Hello, and welcome
again to Faith Chapel.
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I'm Ronny Shelton, and I
hope that you've got your swords
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with you today because we fight
not against flesh and blood.
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We fight a spiritual
battle, and we have to have
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a spiritual weapon.
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Turn with me in your
Bibles to Matthew 24.
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In Matthew chapter 24 we
find that Jesus is telling His
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disciples that the end of the
age is near, and He begins to
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give us signs of His coming.
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He doesn't want us to
be surprised, you see.
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He wants us to
know ahead of time.
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He talks about it as a
fig tree produces buds,
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and we know that summer is near.
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He says, so can you know
that the end of time is near.
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So if you will, go with
me to Matthew chapter 24,
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and starting in verse 1.
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As I think about that, a number
of years ago I was privileged
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to go over to Jerusalem and
see the temple that's there now.
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I can imagine in Jesus' day
going out on an early spring
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morning and seeing the
sun glistening off of the
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granite stone.
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It's wet with dew.
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I can imagine how
beautiful this must have been.
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The disciples thought, you
know, let's show this to Jesus.
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So they took Jesus out and said,
Lord, look at this building.
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Isn't this magnificent?
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Isn't this a wonderful,
wonderful tribute to God?
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Jesus said something in verse 2.
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I'm sure they were so surprised.
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I can imagine the disciples,
their faces just dropping.
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They couldn't
believe what He'd just said.
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Nothing short of the end of the
world could make this happen.
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So they were so surprised!
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I mean, imagine the
magnitude of this thing!
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It's going to be torn down?
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I want to say that when
the Babylonians Armies came
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in A.D. 70 that the buildings
were set afire, and the gold
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the silver ornaments
were melted and ran down
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in the cracks of the rocks.
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I can imagine how many people
must have been out there with
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crowbars, and sticks, and
all, prying the stones apart.
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If that weren't enough, Ellen
White tells us in Manuscript 35,
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in 1906, that angels from
God were dispensed to that site
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to make sure that no stone
would be left upon another.
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So the angels themselves
helped turn over the stones.
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Let's read on now in verse 3.
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You see, Jesus here is going to
give some signs that they be not
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taken unawares.
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He doesn't want
us to be surprised.
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He doesn't want us to be under
sneak attack from the enemy.
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So he begins to lay out what the
signs are of the end of the age,
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you know, the end of the world.
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So Jesus said in verse 4, Jesus
answered and said unto them
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Take heed that no man
deceive you, for verse 5 says,
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for many shall come in My name.
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And shall deceive many!
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You see, there's going to
be many, many people that are
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surprised because
they're not reading the signs.
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We go on and on in
our daily life, in a daily
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hum drum of our life.
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Just the old rut of getting
up and going to work, and coming
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home, and watching some TV
or whatever, and then going
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to bed, and in the morning
it starts all over again.
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We begin to not smell
the roses along the way.
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We begin to not look up
anymore and look at the signs.
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Jesus says, I want to
tell you in advance of what's
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coming ahead.
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In verse 5 He had said, There
shall be many false Christ's.
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Having been in Africa some
months ago, while we were there
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we learned that there had been
three men claiming to be Christ.
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Christ, meaning
the Anointed One.
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Jesus is His name,
Christ is His title.
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He is the Anointed One.
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There have been three men in
Africa who claimed to be Christ.
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Each said they had risen
from the dead, and each had
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twelve apostles.
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Many, many were fooled.
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Many were tricked into
thinking this was the Messiah.
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We must know our Bibles.
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Again, Jim Jones in
Guyana, if you remember that
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a few years ago.
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Jim Jones said, I am Christ,
and 900 people lost their lives.
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900 people followed him,
drinking poison, and committing
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suicide at his direction because
he said that he was Christ.
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Now I can bring it a little
closer to home for you, maybe.
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There was a man just a few years
ago in Waco, Texas, by the name
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of David Koresh.
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David Koresh said, I am Christ,
and look at how many people
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lost their lives
following a man, you see.
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There have been so many others!
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The Haley's Comet people,
and so many different groups
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following a man, and it has
eventually led to their death.
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If only people
knew their Bible better.
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Christ's feet will
not touch the ground!
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Let's look at that text
in 1 Thessalonians 4:17.
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And there it says:
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You see, we're
going to be caught up
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to meet Him in the air.
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His feet will
not touch the ground.
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If people only knew their Bibles
they could not be fooled by
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anyone claiming to be Christ.
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His feet will
not touch the ground.
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We which are alive and remain
will be caught up to meet him
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in the air, and so shall
we ever be with the Lord.
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Praise God!
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Back to our text in verse 7.
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Have you heard
of any wars lately?
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It seems you can't watch any
sort of a newscast, or read a
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newspaper without hearing
about wars somewhere on the face
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of this planet.
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World War I was estimated
to have had 20 million deaths.
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Then just a few years
later World War II came along.
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If you remember
brethren, that was the war
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that was
supposed to end all wars.
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There would be no
more after World War II.
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The war that ended all wars!
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Some 50 million
people lost their lives.
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50 million it's estimated;
not all just guns, and knives,
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and bullets, but so many people
were displaced, were driven from
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their homes, into the
rocks, and into the mountains.
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They died of starvation.
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They died of freezing to death.
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Displaced from their homes.
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There's never been a time
on planet Earth when more land
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devastation has taken place
as there was in World War II.
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More land was destroyed in World
War II than any other time.
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So the World War II that ended
all wars, didn't end the wars.
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It was just a few years later
and the Korean War came long.
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After that the Vietnam War,
and we know about the Gulf War,
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Bosnia, and Kosovo, and on
and on and finally to this day,
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Iraq and the United States,
where men and women are giving
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their lives, and taking lives.
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You see, Jesus said that in the
last days there would be wars
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and rumors of wars.
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This has all happened.
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I hope that you can see
that; that you can agree with
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me on that.
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Jesus goes on and He said
that there would be famines.
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According to UN environmental
studies 3 billion acres of
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productive land have
been destroyed since 1955.
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You talk about famines!
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Urbanization is just eating up
our farmland, besides all of the
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bugs and the pesticides
that we use on our plants.
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Jesus said there would be
famines, and we know of famines
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all over across the world.
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We know there are well known
countries famous for famines
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such as Ethiopia,
some African countries,
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and some of the
countries in India.
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There is also some
starvation in our area as well.
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Statistics say that 57
million people die each year.
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Of that 57 million
people, 60% are malnourished,
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20% are starving.
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Jesus said that this
would be a sign of the end.
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I hope you can agree
that that has happened.
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Also in verse 7 Jesus said
there would be pestilences.
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Pestilence in the original
language could be translated
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to disease.
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After traveling abroad I found
out that in Africa Aids is the
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number one killer.
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Aids is killing people
over there, and in India,
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and some of the third world
countries, as well as Europe
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and the United States.
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People are dying of Aids,
and we can't find a cure for it.
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Malaria is number 2.
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The number 2 killer
in Africa is malaria.
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More recently SARS has
come on the scene; West Nile.
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Traveling through the
port Hong Kong, we saw people
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wearing masks over their faces
that go through the airport.
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They didn't want to breathe the
air that was in the airports.
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As we came down the tarmac
from the plane, somebody had a
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temperature probe and they
would point it between our eyes.
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They'd point it to
everybody as they came along,
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checking temperatures; looking
for people that were infected
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with the fever, so that
they could quarantine them.
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Jesus said that
there would be diseases.
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We have diseases now like we've
never had before on this planet;
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diseases without cures.
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Then also in verse 7 Jesus said
that there would be earthquakes
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in many places.
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Earthquakes in many places!
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Most of us don't
realize that there are some
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6,000 earthquakes every year.
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In the last 90 years there have
been approximately 2 million
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deaths due to earthquakes.
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On December 26, 2003 in
Bam, Iran had a big earthquake
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and 41,000
people lost their lives.
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They lost their lives due to an
earthquake that was so big that
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41,000 people are missing.
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We thought that was big!
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Then exactly one year to
the day, December 26, 2004,
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a 9.0 devastating earthquake
just rocked our world.
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The power of that quake is said
to have speeded up the rotation
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of this planet for a split
second, slightly knocking it
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off of its axis.
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The total devastation
is untold at this time.
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The last I heard, some
200 thousand people have died.
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Another sign that we are
living in the end of the world!
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Jesus told us in another place,
in Luke 21, that there would be
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signs in the sun, in the moon,
and in the stars, and the sea,
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the wind, and the waves roaring.
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We certainly have seen the waves
roaring recently in the Tsunami.
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Jesus said there would be
signs in the sun, the moon,
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and in the stars.
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Maybe you've heard of
it, and maybe you haven't;
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but May 19, 1780, the
dark day in New England.
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In New England they said that
at about noon a mist came up
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and it got darker, and darker,
and covered 7 or 8 states
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up in the New England area.
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It stayed dark for twelve hours.
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It was so dark that the roosters
and the hens, and the animals,
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all stockyard animals began
to go to the barn, and the birds
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went to their nests thinking
it was dark; thinking it
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was bed time.
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They said you could hold
up a white sheet of paper
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and you couldn't see it in
front of your face at high noon.
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They were to have a
full moon that night.
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The moon didn't come up
when it was supposed to.
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It was delayed some three hours.
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When it did finally
come up it was blood red.
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That's a phenomena that hasn't
been explained yet by science.
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They still do not know why.
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They don't know why
it got dark that day.
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They don't know why
the moon came up blood red.
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It's all in history.
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You can check it out.
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They haven't explained it yet!
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Jesus said there would be
signs in the sun, the moon,
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and the stars.
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It reminds me of the meteor
shower of 1833 when they said
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there were so many
meteors streaked across the sky,
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and fell out of the sky,
it looked like it was snowing
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there were so many.
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They'd never seen another sight
like this; such a meteor shower,
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to such great extent;
covering such a large territory.
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It's not been explained.
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Let's go back to
our text in verse 8.
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Are we seeing that happen
today, brother and sisters?
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I know that we are.
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We are seeing that all across
the country where brethren
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are fighting against brothers;
country against country;
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family against family.
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We're seeing that the
love of many is growing cold,
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brothers and sisters.
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Jesus said there will
be these kind of times;
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these kind of times ahead.
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They shall deliver you
up, He says, to be afflicted,
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and they shall kill you.
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We don't have to look very far
back into history to find out
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about so many places where
people have given their lives
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for the cause of God.
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Deny God or die;
and so many have died.
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They were betrayed by
their own family members.
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Jesus said you shall
be hated among the nations
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for My names sake.
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You see, we've had
all of that happen.
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We've seen all of that.
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Jesus then goes on in verse
10, And many shall be offended,
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and shall betray one another,
and shall hate one another.
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In verse 11 He continues:
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Again we don't have to look
very far for false prophets.
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We don't have to look very
far at all with the psychics
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newspaper items; the
columns by the psychics,
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the 900 phone lines where you
can call in and get your reading
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for the day.
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Jesus said there would be many
false prophets in the last days.
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We don't have to look
very far to see these.
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They've always been, by
the way, they're not just new.
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They're really surfacing now.
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The internet is full of them.
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After 9/11 of 2001, the most
searched name on the internet
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was Nostradamus.
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Nostradamus, the psychic
who made many predictions.
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His name came up to be the most
searched name on the internet
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of anything on there.
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People were running to
the psychics to find out,
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What's going on?
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If we would only
study our Bibles.
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If we would study this chapter:
Matthew 24, where Jesus is
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laying out the
signs before the end.
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Another Psychic that comes
to mind a few years ago was
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Shirley MacLaine.
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Shirley MacLaine wrote
several books on her psychic
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experiences, and in one of those
books she claims to have lived
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as a peg legged pirate.
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Yes, a peg legged pirate!
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She said she lived
as an Indian princess.
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She was a man from Atlantis.
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She was the lover
of Emperor Charlemagne.
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You see, we can have a
whole list of false prophets;
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of psychics.
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Jesus said this will be a sign
of the end; that we are running
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out of time.
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Now I want to bring
up just one more to you,
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and her name is Jeanne Dixon.
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Jeanne Dixon said that she was a
prophet of God, and that she was
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a medium to work toward
God just as Moses and Elijah,
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and some of the
main prophets of God.
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Jeanne Dixon said she
was doing the work of God,
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and she was a prophetess.
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Yet she predicted that the
President would die in office.
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Everybody said, oh yeah, yeah,
she predicted that John Kennedy
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would be killed in office.
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But if we look at that closer
we'll find that she didn't even
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predict that
Kennedy would be elected.
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She said he would lose
the election, and yet she's
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accredited as having
said President Kennedy would
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die in office.
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If we looked closer we'd find
out she didn't even think he was
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going to be in office.
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She was one of several psychics
who helped set up President
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Reagan's morning schedule.
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Did you know that?
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The Reagan's
consulted the psychics every day
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for their schedule.
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Before they left the house they
wanted to hear from the psychic.
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She was one of those.
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The National Enquirer says
that Jeanne Dixon was rated as
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30% accurate, and
they're happy about that.
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Can you believe that?
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They were happy that
she was 30% accurate.
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Yet she claimed to be
working the work of God?
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You see, brothers and sisters,
a true prophet of God will be
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100% correct.
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If God is inspiring the prophets
they're going to be right on
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target every time,
not 30% of the time.
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There was a book
written by Ruth Montgomery.
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She wrote the book of
the story of Jeanne Dixon.
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In this book she calls Jeanne
Dixon "the gift of prophecy".
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Does that sound
kind of far out to you?
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"The gift of prophecy" applied
to Jeanne Dixon when she was
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only 30% correct?
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Jesus said, brothers and
sisters, there would be many
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false prophets, and
we're seeing them all over.
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Let's go back to
our text in verse 12.
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The love of many will wax cold.
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You see, brothers and sisters,
we live in a society now
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where the love of many
is so cold; stone cold.
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We are a society who kill our
own children, born and unborn.
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A society where
we abuse our elderly.
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Where we maim, murder,
rape, ravage, and plunder
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our neighbor.
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A society where a woman in the
news just a couple of weeks ago
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strangled another pregnant
woman, and cut her open and
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removed her baby, and
claimed it as her own.
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The love of many shall wax cold!
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I just returned from a campaign
in Oklahoma a few days ago.
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It was on the news out there
that a teenage girl in high
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school had gone, left the
school, and went into the woods
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in the back, and
gave birth to a baby.
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She left it in the woods
and went right back to class
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as though nothing happened.
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Jesus says that the love
of people will grow cold,
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and it has.
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We live in that
time, in that age now.
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I hope you will agree with me.
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Jesus predicted, and He
was right on target again.
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Then Jesus gives us
a bit of encouragement.
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He says, But he that
endures until the end,
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the same shall be saved.
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Amen?
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He that endures until the end!
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We can't give up on God.
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We can't give up.
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We can't turn away.
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We can't walk away from Him.
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Where would we go?
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Jesus asked the disciples
and they said, Where would we
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go Lord, you have the
words of eternal life.
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Where would we go?
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To whom?
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There's no place!
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You see, brothers and sisters,
Jesus makes one more prediction.
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All of these others have
come to pass in Matthew 24.
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We've seen that.
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All of them have come to
pass, but there's one yet
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that still remains.
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That's in verse 14.
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You see, this gospel of the
kingdom, this gospel of Jesus
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Christ and in
His word right here.
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This gospel must be preached in
to the entire world as a witness
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unto Him, and then
the end shall come.
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You see, we're not everywhere.
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Everywhere in this world the
gospel has not been preached,
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but are working towards that.
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The Adventist denomination
was raised up in the 1800's
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to spread this
gospel; to get this gospel
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into all of the world,
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You see, the Adventist
denomination was not brought up
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to be a sitting church.
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God didn't call us out of
the world to sit in our pews
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day by day.
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He brought us out of the
world into this faith to be
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a movement.
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The Adventist church is a moving
church, one that's on the move,
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and doing God's will,
and spreading the gospel
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into all of the world.
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When this gospel of the kingdom
shall be preached in all of the
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world, for a
witness unto all nations,
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then the end shall come.
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You see, I praise God
that 3ABN is out there.
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3ABN is around this
world on seven satellites;
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on every
continent of this world.
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Yet there are still some
areas that haven't been reached,
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because there are areas
in the third world that have
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no electricity.
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They have no
satellite reception.
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They say they
have no televisions.
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Where that signal stops little
foot soldiers like you and I
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are going to have to take
that message on out there.
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The message of this kingdom
has to be preached unto all of
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the world, to every nation,
and give those people a chance
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to make a decision for God.
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Amen?
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When this gospel
is preached, He said,
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then the end shall come.
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Until that time, He
said, I want you to beware.
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I want you to be on guard,
and I'm giving you the signs
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of the end.
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You will know
when the time is close.
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Just as the fig tree starts
putting on buds, and the flower
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begins to shoot forth, He
says, know that summer is nigh.
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When He gives us these
signs we can know, too,
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that the end is near.
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We don't have to be surprised.
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But we will not know, brothers
and sisters, if we don't study
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the word of God.
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If we don't realize that Jesus'
feet will not touch the ground,
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we can be deceived by
one of those false Christ's.
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One of those persons saying,
I am Christ, can deceive many.
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You see, the deceptions
will be so strong in the end.
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Jesus talks about them; that
fire may come down from heaven;
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that the Devil would
work in lying wonders.
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He would be showing signs that
you would say that must surely
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be God.
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No, test it
according to the word.
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Isaiah 8:20, If they speak
not according to this word,
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it is because there
is no light in them.
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This word, you see.
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So there will be many signs of
lying wonders, lying healings,
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lying prophecies,
lying prophets trying to lead
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God's elect away.
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We must study this
word, brothers and sisters.
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We will be fooled if we do not.
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It's just about over.
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Time is running out quickly.
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Jesus is coming soon!
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Amen?
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Jesus is coming soon,
and we need to get ready,
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and get our people ready.
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We need to get out
there and spread the gospel.
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And, you know, it's
so easy to say, well,
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you know, I can't do that.
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I can't be a part of
spreading the gospel.
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I can't go to Africa!
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I can't go to India!
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I can't go to Russia!
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No, maybe you can't.
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But you can help
support someone who is.
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You can help a person's ministry
who is doing that very work,
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the work of
spreading the gospel.
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You can support someone
if you can't do it yourself.
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Then I would bring that
a little closer to home.
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Maybe you are not physically
able to go to another country,
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but you have a mission field to
work, because everybody in the
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United States is not saved.
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Everybody in this country
is not headed for the kingdom.
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Your mission field may
be in your neighborhood.
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It may be in your family.
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It may be your
spouse: your husband or wife.
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It may be your children.
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Your mission may be
your parents, your neighbor,
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those living right next to you.
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You see, we all have a circle
of environment that we operate
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in every day.
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We'll go to the grocery store.
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We'll go get gas.
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We'll go to the bank.
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We'll go visit our neighbors.
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We must tell them that Jesus is
soon to come so this work can be
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wrapped up, and we can be ready
to meet Jesus when He comes.
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When this gospel is preached
unto all of the world for a
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witness to all nations
then shall the end come.
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Praise God!
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I'm looking forward to that
today, and I know you are too.
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Heavenly Father, we ask again
Your special blessing upon each
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ear that has heard
this message today, Father.
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We ask Your blessing.
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Go with us now.
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Give us strength to follow
You fully and completely, Lord,
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and to go where You lead.
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Help us to be willing, Father.
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In Jesus name, Amen.
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Again, thank you so much
for being with us today in
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Faith Chapel, and may
God bless each one of you.
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