Harvest truly is plenteous,
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but the laborers are few.
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Pray ye therefore
the Lord of the harvest,
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that He will send forth
laborers into His harvest.
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Also I heard the
voice of the Lord saying,
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"Whom shall I send?
And who will go for us?"
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And said I, "Here am
I. Send me, send me!"
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Life on the edge will
enable you to be infected
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harvest before Lord.
We now invite you into
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our classrooms to
come, experience life.
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Hello, I like to
welcome you again to the
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Lay Institute For
Evangelism here into the
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classroom once again,
as we are getting ready
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to go into our
second study of the 24 sets
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that we are gonn
have in Bible study.
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And today study is
gonna be on the signs
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of the times. I like
to welcome you at home
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to our classroom
here, and let you know that
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this being the
second one of our series,
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we still have 22 more to go.
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And you'll be able to
find those on our website,
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if you want to go
there and find all the rest
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of the studies as
long, not just to studies
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themself on video, but
you'll be able to download
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and look at the
study guides themselves
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if you go to www.
comeexperiencelife.com.
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You go there not only
you can get to download
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the studies; you can
get these videos to watch.
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You can also find
out information on how
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yourself can now just
join us from sitting there,
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wherever you are
sitting and watching us,
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you can come in
rightly actually sit in the
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classroom here
and get it first hand.
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We have two sets in
the year and you're welcome
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to join either one of
those. And if you want
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to get more information
about that just go to
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our website. Today
once again we're going to be
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studying on what Christ
said over 2000 years ago
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would be happening
just before he return
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to this earth, just
before he returns to this earth,
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he predicted a bunch
of things, some signs that
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would be taking
place. We would be looking,
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and looking at those today.
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Mainly we are
gonna be focusing on
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Matthew chapter 24.
so, lets go the screen now
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you can see already
its up on the screen,
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the study guide
here the study that
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we are gonna be looking at is
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"The signs of the
Times", and the purpose of the
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study is to show
that the signs that Jesus
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told us to be
watching for that tell us when
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the end is near are happening,
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and also the purpose
of that is to encourage us
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to be ready, to encourage
the people to be ready.
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You know well there
is a whole lot of good
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that we will be
recognize all these signs
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and see all the things
happening if we are not
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personally
preparing for him to come.
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And so that's the
purpose of the study is to
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help us to realize where
we are in stream of time.
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And the Center It:
Jesus does not want us to be
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deceived about the
end. He wants all of us
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to be clear; he
wants us to recognize
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what's happening,
and wants you and I to be
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ready for his coming.
So now we get into the
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part here on the
screen, I will show the list
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of the text that we
will be using for this study.
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They are mostly all
found in the Book of Matthew,
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you notice here
starting in the fourth text
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all the way down to the 14 text.
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All of those are found
in the Book of Matthew.
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So, the basically
the whole study is found
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in Matthew chapter
24. Every one of those
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will be from
there, except the 12th one
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there see that's
Genesis chapter 6 and
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you will see how
that plays into it.
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We will have a
couple of external texts
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we'd probably go to,
and we have those like
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in every study you
know it's not on your
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study guide; it's not
on the screen but with
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reference to text.
Now when we do that
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that's why it's good you have a
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pen and paper handy.
Now all the students here
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they have their
MacBook, so they are able
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to take notes
right on their computer,
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but those you at home
you may want to go ahead
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and grab a pencil
or a pen and some paper
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and be able to take
notes for the extra text
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that you will be
having throughout the study.
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So but for those who
are here and you come
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to Life you will
get one of these two.
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Anyway lets go on, we
are going to go on now
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to the first part of the study,
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before we get
into and open our Bible
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and start doing
anything in our Bibles,
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what must we first
do? Pray, we must first
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ask God to give us
clear minds and I'll ask him
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to give us guidance
as we study his word,
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so I invite you at
home to pray with us here
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in the classroom. Lord
Jesus I just want to ask
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you right now that
you help us to understand
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what it is you want us
to see in your word today.
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Help Lord for each of
us to graft the teaching
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that is given, and I
pray that Father when
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we get to the end of
the study that we will be
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closer to you, and
a better understanding
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of what's going on our world,
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and how near we are
to seeing you coming
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in the clouds of
glory. We pray this in the
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name of Jesus, amen.
Alright our first part
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of the study, we're
going to first look in the
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Revelation
chapter 16 and verse 15,
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its going to be the
first text of study,
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and its on the screen
right now for us to see
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what it is, and
you will see right
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there the word
(watch). The first three text
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we are going to be looking at,
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we are gonna find out
that we are told to watch
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by Jesus, by Paul,
by John, in many places
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in the Bible we are
just gonna go to three
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of them basically,
and we're gonna ask the
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question what is
that they want us to be
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watching for. So,
when you open up in the
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Bible study setting
and you're giving a study
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to somebody, that's
kind of opening you know
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God is telling us
to watch for something
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and what is that we
are gonna be watching for.
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Miss Glory, would
you look to read the
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first text there Revelation
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chapter 16 and verse 15.
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"Behold, I am coming
as a thief in the night.
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Blessed is he who
watches, and keeps his garments,
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lest he walk naked
and they see his name."
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Alright
Revelation 16 and verse 15
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we're cautioned
there, or encouraged there
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to behold, he says I
come as a thief in the night
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and blessed is he,
he does what, watches.
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So, according to
the apostle John as
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he is writing in
Book of Revelation,
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God is speaking to
him in the prophecy here
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and he says blessed
are they that's doing
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what watching. So,
there's a reason that
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he wants us to be
watching and that's
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where we'll be
going through as we study
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through this first part
here. What is that we are
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gonna be watching
for, and lets find out
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as we go the next slide here,
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Matthew chapter
24 and verse 42-44
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Matthew chapter
24 and verse 42-44.
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Now if you are in Revelation,
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how to get to the
Book of Matthew is pretty
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simple isn't it. You
go to the left all the way
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to the first book
of the New Testament,
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Matthew chapter 24. Its
probably the most popular
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chapter you hear about
in the Bible at least I do,
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I mean it seems like
everybody has something
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in these day they quote
out of Matthew chapter 24,
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Matthew chapter 24
and we are gonna read
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verses 42-44.
Turn the page one more,
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and Bill you want to
do that for us Matthew 24,
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go ahead. Let see
42, yeah, it says:
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"Watch therefore, for
you do not know what hour
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your Lord is
coming. But know this,
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that if the master
of the house had known
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what hour the thief would come,
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he would have watched
and not allowed his house
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to be broken
into. Therefore you also
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be ready, for the
Son of Man is coming
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at an hour you do not expect.
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Isn't it interesting
there what he is saying,
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he is telling us to
watch and then he actually
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clues us in little
bit on what we would be
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watching for and
what is it specifically
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we would be watching for,
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the sign of
Christ coming, right,
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he says be watching
because he is gonna come
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and when you don't think
he is going to be coming,
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then he is going to
come. Now I think this is kind
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of little strange
to think about because
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right now in our day
we are saying oh the signs
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are everywhere, Jesus
is going to come soon.
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But you know there is a
whole lot of people that
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will tell you things
like, oh we've been hearing
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this our whole life,
right. We've been hearing
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all along that
Jesus is coming soon,
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and so just when you
think, you and I maybe
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thinking oh I
really believe Jesus is
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coming soon with all the
things that are going on.
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There are many
people even in the religious
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world saying you know
what, we've been hearing
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this our whole life.
You know I am second,
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third, fourth
generation Christian,
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I've been hearing
this my whole life,
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and I really don't, I
think we've plenty of time
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and Jesus says in
the hour you think not.
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In other word, he
doesn't say in the year
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or the month, its like
there is going to be very
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narrow timeframe
when everybody is thinking
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in for a short
time, oh no its not going
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to happen, then
he is going to come.
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He is going to be as a
thief, it's going to be
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surprise to everyone.
So, we have John writing
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in the Book of
Revelation telling us to watch.
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Let me have Jesus
hear the word and way Jesus
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says hey you need
to be watching because
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when you think it's
not going to happen beware
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because it's going to happen.
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And then from there
we got the next text,
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we get to 3ST the
third part of the study here,
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and again if you are
marking your Bibles up,
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when you get to 1 Thessalonians
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chapter 5 verses 2-6
somewhere around that
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area since we are here
only in the second time
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we've been marking the
Bible, and those of you
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who need to
understand at home how to mark
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your Bible, if you
missed the first study
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you need to go
back and watch that one,
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the one that Pastor
Scott did on the Daniel 2
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in the word of God
study, that tells you,
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explains you in
detail how to put together
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the Bible study, how to
mark it up in your Bible.
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But here when you get to the
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1 Thessalonians 5 2-6
you are right somewhere
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around that area 3ST
which enters signs of
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the times ST and on
the top line you put
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Matthew 24 42-44
that's the text you came from,
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and then the text
you're going to be next
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Matthew 24 1-3,
and that's how you mark
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your Bible as you
go along through that.
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So right now 1 Thessalonians
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chapter 5 verse 2-6
Bill would you like to read
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that for us, I
mean Thomas, sorry Tom,
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here we got Tom and
Bill sitting together,
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and let me put a
girl beside you Tom,
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Tom will you
read that one for us.
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Okay 1 Thessalonians
chapter 5 verses 2-6.
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That's right,
hold on just a second,
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let me get there. We
have a pause in the video
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in here but that's
okay people at home
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are still finding
theirs too, yeah go ahead.
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"For you yourselves
know perfectly that the day
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of the Lord so comes
as a thief in the night.
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For when they say,
"Peace and safety!''
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then sudden
destruction comes upon them,
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as labor pains
upon a pregnant woman.
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And they shall not
escape. But you, brethren,
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are not in darkness,
so that this Day should
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overtake you as a thief.
You are all sons of light
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and sons of the day.
We are not of the night
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nor of darkness.
Therefore let us not sleep,
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as others do, but let
us watch and be sober.
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So here Paul
writing to the church in
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Thessalonians I get you
right in the Thessalonians
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and he says you
are not the children
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of the darkness, or
children of the night,
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you are the children
of the day, and because
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of that what's he
counsel us to do in verse 6
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there watch and be
sober. He wants us to be
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paying attention,
so we have Jesus saying
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hey you need to be watching out,
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you need to be
watching for this, you have John
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saying watch, be
ready and then you also have
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Paul here saying
watch and be ready.
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Now I won't think
of these guys as pretty
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intelligent people wouldn't you?
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I mean after all
its was these fellows,
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I mean Jesus in
particularly of being
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God on earth, and then
you think of the apostles
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they basically turned
the world upside down,
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its not, there is
hardly a place on this planet
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that hasn't heard
the name of Jesus because
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what the work that
these guys started,
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and millions and millions
until billions of people
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their lives have
been changed through the
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writings of these
people, writing the Bible under
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the inspiration of
Holy Spirit and when
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they tell us to do
something like watch,
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I think them as
being so intelligent,
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being so filled with the
spirit of God that would,
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that would be good
counsel for us to be doing
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that very thing
is to be watching.
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And we know what they
are telling we need be
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watching for,
what would they be,
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they just told us
in this whole context,
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the second coming of
Jesus, the signs of the
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second coming, watch
when you don't think,
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when everybody is
thinking oh we have
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plenty of time,
then its gonna be happen.
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So, we are counsel
to be doing this so when
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we do this Bible
study here that we are
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gonna be looking it
now, as we get into the signs
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of the second coming,
its very beneficial for us
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to understand the
reason we look at the signs
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of the second coming
because we've been told
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to be watching for
these things, and then
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we're gonna figure
out the details of that
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as we go along. So
our next text would be
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Matthew chapter 24 verses 1-3
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and in the context of
Matthew 24 verses 1-3,
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its on the screen right now.
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And Shalida is gonna
read Matthew chapter 24
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as soon as I get
there, Shalida are you there,
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ready to go, okay
read verse 1-3 for us.
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And Jesus went out and
departed from the temple,
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and His disciples
came to Him to show Him
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the buildings of the
temple. And Jesus said
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unto them, "See ye
not all these things?
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Verily I say unto you,
there shall not be left
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here one stone upon
another that shall not be
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thrown down." One
more verse, oh okay,
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I am sorry trying
to hold the microphone
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and turn the
pages isn't, go ahead.
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And as He sat upon
the Mount of Olives,
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the disciples came
unto Him privately, saying,
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"Tell us, when
shall these things be?
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And what shall be
the sign of Thy coming
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and of the end of the
world?" Alright so Jesus
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here tells his
disciples something very
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interesting as they
look upon the temple,
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and now you can
imagine what a temple must have
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look like you know
these massive stones,
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beautiful temple, and
he tells the disciples
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well one day there
is not gonna be piece
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of this temple left,
its gonna be tore down,
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there is hardly
gonna be one stone sitting
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upon another. The
disciples automatically
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as soon as Jesus
said that thought you know
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what its something catastrophic
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is gonna happen, its
must be the end of the world.
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So, they ask Jesus a
question, actually they ask
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him two questions, I
want you to put in your notes,
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I think it maybe
in the notes on the
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study guides, and I
believe it is, let me look
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and see if we
have on it like that.
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Yes it is, its on
the note and is written
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like that, they actually
asks Jesus two question,
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so when you put out
the study guide it will be
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on there for you
already. Those two questions
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have been simply
this Jesus tell us when
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the temple is
gonna be destroyed and
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these things are
gonna happen what's gonna be
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like and then tells
the signs of your coming
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in the end of the
world because we know the
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temple is
destroyed when 70 AD right,
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the temple is
completely destroyed and that
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prophecy was
completely fulfilled
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but did Jesus came in
70 AD. No, and he actually
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takes the two
questions they ask him
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and he basically
answers it with one answer,
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with one answer, and
he compares like things
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that took place
around the destruction
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of the Jerusalem in 70
AD or also the same things
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are gonna be taking
place, and are taking
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place right now in the
world. So, he answers that
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two fold like that,
and we are gonna to go into
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this in just a little
more detail as we go along,
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so let us look
at this answer now.
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First of all at the end
of verse 3, I want to be
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focusing on that
just a little bit,
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actually I circled my Bible,
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when I give Bible studies,
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I got one Bible that I
give Bible studies out of,
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and I just it's a
H.M.S. Richards study Bible,
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and I put all my notes
and mark my Bible in that,
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but I actually
write you know if there is
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something I want to
emphasize. You may want
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to try this, I don't
know how you feel like
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marking in your
Bibles in something aspect,
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but I highlight
little things with my pencil,
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even with a colored
pencil to make sure that
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I emphasize certain
parts, and what I did
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on this three
when they says tell us
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when shall be these things be,
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I kind of
emphasize the when there,
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and what shall be the
signs of your coming in
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end of the world.
So, the two question are,
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when will these things
be, when this all gonna
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take place, and
in context of this,
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what's going to be
your sign of your coming
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in the end of the
world. So, when Jerusalem
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is gonna be destroyed,
the temple be destroyed,
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and when is the end
of the world coming.
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He doesn't give
them a exact timeframe
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but he tells them
to what be looking for,
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hence the Paul first
part we already went through
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here saying watch,
watch, watch, because
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he is gonna tell them
what they actually is that
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they are supposed
to be watching for,
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and that's what where
we are gonna be getting
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into as we go in to
the rest of the study,
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the very things he
says to be watching for.
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So, very first thing
he says when you go back
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to the screen here Matthew
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chapter 24 verses 4-7,
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Jesus giving an answer Roberto,
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if you want to read that
for us Matthew 24 verses,
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well oh its
Jessica's turn okay I am sorry,
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I mess up, Jessica
then Matthew 24 you know
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I can say Roberto
and you guys can just
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video Jessica, they
won't know the difference,
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Matthew chapter 24
verses 4-7 go ahead sister.
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Jesus told them:
"Don't let anyone mislead you.
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For many will come
in my name, saying,
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'I am the Messiah.'
They will lead many astray.
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And wars will
break out near and far,
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but don't panic. Yes,
these things must come,
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but the end won't
follow immediately.
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The nations and kingdoms
will proclaim war against
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each other, and
there will be famines
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and earthquakes in
many parts of the world.
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But all this will be
only the beginning of the
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horrors to come.
Alright you read one verse
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actually that's okay
fits in this perfect,
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so Jesus here when
they ask the question tells
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the signs, he give
them a whole list of signs
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but I have an
objection. You know when I first
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become a Christian, I
had an objection you know
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what objection is,
as most skeptics had
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this objection.
We've always had wars,
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we've always had famines,
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we've always had false
Christs, we've always had
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people deceiving
people, haven't we always had
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these things. So,
Jesus wasn't really giving us
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any great revelation
there was he? When you think
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about it its not
any great revelation,
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we've always had
these things, and skeptic
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will say that, they
would simply say you know
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you Christians are
kind of fanatical, already,
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we already think
you are little crazy,
00:16:17.37\00:16:19.09
but now we know
you are touched because
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Jesus isn't, he is
not telling us anything
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new you act like he
is telling you something
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special when you
read this but we always
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had these very things.
And as so he set that up
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giving a study or
even you are preaching
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you set that up and
people sometime they become
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little skeptical with
you when you say like what
00:16:33.36\00:16:35.12
he is trying to
say. You know like most
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of the time when
you study with somebody
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they already kind
of believe in the Bible
00:16:38.10\00:16:39.46
and believe in
Jesus, and it sounds like
00:16:39.47\00:16:41.34
you are trying to
cut down the Bible,
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or cut down Jesus.
Now you guys know me
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well enough to know
that I am not doing that,
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but you want to
set that up in the mind
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a little bit because of
what Jesus actually says
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really makes a
mockery of infidel
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or the non believer
when you really pay attention
00:16:53.34\00:16:55.41
what he is gonna say
that's where are gonna
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get into as we move
along because Jesus compares
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his second
coming, he compares it two
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different things. When
he says the two natural
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things basically
he compares it to.
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We are gonna look at
the second one first.
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We are gonna look at
the second things and
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compares it to first
and that one we found in
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Matthew chapter 24 verses 32-33,
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Matthew chapter 24,
its on the screen right
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now verses 32-33.
And Tom would you like to
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read that for us.
I would like to read,
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alright, verse 32-33.
"Now learn the parable
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from the fig tree:
when its branch has already
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become tender and
puts forth its leaves,
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you know that summer
is near. So you also,
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when you see all these things,
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know that it is
near, even at the doors."
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Very interesting
when you think about what
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he is saying there,
he says okay first of all
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I am going to
compare it to a fig tree and
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when all these
things are gonna take place,
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the things that he
just listed here Matthew 24
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all this is gonna
take place and he said
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when you see this
things happening its gonna be
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like a fig tree.
Now when a fig tree,
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any tree basically
when you think of any tree
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it's gonna have
fruit on the tree,
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does it always
have fruit on the tree.
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No it start to
bloom at one point right,
00:18:05.91\00:18:07.92
and you will see a
little bloom come up,
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right just a little
tiny bloom will come up.
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He says when you see
this you know the summer
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is neigh, when you
see the bloom is come on
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but do you have
fruit yet, is it ready to
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harvest yet? Its not
ready to harvest he says
00:18:16.24\00:18:18.27
but its similar to
that, you will see the fruit
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come on, and then
it grow, and it grows
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and it grows until
eventually the fruit on
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the tree is big
enough to harvest right.
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So he is
comparing his second coming
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and the signs of the
second coming to a tree
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blossoming, blooming and
blossoming until the fruit
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comes on the tree,
and then being ready
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to be picked. He
says learn the parable
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of a fig tree,
the branch is tender,
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puts forth leaves you
know that summer is near.
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So, you know summer
is coming, you know that
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it's coming by the
fact that the tree start
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turning. Now down in
Florida I have only been
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here about six
months now, I don't imagine
00:18:47.08\00:18:48.68
you have to much signs
of summer coming on other
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than the temperature
just starts warming up.
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I guess the grass
kind of turn brown that one
00:18:52.61\00:18:54.62
time of the year; I
don't know I haven't seen
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anything like that
yet. But I understand back
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in Kentucky right
now you know, where I am,
00:18:57.52\00:19:00.00
from up there in
Kentucky, the promised land,
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that up there right
now, I just got e-mail
00:19:04.24\00:19:05.66
from some of my
friends up there,
00:19:05.67\00:19:06.74
he said oh because I
send them a picture of me
00:19:06.75\00:19:09.10
on the beach down
here, I was hanging on the
00:19:09.11\00:19:11.39
beach a couple of
weeks ago on a Sunday.
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And he said oh you
might enjoy the beach but
00:19:13.04\00:19:15.28
we are enjoying the
leaves up here right
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now turning colors,
so in a similar way when
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the leaves start
turning colors in Kentucky
00:19:19.13\00:19:20.74
what's that telling
them, it won't be long before
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its snow in right
that's what's coming its says
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cold weather is coming
because these are signs
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of things that are
coming, so Jesus says hey the
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fig tree that's a
one way of understanding
00:19:30.88\00:19:32.79
what I am trying to
tell you here yeah we always
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had these things but
there is gonna be time
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that you start them
seeing them happen in a
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certain way you know
what's gonna come next,
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is that make sense.
Now it makes it even more
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clear in the next
one we are looking at
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Matthew chapter 24
and verse 8 when you first
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read it may be not be
as clear as it is until
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we explain it, so the
explanations will help
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clear this up quiet a
bit and Roberto you wanna
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read that first
Matthew chapter 24 and verse 8.
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All these are the
beginning of sorrows.
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all these are the
beginning of sorrows,
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of what, what are
the beginning of sorrows,
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all the signs, its
alright you know he says that
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you are gonna
have the earthquakes,
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and the famines, and
the floods and pestilences,
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and all these
things, the wars the rumors
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of war he says all
these are the beginning
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of sorrows. Now that
really doesn't make sense
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in itself, why do
you mean its beginning
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of sorrows yeah we
know the war and things
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like that are sorrowful event.
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Let me before I tell you
what the punch line here,
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let me kind of
tell you little story,
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and this is what I
like to do, you have to have
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your own story when
you give a Bible study
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or preach. But I can
remember when I first got
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married, oh its
about I got to think,
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we got married says
about eight months and Laura
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and I after we married,
Laura started getting fat,
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oh yeah her belly
just started going getting
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bigger, bigger,
and bigger, she didn't
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get big anywhere
else, her belly just started
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getting bigger all
the time right, and I said
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something wrong with
her, I didn't know what's
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wrong with her did I?
Actually I did you know
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what's wrong with it,
she is pregnant, right.
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There was a sign,
the first sign that I saw
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in Laura, the first
thing I saw happening
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to her is her
belly was getting bigger
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and it got bigger
and bigger and bigger,
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she is just sticking
out like this someone
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has stuck a
basketball under her shirt,
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it was a sign there,
and then one Saturday
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evening right
about 7 O'clock Laura
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comes out of
bathroom, and she says I think
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my water just broke, and
I said that must be a sign,
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you think that's
what I said, it was a sign
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wasn't it, and
what was that sign,
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you better get her
to the hospital, right.
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So, I call the
hospital up and said hey my wife
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says she thinks her
water just broke and
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they said well bring
her right in and so I got
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in the car and I
drive really fast at
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Acton road, there I
was living in Kentucky
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and look at took on
the way to the hospital
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but my idea was like
after the water breaks
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that baby is coming,
and I am not delivering
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no baby, right. So I
drive and we get into the
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hospital and we get
in there and immediately
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they put in her bed
and they put this little,
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they just pull her
shirt up there and showed
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that big old belly
sticking out there,
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right. And they put
this little tags all over it
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with this wires
hanging off it, and on the wall
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right next to
where we was on the wall
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there was this graph,
was a white piece of paper
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thing and the graph
just is making a lines like
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this and its amazing
to me as I paid attention
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there every once in
a while Laura would go
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ah, ah, ah, and she
would start breathing like
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that a little thing
will and it came down
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and there she goes ooh.
I notice that every time
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she would make that
noise that graph would go up,
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and what happened
from about 8 O'clock 8:30
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or so on every about
10 or 15 minutes that
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graph would go up
they are starting getting
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closer and closer
together, you know
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like first every 10
minutes and 15 minutes
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to somewhere around
there and it started
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to be like be 5
minutes apart eventually some
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time during night
and so every 5 minutes
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Laura would go ah,
ah, ah, and the graphic
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go until finally at
about 3:30 in the morning
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the graph was just
like this and it was staying
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all the time and
she was breathing hard
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the whole time. You
know what, all these
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were signs what
are they signs off,
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the baby is getting
ready to come, right
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and so at 3:30 in the
morning they could just
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pull those things off
at that point and we know
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why because that
thing was coming out
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and at 3:30 in the
morning Kathleen was born,
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our first born right.
Now the next time we had
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a baby I knew
about all those signs
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and I was ready
you know what I mean
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I've been through this
before but the first time,
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I can remember the
first time she had,
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she was having a
baby I didn't know what
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to expect. Now here
is the point when Jesus
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says in Matthew
chapter 24 and verse 8
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all these are the
beginning of sorrows,
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he is using a
interesting word I am gonna put
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it on the screen the
word there in the Greek
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for sorrows and I
hope that's right Odin,
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and it means a birth
pain or child bearing pain
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or travail. In
another words Jesus says
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all these will be
like having a child,
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having a baby. Now
when Laura first started
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getting her belly,
starting to popping out there,
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was I expecting a
baby to come anytime soon,
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no, I knew still she
has a plenty of time,
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didn't I. But the
bigger she got the bigger
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she got I knew that
it was closer and closer
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to baby to come
right and then I took her
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to the hospital and
they hooked this tags,
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they hooked things
up all over her belly,
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her big fat belly
Shalida, it was that,
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I hope she never
gets that big and have
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everything right,
but she got her belly
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sticking out like that
and they get this thing
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stuck all over.
Now on the graph on the
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chart every so
often it was interesting
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if you just could I
wish I could have got a print
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of it because it
would have been really great
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for illustration
because it shows,
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it shows on
there going up and down
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and the space with
nothing and up and down
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as the night
progresses, the time progress
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those things are
closer and closer together
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called contractions
right until finally they were
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right on top on
another is of the chart
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and the baby come,
Jesus said it would be the
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same way just
before he comes as a baby
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being born. So,
yeah that Jesus knew that
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there was wars and
rumors of wars going
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on his day, was there
famines and pestilence
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going on the day
Jesus was talking.
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Yeah, now you think
about the people standing
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around and listening
to Jesus, listening to him
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when he said all
these are the beginning
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of the sorrows as its
translated in King James,
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the people were listening to him
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what did they heard
something like this today,
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all this would be
like a birth pains.
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Now if he would have
said that I mean if the
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King James would
have translated that way
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these would be
like having birth pains,
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we wouldn't have a
lot of issues about with
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skeptics saying oh we
always had these things,
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like the people who
study would say that too,
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we always had that.
But when you show them
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this part he does
simply says it would be like
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child bearing, like
having a baby, hah that
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makes sense, and the
closer and more intense
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the signs are the
closer we are to the birth.
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Now I am going to
look at these signs
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and I am gonna
asks the question,
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are there more intense,
are they closer together,
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do we see it more
often now than we have
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ever seen happen
before, as we go through
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this things we are
getting them little
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quickly and here is a
thing about this study,
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this study is
little different than most
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others and what's
different about this one
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are like the events change.
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Like right now we
are standing here,
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we just had the
two major earthquakes
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over there in common
was in India they had
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two major ones, they
just had them you know
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of 8 point
something, and 7 point something
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and there are
things that are going on
00:26:08.54\00:26:10.23
the world right now
with H1N1, the swine flu,
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and all these kinds of things,
00:26:13.42\00:26:14.39
we will be touching on
this as we go the study
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but this is a study
you kind of keep updated.
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And its gonna get
more harder and harder
00:26:19.63\00:26:21.48
to keep it updated as
time progresses because
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its getting closer
and closer together,
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is that neat. So
this study is a little bit
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different than the
rest as far as that goes,
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because by the time
this is being watched
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there could be
something, we could be
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in the middle of
some kind of catastrophic
00:26:32.82\00:26:34.29
thing in this world
now and in this country,
00:26:34.30\00:26:36.41
I mean who know we may have H1N1
00:26:36.42\00:26:39.91
vaccination going
on all over the place
00:26:39.92\00:26:41.85
and people dying everywhere,
00:26:41.86\00:26:43.59
we don't know what
would be going on over
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the next little bit of time,
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so it would be more
intense as we go along.
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Matthew chapter 24
verses 4-5 we are gonna
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pick up right now and
I am going to have Tom
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read that for us,
Matthew chapter 24 verses 4-5
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and then 11-24 Tom.
Okay, and Jesus answered
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and said unto them,
"Take heed that no man
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deceive you; for
many will come in My name,
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saying, úI am
Christ,' and will deceive many.
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Okay verse 11.
Then many false prophets
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will rise up and deceive many.
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And verse 24: For
false Christs and false
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prophets will rise
and show great signs
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and wonders, to
deceive if possible even
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the very elect. Okay
Tom what we are focusing
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here on right here
what's the main thing,
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false Christs
and false prophets.
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Now its funny because
he says at three different
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ways here when
he talks about here
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and I want to
point something out in
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Thessalonians verses
4-5 particularly verse 5
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but he is warning a false Christ
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and false Prophets,
so is Jesus is telling us
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right away to beware
of all Prophets in the
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last days, no just
false ones right and
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there is
something to think about,
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but I want to look
in verse 5 when he says
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many will come in my name saying
00:27:52.57\00:27:54.27
I am Christ and deceive many,
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who is speaking here?
Jesus is speaking right,
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and he says many will
come in my name saying
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I am Christ and deceive many.
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In other words you kind
of picture like this Jesus
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is saying many will
come in my name saying
00:28:03.62\00:28:06.70
that Jesus is the
Christ saying that Jesus
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is the Christ and
they will use that as a
00:28:09.22\00:28:11.23
springboard to
deceive many, do you see
00:28:11.24\00:28:12.95
the difference in
the wording there.
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Most of the time
when you read you say
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hey there is going
to be people coming
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and saying they are
Christ and use that to
00:28:18.20\00:28:20.60
deceive people.
He does say that in
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verse 11 and 24 he
talks about in those terms
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but in verse 5 you
can very well unlike
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if you think about
who is speaking here Jesus
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says they are gonna
come his name saying that
00:28:30.70\00:28:32.80
Jesus is the Christ
but will use that as
00:28:32.81\00:28:35.14
springboard to deceive people.
00:28:35.15\00:28:36.21
Now I promise you
the first part of study
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we may have some
extra text we go to,
00:28:38.07\00:28:39.92
to kind of back some things up.
00:28:39.93\00:28:41.10
And this is one of those places,
00:28:41.11\00:28:42.32
this is one of
those places where we are
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gonna do that. I
want you to go with me now
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to the Book of 2 Corinthians in
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chapter 11. Go to
the right keep your place
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mark Matthew 24 Acts, Romans,
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Corinthians, 2
Corinthians chapter 11
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because I want to
show you that Paul actually
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kind of agrees to what
Jesus maybe saying here,
00:28:55.12\00:28:57.54
I am not dogmatic
telling you saying this is
00:28:58.19\00:29:00.64
absolutely what Jesus is
saying that he is talking
00:29:00.65\00:29:03.44
about people
coming and claiming Jesus
00:29:03.45\00:29:04.71
is the Christ
and deceiving people,
00:29:04.72\00:29:05.83
but it's a good
possibility that exactly
00:29:06.45\00:29:08.85
what he was
talking about specially
00:29:08.86\00:29:09.91
when you look at
what Paul says right here.
00:29:09.92\00:29:11.23
And it does make
sense when you think about
00:29:11.24\00:29:13.12
the number of people
today that are claming
00:29:13.13\00:29:15.66
that Jesus is Christ
but teaching all kinds of
00:29:15.67\00:29:17.27
hierarchies out of the Bible,
00:29:17.28\00:29:18.49
but not out of the
Bible but trying to lead
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that way. I am
gonna read now first
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2 Corinthians chapter
11 I am gonna read this
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one verses 13-15,
chapter 11, 2 Corinthians
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chapter 11, is that
right, are you there?
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It's not in the study guide,
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so it would be little different.
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"For such are
false apostles, deceitful
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workers, transforming
themselves into apostles
00:29:38.92\00:29:41.66
of Christ"? So, Paul
here is talking about
00:29:41.67\00:29:43.63
deceitful workers that
will transforming themselves
00:29:43.64\00:29:45.49
into apostles of
Christ. And no marvel;
00:29:45.50\00:29:48.59
for Satan himself
is transformed into an
00:29:48.60\00:29:50.46
angel of light. Now look
at verse 15 particularly.
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Therefore it is no
great thing if his ministers,
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whose ministers,
Satan's ministers also will be
00:29:54.82\00:29:58.98
transformed
into the ministers of
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righteousness; whose
end shall be according
00:30:00.37\00:30:02.77
to their works. So,
what he is saying here,
00:30:02.78\00:30:04.57
he is saying there
is gonna be ministers
00:30:04.58\00:30:05.61
that look like
ministers of righteousness,
00:30:05.62\00:30:08.17
but they are
gonna be able to deceive
00:30:08.48\00:30:09.95
the people. They
are gonna be actually
00:30:09.96\00:30:12.69
ministers of the
devil, fascinating isn't it.
00:30:12.70\00:30:16.12
And so Jesus may
very well being saying
00:30:16.45\00:30:18.37
there in back in
Matthew chapter 24
00:30:18.38\00:30:20.26
and verse 5, he
says many will come in my
00:30:20.60\00:30:22.29
name saying I am
Christ, they are claiming
00:30:22.30\00:30:23.96
that Jesus is the
Christ but they will deceive
00:30:23.97\00:30:25.94
many. Now do we
have what we are looking
00:30:25.95\00:30:30.24
for as we go to the
study, remember we're looking
00:30:30.25\00:30:31.74
for increase in certain things,
00:30:31.75\00:30:33.34
do we have an
increase in that today?
00:30:33.35\00:30:35.12
I mean just think about
that do we have increase
00:30:36.00\00:30:37.43
of people out
there claiming that Jesus
00:30:37.44\00:30:38.84
is the Christ but
teaching all kind of
00:30:38.85\00:30:40.10
hierarchies, I mean
extreme not even close
00:30:40.11\00:30:42.54
to being in the Bible.
You know there are some
00:30:42.55\00:30:45.10
people that are
deceived in small places here
00:30:45.11\00:30:46.91
and there and
they may not have every
00:30:46.92\00:30:48.09
doctrine right but they
are still serving the Lord
00:30:48.10\00:30:49.64
and still trying
to do what's right,
00:30:49.65\00:30:50.79
but could you see
there are many out there
00:30:50.80\00:30:53.79
that's also the
ministers of the devil,
00:30:53.80\00:30:55.05
ministers of Satan
but appear as ministers
00:30:55.39\00:30:58.56
of righteousness. You
know I can just take off
00:30:58.57\00:31:02.22
and go to a sermon
right here and sometimes
00:31:02.23\00:31:03.72
I fall into that
trap when I am giving this
00:31:03.73\00:31:05.52
Bible study or
whenever I am preaching
00:31:05.53\00:31:07.49
an evangelistic
sermon in the trap,
00:31:07.50\00:31:09.40
the trap that I
fall into is the whole
00:31:09.41\00:31:12.17
prosperity gospel
teaching that you find out today
00:31:12.21\00:31:15.24
that the reward for the
Christian is now in this
00:31:15.25\00:31:18.70
world when the
Bible says the reward for
00:31:18.71\00:31:20.74
the Christian is
when Jesus comes.
00:31:20.87\00:31:22.00
You know God
wants you to be wealthy,
00:31:22.01\00:31:23.67
he wants you to be
just like everything easy
00:31:23.68\00:31:26.05
in this world and you
don't find anything where
00:31:26.06\00:31:28.03
apostles had that, you
know they weren't focus
00:31:28.04\00:31:31.96
on trying to make everybody rich
00:31:31.97\00:31:33.24
in their day, and I
just had a real struggle
00:31:33.25\00:31:35.56
when I hear ministers
talking about how wealthy
00:31:35.57\00:31:37.92
God wants us to
be when Jesus himself
00:31:37.93\00:31:39.92
didn't have a
pillow to lay his head on,
00:31:39.93\00:31:41.15
didn't have a house
you know, and you think
00:31:41.16\00:31:44.13
about the disciples
themselves they were all,
00:31:44.14\00:31:45.76
they just give everything
they had all their means,
00:31:45.77\00:31:48.16
they give their very
lives to reach people with
00:31:48.17\00:31:50.79
the truths of Gods
word that Jesus is gonna
00:31:50.80\00:31:53.06
come back and
they need to be ready,
00:31:53.07\00:31:54.16
they gave it all. But
much of the teaching today
00:31:54.17\00:31:56.85
and I am gonna dare
say it I know it to be
00:31:56.86\00:31:58.97
all over the place
I probably get letters
00:31:58.98\00:32:00.50
about it, but I am
going to go ahead and say
00:32:00.51\00:32:02.34
it when people are
telling you that God is
00:32:02.35\00:32:04.03
concerned about you
being rich more than
00:32:04.04\00:32:05.99
they are telling you
about God is concerned
00:32:06.00\00:32:07.11
about you getting
ready for the kingdom
00:32:07.12\00:32:08.37
of God and being
ready for that, that's a
00:32:08.38\00:32:10.56
minister of
Satan, that's just a lie,
00:32:10.57\00:32:14.01
you know God
wants us to be ready for
00:32:14.25\00:32:16.21
the kingdom to
come. He doesn't want us
00:32:16.22\00:32:17.54
to love this world 1
John chapter 2 where he says
00:32:17.55\00:32:20.67
Love not the
world, neither the things
00:32:20.68\00:32:22.20
that are in the world.
00:32:22.21\00:32:23.18
For all that is in the world,
00:32:23.45\00:32:24.71
the lust of the flesh,
and the lust of the eyes,
00:32:24.72\00:32:26.09
and the pride of
life, is not of the Father,
00:32:26.10\00:32:27.80
but is of the world.
And the world is passing
00:32:27.81\00:32:29.31
away in the lust
there of, but he does
00:32:29.32\00:32:31.63
the will of God
will abide forever.
00:32:31.64\00:32:32.83
I mean think about
that how does fit into
00:32:33.32\00:32:35.14
prosperity gospel
when he says not to love
00:32:35.15\00:32:37.23
the things of this
world. Anyway I think
00:32:37.24\00:32:39.53
Jesus when he was
speaking here I knew
00:32:39.54\00:32:41.26
I take a long time
on that but when Jesus
00:32:41.27\00:32:42.55
was speaking
here he was very clear
00:32:42.56\00:32:44.55
in warning us to be
watching out for these
00:32:45.06\00:32:48.31
false Christs,
these false Apostles that
00:32:48.32\00:32:52.13
would come claiming
that Jesus is Christ
00:32:52.14\00:32:54.09
but using it make us
love the things of this
00:32:54.10\00:32:56.16
world and end up being lost.
00:32:56.17\00:32:57.37
We have increase in
that. Now without going
00:32:57.75\00:32:59.75
in we will touch on
some of these others
00:32:59.76\00:33:01.45
right now because I
am bound to do that,
00:33:01.46\00:33:03.54
but we also have him
warning of false Christs
00:33:03.55\00:33:06.37
and false Prophets.
Hey I know what Jessica
00:33:06.73\00:33:09.85
is trying to tell me
a while ago its actually
00:33:09.86\00:33:11.25
in the notes 2 Corinthians
11-15 its that you are
00:33:11.26\00:33:13.77
trying to show me
while ago, it is okay,
00:33:13.78\00:33:15.67
well its is in the
notes, it is in your notes
00:33:15.68\00:33:17.34
right there and
printed out. Anyway I got
00:33:17.35\00:33:20.44
a list of, I put a
list in the notes so those
00:33:20.45\00:33:23.99
you have at home
you may want to download
00:33:24.00\00:33:25.50
those notes, so you can
get the full list because
00:33:25.51\00:33:27.89
we are not going
to go through everyone
00:33:27.90\00:33:28.87
of them here, I will
touch on a couple of them
00:33:28.88\00:33:30.57
but remember what
we have been asking
00:33:30.58\00:33:32.58
ourselves is
there being an increase
00:33:32.59\00:33:34.07
in these things, has
there been an increase
00:33:34.51\00:33:36.21
in these things, and
the answer is obviously yes.
00:33:36.22\00:33:38.83
And the one we think
of especially from here
00:33:39.18\00:33:42.20
in Florida is the
fellow with the name of
00:33:42.21\00:33:43.95
Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda.
00:33:43.96\00:33:46.13
Did I said right
Roberto, yeah the guy claims
00:33:46.14\00:33:49.51
to be, he claims to
be Jesus Christ himself
00:33:49.52\00:33:51.61
incarnated, and you
would think that's silly
00:33:51.62\00:33:55.22
and you would think
people would stay away
00:33:55.23\00:33:56.61
from and droves
wouldn't you. I mean you would
00:33:56.62\00:34:00.12
think that God
couldn't get one person to come
00:34:00.13\00:34:01.95
to his so called
church but he is a former
00:34:01.96\00:34:04.74
heronatic, used to
be in jail now claims
00:34:05.23\00:34:07.45
to be Jesus Christ
incarnated and he got
00:34:07.46\00:34:09.45
people by the
millions following around
00:34:09.46\00:34:11.32
all over the world.
And they send him tons
00:34:11.33\00:34:13.71
of money and the
guy drives around
00:34:13.72\00:34:15.05
in a nice car, new
suites, big rings on his fingers
00:34:15.06\00:34:17.25
and he actually
has 666 on his lapel
00:34:17.26\00:34:20.72
and he says that
number is the number
00:34:21.29\00:34:23.16
of truth you know
something like that
00:34:23.17\00:34:25.30
I caught just enough
of watching him to know
00:34:25.31\00:34:27.16
that Jesus says
don't go watch these things
00:34:27.17\00:34:29.58
I quit but anyway
there is an increase,
00:34:29.59\00:34:33.06
there is
definitely an increase in this
00:34:33.07\00:34:34.53
false Christ and
that kind of thing,
00:34:34.54\00:34:35.59
and I am not going
any further than that
00:34:35.60\00:34:37.33
because I have spent
so much time but you can
00:34:37.34\00:34:38.88
through the whole list
there and I got a bunch
00:34:38.89\00:34:40.97
of them listed and
that's a short list,
00:34:40.98\00:34:42.61
actually it's a short
list. Let us go to the next
00:34:43.42\00:34:45.27
one Matthew
chapter 24 and verse 7
00:34:45.28\00:34:48.02
is our next text,
Matthew chapter 24
00:34:48.03\00:34:50.59
you want to try
one more time here,
00:34:51.14\00:34:52.57
my clicker there
it goes it clicked,
00:34:54.48\00:34:55.79
Matthew 24 and
verse 7 and Jessica
00:34:55.80\00:34:57.97
would you like
to read that for us.
00:34:58.33\00:34:59.52
"The nations and
kingdoms will proclaim
00:35:01.73\00:35:03.96
war against each other,
and there will be famines
00:35:03.97\00:35:07.03
and earthquakes in
many parts of the world."
00:35:07.04\00:35:09.18
Alright I am gonna
have to reread that out
00:35:10.11\00:35:11.80
of King James little bit there,
00:35:11.81\00:35:12.91
what Bible you
use by the way, NLT,
00:35:13.38\00:35:16.43
New Living Translation,
that's what it is, okay.
00:35:17.25\00:35:20.17
I am gonna slam you
anything like that for
00:35:20.18\00:35:21.93
the whole word,
but I am gonna have to
00:35:21.94\00:35:24.99
redo this here
for out of King James.
00:35:25.03\00:35:27.66
He says: Nation
shall rise against nation
00:35:27.67\00:35:29.59
and kingdom against kingdom,
00:35:29.60\00:35:31.10
and so not just
they are proclaiming war
00:35:31.65\00:35:34.14
against one another,
but it says there will be,
00:35:34.15\00:35:36.47
I guess that's fair
enough, the translation
00:35:36.92\00:35:38.89
is fair enough,
but the nation arising
00:35:38.90\00:35:40.56
against nation, and
kingdom against kingdom.
00:35:40.57\00:35:41.88
And now remember
when Jesus said this,
00:35:41.89\00:35:44.20
what are we looking for Jessica,
00:35:44.21\00:35:45.78
you can tell us on
your microphone since
00:35:45.79\00:35:47.41
I have picked on you there.
00:35:47.42\00:35:48.39
Are we looking for
wars and rumors of wars,
00:35:49.08\00:35:50.72
or what we are
specifically looking for,
00:35:50.73\00:35:52.18
an increase, an
increase? Yes, that's right;
00:35:52.82\00:35:56.71
an increase in
wars and rumors of wars
00:35:56.72\00:35:58.77
isn't that we are looking for.
00:35:58.78\00:35:59.96
I mean when Jesus
said that we always had,
00:36:00.57\00:36:02.31
haven't we?
We've always had wars
00:36:02.32\00:36:04.33
and those kind of
things going on but
00:36:04.34\00:36:06.04
he says it's going
to be like birth pains.
00:36:06.05\00:36:07.33
It's going to be
worse than it was before.
00:36:07.71\00:36:09.50
Now currently as
I am standing here
00:36:10.36\00:36:13.14
you know we have
just you think of the most
00:36:13.71\00:36:16.25
powerful nation in
the world right now being
00:36:16.26\00:36:17.81
United States. For
how long we don't know,
00:36:17.82\00:36:20.17
that's why I say
currently we're standing here,
00:36:20.60\00:36:22.11
we are standing here
but they are just talking
00:36:22.12\00:36:24.92
about pulling
out of one major war,
00:36:24.93\00:36:26.28
and starting up another
major war in Afghanistan,
00:36:26.29\00:36:28.62
you are coming out
of Iraq and they've got
00:36:28.63\00:36:29.80
wars going on all
over the place just in
00:36:29.81\00:36:31.06
this nation, and I
went on like the internet
00:36:31.07\00:36:33.29
trying to find, you
know you can't believe
00:36:33.30\00:36:34.58
everything you
see on the Internet,
00:36:34.59\00:36:35.70
but I try to find
something in general
00:36:35.71\00:36:36.93
about how many
wars are taking place
00:36:36.94\00:36:38.93
like active wars all
over the world right now,
00:36:39.29\00:36:41.71
and the number
range anywhere from like
00:36:41.72\00:36:43.48
30 to 100. You
know like nobody knows,
00:36:43.49\00:36:46.69
but every time you
look, but we are talking
00:36:47.03\00:36:49.00
about active wars
where people are killing
00:36:49.01\00:36:50.39
one another on a
regular basis all over
00:36:50.40\00:36:51.96
the world. And say
we'll pick the lower
00:36:51.97\00:36:54.13
number 30 you know
that's a lot of wars
00:36:54.14\00:36:56.64
going on at one
time. And we are gonna
00:36:56.65\00:36:58.96
put this little
graph on the screen here
00:36:58.97\00:37:00.23
the wars in our century.
00:37:00.24\00:37:02.31
We are talking about
the 20th century alone
00:37:02.32\00:37:03.87
World War One, now
think about this 15 million
00:37:03.88\00:37:07.37
deaths as a result of
war casualty, 15 million,
00:37:07.38\00:37:10.16
15 million that's a
lot of people to die.
00:37:10.17\00:37:12.85
I mean with those
numbers around we just
00:37:12.86\00:37:14.89
like its almost like you
are just saying a number,
00:37:14.90\00:37:17.07
but can you
imagine 15 million people,
00:37:17.62\00:37:19.98
you know that's, let me see,
00:37:20.37\00:37:22.50
I am trying to
think of a major city,
00:37:24.18\00:37:25.27
how many people live in Orlando?
00:37:25.28\00:37:26.29
What's the
population of Orlando?
00:37:26.30\00:37:27.70
You know its not
even maybe million people
00:37:28.09\00:37:30.41
something like that. 8.4
million in New York City,
00:37:30.86\00:37:33.26
New York City has 8.4
million, so just imagine
00:37:33.60\00:37:35.70
the entire city of
New York being completely
00:37:35.71\00:37:38.41
wiped out and you
still that's only half of
00:37:38.42\00:37:40.92
of what got
killed in World War I,
00:37:40.93\00:37:42.16
and they called it
the war to end all wars,
00:37:42.62\00:37:44.70
right, that's it and
we are not going to have,
00:37:44.71\00:37:45.90
who wants to
fight another war after
00:37:45.91\00:37:47.25
all these death and
all these tragedy right,
00:37:47.26\00:37:48.81
and no sooner they
are trying to get all
00:37:48.82\00:37:50.64
the bodies buried, then
World War Two broke out,
00:37:50.65\00:37:52.46
and World War Two
after the war that end all
00:37:52.77\00:37:55.27
wars World War Two
comes about 55 million deaths
00:37:55.28\00:37:58.69
as a result of war,
55 million death in that
00:37:59.16\00:38:02.21
one war, so in
a span of two wars
00:38:02.22\00:38:04.82
you are looking at
70 million, 70 million
00:38:04.83\00:38:09.41
people die and
that's an estimate you know
00:38:09.42\00:38:11.51
give or take few
hundred thousand.
00:38:11.81\00:38:13.48
Can you imagine now
the reason I put it up
00:38:15.08\00:38:17.10
like that because I was reading
00:38:17.11\00:38:18.40
and I found in a line,
it said it is estimated
00:38:18.41\00:38:20.26
that there has
been more deaths in the
00:38:20.27\00:38:21.91
20th century from
all wars previously
00:38:21.92\00:38:25.24
in the history of the world,
00:38:25.25\00:38:26.37
so in just one
century we've seen more death
00:38:26.77\00:38:29.73
as result of war than
all the previous centuries
00:38:29.74\00:38:31.64
combined. Now I
want you to think about
00:38:31.65\00:38:34.21
that as we think
about what Jesus said
00:38:34.22\00:38:36.04
it would be like, wha
it would be like again,
00:38:36.05\00:38:37.46
birth pains. In other
words its going to be more
00:38:38.04\00:38:40.17
and more intense,
its going to be more
00:38:40.18\00:38:41.70
and more severe the
closer we get to the second
00:38:41.71\00:38:43.92
coming of Jesus,
and so we definitely had
00:38:43.93\00:38:46.10
an increase in these things.
00:38:46.11\00:38:47.08
We had an increase
in the false Christs,
00:38:47.09\00:38:50.29
the false Prophets,
and we've an increase
00:38:50.30\00:38:51.70
in wars and rumors
of wars and the deaths
00:38:51.71\00:38:53.83
as the result of
war. Jesus said it will be
00:38:53.84\00:38:56.28
like birth pains.
So let us go on now,
00:38:56.29\00:38:59.89
look at the next
sign that he gives us.
00:39:00.30\00:39:02.08
Famines, it's in the
same verse as Jessica
00:39:02.09\00:39:04.16
read there,
there will be famines
00:39:04.17\00:39:05.41
in chapter 24 and
verse7. And this is another
00:39:05.42\00:39:10.29
one of those
statistics when you go to
00:39:10.30\00:39:11.52
internet and you try
to find that it varies
00:39:11.53\00:39:13.09
greatly and the deaths
per day due to starvation
00:39:13.10\00:39:17.09
in this world ranges
from 35,000 to 100,000.
00:39:17.10\00:39:20.52
And when I put up
here I used the upper
00:39:21.16\00:39:23.93
number on that,
and I read this article
00:39:23.94\00:39:26.00
one time and it say
something like this.
00:39:26.01\00:39:27.78
On September 11,
2001, a 100,000 people died
00:39:28.31\00:39:33.31
as the result of starvation.
00:39:34.25\00:39:35.58
Remember now you think about,
00:39:37.62\00:39:39.06
we think about what's
going on in world right
00:39:39.07\00:39:41.16
now over roughly
3000 people that die
00:39:41.17\00:39:44.27
in New York. Now I
am not downplaying that,
00:39:44.28\00:39:45.56
I mean that was,
there was a massive
00:39:45.93\00:39:47.14
casualty, you know
I am not downplaying
00:39:47.15\00:39:48.98
what took place on September 11,
00:39:48.99\00:39:50.49
what I am making a
point of here is Jesus
00:39:50.78\00:39:53.29
said there will be an
increase in starvation
00:39:53.30\00:39:55.23
and what we are
having right now with
00:39:55.82\00:39:57.52
a 100,000 people dying
on this world every day
00:39:57.53\00:39:59.53
from starvation, 800
million people go hungry
00:39:59.54\00:40:01.72
a year, and then I
don't know what it turns
00:40:01.73\00:40:05.71
out to per year
starving to death but
00:40:05.72\00:40:07.02
that's pretty heavy famines.
00:40:07.03\00:40:09.02
And I was reading another thing
00:40:09.31\00:40:10.74
and I haven't
able to confirm this,
00:40:10.75\00:40:14.03
but I have no
reason to doubt this.
00:40:14.67\00:40:15.98
So, I am gonna
just throw it out there,
00:40:15.99\00:40:16.97
and somebody can
either send me a letter
00:40:16.98\00:40:18.72
let me know I'm
wrong or right or whatever,
00:40:18.73\00:40:20.55
but I understand the
Government used store
00:40:20.56\00:40:23.72
food in caves
and things like that
00:40:23.73\00:40:25.22
in United States, used
to store all kind of food
00:40:25.23\00:40:27.00
for like three years to supply,
00:40:27.01\00:40:28.32
so if we had a bad
year whatever then another
00:40:28.33\00:40:31.51
Governments in the
world will do the same things
00:40:31.52\00:40:32.89
and then if you had a bad year,
00:40:32.90\00:40:33.87
you've something to
fall back on but the
00:40:33.88\00:40:35.58
Government said, I
don't know if this is true,
00:40:35.59\00:40:37.12
I don't know
what politician had,
00:40:37.13\00:40:38.26
where his head was
when he taught of this idea,
00:40:38.27\00:40:40.72
they say you know
what we found that its
00:40:40.73\00:40:42.61
cheaper to pay
farmers not to grow crops
00:40:42.62\00:40:45.77
than it is to pay
take over and store it.
00:40:46.28\00:40:49.03
So, and I know
farmers, myself in Kentucky
00:40:49.55\00:40:52.19
they get money for
not growing certain crops
00:40:52.20\00:40:54.20
certain times
and things like that,
00:40:54.21\00:40:55.25
they paid not to
grow crops, and so I have
00:40:55.26\00:40:56.92
to reason to doubt the story,
00:40:56.93\00:40:57.90
buts I think its
fascinating because
00:40:57.91\00:40:59.32
if you are not storing
food and you don't have
00:40:59.33\00:41:01.27
a put back, and you
don't have a bad year
00:41:01.28\00:41:02.55
then what
happens? People go hungry,
00:41:02.56\00:41:04.77
lots of people may go hungry,
00:41:05.93\00:41:07.00
and all over the
world right now people
00:41:07.01\00:41:08.76
are already going
hungry. So, Jesus said
00:41:08.77\00:41:12.13
there would be an
increase in these things,
00:41:12.14\00:41:13.31
and you think about
a 100,000 people a day
00:41:13.32\00:41:14.90
if that's an
accurate number or even 35000
00:41:14.91\00:41:17.32
if that's an accurate number,
00:41:17.33\00:41:18.30
how many years do
we have to go through
00:41:18.57\00:41:20.25
before more people
are starving to death over
00:41:20.26\00:41:22.93
a certain period of
time than what to used
00:41:22.94\00:41:24.52
to exist on the
planet before 1800.
00:41:24.53\00:41:26.49
I was looking at the
graph before the year
00:41:27.02\00:41:29.22
1800 from after
the flood to thy 1800
00:41:29.23\00:41:32.94
we had not reached a
billion people on the
00:41:32.95\00:41:34.90
planet, hadn't reached 1 billion
00:41:34.91\00:41:36.40
people by the year
1800. Are you aware of that,
00:41:36.41\00:41:38.28
there wasn't a
billion people population
00:41:38.29\00:41:40.46
in the world in
the year 1800 and
00:41:40.47\00:41:43.04
from 1800 to now,
we are running up on
00:41:43.05\00:41:45.13
to 8 billion. So, it
took basically 6000 years
00:41:45.14\00:41:49.03
to reach, 4000
years, whatever to reach
00:41:49.04\00:41:52.39
1 billion and then
we went to 7 billion,
00:41:52.83\00:41:55.37
8 billion since then
in little over 100 years,
00:41:55.38\00:41:59.24
150 years or
whatever, so there is something
00:41:59.25\00:42:02.17
to think about.
Famines are gonna increase
00:42:02.18\00:42:04.16
Jesus say it would be that way.
00:42:04.17\00:42:05.41
He also said there
will be an increase
00:42:05.42\00:42:06.59
in pestilences.
Now you all know what
00:42:06.60\00:42:10.10
pestilence is right.
I used to be pestilence,
00:42:10.11\00:42:14.23
yeah my brother
used to tell me that.
00:42:15.33\00:42:17.16
A pestilence is
not little brother or
00:42:18.01\00:42:20.01
little sister, right,
a pestilence is disease.
00:42:20.02\00:42:22.24
Now as we're
standing here now just talking
00:42:22.71\00:42:24.72
to Pastor Scott today
before we come in here
00:42:24.73\00:42:27.19
and this whole
H1N1 thing I was looking
00:42:27.54\00:42:29.85
on a news
channel, Fox News Channel
00:42:29.86\00:42:32.56
as a matter of fact,
and they were talking,
00:42:32.57\00:42:35.00
they passed the
law in Massachusetts
00:42:35.01\00:42:37.09
that they are gonna
to have mandatory flu
00:42:37.43\00:42:41.59
vaccinations in that
state. And if you refuse
00:42:41.60\00:42:43.69
to do it, then they
are gonna be able to say
00:42:43.70\00:42:45.75
force you to do it,
and it still would be
00:42:46.08\00:42:47.93
mandatory counting,
and there is some law
00:42:47.94\00:42:51.78
that passed and
the Governor said
00:42:51.79\00:42:53.17
he is going to sign
it and its all going
00:42:53.18\00:42:54.62
through and its
on Fox News I thought
00:42:54.63\00:42:56.04
well this is
strange that we have flu,
00:42:56.05\00:42:58.71
the flu bug is
around every year,
00:42:59.30\00:43:00.78
you know everybody has a flu,
00:43:00.79\00:43:01.88
this particular
thing, they are really
00:43:01.89\00:43:03.12
worried about. They
are thinking it maybe
00:43:03.13\00:43:05.24
this great pandemic
that may kill tons of people.
00:43:05.25\00:43:07.49
You know who knows how many,
00:43:07.87\00:43:08.94
I mean direct to flu
virus kills 40 to 50,000 year,
00:43:08.95\00:43:11.54
direct to flu virus
in United States kills
00:43:11.88\00:43:13.48
40 to 50000
people a year, and now
00:43:13.49\00:43:16.27
they are talking about this one,
00:43:16.28\00:43:17.25
and they are so
worried about it, they got
00:43:17.26\00:43:18.23
to make everybody
mandatory, is anacoluthon
00:43:18.24\00:43:22.07
the right word
or its vaccination,
00:43:22.08\00:43:23.62
they are gonna
make everybody take the
00:43:23.63\00:43:25.67
vaccination. Now
to me if they are that
00:43:25.68\00:43:30.85
worried about it that
sounds like there maybe
00:43:30.86\00:43:32.28
some kind of
increase in things that
00:43:32.29\00:43:34.05
we've never seen
before. I've never heard
00:43:34.06\00:43:35.60
of H1N1 and I found
out that H1N1 is not
00:43:35.61\00:43:39.67
a swine flu as so
popularly said today.
00:43:39.68\00:43:42.00
H1N1 is a
combination of the swine flu,
00:43:42.01\00:43:44.81
and the bird flu,
and a human flu gene,
00:43:44.82\00:43:48.08
they all three of
them have together,
00:43:48.09\00:43:49.54
they came
together they said in a pig
00:43:49.55\00:43:51.96
and then it come
to a human and then
00:43:51.97\00:43:53.26
here are spreading
from human to human,
00:43:53.27\00:43:55.07
so an increase Jesus
said there would be Ebola,
00:43:55.57\00:43:59.11
AIDS, bird flu, and
there is a whole list
00:43:59.12\00:44:01.07
of diseases that
are relatively you think
00:44:01.08\00:44:03.57
hey that's not a new increase.
00:44:03.58\00:44:04.94
Yes it is because it
was just, I can remember
00:44:04.95\00:44:07.82
being a little kid
and people first started
00:44:07.83\00:44:10.49
really talking about the AIDS,
00:44:10.50\00:44:11.61
you know people
dying of AIDS and things
00:44:12.89\00:44:14.23
like that, and but now
its now like a common thing,
00:44:14.24\00:44:17.37
so these things,
there is an increase
00:44:17.73\00:44:19.06
in these kind of
people dying from it.
00:44:19.07\00:44:20.49
I understand that in
third world countries,
00:44:20.50\00:44:22.71
and lot of poor ones
starvation is like the
00:44:22.72\00:44:24.78
number one killer,
AIDS is up on number
00:44:24.79\00:44:26.82
three now. You
know as far as the
00:44:26.83\00:44:28.90
death toll goes,
there are people dying
00:44:28.91\00:44:30.38
of AIDS, so an
increase Jesus said there
00:44:30.39\00:44:32.42
would be. And we are
actually up in numbers
00:44:32.68\00:44:35.04
on all these
things taking place.
00:44:35.05\00:44:36.39
Now is that enough
to scare you to death.
00:44:37.32\00:44:39.71
I mean if I, if
you want a Christian,
00:44:41.30\00:44:43.10
if I want a
Christian I would have calls
00:44:43.11\00:44:44.81
for Paul don't you
think you would do,
00:44:44.82\00:44:46.15
just thinking about the
things that are going on.
00:44:46.64\00:44:48.46
Many people are
scared right now,
00:44:50.91\00:44:52.05
but Jesus has
told us these things.
00:44:53.28\00:44:54.78
The reason he tells
these things in advance,
00:44:54.79\00:44:56.53
you remember what
in our previous study
00:44:56.54\00:44:58.13
that Jesus says in John chapter,
00:44:58.14\00:45:00.15
that's right Shalida,
he tells us before it comes
00:45:02.08\00:45:04.60
to path that
when it comes to path
00:45:04.61\00:45:06.20
then we can believe. God
is telling us these things
00:45:06.70\00:45:10.11
in advance, so
that we are not afraid
00:45:10.12\00:45:12.15
when we see that happen.
00:45:12.16\00:45:13.13
This is the purpose
of this study not to
00:45:13.31\00:45:15.04
scare people, but
so we can be ready,
00:45:15.05\00:45:17.98
that we won't be
afraid, we won't be scared
00:45:18.42\00:45:20.34
when we see these
things take place.
00:45:20.35\00:45:21.56
Earthquakes now, the
Bible say there will be
00:45:22.10\00:45:25.13
an increase in earthquakes.
00:45:25.14\00:45:26.36
Now just of to USGS
website it says according
00:45:26.37\00:45:29.28
to long term
records since about 1900,
00:45:29.29\00:45:31.11
we expect about 17
major earthquakes 7 to 7.9
00:45:31.12\00:45:34.67
and one great
earthquake 8.0 or above
00:45:34.68\00:45:35.97
in any given year.
This year right now I know
00:45:35.98\00:45:38.97
over this past week
we had two you know,
00:45:38.98\00:45:42.62
so there are
increase in earthquakes.
00:45:43.01\00:45:45.47
There is a lot of
arguments out here back
00:45:45.48\00:45:47.29
and forth on the
internet as far as whether
00:45:47.30\00:45:48.71
there is an increase,
and one of the arguments
00:45:48.72\00:45:50.34
I think is very
funny because Jesus said
00:45:50.35\00:45:52.02
there will be
earthquakes in diverse places.
00:45:52.03\00:45:54.44
In another words
it would be in places
00:45:54.45\00:45:55.91
that people will be
recognizing it, you know
00:45:55.92\00:45:57.18
seems to be going
on. And I've actually
00:45:57.19\00:45:59.04
heard people saying,
well actually its not
00:45:59.05\00:46:00.35
really more
increase in earthquakes than
00:46:00.36\00:46:01.71
it used to be, its
just that they are in
00:46:01.72\00:46:03.11
populated areas.
You know more people are
00:46:03.12\00:46:05.98
dying from there
because where they are
00:46:05.99\00:46:06.96
happening out, but
there is not really increase
00:46:06.97\00:46:08.51
in earthquakes.
Well if he was God and
00:46:08.52\00:46:10.94
he was gonna
allow people to woke up
00:46:10.95\00:46:12.24
and they realizes
that the time of the
00:46:12.25\00:46:13.50
end was near, and
the sin was abounding,
00:46:13.51\00:46:15.47
and these things
are taking place would
00:46:15.48\00:46:17.26
you allow things to happen.
00:46:17.27\00:46:18.24
Remember the Lord
just he doesn't force
00:46:18.68\00:46:20.99
bad things to
happen, but he lets the devil
00:46:21.00\00:46:22.93
do things, and
that's another study,
00:46:22.94\00:46:24.34
another argument
right. But these things are
00:46:24.35\00:46:26.49
happening on
increase scale even to this
00:46:26.50\00:46:31.36
very day we are
seeing things happen.
00:46:31.37\00:46:32.67
Now Jesus said
there will be increase
00:46:33.29\00:46:35.86
in wars and rumors or wars.
00:46:35.87\00:46:38.35
He said there will be
increase in false Christs
00:46:38.70\00:46:40.70
and false prophets.
He said there will be
00:46:40.71\00:46:42.46
increase in pestilence,
diseases and all these
00:46:42.47\00:46:44.54
kind of things
taking place. He said there
00:46:44.55\00:46:46.05
will be an
increase in earthquakes,
00:46:46.06\00:46:47.21
and all these things
have been taking place.
00:46:47.75\00:46:50.07
I wish, I wish this
was a two part study
00:46:50.08\00:46:52.07
at this moment
because there is a lot of
00:46:52.08\00:46:54.00
other things James
chapter 5 verses 1-5,
00:46:54.01\00:46:57.00
Revelation chapter
18, where it talks about
00:46:57.38\00:46:59.50
economic
collapse from problems in
00:46:59.87\00:47:02.25
James chapter 5 verse
1-5 it talks about like
00:47:02.26\00:47:04.39
in the last days
men have heaped treasure
00:47:04.40\00:47:05.97
together for
themselves for the last days,
00:47:05.98\00:47:07.87
is going to come
to nothing and that
00:47:07.88\00:47:09.13
kind of thing. So, the
Bible is like predicting
00:47:09.14\00:47:10.84
economic problems as
well, and we see that
00:47:10.85\00:47:12.80
going on today.
People are really worried
00:47:12.81\00:47:14.63
about their 201Ks,
now it used be 401Ks
00:47:14.64\00:47:17.51
but they have been cut in half,
00:47:17.52\00:47:18.49
so we call them 201Ks now right.
00:47:18.50\00:47:20.57
Things, all these other
things are signs as well,
00:47:20.58\00:47:22.94
we are focusing on
just basically on the ones
00:47:22.95\00:47:24.53
in Matthew 24. Let
us go to the next one
00:47:24.54\00:47:26.67
here because here is
one that gets ignored
00:47:26.68\00:47:29.67
often times Matthew chapter 24
00:47:29.68\00:47:31.18
and verse 12,
Matthew 24 and verse 12,
00:47:31.46\00:47:33.76
I will read this one. He says,
00:47:33.77\00:47:35.50
after he says in
verse 11 false Christs
00:47:35.94\00:47:38.02
and false prophets
he said because iniquity
00:47:38.03\00:47:39.87
shall abound, the
love of many will wax cold.
00:47:39.88\00:47:42.57
Now what is
iniquity its sin or actually
00:47:42.58\00:47:46.05
the outplaying or
the practicing of sin,
00:47:46.06\00:47:47.60
you know iniquity shall abound.
00:47:47.61\00:47:49.38
In other words it's
going to be just common sin
00:47:49.39\00:47:51.25
and equity is going
to be a common thing.
00:47:51.26\00:47:53.10
And so Jesus says
this is gonna happen
00:47:53.11\00:47:55.20
and because of that the
love of many will wax cold.
00:47:55.21\00:47:57.42
And you just
almost any day you turn on
00:47:58.26\00:48:00.77
the news you can
see where moms have
00:48:00.78\00:48:02.15
abandoned her child, or
they killed their parents,
00:48:02.16\00:48:04.80
these kinds of things,
its just a regular thing,
00:48:04.81\00:48:06.53
it doesn't even
fazes us anymore. I mean
00:48:06.54\00:48:08.51
whenever someone
goes in and shoot up
00:48:08.61\00:48:09.92
at school, and kill the people;
00:48:09.96\00:48:11.26
it used to be the
top headlines for weeks.
00:48:11.27\00:48:13.42
Now it may get
a day in the news,
00:48:13.43\00:48:15.36
and two days in the
news and then it's done,
00:48:15.37\00:48:17.49
because it's
such a common thing.
00:48:17.90\00:48:19.00
He says it will be
common, it will abound.
00:48:19.01\00:48:21.18
And Matthew 24
and verse 37 as well,
00:48:21.68\00:48:25.69
look at Matthew
chapter 24 and verse 37.
00:48:25.70\00:48:28.03
Miss Glory would you
like to read that one
00:48:28.04\00:48:29.45
for us Matthew 24
and verse 37 because
00:48:29.46\00:48:31.58
after he says the
iniquity shall abound
00:48:31.59\00:48:33.85
and all these things
are gonna take place,
00:48:33.86\00:48:35.15
he compares it to
something else its near
00:48:35.16\00:48:37.64
sort of second
coming he compares it to
00:48:37.65\00:48:39.41
something else and
what is that Gloria.
00:48:39.42\00:48:40.75
But as the days of Noah were,
00:48:41.43\00:48:43.86
so shall also the
coming of the Son of Man be.
00:48:44.25\00:48:48.06
Right as the
days of Noah so shall
00:48:48.74\00:48:50.76
be when Jesus
comes. How was it in days
00:48:50.77\00:48:52.63
of Noah? How was it,
that's where we're gonna
00:48:52.64\00:48:54.28
go to now, Genesis
chapter 6 and verse 5
00:48:54.29\00:48:56.76
and 11, Genesis 6: 5 and 11,
00:48:56.77\00:49:03.84
I am going to go
ahead and read that one,
00:49:06.19\00:49:08.03
Genesis 6:5:
"And God saw that the
00:49:09.76\00:49:12.33
wickedness of man
was great in the earth,
00:49:12.34\00:49:14.16
and that every
imagination of the thoughts
00:49:15.01\00:49:17.33
of his heart was
only evil continually.
00:49:17.34\00:49:19.10
You know when you
think of the days before,
00:49:19.60\00:49:21.01
when you think
of the day of flood,
00:49:21.02\00:49:22.15
most of the times
when we think about,
00:49:22.16\00:49:23.31
and think of
this. How bad the people
00:49:23.32\00:49:24.54
must have been,
they must have been
00:49:24.55\00:49:25.55
so wicked in doing
this and doing that right.
00:49:25.56\00:49:27.46
But I want you to
notice something here
00:49:27.47\00:49:29.14
that is written here
by in the Book of Moses,
00:49:29.15\00:49:31.82
the first Book of
Moses, and he says
00:49:31.83\00:49:33.31
even the
imagination and the thoughts of
00:49:33.32\00:49:35.27
their heart were
evil continually.
00:49:35.28\00:49:36.60
In other words
even when they weren't
00:49:36.61\00:49:38.30
doing something
evil, they were thinking
00:49:38.31\00:49:40.13
something evil. Now
Jesus said I will be like it
00:49:40.14\00:49:43.50
was in the days of Noah.
00:49:43.51\00:49:44.48
Just think for a
minute, do you think
00:49:45.83\00:49:47.32
and I like to run this by people
00:49:48.07\00:49:49.24
when I give a study
or when I am preaching
00:49:49.25\00:49:50.96
specially do you
think that you would
00:49:50.97\00:49:52.84
have liked the
people in days of Noah.
00:49:52.85\00:49:54.38
I think you
would have and here is
00:49:56.28\00:49:57.59
why I say that
because Jesus said
00:49:57.60\00:50:00.30
in a very end of
time in the last days,
00:50:00.31\00:50:01.92
it would be like, it
was in the days of Noah.
00:50:01.93\00:50:03.41
The most, for most
part like the people
00:50:03.42\00:50:05.29
around and think
for the most part people
00:50:05.30\00:50:06.84
in general seems
to be pretty good,
00:50:06.85\00:50:07.87
don't we, don't we
kind see that, but notice
00:50:08.52\00:50:10.40
here in the context of the text,
00:50:10.41\00:50:11.95
it says their very
thoughts will be evil
00:50:11.96\00:50:13.72
continually. In
other words even the ones
00:50:13.73\00:50:16.06
that weren't
doing something bad they
00:50:16.07\00:50:18.05
were planning to,
or they were thinking
00:50:18.06\00:50:19.31
about it, just like it
was in the days of Noah.
00:50:19.32\00:50:22.60
Now man I wish I
wasn't running out of time,
00:50:23.25\00:50:25.61
look at verse 11,
verse 11 for minute,
00:50:25.62\00:50:28.27
same chapter verse 11.
00:50:28.28\00:50:29.63
"The earth also
was corrupt before God,
00:50:30.22\00:50:32.30
and the earth was
filled with violence".
00:50:32.31\00:50:35.73
So what was like
in the days of Noah,
00:50:35.74\00:50:37.56
men and women were
thinking evil thoughts
00:50:37.57\00:50:39.89
even when they
weren't practicing they
00:50:39.90\00:50:41.11
were thinking it
and the earth was filled
00:50:41.12\00:50:42.30
with violence. I
remember being a kid,
00:50:42.31\00:50:44.91
a hidden kid and
the worst thing that
00:50:44.92\00:50:47.12
I can remember like
on just general regular
00:50:47.13\00:50:50.33
television was
like the wrestling,
00:50:50.34\00:50:52.40
you know what I
mean the wrestling was
00:50:52.41\00:50:53.74
going on right, and
Hulk Hogan and these guys,
00:50:53.75\00:50:55.43
do you know they have taken that
00:50:55.44\00:50:56.65
and graduated that
to our day right now.
00:50:56.66\00:50:58.44
They got this
caged blood match things
00:50:58.45\00:51:00.44
where the guys
actually get in and they
00:51:00.45\00:51:01.68
fight each other
like bare firsts bludgeon
00:51:01.69\00:51:04.40
each other, I
mean they get blood
00:51:04.41\00:51:05.93
I haven't seen it,
I've seen the previews
00:51:05.94\00:51:07.61
and I've been at peoples home,
00:51:07.62\00:51:08.59
I don't go and
watch that garbage because
00:51:08.60\00:51:09.76
I don't fill my
mind with the evil things
00:51:09.77\00:51:11.12
like that. But I want
you to think what things
00:51:11.13\00:51:13.60
have graduated to
on the televisions and
00:51:13.61\00:51:16.29
in people's home and
what we think of as common
00:51:16.30\00:51:18.24
today, the common
things, and that's
00:51:18.25\00:51:21.43
why I think if we
take ourselves back in the
00:51:21.44\00:51:23.12
days of Noah and
Jesus said it would be like
00:51:23.13\00:51:24.38
it was in the days of Noah.
00:51:24.39\00:51:25.36
I think you probably
would like most of the people.
00:51:26.41\00:51:28.31
We wouldn't have
thought them as being
00:51:29.56\00:51:30.53
necessarily that
bad, but God is the center
00:51:30.54\00:51:34.47
of our hearts
the Bible tells us.
00:51:34.48\00:51:35.97
And so I like to
point that out when
00:51:35.98\00:51:37.37
I am giving the study
that in the days of Noah
00:51:37.38\00:51:39.36
they were pretty bad
and just like we are today,
00:51:39.98\00:51:43.33
just like we are
today. Now lets go back to
00:51:43.78\00:51:45.53
the Book of
Matthew, Matthew chapter 24,
00:51:45.54\00:51:49.42
okay I got Tom,
I'm gonna do these,
00:51:50.98\00:51:52.64
everybody go to
Matthew 24, and I am going
00:51:52.65\00:51:55.41
to continue on to
the gospel, I mean
00:51:55.42\00:51:57.31
to the Book or
Romans, the Book of Romans
00:51:57.32\00:51:59.52
just to make it I
finalize this point because
00:51:59.56\00:52:02.29
this is one of the
strongest points I believe,
00:52:02.30\00:52:03.86
what makes me really
feel like we are living
00:52:03.87\00:52:05.61
in a very end of time and this
00:52:05.62\00:52:07.73
is going to help certified that
00:52:07.74\00:52:09.11
a little bit. I am going to read
00:52:09.12\00:52:10.19
Romans chapter 1
starting verse 25
00:52:10.20\00:52:12.17
and I think we
have time to make it
00:52:12.18\00:52:13.61
through this, so
let us go now. He says:
00:52:13.62\00:52:16.17
They changed the
truth of God into a lie,
00:52:16.18\00:52:17.70
and worshiped and
served the creature
00:52:17.71\00:52:19.01
more than the Creator,
who is blessed forever.
00:52:19.02\00:52:21.10
Amen. Verse 26:
For this cause God gave
00:52:21.11\00:52:23.89
them up unto vile affections:
00:52:23.90\00:52:25.00
for even their women
did change the natural
00:52:25.44\00:52:27.52
use of that which
is against nature:
00:52:27.53\00:52:28.99
And likewise also the
men, leaving the natural
00:52:29.00\00:52:31.41
use of the woman,
burned in their lust one
00:52:31.42\00:52:33.97
toward another;
men with men working
00:52:33.98\00:52:35.99
that which is
unseemly, and receiving
00:52:36.00\00:52:37.50
in themselves that
recompence of their error
00:52:37.51\00:52:39.24
which was meet. You know
what he is talking about.
00:52:39.25\00:52:40.98
And even as they did
not like to retain God
00:52:41.93\00:52:44.19
in their knowledge,
God gave them over to a
00:52:44.20\00:52:45.80
reprobate mind, or
the mind void of judgment
00:52:45.81\00:52:48.15
is a better
translation of that, a mind void
00:52:48.16\00:52:49.85
of judgment, to
do those things which
00:52:49.86\00:52:52.06
are not convenient. Verse 29:
00:52:52.07\00:52:53.52
Being filled with,
and I am gonna go through
00:52:54.45\00:52:55.83
this quick, so
listen quickly, okay,
00:52:55.84\00:52:57.25
Being filled with
all unrighteousness,
00:52:57.26\00:52:58.57
fornication,
wickedness, covetousness,
00:52:58.58\00:53:00.00
maliciousness; full
of envy, murder, debate,
00:53:00.01\00:53:02.41
deceit, malignity;
whisperers, back biters,
00:53:02.42\00:53:03.88
haters of God,
despiteful, proud, boasters,
00:53:03.89\00:53:05.88
inventors of evil
things, disobedient to parents,
00:53:05.89\00:53:08.21
we are just going to a
list of bunch of wicked
00:53:08.22\00:53:09.45
things right. You
are shaking your head,
00:53:09.46\00:53:11.33
how do they do that,
without understanding
00:53:11.34\00:53:13.06
covenant breakers,
without natural affection
00:53:13.07\00:53:15.13
implacable and
merciful. Now verse 32
00:53:15.14\00:53:17.08
I'll slow down,
ready Who knowing the
00:53:17.09\00:53:19.40
judgment of God,
that they which commit
00:53:19.41\00:53:21.51
such things are worthy of death,
00:53:21.52\00:53:22.57
you know the same
people that commit such
00:53:22.58\00:53:24.23
things are worthy of death,
00:53:24.24\00:53:25.21
we are talking eternal
death, we're talking God
00:53:25.25\00:53:26.89
destroying them
right not on our own works,
00:53:26.90\00:53:28.75
but not only do the
same, but have pleasure
00:53:29.17\00:53:32.22
in them that do
them. In other word we say
00:53:32.83\00:53:35.52
as Christians oh I
would never do these things,
00:53:35.53\00:53:37.81
I would never
be unrighteousness,
00:53:38.17\00:53:40.31
fornication,
wickedness, covetousness,
00:53:40.32\00:53:41.90
full of envy,
murder, debate, deceit,
00:53:41.91\00:53:43.33
all these kind of
stuff, I would never think
00:53:43.34\00:53:44.35
to do those things.
But he goes on and says
00:53:44.36\00:53:46.12
but those people that
take pleasure in those
00:53:46.13\00:53:48.59
who do them, i.e. television.
00:53:48.60\00:53:50.40
The last day I
believe when Jesus says
00:53:53.17\00:53:56.62
he was like in the
days of Noah and their
00:53:56.63\00:53:58.05
thoughts and
intense of their hearts was
00:53:58.06\00:53:59.25
evil continually is
taking place right now as even
00:53:59.26\00:54:01.86
in the Christian
church people sit and watch
00:54:01.87\00:54:03.64
all kinds of garbage
on TV and say that's not
00:54:03.65\00:54:05.32
affecting me. I think
its one of the strongest
00:54:05.33\00:54:07.88
signs that helps us
realize we're living
00:54:07.89\00:54:09.45
in the last days, just
like it was in the days
00:54:09.46\00:54:11.19
of Noah. Now lets
close up right here with
00:54:11.20\00:54:13.95
our last text,
our next to last text,
00:54:13.96\00:54:15.66
Matthew chapter 24 and verse 14,
00:54:16.05\00:54:18.13
somebody already there
ready to read that Tom,
00:54:18.61\00:54:21.62
I think you'll be ready
Matthew 24 and verse 14.
00:54:21.70\00:54:24.41
And this gospel of the
kingdom will be preached
00:54:24.42\00:54:26.98
in all the world
as a witness to all
00:54:26.99\00:54:29.41
the nations, and
then the end will come.
00:54:29.42\00:54:31.46
Now we are up on
the good, bright side
00:54:31.47\00:54:32.76
of things right, so
all these things are gonna
00:54:32.77\00:54:34.96
happen, then what's
going to take place,
00:54:34.97\00:54:36.19
what's taking
place in here right now,
00:54:36.57\00:54:38.70
not just these
studies that are going to all
00:54:39.30\00:54:41.20
the world, but there
are ministries everywhere
00:54:41.21\00:54:42.83
that's preaching the
truth of God's word into
00:54:43.26\00:54:45.52
all the world, even
if the churches that seem
00:54:45.53\00:54:47.49
to be often times dead
and sleep and not saying
00:54:47.50\00:54:49.42
and doing anything, just
doing absolutely nothing,
00:54:49.43\00:54:51.07
the good news is that
God is sending his people
00:54:51.08\00:54:54.01
and his faithful
people are going to all over
00:54:54.02\00:54:55.53
the world right now
and they are preaching
00:54:55.54\00:54:56.70
this gospel. And
then what Jesus say after
00:54:56.71\00:54:59.46
the gospel is
preached Tom, read till we get
00:54:59.47\00:55:00.74
to the last part
what's going to happen
00:55:00.75\00:55:02.06
as the gospel is preached,
00:55:02.07\00:55:03.77
then the end will
come, then the end will come.
00:55:04.22\00:55:07.23
So rather would looks
like things just impossible
00:55:08.18\00:55:10.13
and can't go any
further Jesus says the end
00:55:10.14\00:55:12.84
will come. For
our appeal when I,
00:55:12.85\00:55:17.05
when we get the
study they appeal here,
00:55:17.06\00:55:18.62
he promises the end will come.
00:55:18.63\00:55:19.82
Matthew chapter 24 and verse 33,
00:55:20.17\00:55:22.81
and I'll read this
one, look what he says,
00:55:22.82\00:55:25.20
so like wise. When
you shall see all of
00:55:25.65\00:55:28.66
these things, all
of what things, all the
00:55:28.67\00:55:31.52
things we went
through, all the bad things
00:55:31.53\00:55:34.36
that are taking
place, all the wickedness
00:55:34.37\00:55:37.00
that's in the world,
when it gets like it was
00:55:37.01\00:55:38.70
in the days of Noah,
when it get just like
00:55:38.71\00:55:40.11
that and you study
what happened in the days
00:55:40.12\00:55:42.03
of Noah, you know
the end is near and
00:55:42.04\00:55:43.90
he says when you see
all these things take place
00:55:43.91\00:55:45.63
including the
preaching of the gospel unto all
00:55:45.64\00:55:49.65
the world for
witness, that's the last major
00:55:49.66\00:55:53.92
sign then he says
then the end will come.
00:55:53.93\00:55:59.32
You know what our challenge is,
00:56:00.49\00:56:02.06
the challenge for you at home,
00:56:03.75\00:56:04.80
the challenge for us
here in the classroom
00:56:05.23\00:56:06.67
knowing what you
know is to finish the last
00:56:07.19\00:56:10.39
part that Jesus said
would take place just
00:56:10.40\00:56:13.38
before he comes,
and it take this truth
00:56:13.39\00:56:15.21
of the gospel to your neighbors,
00:56:15.22\00:56:17.03
to your
friends, to your enemies,
00:56:17.60\00:56:20.24
you fix that problem
right and then the end
00:56:20.25\00:56:24.64
will come. I want to
encourage those folks
00:56:24.65\00:56:27.24
at home to do like you
guys have decided to do,
00:56:27.25\00:56:30.11
come experience
life, do commercial here,
00:56:30.64\00:56:33.04
because you learn, you
learn you get the basics
00:56:33.76\00:56:36.73
for tools, how to go
out and share this gospel
00:56:36.74\00:56:39.06
with the world to
everyone in the world,
00:56:39.07\00:56:41.06
everyone you meet,
you run into and I promise
00:56:41.38\00:56:44.35
you this, as you, as
we finish up that we go
00:56:44.36\00:56:47.45
through this classes
here and as you people
00:56:47.46\00:56:49.00
at home, as you
study you mark this up in
00:56:49.01\00:56:50.63
your Bible, God is going
to give you opportunities
00:56:50.64\00:56:53.46
to share this
message that you're learning.
00:56:53.74\00:56:55.10
He is going to give
you opportunities now
00:56:55.51\00:56:56.90
and the encouraging
thing what is that we want
00:56:58.00\00:57:00.11
to do is we want to
be faithful in delivering
00:57:00.12\00:57:02.19
this message. Again
he says when you see
00:57:02.20\00:57:05.30
all these things take place,
00:57:05.31\00:57:06.51
you know the end is
near, he is getting ready
00:57:09.00\00:57:10.51
to come. These
are all taking place,
00:57:10.52\00:57:13.77
its going to the
world, do you want to be
00:57:14.63\00:57:17.75
part of it, you
know in the appeal even
00:57:17.76\00:57:20.53
in that second
Bible study the appeal
00:57:20.54\00:57:21.89
is do you want
to be part of this,
00:57:21.90\00:57:22.87
you teach them how
to become fishers of men
00:57:22.88\00:57:24.26
just like the
Bible calls us out to be.
00:57:24.91\00:57:26.69
You can come and
visit our website at
00:57:27.74\00:57:29.14
www.come experiencelife.com
00:57:29.15\00:57:32.31
you can download this study
00:57:32.32\00:57:34.05
and get the details
that we didn't all fill
00:57:34.06\00:57:35.95
as we walk through the
study talking about it.
00:57:35.96\00:57:38.38
You can find them
on the paper work that
00:57:38.39\00:57:41.35
comes with the
study, or you can download
00:57:41.36\00:57:42.86
the videos and
watch them as well.
00:57:42.87\00:57:44.36