People have set dates
for the return of Christ.
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So far, all have
embarrassingly failed.
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But is there some way
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we can tell when
Christ will return.
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Could Christ return in our day?
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And are there signs that
point to this tremendous event.
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What will happen
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when and if He returns soon?
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A question that
many people ask is this,
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"Could Christ
return in our day?"
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Is it possible
that Christ could return
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in this generation?
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Many people think yes.
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But there's one thing
that is very, very clear.
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We got to be very, very careful
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about setting dates.
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Because there's been
lots and lots of good people
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who have been very
good at setting dates.
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Wasn't that long
ago, people were saying
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that Christ was
going to come in 2000 AD,
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you know this, don't you?
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I had people come
to me and they'd say,
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"Christ is going to
come in 2000 AD, why?
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Well, the earth
is 6,000 years old,
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and the millennium,
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its 1,000 years, about to start.
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And they say, "It's
exactly, 2,000 years
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since the birth of Jesus.
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Have you heard this?
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But that's problematic
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because Jesus wasn't
born when most people think
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He was born.
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The Bible says, He was actually
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born in the days
of Herod the Great.
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And Herod died in March 4 BC.
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Did you get that?
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So Jesus was born at
least 5 BC or 6 BC or 7 BC.
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So the year 2000
was actually 2006 years
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or so from the birth of Jesus.
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So that throws
that theory completely.
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Of course, you all know
about BC time and AD time.
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In conventional circles,
BC stands for before Christ.
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AD, what does AD stand for?
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No, no, not after death.
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No, no, no, not after death.
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The Latin, Anno Domini,
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"In the year of our Lord."
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The president gave a
pronouncement the other day
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and he said, "In the year
of our Lord, Anno Domini."
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So when we say 2019, 2020 AD,
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in the year of our Lord.
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But we got it wrong
there by a number of years.
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If you go to Israel, they
don't have BC and AD time,
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they have BCE which
means before the Common Era
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because they don't believe
that Jesus is the Messiah.
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And if you go to
China and other places
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that are
atheistic, they have BCE time,
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and then they have CE time,
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which is the Common Era.
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But I still stand by BC and AD.
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Would you look at Matthew 2:1,
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Matthew 2:1, my friend,
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if you don't mind?
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Matthew 2:1, it says,
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"Now after Jesus was
born in Bethlehem of Judea
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in the days of," what?
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"Herod the king,
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behold, wise men from
the East came to Jerusalem."
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And so Jesus was born,
we believe, in 4 or 5 BC.
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When the first millennial came,
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millennium came,
1000 AD, Anno Domini,
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a lots of people in the world
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believed that Christ
was going to come then.
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Then in 1844, the Millerites
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thought that
Christ was going to come,
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October 22, 1844.
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Right on the date, but
very wrong in the event.
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Since then, other
time setters, 1874,
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that didn't
work, let's try 1878.
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1914 was taught by
some of our friends,
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then 1925.
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They actually build a
house here in California
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for all the saints to go
and live in like Abraham.
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In 1988 that conspicuous
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prognosticator or Bible student
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Hal Lindsey taught that Christ
was going to come in 1988.
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This was taught around the world
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on Trinity Broadcasting,
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when it didn't happen,
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well, they just went on
doing the same old thing, 1988.
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Would you come with me
now to Matthew 24:36 and 42?
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Matthew Chapter 24,
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and verse, you see, verse 36.
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Have you got that?
Matthew 24:36 then 42.
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But of that day
and hour no one knows,
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not even the angels of
heaven, but My Father only..."
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So why do we try to set date?
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I don't know.
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And verse 42, "Watch therefore,"
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He says, "for you
do not know what hour
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your Lord is coming."
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So the Bible is very plain.
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Nobody knows the day or the hour
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when Christ is going to come.
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But note this,
we do not know when,
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but we do know that His
coming is an absolute certainly.
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We're absolutely
certain that He is going to come
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because everything in creation
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moves towards
that great final event.
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When you go and study history,
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we know that the universe
was made by the hand of God.
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We know this is a fact.
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Then the Bible
says that Christ came
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the very moment the
clock of heaven struck.
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The Bible says, "In
the fullness of time."
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And the Bible tells us
that God has got a plan
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and a purpose for this universe,
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a plan and a
purpose for this planet,
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and a plan and a purpose for us.
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And Christ is going to
come exactly at the right time
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because God has got
a plan and a purpose.
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Would you look
at Galatians 4:4, 5,
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words of the Apostle Paul?
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Galatians 4:4, 5,
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"But when the
fullness of the time had come,"
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you notice that?
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"Fullness of the time had come,
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God sent forth His Son
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born of a woman,
born under the law,
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to redeem those
who were under the law,
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that we might receive
the adoption as sons."
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The Bible says,
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"It happened in
the fullness of time."
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So God has got a
time for everything
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and for every person.
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So we cannot tell the exact time
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when Christ is going to come,
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but we can know.
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I want you to know this,
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we can know when
His coming is near.
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Would you come to Matthew 24:33,
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Matthew 24:33
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to the words of Jesus.
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Jesus said, "So you
also, when you see,"
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what does He say?
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"All these things, when
you see all these things,
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know that it is
near at the doors!"
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So if I'm at the
door, I'm pretty close.
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And so in the Bible,
in the Bible prophecies,
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God through the prophets
gave certain great signs.
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We're going to
notice some of these today.
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And Jesus said, "When you see
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all these great
signs being fulfilled,
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you will know
that My coming is near,
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right at the very door."
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And today as we move
along, we're going to notice
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some of those great signs.
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But firstly,
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great truths about the
return of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Some great
truths about His return.
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Number one, this is amazing.
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When He returns,
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He comes back
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as the king of the universe.
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He comes back as
the Almighty Creator
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who made the universe.
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He doesn't come back
as a tiny little baby,
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but He comes
back as King of kings,
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and Lord of lords.
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And I want you to
turn to this text.
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I want you to come
to Revelation 19:11-14.
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And people say,
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"Why do you have so many texts?"
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Because our authority is
not the teaching of the church,
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our authority is the teaching
of the Word of God, the Bible.
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So please notice
Revelation Chapter 19,
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"Now I saw heaven opened,"
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now this is a symbolic picture.
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"And behold, a white horse."
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You don't take this literally.
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This is like just a great
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panoramic
picture, great parable.
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"And He who sat on him
was called Faithful and True,
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and in righteousness
He judges and makes war.
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His eyes were
like a flame of fire,
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on His head were many crowns.
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He had a name
written that no one knew
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except Himself.
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He was clothed with a
robe dipped in blood,"
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because He died for
our sins on the cross.
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He's got a robe as
it were dipped in blood.
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Then it says,
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"His name is
called the Word of God.
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And the armies in
heaven, clothed in fine linen,
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white and clean, followed Him
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on white horses."
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Great prophetic portrayal.
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It's the picture of
the King of the universe
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coming with tremendous power,
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and coming with
tremendous glory.
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I want you to notice this.
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This is not the little
baby born in Bethlehem.
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It's not just the gentle Jesus,
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meek and mild,
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this is the Almighty
God who made the universe,
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the Almighty
God who became a man
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and was crucified on
the cross for our sins.
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And the Bible tells us,
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the human race has
an appointment with Him.
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And He's going to come back,
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and He's coming
back in great power
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and great glory.
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And He comes...
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I want you to notice this.
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He doesn't come by Himself,
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He comes with
supernatural armies.
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It's quite
astounding, it's quite amazing
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that this is going to
happen, and I believe soon.
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Look at
Revelation 19:15, 16, please.
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Revelation 19:15, 16,
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"Now out of His
mouth goes a sharp sword."
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Not literally, not
a literal sharp sword.
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This is talking about the
mighty power of His words,
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the mighty power
of His utterances,
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"that with it He
should strike the nations.
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And He Himself will
rule them with a rod of iron.
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He Himself treads the
winepress of the fierceness
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and wrath of Almighty God.
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He has on His
robe and on His thigh
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a name written,
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King of kings,
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Lord of lords."
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I would suggest to you today
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that this is the
greatest event in the history
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of the human race.
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One day, everybody is
going to kneel before Him.
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You're going to
kneel before Him.
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Nebuchadnezzar in
the Old Testament,
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he's got to kneel down,
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and Belshazzar is
going to kneel down.
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A Caesar is going to
kneel down, I'm telling you.
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Herod the Great,
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who killed all
the little baby boys,
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he's going to kneel down.
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All the mighty Pharaohs
are going to kneel down.
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Ramses the Great,
he's going to get down
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on his knees, on his face.
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Ramses is going to kneel down.
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The Caesars, all of them,
they're going to kneel down.
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All of the popes
are going to kneel down.
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All of the kings and
the queens of Great Britain,
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they're going to kneel down.
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Everybody's going to kneel down.
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All the presidents
of the United States
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are going to kneel down.
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Stalin is going to kneel down.
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Lennon, President Khrushchev,
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it's like the movie, The
Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
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The good, the bad, and the ugly,
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they're going to kneel down.
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I've got a
message for you today.
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Look at me, you're
going to kneel down.
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You may deny
His existence today.
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You may say, "I
don't believe in the Bible,
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I don't believe in Christ."
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I have news for you.
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You're going to kneel down
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and worship Him,
all men and women,
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the weak and the strong,
rich and the poor, everybody.
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That's the first great truth,
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He's going to
come as a mighty king.
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And here's the second
great truth, why He comes.
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He comes to save His own people.
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Did you know this?
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That is why if you
truly believe in Christ,
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you're going to have a
tremendous joy in your soul
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because the King
is going to come.
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Did you know,
God has got a book,
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and He's got the names
of His people in that book?
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I want you to come
to Revelation 20:12,
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last book in the Bible,
we call it the Apocalypse.
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Revelation 20:12,
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it says, "And I saw the dead,
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small and great,
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standing before God,
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and books were opened.
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And another book was opened,
which is the Book of Life.
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And the dead were judged
according to their works,
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by the things
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which were
written in the books."
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I want you to think about this.
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And the Bible
all the way through
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use a symbolic language.
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The Bible is full of parables.
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And the Book of
Revelation, especially,
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just full of symbolic language.
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It says, the God has got a book.
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Now, I don't know
what this book is like,
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but it means
that God has a record.
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You say, "I don't believe it."
00:16:34.59\00:16:35.92
Well, whether you
believe it or not,
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that doesn't
really matter, does it?
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God has got a
record of every life,
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and God has got
this book that is called
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the Book of Life.
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You know how you get
your name in that book?
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You get your name in
that book by coming to Christ,
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and by believing in Christ,
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and therefore we
should ask ourselves
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this question,
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"Is my name written
in the Book of Life?"
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Because when Christ returns,
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it's going to be a day
of tremendous celebration
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and a tremendous day of joy,
00:17:12.43\00:17:15.50
if my name is
written in the Book of Life.
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Because the Bible
teaches when Christ comes back,
00:17:18.67\00:17:21.10
and this is almost
too hard to believe.
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The Bible teaches,
"When Christ comes back,"
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you're listening to this.
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Christ is going to give a shout,
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voice of the archangel,
00:17:34.38\00:17:36.89
and the dead are going
to come out of their tombs.
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You say, "It's impossible."
00:17:40.09\00:17:42.32
Impossible for
you, impossible for me,
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but we're talking here
about the Lord of the universe.
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And He gives a shout,
there's a mighty resurrection.
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I want you to
come to John 5:28, 29,
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John 5:28, 29,
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John 5:28, 29,
00:18:03.65\00:18:07.42
Jesus said, "Do
not marvel at this,
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for the hour is coming
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in which all who
are in the graves
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will hear His voice,"
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that's you, me, "and come forth,
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those who have done good,
to the resurrection of life,
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and those who have done evil,
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to the
resurrection of condemnation."
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Or as it says in
another translation,
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resurrection of damnation.
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So the Bible
teaches, when Christ returns,
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He is going to raise the dead.
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And millions of people
are going to hear His voice,
00:18:45.89\00:18:50.53
and they're going to
come up out of their tombs
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even if they were buried at sea,
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they're still
going to come back.
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The Bible teaches though,
in the Book of Revelation,
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that there are two resurrections
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a 1,000 years apart.
00:19:04.61\00:19:06.84
And you can read that
in Revelation 20:4, 5, 6,
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Revelation 20:4, 5, 6,
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two resurrections of
the good and the bad,
00:19:14.35\00:19:19.79
"And I saw thrones,
and they sat on them,
00:19:19.82\00:19:22.02
and judgment was
committed to them.
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Then I saw the souls of
those who had been beheaded
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for their witness to
Jesus and for the word of God,
00:19:26.80\00:19:30.20
who would not worship
the beast or his image,"
00:19:30.23\00:19:32.23
they didn't
follow the antichrist,
00:19:32.27\00:19:35.64
"and had not received his mark
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on their foreheads
or on their hands."
00:19:37.84\00:19:40.01
You better understand that.
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"And they lived
and reigned with Christ
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for a thousand years."
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So they're
resurrected, they come to life,
00:19:46.15\00:19:48.48
they're
resurrected, they come to life,
00:19:48.52\00:19:50.49
and they reigned with
Christ for 1,000 years.
00:19:50.52\00:19:53.05
But it says, "But
the rest of the dead,"
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they would be the
wicked, you see this?
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"The rest of the
dead did not live again
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until the thousand
years were finished.
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This is the first resurrection.
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Blessed and holy is he who has
part in the first resurrection.
00:20:04.27\00:20:07.87
Over such the
second death has no power,
00:20:07.90\00:20:10.14
but they shall be
priests of God and of Christ,
00:20:10.17\00:20:12.47
and shall reign with
Him a thousand years."
00:20:12.51\00:20:14.88
Now look at me.
00:20:14.91\00:20:16.58
The Bible says,
"When Christ comes back,
00:20:16.61\00:20:20.92
it's a tremendous resurrection.
00:20:20.95\00:20:23.95
It's the
resurrection of the righteous,
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those who got their
names in the Book of Life."
00:20:26.69\00:20:30.43
Then the Bible says, "The earth
is desolate for 1,000 years.
00:20:30.46\00:20:34.40
And after the 1,000
years, Christ comes back again.
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And there is the
great resurrection
00:20:39.33\00:20:44.24
of the wicked."
00:20:44.27\00:20:46.84
So let me tell you this,
00:20:46.88\00:20:49.44
it doesn't matter who you are,
00:20:49.48\00:20:53.35
you're going to be resurrected.
00:20:53.38\00:20:56.42
You can walk out of
this meeting today and say,
00:20:56.45\00:20:59.02
"I don't believe it.
00:20:59.05\00:21:00.39
I don't believe
any of this stuff,"
00:21:00.42\00:21:01.96
you're still
going to be resurrected.
00:21:01.99\00:21:04.73
Every person, every person here,
00:21:04.76\00:21:06.73
every person
watching our telecast
00:21:06.76\00:21:08.76
that is now seen on
hundreds of television stations
00:21:08.80\00:21:11.03
around the world, every person,
00:21:11.07\00:21:13.70
every person is
going to be resurrected.
00:21:13.74\00:21:17.77
As I look around,
00:21:17.81\00:21:19.44
I find that many of my
old college friends have gone.
00:21:19.47\00:21:24.25
We're all on a
journey to the grave.
00:21:24.28\00:21:26.98
As the hymn says, "We're going
down the valley one by one."
00:21:27.02\00:21:30.22
But we have an
appointment with God.
00:21:34.76\00:21:37.59
Years ago, Beverley and I
took my dad to a little town
00:21:37.63\00:21:40.43
by the name of
Esk in Queensland,
00:21:40.46\00:21:43.06
which is just a few
miles outside of Brisbane.
00:21:43.10\00:21:45.57
We went there
because my father wanted
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to go to his father's grave.
00:21:47.70\00:21:49.64
My father at that
time was not a believer.
00:21:49.67\00:21:51.94
And as he looked down
at his father's grave,
00:21:51.97\00:21:54.01
he said,
00:21:54.04\00:21:55.38
"Well, we all have
to come to this place,
00:21:55.41\00:21:57.55
and we all have
to go down there."
00:21:57.58\00:21:59.48
It's true.
00:21:59.51\00:22:01.58
But Beverley
said, "It's true, dad,
00:22:01.62\00:22:04.52
but we all don't
have to stay down there."
00:22:04.55\00:22:08.12
That's something you've
got to get in your soul.
00:22:08.16\00:22:11.76
You don't all have
to stay down there.
00:22:11.79\00:22:14.83
My father was brought up
in the Roman Catholic Church,
00:22:14.86\00:22:18.13
never read his Bible, had
no peace, had no security.
00:22:18.17\00:22:23.27
But after a period of time,
00:22:23.30\00:22:24.74
my old father
started to read his Bible
00:22:24.77\00:22:27.91
and he found Christ.
00:22:27.94\00:22:31.31
And he's going to come up,
00:22:31.35\00:22:32.68
I believe,
00:22:32.71\00:22:34.05
in the first resurrection.
00:22:34.08\00:22:36.48
This is the word of the Lord.
00:22:36.52\00:22:38.62
Is my name written
in the Book of Life
00:22:38.65\00:22:41.02
because the King is coming?
00:22:41.06\00:22:43.29
Now Christ returns,
here's the third reason,
00:22:43.32\00:22:46.06
third great truth, "He
returns to execute judgment
00:22:46.09\00:22:49.26
on a planet in rebellion."
00:22:49.30\00:22:52.87
And the text I'm going to
read is 2 Thessalonians 1:7-9,
00:22:52.90\00:22:58.51
He returns to execute judgment
upon a planet in rebellion,
00:22:58.54\00:23:05.01
"When the Lord Jesus
is revealed from heaven
00:23:05.05\00:23:07.35
with His mighty
angels, in flaming fire
00:23:07.38\00:23:10.12
taking vengeance on
those who do not know God,
00:23:10.15\00:23:14.92
and on those who do not obey
00:23:14.96\00:23:16.69
the gospel of our
Lord Jesus Christ.
00:23:16.73\00:23:18.79
These shall be punished
with everlasting destruction
00:23:18.83\00:23:22.66
from the presence of the Lord
00:23:22.70\00:23:24.43
and from the
glory of His power."
00:23:24.47\00:23:28.00
It's pretty strong, isn't it?
00:23:28.04\00:23:30.81
It says that Christ comes back
00:23:30.84\00:23:32.77
to redeem and to save His own,
00:23:32.81\00:23:36.18
but He comes back
to execute judgment.
00:23:36.21\00:23:40.08
Now I usually have
too much in my talks,
00:23:40.12\00:23:44.29
and I've got
some other texts that
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I'm just going to quote them,
I'm not going to look them up,
00:23:45.95\00:23:48.66
but if you're taking notes.
00:23:48.69\00:23:50.53
Jeremiah 4:23-26,
Jeremiah, 25:32, 33,
00:23:50.56\00:23:56.10
listen carefully.
00:23:56.13\00:23:57.47
The Bible says,
when Christ comes back,
00:23:57.50\00:24:01.67
the earth is on fire.
00:24:01.70\00:24:04.51
All the great cities are
broken down and destroyed.
00:24:04.54\00:24:08.84
There's a
tremendous resurrection.
00:24:08.88\00:24:12.35
God's people are raised.
00:24:12.38\00:24:14.68
God's living
saints are translated,
00:24:14.72\00:24:17.32
and they're caught up,
and taken home to glory.
00:24:17.35\00:24:19.35
But the Bible teaches
00:24:19.39\00:24:21.36
that those who reject the gospel
00:24:21.39\00:24:26.73
and the love of God
00:24:26.76\00:24:29.83
are met with the
fire of vengeance.
00:24:29.86\00:24:35.00
You'll say, "No,
no, no, it could,
00:24:35.04\00:24:36.37
it could never happen."
00:24:36.40\00:24:37.74
The Bible says, it
is going to happen.
00:24:37.77\00:24:42.44
Some years ago,
00:24:42.48\00:24:45.21
and I want to
give you some hope,
00:24:45.25\00:24:46.78
I was in Manila
planning to go to Manila again
00:24:46.82\00:24:49.82
to run a series of
evangelistic meetings.
00:24:49.85\00:24:52.35
I was there on death row,
00:24:52.39\00:24:54.59
and there were some men
00:24:54.62\00:24:55.96
who had committed
terrible acts, murder.
00:24:55.99\00:24:58.86
It is my
privilege to preach to them
00:24:58.89\00:25:00.90
the good news of Christ
00:25:00.93\00:25:02.26
that Christ had died
for them on the cross.
00:25:02.30\00:25:06.43
I want you to believe this,
00:25:06.47\00:25:07.80
Christ died for
you on the cross.
00:25:07.84\00:25:11.87
How can you spurn this love?
00:25:11.91\00:25:15.04
The creator of
the universe came down
00:25:15.08\00:25:17.01
and was crucified for your sins.
00:25:17.05\00:25:20.12
As I spoke about
this, these young men,
00:25:20.15\00:25:22.15
these young men just tear it up.
00:25:22.18\00:25:24.49
I appealed to
them to come to Christ,
00:25:24.52\00:25:26.25
they came to Christ.
00:25:26.29\00:25:27.89
They confessed their sins,
they repented of their sins.
00:25:27.92\00:25:32.86
Graham Bradford and I
went into adjoining room,
00:25:32.89\00:25:36.33
where they had a tank
of water, dirty water.
00:25:36.36\00:25:40.14
We baptized them in
the name of the Father,
00:25:40.17\00:25:42.24
Son, and Holy Spirit.
00:25:42.27\00:25:44.07
They came up out of the water,
and their faces were glowing
00:25:44.11\00:25:48.78
with a piece of heaven.
00:25:48.81\00:25:51.01
You know why?
00:25:51.05\00:25:52.71
Because one day those young men
00:25:52.75\00:25:57.75
are going to be
with Christ in glory,
00:25:57.79\00:26:02.49
and there's much more to come
00:26:02.52\00:26:05.49
when we talk
about seven great signs.
00:26:05.53\00:26:08.96
We'll be back.
00:26:09.00\00:26:10.90
The antichrist is
in the temple of God.
00:26:25.61\00:26:31.09
I will read you the actual words
00:26:31.12\00:26:33.69
of the great
Roman Catholic Church.
00:26:33.72\00:26:38.23
More than a billion
people pray to the dead.
00:26:38.26\00:26:43.67
But the Bible talks very
plainly about good angels
00:26:43.70\00:26:47.00
and bad angels.
00:26:47.04\00:26:51.54
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