:34 so we find confidence in that, heavenly Father, 02:38 and so, strengthen us in our study tonight 02:41 and in the proclamation of Your Word, 02:45 I pray in Jesus' name, amen. " 02:48 Now, I'm going to ask Celestine to come, 02:52 she's going to walk us through our theme song tonight, 02:54 it is: Victory in Jesus 02:56 and for those of you who are joining us at home, 02:58 as you know, you've been singing this from week to week 03:01 but you don't really know the song... 03:04 many of you do... 03:06 I think many of them know the song 03:07 but for those of you who don't know the song, 03:09 you'll learn it tonight 03:10 so join us as we sing our theme song: Victory in Jesus. 03:14 All right... 03:15 Pause... 03:19 more pause... 03:23 Music... 03:31 I heard an old, old story, 03:34 How the Savior came from glory, 03:38 How He gave His life on Calvary 03:42 To save a wretch like me; 03:46 I heard about His groaning, 03:49 Of His precious blood's atoning 03:53 Then I repented of my sins; 03:57 And won the victory. 04:01 O victory in Jesus, 04:04 My Savior, forever 04:08 He sought me and bought me 04:12 With His redeeming blood; 04:16 He loved me ere I knew Him, 04:20 And all my love is due Him, 04:23 He plunged me to victory, 04:27 Beneath the cleansing flood. 04:31 I heard about a mansion 04:35 He has built for me in glory. 04:38 And I heard about the streets of gold 04:42 Beyond the crystal sea; 04:46 About the angels singing 04:50 And the old redemption story, 04:54 And some sweet day I'll sing up there 04:58 The song of victory. 04:59 Key change... 05:01 O victory in Jesus, 05:05 My Savior, forever. 05:09 He sought me and bought me 05:13 With His redeeming blood, 05:16 He loved me ere I knew Him, 05:20 And all my love is due Him, 05:24 He plunged me to victory, 05:28 Beneath the cleansing flood 05:31 He plunged me to victory 05:35 Beneath the cleansing flood. 05:42 Amen, thank you so much Celestine. 05:44 Now, what I'm going to do tonight, 05:46 I just made an administrative decision. 05:48 You know what that means? 05:50 A singular decision. 05:51 Now, just so not to interrupt the flow of the Program, 05:54 all of the questions are going to appear on the screen 05:57 so if you had your lesson from last week, 06:00 which most of you should, 06:02 then you'll have all the way to question number 9 06:05 what I'm going to do tonight after the broadcast, 06:08 is, we're going to upload the full and complete lesson 06:12 which goes down to 22 questions 06:14 but you have what you need tonight 06:16 and then the graphics on the screen 06:18 are going to be very, very helpful 06:21 in you following the Program along 06:24 and let me just lay some foundation again, 06:27 last week we ended at question number... 06:30 I believe it was number 7 06:32 but we're going to begin on question number 7 tonight 06:34 and I'm still making it through the cold 06:36 so if any of you could give me a tissue 06:39 just as this cold is perspiring itself out, 06:42 I need to get rid of it because my wife... 06:44 first I was sick... 06:46 then my wife got sick with bronchitis... 06:49 and then I got sick with bronchitis 06:50 and so, I didn't think it wise to put on makeup 06:54 and perspire that television makeup off 06:57 while I'm on television, 06:58 it will look pretty awful to have a brown flood taking place, 07:02 don't you say? 07:03 And it would look pretty bad 07:06 so I said, "Well, let me just go ahead... " 07:07 thank you guys... get an audience shot 07:09 while I go ahead and dab away this shiny stuff here, 07:12 but I do appreciate it very, very well. 07:14 We're going to enjoy our lesson tonight, can you say, "Amen. " 07:16 Audience: Amen. 07:17 And all the enemy has done to try to prevent us 07:19 from getting this lesson out, 07:20 he has lost again 07:22 because the graphics people are on top of it 07:25 and all the questions are going to appear on the screen 07:27 so, one of the things I want to say 07:31 in preparation for the continuance is... 07:33 the "Secret Rapture" is a counterfeit to the 2nd coming. 07:37 It's a counterfeit to what? 07:38 To the second coming. 07:40 So, here's the... here are the choices you get. 07:42 Either there is going to be a second coming of Jesus 07:47 visible, audible, earth changing that everyone sees... 07:51 Jesus is not going to sneak in the back door 07:54 and tap a few people on the shoulder and say, "Let's go... " 07:56 and then come back in seven years... 07:58 as the "Secret Rapture" teaches. 08:00 And so, in order for us to understand 08:04 that the visible... second... audible... earth-changing, 08:07 earth shattering second coming of Jesus is going to be literal 08:11 then, we have to find a way to dispel this false doctrine 08:15 that has gripped millions of Christians in the world 08:18 called, "The Secret... " what? 08:19 "The Secret Rapture. " 08:21 And... the word "Rapture" by-the-way 08:23 is a word that simply means "snatched away" 08:25 now which... we are going to be taken away, 08:27 we're going to be caught up to meet the Lord 08:29 but it's not going to be a secret... 08:31 when it happens, we're all going to know it. 08:33 So, quick... quick... quick review... 08:37 we talked about when Jesus comes... 08:38 how many eyes are going to see Him when He comes back? 08:40 Audience: All. 08:41 Revelation 1:7... every eye will see Jesus when He returns. 08:45 Not only that... He's going to come in the clouds 08:48 and the clouds are going to be the holy angels... 08:50 the same way He left... 08:52 the disciples saw Him leave in the cloud... 08:54 it's the same way He's coming back, 08:56 He's coming back in clouds with power and great glory 08:59 and then Psalms... in Psalm 50 and verse 3, 09:02 David, the Psalmist says, "Our Lord shall come 09:04 and shall not keep silent, 09:06 a fiery stream shall issue and come forth from before Him 09:11 and it shall be very tempestuous round about Him... " 09:14 so, when Jesus comes back, 09:15 the skies are going to recede as a scroll 09:17 when it is rolled together 09:18 the wicked are going to be running from Him 09:20 because they don't want to see the Lamb 09:22 and the righteous are going to be saying, 09:24 "Lo, this is our God, we have waited for Him 09:26 and He will save us. " 09:28 So now, when Jesus comes back, 09:30 there are going to be two categories of people, 09:32 what kinds of categories did I say... how many categories? 09:34 Two... the sheep and the... Audience: Goat... 09:37 The sheep and the... Audience: Goat. 09:38 The sheep and the goat. 09:40 The weed and the... Audience: Tares. 09:42 So, Jesus is going to be gathering 09:44 the wheat into His barn. 09:46 He's going to gather the sheep unto Himself 09:48 because He's the shepherd... 09:50 but the goats... are going to be running for cover 09:53 when they see the Lamb of God. 09:54 We've discovered that in the Bible last week. 09:58 We've also discovered that Jesus teaches that... 10:02 for the servant that is not ready... 10:03 as a matter-of-fact, let's begin with Question number 7 tonight 10:06 and the truth about the "Secret Rapture" 10:09 Question number 7, I want to begin there tonight 10:12 and we're going to catapult that from the screen... 10:14 here it is. 10:15 "What will happen to the servant 10:18 not ready for the second coming?" 10:20 Now, the reason why we're going to lead 10:21 with this question tonight 10:23 is because there is a teaching based on the "Secret Rapture" 10:26 and I told you last week 10:28 if you want to get a full understanding of this, 10:29 "What will happen to the servants 10:31 not ready for the second coming?" 10:34 When we lay that foundation, the "Secret Rapture" says, 10:38 "If the servant is not ready, 10:40 that servant has seven more years to get ready 10:45 in which they call that the "Seven-year Tribulation. " 10:48 What's it called? 10:50 "The Seven-year... " what? "Tribulation" 10:52 but you'll discover tonight 10:53 when we walk through Daniel chapter 9 verses 24 to 27 10:56 that you only get two choices 10:59 because the seven years of Daniel chapter 9 11:03 refer to the baptism... the crucifixion... 11:08 and the gospel going to the Gentiles within seven years. 11:12 Now, here is the challenge, either Jesus was baptized... 11:17 was crucified... 11:19 and the gospel did go to the Gentiles 11:21 or, Jesus was never baptized... 11:23 was never crucified... 11:25 and the gospel never went to the Gentiles... 11:26 because you can't have both... 11:28 you can't have both prophecies in the same seven-year period. 11:31 Now, the "Secret Rapture" says, 11:33 that at the beginning of the seven years, 11:36 the Antichrist is going to make a covenant... 11:38 but the Bible says, "the Messiah is going to make a covenant. " 11:42 In the middle of the week... the Antichrist is going to make 11:46 is going to begin a... a... a... make an agreement with the Jews. 11:49 Pause... 11:52 But that's not what's going to happen in the middle of the week 11:54 in the middle of the week, the Messiah will be cut off... 11:56 crucified... 11:57 and at the end of the seven years, 11:59 the "Rapture" says, or the "Secret Rapture" says, 12:01 He's going to come back visibly 12:02 for those who didn't make the first trip. 12:04 According to Daniel 9 verses 24 to 27, 12:07 at the end of that seven-year period, 12:11 the gospel will then go to the Gentiles, 12:15 can we say "Amen" to that? 12:16 And so, the reason why we are in the Movement, 12:19 the reason why you are in the Movement 12:21 is because the gospel did go to the Gentiles. 12:23 So, the reason why we lead with this question is because 12:26 we want to make it very clear 12:28 that you only get one chance to be ready, 12:31 that's why Jesus says, "Be ready, be ready, be ready... 12:35 at the hour that you... 12:37 at the hour that you do not expect... I'm coming 12:39 and if you're not ready, I'm leaving. " 12:41 Look at the answer, 12:43 Matthew chapter 24, verses 50 and 51. 12:46 The Bible says, "The master of that servant... " 12:50 this is the Question number 7, 12:52 "The master of that servant 12:54 will come on a day when he is not... " what? 12:56 "looking for him 12:57 and at an hour that he is not aware of it, 13:01 and will cut him in two... " and what? 13:04 "appoint him his portion with the... " what? 13:07 "hypocrites. 13:09 There shall be... " what? together... 13:10 "weeping and... " what else? 13:12 "gnashing of teeth. " 13:13 That's... that's the sound of regret. 13:15 That's not a sound of, "Oh, I'll get the next bus... " 13:18 I don't want to be cynical here at all 13:21 but when you realize how many millions of Christians are duped 13:24 and then they read these books by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins 13:27 which is nothing but nine volumes of lies, 13:30 I have to be frank, 13:31 there's not enough time in the world 13:33 to meander in the maze of mediocrity. 13:35 You've got to understand... 13:36 the Bible is the only foundation of truth, 13:38 not 12,000 pages of fiction. 13:41 Amen. Audience: Amen. 13:43 And that's all it is... it's fiction 13:44 based on... what I told you, 13:46 let me just reiterate this, 13:47 if you want to get the full historical outline of this, 13:50 call 3ABN 618-627-4651 13:57 during regular business hours 13:59 and ask for this set, "Final Events" DVD 14:03 "The Final Events" DVD 14:05 on that, I did two special presentations out of five 14:09 that completely outline where the "Rapture" came from, 14:13 how it got passed down throughout Christianity, 14:15 how it found its way into many of the Study Notes 14:18 in the Bibles that many of you use, 14:20 like the Scofield Study Bible... 14:22 Scofield... Cyrus I. Scofield was a believer 14:25 and a proponent of the "Secret Rapture. " 14:28 That's why the Scofield translation... 14:31 all the Study Notes lead you to believe 14:33 that there's going to be a seven-year tribulation 14:35 but that's not true, my Friends, 14:36 so the Bible says clearly... 14:38 if you're not ready when Jesus comes, what's going to happen? 14:40 He'll point you... your portion with the what...? 14:42 Hypocrites... 14:43 "and there'll be weeping" and what else? 14:44 "Gnashing of teeth. " 14:46 That means, "Are you going to get a second chance?" 14:48 Weeping and gnashing of teeth... that sounds of regret. 14:50 "I've lost out... I'm not going to make it. " 14:52 Let's go to Question number 8. 14:54 Question number 8... 14:56 and I can move on without having... 14:57 because my charts... I have my chart in front of me 15:00 and I mentioned to you if you go that website, 15:03 ASF.3abn. org 15:05 you've got to download the chart... 15:08 you've got to download the chart 15:10 because we're going to show you the chart on the screen tonight 15:12 if we can make it there, 15:13 I'm going to try to move as quickly as I can, 15:15 because I want to try to do this in the old year 15:17 because next week is, you know, the holiday season 15:19 and we're not going to get a chance to hit this topic again 15:22 until the new year 15:23 but if we have to, we'll go ahead and do that. 15:25 Question number 8: 15:26 "What two things will the Lord do when He returns?" 15:34 All right, and we're going to go to Matthew chapter 24 verse 31 15:38 to look at the answer. 15:40 What two things will the Lord do when He returns. 15:43 Let's see what He's going to do. 15:45 Matthew 24 and verse 31, and here's what the Bible reads: 15:50 and it says: "He will send His angels" 15:54 with a what Friends? 15:55 "great sound of a trumpet" 15:57 and they will gather together His elect 16:01 "from the" what? "four winds, 16:03 from one end of heaven to the... " what? 16:06 "to the other... " 16:07 so what's He going to be doing? 16:09 He's going to be gathering His elect. 16:11 He's gathering them from one end of heaven to the other, 16:14 that means, the whole earth... His elect... 16:16 now somebody may say, 16:18 "What about those who are not His elect?" 16:19 He's not gathering them, that's that simple. 16:21 If you have not accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior 16:24 and made a covenant with Him, 16:26 and you are not following Christ as your Lord, 16:29 then, you're not going to be among those gathered. 16:32 When you read... as a matter of fact, Matthew chapter 26, 16:35 you find there... He talks about two categories. 16:40 The goat and the sheep. 16:42 He talks about those who did the Father's will, 16:44 but He never anywhere in His writings 16:48 in the book of Matthew, Mark, Luke or John, 16:50 does Jesus spell this "second-chance Theology. " 16:53 Let me go ahead and give you an example. 16:54 The Bible also says, "As it was in the days of Noah" 16:58 now, "in the days of Noah," the Lord says, 17:00 "so will it be in the days of the coming of the Son of man. " 17:03 This is a very important reference point 17:04 because the comparison is, "as it was in Noah's day 17:09 that's how it is going to be when the Lord comes again. " 17:11 How was it in Noah's day? 17:13 When the doors of the ark closed, was there a second boat? 17:17 Audience: No. 17:18 That was it. 17:19 When that ark rose on the waters of destruction, 17:22 the flood came and took them all away 17:25 and the flood didn't take them to a picnic... 17:28 it took them to destruction. 17:30 It took them all away. 17:33 It didn't take them anywhere they wanted to go, 17:35 believe me. 17:37 It took them all to destruction. 17:38 We're going to see that in just a moment 17:40 so, "as it was in Noah's day, 17:42 so also will it be in the days of the coming of the Son of man" 17:44 now, the suddenness of it and the secrecy of it is, 17:48 in the days of Noah, they were eating... drinking... 17:51 marrying and giving in marriage 17:53 until the day Noah entered into the ark 17:55 and they did not know until the flood came 17:58 and took them away. 17:59 The flood didn't say... 18:01 the Lord didn't say, "Well, you guys didn't get a chance" 18:04 no, they did get a chance... 18:06 the gospel went to everyone, 18:08 they either accepted that gospel or rejected that gospel. 18:11 As a matter of fact, Matthew 24, go with me there, 18:13 Matthew chapter 24, 18:16 one of the reasons why we're preaching this message 18:17 is to give you a chance... 18:19 not to make you complacent and say, 18:20 "Well, I don't need to accept Jesus, I'm going to have fun... 18:23 party... do whatever I want to do 18:25 and if I miss it this time, 18:26 I'll get a chance the second time around. " 18:28 No, that's not the way the Bible communicates it, 18:31 Matthew 24 and verse 14, look at what it says, 18:34 Matthew 24 and verse 14, look at what it says... 18:37 the Bible says, let's read this together, 18:41 "And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in... " 18:44 how much of the world? 18:46 "all the world" 18:48 "as a witness to... " how many nations? 18:50 "all nations... and... " what? 18:52 "then the end will come" 18:55 not the "almost end" 18:58 everybody's going to hear it but notice it didn't say, 19:02 "everybody is going to be converted" 19:03 but it's going to be a witness. 19:05 You know the witness says, "Your Honor, they heard it" 19:09 what did they do? 19:11 They accepted... 19:12 they rejected... 19:14 the gospel is a witness. 19:15 Now, there are people today, 19:16 many of you probably know of people that say, 19:18 "I don't want to know about your Jesus, 19:20 I don't want to hear about your Lord, 19:21 I don't care about the Sabbath, 19:22 I don't care about what you say the Bible teaches, 19:24 I'm going to live my life 19:25 and when I die and turn into fertilizer, that's it. " 19:28 That's not it... 19:29 because there's a judgment for everyone, 19:31 we will come forth in the first resurrection 19:34 or the second resurrection to face the judge 19:37 but the Bible doesn't teach that when the gospel is done 19:41 then there's more time... 19:43 it says, "the end will come" 19:45 and nowhere does it teach 19:47 that the Jews are going to one day pick up the gospel 19:51 and carry it to the world. 19:52 That's a misinterpretation of Revelation chapter 7 19:55 and Revelation chapter 14 19:57 and we'll touch that at a later Program 19:58 so I could get rid of all those little roadblocks... 20:01 those roadblocks to understanding the truth 20:04 about this message. 20:05 Go to Question number 9, 20:06 so the answer to Question number 8, 20:09 if you're putting that in... if you're putting that in there, 20:12 what two things will the Lord do? 20:14 "He will gather... He will sound the trumpet, 20:18 and He will gather His angels... " 20:20 now the reason I put it that way, 20:22 "sound the trumpet and gather His elect" 20:24 He will sound the trumpet and gather His elect... 20:27 I said, "Gather His angels" 20:28 I can hear my wife saying, "that's not what you meant" 20:31 "He will sound the trumpet, and gather His elect. " 20:34 Now, the reason I mentioned that is because 20:35 people equate the sounding of the trumpet 20:37 to the "Secret Rapture" 20:38 but we'll discover in just a moment 20:40 the "gathering" is talked about in 1st Thessalonians chapter 4, 20:44 a very familiar passage 20:46 with those who embrace the "Secret Rapture" 20:48 let's go to that one, Question number 9, 20:51 and it leads into it in a very profound way. 20:54 Question number 9, all right, 20:56 here it is: 20:57 What earth-shattering event will take place 21:02 at the sound of the trumpet? 21:05 "What earth-shattering event will take place 21:08 at the sound of the trumpet?" 21:10 And by the way, this is an A, B, C, D and an E... 21:12 five things we're going to get out of this, all right, 21:14 let's go, I'm going to try to move along 21:17 just so we can try to get to some of the other longer parts 21:20 so, if I'm sounding like I'm going fast, 21:22 you can always rewind the program 21:24 or go to the website and check it out a little later on. 21:27 Here it is, 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 21:31 verses 16 and 17 is where we find our answer. 21:34 "For the Lord Himself... " will do what Friends? 21:37 "descend from heaven with a... " what? 21:41 "shout... with the voice of an archangel" 21:44 with the what else? 21:46 "trumpet of God. 21:48 And the dead in Christ will rise... " when? 21:50 "first... " 21:52 "Then we who are alive and remain 21:55 shall be caught up... " how? 21:56 "together with them in the clouds 21:59 to meet the Lord in the air. 22:02 And thus we shall always be with the Lord. " 22:05 Now, we're going to write the five things down 22:09 to show you that this text has nothing to do with the secret. 22:13 Five earth-shattering things just happened here. 22:17 First thing, he descended from heaven with a shout... 22:21 write that down... "shout" 22:22 if I shout, believe me, you will wake up 22:25 and if the Lord shouts... 22:27 He says, He's not going to just shake the heavens this time, 22:32 but He's going to shake the earth 22:33 and the Bible says, 22:35 "He will roar mightily from on high" 22:37 You don't want to hear the Lord roar. 22:39 My mother used to tell me, "if that was thunder... 22:41 that's what thunder was. " 22:42 As a matter of fact, when I was growing in my house, 22:43 it was, "God is upset, He's talking. " 22:45 That's what thunder was 22:46 and I used to think that... but I tell you what? 22:48 When He roars... the earth will shake... 22:52 it will move back and forth like a reed in the wind. 22:56 First of all, He's going to descend from heaven with a shout 22:58 second thing... with the voice or an archangel. 23:01 The voice of an archangel... that means... 23:03 archangel means the highest angel. 23:06 That... that voice will do something, 23:09 we're going to talk about that voice next. 23:10 The voice is not only described as the voice of the archangel 23:13 and a shout but this is what you... 23:16 this is what's referred to as a triple iteration 23:19 or an iteration... reiteration, reiteration... 23:22 meaning, loud... loud... loud... 23:25 shout... voice... trumpet... 23:28 if you said somebody came... 23:30 if you said somebody woke up 23:32 and heard the voice of an archangel, 23:34 they'll say, "Well, how... how loud was it?" 23:37 "Like a shout... like a trumpet... " 23:39 the Greek is reiterating how audible this is going to be. 23:43 It's not going to be a whisper tone. 23:45 Shout... voice of an archangel... 23:47 that's the mightiest of angels 23:49 and He is going to sound like a trumpet... 23:53 What is that trumpet going to do? 23:55 Let's look at the four things that's going to happen. 23:58 It's going to cause a resurrection. 24:00 Write that down... it's going to cause a... what? 24:02 Resurrection... 24:04 the trumpet voice is the voice that called Lazarus forth 24:08 from the grave 24:09 but that... but in that story, 24:11 He specified Lazarus 24:12 and as one writer said, "Had He not specified Lazarus, 24:15 it would have been a general resurrection. " 24:17 In John 5 verses 28 and 29 is a verse you want to add 24:21 as a side reference because everybody's in the grave 24:24 the voice of the Life-giver is going to call them forth 24:26 and let's look at the fifth thing He's going to do. 24:29 When the dead in Christ rise first, 24:31 then the verse says, 24:33 "then we which are alive and remain 24:36 shall be caught up together with them. 24:39 Now, get this, the word there 24:40 "perousia" is the word... "caught up" in the Greek. 24:44 Parousia... that means taken away without your own strength, 24:47 caught up divinely. 24:49 We're going to be caught up 24:50 but we're not going to be caught up in little beams of light 24:53 shooting all over the place secretly, 24:54 we're going to be... 24:56 the dead and the living are going to be caught up together. 24:59 The dead will no longer be dead because of resurrection... 25:02 when the Lord calls them forth, 25:04 the dead in Christ will rise first 25:07 say when? First... 25:08 then we which are alive and remain 25:12 poof... dead in Christ raised... 25:15 those who didn't die but are alive at the second coming 25:19 together... they're caught up and they're going up 25:22 and what do they do? They meet the Lord. 25:25 That's the... that's the fifth thing... 25:27 shout... voice... trumpet... resurrection... 25:31 and together we meet the Lord, 25:33 can you say "amen" to that? 25:36 Now, together we meet the Lord 25:38 which means... we're going to go to our former topic 25:41 the dead will not meet the Lord until the living meet the Lord. 25:46 The living saints with the resurrected saints 25:51 will meet the Lord together. 25:53 That's in the text... 25:55 if you can flash that on the screen one more time, 25:57 the second part of that verse, 25:59 "Then we who are alive and remain 26:01 shall be caught up together... 26:04 shall be caught up together to meet the Lord in the air 26:10 and thus we shall always be with the Lord. " 26:12 That's 1st Thessalonians chapter 4 verse 16 and 17, 26:15 and you have that on your syllabus. 26:17 So, that's what's happening... that's earth shattering... 26:19 anything secret in that? Tell me, yes or no... 26:21 respond to me... yes or no... 26:23 talk to me tonight, yes or no? 26:24 Audience: No. 26:26 No... nothing secret about that. 26:27 If somebody's going to be in my back 26:29 and I tell you, there's a lot of graves in the world... 26:31 you know, lot of cemetery plots where the saints are. 26:33 I don't want to be... 26:35 I don't want to be irreverent 26:36 but I'm sure that many of these buildings 26:38 that have been built throughout the centuries 26:40 are probably built on spots 26:42 where people that had known the Lord have died 26:45 and maybe just fallen asleep 26:46 or maybe cemeteries have been kind of leveled out 26:50 and they built apartment buildings there 26:52 or maybe Walmart's... 26:54 I'm... I'm just trying to give you a graphic realistic picture 26:57 because we're talking about Millennia here 26:59 and so, all these graves... 27:02 people are going to be coming through cement floors... 27:04 I mean, you're talking about the earth-shattering aspects... 27:07 the Lord is going to be ripping up the terrain of the earth 27:10 to bring His saints forth. 27:12 They're not coming forth in spirit form 27:15 because Paul the apostle in Philippians says, 27:17 "We look for the coming of the Lord 27:19 where He's going to change our... our vile bodies 27:22 that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body. " 27:26 So we're coming forth in bodies... 27:28 no spirits are going to heaven, no pfshhhh... 27:31 dust left at the table... 27:33 that's... that's facade... that's fake... 27:35 that's not Scriptural 27:36 and by-the-way, I mentioned this in the last program, 27:38 I reiterate this again, do your own homework, 27:40 National Geographic and the History Channel 27:43 did a Program on this, and they said... 27:46 I've known this for... for... for decades... 27:49 they said, 27:51 "Millions of Christians believe the 'Secret Rapture' 27:53 a teaching that has no Scriptural foundation. " 27:57 Pause... 27:58 but you know what? 28:00 More people rather believe what somebody writes 28:02 than what the Bible teaches, that's the problem. 28:04 Pray for them... pray for them. 28:06 Let's go to Question number 10, we're going to move right along, 28:09 Question number 10, okay, here it is. 28:11 "What event does Jesus compare... 28:14 To what event does Jesus compare His second coming?" 28:19 To what event does Jesus compare His second coming? 28:25 I kind of bridged this already 28:28 but it's good reiteration wouldn't hurt... 28:29 Matthew 24 verse 37 to verse 39... 28:34 Matthew chapter 24 verse 37 to verse 39. 28:37 All right, let's look at this together 28:40 and it will be on the screen, 28:42 here it is, 28:44 "But as the days of Noah were, 28:48 so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. " 28:51 Now, verse 38... 28:53 "For as in the days before the flood... " 28:57 together... "they were... " what? 28:59 "eating" and what else? 29:01 "drinking" and what else? 29:03 "marrying" and what else? 29:05 "giving in marriage, 29:07 until the day that Noah entered the ark 29:11 and did not know until the flood came" 29:14 and did what? 29:15 "took them all away, 29:18 so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. " 29:20 Now, hold that on the screen really, 29:22 don't get rid of it yet, I want to emphasize... 29:23 you see those four yellow words, "took them all away" 29:26 I did that for a particular reason, 29:28 now you can take it off the screen, 29:29 I want to emphasize something. 29:31 "Took them all away. " 29:32 Here is... here is... 29:34 here is the misconception and the misunderstanding 29:37 of that passage. 29:38 The "Secret Rapture" teaches that... that... that the secret 29:43 takes the saints away... 29:46 and then it also teaches that those who are left behind 29:51 get a second chance 29:53 but when you read the Bible, you're going to discover 29:56 that when the flood "took them away" 30:00 it didn't take them to safety... 30:04 it took them to destruction. 30:07 Let's go on further, I want you to see this, 30:09 this is powerful... 30:11 Let's go to the next one, 30:12 let's see what that "take them all away" 30:13 really means. 30:15 Who got taken and who got left 30:17 and the question is, 30:19 "Which category do you want to be in?" 30:20 because according to the "Secret Rapture," 30:22 those who are taken are great... they're gone already 30:25 and those who are left, get a second chance 30:27 but let's see how the Bible teaches it. 30:28 Let's go to Question number 11. 30:31 Question number 11, 30:33 the fact of the matter is, 30:34 they didn't know until the flood came and took them all away. 30:36 "How did the flood affect everyone on earth?" 30:38 It took them away. 30:40 If you were not in the ark, you got taken away... 30:43 you got taken away. 30:45 Look at Question number 11, 30:47 "How did the flood affect everyone on earth?" 30:51 I just said it, didn't I? 30:52 Okay, let's just go to Matthew chapter 24 verse 40 to verse 42. 30:58 Matthew 24 verses 40 to 42. 31:01 This is one of the favorite texts that are also used... 31:04 that are also used in trying to support the "Secret Rapture" 31:08 you know that? 31:09 And I've visited... 31:11 I've visited with the many people that used to believe this 31:12 and they said, "Pastor John, 31:14 praise God that you guys study the Word of God. " 31:18 "Amen" somebody. 31:19 You guys need to sound better than that, 31:21 you're looking at me like this... now... truth is... Amen 31:24 Audience: Amen. 31:25 Amen... Amen means it's true... 31:26 It doesn't mean I'm trying to trick you, 31:28 "Amen" means it's true, 31:30 that's what the Bible uses the word "Amen" for 31:31 but there are some people that would rather believe 31:35 what is not in the Bible... 31:36 we're trying to help you get ready for the coming of Jesus 31:39 because you're not going to get a second plane ride. 31:41 All right, let's look at these verses now. 31:44 "How did the flood affect everyone on earth?" 31:49 Here it is, "Then two men will be in the field: 31:55 one will be... " say it together... 31:58 "taken and the other... left. 32:00 Two women will be grinding at the mill: 32:04 one will be taken and the other left. " 32:07 And then the Lord says in verse 42, 32:10 "Watch therefore, 32:12 for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming. " 32:18 Okay, now let's pause here, 32:22 one taken... the other left... 32:27 now, the question is... 32:28 uh... I know you're ahead of me, 32:32 you can't have... that's good... that's good... 32:35 they're on fire now... 32:36 I kind of flowed over into them 32:38 but all this discombobulating... getting ready... 32:40 we're on the same track right now. 32:42 You got to understand what happened... 32:45 where did the flood take who? 32:47 Let's go to the next question. 32:49 Question number 12... 32:51 okay, so, I'm going to... 32:54 "How did the flood affect everyone on earth?" 32:55 The flood came and took them all away... 32:57 you can write that down, "the flood took them all away" 33:00 the flood took Noah in the ark and his family to safety... 33:04 the flood took those who were not ready... 33:06 where did the flood take them? 33:08 Let's look at Luke... Question number 12, here it is, 33:11 "Does the Bible teach that the 'taken ones' 33:15 were taken to safety?" 33:18 Does the Bible teach that the "taken ones" 33:22 were taken to safety? 33:25 Okay, let's go, Luke chapter 17 verse 27. 33:31 Luke chapter 17... verse 27, 33:34 and I'm moving at a good clip tonight, praise the Lord, 33:36 we're making some headway and I appreciate that very much. 33:39 here it is, 33:42 "They ate, they drank, they married wives, 33:49 they were given in marriage, 33:51 until the day that Noah entered the ark, 33:54 and the flood came... " and did what? 33:57 Audience: destroyed them all. 33:59 In Matthew it said, "took them all away" 34:01 in Luke it says, "destroyed them all" 34:04 so, if you got... I'm using strange word... 34:09 "tooken" there's no such... 34:11 if you got taken, you got taken in destruction, right? 34:14 but let's... let's make that even clearer. 34:17 Let's make that even clearer, because somebody says, 34:19 that's not what the text says because Luke... 34:22 the question is asked... go to Luke, 34:25 the question is asked and the question is answered. 34:28 All right, so, to answer the Question number 12, 34:32 "Does the Bible teach that the 'taken ones' 34:35 were delivered to safety?" 34:36 What's the answer? Audience: No. 34:38 Just put No... that's the answer. 34:39 Now we go to number 13 just to break this down. 34:41 okay, "How does Luke further... " 34:44 Question number 13, 34:46 didn't emphasize that to my people in the graphics, 34:49 "How does Luke further emphasize 34:52 that being 'taken' means destruction?" 34:55 How does Luke further emphasize 34:57 that being "taken" means destruction? 35:01 Okay, now, we're going to go back to that same scenario 35:05 that Matthew used. 35:07 All right, here it is, Luke chapter 17 35:09 verses 36 and 37... 35:12 I know on my paper I left out the 17 but it's on the screen. 35:14 so if you're watching... you got it. 35:16 Here it is... here it is, 35:19 "Two men will be in the field: 35:23 the one will be taken and he other left. 35:27 Now verse 37, 35:29 "And they answered and said to Him, 35:31 'Where Lord?'" 35:32 In other words, "Where are they taken?" 35:34 So he said to them, 35:37 "Wherever the body is, 35:39 there the eagles will be gathered together. " 35:42 So, where is the body... 35:45 where are they going to be taken? 35:47 Wherever the body is... the eagle will let you know... 35:49 because eagles are going to be having lunch. 35:51 They're not taken in the "Rapture" 35:55 that's what the "taken" in the "Rapture" and left 36:00 so in the context here, 36:01 you don't want to be taken by the flood, 36:05 you want to be left alive, 36:09 that is exactly what Paul means when we segue now 36:14 to the very next question. 36:16 Here's the key, going to just spin your head... 36:18 get you all straight out here... 36:20 "taken... " when the flood came, it took them away. 36:24 It washed those bodies North, East, South and West. 36:27 and Luke asks the Lord, "Where Lord?" 36:31 He says, "Wherever the eagles are gathered... " 36:34 the eagles knew where to find the corpses, 36:37 that's what was left, 36:38 that's what happens, that's what a flood does, 36:40 so, when the waters receded, 36:41 they found out where the bodies were taken. 36:45 It's a sad reality, because what do the eagles do? 36:49 Audience: Eat the dead bodies. 36:51 Lot of people... eagles clean it up... 36:56 As a matter of fact, that's what the scavenger birds 36:57 are supposed to do. 36:59 Whenever a deer dies out here in our country, 37:01 or a squirrel or a raccoon gets run over... or a possum... 37:03 we can always tell, driving on the road... 37:06 not eagles... but a whole bunch of crows... 37:08 scavenger birds... they're gathered... 37:09 we can always tell 37:11 that something's either dying or has died, 37:14 that's what the Lord is saying, 37:15 "If you were not... if you were not in the ark, 37:18 floating in the safety of God's protection, 37:22 you were taken away by the destruction of the waters 37:25 that came as a result of the flood. 37:27 Now, let's go and see the context of this "taken" 37:30 because the word there... 37:31 the word there that's used in... in Luke, 37:33 is... is... is a derivative of what's used in the book of 37:37 1st Thessalonians chapter 4 verse 15 37:38 so here's the answer to Number 13? 37:40 "How does Luke further emphasize that 'being taken' 37:42 means destruction?" 37:44 Because "wherever the eagles were... " 37:45 wherever the body was... 37:47 that's where the eagles were found. 37:48 All right, that's the... that's the sad truth. 37:52 And if you read Revelation, 37:53 the Lord is going to once again in Revelation chapter 19, 37:56 call the eagles together to eat the flesh of captains 37:59 and the mighty men and the horsemen 38:01 and every chief... the chief captains 38:04 and every bondman and every freeman 38:06 all those who were going to fight against the Lord 38:08 at the second coming, 38:09 the Lord is going to once again call the birds of the air, 38:12 the fowls of the air... the eagles of the air... 38:14 to gather for the second meal. 38:16 So, if you're not going to be risen 38:19 to meet the Lord in the air, 38:22 through third category... 38:25 the "Secret Rapture" teaches there's a third category... 38:29 the "Secret Rapture" teaches there's a fourth coming. 38:32 Now, I'll further develop that 38:34 but I'm going to try to cover as much as I can right now. 38:38 Question number 14, let's go to that one. 38:41 Question number 14. 38:43 All right, 38:44 "How does the apostle Paul show that being 'left' 38:48 means remaining alive?" 38:51 How does the apostle Paul show that being "left" 38:57 means remaining alive? 39:00 Okay, here we are, 39:03 1st Thessalonians chapter 4 39:06 and we're going to look at that verse together. 39:08 All right, verse 15, 39:11 "For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, 39:15 that we who are alive and... " 39:20 what's the next word? Audience: remain 39:22 "remain until the coming of the Lord 39:25 will by no means precede those who are asleep. " 39:30 When you look up... 39:31 when you look up the transliteration of that word, 39:33 "remain" it's left... 39:36 we who are alive and left... 39:37 we're left alive, 39:38 now we were alive and left, 39:40 now, why are we left alive? 39:41 because many will be destroyed 39:43 by the brightness of the coming of the Lord. 39:45 The brightness of the coming of the Lord 39:47 is going to kill many wicked 39:49 but if you survive that, you remain... 39:52 and then, you are caught up to meet the Lord in the air, amen. 39:59 So, so far, the second coming is audible, 40:02 it's earth-shattering, it causes the resurrection, 40:04 it's the sound of a trumpet, 40:05 it's a shout... a divine shout from the highest angel 40:09 Christ Himself... the author... the one above the angels 40:12 the mightiest of all, 40:14 a fiery stream shall issue and come forth from before Him, 40:19 the heavens are going to depart as a scroll, 40:21 we read that in Revelation chapter 6, 40:24 and verse 14 to 17, we read that, 40:27 the heavens open... the mountains and the islands move, 40:29 and the sinners run for cover. 40:31 It's going to be a visible, audible, earth-shattering event. 40:34 By no means is it going to be secret 40:37 but now, this is where my... 40:39 this is where my local audience and those of you watching 40:42 have to follow along until 40:43 we get the updated lesson into their hands 40:45 but on the screen, we'll have the questions 40:47 for 15 all the way down to 22, all right, 40:50 so now you're going to pay a lot of attention, did you get it? 40:52 Praise the Lord, did you get it? 40:55 Hallelujah... thank you Jesus. 40:58 Thank you Celestine, appreciate that very much. 41:01 I tell you, must be that Filipino blood 41:04 ah ha... 41:06 if you go to the Philippines, they don't ask, "How to do it?" 41:08 they just find a way to do it. 41:10 You got to know what I'm talking about... 41:11 in India and the Philippines, they don't ask "how" 41:13 they just find a way. 41:15 In America we say, "How do we eat?" 41:16 If you don't give them a fork, they just eat... 41:19 that's Philippines and India, isn't that right? 41:22 So intuitive and so innovative. 41:24 Let's go to Question number 15, 41:25 could you get me one of those? 41:27 I need one of those also, a nice completed copy, 41:29 that's all the way down to 22? 41:31 Praise the Lord, thank you guys, 41:33 that's sharing now, they're actually sharing, 41:35 thank you. 41:36 Okay, did you get this from the website? 41:39 Okay, praise the Lord, it's up there... 41:42 okay, I'm happy 41:44 are you happy? Amen. 41:46 Okay, Number 15, 41:48 now this is where we dive into some deep waters, 41:51 are you ready? Ready to dive? 41:53 Now, I can tell by the clock we're not going to get 41:54 through this all, 41:55 but you're going to see something tonight 41:57 that you haven't seen in the past. 41:58 Question number 15, 41:59 "What fulfilled Bible prophecy proves 42:03 the inaccuracy of the Secret Rapture?" 42:07 What fulfilled Bible prophecy proves 42:11 the inaccuracy of the Secret Rapture? 42:14 I was going to... I was going to use a different word 42:16 because it's not only inaccurate... it's invalid. 42:18 Smiling... 42:21 But I was trying to be kind. 42:22 It's not only inaccurate, Terry, it's invalid. 42:26 But let's see which one that is, 42:28 Daniel 9 verse 24, 42:32 Daniel 9 verse 24 is where we find this one. 42:36 what prophecy? 42:37 And here it is on the screen. 42:38 What prophecy... 42:40 what fulfilled Bible prophecy proves 42:42 the inaccuracy of the Secret Rapture? 42:43 Let's look at Daniel chapter 9 verse 24 42:45 and see what prophecy it is. 42:47 "Seventy weeks are determined for your people 42:51 and for your holy city... " 42:53 let's look at the things that must happen, 42:55 "To finish the transgression... " 42:57 next together, "To make an end of sins... " 43:00 the next thing, 43:01 "To make reconciliation for iniquity" 43:04 the next thing... 43:05 "To bring in everlasting righteousness... " 43:08 together... 43:10 "To seal up the vision and prophecy... " 43:12 finally, "to anoint the Most Holy. " 43:15 Now, before you run, 43:17 did you see anything in there about an Antichrist? 43:19 When you anoint the Most Holy... 43:21 who is the Most Holy? 43:23 Somebody tell me, Jesus... 43:25 and by the way, Daniel is in the province of Babylon 43:29 praying 43:31 because his people are in captivity, 43:34 "How long are we going to be here?" 43:36 "How long is this going to happen?" 43:39 And in the chapter prior to this, 43:41 there's a prophecy about the 2,300 days... 43:44 which in fact, in prophecy, 43:46 I'm going to go ahead and bring this up very quickly for you 43:49 as a matter of fact, in prophecy... 43:51 do I have it on my screen here? 43:52 could I have not put it on my own here? 43:54 I think I gave it to my graphics people, 43:56 let's see if... do we have that chart on there? 43:59 Did I leave it all the way to the very end? 44:01 I may or may not have put it in there, 44:04 therefore if... 44:05 there it is! beautiful, 44:07 well, they have it on the screen. 44:08 Okay, on the screen, you guys here... in a moment, 44:10 it's a secret to those of you here 44:11 but this is the prophecy that you're going to see 44:13 it's the... it's in your chart... 44:16 you all have your charts in your hand? 44:18 We're going to walk you through that 44:20 right on the screen there 44:22 and you're going to see that in great blazing detail 44:25 every particular about that prophecy 44:27 you're going to see come to pass tonight. 44:29 Every particular about that prophecy... 44:31 you're going to see come to pass tonight, 44:33 so hopefully, you have in your hand this prophecy, 44:36 we're going to walk you through it, 44:38 I've shown you on the screen 44:39 but you should have downloaded this 44:41 from the website 44:42 and this gives you the specifics that you can take the time 44:44 and ingest and study 44:46 because we're not going to get the time to cover 44:48 all the verses included therein 44:51 but, you'll notice, 44:54 if you're looking at the chart in your hand, 44:55 I want to spend a little time on that, 44:56 you see on the very top of page... a longer period of time 45:01 2,300 days or 2,300... what? Years. 45:05 In prophecy, a day equals a year. 45:09 Now, but below that... 45:13 when the Bible says in Daniel 9 verse 24, 45:16 that 70 weeks are determined for your people, 45:19 the word "determined" there... you can clear the screen now, 45:21 appreciate that very much 45:23 the word "determined" there means "cut off" 45:26 it means "cut off" 45:28 so, if I give you 2,300 yards of cloth 45:31 I'll says, "Well, 70 of that is determined for Thompsonville" 45:36 it's cut off... it's allocated... 45:40 so, 2,300 years... out of that 490 45:45 because if you look at the chart very carefully, 45:46 70 weeks... 45:48 how many days in a week, somebody tell me, 45:49 this is not a trivia question, how many days in a week? 45:51 Seven... 45:52 70 times 7 is what? 490. 45:56 In prophecy, a day equals a year right? 46:01 so when you... when you go ahead 46:03 and you begin to compare this, 46:04 and by-the-way, this is not even an issue, 46:07 because in the... in the theory of the "Rapture" 46:10 they understand that, 46:11 that's why they take the last seven years of this 46:13 and stick it way down in the future. 46:15 Now, if you're looking at the chart here in front of you, 46:17 you're going to see that from Point C to Point E 46:22 bring that chart up on the screen one more time for me, 46:24 I appreciate you guys so much, I love my team there, 46:27 from Point C on the screen to Point E... 46:30 that's the piece that was taken out by Francisco Ribera 46:35 and applied to the Antichrist. 46:39 That was the piece stolen and applied to the Antichrist. 46:44 That's the piece he said never finished. 46:47 But I'll show you tonight, maybe on the subsequent program, 46:51 that this entire prophecy finishes. 46:52 Now, if you have the chart in your hand, 46:54 let me show you why we are walking on dangerous ground 46:57 when we say that the 70th week has not been done. 46:59 Because if you look at the large chart here, 47:02 the 70 weeks at the very bottom 47:06 are taken from the 2,300 days at the top. 47:09 Or let me get into the prophetic language 47:12 and make it sound the way it should, 47:14 the 2,300 years... 490 years are borrowed from that 47:20 so, here is the challenge, if the 490 years are not done, 47:25 then the 1810 can't start yet. 47:30 Is anybody mathematically following me? 47:33 because when you finish with 490... 47:36 when you add the 1810, 47:38 you get the whole completed prophecy. 47:43 Pause... 47:45 But if you haven't finished 70th week, 47:47 how are you going to get to the next timeframe, 47:50 the 1810 years that are left after that? 47:52 so this whole "Secret Rapture" is discombobulated beyond repair 47:59 can't repair it... you only got to get rid of it. 48:01 Okay, now, let's go to the next question. 48:03 Question number 16, 48:05 Question number 16... 48:07 okay... 48:09 "With what event was the 70-Week prophecy to begin?" 48:14 With what event was the 70-Week prophecy to begin? 48:20 Let's look at Daniel 9 and verse 25. 48:23 Daniel 9 and verse 25. 48:25 Okay. 48:28 And it says thus far, 48:30 "Know therefore and understand, 48:33 that from the going forth of the command... " 48:36 to do two things... say it with me... to what? 48:39 "restore and build Jerusalem until the Messiah... " 48:46 I want you to find as best you can 48:48 a word here that identifies the Antichrist. 48:50 "until the Messiah the Prince, there shall be... " what? 48:54 Break it down... "seven weeks and... " what? 48:57 "sixty-two weeks; the street shall be built again, 49:02 and the walls, even in troublesome times. " 49:05 Now, if you study the Bible... Ezra... Nehemiah... 49:09 you'll find that, yes, when the commission was given, 49:13 and there were three commissions given 49:15 and this is where... this is where the clever, 49:17 manipulative nature of the Dark Ages 49:22 have brought everybody under this cloak of darkness 49:25 because there were three degrees... 49:28 how many degrees did I say? Three. 49:30 Look at your chart on the paper right now 49:32 and I'm going to walk you through this. 49:33 Point A, it's not on the screen 49:35 but it's on the paper that you downloaded, 49:37 if you didn't download that, 49:38 we'll remind you where to get a copy of that. 49:40 This is Point A, the very first point, 49:44 this is the decree given by Artaxerxes 49:47 for the complete restoration of Jerusalem as a city 49:51 with its own Government, 49:53 not just the rebuilding of the temple and the walls, 49:56 like the decree of Cyrus and Darius... 49:58 or Dar... ius... however you want to say it, 50:00 now, pause... 50:01 Cyrus gave a decree to build the wall... 50:06 Darius gave a decree to build the temple... 50:12 but, Artaxerxes gave the decree to restore the whole city. 50:18 let me use a comparison, you may have a city... 50:20 you may have a city hall. 50:22 One gives a decree to build city hall... the building... 50:25 one gives a decree to put a fence around the city, 50:28 but the other one says, "Wait a minute, 50:30 what good is a city hall and a fence without people 50:33 and the government?" 50:34 What do you need? 50:36 And when you go to Ezra, let's look at this very quickly 50:38 when you go to the next question, Question number 17, 50:41 let's walk through the 70 weeks, 50:43 okay great, we're going to look at this chart very quickly. 50:46 Let us walk through the chart of the 70 weeks, okay great, 50:48 it's going to appear on our screen here guys, 50:50 let's look at this together, here it is, 50:52 bring it up on the screen, okay, 50:53 great, here we are, in our... 50:54 now... Ezra chapter 7 verse 13 is what I want to show you first 50:58 Ezra chapter 7 verse 13, 51:00 look at what it says on the screen. 51:03 "I will... I will make a decree... " 51:05 I'm going to bring it up on our screen, 51:08 "I will make... I make a decree, 51:10 that all they of the people of Israel, 51:13 and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, 51:19 which are minded of their own freewill 51:22 to go up to Jerusalem with thee. " 51:25 Now, who made that decree? 51:27 Somebody just tell me, 51:28 I gave you his name a moment ago, 51:30 Artaxerxes... 51:32 A R T A X E X R E S something like that... 51:39 Okay, A R T A R Z E R X E S 51:42 it's a hard name to remember, 51:46 I don't know of anybody named Artaxerxes today 51:48 but I had a little typo there on mine... which, 51:51 when you write a name like that, it's admirable 51:54 or admirable or allowable... 51:56 but the decree given by Artaxerxes was the only decree 51:59 to completely restore the full city... 52:03 a full-functioning city... 52:05 and you read about that story in the book of Ezra 52:07 and also Nehemiah. 52:09 As a matter of fact, Nehemiah was very disheartened 52:11 when he heard about how far... 52:13 how much work had not been done... 52:15 the walls are broken down... 52:17 the people were left in disrepair 52:18 and Nehemiah heard about it, 52:20 he was under the decree of Artaxerxes... 52:21 working for Artaxerxes 52:23 and Artaxerxes said, "What do you need?" 52:26 And Nehemiah said, "Whatever the Lord wills" 52:28 and he gave Nehemiah letters to go and help Jerusalem 52:32 that was in disrepair. 52:33 Now, when you read about that, let's look at the chart now, 52:35 let's look at the chart... 52:37 Artaxerxes gives the decree at Point A. 52:40 Let's go back to that, at Point A, he gives the decree. 52:43 I'm still straightening mine out keep going 52:45 he gives the decree at Point A, 52:47 and then, that decree is to restore and rebuild Jerusalem 52:51 at the bottom of the chart, you see the R and R... 52:53 restore and rebuild Jerusalem 52:55 Now, the reason why he says seven weeks 52:58 because it only took 49 years 53:01 from the time that rebuilding and restoration was given 53:05 and then, 49 years later, Jerusalem is rebuilt. 53:09 That's why it's broken down seven weeks 53:12 and three score or 7 and 62. 53:15 That's why it's broken down that way. 53:17 He could have simply said, 69 or 70 in one big block 53:21 but the reason why it says 7 and 62 53:23 is because when you break it down, 53:25 each of those numbers is significant 53:27 in the numerical system 53:29 because it took 49 years... 7 weeks... 53:32 7 days in a week... 7 times 7... together... 49... 53:38 it took 49 years from the time that commission was sent 53:41 from the time that commission was given 53:44 in the midst of the disrepair, Nehemiah went and finished it up 53:47 and he only needed 52... 53:48 and he only needed 52 days to finish it off, remember that? 53:51 But from the time it was given to the time it was finished, 53:54 49 years... that's what you get there in the chart. 53:56 That's between Point A and Point B. 53:58 Now, let's go ahead and look at that. 54:00 Let's go and look at that on the screen. 54:02 Question number 18... 54:06 "The Decree to Restore and Rebuild Jerusalem" 54:10 and these are points by the way, let alone questions 54:13 these are points, I'm going to make them very quickly 54:15 these are the points... 54:16 Decree to restore and build Jerusalem. 54:18 Here it is... all right, 54:21 and I think I have that there, 54:25 it is Ezra chapter 6 verse 14, 54:29 open your Bibles there with me, Ezra chapter 6 and verse 14, 54:31 notice that... I may have not included that 54:34 but we're going to see that on the screen very quickly. 54:37 Ezra chapter 6 and verse 14, let's look at that. 54:40 Okay, when you... 54:43 when you look at the beauty of this prophecy, 54:45 it just makes it so clear that God knows what God is doing. 54:50 Amen, church... 54:52 here it is... 54:53 okay, Ezra 6 verse 14, here it is, got it. 54:57 okay, and it says, 55:01 "So the elders of... 55:04 so the elders of the Jews builded, 55:07 and they prospered 55:09 through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet 55:12 and Zechariah the son of Iddo. 55:15 And they builded, and they... " what? 55:18 "finished it 55:19 according to the commandment of the God of Israel, 55:23 and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and... " what else? 55:28 "Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia. " 55:32 But the "Secret Rapture" does this, 55:34 it only uses Cyrus or Darius... it leaves Artaxerxes out 55:38 and here's the challenge, 55:39 if you try to get the prophecy fulfilled 55:41 without Artaxerxes in it, it never happens. 55:43 You always come up with a gap... 55:45 that's why it's called, "The Gap Theory" 55:47 that last week never gets completed. 55:50 I may not get it tonight my Friends 55:52 but let's go ahead and go to the next one 55:53 and see if I can get that in there, 55:55 and I put that in there now, Number... 55:57 Number 20... is that where I am? 56:00 Number 20, 56:01 let's look at Number 20 very quickly here, 56:03 if I can get to that... 56:04 "The Messiah Anointed by Baptism" 56:09 okay, Acts 10 and verse 38, 56:11 bring that up on the screen for me, dear, 56:12 that's the next part 56:14 and by-the-way, that's at the beginning of Point C. 56:17 A Messiah anointed by baptism, here it is. 56:19 "How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth 56:22 with the Holy Ghost and with power: 56:25 who went about doing good, 56:27 and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; 56:29 for God was with him. " 56:31 Can you say, "Amen. " 56:32 God anointed... the Messiah means the anointed One, 56:35 look it up, the Messiah... 56:37 He was anointed by baptism to begin His ministry 56:40 and it happened in the year of... 56:43 in the 15th year of the reign of Tiberias Caesar. 56:46 Tiberias Caesar began reigning in the year 12 A.D. 56:50 Add 12 plus 15 gives you what? 27, 56:53 it's on your chart there, 56:55 that's why I gave you this chart 56:56 so you can follow it very carefully. 56:58 I'm going to get to one point, number 21 very quickly, 57:01 I'm going to give you this one, Daniel 9:26, 57:04 "The Messiah is cut off in the midst of the week. " 57:06 The Messiah is cut off in the midst of the week. 57:09 As a matter of fact, you know what? 57:10 I'm probably not going to force this in here 57:12 because, you know, it's going to try to put a big shoe... 57:15 bit foot in a really tight shoe... 57:18 I'm going to give you time to absorb that 57:19 and in our next Program, what we're going to do 57:22 is, we're going to backtrack just a little bit 57:24 and spend, maybe the entire program 57:25 on this chart... 57:27 wouldn't that be great? 57:28 So that, when we're done, you can see that unequivocally 57:31 God did not have any intention 57:35 of sneaking up on His saints in the very end of time 57:37 but He was going to make it sure... 57:39 make it very clear 57:41 that the prophecy of His soon return... 57:43 the prophecy of His visible, literal, audible, 57:46 earth-shattering second coming 57:47 would be known and heard and seen by all 57:51 but here's the blessing, 57:54 if you're ready, you'll be ready to go with Him, 57:56 if not, you'll be left behind, 57:57 but friends, keep studying... it doesn't make sense 58:00 but it will come into a sharper focus, 58:02 God bless you. |
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