I'm John Carter in Moscow.
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In Havana, Cuba.
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Now in Kiev, the
capital of Ukraine.
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I'm John Carter in Petra.
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Right here in Communist China.
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Reporting from India.
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Hi, I'm John Carter
in the Solomon Islands.
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I'm John Carter in Soweto.
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From El Salvador.
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I'm John Carter
in Sydney, Australia.
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Now, here's John
Carter with today's message.
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Welcome back to
this tremendous hour.
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This program is coming
from Southern California.
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I'm in the Carter Report Studio,
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got cameras, but
no camera people.
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Got lots of seats
here, but no people.
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No audience, got a
tiny skeleton crew upstairs
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led by my son David.
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And we're sending this
program around the world
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because we believe we're
living in this tremendous hour.
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And we believe we've
come to the end times.
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Now I've got something here.
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I spoke about it
in the last session.
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We've just done an eight
page Coronavirus virus bulletin,
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full of very,
very important facts.
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Where did the
COVID-19 virus come from?
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What can we do about it?
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Can we have hope?
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How can we sort of eliminate
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our chances of getting
this if that is possible?
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And so please
write to me friend,
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John Carter, P.O.
Box 1900 Thousand Oaks,
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California 91358.
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It's here in the United States.
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In Australia write to
make care of my friend,
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Pastor Harold Harker,
down there in Terrigal.
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We've got a box number
there, so please write to me.
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And we'll send you
this eight page bulletin
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on the Coronavirus.
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Important facts,
important information.
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And it comes to you
with God's blessing.
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We're so glad that
you tuned our way today.
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Now, the texts we've
been talking about is a text,
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we're not gonna put it up
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because we've already
really gone through it,
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we may refer to it later.
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But there's a text
in the Book of Romans
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that says that
knowing the times,
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knowing the hour,
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it is high time to
awake out of sleep,
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because now is
our salvation nearer
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than when we first believed.
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It's a book, is
that Book of Romans
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that is full of
tremendous information.
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And this text tells us
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that we have
come to a certain time
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when the prophecies
are being fulfilled.
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In the last session,
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we spoke about some
of those prophecies,
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but we're gonna talk
about some other things too.
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The Bible says
it's high time we say...
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Okay, it's high
time, high time for what?
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The Bible says,
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"It's high time to
wake out of sleep."
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That's what the text
says, the Book of Romans,
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high time to awake out of sleep.
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And I say, my friend,
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it's high time to
awake out of sleep,
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and stand on
the promises of God.
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You know, there's a
lot of fear out there.
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There's a lot of fear
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in the United States of America,
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where hundreds of
thousands of people
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have got the Coronavirus
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and tens of
thousands of people have died.
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We didn't put up
the exact figures today
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because they're
changing all the time.
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People are dying every day.
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And there's a lot
of fear out there.
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A lot of people are worried.
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I want to say this to you.
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It is high time
to wake out of sleep
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and stand on
the promises of God.
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I'm going to take my Bible.
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I'm going to come over
here to 2 Peter Chapter 1,
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and I'm going
to come to verse 4,
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still finding it, 2 Peter.
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What is it?
Chapter 1 and verse 4.
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Now, here it goes.
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I want to read it to
you right out of the Bible.
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So you're ready for this.
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It says, "By which
have been given to us,
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exceeding great
and precious promises,
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that through these
you may be partakers
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of the divine nature,
having escaped the corruption
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that is in the
world through lust."
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The Bible talks, my
friend, the Bible talks about
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great and precious promises.
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It's not a case of
sleeping on the premises.
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It's a case of
standing on the promises.
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And if you
stand on the promises,
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you're not going to fall down.
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I want to talk to you today
about some of the promises.
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I want to quote
some of these promises.
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Hebrews 13:5-6.
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Just let this soak
down into your soul.
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"Let your conduct be
without covetousness,
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be content with
such things as you have."
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Here it is, "For
he himself has said,
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'I will never leave
you nor forsake you.'
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So we may boldly say,
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'The Lord is my
helper, I will not fear.
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What can men do to me?'"
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What can the
Coronavirus do to me?
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If I've got God in my
heart, I will not fear,
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I can stand on
the promises of God.
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I will not be afraid.
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And here's another
one, another great promise.
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Isaiah 40:29-31,
I just love this,
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Isaiah Chapter 40,
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one of the greatest
chapters in the Bible.
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I just love Isaiah 40:29-31.
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"He gives power to the weak."
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Are you feeling weak today?
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There's power for you.
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"And to those who have no
might He increases strength.
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Even the youth
shall faint and be weary.
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And the young men
shall utterly fall.
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But those who wait upon the Lord
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shall renew their strength,
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they shall mount up
with wings, like eagles,
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they shall run and not be weary,
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they shall walk and not faint."
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My friend, if you let
God take hold of you today,
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He's going to put
His arms around you,
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and you are going
to soar like an eagle.
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You're going to walk,
you're not going to get weary,
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you're going to run and
you're not going to faint
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because you're going
to have the breath of God
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under your wings lifting you up.
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So, I want to tell
you folk something.
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It's time for us
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in this
tremendous hour to stand,
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to stand, to stand
firmly on the promises of God.
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This is no time to go to water.
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This is no time to
be filled with fear.
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This is no time to run away.
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This is a time to stand up.
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And we can stand
up when we're standing
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on the promises of God.
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Are you hearing me today?
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There are two hospital ships
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over here in the United States
that are in active service now.
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They're called
Comfort and Mercy.
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What names? Comfort and Mercy.
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One here in LA, one in New York,
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Comfort and Mercy.
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The Bible tells us that
comfort and mercy come from God.
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They've got big red crosses.
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You know who
founded the Red Cross?
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Christians in Switzerland.
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In the 1800s, they
saw all the soldiers
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being killed on the battlefields
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and hardly
anybody there to help.
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So they founded the Red Cross.
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It comes from
the cross of Christ.
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Here you got
these two beautiful big
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US naval ships,
Comfort and Mercy.
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My friend, there's a message
there from God to your heart.
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He's got comfort for
you, brother, sister.
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He's got mercy for you.
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Comfort and mercy
for you, my sister.
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This is not a time for
us to be filled with fear.
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It's a time for us to
stand on the promises of God
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and to feel the presence of God
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in our lives.
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Listen, it's high time.
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What time is it the text
says that knowing the time,
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that now it is high
time to awake out of asleep.
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It is high time.
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I'm telling you today,
it is high time to prepare
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for the coming of the Lord,
and for the Great Tribulation.
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And some of my Christian friends
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call the coming of
the Lord, the Rapture.
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So we're not going
to argue over that point
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right here in this meeting.
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But we're saying this,
it is high time to prepare
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for the Great
Tribulation and the Rapture.
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Now I know some
of my dear friends,
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that I've got so many friends
in so many different churches,
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and they say, you know,
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bad things don't
happen to good people.
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Good people won't
get the COVID-19 virus.
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If I do, it's really
because they're hypocrites,
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they're not good people.
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But the Bible tells me that
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bad things
happen to good people.
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And I'm going to talk to you
now about the Great Tribulation
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because I believe
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that the saints of
God are going to go
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through the Great Tribulation
before Jesus returns.
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Now please don't turn me off.
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I just want you
to listen to this,
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and just give me an
opportunity to explain this.
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I'm going to come over here
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to Revelation
Chapter 7, Revelation 7:9.
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Let me read it out of the Bible.
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"After these things are looked
and behold, great multitude,
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which no one, which
no one could number,
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of all nations, tribes, peoples,
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and tongues,
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standing before the
throne before the Lamb,
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clothed with white robes,
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with palm
branches in their hands."
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Here's a picture of
God's redeemed saints.
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These are God's people,
this could not be plainer.
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And then, if you
come to verse 13 and 14.
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Here you got two
very powerful texts.
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"Then one of
the elders answered,
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saying to me,
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'Who are these
arrayed in white robes,
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where did they come
from?'" Who are these people?
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Who are they?
Where do they come from?
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Verse 14, listen now.
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"So I said to
him, 'Sir, you know.'
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So he said to me,
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'These are the ones
who came out of this,
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out of the Bible.
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These are the ones
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who came out of
the Great Tribulation,
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and washed their
robes and made them white
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in the blood of the Lamb.'"
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Listen to me, brother, sister.
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You can't come out of
the Great Tribulation,
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if you're not in
the Great Tribulation.
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The saints of God are
in the Great Tribulation.
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The saints of God are
right there in the midst
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of this
terrible time of trouble.
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The Bible says so,
I just read it to you.
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And then Jesus
comes and delivers them.
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What's hard about this?
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This is the truth of the Bible.
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Now I'm going to come over here
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to Matthew 24:21.
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Matthew 24:21-22, I
want you to notice this.
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Jesus said, now
if Jesus said it,
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that settles it.
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"For then there will
be great tribulation."
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This is a great time of trouble.
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But then there'll
be great tribulation.
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And people tell me, "Hey,
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we don't need to worry about it,
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because we're going to
be raptured home to glory.
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The saints don't go
through the Great Tribulation.
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Well, the Book of
Revelation says they do,
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we just read the text.
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These are the ones
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who came out of
the Great Tribulation.
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You can't come out of
it if you're not in it.
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What's hard about that?
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Now Jesus is talking
about the Great Tribulation.
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Now, you may say to me,
but my church, my friend,
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I respect your church,
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but my authority
is not my church,
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neither should your
authority be your church.
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Our authority ought to
be the Holy Word of God.
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Our authority is Christ
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through the Holy Spirit
speaking through His Word.
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"But then there'll
be great tribulation,"
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there it is,
"such as has not been
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since the beginning of the world
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until this time,
nor ever shall be.
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And unless those
days were shortened,
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no flesh would be saved,
but for the elect's sake,
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those days will be shortened."
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Did you hear that text?
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The Bible says,
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"It's going to be a
tremendous time of trouble."
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And if God didn't
shorten those days,
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no one's going to be saved.
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But the Bible says,
"For the sake of the elect,
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those days are
going to be shortened."
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Now if God and the
elect are God's people.
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They're the people
who washed their robes
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and make them white
in the blood of the Lamb,
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as it's taught in the Bible,
the elect are God's people.
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It would be totally
irrelevant to shorten those days
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for the sake of the elect
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if the elect were not
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in the midst of
that time of trouble.
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So I'm telling you,
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on the authority
of the words of Jesus,
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that God's
people will go through
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the great time of trouble.
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Now notice
something else that happens
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in Matthew 24:29 and 30.
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I want to read this to you.
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Matthew 24:29 and 30.
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Listen to these words.
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"Immediately
after the tribulation
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of those days the
sun will be darkened,
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the moon will
not give its light,
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the stars will fall from heaven,
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and the powers of the
heavens will be shaken."
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So you've got these
great celestial signs.
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And then it says, verse 30,
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"Then the sign of the Son of Man
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will appear in heaven,
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then all the tribes
of the earth will mourn,
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and they will see the Son of Man
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coming in the clouds of heaven
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with power and great glory."
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Please listen to me.
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The Bible says,
there's the time of trouble,
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the Great Tribulation.
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And if God didn't
shorten those days,
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nobody's gonna be saved,
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but because God's people
are there in the midst of it,
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the elect, He is
going to shorten those days.
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Then the Bible says,
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"After this
great time of trouble,
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there's going to be
the celestial signs.
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And then the next event will be
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the coming of Jesus Christ."
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How plain can it be?
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The saints, the elect go through
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the Great Tribulation.
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Who said so? John Carter?
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No, Jesus said so.
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So you've got the
great time of trouble.
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And then Jesus comes.
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And Jesus, hallelujah,
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Jesus delivers His people,
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who've gone through
the Great Tribulation.
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This is the word of God.
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Now, I want you to think
of this little statement here.
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It's almost impossible
to get a church member
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to see a truth
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when his church membership
depends upon his not seeing it.
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There's another statement
that's like it that says,
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it's almost
impossible to get a person,
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anyone that see the
truth with some idea
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if his salary depends
upon his not seeing it.
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And it's almost impossible,
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my friend, to
get a church member,
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not all by any means not
impossible for the elect.
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It's almost impossible to get
a church member to see a truth
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when his church membership
depends upon his not seeing it.
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I'm here to tell
you something today.
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Our authority is not
based upon the church.
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Now, I've got a
church, I love my church,
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but my authority is
not based upon my church.
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All churches have made mistakes.
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My authority is right here.
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It is the Holy
Word of a Holy God.
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So the saints,
the elect go through
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the Great Tribulation
and they are delivered
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when Jesus
comes the second time.
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Why am I telling you this?
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Because, my friend,
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we've arrived at
this tremendous hour
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when this Great
Tribulation may be starting,
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and the church
is going to be here.
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We have arrived at
this tremendous hour.
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It is time to distinguish
between truth and error.
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It is time to follow the Bible
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and lay aside by the grace
of God our preconceived ideas.
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I don't want you to follow me.
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I want you to follow Christ.
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I want you to follow the Bible.
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It is time to hold on to God.
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It is time to triumph
over the Great Tribulation,
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and finally meet
Jesus when He returns.
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This is the good news
I'm telling you today that
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Jesus is going to come back,
00:18:32.11\00:18:34.14
and Jesus is going
to deliver His people,
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and His people
are going to come out
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of this Great Tribulation.
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They're going
to wash their robes
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in the blood of the Lamb,
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and they're going to be saved.
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Okay, here's
another great truth.
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It's high time
to understand that
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during this tremendous hour,
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God is removing
His hand of protection
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which brings on
the Great Tribulation.
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Now this leads us to
the logical question.
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Does the God of the Bible
send afflictions to the world?
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I want you to notice this text
in the Book of Lamentations.
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It's a great text,
this text in Lamentations.
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Here it is, great text.
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Terrance does
such a fantastic job
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putting these pictures up
from 50-60 miles away, amazing.
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Lamentations 3:33 says,
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"He does not afflict willingly,"
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He has no will to do this,
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"nor grieve the
children of men."
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God is not the author of pain,
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of suffering,
of cancer or death.
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In a parable Jesus said,
"The enemy did these things."
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Some people blame God for this.
00:19:51.92\00:19:54.59
God didn't give us COVID-19.
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It came from the vet markets,
most likely in Wuhan, China.
00:19:57.93\00:20:03.87
Because of the violation
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of the health laws of the Bible,
00:20:05.33\00:20:06.87
especially the laws
of Leviticus Chapter 11,
00:20:06.90\00:20:10.47
this animal virus
got into human beings
00:20:10.51\00:20:13.68
never, never blame God.
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God loves us. God cares for us.
00:20:17.28\00:20:19.05
God does not
afflict the children of men.
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But I want you to think
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of the children of
Israel in the Old Testament.
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Afflictions came to
the children of Israel
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when God removed
His hand of protection.
00:20:30.39\00:20:36.26
Heard a great preacher in
America, Dr. Stan Lee say,
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"God protected us
during the Second World War,
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His hand was over us.
00:20:42.44\00:20:44.34
If we hadn't had
the protection of God,
00:20:44.37\00:20:47.08
we wouldn't have won
this war against the Nazis.
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God had his hand over America."
00:20:49.91\00:20:52.85
But in the scriptures
as God's people turn away
00:20:52.88\00:20:55.88
from God, God removes
His hand of protection.
00:20:55.92\00:21:00.62
And these things come upon us.
00:21:00.66\00:21:05.03
And I think, wants you
to think about it, too.
00:21:05.06\00:21:09.30
I think many of us
have given up on God.
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Remember Alexander Solzhenitsyn,
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one of the greatest
Christians who had ever lived,
00:21:14.84\00:21:17.21
who came out of the belly
00:21:17.24\00:21:18.97
of the beast out
of the Soviet Union.
00:21:19.01\00:21:22.24
When he saw all
the terrible things
00:21:22.28\00:21:23.75
that had happened
to the Soviet Union,
00:21:23.78\00:21:25.41
and the terrible things
00:21:25.45\00:21:26.78
that are happening in the world,
00:21:26.82\00:21:28.15
he said, this is one of
the greatest Christians.
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He said, "We have forgotten God,
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and all these
things have befallen us."
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God doesn't send tribulation.
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He doesn't affect
the children of men,
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but we have forgotten God,
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and all these
things have befallen us.
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He wrote that tremendous
book, the Gulag Archipelago,
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He received the
Nobel Prize of literature
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for literature in 1970.
00:21:52.57\00:21:54.44
When he came to
America, he warned America
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that if we turned from God,
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great disasters
would come upon us.
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There's time, my
friend, to turn back to God.
00:22:01.55\00:22:04.62
What is the time?
00:22:04.65\00:22:05.99
It is time to
awake out of asleep
00:22:06.02\00:22:08.06
and seek the Lord
while He may be found.
00:22:08.09\00:22:10.63
That's the time, my
friend, time to wake up.
00:22:10.66\00:22:13.40
Look at Isaiah 55:6 and 7.
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Isaiah 55, "Seek the
Lord while He may be found,
00:22:16.20\00:22:21.77
call upon Him
when while He is near,
00:22:21.80\00:22:24.64
He's near now, come now.
00:22:24.67\00:22:26.37
Let the wicked forsake his way,
00:22:26.41\00:22:28.34
and the
unrighteous man his thoughts,
00:22:28.38\00:22:30.48
let him return to the
Lord, He will have mercy on him,
00:22:30.51\00:22:34.58
and to our God, for He
will abundantly pardon.
00:22:34.62\00:22:38.22
My friend, what is the time?
00:22:38.25\00:22:40.16
It is high time to
awake out of sleep.
00:22:40.19\00:22:41.92
It is time to come back to God.
00:22:41.96\00:22:44.13
It is time to come to Christ.
00:22:44.16\00:22:46.70
It is high time to understand
that God's love doesn't change.
00:22:46.73\00:22:51.53
Some people think
that God doesn't love us.
00:22:51.57\00:22:53.30
God's love doesn't change.
00:22:53.34\00:22:55.00
You know the story
about the father in the Blitz,
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in London.
00:22:58.77\00:23:00.11
The Nazis were
bombing the British.
00:23:00.14\00:23:02.84
This man lost his wife.
00:23:02.88\00:23:04.41
And there he was
with his little daughter.
00:23:04.45\00:23:06.55
She's lost her mother.
They were in an apartment.
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It was dark, it was cold.
00:23:08.58\00:23:10.82
It was black, and
the bombs were falling.
00:23:10.85\00:23:13.62
The father said, "My
little girl, go to sleep."
00:23:13.66\00:23:16.73
But she was crying for a mother.
00:23:16.76\00:23:18.33
She couldn't get to sleep.
00:23:18.36\00:23:19.69
So he said over and over again.
00:23:19.73\00:23:21.06
It's time to go to
sleep, go to sleep.
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And she would cry
out in the darkness,
00:23:23.40\00:23:24.93
Daddy, are you still
there? Are you still there?
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We cry out in the darkness,
God, are You still there?
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He'd say, "I'm still here."
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"Are you looking
in my direction?"
00:23:34.51\00:23:36.28
Yes, I'm looking
in your direction,
00:23:36.31\00:23:37.88
go to sleep. Go to sleep.
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I'm here.
00:23:40.78\00:23:42.12
And I'm looking
in your direction."
00:23:42.15\00:23:43.79
That's my message I
want to tell you today,
00:23:43.82\00:23:46.05
my friend, from my empty
studio during this pandemic.
00:23:46.09\00:23:49.76
I want you to know that
00:23:49.79\00:23:52.29
He's alive and He's
looking towards you.
00:23:52.33\00:23:55.56
It is high time
to believe our hour
00:23:55.60\00:24:00.44
of deliverance is at hand.
00:24:00.47\00:24:02.74
Can you say amen?
00:24:02.77\00:24:05.17
The King is coming.
00:24:05.21\00:24:07.71
We have arrived at
this tremendous hour.
00:24:07.74\00:24:11.81
The prophecies
are being fulfilled.
00:24:11.85\00:24:15.35
God is sending
warning after warning.
00:24:15.38\00:24:17.32
He speaks to us.
00:24:17.35\00:24:19.85
In hurricanes, tornadoes,
the fires, the earthquakes,
00:24:19.89\00:24:23.32
the floods, the
pandemics, He says, I am coming.
00:24:23.36\00:24:28.66
What is my message?
00:24:28.70\00:24:32.53
That knowing the time
00:24:32.57\00:24:34.40
that now it is high
time to awake out of sleep.
00:24:34.44\00:24:40.74
The night is far
spent, almost over,
00:24:40.78\00:24:47.02
and the day is at hand.
00:24:47.05\00:24:50.42
Because, my
friend, the King is coming.
00:24:50.45\00:24:55.72
Remember this,
the King is coming.
00:24:55.76\00:25:01.13
And He loves you.
00:25:01.16\00:25:05.60
Why not open your
heart today and say,
00:25:05.63\00:25:09.07
"Christ, come
into my heart today.
00:25:09.10\00:25:14.78
I want Your salvation.
00:25:14.81\00:25:17.11
I want Your peace and
I want Your paradise."
00:25:17.15\00:25:23.08
We pray this in Jesus' name.
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Amen. And God bless you so much.
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Pray with me, Lord God, I
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00:26:59.55\00:27:03.75
My sin has
separated me from You.
00:27:03.79\00:27:06.09
I accept that Your Son
Jesus Christ died for me.
00:27:06.12\00:27:09.09
I ask Jesus into my heart.
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prayer, you're saved.
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00:27:26.74\00:27:29.54
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00:27:29.58\00:27:31.61
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