Earthquakes, pandemics,
worldwide destruction,
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and lawlessness,
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these are the
signs of the times.
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Building an underground
shelter in your backyard
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won't protect you.
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Life insurance,
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earthquake
insurance, and health insurance
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won't cover you
for what is to come,
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but you can have
the blessed assurance
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of Christ Jesus.
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Here is John
Carter to tell us more
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about the Return of the King.
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What does AD mean?
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Well, smart people get informed.
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If you're informed, my friend,
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you're prepared
for what's coming.
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AD, what does AD mean?
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Well, of course, it
means it's the Latin,
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Anno Domini, in
the year of our Lord.
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Jesus Christ
broke history in two.
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He is the greatest person
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in the history
of the human race.
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There's no doubt about this.
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BC, of course,
refers to Before Christ,
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B, Before
Christ, AD, Anno Domini,
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we are living in
the time of our Lord.
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This is something
even the communist
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has to recognize.
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Now, let me read you a text,
Wayne, to answer your question.
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I'm going to read
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from Matthew 24:9-13.
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Are you ready?
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Here we go.
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"Then they will deliver you
up to tribulation and kill you,
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and you will be
hated by all nations
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for My name's sake.
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And then many will be offended,
will betray one another,
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and will hate one another.
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Then many false prophets
will rise up and deceive many.
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And because
lawlessness will abound,
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the love of many will grow cold.
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But he who endures to the end
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shall be saved."
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All of this happened
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before Jerusalem
was overthrown in 70 AD.
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They were false prophets.
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All of these signs
that I just read here
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from the very lips of Christ,
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all of these signs came to pass
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but everything that
came to pass back there
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is going to come to pass
again in our day and our age,
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and then we will see
the return of the King.
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Let me just
illustrate, persecution,
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Jesus said they're
going to persecute you.
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Of course, Christians
were persecuted back there,
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before Jerusalem was overthrown.
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This is a historical fact.
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Today, the most
persecuted group of people
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on the face of planet
earth are the Christians.
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You go to the Middle
East, Christians are persecuted.
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You go to Africa,
Christians are persecuted.
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And Billy Graham
told us before his death,
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that Christians in the
United States of America
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can expect to be persecuted
by their own government.
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Think about it.
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Persecution.
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Jesus said,
"They're going to hate you
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because of My name's sake.
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I'm just
dumbfounded by the hatred
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that exists today in the world,
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even including Australia,
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and the United
States of America.
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You turn on the
internet, you go on Facebook,
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and there is so much hate.
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And there are
groups that are trying
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to silence the voice
of the Lord Jesus Christ
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in the preaching of His Word.
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We are in a culture of hate.
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We're seeing great
changes in our culture.
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Jesus said there
would be false prophets.
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And back in the
times before Jerusalem
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was overthrown by
the Romans in 70 AD,
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there were false prophets
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and there are
false prophets today.
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There are people who
are religious charlatans
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who are deceiving the masses.
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And that is why
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we need to follow the scriptures
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and not the teachings of men,
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but the teachings of Christ
and keep His commandments.
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Jesus said, "Lawlessness,
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the love of most would grow cold
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and there will be an
attitude of lawlessness."
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Everywhere we go today,
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every time we
turn on television,
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we hear this new
culture of lawlessness.
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You've noticed it.
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It's not popular for me
to tell you these things.
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I know this.
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I know that some of
you watching this telecast
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may be offended.
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I'm sorry to offend you,
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but I'm not sorry
to tell you the truth.
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There's lawlessness today,
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even marriage has been attacked.
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Marriage, you read
what Jesus said, Jesus said,
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"In the beginning, God
made them male and female."
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But we are in such
a lawless age today
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that millions of people
don't even believe in marriage
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between a man and a woman
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and millions of others believe
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that a man can be a
woman and a woman can be a man
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and they can be
somewhere in-between.
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This is an age of lawlessness.
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Our only safety, my friend,
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is in the keeping
of God's commandments
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and in the
keeping of the law of God.
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By the grace of God,
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I am taking my stand
on the words of Christ.
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Listen to this.
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Violence, hatred,
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mass killing, suicides,
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we hear about it all the time.
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In the schools
today, in the state schools,
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it's okay to
teach our little kids
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about critical race theory.
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It's okay to teach about
same-sex marriage, transgender,
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etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
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But it's not okay
to teach in the schools
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the commandments of
God, it's not wrong.
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It's not okay to put
up the Ten Commandments,
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you can put up all
the rest of this stuff,
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but the Ten Commandments
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have been
abolished from the schools.
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And we wonder why we
have so many suicides,
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and why we have so
many violent incidents
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around the world.
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It is because we
have rejected God.
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Listen carefully.
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The happiest people in
this world are the people
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who keep the
commandments of God.
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I'm telling you the truth.
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The happiest people in
this world are the people
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who got their
feet on the scriptures,
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and who keep the
commandments of God.
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May these words,
my friends, sink down
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into the molecules of your mind.
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And then Jesus said these words.
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Here it is,
Matthew 24:13, He said,
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"But he who endures to
the end shall be saved."
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He who endures to
the end shall be saved.
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I've seen people
who've endured to the end.
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People have gone
through dreadful persecution.
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On one occasion, we traveled
from Moscow to Vladivostok
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in the Trans-Siberian Express.
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We hired a railway car.
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We took some of
the Carter Report team.
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At every stop, many, many stops
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on this tremendous
journey that took us eight days,
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thousands of
miles across Siberia
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we were greeted by the survivors
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of the communist holocaust.
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They came out to meet us
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2 o'clock in the morning,
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4 o'clock in the morning,
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2 o'clock in the afternoon.
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We were up all day,
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all night giving out
Bibles, medicines, tapes,
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preaching the Word of
God in the middle of Siberia,
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in the middle of winter,
speaking to the survivors.
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God has always
had His survivors.
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And in the end times
God will have His people
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who will endure the persecution
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and the hatred.
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And they will rejoice
in the return of the King.
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The King is coming.
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Is there any good
news among the signs?
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Hey, Wayne, there's
plenty of good news.
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You and I just love good news.
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We are people of good news.
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You know what the
word gospel means,
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don't you?
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The word gospel.
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Jesus said, "The
Gospel of the Kingdom."
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Now, look, I'm
gonna read it to you,
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Matthew 24:14, Jesus said,
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and this gospel...
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Look at me, this
gospel, this good news.
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Now come back to the text.
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"This gospel of the kingdom
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will be
preached in all the world
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as a witness to all the nations
and then the end shall come."
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Hey, that's great news.
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Nothing can stop the
preaching of the gospel.
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I've seen it with my
own eyes, been to Russia.
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I've had the privilege
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of speaking to
millions of atheists,
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the communists.
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I've seen the power of
God in El Salvador, India.
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I could go on and on,
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the islands of the
sea like Papua New Guinea.
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Hundreds of
thousands of people...
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Hundreds of thousands...
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Hundreds of thousands of
people coming every night.
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Why do they come?
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What draws them with
an irresistible force?
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It's not bad news, my
friend, it's the good news.
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It's the good news
that there's God in heaven.
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And this God in
heaven, He made you
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and He loves you
and you are important.
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You can't stop the tide
from coming in, can you?
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Remember Winston
Churchill's great speech.
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He gave this tremendous speech
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when Britain was
facing the Nazis,
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and people wanted to quit.
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You know what Churchill said?
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He said, "You
can't stop the tide."
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He read a poem.
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He said, "You can't stop
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the tide from coming in."
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There is power, the
power of God in the tide.
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I want you to know,
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you can't stop the
tide from coming in.
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You may think we're beaten.
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Never, never, never,
Christ is never beaten.
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The tide is coming in
and Christ will return.
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What is meant
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by the abomination of desolation
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from Matthew 24?
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Well, Wayne, you're throwing me
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some curly ones
today, aren't you?
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I'm gonna read it to you.
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Gonna read you this
passage out of Matthew 24.
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And remember,
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everything that
happened back there
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on a local scale
is going to happen
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on a worldwide scale.
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And just as
Jerusalem was overthrown,
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the end came
for the Jewish race,
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as a nation, as a theocracy.
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So the end is going
to come for this world,
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and Christ is going to return.
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Now, I'm going
to read it to you.
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Matthew 24:15-21,
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"Therefore, when you see
the abomination of desolation,
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spoken to by Daniel the prophet,
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standing in the holy place,
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whoever reads,
let him understand,
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then at those
who are in Judea fee
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of the mountains.
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Let him who is on
the housetop not go down
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to take anything
out of his house.
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And let him who is in the field
not go back to get his clothes.
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But woe to
those who are pregnant
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and to those who
are nursing babies
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in those days!
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And pray that your flight
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may not be in the
winter or on the Sabbath.
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For then there will
be great tribulation,
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such as has not
been since the beginning
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of the world until this time,
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no, nor ever shall be."
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Let me give you a
little bit of history.
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This has been
fulfilled, it's happened.
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It happened before
Jerusalem was overthrown.
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The abomination of desolation
stood in the holy place.
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They were the
armies of the Romans.
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The Roman armies were a type,
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listen, of the last
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great Antichrist.
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Jesus spoke about a
tremendous tribulation
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that would come.
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That tribulation came back
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before Jerusalem was overthrown.
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That tribulation was a type
of the last great tribulation
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before Christ returns.
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This is the Word of God.
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What happened back
there is going to be repeated.
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It will come to pass.
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It is written.
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Is it possible
to work out the day
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and hour of Christ's return?
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Well, a lot of
people have tried to.
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The history of
the Christian Church
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tells us always been folks
00:14:09.34\00:14:11.48
who have been very confident
00:14:11.51\00:14:13.68
and felt they can work out
the time of Christ's return.
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You can't do it.
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It's forbidden
in the Scriptures.
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Here's a text.
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Matthew 24:34-36,
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"Assuredly, I say to you,
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this generation will
by no means pass away
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till all these
things take place.
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Heaven and earth will pass away,
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but My words will
by no means pass away."
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Now, here it is.
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Listen carefully.
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"But of the day
and hour no one knows,
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not even the angels of heaven,
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but my Father only."
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Jesus said this.
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And this is very important
when I'm going to tell you.
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Jesus said there
would be certain signs,
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just as they were signs
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before the overthrow
of the city of Jerusalem.
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Jesus said in the
last days, in our days,
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there would be certain signs.
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And He said, when
we saw those signs,
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we would know
that we were living
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in the last era.
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But he said you can't
tell the exact day or the hour.
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Jesus said that's
something, no, no,
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something you shouldn't even try
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and be...
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You shouldn't be
trying even to work this out,
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even though there
have been hosts of people
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who tried to do this.
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But let me tell you this.
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Now listen carefully to this.
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Are you listening to me?
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The coming of the King,
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the coming of Christ
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is no farther removed from you
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than your own personal death,
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because when you and I die,
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we are going to fall asleep,
and we will be unconscious,
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and the next thing we will know
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will be the return of Christ.
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I had a dear
friend, she was working away
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in the kitchen
preparing her husband lunch,
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all of a sudden
she had a stroke,
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she was gone.
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She didn't have
time even to say, Lord,
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she was gone.
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That to her was
the return of Christ
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because she fell asleep,
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unconscious and the next thing
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she would know would
be the coming of Christ.
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Will Christ's
return be a secret?
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Well, let me read you this text.
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Many people believe
that the coming of Christ
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is going to be a secret thing.
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I find it hard
to believe that idea
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and believe this
text in the Bible,
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but I leave it to you to judge.
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You be the judge.
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Matthew 24:23-27,
"Then if anyone says to you,
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'Look, here is the Christ!
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or 'There!' do not believe it.
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For false christs and
false prophets will rise
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and show great signs
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or wonders to
deceive if possible,
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even the elect.
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See, I've told you beforehand.
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Therefore, if they say to
you, 'Look, He is in the desert!
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Or do not go out, or 'Look,
He is in the inner rooms!'
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do not believe it.
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For as the lightning comes
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from the east and
flashes to the west,
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so also will be the coming
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of the Son of Man."
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The coming of Christ is
not going to be a secret thing.
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So people say to you, hey,
He's going to come in secret.
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You say, "No, that's
not what Jesus said."
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Jesus said, "As
the lightning flashes
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from the east to the west,
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so also will be the
coming of the Son of Man."
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The coming of Christ
is going to be audible.
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We are going to
hear Him when He comes.
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It is going to be visible.
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The Bible says in the
Book of Revelation Chapter 1,
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I think it's verse 7, it says,
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"Every eye is going to see Him
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as He comes in
power and great glory."
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It is going to be spectacular
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because when He comes,
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He's actually
going to raise the dead.
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My friend, it's going
to be the greatest event
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in the history of the universe,
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the return of the King.
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Are all of these
events described in the Bible?
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Yes, Jesus wrote
these things down,
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or rather He had His disciples
write these things down
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and they are
recorded for our information
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and our edification.
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I'm reading to you
from Matthew 24:29-31.
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"Immediately
after the tribulation
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of those days, the
sun will be darkened,
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and 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
heaven will be shaken.
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Then the sign of the Son
of Man 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 on the clouds of heaven
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with power and great glory.
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And He will send His angels
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with a great sound of a trumpet,
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and they will gather together
His elect from the four winds,
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from one end of
heaven to the other."
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Wow.
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There are going to be
tremendous celestial events.
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The Bible tells us the elect
are going to see these things.
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The angels are going to come
in great power and great glory.
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The dead are going to be
brought up out of their tombs.
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The living saints are
going to be translated,
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that means
they're going to be filled
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with new life and power
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and eternity.
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The earth is going to be
reeling like a drunken man.
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The earth is
going to be breaking up,
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the mountains are going to
be moved out of their places,
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we're told in the scriptures.
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Hey, it's amazing.
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The greatest event in
the history of the world
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is coming, my friend.
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Jesus said, "When
you see the things,
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know that My coming is near,
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even at the doors."
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Is the destruction of Jerusalem
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in 70 AD connected
to the return of Jesus?
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Because one
foreshadows the other,
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what happened to
Jerusalem in 70 AD,
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what happened to the
world on a worldwide scale?
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Before Jerusalem was destroyed
by General Titus in 70 AD,
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before the temple
was absolutely razed
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to the ground,
there were certain signs.
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There were the wars,
the famines, pestilences,
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the preaching of the
gospel, and so forth.
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Now Jesus said, "These
things are going to be repeated
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with growing
intensity on a worldwide scale."
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We can see this happening today
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and what happened back there
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is a historical reality.
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This is not a
fairy tale, my friend,
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not making this stuff up.
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This is not a fairy tale.
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Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 AD
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according to the
prophecies in the Bible,
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according to the
prophecies of Jesus,
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and according to the
prophecies of Daniel,
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Daniel Chapter 9.
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And in the same way,
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Christ is going to return.
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The return of Christ
is an absolute certainty.
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Christ is coming,
you can believe it.
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This is the Word
of God, my friend.
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How can we
prepare for these events?
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Wayne, you ask the
question, what should we do?
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In view of all these
things, what are we going to do?
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We see the
signs being fulfilled,
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what should we do?
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It's a great question
because truth is not something
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we put up on a
pedestal and look at it,
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and we walk past
it every morning,
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and we give it a little polish.
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No, that's not what truth is.
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Truth is a reality that
comes inside the temple,
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the soul temple.
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It is a transforming thing.
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Now, I want you to
notice what Jesus said.
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Matthew 24:33-42,
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"So you also, when
you see all these things,
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know that it is
near at the doors!
00:23:17.26\00:23:20.36
Assuredly, I say to you,
00:23:20.40\00:23:21.73
this generation will
by no means pass away
00:23:21.76\00:23:24.47
till all these
things take place.
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Heaven and earth will pass away,
00:23:26.67\00:23:28.54
but My words will
by no means pass away."
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Let me comment on this.
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Jesus said,
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"There's going to
be a final generation."
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There was a final generation
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that saw the
overthrow of Jerusalem.
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There's going to
be a final generation
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that is going to see
all of the signs fulfilled,
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and see Christ return.
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Now I come back to the text.
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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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But as the days of Noah were,
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so also will be the
coming of the Son of Man.
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For as in the
days before the flood,
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they were eating and drinking,
00:24:05.27\00:24:06.84
marrying and giving in marriage,
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until the day that
Noah entered the ark,
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and did not know
until the flood came
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and took them all away,
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so also will be the
coming of the Son of Man.
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Then two men
will be in the field:
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one will be taken
and the other left.
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Two women will be
grinding at the mill:
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one will be taken
and the other left.
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Watch therefore,
for you do not know
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what hour your Lord is coming."
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It speaks for itself.
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You know what
our greatest need is?
00:24:38.44\00:24:41.38
Our greatest need
is to know Christ.
00:24:41.41\00:24:45.91
Our greatest
need is to take Christ
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into our hearts into our homes
00:24:48.98\00:24:52.42
and to take His
law into our hearts.
00:24:52.45\00:24:56.19
The happiest
people are the people
00:24:56.22\00:24:57.63
who follow Christ and
keep His commandments.
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Listen, my friend,
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listen.
00:25:05.13\00:25:08.24
Can you hear the rumbling?
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Listen,
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can you hear the
rumbling wheels of the chariot?
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Listen...
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The King is coming.
00:25:24.89\00:25:28.42
Prepare, my friend,
00:25:28.46\00:25:32.56
for the return of the King...
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In the name of the Father,
00:25:38.07\00:25:39.60
and of the Son,
and of the Holy Spirit.
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Amen.
00:25:44.44\00:25:45.77
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