Let's pray.
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I'm gonna kneel
up here and pray.
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Let's pray that Holy
Spirit will guide us today.
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Merciful God in heaven,
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again, we thank
You for the privilege
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for being able to
break the bread of life.
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Again, how wonderful it is
to be able to open the pages
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of this beautiful book,
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to be able to behold
Jesus, the Lamb of God,
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to be able to
hold the prophecies
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that tell us the hour
in which we are living,
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and as we examine
Your Word this morning,
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we pray for an
outpouring of Thy Holy Spirit
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upon each one of us.
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If there be someone
who are languishing,
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someone maybe he's
just a little fallen asleep
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that You awake us all up,
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the hour in which we are living,
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help us to realize
You're soon to come
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regardless of how it
looks in the world today.
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Bless as we
pray with Thy Spirit,
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may minds and hearts
now be clear and clean,
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and we lay our sins
and our shortcomings
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and our problems
before You right now
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and ask us that You'd cleanse us
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by Your blood, in
Jesus' name, amen.
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I know you brought
your Bible with you,
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it's important that we do,
at least a pencil and a paper.
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We are going to be covering
the next few times together.
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It's gonna be a subject that's,
it's near and dear to my heart
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as I was looking
through this week
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and I really believe
the Holy Spirit impressed
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that there's lot of things
that we need to be going over.
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We need to be going over
things that are happening
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not only in the
world but how we fit
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in the plan that God has
for His last day children,
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and so I just entitled this,
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the Holy Spirit has
entitled the subject today,
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"Prepare to save your families."
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Prepare to save your families.
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Now we realize
everybody should be
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part of the
family of God, right,
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so is everybody out
there, but prepare...
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There's something called prepare
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that I don't know
that we are doing,
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but we may need to be reminding
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of what this
preparation really means.
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So prepare to
save your families.
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Turn with me, if you will,
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as we start our
subject for today
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in the Book of James.
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Sister Mary,
it's good to see you,
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I see you coming in.
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You think I can't
see that far but I can.
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All right. Praise the Lord.
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Turn with me to
the Book of James.
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These are familiar
passage of scripture,
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but you are going
to see how they fit
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as we study this
interesting subject.
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What is the subject?
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Prepare to save your families.
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And listen, men,
specifically I'm talking to you.
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Man have responsibility as
the house band, the husband,
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to work, to save their families
because there are things
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that can be done
that will help us
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during the
little time of trouble
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and the trouble is
approaching this land rapidly,
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and there are things
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that we need to be
reminded of that God does
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so that we'll get
on the right track.
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God gives...
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Do you believe
that God gives warnings?
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Oh, yes.
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He gives us warning in
His book in James Chapter 5,
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and if you don't mind, I
usually don't read so much
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but I'm going to read
verses 1-8 and give it oral.
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You read along with
me as quickly as you can.
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Why?
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Because these are
challenging words.
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These are words that
will challenge your heart,
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your mind, where you are at
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in your
relationship with Christ.
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There are words of
rebuke to individuals
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that may not be you,
may not be me in a sense
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but there are words of rebuke
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that we need to look at closely.
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James Chapter 5
starting with verse 1.
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It says, "Go to now,
ye rich men," and do what?
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"Weep and howl for your miseries
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that shall come upon you."
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So we're looking at
miseries are coming upon.
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These are things we
don't want to look at.
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These are things I
don't want to hear,
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miseries coming.
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We have enough
misery it seems like.
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But we're just
beginning the edges of things
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that are coming
upon God's people,
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and if we are not
prepared we will turn on God,
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we will turn on this message,
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and we'll look
for an easy way out.
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Here God is specifically
looking at the rich man
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or the man who wants to be rich.
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He said, "Go and weep."
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There are reasons.
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There's
different ways to be rich.
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Notice verse 2.
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"Your riches are" what?
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"Corrupted, and your
garments are motheaten.
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Your gold and your
silver is cankered,
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and the rust of them
shall be a witness against you,
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and shall eat your
flesh as it were" what?
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"Fire.
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Ye have heaped treasure together
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for the last days."
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If it had time, how
interesting it would be
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to look at the gold, the
silver, the word cankered,
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the witness,
the flesh, the fire,
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and treasures heaped
together for the last days.
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There are messages and
sermons that will go for hours
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on these things as we
look at not only the physical
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but the spiritual.
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Notice verse 4,
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"Behold, the hire of the laborer
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who have reaped
down your fields,
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which have you
kept back by" what?
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"Fraud, it
crieth, the cries of them
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which have reaped are entered
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into the ears of the
Lord of the Sabaoth."
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Notice, "Ye have lived
in pleasure on the earth,
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and have been wanton, ye
have nourished your hearts,
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as a day in slaughter."
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Verse 6, "Ye have
condemned and killed the just,
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and he doth not resist you."
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"Be patient therefore, brethren,
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unto the coming of the Lord."
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What's the word?
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"Be patient, brethren,
unto the coming of the Lord.
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Behold, the husbandman waiteth
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for the precious
fruit of the earth,
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hath long patience for it,
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until he receive the
early and latter rain."
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Notice verse 8, probably
one of the most familiar
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to most of you.
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It says, "Be ye also patient,
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notice, stablish your hearts,
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for the coming of
the Lord draweth nigh."
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How we sing it, how we
pray it, how we talk about it?
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Drawing nigh, right?
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The coming of the
Lord, draweth nigh.
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And so how sad the
majority of the world today
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does not realize the coming
of the Lord is drawing nigh,
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it's near every day,
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every day is one less
day here on this planet,
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but we need to be patient.
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Here we find James,
notice what he's doing.
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It's a stern
rebuke that he's giving
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here in these verses.
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It's addressing those
who are seeking riches.
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Now you'll say,
"Well, now what's wrong
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with seeking some riches?"
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Notice.
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They're seeking
riches without a thought
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of what God has
in mind for them.
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They're not thinking,
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"This is what God
would have me to do.
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This is what I want."
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And there we begin to
get in trouble when I want,
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and forget what
God has planned for us.
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What has He planned for my life?
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What is His plan for you?
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How often do we
pray, "Oh, Lord, I want,"
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rather than, "Lord,
what would You have me?
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Where would You have me to be?
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What would You be have me
to do in these closing days,
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hours of earth's history?"
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The apostle here is referring
to the insecurity of the rich.
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Did you realize
that some of it...
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It doesn't seem like
if you watch him on TV,
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they have rich,
they have the homes,
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they have everything,
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you know, right
at their fingertips,
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and it seems
like they're secured,
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but most rich
people are insecure.
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They're insecure,
they're still looking,
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they're still searching,
they're still wandering,
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they're worried
about their money,
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they're still worried
about their investments,
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they're worried about everything
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except what God
would have them to do.
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See, this insecurity
surrounds the rich man.
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And the Bible says
here, James is warning us
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that the tension will increase.
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Did anybody get that?
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The tension on the
rich and getting richer
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is going to increase
the coming of the Lord,
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that's kind of
interesting thought.
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Large sums of
money will do what?
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James is saying here,
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"All these large sums
of money that you have
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in all these different
banks at the coming of the Lord
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will bear witness against you
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that you have not taken that
and put it into the Lord's work
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to save souls."
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Is somebody with
me? You're always nice.
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"We'll have it in the
bank. We'll have it over here."
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Well, that bears
witness in the judgment.
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Look at all of that in there.
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Why did you put it in there?
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Why did you store in this bank?
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Why wasn't it put
back into my vineyard?
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Why wasn't it put in my coffers?
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You know, we need to
realize and plan our life that
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as we near the end that
our coffers are somewhat bare,
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that everything
God has given to us,
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we personally have
put back into the work.
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It is not your
children's responsibility,
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it doesn't belong to them,
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the blessings
have not come to them,
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it's what God has given you
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and you are
accountable for that.
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Just don't leave and bestick
your head in the sand and say,
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"Now kids, go
ahead, you have it now,
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you deserve it."
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That's not a fact.
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God will hold you
and hold me accountable
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for what He has given us
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and no one is to
take that responsibility,
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and we're supposed to
take most of what we have
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and put it back
into the cause of God
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and let Him take care
of us as we get older.
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Got an interesting thought
and very test of our faith.
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It really will test our faith
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because what,
where is our faith.
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Many times our faith
is in our checkbook, see?
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And if we didn't
have it in there,
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then we have to
exercise faith in God.
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So large sums of
money will bear witness
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in the judgment,
where the winning of souls.
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The Bible says here, James says,
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"There's going
to be destruction,"
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he's talking about hell fire,
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not only of
material things that will go
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but he says are the soul
and the body will burn in hell.
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That's pretty clear to me.
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It says it's going to
be an interesting time.
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Greed and oppression,
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we find it really
coming to the top right now
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in the hour that we are living.
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It's a high point
as it were in the world
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just before the coming of Jesus.
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But here the article says
we are to establish our faith,
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establish our hearts.
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If we ever needed
our hearts established
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sound right
now, firm foundation,
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it is this moment, this is...
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It's not for tomorrow
or yesterday, for today,
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when it says
establish the heart,
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it is simply saying
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that we need to
set fast our hearts,
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we need to brace our
hearts, certainly with the love
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and faith of Christ.
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We need to make stable.
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You realize we live in
such an unstable world.
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I mean, we like to
feel like things are stable.
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We like to feel
like we're in charge.
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But you know what? You are not.
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We like to feel
like we're in charge.
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Yeah, we can make
decision, do different things.
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But let me tell you here, right,
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there is one who is in charge,
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and He's saying to us right now,
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things are
unraveling and unraveling quick,
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and you need to have
your hearts charged up
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as it were with the spirit
of the living God inside of us
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and begin to trust
Him, make stable your life.
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That's why I was, you know,
thrilled my heart this morning
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when I heard someone say,
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"I felt like my first obligation
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was to go to church first
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and then somebody get it.
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My first
obligation is to go to church
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and then wherever I go
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must be pleasing
in the sight of God,
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especially on the Sabbath."
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Now well, then I'll go
out and do this and do that.
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No.
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We know what the Word
says about Sabbath keeping,
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we need to honor that or
we're breaking the Sabbath.
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So it's...
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We look at it and
say, "My first obligation
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is I go to church
to meet with God."
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How embarrassing that
is we put something before,
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if you think about it?
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Because He's
promised to be here.
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I thoroughly believe
through the representative,
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His Holy Spirit that He is here,
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and who one of us
would want to hold right
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the Holy Spirit and say,
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"I've got something else to
do and I'll get to you later."
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Ooh, what audacity?
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Surely no one would do that.
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We need to be
established in the faith.
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We need to have priorities.
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Going to do
church first, then...
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Remember he says, we
have to put Him first
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and then all these, what?
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Then all these other
things will be added.
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We are in an
unsettled state of society.
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This world is unsettled.
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It's breaking apart.
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And sometime, we
have forgotten that.
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Listen, I can say today,
our cities are in trouble.
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Our cities
especially are in trouble.
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I'll name three
things that's in trouble,
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and you'll see.
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Our cities are in
trouble, people are in trouble,
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our nations are in trouble.
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These are easily to identify
as you read the Word of God
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and just listen to the news.
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This is not something to
sneeze at as it were just like,
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"Oh, yeah, I heard it before."
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We need to pay attention
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because we will be
covering things in here
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that I believe that will help us
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as we look at last day events,
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things that are happening
and what we should be doing,
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and things that
maybe we have forgotten.
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You'll say,
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"Well, I'm not so much
worried about the cities."
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May I just read
a couple of verses,
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and that would be
back into the beginning
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in the Book of Genesis,
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notice with me in the
Book of Genesis, Chapter 19.
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So go back with me to
the Book of what? Genesis 19.
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Okay, and then we're going
to just read two verses there,
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4 and 5.
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Genesis 19:4, 5.
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Now remember,
what are we reading?
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We're reading, right, the Word.
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We're reading God.
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God is speaking to you
and to me here in His Word.
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It's not someone else.
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It's God speaking here.
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These are
warnings, these are examples
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because we need to realize
our cities are in trouble.
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Here it says, Genesis 19:4, 5.
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The Bible says, "But
before they lay down,
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the men of the city,
even the men of Sodom,
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compassed the house
round, both old and young,
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all the people
went from every quarter.
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And they called unto
Lot, and said unto him,
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'Where are the men
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which came in
to thee this night?
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Bring them out unto us,
that we may know them.'"
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What is this saying right here?
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Our cities are in trouble.
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This is not just
in the Book of Genesis
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This is just not for a Lot.
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This is going on
day-by-day, 24/7.
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In some place in the
world this is going on
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as we've seen who came in.
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Now let's bring them on now.
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We want to have
our way with things.
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We want to do
what we want to do.
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Our cities are in trouble
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and God's going
to punish the cities
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as we see there in
verse 29 of the same chapter.
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Genesis 19 verse what?
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29.
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Here's what the
Word of God says.
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"It came to pass, when
God destroyed the" what?
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"The cities of the plain,
that God remembered Abraham,
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sent Lot out of the
midst of the overthrow,
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when he overthrew the
cities in the which Lot dwelt."
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God said, "Because
of the foolishness,
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the audacity of the
things that were going on
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that the cities are in trouble."
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And it's worse now
than it was back then,
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no doubt in my mind,
at least on a vast scale.
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And God draw.
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He destroyed the cities.
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And you think that our cities
are just going to continue
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to stand until Jesus comes.
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We're going to see
devastation in the cities.
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We're going to see
whole cities destroyed
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before the coming of the Lord.
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Somebody needs to get that
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because as soon as that happens,
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some people have heart attacks,
00:16:43.93\00:16:45.27
and they'll just
die, and they'll just say,
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"Well, we've never
dreamt this is going to happen."
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The Bible has said
it, it's going to happen,
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it's happening.
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I'm telling you
friends right now
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because, well,
00:16:53.91\00:16:55.24
God is not going to just
turn His back and walk off.
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He didn't do it then.
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The cities are in trouble.
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The people are in trouble.
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Go with me to New
Testament quickly.
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1 Corinthians, we're
going to go Chapter 10.
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1 Corinthians 10:9-11.
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It says, "Neither
let us tempt Christ,
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as some of them
also tempted, and were,"
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now notice the word, were what?
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"They were
destroyed of serpents."
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So you know the story
what was going on here,
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but don't tempt God, it says.
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Don't throw your
stuff in God's face.
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God's not to be trifled with.
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What He has said He will do.
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Notice this,
"Let's not temp Christ,"
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notice this,
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"as they were
destroyed of serpents."
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Neither do what?
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"Don't murmur ye, as
some of them also murmured,
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and were
destroyed of the destroyer."
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There's many times,
there's too many of us
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rather than
praising God are murmuring.
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We're complaining
00:17:53.60\00:17:54.94
because we think
we have hardship,
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things are going bad.
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Well, you don't live in
other parts of the world
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where things are really tough.
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You're like kings
and queens around here.
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Even though we just...
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Think about it.
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Remember, if you
have an automobile,
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you are in the top 5%
of the wealth of the world
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if you have an automobile.
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That shows
there's lot of millions
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and billions of
people that do not
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but because we're here
and it's a normal thing,
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we're raised with it,
this is what we've seen,
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we think it's
normal although, it's not.
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You think you're not wealthy.
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Well, we don't have.
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You have a roof over
your head, you have food,
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you have clothes.
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Bible says sometimes...
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We murmur too much, we
complain, and notice, what?
00:18:35.01\00:18:39.01
"And they were
destroyed of the destroyer."
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Notice what the
word still is saying
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because we're not
doing the right thing,
00:18:44.89\00:18:46.69
there is
destruction that lies ahead,
00:18:46.72\00:18:49.49
there was destruction then.
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And notice verse 11,
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"Now all these things
happened unto them for" what?
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"These were examples,
00:18:56.60\00:18:58.43
they are written
for our admonition,
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upon whom the ends
of the world are come."
00:19:00.77\00:19:03.10
We are at the end of the world.
00:19:03.14\00:19:04.94
These are things we
have to look back and say,
00:19:04.97\00:19:06.51
"Here's what God did then."
00:19:06.54\00:19:08.08
He's the same
yesterday, today, and forever.
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It's going to happen again,
00:19:10.35\00:19:12.55
even though we don't think so.
00:19:12.58\00:19:13.92
We think maybe a
new president here,
00:19:13.95\00:19:15.72
give us all new hope
00:19:15.75\00:19:17.09
and he's going to
turn the world upside down.
00:19:17.12\00:19:18.75
Some of us need to
rethink the issues.
00:19:18.79\00:19:21.89
There may be
things done out of order,
00:19:21.92\00:19:23.56
things different
than ever been before,
00:19:23.59\00:19:25.43
but I can guarantee you
this, this is all the plan
00:19:25.46\00:19:28.30
that the enemy has
in which we will see
00:19:28.33\00:19:30.57
the church and
state coming together
00:19:30.60\00:19:32.23
and we'll see Sunday laws.
00:19:32.27\00:19:34.14
Some of us better
wake up with that thought.
00:19:34.17\00:19:36.37
Sunday laws are
around the corner.
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We have to realize it.
00:19:37.87\00:19:40.38
These are issues
that we need to keep
00:19:40.41\00:19:42.34
for our mind.
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Nations are in
trouble, cities are in trouble.
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What else is in trouble?
00:19:47.35\00:19:48.68
People are in trouble.
00:19:48.72\00:19:50.72
Who else is in trouble?
00:19:50.75\00:19:52.95
Nations are in trouble.
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Jeremiah Chapter 48, quickly.
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Jeremiah Chapter 48,
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here's what the
Word of God says.
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Jeremiah 48:42.
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"And Moab shall be
destroyed from being a people,
00:20:02.20\00:20:07.07
because he hath magnified
himself against the" what?
00:20:07.10\00:20:11.31
"Against the
Lord." The Moabites.
00:20:11.34\00:20:13.58
What does he say?
00:20:13.61\00:20:14.94
You're going to be
destroyed for what reason?
00:20:14.98\00:20:18.05
"Moab shall be
destroyed from being a people."
00:20:18.08\00:20:21.05
It's like...
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Is it not like
wiping out a nation?
00:20:22.45\00:20:24.45
Wiping out a...
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Because he hath
magnified himself against God.
00:20:25.99\00:20:29.22
Any of us magnify
our self against God,
00:20:29.26\00:20:32.06
you can look for destruction,
00:20:32.09\00:20:34.10
and you can
look for a rough path
00:20:34.13\00:20:35.86
until that destruction comes.
00:20:35.90\00:20:37.90
God is warning us.
00:20:37.93\00:20:39.37
But yet at the same
time, when we see that
00:20:39.40\00:20:41.80
there are cities in
trouble, people are in trouble,
00:20:41.84\00:20:44.84
nations are in trouble,
00:20:44.87\00:20:46.27
we have these voices everywhere
saying, "Peace and safety."
00:20:46.31\00:20:50.45
What is that? A sign.
00:20:50.48\00:20:52.88
1 Thessalonians 5:3.
00:20:52.91\00:20:54.55
"Peace and safety,
sudden destruction cometh."
00:20:54.58\00:20:57.85
Do we realize when
destruction really comes,
00:20:57.89\00:21:00.12
it will be suddenly, it
will be like, "Oh, man."
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We should be ready for it.
00:21:03.09\00:21:05.03
We should realize it can happen
any day, any hour, any moment.
00:21:05.06\00:21:10.27
That's why Jesus said,
00:21:10.30\00:21:11.63
we need to watch
and we need to pray,
00:21:11.67\00:21:13.13
we need to be ready, so
that we're not overwhelmed.
00:21:13.17\00:21:17.01
I'm talking about
overwhelmed with the things
00:21:17.04\00:21:18.91
that will happen.
00:21:18.94\00:21:20.64
I can sense myself,
I don't know about you.
00:21:20.68\00:21:22.88
If I'm not close to Jesus,
I'm going to be overwhelmed.
00:21:22.91\00:21:26.41
That's how ugly
it's going to get.
00:21:26.45\00:21:29.02
It's not going to be
like, "Take it or leave it."
00:21:29.05\00:21:30.92
Or, "I don't
want to get involved.
00:21:30.95\00:21:32.29
I'll go on about my business."
00:21:32.32\00:21:33.66
No.
00:21:33.69\00:21:35.02
You're going to be
right in the middle of it.
00:21:35.06\00:21:36.39
You will be right
in the middle of it.
00:21:36.42\00:21:37.93
I will be right
in the middle of it.
00:21:37.96\00:21:39.93
Little book
called Last Day Events,
00:21:39.96\00:21:42.10
page 11 tells us this.
00:21:42.13\00:21:43.50
Listen carefully, listen.
00:21:43.53\00:21:46.17
And you've read it
many times, I'm sure.
00:21:46.20\00:21:47.84
"The present time is a
time of overwhelming interest
00:21:47.87\00:21:52.27
to all living."
00:21:52.31\00:21:53.64
So the time that
we're living in is what?
00:21:53.68\00:21:55.71
It's interest to all people.
00:21:55.74\00:21:57.48
Tell me that your
congressmen and your senators
00:21:57.51\00:22:00.38
and your president as it were,
00:22:00.42\00:22:02.48
people in high
positions, and you are lawyers,
00:22:02.52\00:22:04.85
legislators are not
interested in what's going on.
00:22:04.89\00:22:07.56
They're all looking for a cure.
00:22:07.59\00:22:09.42
They're all looking for answers.
00:22:09.46\00:22:11.33
If nothing else,
they'd like to have it,
00:22:11.36\00:22:12.86
so that they can build a name
for themselves, we found out,
00:22:12.89\00:22:15.76
or name something after us.
00:22:15.80\00:22:20.84
Everybody is interested
because, let me tell you,
00:22:20.87\00:22:23.91
if you could talk to
some of these individuals
00:22:23.94\00:22:25.84
in high places
00:22:25.87\00:22:27.64
that know what's
going on in the world today,
00:22:27.68\00:22:29.71
it would blow your mind
and it would blow my mind.
00:22:29.74\00:22:33.28
It really would
00:22:33.31\00:22:34.65
because they know
things you do not know
00:22:34.68\00:22:36.48
and I do not know except
for what the Word of God says.
00:22:36.52\00:22:40.06
They know they could
blow any moment, sky high.
00:22:40.09\00:22:44.23
Your world can
change in a moment.
00:22:44.26\00:22:47.23
That's why God said to be ready.
00:22:47.26\00:22:50.17
It's an overwhelming
interest to all living.
00:22:50.20\00:22:52.77
Here it says,
00:22:52.80\00:22:54.14
"Rulers and
statesmen, men of authority,
00:22:54.17\00:22:57.94
thinking men and
women of all classes,
00:22:57.97\00:23:01.51
have their attention,"
00:23:01.54\00:23:02.91
notice this, "their
attention fixed upon the events
00:23:02.94\00:23:07.15
taking place about us.
00:23:07.18\00:23:09.38
They are watching
the relations that exist
00:23:09.42\00:23:12.65
amongst the nations."
00:23:12.69\00:23:15.62
Do you notice
that even on the news,
00:23:15.66\00:23:17.89
every day, every morning,
00:23:17.93\00:23:19.46
if you turn it on,
whatever, they're talking about
00:23:19.49\00:23:22.00
what happened last
night or the day before,
00:23:22.03\00:23:24.50
and there's
tension between what?
00:23:24.53\00:23:27.37
Nations.
00:23:27.40\00:23:28.74
Sure, we talk about people,
00:23:28.77\00:23:30.41
but there's one
nation as it were
00:23:30.44\00:23:31.87
maybe threatening the other.
00:23:31.91\00:23:33.24
One's keeping a secret
or other is collaborating,
00:23:33.27\00:23:36.24
doing different things.
00:23:36.28\00:23:37.61
But they're going
against each other,
00:23:37.65\00:23:39.35
and then that puts,
what, other nations.
00:23:39.38\00:23:41.52
I'm either
going to take his side
00:23:41.55\00:23:42.88
or I'll take his side.
00:23:42.92\00:23:44.25
And you realize what a mess,
00:23:44.29\00:23:48.16
you realize what
a mess in the world
00:23:48.19\00:23:49.82
that there is today
with the technology,
00:23:49.86\00:23:52.83
with the implements of war
00:23:52.86\00:23:55.40
that could absolutely
turn this world upside down
00:23:55.43\00:23:57.80
in a matter of
couple of minutes.
00:23:57.83\00:24:01.47
I mean, we hadn't even dug into,
00:24:01.50\00:24:03.67
when you talk
about thermal warfare,
00:24:03.71\00:24:06.37
you know, and all
these other things and stuff
00:24:06.41\00:24:07.94
that some are even
trying on several people.
00:24:07.98\00:24:11.75
Some of the stuff
that's being tried right now.
00:24:11.78\00:24:16.08
It's very interesting.
00:24:16.12\00:24:17.69
Everybody is looking
00:24:17.72\00:24:19.05
about what's existing
among the nations right now,
00:24:19.09\00:24:21.62
and they don't
know where to turn,
00:24:21.66\00:24:23.12
but many of the world are
starting to turn their eyes
00:24:23.16\00:24:25.56
toward United States of America
00:24:25.59\00:24:27.40
because they're
in Bible prophecy.
00:24:27.43\00:24:29.36
The world will look to
United States of America.
00:24:29.40\00:24:33.20
Our image to our beast.
00:24:33.23\00:24:35.70
We need to be very careful
00:24:35.74\00:24:37.07
because this all
leading up to right now.
00:24:37.11\00:24:41.44
Review and Herald, 11/24/1904.
00:24:41.48\00:24:44.91
"The time of trouble
00:24:44.95\00:24:46.28
which is to
increase until the end."
00:24:46.31\00:24:48.22
The time of what?
00:24:48.25\00:24:49.62
The trouble will
do what? Decrease?
00:24:49.65\00:24:51.89
No, it's going to
increase until the end.
00:24:51.92\00:24:54.92
"It is very near at hand.
00:24:54.96\00:24:56.66
We have no time to lose.
00:24:56.69\00:24:58.46
The world is stirred
with the spirit of war.
00:24:58.49\00:25:02.23
Prophecies of the
11th chapter of Daniel
00:25:02.26\00:25:05.70
have almost reached
their final fulfillment."
00:25:05.73\00:25:09.04
Hope somebody hears that.
00:25:09.07\00:25:11.87
Almost reached
their final fulfillment.
00:25:11.91\00:25:15.71
Prophecies reaching
their final fulfillment
00:25:15.74\00:25:19.31
where they're at the
very end, at the very last,
00:25:19.35\00:25:23.35
there's very little more.
00:25:23.39\00:25:26.25
The Bible says in
Luke, New Testament,
00:25:26.29\00:25:28.26
turn with me, quickly, Luke,
00:25:28.29\00:25:29.62
I'll try to cover
some things quickly,
00:25:29.66\00:25:31.56
Luke.
00:25:31.59\00:25:33.70
Got to stay focused to church,
00:25:33.73\00:25:35.23
this is what it's
all about right now,
00:25:35.26\00:25:36.70
it's a reminder
for what's going on.
00:25:36.73\00:25:38.80
Luke Chapter 21.
00:25:38.83\00:25:40.94
Luke Chapter 21,
I'm going to read 25-28.
00:25:40.97\00:25:45.94
I mean, you talk
about prophecies,
00:25:45.97\00:25:47.81
you talk about
time that can be spent
00:25:47.84\00:25:50.31
here in these things
proving where we're at
00:25:50.35\00:25:54.38
in earth's history right here,
00:25:54.42\00:25:55.75
if we had time to do it,
but notice what the Bible said.
00:25:55.78\00:25:59.42
Luke 21:25, "There
shall be signs in" what?
00:25:59.45\00:26:03.02
"Sun, and in the
moon, and in the stars,
00:26:03.06\00:26:05.03
and upon the
earth distress of" what?
00:26:05.06\00:26:07.16
"Nations," and what's the word?
00:26:07.20\00:26:09.30
"Perplexity, the sea
and the waves roaring."
00:26:09.33\00:26:11.70
Man, we see all that.
00:26:11.73\00:26:13.07
"Men's hearts
failing them for" what?
00:26:13.10\00:26:15.77
"Fear, for
looking after those things
00:26:15.80\00:26:17.44
which are coming on the earth,
00:26:17.47\00:26:19.24
for the powers of
heaven shall be shaken."
00:26:19.27\00:26:22.31
Man, what a time
that we're living in.
00:26:22.34\00:26:23.85
Notice this,
00:26:23.88\00:26:25.21
"And they shall see
the Son of man coming"
00:26:25.25\00:26:26.82
where?
00:26:26.85\00:26:28.18
"In the clouds with
power and great glory."
00:26:28.22\00:26:31.19
Notice that.
00:26:31.22\00:26:32.55
"And when these things
begin to come to pass,"
00:26:32.59\00:26:34.36
then what do we need to do?
00:26:34.39\00:26:36.16
"Look up, it says,
lift up your heads,
00:26:36.19\00:26:39.46
"for your
redemption draweth nigh."
00:26:39.49\00:26:43.26
When all of these
things begin to take place,
00:26:43.30\00:26:45.87
men's heart
failing them for fear...
00:26:45.90\00:26:48.70
You realize
that's already happened
00:26:48.74\00:26:50.44
to a lot of folks
because of money situation,
00:26:50.47\00:26:53.71
because of things
that have happened,
00:26:53.74\00:26:55.48
because of things that they fear
00:26:55.51\00:26:57.28
that's going to happen,
they have heart attacks,
00:26:57.31\00:26:59.65
they'd actually die,
the stress is too much.
00:26:59.68\00:27:02.45
The love of the world
has just encircled them
00:27:02.48\00:27:05.19
and they can't stand
the thought of losing
00:27:05.22\00:27:07.26
which they have
accumulated, they say.
00:27:07.29\00:27:10.06
There shall be signs
00:27:10.09\00:27:11.43
in the sun, the
moon, and the stars.
00:27:11.46\00:27:13.06
People say, "Well,
that could be repeated,"
00:27:13.09\00:27:14.90
but I guarantee you,
those prophecies right there,
00:27:14.93\00:27:17.47
number one, first application
have already taken place.
00:27:17.50\00:27:20.24
Is somebody still with me?
00:27:20.27\00:27:21.84
Sign in the suns, and
the moon, and the stars.
00:27:21.87\00:27:24.41
Remember the
falling of the star,
00:27:24.44\00:27:25.77
and great earthquake.
00:27:25.81\00:27:27.14
We know these
things are happening,
00:27:27.18\00:27:28.51
blood turning to moon.
00:27:28.54\00:27:29.88
We have to realize that
00:27:29.91\00:27:31.25
where we're at in
the stream of time,
00:27:31.28\00:27:33.45
men's hearts
failing them for fear.
00:27:33.48\00:27:35.68
Our hearts need to
be fearful in that sense
00:27:35.72\00:27:39.05
that the coming of Jesus
is near, even at the door,
00:27:39.09\00:27:41.76
and Lord, what are we doing
00:27:41.79\00:27:44.03
to warn the
world of Your coming?
00:27:44.06\00:27:45.79
What are we doing?
00:27:45.83\00:27:49.76
A manuscript, it's
called manuscript number 40.
00:27:49.80\00:27:52.43
This was written in 1897.
00:27:52.47\00:27:55.64
Manuscript 40, written in 1897.
00:27:55.67\00:27:58.14
It says "The
scenes that transpire
00:27:58.17\00:28:00.98
at the destruction..."
00:28:01.01\00:28:02.34
Somebody needs to
listen to this now.
00:28:02.38\00:28:04.51
No, nobody wants to listen.
00:28:04.55\00:28:06.11
I'm going to talk
about illustration here,
00:28:11.02\00:28:13.19
Brother Bobby, about the
destruction of Jerusalem.
00:28:13.22\00:28:17.13
Destruction of Jerusalem,
we know it's been repeated
00:28:17.16\00:28:19.59
hundreds and thousands of times,
00:28:19.63\00:28:21.16
at least for
Adventists ought to know
00:28:21.20\00:28:23.37
the destruction of
Jerusalem was a horrible mess
00:28:23.40\00:28:26.74
that...
00:28:26.77\00:28:28.10
Parents boiled and
ate their own children.
00:28:28.14\00:28:31.94
Are you still with me?
00:28:31.97\00:28:33.31
That's how bad.
00:28:33.34\00:28:34.84
They boiled and
ate their own children.
00:28:34.88\00:28:38.78
They were starving to death,
00:28:38.81\00:28:40.15
there was nothing they could do.
00:28:40.18\00:28:42.28
They were trying to
chew, gnawing on leather,
00:28:42.32\00:28:44.22
weren't they, Brother Marty?
00:28:44.25\00:28:45.59
Anything to gnaw, to chew on,
screaming, and all of a sudden,
00:28:45.62\00:28:48.86
they weren't in the right minds
00:28:48.89\00:28:50.23
because all they
could think about is food,
00:28:50.26\00:28:51.89
and then they began to
boil and eat their children.
00:28:51.93\00:28:54.63
So this is comparison to that.
00:28:54.66\00:28:56.77
Listen carefully, at the coming,
00:28:56.80\00:28:58.47
before Jesus comes,
00:28:58.50\00:29:02.00
"The scenes that transpired
at the destruction of Jerusalem
00:29:02.04\00:29:06.84
will be repeated at the great
00:29:06.88\00:29:11.45
and terrible day of the Lord,
00:29:11.48\00:29:14.15
but in a more fearful manner."
00:29:14.18\00:29:20.12
I can't quite get all of that.
00:29:20.16\00:29:24.03
I can't get all of that.
00:29:24.06\00:29:26.53
I can't comprehend all
that took place in Jerusalem,
00:29:26.56\00:29:28.66
what's written about it.
00:29:28.70\00:29:31.37
But it's going to take
place in a more fearful manner.
00:29:31.40\00:29:36.54
The scenes will be repeated.
00:29:36.57\00:29:38.04
So what do we think
this is going to be?
00:29:38.07\00:29:39.47
This be an easy thing?
00:29:39.51\00:29:40.84
We wonder, "Well, we'll wake up,
00:29:40.88\00:29:42.21
and Jesus is going to come.
00:29:42.24\00:29:43.58
Man, we're going to
be, you know, taken away."
00:29:43.61\00:29:45.25
Some say raptured away,
some say, we go back to heaven.
00:29:45.28\00:29:49.38
There's things
that will take place
00:29:49.42\00:29:50.89
that's going to
try your relationship
00:29:50.92\00:29:53.22
with Christ and
mine to see whether
00:29:53.25\00:29:55.46
heaven really is
going to be our home or not.
00:29:55.49\00:29:57.03
Lord's not going to
take us up there so we can,
00:30:00.06\00:30:02.30
you know, infect heaven.
00:30:02.33\00:30:04.80
Victory has to be gained,
it has to be gained down here.
00:30:04.83\00:30:07.24
Victory over sin in
our life, over every area.
00:30:07.27\00:30:12.14
I'd be up there protesting
if I was an angel right now
00:30:12.17\00:30:14.64
looking down this mess.
00:30:14.68\00:30:16.38
Somebody now with me.
00:30:16.41\00:30:19.35
You're an angel and you
could look down on this world
00:30:19.38\00:30:21.25
to see what's going on and
say, "You mean, he's coming up,
00:30:21.28\00:30:23.32
and she's coming up,
I want Alice joined."
00:30:23.35\00:30:26.79
I want out of here because I...
00:30:26.82\00:30:29.16
Unless there's a change,
00:30:29.19\00:30:31.19
it's going to be just
a biggest mess up there,
00:30:31.23\00:30:32.76
and we know the Bible
says not going to happen again.
00:30:32.79\00:30:34.80
So victory has to be gained.
00:30:34.83\00:30:38.87
In this march toward
the one world government,
00:30:38.90\00:30:43.44
and we might as well wake up.
00:30:43.47\00:30:44.81
We talked about it in the '80s
and the '90s for a long time,
00:30:44.84\00:30:47.64
one world government,
00:30:47.68\00:30:49.01
because really pushing
for a one world government.
00:30:49.04\00:30:50.91
You know, even
some of the presidents
00:30:50.95\00:30:52.28
talks about one
world government.
00:30:52.31\00:30:53.65
It's not a surprise, you know?
00:30:53.68\00:30:55.85
Right in, you know,
early of this nation, you know?
00:30:55.88\00:31:00.69
It's still one world government,
00:31:00.72\00:31:02.76
they're still thinking
about a one world power.
00:31:02.79\00:31:05.03
You know, still thinking,
00:31:05.06\00:31:06.39
when they look
back in the Bible,
00:31:06.43\00:31:07.86
Babylon,
Medo-Persian, Greece, and Rome,
00:31:07.90\00:31:10.10
they had the one world empire,
00:31:10.13\00:31:11.70
and they're still
thinking in terms of.
00:31:11.73\00:31:14.14
And they realize those
who can hold the finances
00:31:14.17\00:31:17.54
can hold the world.
00:31:17.57\00:31:19.54
It's about finances.
00:31:19.57\00:31:22.21
And there's
people who are at work
00:31:22.24\00:31:24.05
in secret places.
00:31:24.08\00:31:27.22
We're in a march toward
that one world government.
00:31:27.25\00:31:31.49
And men are devising
ways to conceal their plans.
00:31:31.52\00:31:35.42
Notice, conceal them,
00:31:35.46\00:31:36.83
the real purpose of
what's coming our way.
00:31:36.86\00:31:42.36
Why?
00:31:42.40\00:31:43.73
If they can seal it,
and we don't understand it,
00:31:43.77\00:31:46.84
we'll accept it without protest.
00:31:46.87\00:31:51.74
We'll just be
smiling and singing, and say,
00:31:51.77\00:31:53.41
"This is a wonderful thing."
00:31:53.44\00:31:54.78
When it's disastrous,
00:31:54.81\00:31:57.31
we'll accept it
without question.
00:31:57.35\00:32:00.52
We face serious problems today
00:32:00.55\00:32:06.02
and just one is the debasement
00:32:06.05\00:32:08.82
of our currency that we have.
00:32:08.86\00:32:13.16
The dollar bill is
just not worth much,
00:32:13.19\00:32:17.20
and we're still printing
them and passing them out,
00:32:17.23\00:32:19.23
there's nothing to back them up,
00:32:19.27\00:32:22.07
and any moment,
inflation can happen
00:32:22.10\00:32:26.01
as it's happened before.
00:32:26.04\00:32:27.54
And God has given
warning after warning
00:32:27.58\00:32:30.05
of how fast it can inflate
and then all the economy,
00:32:30.08\00:32:34.78
everything will fall apart,
all the stuff that we rely on,
00:32:34.82\00:32:37.25
we'll think,
"Oh, how wonderful."
00:32:37.29\00:32:38.62
No, it's going to pass away.
00:32:38.65\00:32:40.12
I mean, I've heard
it for years and years
00:32:40.16\00:32:43.26
about the currency
reform, what we need to be doing
00:32:43.29\00:32:46.93
because we're in such a mess.
00:32:46.96\00:32:50.20
And when you
hear currency reform
00:32:50.23\00:32:52.47
or we need to
change things around,
00:32:52.50\00:32:54.40
and you notice
how the dollar bill
00:32:54.44\00:32:56.67
is just about out of whack now,
00:32:56.71\00:32:58.24
and everything deals with cards,
00:32:58.27\00:33:00.94
computers, everything is online.
00:33:00.98\00:33:04.15
Get rid of money, huh?
00:33:04.18\00:33:08.05
Currency reform.
00:33:08.08\00:33:09.88
Do you realize when they
talk about the currency reform,
00:33:09.92\00:33:12.59
they're
actually talking about...
00:33:12.62\00:33:14.29
It's a fancy name
for state bankruptcy.
00:33:14.32\00:33:18.66
Think about how
many states are bankrupt.
00:33:18.69\00:33:24.37
Yeah.
00:33:24.40\00:33:25.73
Over, and over, and over.
00:33:25.77\00:33:27.10
So these are
things that's written,
00:33:27.14\00:33:28.94
you know, 150 years ago,
00:33:28.97\00:33:30.37
and then we
look at today and say
00:33:30.41\00:33:31.91
we're right in the middle of it.
00:33:31.94\00:33:34.14
These are signs of the times.
00:33:34.18\00:33:36.88
So that just simply means
something's going to happen,
00:33:36.91\00:33:39.01
great drastic things are
going to be taking place.
00:33:39.05\00:33:42.88
And when it happens,
I guarantee you this.
00:33:42.92\00:33:45.05
When it happens, it's
going to be very quick,
00:33:45.09\00:33:50.26
it's going to hit hard,
00:33:50.29\00:33:54.00
and it's going to make
void, listen carefully,
00:33:54.03\00:33:55.93
you'll make void
probably of most of everybody
00:33:55.96\00:33:58.90
who have savings in the bank,
00:33:58.93\00:34:00.57
it will take that
away from you too.
00:34:00.60\00:34:04.07
It could wipe out all
public and private bonds.
00:34:04.11\00:34:09.14
It could wipe out most pensions.
00:34:09.18\00:34:13.85
All annuities, all endowments.
00:34:13.88\00:34:16.52
You look at it,
it could wipe it out.
00:34:16.55\00:34:18.25
All the things
that we hold on to,
00:34:18.29\00:34:21.36
they say, now we're secure,
00:34:21.39\00:34:23.56
the Lord is going
to allow us to say,
00:34:23.59\00:34:25.59
"No, he's our
security, he's our security"
00:34:25.63\00:34:31.23
because long as we
count on these things,
00:34:31.27\00:34:34.07
we love the world and
the things in the world.
00:34:34.10\00:34:36.67
Everybody likes to be secure.
00:34:36.71\00:34:39.07
I like to have
money in the bank too.
00:34:39.11\00:34:40.88
I like to be able to
smile, "Oh, this is all good,"
00:34:40.91\00:34:43.04
but I realize it's going
to be taken one of these days,
00:34:43.08\00:34:46.58
and remember, when it's taken,
00:34:46.61\00:34:47.95
then that means
you've hoarded it,
00:34:47.98\00:34:49.32
that means you've
been sitting on it,
00:34:49.35\00:34:51.32
and that means it's
going to rust as it were,
00:34:51.35\00:34:53.56
and it's going to be
doomed in the hell of fire,
00:34:53.59\00:34:55.96
and you're going
to be accountable
00:34:55.99\00:34:57.33
because you didn't
put in the Lord's work,
00:34:57.36\00:34:58.89
or I didn't put
in the Lord's work.
00:34:58.93\00:35:02.00
All of these things.
00:35:02.03\00:35:04.07
But, you know,
here's what I've heard,
00:35:04.10\00:35:05.43
somebody stay with
me, I've heard this,
00:35:05.47\00:35:07.34
somebody said to
me, "I have an answer."
00:35:07.37\00:35:10.84
I've got to answer for that.
00:35:10.87\00:35:12.64
I believe some of these things.
00:35:12.67\00:35:14.01
Some of your
leading economists say,
00:35:14.04\00:35:15.64
yes, yes, yes,
this is going to happen.
00:35:15.68\00:35:18.58
Don't know when but
you know when it is?
00:35:18.61\00:35:21.68
When the Lord just
releases those angels,
00:35:21.72\00:35:23.52
you know, who are
still holding back.
00:35:23.55\00:35:25.32
When God says this it's right,
it will be right, it will...
00:35:25.35\00:35:28.46
Don't think it's
not going to happen
00:35:28.49\00:35:29.82
because it is going to happen.
00:35:29.86\00:35:31.39
Some say I have
the answer to this.
00:35:31.43\00:35:33.56
You know what they said?
00:35:33.60\00:35:34.93
I put my money
in gold and silver.
00:35:34.96\00:35:37.80
Don't have the paper stuff.
00:35:37.83\00:35:39.17
I've got it in gold and silver,
00:35:39.20\00:35:42.34
and I put it in a safe
deposit box I have in the bank.
00:35:42.37\00:35:46.68
I want you to think with
me, if you look back in history,
00:35:46.71\00:35:49.88
look back and you see
00:35:49.91\00:35:51.25
when there was a
sudden change in the banking,
00:35:51.28\00:35:54.05
something happened
almost like overnight,
00:35:54.08\00:35:56.18
it was always on a weekend.
00:35:56.22\00:36:00.49
See?
00:36:00.52\00:36:01.86
They didn't want
you rushing, you know,
00:36:01.89\00:36:03.22
for the bank hours are open
00:36:03.26\00:36:04.59
because people
start taking things out...
00:36:04.63\00:36:07.00
And the banks are closed.
00:36:07.03\00:36:09.20
Think about that.
00:36:09.23\00:36:10.57
Takes place over
the weekend, and then,
00:36:10.60\00:36:12.73
"Oh, wait till Monday
morning, Brother Mark,
00:36:12.77\00:36:15.20
we're going to get
our safe deposit key.
00:36:15.24\00:36:17.77
We're going to take our key,
we're going to run down there
00:36:17.81\00:36:19.57
and we're going to get our
gold and silver out of there."
00:36:19.61\00:36:23.58
You run down
there, but you know what?
00:36:23.61\00:36:25.41
You're not going
to be able to open
00:36:25.45\00:36:26.88
that safe deposit box
00:36:26.92\00:36:28.55
because there will
be a government agent
00:36:28.58\00:36:30.89
right there watching you.
00:36:30.92\00:36:32.85
He will go with
you too right there
00:36:32.89\00:36:34.72
and then you're going
to be in trouble again.
00:36:34.76\00:36:37.43
Interesting.
00:36:37.46\00:36:39.66
Our point is,
there's nothing that's,
00:36:39.69\00:36:41.73
you know, foolproof around here.
00:36:41.76\00:36:43.60
Only on God's side,
only doing the right thing
00:36:43.63\00:36:47.00
is your safety
and your security.
00:36:47.04\00:36:50.74
There's nothing
else that can be done
00:36:50.77\00:36:52.34
because God is
allowing it in His mercy.
00:36:52.37\00:36:54.41
I really believe to
eliminate some of these things.
00:36:54.44\00:36:58.31
According to the Bible, I say,
00:36:58.35\00:36:59.81
and according to
the leading economist,
00:36:59.85\00:37:02.28
there's three
things that are clear
00:37:02.32\00:37:03.99
and all closely related.
00:37:04.02\00:37:05.35
Number one, our government
is past the point of no return.
00:37:05.39\00:37:08.72
Is somebody still with me?
00:37:08.76\00:37:10.09
Our government is
past the point of what?
00:37:10.13\00:37:12.46
No return.
00:37:12.49\00:37:14.00
There's no fixing this country.
00:37:14.03\00:37:16.10
As bad as I want to
hear, it can be fixed,
00:37:16.13\00:37:19.07
and everybody's
going to be happy,
00:37:19.10\00:37:20.47
and everybody's going to be fed,
00:37:20.50\00:37:22.04
and have a place to
live, I love to hear that,
00:37:22.07\00:37:24.31
but I know it can't
00:37:24.34\00:37:25.67
because the Bible says it can't.
00:37:25.71\00:37:27.28
It's not going to happen.
00:37:27.31\00:37:28.84
The devil wants
you to think that it is
00:37:28.88\00:37:31.21
to get you on the wrong side.
00:37:31.25\00:37:33.92
There's no way.
00:37:33.95\00:37:36.35
Number two, the
dollar is doomed,
00:37:36.38\00:37:38.95
it is doomed.
00:37:38.99\00:37:40.62
Only God is
holding things right now
00:37:40.66\00:37:42.52
until He decides to let loose.
00:37:42.56\00:37:45.56
With that in mind
closely related is
00:37:45.59\00:37:47.96
we will find our
economy will collapse,
00:37:48.00\00:37:51.07
it will collapse.
00:37:51.10\00:37:52.43
How else do you think
00:37:52.47\00:37:53.80
there are going to be
the mark of the beast,
00:37:53.84\00:37:55.17
and then the cards, and
you'll not be able to buy,
00:37:55.20\00:37:57.31
and you'll not be able to
sell for a period of time.
00:37:57.34\00:38:00.71
These all play into this thing
that we have to be aware of
00:38:00.74\00:38:05.68
as we see them taking place
and changes, thinking about,
00:38:05.71\00:38:08.78
"Ooh, that's
another step closer."
00:38:08.82\00:38:14.02
Remember, this
one world government
00:38:14.06\00:38:16.93
works on deception.
00:38:16.96\00:38:19.19
The devil works on what?
00:38:19.23\00:38:21.40
He works on deception.
00:38:21.43\00:38:24.23
And what does that means?
00:38:24.27\00:38:25.60
Just conceal the
purpose, the real thing
00:38:25.63\00:38:28.20
what's really going on.
00:38:28.24\00:38:29.57
Give you example,
just give you example.
00:38:29.60\00:38:31.34
Here there's a painting.
00:38:31.37\00:38:32.71
I'm talking
about a painting now,
00:38:32.74\00:38:34.34
just a painting
hanging on a wall of a man.
00:38:34.38\00:38:37.35
This is how you can be fooled.
00:38:37.38\00:38:38.71
Is somebody still here?
00:38:38.75\00:38:40.08
This is how it is.
00:38:40.12\00:38:41.45
There's a famous
painting of a man,
00:38:41.48\00:38:42.82
and this man is in
prison, he's in a cell.
00:38:42.85\00:38:47.09
So painting of this
man, you can see the bars,
00:38:47.12\00:38:49.02
you see him in this cell,
00:38:49.06\00:38:51.69
he's seated on some straw,
00:38:51.73\00:38:55.86
he's chained to the wall,
00:38:55.90\00:38:59.70
yet, he smiles, he laughs,
00:38:59.73\00:39:04.21
and he sings.
00:39:04.24\00:39:05.57
Why?
00:39:05.61\00:39:07.38
He's convinced that he's a king.
00:39:07.41\00:39:10.61
He's convinced that he
is a king of an empire.
00:39:10.65\00:39:15.58
His cell is his palace.
00:39:15.62\00:39:18.45
Interesting.
00:39:18.49\00:39:19.82
The straw he
sets on is his throne.
00:39:19.85\00:39:24.69
The rags that he
wears is his royal robe.
00:39:24.73\00:39:29.50
The prison
guards are his soldiers.
00:39:29.53\00:39:34.64
He's very deceived,
00:39:34.67\00:39:37.64
but he continues on.
00:39:37.67\00:39:41.84
Now that may be way out
there, but you know what?
00:39:41.88\00:39:44.41
What an illustration of
the United States of America
00:39:44.45\00:39:49.05
and Christianity.
00:39:49.08\00:39:51.05
What an illustration?
00:39:51.09\00:39:53.36
How deceived we are
and certainly can be?
00:39:53.39\00:39:59.13
Just as deceived as
that man in that cell,
00:39:59.16\00:40:02.53
but there's no
reason for us to be.
00:40:02.56\00:40:06.00
U.S. News and Report magazine,
00:40:06.03\00:40:08.10
we know that one from years ago.
00:40:08.14\00:40:10.07
This was October 29th, 1979,
stay with me a few minutes.
00:40:10.11\00:40:13.54
Notice this.
00:40:13.58\00:40:16.44
Here's what it said.
00:40:16.48\00:40:18.28
It said the
dollar was worth $0.24.
00:40:18.31\00:40:23.59
This is in 1979, said
the dollar was worth what?
00:40:23.62\00:40:26.82
$0.24.
00:40:26.86\00:40:28.39
And this was based upon,
their information was based
00:40:28.42\00:40:32.09
in 1945 dollar
being worth 100 cents.
00:40:32.13\00:40:37.73
They based it in 1945
that was worth 100 cents.
00:40:37.77\00:40:41.40
Of course, it wasn't, and
it hasn't been since 1933,
00:40:41.44\00:40:46.47
that's proven fact, when
it was removed from the...
00:40:46.51\00:40:49.64
We talk about the gold standard
where you could exchange $5
00:40:49.68\00:40:54.85
as it were for $5 gold piece.
00:40:54.88\00:40:57.99
Now that's pretty good exchange.
00:40:58.02\00:40:59.35
You take $5 bill,
00:40:59.39\00:41:00.82
that means it's worth $5
00:41:00.86\00:41:02.19
as you get $5 worth of gold.
00:41:02.22\00:41:07.03
But many say
today that the dollar
00:41:07.06\00:41:09.23
can't go a whole lot lower
00:41:09.26\00:41:11.27
and still
maintain it as currency.
00:41:11.30\00:41:14.70
Something will have to be done.
00:41:14.74\00:41:18.41
If it goes much lower,
some big disaster happens,
00:41:18.44\00:41:21.11
there will be a currency change.
00:41:21.14\00:41:23.21
And the Bible
says in Proverbs 29:18,
00:41:23.24\00:41:26.15
you notice it,
"Where there is no vision,"
00:41:26.18\00:41:28.22
what happens?
00:41:28.25\00:41:30.09
"Where there is no
vision, the people," what?
00:41:30.12\00:41:32.15
"They perish," is
what the Bible said.
00:41:32.19\00:41:34.56
They perish because what?
00:41:34.59\00:41:36.39
Then he says because
thou has rejected knowledge,
00:41:36.42\00:41:40.00
I'll also reject you.
00:41:40.03\00:41:41.96
So when knowledge comes out,
00:41:42.00\00:41:43.83
when we hear things and
yet we refuse these things
00:41:43.87\00:41:46.50
because we don't
want to accept them,
00:41:46.53\00:41:48.47
God says in result,
00:41:48.50\00:41:49.84
"I'm going to have to reject you
00:41:49.87\00:41:51.77
because I sent
knowledge your way,
00:41:51.81\00:41:53.78
and you hear these things,
you can read these things,
00:41:53.81\00:41:56.75
you can be
studying these things,
00:41:56.78\00:41:58.15
but you will not listen,
00:41:58.18\00:41:59.51
there's nothing
else I can do for you."
00:41:59.55\00:42:02.42
We do not want to
be rejected by God.
00:42:02.45\00:42:04.25
I will also reject thee...
00:42:04.29\00:42:05.65
That's in the Bible.
00:42:05.69\00:42:08.22
U.S. News and
World Report again,
00:42:08.26\00:42:10.53
September 15th, 1980,
00:42:10.56\00:42:12.33
listen carefully, some of these.
00:42:12.36\00:42:14.40
This is a report called,
"A national identity card."
00:42:14.43\00:42:18.20
Please keep in mind
00:42:18.23\00:42:20.90
because it's not
talked about so much
00:42:20.94\00:42:22.94
doesn't mean it's
not still in the works.
00:42:22.97\00:42:25.94
This stuff was talked
about red hot for years,
00:42:25.97\00:42:30.15
and somehow we've kind of like,
00:42:30.18\00:42:31.51
"Well, it's not
going to happen."
00:42:31.55\00:42:32.88
The devil once talked about it
and then make it like it's not,
00:42:32.91\00:42:35.42
you know, of interest anymore,
and then all the sudden, boom,
00:42:35.45\00:42:37.99
here it's put on,
you notice what it says.
00:42:38.02\00:42:40.16
It said that,
"The U.S. government
00:42:40.19\00:42:41.69
is contemplating."
00:42:41.72\00:42:43.06
This is what the U.S.
News and World Report said.
00:42:43.09\00:42:46.26
It said that,
"The U.S. government
00:42:46.29\00:42:47.63
is contemplating
00:42:47.66\00:42:49.00
issuing an all
purpose identity card."
00:42:49.03\00:42:52.90
An all of what?
00:42:52.93\00:42:54.27
An all purpose.
There's a reason, all purpose.
00:42:54.30\00:42:56.24
"And unless an
individual has this card,
00:42:56.27\00:42:58.91
he will not be able to work
00:42:58.94\00:43:02.04
or transact
business of any kind."
00:43:02.08\00:43:04.98
Do you see where it's leading?
00:43:05.01\00:43:06.68
That's what it...
00:43:06.72\00:43:08.05
What does it read in
Revelation 13:16, 17?
00:43:08.08\00:43:11.85
It says, you will not
be able to buy or sell,
00:43:11.89\00:43:13.96
save you had the mark.
00:43:13.99\00:43:15.46
It's leading up to...
00:43:15.49\00:43:16.83
They already know
things are already in place
00:43:16.86\00:43:18.99
that will you
not be able to what?
00:43:19.03\00:43:20.90
You can't work without the card,
00:43:20.93\00:43:23.70
you can't transact
business, you cannot buy,
00:43:23.73\00:43:26.53
and you cannot sell
unless you have this card.
00:43:26.57\00:43:30.24
Think about it,
my friend how cold?
00:43:30.27\00:43:31.67
And that's exactly the way
it's going to come and unfold.
00:43:31.71\00:43:34.71
You will know that.
00:43:34.74\00:43:36.08
Revelation 18 talks about that.
00:43:36.11\00:43:37.98
Let's just turn, I'll
just read one more quickly
00:43:38.01\00:43:39.71
in case maybe
we've forgotten this now.
00:43:39.75\00:43:41.92
I know it's getting late
but just a couple minutes.
00:43:41.95\00:43:44.29
Revelation chapter 18, and
again, the Bible says this.
00:43:44.32\00:43:47.86
Revelation 18:21,
starting with 21 says,
00:43:47.89\00:43:50.99
"A mighty angel took up a
stone like a great millstone,
00:43:51.03\00:43:54.23
and cast it
into the sea, saying,
00:43:54.26\00:43:55.76
'Thus with violence shall that
00:43:55.80\00:43:57.50
great city of
Babylon be thrown down,
00:43:57.53\00:43:59.70
and shall be
found no more at all.'"
00:43:59.73\00:44:01.54
Remember, not only
we're talking ancient Babylon,
00:44:01.57\00:44:03.51
we're talking
spiritual Babylon today.
00:44:03.54\00:44:06.07
Think about it.
00:44:06.11\00:44:07.44
"And the voice of the harpers,
and musicians, and pipers,
00:44:07.48\00:44:09.64
and trumpeters,
shall be heard no more."
00:44:09.68\00:44:11.71
No more warnings, no
more of any, you know,
00:44:11.75\00:44:14.15
get ready, get ready, get ready
because they've all been given.
00:44:14.18\00:44:16.62
Notice this, no more at all.
00:44:16.65\00:44:18.45
"No craftsman, of
whatsoever craft he be,
00:44:18.49\00:44:20.89
shall be found any more in thee,
00:44:20.92\00:44:22.32
and the sound of a millstone
shall be heard no more,"
00:44:22.36\00:44:25.83
there is a time
coming when it's all over.
00:44:25.86\00:44:29.36
"And the light of a candle
still shine no more in thee,
00:44:29.40\00:44:32.30
and the voice of the
bridegroom and the bride
00:44:32.33\00:44:34.47
shall be heard no
more at all in thee,
00:44:34.50\00:44:36.60
for thy merchants
00:44:36.64\00:44:37.97
were the great men of the earth"
00:44:38.01\00:44:40.38
notice this, "for by thy
00:44:40.41\00:44:43.11
sorceries were
all nations" what?
00:44:43.14\00:44:45.48
"Deceived."
00:44:45.51\00:44:46.85
The witch craft of the devil,
the enemy himself working what?
00:44:46.88\00:44:49.85
Miracle.
00:44:49.88\00:44:51.22
The nation is deceived
by the devil, by the enemy.
00:44:51.25\00:44:55.16
"And in her was found the blood
of the prophets, and of saints,
00:44:55.19\00:44:57.59
and of all that were
slain upon the earth."
00:44:57.63\00:45:00.00
You know, enemy is a killer.
00:45:00.03\00:45:02.23
And you know why?
He's no different.
00:45:02.26\00:45:03.80
He's out to kill
you, he's out to kill me.
00:45:03.83\00:45:07.17
He wants to get rid of
you because you love Jesus.
00:45:07.20\00:45:09.64
You need not be afraid of him.
00:45:09.67\00:45:11.01
Jesus is your protector.
00:45:11.04\00:45:14.21
The Bible says,
00:45:14.24\00:45:15.58
we'll not be
able to buy or sell.
00:45:15.61\00:45:18.51
Laws are going to be
passed to secure obedience,
00:45:18.55\00:45:24.09
you see, to the dictates
of the image to the beasts
00:45:24.12\00:45:28.32
which we need to be
aware of, we need to be steady,
00:45:28.36\00:45:30.39
if you don't realize
what this is all about.
00:45:30.43\00:45:32.49
And it certainly then
ends in a death decree.
00:45:32.53\00:45:35.73
This is how
serious the enemy is.
00:45:35.76\00:45:39.10
According to these passages
if we had time to study more,
00:45:39.13\00:45:41.74
and you read, The
Great Controversy,
00:45:41.77\00:45:44.01
page 443 through 448,
how interesting it will be,
00:45:44.04\00:45:48.21
you'll find state
and church will unite,
00:45:48.24\00:45:54.05
and they're going to do what?
00:45:54.08\00:45:55.42
What will they do?
00:45:55.45\00:45:57.42
Once they unite together,
00:45:57.45\00:45:58.79
it is going to be a
loss of religious liberty,
00:45:58.82\00:46:02.16
and freedom,
certainly of speech,
00:46:02.19\00:46:04.16
and then
persecution on the minority,
00:46:04.19\00:46:08.36
persecution on the minority.
00:46:08.40\00:46:09.73
Tell me Seventh-day
Adventists are not a minority.
00:46:09.76\00:46:12.40
It's all said and done.
00:46:12.43\00:46:13.77
Persecution will come.
00:46:13.80\00:46:15.34
Persecution has
always come on the minority
00:46:15.37\00:46:18.54
through the
history of this country.
00:46:18.57\00:46:21.01
When there's a group that's set,
00:46:21.04\00:46:22.94
they want to get rid of them.
00:46:22.98\00:46:24.31
When these people
over here join together,
00:46:24.35\00:46:26.78
they always want to get
the smaller group over here.
00:46:26.82\00:46:29.65
Nothing
different, remember that.
00:46:29.68\00:46:32.02
Revelation 13:12, we
can't read it right now.
00:46:32.05\00:46:34.56
But notice what it says,
00:46:34.59\00:46:35.92
"And he exerciseth all the power
00:46:35.96\00:46:37.56
of the first beast
before him," Revelation 13:12,
00:46:37.59\00:46:40.93
"And causeth the earth and them
00:46:40.96\00:46:42.30
which dwell therein
shall worship the first beast,
00:46:42.33\00:46:45.90
whose deadly wound was healed."
00:46:45.93\00:46:47.77
That would be the
papacy, wouldn't it?
00:46:47.80\00:46:50.27
Yeah.
00:46:50.31\00:46:52.27
Just talking
about the president,
00:46:52.31\00:46:53.64
just had to have a, you know,
00:46:53.68\00:46:55.58
meeting with, like
all the presidents,
00:46:55.61\00:46:57.28
like if you meet with the pope.
00:46:57.31\00:46:59.01
You know, let's
be fair about it.
00:46:59.05\00:47:00.38
Let's protest this.
00:47:00.42\00:47:01.88
He should be
meeting with all the other
00:47:01.92\00:47:04.75
pastors of all faiths
or something, shouldn't he?
00:47:04.79\00:47:07.82
Why is it always the pope?
00:47:07.86\00:47:10.89
John, why is it always the pope?
00:47:10.93\00:47:13.23
Yeah, makes it throw
your hand on the pope.
00:47:13.26\00:47:15.36
No, he's no
different than anybody else.
00:47:15.40\00:47:16.77
He put his pants on one leg
at a time like the rest of us.
00:47:16.80\00:47:20.54
No, it's okay, it's all right
00:47:20.57\00:47:21.90
because that's
the way that it is.
00:47:21.94\00:47:23.54
But why is that that way?
00:47:23.57\00:47:25.11
Because the enemy
has set it up that way,
00:47:25.14\00:47:27.34
that's why.
00:47:27.38\00:47:28.71
Because all the world
will wander after the beast
00:47:28.74\00:47:31.05
and there are those
whose names are not written
00:47:31.08\00:47:33.18
in the Lamb's book of life.
00:47:33.21\00:47:35.48
This is what it's all about.
00:47:35.52\00:47:36.85
This is what it's
leading up to right now.
00:47:36.89\00:47:38.42
We can see it.
00:47:38.45\00:47:40.92
Manuscript 135, 1902,
says, "The time is coming,"
00:47:40.96\00:47:44.53
Manuscript, 135, 1902,
00:47:44.56\00:47:47.46
"The time is
coming when God's people
00:47:47.50\00:47:49.26
will feel the
hand of persecution
00:47:49.30\00:47:51.30
because they keep
holy the seventh day."
00:47:51.33\00:47:53.54
They are going to find what?
00:47:53.57\00:47:55.47
Persecution
because they keep holy
00:47:55.50\00:47:57.31
the seventh day of the week.
00:47:57.34\00:47:59.71
Letter 38, 1892,
listen carefully.
00:47:59.74\00:48:04.18
Letter 38, 1892.
00:48:04.21\00:48:06.72
"Satan has 1,000 mask batteries
00:48:06.75\00:48:09.82
which will be opened up
on the loyal commandment
00:48:09.85\00:48:12.85
keeping people of
God to compel them
00:48:12.89\00:48:15.66
to violate conscience."
00:48:15.69\00:48:18.06
Didn't say violate anything,
00:48:18.09\00:48:19.43
go out and do something
with their hands, right?
00:48:19.46\00:48:21.23
Just to violate the conscience.
00:48:21.26\00:48:23.60
"As a man thinketh
in his heart, so is he."
00:48:23.63\00:48:27.07
He has what?
00:48:27.10\00:48:28.44
He has to say he has
a 1000 mask batteries.
00:48:28.47\00:48:31.27
In other words, he
has plans, deceptive plans
00:48:31.31\00:48:35.21
to get you and
me off of the track.
00:48:35.24\00:48:39.11
The enemy will use
wealth and money, we know it,
00:48:39.15\00:48:41.72
to destroy the world.
00:48:41.75\00:48:44.99
As I mentioned,
the economists differ
00:48:45.02\00:48:47.02
on their
explanation of how a country
00:48:47.06\00:48:49.52
leaves the term of, notice this,
00:48:49.56\00:48:51.46
how they leave
the term of inflation
00:48:51.49\00:48:53.70
and they use hyper inflation,
that's an interesting word,
00:48:53.73\00:48:57.17
and then enters
the talk about here,
00:48:57.20\00:48:59.60
the stratosphere of
this hyper inflation,
00:48:59.63\00:49:02.74
these are regular, quickly.
00:49:02.77\00:49:04.71
Economists don't even
know how to explain it.
00:49:04.74\00:49:06.78
They don't know,
they're just thinking,
00:49:06.81\00:49:08.14
they're hoping,
"Everything's going good,"
00:49:08.18\00:49:09.51
and they're
trying, and they're very...
00:49:09.54\00:49:10.88
Listen, if you get on
there as some common economist
00:49:10.91\00:49:13.45
and you don't give somewhat
of a positive to the nation
00:49:13.48\00:49:16.38
as we've seen in times past,
you don't get on there anymore.
00:49:16.42\00:49:20.89
You get scolded and reprimanded,
00:49:20.92\00:49:23.29
and you better
change your approach
00:49:23.32\00:49:26.43
because they know
the people will panic,
00:49:26.46\00:49:27.80
and run and try to
take their money out,
00:49:27.83\00:49:29.20
and you really have a collapse.
00:49:29.23\00:49:31.13
Time magazine,
3/10/1980, says this.
00:49:31.17\00:49:35.64
This is the former
Federal Reserve chairman,
00:49:35.67\00:49:39.14
Arthur Burns, he said this.
00:49:39.17\00:49:40.98
"At that time, it
appears that anything is better
00:49:41.01\00:49:44.25
than holding money.
00:49:44.28\00:49:45.98
People start putting
everything into tangible goods
00:49:46.01\00:49:50.59
they can find."
00:49:50.62\00:49:51.95
When they see that
it's folding all up,
00:49:51.99\00:49:54.06
they're
grabbing all their money,
00:49:54.09\00:49:55.42
they're trying to buy something
that's tangible, anything,
00:49:55.46\00:49:57.36
they don't want to hold
on to the money anymore,
00:49:57.39\00:49:58.93
they see it's useless.
00:49:58.96\00:50:00.30
The Bible said
what? Give it to the bats.
00:50:00.33\00:50:01.70
That's where it's gone.
00:50:01.73\00:50:03.06
It's useless anymore.
00:50:03.10\00:50:05.23
Here, you have the
Federal Reserve chairman
00:50:05.27\00:50:08.50
saying this.
00:50:08.54\00:50:09.87
It is by far back as
1980 saying be careful.
00:50:09.90\00:50:11.77
This is what's going to happen.
00:50:11.81\00:50:13.21
Let me give you
couple of examples
00:50:13.24\00:50:14.58
before we close.
00:50:14.61\00:50:15.94
In Germany.
00:50:15.98\00:50:18.21
You say, "Well,
this can never happen."
00:50:18.25\00:50:19.65
In Germany, between World War I,
00:50:19.68\00:50:22.42
are we there,
00:50:22.45\00:50:23.79
World War I and World
War II, example, right?
00:50:23.82\00:50:27.72
Think about it.
00:50:27.76\00:50:29.09
They suffered, listen carefully,
00:50:29.12\00:50:30.96
4 trillion percent inflation.
00:50:30.99\00:50:35.46
World War I and World War II,
00:50:35.50\00:50:36.83
they suffered a 4
trillion percent inflation.
00:50:36.87\00:50:40.94
We're worried about
one, two, three, or four.
00:50:40.97\00:50:43.20
Some of us are
ruined if it goes...
00:50:43.24\00:50:44.87
Where we borrow money
on 4% and they raise at 8%,
00:50:44.91\00:50:48.18
we can't make the payment.
00:50:48.21\00:50:49.54
Somebody not with me?
00:50:49.58\00:50:51.55
Four little
percent, we're in trouble.
00:50:51.58\00:50:55.62
Yeah. You know?
00:50:55.65\00:50:57.59
And used to, you could only
get a car loan for three years.
00:50:57.62\00:51:01.62
Now you get them
for, what, six or seven,
00:51:01.66\00:51:03.39
or so and they just brand,
it's not even worth anything,
00:51:03.43\00:51:05.86
any time you.
00:51:05.89\00:51:07.36
Things are changing.
00:51:07.40\00:51:10.17
Notice how that reads.
00:51:10.20\00:51:12.73
How could
something like this happen?
00:51:12.77\00:51:16.20
Think about it.
00:51:16.24\00:51:18.51
Four trillion percent.
00:51:18.54\00:51:20.34
Time magazine,
3/10/1980, says this.
00:51:20.38\00:51:23.81
Example.
00:51:23.85\00:51:25.18
"In 1914, in Germany,
00:51:25.21\00:51:27.75
you could buy a pound
of butter for 1.5 Marks.
00:51:27.78\00:51:31.49
You could buy a
pound of butter for what?
00:51:31.52\00:51:33.62
One and a half Marks.
00:51:33.66\00:51:36.09
In 1918, so you
have close to four years,
00:51:36.12\00:51:40.00
is sold for three Marks.
00:51:40.03\00:51:42.03
So there you would have to say,
00:51:42.06\00:51:43.40
okay, that's slow
inflation, isn't it?
00:51:43.43\00:51:45.83
That's slow inflation.
00:51:45.87\00:51:48.17
But notice, in
the spring of 1922,
00:51:48.20\00:51:52.24
a pound of butter
00:51:52.27\00:51:54.11
sold for 2,400 Marks.
00:51:54.14\00:51:58.31
That's called
galloping, right, inflation.
00:51:58.35\00:52:01.48
Did you get it?
00:52:01.52\00:52:02.85
Two thousand four hundred.
00:52:02.88\00:52:04.22
Now, notice.
00:52:04.25\00:52:05.59
In the summer of
1922, we're talking months,
00:52:05.62\00:52:08.36
futile months here, you know,
00:52:08.39\00:52:10.83
a pound of butter
sold for 150,000 Marks.
00:52:10.86\00:52:16.46
Pound of butter,
150,000 Marks, hyper inflation.
00:52:16.50\00:52:21.80
We went summer, now we go
00:52:21.84\00:52:23.17
just to the fall of
the same year, 1922.
00:52:23.20\00:52:26.78
A pound of butter
00:52:26.81\00:52:28.58
sold for six billion Marks.
00:52:28.61\00:52:33.31
In a matter a few months, Mark,
00:52:33.35\00:52:34.68
it's sold for six billion Marks,
00:52:34.72\00:52:38.99
or 1.5 million
00:52:39.02\00:52:44.53
American dollars
00:52:44.56\00:52:46.56
for a pound of butter.
00:52:46.59\00:52:48.03
You tell me that
country weren't in trouble.
00:52:48.06\00:52:49.96
You tell me they
weren't in trouble.
00:52:53.50\00:52:55.80
Yes.
00:52:55.84\00:52:58.84
So the government's thought was,
00:52:58.87\00:53:01.41
"We'll print some
Marks," their money,
00:53:01.44\00:53:04.45
"We'll print them."
00:53:04.48\00:53:05.88
And so they began to print them
00:53:05.91\00:53:07.52
in one million
dollar denominations.
00:53:07.55\00:53:12.22
You know, we have $20 or a $100.
00:53:12.25\00:53:14.16
They printed
them in one million.
00:53:14.19\00:53:16.42
That way they didn't
have to have, you know,
00:53:16.46\00:53:18.76
big stacks of them.
00:53:18.79\00:53:22.53
But it still meant, when
you went to buy groceries,
00:53:22.56\00:53:26.60
and you've seen this
probably in magazines
00:53:26.63\00:53:28.34
and different things,
00:53:28.37\00:53:30.51
you had to take your
money in a wheelbarrow.
00:53:30.54\00:53:34.98
You had to have a wheelbarrow
of money in the marketplace
00:53:35.01\00:53:37.61
to buy a loaf of bread
00:53:37.65\00:53:41.15
because it sold for
00:53:41.18\00:53:42.52
168 billion Marks.
00:53:42.55\00:53:47.76
A loaf of bread.
00:53:47.79\00:53:49.12
Interesting point.
00:53:51.83\00:53:53.16
When we reach this
hyperinflation like this,
00:53:53.19\00:53:57.40
wouldn't it just be easier
00:53:57.43\00:53:58.77
to have some
common one little card
00:53:58.80\00:54:03.14
rather than all just
going around on wheelbarrows.
00:54:03.17\00:54:07.18
Wouldn't it be
interesting? Just think.
00:54:07.21\00:54:11.48
Just a single card for
all of our transactions,
00:54:11.51\00:54:14.88
all of our information on it.
00:54:14.92\00:54:17.99
Second Selected
Messages, 354 says,
00:54:18.02\00:54:21.16
"Let every man be
wide awake for himself,
00:54:21.19\00:54:25.83
and try to save his family...
00:54:25.86\00:54:30.17
God will reveal
from point to point
00:54:30.20\00:54:33.87
what to do next."
00:54:33.90\00:54:36.47
You know, it's our sermon title,
00:54:36.50\00:54:37.84
what it is?
00:54:37.87\00:54:39.21
We need to try save our family.
00:54:43.08\00:54:47.25
And here, the
spirit of prophecy says,
00:54:47.28\00:54:48.88
"Let every man be
wide awake for himself,
00:54:48.92\00:54:51.62
and try to save his family."
00:54:51.65\00:54:53.46
And if he does
that, God will reveal
00:54:53.49\00:54:55.59
from step to step
what he has to do.
00:54:55.62\00:54:58.93
If you're not
trying, he's not going...
00:54:58.96\00:55:00.36
I'm telling you,
he won't reveal it.
00:55:00.40\00:55:02.56
He will not reveal
00:55:02.60\00:55:04.27
if you're not willing
to follow him step by step.
00:55:04.30\00:55:08.37
Wouldn't it be nice
that we would say, you know,
00:55:08.40\00:55:10.31
we need to just put it out
00:55:10.34\00:55:12.34
before the Lord
as we close today?
00:55:12.37\00:55:14.34
This part of...
There's much more coming.
00:55:14.38\00:55:16.34
You're going to see
a lot more inflation,
00:55:16.38\00:55:17.91
you're going to see a
whole lot more that could go on,
00:55:17.95\00:55:19.98
that can happen
overnight, and that can change,
00:55:20.02\00:55:22.48
that hopefully would change
your heart, my heart, my life,
00:55:22.52\00:55:26.35
so that we can be ready.
00:55:26.39\00:55:28.52
We need to reach out.
00:55:28.56\00:55:30.19
We need to be prepared
to help save our families
00:55:30.23\00:55:34.03
because a lot of them
have no idea what's going on.
00:55:34.06\00:55:35.80
They don't go to
church, they don't pray,
00:55:35.83\00:55:37.17
they don't
study the Word of God.
00:55:37.20\00:55:38.63
We need to realize this
00:55:41.94\00:55:45.14
has taken place
in earth's history.
00:55:45.17\00:55:47.28
Remember, history will be what?
00:55:47.31\00:55:49.04
Repeated.
00:55:49.08\00:55:50.81
It's going to be
worse than it was
00:55:50.85\00:55:52.58
destruction of Jerusalem.
00:55:52.61\00:55:54.55
Think about it. Worse.
00:55:54.58\00:55:57.99
And so we need
maybe a relationship
00:55:58.02\00:56:00.16
that we do not have
with Christ, right now.
00:56:00.19\00:56:04.19
If you don't have
it, I guarantee you,
00:56:04.23\00:56:05.93
you can't hold on.
00:56:05.96\00:56:07.90
You just can't hold
on unless you love Him
00:56:07.93\00:56:09.90
with your whole
heart, your mind and soul.
00:56:09.93\00:56:12.33
Unless you put Him first,
00:56:12.37\00:56:15.14
unless you say, I like it too,
00:56:15.17\00:56:19.17
"Church first,
00:56:19.21\00:56:20.88
and then the other
things later," that means what?
00:56:20.91\00:56:24.28
God first.
00:56:24.31\00:56:25.85
Putting God first and
all these other things
00:56:25.88\00:56:28.58
will be added unto you.
00:56:28.62\00:56:30.12
Step by step, I
will reveal a plan
00:56:30.15\00:56:32.42
for your life if you're willing.
00:56:32.45\00:56:37.36
And I want to be willing.
00:56:37.39\00:56:39.23
I don't want to be
called with all that stuff
00:56:39.26\00:56:40.90
that will come back in
the judgment to say, "Ah."
00:56:40.93\00:56:44.33
Remember, that
that you've held on to
00:56:44.37\00:56:46.97
will be the very
evidence that caused you,
00:56:47.00\00:56:49.14
just kind of be this
playing with to be burnt,
00:56:49.17\00:56:52.51
to be burned in hell.
00:56:52.54\00:56:54.64
There's the evidence.
00:56:54.68\00:56:57.15
I don't need any evidence,
I want mine wiped clean.
00:56:57.18\00:56:59.05
I don't know about you.
00:56:59.08\00:57:01.12
By the grace of God,
00:57:01.15\00:57:02.48
how many would like
to say with me today,
00:57:02.52\00:57:03.85
"You know, I want this,
00:57:03.89\00:57:05.52
I want to know this information,
00:57:05.55\00:57:07.29
I want to be able to pass it on,
00:57:07.32\00:57:08.66
I want to be ready,
I want to be prepared.
00:57:08.69\00:57:11.43
I want the knowledge
that only God can give.
00:57:11.46\00:57:15.70
Then I want to
be able to walk in.
00:57:15.73\00:57:17.07
I want him to
reveal step by step
00:57:17.10\00:57:20.10
what I need to do to
be ready for His coming."
00:57:20.14\00:57:22.80