¤ 00:00:03.33\00:00:09.50 >> WELCOME BACK TO THE SECOND HOUR OF A VERY INFORMATIVE 00:00:13.88\00:00:18.21 PROGRAM. A PROGRAM ABOUT THE SECOND 00:00:18.21\00:00:19.78 COMING OF JESUS SHOULD BE A FOUR-HOUR, TWO-PART PROGRAM. 00:00:19.78\00:00:24.42 BUT WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN TWO HOURS. 00:00:24.42\00:00:26.76 WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO DEAL WITH IT JUDICIOUSLY AND SCRIPTURALLY, 00:00:26.76\00:00:34.36 BUT WE'RE THANKING THE LORD THAT THIS IS NOT A TOPIC THAT LEAVES 00:00:34.36\00:00:40.50 ANYONE IN THE DARK. GO TO THE WORD OF GOD. 00:00:40.50\00:00:44.54 CURRENT EVENTS -- LET ME MAKE THIS POINT. 00:00:44.54\00:00:48.11 WE SHOULD NOT USE CURRENT EVENTS TO INTERPRET THE BIBLE, BUT THE 00:00:48.11\00:00:52.68 BIBLE TO INTERPRET CURRENT EVENTS. 00:00:52.68\00:00:56.18 SO MANY PEOPLE OFTEN INTO THE OTHER WAY AROUND. 00:00:56.18\00:00:59.09 VERY QUICKLY SOME HOUSEKEEPING. 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BUT THERE ARE STILL PEOPLE IN 00:01:48.20\00:01:50.84 THE WORLD THAT BEIEVE THAT AS A CHURCH, WE PREDICTED THE SECOND 00:01:50.84\00:01:55.88 COMING OF JESUS AND THAT'S STILL BEING PROLIFERATED AT AN 00:01:55.88\00:02:01.82 ALALARMING RATE. DEE YOU ARE THE YOUNGEST HERE. 00:02:01.82\00:02:05.49 LET'S TALK ABOUT THAT FOR A MOMENT. 00:02:05.49\00:02:07.96 >> THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH WAS BITTED OUT OF THE 00:02:07.96\00:02:11.49 GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT REGARDING THE MILL RIGHT MOVEMENT. 00:02:11.49\00:02:17.60 AND THAT MOVEMENT WAS TOLD TO PR 00:02:17.60\00:02:30.61 PROFASY AGAIN. WILLIE MILLER WAS ACTUALLY A 00:02:30.61\00:02:35.42 BAPTIST. AND THERE WERE METHODISTS AND 00:02:35.42\00:02:37.42 OTHER DENOMINATIONS -- THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST DIDN'T 00:02:37.42\00:02:44.19 EVEN EXIST YET. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:02:44.19\00:02:47.40 >> SO IN 1844, IT WAS PREDOMINANTLY BAPTISTS. 00:02:47.40\00:02:51.93 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> THAT'S HOW THE PROCESS 00:02:51.93\00:02:53.84 STARTED AND COMING OUT OF THAT MOVEMENT THROUGH FURTHER BIBLE 00:02:53.84\00:02:57.21 STUDY THEY REALIZED THAT WE DO NOT NEED TO BE SETTING DATES. 00:02:57.21\00:03:02.74 THOSE KEPT SETTING DATES, JEHOVAH WITNESSES WERE ONE OF 00:03:02.74\00:03:11.25 THOSE GROUPS. AND THEN YOU HAD PEOPLE WHO GAVE 00:03:11.25\00:03:14.99 UP ENTIRELY. AND THEN YOU HAD A THIRD, PEOPLE 00:03:14.99\00:03:19.89 THAT KEPT SEARCHING. SO THEY WERE REFERRING TO THE 00:03:19.89\00:03:24.47 HEAVENLY SANCTUARY BEING CLEANSED. 00:03:24.47\00:03:27.07 AND JESUS WAS BASICALLY ENTERING INTO THE MOST HOLY PLACE TO 00:03:27.07\00:03:31.44 BEGIN A PROCESS OF CLEANSING THE HEAVENLY SANCTUARY OF ALL SIN, 00:03:31.44\00:03:37.05 AND TO PREPARE PEOPLE FOR THE SEC COMING OF CHRIST. 00:03:37.05\00:03:40.88 >> THAT'S RIGHT. NOT ONLY DO PEOPLE FOCUS ON 1843 00:03:40.88\00:03:47.26 AND 1844. AND SOME SAY THAT IN 1850 ELLEN 00:03:47.26\00:03:54.00 WHITE PREDICTED THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST. 00:03:54.00\00:03:56.73 AND THAT'S NOT WHAT SHE TALKED ABOUT. 00:03:56.73\00:04:00.04 LET'S GO TO MATTHEW 16:20. NOW ONE OF THE AMAZING THINGS ON 00:04:00.04\00:04:06.94 THE DAY OF PENTECOST, WHEN PETER BEGAN TO PREACH, HE PREACHED THE 00:04:06.94\00:04:18.45 SERMON WITH SUCH URGENCY, AND HE IS PREACHED IN THE CONTEXT THAT 00:04:18.45\00:04:22.29 THIS IS WHAT THE PROPHET JOEL SPOKE ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN THE 00:04:22.29\00:04:25.86 LAST DAYS. THIS IS ON THE DAY OF PENTECOST 00:04:25.86\00:04:29.96 NOT TOO LONG AFTER JESUS AS ASCENDED TO HEAVEN, PETER SAID, 00:04:29.96\00:04:36.77 WE ARE LIVING IN THE LAST DAYS. AND YOU CAN GO BACK AND SAY, 00:04:36.77\00:04:41.84 WELL, COULD IT BE THAT PETER WAS WRONG? 00:04:41.84\00:04:46.01 WELL, THE REALITY IS THIS. AND LET ME SLOW DOWN, BECAUSE I 00:04:46.01\00:04:50.95 CAN BECOME A NEW YORKER VERY QUICKLY. 00:04:50.95\00:04:54.52 I'M FROM NEW YORK. IF YOU FOCUS ON THE DATE, YOU 00:04:54.52\00:04:58.63 MISS THE POINT. THE POINT IS WATCH AND -- 00:04:58.63\00:05:01.50 >> BE READY. >> WATCH AND BE READY. 00:05:01.50\00:05:04.53 BECAUSE NO ONE HAS ETERNAL LIFE. IT'S A PROMISE. 00:05:04.53\00:05:10.44 SO THE LORD IS CALLING ALL OF THOSE PEOPLE IN THAT AGE TO BE 00:05:10.44\00:05:14.94 READY. AT THAT TIME, BE READY. 00:05:14.94\00:05:18.98 LET'S GO TO MATTHEW, AND I'LL TAKE YOU THROUGH THIS QUANDARY. 00:05:18.98\00:05:28.06 MATTHEW 16:28. PASTOR DINZEY WOULD YOU READ 00:05:28.06\00:05:31.63 THAT FOR US? >> SURE. 00:05:31.63\00:05:33.96 JESUS SAID I SAY UNTO YOU, THERE BE SOME STANDING HERE WHICH 00:05:33.96\00:05:39.67 STALL NOT TASTE OF DEATH UNTIL THEY SEE THE SON OF MAN COMING 00:05:39.67\00:05:43.77 IN HIS KINGDOM. >> HOW DO WE HANDLE THAT? 00:05:43.77\00:05:47.18 >> AND THAT'S HOW THE CHAPTER ENDS, BY THE WAY. 00:05:47.18\00:05:51.05 >> THE CLIFF HANGER. >> WAS THIS THE ONE YOU TALKED 00:05:51.05\00:05:58.25 ABOUT? >> YEAH, I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS 00:05:58.25\00:06:01.09 MUCH YOUNGER. YOU KNOW HOW THE BIBLE IS 00:06:01.09\00:06:04.33 DIVIDED IN CHAPTERS. AND I WAS READING, AND READING, 00:06:04.33\00:06:08.60 AND I READ THIS, AND I STOPPED AND SAID WOW, JESUS SAID THERE 00:06:08.60\00:06:13.40 WERE SOME THAT WOULD BE ALIVE WHEN JESUS COMES. 00:06:13.40\00:06:16.81 COULD IT BE THAT ONE OF THOSE DISCIPLES IS STILL LIVE. 00:06:16.81\00:06:20.34 AND THEN I THOUGHT ABOUT THAT FOR A WHILE, AND THEN I SAID I 00:06:20.34\00:06:27.38 TIRED. I'M GOING TO SLEEP. 00:06:27.38\00:06:28.85 AND I WENT TO SLEEP WITH THAT THOUGHT. 00:06:28.85\00:06:31.35 AND FOR SOME REASON I DIDN'T GET BACK TO READING THE BIBLE FOR A 00:06:31.35\00:06:34.76 COUPLE OF DAYS, AND I SAID, MAN, I HAVE TO ASK THE PASTOR ABOUT 00:06:34.76\00:06:39.96 THIS. AND WHEN I ASKED HIM, OH, GOOD 00:06:39.96\00:06:48.74 QUESTION. LET'S KEEP READING THE BIBLE. 00:06:48.74\00:06:53.04 >> YES. THE THOUGHT CONTINUES. 00:06:53.04\00:06:55.31 >> AND THE FIRST FOUR WORDS IN CHAPTER 17 TELL US -- CHAPTER 17 00:06:55.31\00:07:00.32 TO CHAPTER 16 SAYS NOW AFTER SIX DAYS, SIX DAYS AFTER WHAT, AFTER 00:07:00.32\00:07:06.96 JESUS MAKES THIS REALLY PERPLEXING STATEMENT. 00:07:06.96\00:07:09.89 SIX DAYS LATER HE ENDS GOING UP ON THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION. 00:07:09.89\00:07:23.30 AS THEY ARE UP THERE, JESUS'S BODY IS GLORIFIED, AND 00:07:23.30\00:07:27.14 HIS -- HIS CLOTHES BECOME AS WHITE AS THE LIGHT, AND THEN TWO 00:07:27.14\00:07:30.55 MEN COME TO SEE JESUS -- TWO MEN APPEAR WITH JESUS. 00:07:30.55\00:07:35.25 WHO ARE THEY? >> ALLY JA AND MOW CUSS. 00:07:35.25\00:07:40.39 >> ELIJAH AND MOSES. AND MOSES REPRESENTS THOSE THAT 00:07:40.39\00:07:49.50 DIED. AND THEN THE OTHER IS ELIJAH, A 00:07:49.50\00:07:53.30 MAN WHO NEVER TASTED DEATH. SO TWO CLASSES OF THE RIGHTEOUS 00:07:53.30\00:08:07.08 THAT WILL HAPPEN. PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN ARE 00:08:07.08\00:08:10.85 ACTUALLY GIVEN A SNAPSHOT OF THE SECOND COMING. 00:08:10.85\00:08:15.19 JESUS IN THE GLORIFIED BODY, AND TWO CLASSES OF PEOPLE THOSE WHO 00:08:15.19\00:08:21.63 DIED AND THOSE WHO ARE ALIVE. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:08:21.63\00:08:24.67 >> THOSE WHO CLASSES ARE PRESENT AT THIS -- 00:08:24.67\00:08:27.60 >> THE TRANSFIGURATION. >> SO JESUS WAS SAYING I'M GOING 00:08:27.60\00:08:33.04 TO GIVE YOU A SNEAK PEAK OF WHAT THE SECOND COMING WILL LOOK 00:08:33.04\00:08:36.24 LIKE. SOME OF YOU WILL GET TO SEE 00:08:36.24\00:08:39.18 THIS. AND THAT'S BASICALLY WHAT 00:08:39.18\00:08:40.52 MATTHEW 17 ANSWERS FOR US. >> MATTER OF FACT, JUST TO GIVE 00:08:40.52\00:08:45.95 SCRIPTURE SUPPORT TO THAT BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATION OF THAT. 00:08:45.95\00:08:50.09 JUST THINK, HE JUST LEARNED THIS STUFF IN 2006, 2008. 00:08:50.09\00:08:56.13 HE HASN'T BEEN AN ADVENTIST FOR VERY LONG, BUT A STUDENT OF THE 00:08:56.13\00:09:05.11 WORD. >> I READ THAT WHEN I WAS 00:09:05.11\00:09:07.14 YOUNGER, AND I SAID WOW, THE SCRIPTURE MAKES SO MUCH MORE 00:09:07.14\00:09:10.81 SENSE. I SEE IT. 00:09:10.81\00:09:11.95 AND THIS IS WHAT JESUS WAS REFERRING TO. 00:09:11.95\00:09:14.72 >> HE WAS SAYING YOU GOING TO SEE A MICROCOSM, JUST A SMALL 00:09:14.72\00:09:22.22 GLIMPSE. LET'S LOOK AT THAT. 00:09:22.22\00:09:24.16 WHY DON'T YOU CONTINUE READING THAT DEE. 00:09:24.16\00:09:27.40 START WITH VERSUS 2. >> VERSUS 2? 00:09:27.40\00:09:29.43 >> WELL, FIRST 1. >> AFTER SIX DAYS JESUS TOOK 00:09:29.43\00:09:34.17 PETER JAMES AND JOHN AS BROTHER, LEAD THEM UP ON A HIGH MOUNTAIN -AND HE WAS TRANSFIGURED BEFORE 00:09:34.17\00:09:43.28 THEM. AND BEHOLDED MOSES AND ELIJAH 00:09:43.28\00:09:46.88 APPEARED TO HIM. WALKING WITH THEM. 00:09:46.88\00:09:48.58 THEN PETER ANSWERED AND SAID TO JESUS, LORD, IT IS GOOD FOR US 00:09:48.58\00:09:51.99 TO BE HERE, IF YOU WISH LET US MAKE THE THREE TABERNACLES. 00:09:51.99\00:09:58.16 >> AMEN. >> AND THEN THEY HEAR THE VOICE 00:09:58.16\00:10:02.80 OF GOD TOO. A BRIGHT CLOUD OVERSHADOWED 00:10:02.80\00:10:08.10 THEM, AND SUDDENLY A VOICE CAME OUT OF THE CLOUD SAYING THIS IS 00:10:08.10\00:10:12.31 MY BELOVED SON, HEAR HIM. >> SO THE BEAUTIFUL 00:10:12.31\00:10:17.28 ILLUSTRATION -- THIS WAS A SNAPSHOT -- 00:10:17.28\00:10:20.38 >> YEAH. >> THAT WORD I HEARD MANY YEARS 00:10:20.38\00:10:24.12 AGO, I NEVER LOST THAT THOUGHT -- THIS WAS A SNAPSHOT, 00:10:24.12\00:10:28.12 A MINIATURE REPRESENTATION OF WHAT THE SECOND COMING IS GOING 00:10:28.12\00:10:31.66 TO BE. ELIJAH NEVER TO SEE DEATH, AND 00:10:31.66\00:10:38.57 THEN MOSES AND THE RESURRECTED. FIRST THESSALONIANS 4. 00:10:38.57\00:10:49.71 >> AND VERSE 6, IT ALSO SAYS THE DISCIPLES FELL ON THEIR FACES, 00:10:49.71\00:10:57.72 WHICH MANY WILL DO. >> YES. 00:10:57.72\00:11:00.09 SO THE GLORY THAT OVERSHADOWED JESUS WAS IN FACT, SURELY THE 00:11:00.09\00:11:04.49 GLORY THAT WILL BE REVEALED AT A SECOND COMING. 00:11:04.49\00:11:10.97 AND THEN THE BIBLE SAYS BEHOLD HE COMETH WITH CLOUDS AND EVERY 00:11:10.97\00:11:14.50 EYE WILL SEE HIM. >> AMEN. 00:11:14.50\00:11:17.54 >> HE WAS ENSHROUDED IN CLOUDS AT THAT EVENT, THE TWO 00:11:17.54\00:11:22.94 EVENTATIONS WERE THERE, THE GLORY OF GOD BEAMED FROM HIS 00:11:22.94\00:11:27.45 PRESENCE. >> AND IT WAS A PHYSICAL 00:11:27.45\00:11:30.92 REPRESENTATION, HE WAS VISIBLY RECOGNIZABLE. 00:11:30.92\00:11:35.26 EVEN MOSES AND ELIJAH WERE RECOGNIZABLE. 00:11:35.26\00:11:40.90 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> THERE IS A VERY PHYSICAL ACT 00:11:40.90\00:11:42.93 THAT IS TAKING PLACE, THAT IS A SNAPSHOT OF THE SECOND COMING, 00:11:42.93\00:11:48.60 WHICH I THINK IS IMPORTANT. THERE'S NOT JUST A HINT THAT 00:11:48.60\00:11:52.04 SOMETHING IS HAPPENING. IT'S NOT JUST THE CLOSE 00:11:52.04\00:11:54.71 OF -- OF -- OF ELIJAH ON THE GROUND. 00:11:54.71\00:11:58.25 >> THAT'S RIGHT. VERY GOOD APPLICATION. 00:11:58.25\00:12:05.42 OKAY. JOHNNY WOULD YOU READ THAT FOR 00:12:05.42\00:12:07.22 US. >> YES, I WANTED TO READ IN 00:12:07.22\00:12:09.59 MATTHEW 17 -- >> SURE. 00:12:09.59\00:12:12.13 >> VERSUS 9. JESUS SAID TO THEM AND AS THEY 00:12:12.13\00:12:15.56 CAME DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAIN, JESUS CHARGED THEM SAYING TELL 00:12:15.56\00:12:18.97 THE VISION TO NO MAN UNTIL THE SON OF MAN BE RISEN FROM THE 00:12:18.97\00:12:24.77 DEAD. SO THIS WAS OMETHING THEY WERE 00:12:24.77\00:12:27.01 TO KEEP TO THEMSELVES UNTIL A LATER TIME. 00:12:27.01\00:12:29.41 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> AND VERY, VERY POWERFUL. 00:12:29.41\00:12:32.51 AND THIS REALLY CHANGED THEIR LIVES. 00:12:32.51\00:12:34.75 >> YEAH. >> THIS BLESSING THEY HAD TO SEE 00:12:34.75\00:12:37.82 IN -- IN THE SNAPSHOT THE SECOND COMING. 00:12:37.82\00:12:45.43 1 THESSALONIANS 4:13. BUT I WOULD NOT HAVE YOU TO BE 00:12:45.43\00:12:50.33 IGNORANT BRETHREN, CONCERNING THEM THAT ARE ASLEEP, THAT YOU 00:12:50.33\00:12:56.67 SORROW EVEN AS OTHERS WHO HAVE NO HOPE. 00:12:56.67\00:12:59.61 WE BELIEVE JESUS DIED AND ROSE AGAIN, EVEN SEW THOSE WHO SLEEP 00:12:59.61\00:13:05.68 WITH JEUS WILL GOD BRING TO THEM. 00:13:05.68\00:13:08.38 WE WHICH ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN UNTO THE COMING OF THE LORD 00:13:08.38\00:13:12.89 SHALL NOT PREVENT THEM WHICH ARE ASLEEP. 00:13:12.89\00:13:15.69 >> SO THERE ARE TWO GROUPS. THOSE WHO ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN, 00:13:15.69\00:13:22.23 ELIJAH, AND THOSE SLEEPING IN THE LORD, MOSES. 00:13:22.23\00:13:25.00 >> UH-HUH. THE LORD HIMSELF SHALL ASEND 00:13:25.00\00:13:30.41 FROM HEAVEN WITH A SHOUT. AND THE DEAD AND CHRIST SHALL 00:13:30.41\00:13:34.71 RISE FIRST. THEN WE WHICH ARE ALIVE AND 00:13:34.71\00:13:38.95 REMAIN SHALL BE CAUGHT UP WITH THEM TOGETHER TO MEET THE LORD 00:13:38.95\00:13:42.58 IN THE AIR, AND SO SHALL WE EVER-BE WITH THE LORD. WHERE FOR COMFORT ONE ANOTHER 00:13:42.58\00:13:49.86 WITH THESE WORDS. >> AND THE BEAUTY OF THAT IS NOT 00:13:49.86\00:13:53.66 EVERYTHING IS GOING TO DIE. AND THE BEAUTY OF THAT IS -- HE 00:13:53.66\00:13:59.10 SAYS DON'T WORRY ABOUT THEM. THEY ARE NOT GOING TO HEFB 00:13:59.10\00:14:05.67 BEFORE YOU, AND YOU ARE NOT GOING BEFORE THEM. 00:14:05.67\00:14:07.48 >> THAT'S IN HEBREWS 11. >> GO AHEAD AND READ THAT. 00:14:07.48\00:14:12.28 >> VERSE 39 AFTER HE GOES THROUGH THE HALL OF FAITH AS 00:14:12.28\00:14:16.72 PEOPLE SAY, AND ALL OF THIS HAVING OBTAINED A GOOD 00:14:16.72\00:14:21.19 TESTIMONY, DID NOT RECEIVE THE PROMISE. 00:14:21.19\00:14:22.99 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> IN VERSE 40 IT SAYS GOD 00:14:22.99\00:14:26.59 HAVING PROVIDED SOMETHING BETTER FOR US, THAT THEY SHOULD NOT BE 00:14:26.59\00:14:29.90 MADE PERFECT APART FROM US. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:14:29.90\00:14:32.50 >> AND AGAIN, IT SAYS -- WE'LL BE TOGETHER WITH THEM, AND IT 00:14:32.50\00:14:39.67 SAYS IN HEBREWS 11 A THAT THEY SHOULD NOT BE MADE PERFECT APART 00:14:39.67\00:14:44.45 FROM US. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:14:44.45\00:14:45.65 >> THEY ARE NOT GOING TO BE UP THERE UNTIL WE JOIN THEM. 00:14:45.65\00:14:49.32 >> THAT'S RIGHT >> THAT'S A VERY POWERFUL THING 00:14:49.32\00:14:52.59 TO UNDERSTAND, BECAUSE UNFORTUNATELY THERE ARE MANY 00:14:52.59\00:14:54.79 THAT BELIEVE THAT WHEN YOU DIE, YOU EITHER GO TO HEAVEN IF YOU 00:14:54.79\00:15:00.60 ARE GOOD, OR YOU GO TO HELL IF YOU ARE BAD. 00:15:00.60\00:15:03.60 BUT THE SCRIPTURES MAKE IT CLEAR THAT IT IS AT THE VERY END THAT 00:15:03.60\00:15:09.27 THE RIGHTEOUS THAT WERE DEAD GO TO HEAVEN. 00:15:09.27\00:15:13.51 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> AND THE RIGHTEOUS THAT ARE 00:15:13.51\00:15:18.65 ALIVE, THEY GO TOGETHER. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:15:18.65\00:15:20.82 >> WE GO TOGETHER. AND MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR. 00:15:20.82\00:15:23.79 >> THAT'S RIGHT. MEETING THE LORD -- THIS SHOULD 00:15:23.79\00:15:26.96 BRING COMFORT TO MANY OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING, AND WE WANT 00:15:26.96\00:15:30.39 TO EMPHASIZE THIS AGAIN. BECAUSE WE HAVE ALL LOST LOVED 00:15:30.39\00:15:34.96 ONES. I LOST TWO PARENTS, THE PEOPLE 00:15:34.96\00:15:39.33 THAT RAISED ME AND THE PEOPLE THAT GAVE ME BIRTH, UNCLES, 00:15:39.33\00:15:46.27 AUNTS, DEATH HAS TOUCHED ALL OF OUR FAMILIES. 00:15:46.27\00:15:50.45 BUT SOME PEOPLE THAT THINK DEATH GIVES YOU AN IMMEDIATE PASSAGE 00:15:50.45\00:15:59.39 TO HEAVEN, AND THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT ACTUALLY COMMIT SUICIDE 00:15:59.39\00:16:04.19 BELIEVING THAT NOW THEY ARE JOINED WITH THEIR LOVED ONES. 00:16:04.19\00:16:07.40 >> UH-HUH. >> THE UNFORTUNATE THING IS THEY 00:16:07.40\00:16:11.73 ARE DETERMINING THE REWARD THEY ARE GOING TO GET BEFORE THE TIME 00:16:11.73\00:16:15.47 COMES TO GET THE REWARD. THEY ARE DETERMINING, WELL, 00:16:15.47\00:16:19.31 SHE'S IN HEAVEN. WELL, HOW COULD YOU APPOINT THAT 00:16:19.31\00:16:24.45 REWARD WHEN HEAVEN IS NOT YOUR PLACE. 00:16:24.45\00:16:26.95 LET'S GO TO REVELATION 22:11-12. I HAVE A NEW BIBLE. 00:16:26.95\00:16:37.43 MY WIFE AND I STARTED THE NEW YEAR'S STUDYING TOGETHER. 00:16:37.43\00:16:44.57 WE ATE SO MUCH BIBLE -- WE HAD BREAKFAST AT 4:00 IN THE 00:16:44.57\00:16:50.27 EVENING. WE CHEWED ON THE WORD OF GOD IN 00:16:50.27\00:16:52.94 THE MORNING WITH PRAYER, AT NOON-AGAIN WITH PRAYER, IN THE EVENING WHEN THE SUN WAS GOING 00:16:52.94\00:16:59.31 DOWN WITH PRAYER. WE BEGAN. 00:16:59.31\00:17:03.95 WE ENDED THE YEAR THAT WAY, AND OUR SOULS HAVE BEEN NOURISHED. 00:17:03.95\00:17:11.93 MY OTHER BIBLE IS SO MARKED UP, THAT IT'S LIKE MY WELL-TUNED 00:17:11.93\00:17:16.93 SWORD, AND SHE SAID HONEY, LET'S STAY ON THE SAME PAGE TOGETHER. 00:17:16.93\00:17:21.30 SO ARE YOU ASKING ME TO PUT MY OLD BIBLE DOWN? 00:17:21.30\00:17:25.91 DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD THAT IS? I HAVE MY NEW BIBLE AND I'M 00:17:25.91\00:17:34.42 STILL CRACKING THE PAGES. THE REWARDS THAT WE ALL RECEIVE 00:17:34.42\00:17:38.02 IS AT THE COMING OF JESUS. HE SAYS, BEHOLD AND BEHOLD I AM 00:17:38.02\00:17:43.19 COMING QUICKLY -- THE KING -- I COME QUICKLY. 00:17:43.19\00:17:47.13 AND MY REWARD IS WITH ME TO GIVE EVERYONE AK CORING TO HIS WORK. 00:17:47.13\00:17:54.30 SO WHEN HE COMES, WHAT DOES HE GIVE OUT? 00:17:54.30\00:17:57.87 >> THE REWARD. >> SO THE REWARD IS NOT AT 00:17:57.87\00:18:03.35 DEATH. OUR FATE IS SEALED AT DEATH BUT 00:18:03.35\00:18:05.95 THE REGARD DOES NOT COME UNTIL JESUS RIFE -- ARRIVES. 00:18:05.95\00:18:20.00 >> JOHN 5:28-29. MARVEL NOT AT THIS, FOR THE HOUR 00:18:20.00\00:18:28.27 IS COMING IN THE WHICH ALL THAT ARE IN THE GRAVE SHALL HEAR HIS 00:18:28.27\00:18:34.08 VOICE, AND SHALL COME FORTH. THEY EITHER HAVE DONE GOOD AND 00:18:34.08\00:18:42.42 THEY WHO HAVE DONE EVIL UNTO THE RESURRECTION OF DAMNATION. 00:18:42.42\00:18:50.86 >> BOTH ARE RECEIVING THEIR JUST DUE. 00:18:50.86\00:18:55.40 >> THAT'S RIGHT. RESURRECTION OF LIFE, RECK 00:18:55.40\00:19:00.37 RECOLLECTION OF CONDEMNATION. THE CASE IS SEALED, BUT THEY 00:19:00.37\00:19:03.54 DON'T GET THE ACTUAL APPOINTMENT. 00:19:03.54\00:19:06.91 BEHOLD, I COME FORWARD, AND MY REWARD IS WITH ME. 00:19:06.91\00:19:12.41 >> I'LL GO TO CHAPTER 6 THEN. >> OKAY. 00:19:12.41\00:19:17.79 >> JOHN 6, JESUS IS TALKING TO THOSE BEFORE HIM. 00:19:17.79\00:19:22.32 >> WHAT VERSUS? >> FOUR TIMES. 00:19:22.32\00:19:25.13 I'M GOING TO READ FOUR VERSES. >> OKAY. 00:19:25.13\00:19:28.36 HE TELLS HIM THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN. 00:19:28.36\00:19:32.27 >> OKAY. >> JOHN 6:39, AND THIS IS THE 00:19:32.27\00:19:36.67 FATHER'S WILL WHICH HAVE SENT ME THAT ALL -- THAT OF ALL THAT HE 00:19:36.67\00:19:42.28 HAS GIVEN ME, I SHOULD LOSE NOTHING, BUT SHOULD RAISE IT UP 00:19:42.28\00:19:47.72 AGAIN AT THE LAST DAY. >> LAST DAY. 00:19:47.72\00:19:49.65 >> THAT'S ONE. AND THIS IS THE WILL OF HIM THAT 00:19:49.65\00:19:54.46 SENT ME THAT EVERYONE WHO SEES THE SON SHALL -- MAY HAVE 00:19:54.46\00:20:01.00 EVER-LASTING LIFE. AND I WILL RAISE HIM UP AT THE 00:20:01.00\00:20:04.30 LAST DAY. VERSE 44. 00:20:04.30\00:20:09.17 AND I WILL RAISE HIM UP AT THE LAST DAY. 00:20:09.17\00:20:13.17 >> THAT'S THE THIRD TIME. THE FOURTH TIME, WHO SO EATEST 00:20:13.17\00:20:19.25 MY FRESH AND DRINKTH MY BLOOD, I SHALL RAISE HIM UP AT THE LAST 00:20:19.25\00:20:29.32 DAY. AND WHEN LAZARUS DIED -- 00:20:29.32\00:20:30.96 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> MARTHA AND MARY SENT SOME 00:20:30.96\00:20:35.20 PEOPLE. HEY, GO TELL THE MASTER THAT 00:20:35.20\00:20:40.37 LAZARUS -- HIM WHOM YOU LOVE IS SICK. 00:20:40.37\00:20:45.11 AND THEY CAME TO JESUS AND SAID, MASTER HIM WHOM YOU LOVE IS 00:20:45.11\00:20:50.28 SICK. MARTHA AND MARY WERE HOPING THAT 00:20:50.28\00:20:52.88 AS SOON AS JESUS HEARD THIS, HE WOULD DROP WHAT HE WAS DOING AND 00:20:52.88\00:20:57.09 GO OVER TO THE HOUSE AND HEAL LAZARUS. 00:20:57.09\00:21:02.62 BUT JESUS LINGERED THERE ANOTHER THREE OR FOUR DAYS. 00:21:02.62\00:21:06.36 AND THEN HE TELLS THE DISCIPLES, LET'S GO OVER TO LAZARUS'S 00:21:06.36\00:21:11.40 HOUSE. AND THEY SAID OUR FRIEND LAZARUS 00:21:11.40\00:21:17.07 SLEEPEST. AND THEY THOUGHT HE WAS 00:21:17.07\00:21:19.74 SLEEPING, AS OF TAKING REST. THIS IS JOHN 11. 00:21:19.74\00:21:23.11 YOU CAN READ IT. >> RIGHT. 00:21:23.11\00:21:24.95 >> AND THEN JESUS SAID TO THEM PLAINLY -- 00:21:24.95\00:21:27.48 >> 14, YEAH. >> BECAUSE THEY SAID TO HIM, 00:21:27.48\00:21:30.62 LORD IF HE IS SLEEPING, HE IS GOING TO DO WELL. 00:21:30.62\00:21:33.56 THEY ARE THINKING HE IS GOING TO HEAL, IF HE IS SLEEPING, TAKING 00:21:33.56\00:21:37.26 A REST, AND JESUS SAID LAZARUS IS DEAD, AND I AM GOING SO I CAN 00:21:37.26\00:21:44.63 RAISE HIM UP AGAIN. NOW IT'S INTERESTING -- DO YOU 00:21:44.63\00:21:47.47 HAVE THAT? >> NO, I HAVE NEVER TEXT. 00:21:47.47\00:21:51.04 >> WHEN JESUS RIVES, AND HE IS TALKING, HERE COMES MARTHA, AND 00:21:51.04\00:21:56.14 SHE SAID OH, LORD, IF ONLY YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN HERE, MY BROTHER 00:21:56.14\00:22:02.25 WOULD NOT HAVE DIED. AND JESUS SAID YOU WILL SEE 00:22:02.25\00:22:06.09 JESUS AGAIN. AND SHE SAID I KNOW I WILL SEE 00:22:06.09\00:22:08.72 HIM AGAIN AT THE LAST DAY. IT SAYS THE LAST DAY. 00:22:08.72\00:22:11.79 >> THAT'S RIGHT. JOHN 11:23, JESUS SAID YOUR 00:22:11.79\00:22:17.83 BROTHER WILL RISE AGAIN, AND MARTHA SAID I KNOW HE WILL RISE 00:22:17.83\00:22:22.80 AGAIN IN THE RESURRECTION AT THE LAST DAY. 00:22:22.80\00:22:25.54 >> SO SHE KNEW IT'S THE LAST DAY. 00:22:25.54\00:22:28.84 NOT NOW. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:22:28.84\00:22:31.05 >> SO THEN OF COURSE JESUS -- HE SAID THAT DEATH IS ASLEP. 00:22:31.05\00:22:35.25 HE SAID TO THEM PLAINLY LAZARUS IS DEAD. 00:22:35.25\00:22:40.19 THE BIBLE SAYS IT DOZENS OF TIMES, DEATH -- HE'S SLEEPING. 00:22:40.19\00:22:45.63 AND THEN HE SLEPT WITH HIS FATHER, AND THEY BURIED HIM. 00:22:45.63\00:22:51.93 AND THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID HE IS SLEEPING. 00:22:51.93\00:22:58.71 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> AND THERE IS ONE MORE 00:22:58.71\00:23:00.71 CHAPTER, IT SAYS IN DANA 12:1 AT THAT TIE MICHAEL SHALL STANDING 00:23:00.71\00:23:06.45 UP, THE GREAT PRINCE WHO STANDINGS WATCH OVER YOUR PEOPLE 00:23:06.45\00:23:09.38 AND THERE SHLL BE A TIME OF TROUBLE SUCH AS NEVER WAS, AND 00:23:09.38\00:23:13.96 MATTHEW 24, EVEN TO THAT TIME, AND AT THAT TIME, YOUR PEOPLE 00:23:13.96\00:23:17.33 SHALL BE DELIVERED. EVERYONE WHO WAS FOUND WRITTEN 00:23:17.33\00:23:20.83 IN THE BOOK, AND MANY OF THOSE VERSUS 2, DANIEL 12, AND MANY 00:23:20.83\00:23:27.14 SHALL AWAKE SOME TO EVER-LASTING LIFE, AND SOME TO SHAME AND 00:23:27.14\00:23:32.24 EVER-LASTING CONTEMPT. THIS IDEA OF TWO RECK 00:23:32.24\00:23:41.15 RECOLLECTIONS. AND REVELATIONS 22 AS WELL. 00:23:41.15\00:23:43.08 >> THAT'S RIGHT. AND THE REWARDING FACTOR IS WHAT 00:23:43.08\00:23:46.22 COMES WHEN JESUS RETURNS. THE UNFORTUNATE REALITY IS 00:23:46.22\00:23:50.49 PEOPLE THINK WELL -- IT BECOMES DISHEARTENING AT TIMES, BECAUSE 00:23:50.49\00:23:55.13 THIS IDEA IS SO PROLIFERATED BY THE MEDIA. 00:23:55.13\00:23:59.17 IT WAS SAD WHEN WHITNEY HOUSTON DIED A FEW YEARS AGO, AND HER 00:23:59.17\00:24:04.27 DAUGHTER NOT TOO LONG AFTER THAT DIED, AND THEY SAID AT LEAST 00:24:04.27\00:24:09.64 SHE'S WITH HER MOM NOW. AND I SAW A YOUNG MAN TOOK HIS 00:24:09.64\00:24:13.98 LIFE, AND HIS GIRLFRIEND SAID AT LEAST HE IS WITH HIS UNCLE NOW. 00:24:13.98\00:24:17.69 SO WE HAE THIS IDEA THAT IF YOU TAKE YOUR LIFE, AND I HAVE TOLD 00:24:17.69\00:24:23.26 THE STORY OF A YOUNG SPANISH MAN IN CALIFORNIA, THEY WERE A 00:24:23.26\00:24:28.53 FAMILY OF FIVE, AND THEY WERE VERY, VERY POOR. 00:24:28.53\00:24:35.37 AND HE -- HE TOOK THE LIFE OF ALL OF HIS FAMILY. 00:24:35.37\00:24:39.61 HIS GRANDMOTHER, HIS WIFE, HIS TWO CHILDREN. 00:24:39.61\00:24:44.01 THEN HE WROTE A NOTE AND TOOK HIS OWN LIFE. 00:24:44.01\00:24:47.25 AND HE WADE -- SAID WE ARE ALL AT PEACE, WE ARE HAPPY AND ALL 00:24:47.25\00:24:56.42 IN HEAVEN. AND THE SAD MISCONCEPTION LEAD 00:24:56.42\00:25:00.83 PEOPLE TO MAKE AWFUL DECISIONS. WHEN OUR HOPE IS IN THE SECOND 00:25:00.83\00:25:06.37 COMING OF JESUS. >> WE READ A PASSAGE THAT ALSO 00:25:06.37\00:25:12.84 ILLUSTRATES THIS AGAIN. HE SAYS BUT I WOULD NOT HAVE YOU 00:25:12.84\00:25:15.88 TO BE IGNORANT, BROTHER CONCERNING THOSE THAT ARE 00:25:15.88\00:25:21.42 ASLEEP. IF WE BELIEF THAT JESUS DIED AND 00:25:21.42\00:25:25.75 ROSE AGAIN, EVEN THOSE WHICH ALSO SLEEP IN JESUS, GOD WILL 00:25:25.75\00:25:29.62 BRING WITH HIM. SO IF YOU CONTINUE READING, IT 00:25:29.62\00:25:33.96 SAYS THAT CHRIST WILL RISE FIRST. 00:25:33.96\00:25:35.76 THIS IS WHEN CHRIST RETURNS. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:25:35.76\00:25:38.70 VERY, VERY GOOD POINT. THE DEAD IN CHRIST WILL RIE 00:25:38.70\00:25:44.01 FIRST. >> WE'RE CONTRASTING A COMMONLY 00:25:44.01\00:25:47.91 HELD VIEW OF THE RAPTURE. IF JESUS IS TALKING ABOUT DEAD 00:25:47.91\00:25:54.42 BODIES RISING OUT OF THE GROUND, I ASSURE YOU THIS WILL NOT BE A 00:25:54.42\00:26:00.19 SECRET EVENT. IT SAYS HE IS GOING TO COME WITH 00:26:00.19\00:26:03.06 A TRUMP -- TRUMPET, DEAD PEOPLE ARE COMING OUT OF THE GROUND. 00:26:03.06\00:26:12.33 IF THIS THING CAN BE KEPT A SECRET, WE MUST ALL HAVE VIRTUAL 00:26:12.33\00:26:19.51 REALITY GLASSES ON. IT'S NOT POSSIBLE FROM THE WAY 00:26:19.51\00:26:23.65 THE SCRIPTURE EXPLAINS IT THA IT WILL BE AN EVENT THAT NOT 00:26:23.65\00:26:30.19 EVERYONE WILL SEE. IN FACT IT SAYS EVERY EYE SHALL 00:26:30.19\00:26:35.89 SEE. HEAVEN ITSELF IS EMPTY, AND THE 00:26:35.89\00:26:38.66 ANGELS ARE DOING WITH JESUS. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:26:38.66\00:26:41.66 >> AND I ASSURE YOU NO ONE IS STAYING BACK IN HEAVEN. 00:26:41.66\00:26:47.60 >> YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED THINGS TO HAPPEN FOR 00:26:47.60\00:26:53.68 THOSE THAT BELIEVE IN JESUS IS ANY SECOND COMING. 00:26:53.68\00:26:56.71 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> AND ONE OF THE LONG-FOR 00:26:56.71\00:27:01.88 THINGS FOR HEAVEN IS FOR GOD TO PUT AN END TO SUFFERING AND SIN. 00:27:01.88\00:27:05.82 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> SO FOR THAT TO BE A SECRET, 00:27:05.82\00:27:09.29 THAT'S NOT A SECRET. GOD IS SO HAPPY THAT THE TIME 00:27:09.29\00:27:13.56 HAS COME, THAT IT -- IT'S A GLORIOUS SCENE. 00:27:13.56\00:27:18.13 WE DIDN'T READ THOSE SCRIPTURES -- THERE ARE MANY 00:27:18.13\00:27:23.00 SCRIPTURES THAT TALK ABOUT AS THE LIGHTNING FROM THE EAST TO 00:27:23.00\00:27:26.11 THE WEST, AND THE TRUMPET SOUNDING, THERE'S LITERALLY NO 00:27:26.11\00:27:31.08 SECRET ABOUT WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN. 00:27:31.08\00:27:33.38 GOD WANTS IT TO BE KNOWN, I'M COMING FOR MY CHILDREN, AND THE 00:27:33.38\00:27:38.15 WHOLE WORLD WILL TAKE NOTICE THAT THE TIME HAS COME FOR THE 00:27:38.15\00:27:45.33 DELIVERANCE. >> AND THE LIGHTNING COMES FROM 00:27:45.33\00:27:47.76 THE EAST AND FLASHES TO THE WEST, SO ALSO SHALL THE COMING 00:27:47.76\00:27:52.67 OF THE LORD BE. MATTHEW 24, 27. 00:27:52.67\00:27:57.51 THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IS HIGHLY VISIBLE. 00:27:57.51\00:28:00.21 EVEN WHEN YOU CLOSE YOUR EYES YOU SEE LIGHTNING STRIKES. 00:28:00.21\00:28:04.41 SO EVEN IF SOEONE HAPPENED TO BLINK, AND IT WAS THAT FAST, 00:28:04.41\00:28:07.92 THEY ARE STILL GOING TO RECOGNIZE IT. 00:28:07.92\00:28:09.98 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> WE'RE NOT TRYING TO BE 00:28:09.98\00:28:13.32 DISRESPECTFUL TO THE PEOPLE THAT BELIEVE AT THIS POINT -- IN THE 00:28:13.32\00:28:18.03 SECRET RAPTURE, BUT WE'RE SHINING A LIGHT -- 00:28:18.03\00:28:20.83 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> -- TO SAY THAT WHEN JESUS 00:28:20.83\00:28:24.63 CHRIST COMES, IT IS NOT GOING TO BE A SECRET. 00:28:24.63\00:28:27.37 HE IS SO HAPPY THAT THE TIME HAS COME, THE WORD HAS TO KNOW IT. 00:28:27.37\00:28:31.91 >> YEAH. >> AND WE -- WE WANT TO 00:28:31.91\00:28:34.51 ENCOURAGE YOU TO BELIEVE WHAT THE SCRIPTURES SAY. 00:28:34.51\00:28:37.15 >> YEAH. AND LISTEN TO PSALMS 50:3. 00:28:37.15\00:28:43.25 >> THERE ARE TWO MORE VERSUSES IN MATTHEW. 00:28:43.25\00:28:51.06 MANY PEOPLE WILL TRY TO TAKE TEXT WRITTEN BY PAUL TO PAINT A 00:28:51.06\00:28:56.87 PICTURE OF THE SECOND COMING. THEN THE SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN 00:28:56.87\00:29:02.70 WILL BE SEEN IN HEAVEN, AND THEY WILL SEE THE SON OF MAN COMING 00:29:02.70\00:29:06.17 ON THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN WITH POWER IN GREAT GLORY, AND HE 00:29:06.17\00:29:10.11 WILL SEND HIS ANGELS WITH THE GREAT SOUND OF THE TRUMPET. 00:29:10.11\00:29:17.75 SO JESUS IS IMPLORING PHYSICAL LANGUAGE AS WELL. 00:29:17.75\00:29:21.72 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> AND JUST TO EXPLAIN THE WAY 00:29:21.72\00:29:24.79 THAT HE PORTRAYS IT, THE WAY THAT JESUS EXPLAINS IT, CONFIRMS 00:29:24.79\00:29:33.17 THE WAY THAT PAUL EXPLAINED IT, AND IT'S HARD TO COME UP WITH 00:29:33.17\00:29:39.04 ANY OTHER -- >> ANY OTHER INTERPRETATION. 00:29:39.04\00:29:41.88 >> YES. >> THE SECOND COMING IS ONE OF 00:29:41.88\00:29:44.55 THE MOST REPEATED AND DISCHIROPRACTORED SCENES IN THE 00:29:44.55\00:29:51.19 SCRIPTURES. PSALMS 50:3. 00:29:51.19\00:29:57.06 OUR GOD SHALL COME. AND SHALL NOT KEEP SILENT. 00:29:57.06\00:30:02.70 A FIRE SHALL DEVOUR BEFORE HIM. AND IT SHALL BE VERY TEMP 00:30:02.70\00:30:09.47 PESTOUS ALL AROUND HIM. VERSUS 4, HE SHALL CALL FROM 00:30:09.47\00:30:19.11 HEAVENS AND GATHER HIS PEOPLE. GATHER MY SAINTS TOGETHER WITH 00:30:19.11\00:30:27.72 ME. LET THE HEAVENS DECLARE HIS 00:30:27.72\00:30:32.13 RIGHTEOUSNESS, FOR GOD HIMSELF HAS JUDGED. 00:30:32.13\00:30:33.63 SO WHEN THE LORD COMES BACK, HE IS NOT COMING BACK SILENT. 00:30:33.63\00:30:38.43 THINK ABOUT IT, WHN NEW YEAR'S EVE CAME FIVE DAYS AGO, IT 00:30:38.43\00:30:43.14 WASN'T SILENT. WE BROUGHT THE NEW YEARS IN 00:30:43.14\00:30:46.94 TOGETHER HERE AT CHURCH ON OUR KNEES. 00:30:46.94\00:30:50.01 WE PRAYED AND SANG SONGS TOGETHER. 00:30:50.01\00:30:52.25 BUT WHEN I SAW IT AT MIDNIGHT HERE IN ILLINOIS CENTRAL TIME, 00:30:52.25\00:30:56.42 I'M FROM NEW YORK, SO I LOOKED AT THE -- FIVE, FOUR, THREE, 00:30:56.42\00:31:03.56 TWO, ONE, ¤ SHOULD ALD ACQUAINTANCE ¤ 00:31:03.56\00:31:11.00 >> AND THE WHOLE THING. AND THEN THEY SAID WE'RE GOING 00:31:11.00\00:31:13.47 TO DO THIS AGAIN FOR THE CENTRAL TIME ZONE. 00:31:13.47\00:31:17.17 THEN THEY SAID NOW WHAT WE DID EARLIER TODAY IS WE ARE GOING TO 00:31:17.17\00:31:21.01 SHOW YOU ALL OF THE PLACE AROUND THE WORLD THAT CELEBRATED THE 00:31:21.01\00:31:25.05 NEW YEAR LONG BEFORE US. THEY BEGAN IN AUSTRALIA. 00:31:25.05\00:31:28.52 THEY WENT TO DUBAI. THEY WENT TO CHINA. 00:31:28.52\00:31:32.62 THEY WENT TO BRAZIL. THEY WENT ALL AROUND -- THEY 00:31:32.62\00:31:36.02 FOLLOWED THE CLOCK AROUND THE WORLD, AND THEN -- AND THEN YOU 00:31:36.02\00:31:39.59 READ THE TEXT. BEHOLD HE COMETH WILL CLOUDS AND 00:31:39.59\00:31:43.97 EVERY EYE WILL SEE HIM. THE REASON I BROUGHT THIS UP IS 00:31:43.97\00:31:48.87 PEOPLE SAY, HOW COULD EVERY EYE SEE JESUS AT THE SAME TIME? 00:31:48.87\00:31:52.54 THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION. BUT AS HE SAYS AS THE LIGHTNING 00:31:52.54\00:31:57.35 FLASHES IN THE EAST UNTO THE WEST -- NOW LET'S DO MATH. 00:31:57.35\00:32:04.65 LIGHTNING TRAVELS AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT. 00:32:04.65\00:32:09.96 THE CIRCUMFERENCE OF THE EARTH -IS 24,000 MILES. 24,000 -- 00:32:09.96\00:32:14.96 >> YOU HAVE DONE THIS BEFORE HAVEN'T YOU? 00:32:14.96\00:32:17.47 >> SO THE LIGHTNING CAN SURROUND THE EARTH IN .6 OF A SECOND. 00:32:17.47\00:32:25.71 SURROUND THE EARTH IN .6 OF -- NOT EVEN A SECOND. 00:32:25.71\00:32:30.28 SO GO TO REVELATION -- DO YOU HAVE A TEXT YOU WANT TO GO TO 00:32:30.28\00:32:34.82 BEFORE I GO TO REVELATION? GO TO REVELATION 6. 00:32:34.82\00:32:38.69 IF THE EARTH CAN BE WRAPPED BY ONE STRIKE OF LIGHTNING 00:32:38.69\00:32:43.16 TRAVELING AT THAT SPEED IN .6 OF A SECOND, HOW VISIBLE WILL THE 00:32:43.16\00:32:48.43 COMING OF THE LORD BE. REVELATION 6, AND WE'RE GOING TO 00:32:48.43\00:32:53.64 LOOK DOWN AT -- OH, LET'S SEE, VERSE 14, AND GO DOWN TO VERSE 00:32:53.64\00:33:03.11 17. WHO READ LAST? 00:33:03.11\00:33:03.95 >> I READ LAST. >> OKAY. 00:33:03.95\00:33:06.11 DEE WOULD YOU READ THAT FOR US. >> AND THE SKY RECEIVED IT AS A 00:33:06.11\00:33:10.32 SCROLL WHEN IT IS ROLLED UP, AND EVERY ISLAND AND MOUNTAIN WAS 00:33:10.32\00:33:14.72 MOVED OUT OF ITS PLACE. AND THE KINGS OF THE EARTH, THE 00:33:14.72\00:33:18.49 GREAT MEN, EVERY SLAVE, AND EVERY FREE MAN, HID THEMSELVES 00:33:18.49\00:33:21.76 IN THE CAVES AND IN THE ROCKS OF THE MOUNTAINS. 00:33:21.76\00:33:24.50 AND SAID TO THE MOUNTAINS AND ROCKS, FALL ON US AND HIDE US 00:33:24.50\00:33:29.17 FROM THE FACE OF HIM WHO SITS ON THE THROWN AND FROM THE WRATH OF 00:33:29.17\00:33:33.31 THE LAMB. FOR THE GREAT DAY OF HIS WRATH 00:33:33.31\00:33:36.28 HAS COME, AND WHO IS ABLE TO STAND? 00:33:36.28\00:33:39.71 >> WOW. SO WHAT DID THE DISCIPLES DO 00:33:39.71\00:33:43.62 DFSH >> THEY FELL IN THEIR FACES. 00:33:43.62\00:33:45.39 >> FELL ON THEIR FACES. SAME REACTION WHEN JESUS COMES 00:33:45.39\00:33:49.59 AGAIN. THE SKY WILL RECEIVE AS A SCROLL 00:33:49.59\00:33:51.83 WHEN IT IS ROLLED TOGETHER. WE DON'T USE THE WORD SCROLL 00:33:51.83\00:33:56.00 TODAY, BUT AS IT'S ROLLED OUT, IT ROLLS UP. 00:33:56.00\00:33:58.77 SO THE SKIES ARE GOING TO PART. AND THE EARTH IS GOING TO ROCK, 00:33:58.77\00:34:04.31 ISAIAH SAID LIKE A DRUNKEN MAN. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:34:04.31\00:34:08.14 >> AND THEN THERE IS GOING TO BE AN EARTHQUAKE SO MIGHTY AND 00:34:08.14\00:34:13.85 GREAT AS HAS NOT BEEN. SO THE WHOLE IDEA OF THE SECRET 00:34:13.85\00:34:18.55 RAPTURE IS JUST NOT SUPPORTED BY SCRIPTURE. 00:34:18.55\00:34:21.32 >> IT'S NOT. >> WE HAVE SOME QUESTIONS. 00:34:21.32\00:34:23.19 HERE IS ONE. I JUST WANTED TO PARTICIPATE. 00:34:23.19\00:34:26.63 THANK YOU, JOHN. I WON'T GIVE THE LAST NAME. 00:34:26.63\00:34:30.80 I JUST WANTED TO PARTICIPATE BY SAYING THAT I BELIEVE THAT WE 00:34:30.80\00:34:34.34 ARE RIGHT IN BETWEEN MATTHEW 24:8, AND MATTHEW 24:9. 00:34:34.34\00:34:41.04 LET'S LOOK AT THAT. OH, I KNOW EXACTLY. 00:34:41.04\00:34:43.31 WE ASKED WHEN IS THE CHANGE GOING TO HAPPEN? 00:34:43.31\00:34:46.45 VERY GOOD. THIS IS A VERY GOOD POINT YOU 00:34:46.45\00:34:49.12 MADE TO BRING US BACK ON TRACK. BECAUSE I SAID IN THE FIRST 00:34:49.12\00:34:56.19 HOUR -- READ THAT FOR US. >> ALL OF THESE ARE THE 00:34:56.19\00:35:00.30 BEGINNING OF SORROWS, THEN SHALL THEY DELIVER YOU UP TO BE 00:35:00.30\00:35:06.23 AFFLICTED AND SHALL KILL YOU, AND YOU SHALL BEHEAD ALL NATIONS 00:35:06.23\00:35:10.21 FOR MY NAME'S SAKE. >> VERY, VERY GOOD OBSERVATION. 00:35:10.21\00:35:14.71 SO WE ARE BETWEEN THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS, AND THE PEOPLE OF 00:35:14.71\00:35:18.05 GOD BEING DELIVERED UP. AND WHAT -- WHAT DOES DANIEL 00:35:18.05\00:35:23.49 REFER TO THAT AS? THE TIME OF -- 00:35:23.49\00:35:25.75 >> MICHAEL STANDING UP. >> YEAH, MICHAEL STA 00:35:25.75\00:35:30.83 STACKED -- STANDING UP. BUT NOW HERE THIS IS NOT THE 00:35:30.83\00:35:35.63 TIME THAT JESUS STANDS UP AND DELIVERS HIS PEOPLE. 00:35:35.63\00:35:40.77 THIS IS THE TIME SHORTLY BEFORE THAT. 00:35:40.77\00:35:41.80 THE BEGINNING OF -- WHEN THE TABLE TURNS FROM THE WARS, THE 00:35:41.80\00:35:47.88 EARTHQUAKES THE FAMINE, THE PESTILENCE, TO THE TIME THAT THE 00:35:47.88\00:35:54.72 PEOPLE OF GOD ARE CALLED TO BE MARTYRS. 00:35:54.72\00:35:57.79 >> THEN IT SAYS MANY FALSE PROPHETS WILL RISE UP -- AND 00:35:57.79\00:36:02.19 THIS IS SUPER IMPORTANT BECAUSE THERE IS GOING TO BE A FANTASTIC 00:36:02.19\00:36:05.99 FORGERY THAT TAKES PLACE OF WHAT SEEMS TO BE JESUS AROUND THE 00:36:05.99\00:36:11.37 EARTH. AND JESUS -- MATTHEW 23 SAYS, IF 00:36:11.37\00:36:15.37 ANYONE SAYS TO YOU LOOK HERE IS THE CHRIST OR THERE, DO NOT 00:36:15.37\00:36:19.11 BELIEVE IT. I HAVE TO BE SO CLEAR TO MAKE 00:36:19.11\00:36:22.04 SURE THAT PEOPLE -- IF THEY DON'T REMEMBER ANYTHING I SAY, 00:36:22.04\00:36:26.21 PLEASE REMEMBER THIS, IF ANYONE SAYS THEY ARE JESUS, DO NOT 00:36:26.21\00:36:30.42 BELIEVE HIM. JESUS HIMSELF SAID THAT. 00:36:30.42\00:36:33.52 AND THEN VERSUS 10, AND THEN MANY WILL BE OFFENDED BETRAY ONE 00:36:33.52\00:36:39.59 ANOTHER AND HATE ONE ANOTHER, AND BECAUSE LAWLESSNESS ABOUNDS 00:36:39.59\00:36:46.20 THE -- HE WHO ENDURES TO THE END SHALL BE SAVED. 00:36:46.20\00:36:51.54 THERE IS A CALL TO ALL SEVEN CHURCHES -- YOU SEE IT IN THE 00:36:51.54\00:36:57.28 SEVEN CHURCHES IN REVELATION. AND THEN THIS GOSPEL OF THE 00:36:57.28\00:37:01.38 KINGDOM WILL BE PREACHED AND ALL OF THE WORLD AS A WITNESS TO ALL 00:37:01.38\00:37:04.69 OF THE NATIONS AND THEN THE END WILL COM. 00:37:04.69\00:37:06.89 SO WE EVEN HAVE MARCHING ORDERS HERE. 00:37:06.89\00:37:10.13 WE HAVE A LANDSCAPE. JESUS GIVES US INFORMATION NOT 00:37:10.13\00:37:13.26 JUST TO BETTER INFORM OURSELVES, BUT THERE IS ALSO MARCHING 00:37:13.26\00:37:16.80 ORDERS HERE IN MATTHEW 24. NOT JUST HERE IS WHAT YOU NEED 00:37:16.80\00:37:20.20 TO LOOK FOR, IT'S TIME TO SAVE YOURSELF. 00:37:20.20\00:37:23.51 HE SAYS HERE IS WHAT YOU NEED TO BE LOOKING FOR, AND THIS IS THE 00:37:23.51\00:37:27.31 MAIN FULCRUM THAT SHOWS THAT THINGS ARE REALLY GOING TO END 00:37:27.31\00:37:30.78 WHEN THERE'S A PEOPLE OF GOD WHO TAKES THE GOSPEL SERIOUSLY, AND 00:37:30.78\00:37:36.38 WHOM THE GOSPEL COMPELS THEM TO SHARE. 00:37:36.38\00:37:38.69 ALL OF THE WORLD KNOWS THIS VERY INC. 00:37:38.69\00:37:43.06 AND CHAPTER 10 WAS TO PROPHESIZE TO THESE PEOPLE. 00:37:43.06\00:37:52.47 >> THAT'S RIGHT. SO -- I LIKE THE GEE 00:37:52.47\00:37:59.41 -- GEOMETRIC PICTURE YOU JUST PAINTED WHERE IT'S ALL DOWNHILL 00:37:59.41\00:38:03.85 FROM HERE. AND WHAT DOES IT MEAN THAT THE 00:38:03.85\00:38:06.85 FINAL MOVEMENTS WILL BE RAPID ONES. 00:38:06.85\00:38:09.82 THAT'S WHAT SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT. 00:38:09.82\00:38:12.55 AS OF IN THE DAY OF NOAH, SO SHALL IT WILL BE IN THE DAYS OF 00:38:12.55\00:38:20.43 MAN. >> THE WAY I WOULD EXPLAIN THAT. 00:38:20.43\00:38:23.26 IT'S KIND OF LIKE WHEN SOMEONE IS BUILDING A HOUSE AND THEY LAY 00:38:23.26\00:38:26.77 THE FOUNDATION. IN THAT SOUND WORK TAKES THE 00:38:26.77\00:38:29.60 MOST TIME, BUT ONCE THE FOUNDATION IS LAID, AND THAT IS 00:38:29.60\00:38:33.98 HAPPENING GOVERNMENTALLY, SOCIALLY, AND OTHERWISE RIGHT 00:38:33.98\00:38:38.11 NOW, WHEN THAT GROUND WORK IS LAID, THE EXTERIOR HAPPENS QUITE 00:38:38.11\00:38:48.02 QUICKLY. BUT LAYING THE GROUND WORK IS 00:38:48.02\00:38:51.59 WHAT TAKES THE MOST AMOUNT OF TIME. 00:38:51.59\00:38:54.66 THIS IS WHY HE SAY IT COMES UPON YOU LIKE A THIEF. 00:38:54.66\00:38:59.40 YOU GO ON VACATION AND YOU COME BACK AND THE HOUSE IS BUILT, AND 00:38:59.40\00:39:04.44 YOU SAY HOW DID THAT HAPPEN? THAT'S WHAT IS HAPPENING EVEN 00:39:04.44\00:39:08.81 RIGHT NOW. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:39:08.81\00:39:10.35 YOU KNOW, IT'S POWERFUL TO BE ABLE TO LOOK BACK ON THESE 00:39:10.35\00:39:14.85 THINGS. YOU THINK OF DANIEL 2, THAT 00:39:14.85\00:39:17.89 TALKS ABOUT FOUR WORLD KINGDOMS. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:39:17.89\00:39:20.19 >> THAT HAS ALREADY HAPPENED. >> WE'RE IN THE LAST KINGDOM. 00:39:20.19\00:39:23.76 >> WE'RE AT THE LAST KINGDOM. WE'RE TALKING PROPHETICALLY. 00:39:23.76\00:39:30.03 >> PROPHETICALLY. >> AND THEY SAY OH, THAT'S 00:39:30.03\00:39:34.17 RIGHT. THE STATUTE, AND THEY KNOW. 00:39:34.17\00:39:36.67 SO YOU HAVE SEEN THE KINGDOM. BABYLON, PERSIA, GREECE, ROME -- 00:39:36.67\00:39:42.94 >> THAT'S RIGHT. THE TEN DIVIDED NATIONS. 00:39:42.94\00:39:45.78 AND ROME IS IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT. 00:39:45.78\00:39:48.25 >> AND ROME IS IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT. 00:39:48.25\00:39:50.49 AND WHEN YOU THINK OF REVELATION 13 -- 00:39:50.49\00:39:53.15 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> WE SEE THESE THINGS, LIKE YOU 00:39:53.15\00:39:56.76 SAID, THE FRAMEWORK IS BEING LAID. 00:39:56.76\00:39:59.03 AND WE'RE JUST UPON THE PRECIPUS, WHEN YOU GET TO THE 00:39:59.03\00:40:04.53 PRECIPUS YOU START GOING DOWN FAST, AND THE FINAL MOVEMENTS 00:40:04.53\00:40:09.07 WILL BE RAPID ONES. BECAUSE EVERYTHING HAS BEEN 00:40:09.07\00:40:12.77 LAID. THINGS HAVE BEEN GOING ON BEHIND 00:40:12.77\00:40:15.58 THE SCENES. THERE IS AN ACCEPTANCE -- I'M 00:40:15.58\00:40:18.88 GOING TO TALK IN GENERAL TERMS. WE UNDERSTAND THAT A DEADLY 00:40:18.88\00:40:22.62 WOUND WAS GIVE TO A POWER CALLED THE LITTLE HORN 00:40:22.62\00:40:27.59 IDENTIFIED IN REVELATION 13 AS WELL, AND THERE'S INFORMATION IN 00:40:27.59\00:40:32.26 REVELATION 14 AS WELL, AND THIS POWER, THAT WE UNDERSTAND WAS 00:40:32.26\00:40:35.70 THE PAPACY. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:40:35.70\00:40:38.37 >> THE DEADLY WOUND IN 1798. AND THERE HAS BEEN A HEALING 00:40:38.37\00:40:43.14 PROCESS TAKING PLACE. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:40:43.14\00:40:47.14 >> AND NOW YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE LEADER OF THAT 00:40:47.14\00:40:51.18 MOVEMENT GOES ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. 00:40:51.18\00:40:55.82 >> RIGHT, THE POPE TO BE VERY CANDID ABOUT IT. 00:40:55.82\00:41:02.46 >> THAT'S RIGHT. ANY OTHER RELIGIOUS LEADER GOES 00:41:02.46\00:41:05.53 TO ANY COUNTRY. HE GOES IN. 00:41:05.53\00:41:07.40 GOES THROUGH CHECKING. PICKS UP HIS LUGGAGE, GOES TO 00:41:07.40\00:41:11.87 WHERE HE HAS TO GO. AND THEN HE LEAVES, AND NO 00:41:11.87\00:41:20.48 NEWSPAPERS -- >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:41:20.48\00:41:22.34 >> BUT THE POPE GETS TO A COUNTRY -- BEFORE HE EVEN 00:41:22.34\00:41:26.31 LEAVES, IT'S A ALREADY -- HE IS GOING TO SUCH AND SUCH OF 00:41:26.31\00:41:30.32 COUNTRY, AND THE BIBLE SAYS THE WORLD WANDERS AFTER THE BEAST. 00:41:30.32\00:41:37.06 AND THERE ARE SO MANY IDENTIFYING MARKS THAT POINT IN 00:41:37.06\00:41:39.83 THAT DIRECTION, THAT IT'S DIFFICULT TO IGNORE THE KRIP 00:41:39.83\00:41:46.47 SCRIPTURES. IT'S DIFFICULT TO SAY THAT 00:41:46.47\00:41:47.54 CANNOT BE. THIS IS A MISUNDERSTANDING 00:41:47.54\00:41:51.34 CONCERNING THIS. BECAUSE THEY THINK IT IS THIS 00:41:51.34\00:41:55.64 VERY CHARISMATIC PERSON THAT WILL BE LIKE IN THE UNITED 00:41:55.64\00:42:00.58 NATIONS. BUT THE BIBLE SAYS A WOMAN, A 00:42:00.58\00:42:02.75 CHURCH, RIDES THE BEAST, WHICH IS WORLDLY KINGDOM, WORDILY 00:42:02.75\00:42:08.29 POWER, AND THE ONLY DESCRIPTION -- THE ONLY POWER 00:42:08.29\00:42:11.03 THAT FITS THIS DESCRIPTION IS THE VATICAN. 00:42:11.03\00:42:16.46 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> AND THAT TIME LINE CONTINUES 00:42:16.46\00:42:20.10 IN REVELATION 18 A WARNING IS GIVEN THAT THIS KINGDOM IS GOING 00:42:20.10\00:42:26.74 DOWN. AND GOD IS WARNING, TO SHOW THAT 00:42:26.74\00:42:32.01 WE'RE NOT SAVED BY WHAT WE DO OR THE WORKS THAT WE PERFORM. 00:42:32.01\00:42:35.95 WE ARE ONLY SAVED BECAUSE OF THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST. 00:42:35.95\00:42:41.39 REVELATION 18, REVELATION 19 SHOWS THE NEXT THING THAT 00:42:41.39\00:42:44.83 HAPPENS IS THAT CHRIST COMES AND DESTROYS THIS POWER. 00:42:44.83\00:42:47.60 SO AS FAR AS THE TIME LINE THAT YOU HAVE, MORE DETAILS ARE GIVEN 00:42:47.60\00:42:51.97 IN OTHER TEXT. DANIEL 7, DANIEL 8, DANIEL 11, 00:42:51.97\00:42:58.27 BUT THEN REVELATION 17, 18, AND 19, IT SHOWS THAT KINGDOM IS 00:42:58.27\00:43:04.11 INDEED GOING TO GO DOWN. AND IT'S CHRIST'S COMING THAT 00:43:04.11\00:43:08.52 PUTS AN END TO THAT VERY POWER. IF IT'S ALREADY REIGNING WITH A 00:43:08.52\00:43:14.72 TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF POWER, THE ONLY THING THAT IS LEFT 00:43:14.72\00:43:18.89 PROPHETICALLY TO HAPPEN, IS THAT STONE FROM HEAVEN TO SMASH THIS 00:43:18.89\00:43:22.26 THING TO BITS, AND THE GAME IS OVER. 00:43:22.26\00:43:25.60 >> AND WHEN HE LOOK AT THE CLIMATE NOW, WARS, PESTILENCE, 00:43:25.60\00:43:30.81 FIRES, FLOOD, TERRORISM, -UNTHANKFUL, UNHOLY, CORRUPTION, PORNOGRAPHY, BROKEN HOMES, 00:43:30.81\00:43:40.32 BROKEN MARRIAGES, JUST THE LIST -- YOUR HEAD WILL EXPLODE. 00:43:40.32\00:43:46.02 THAT'S ALL OF THE VITAL SIGNS. AND THEN YOU HAVE EARTHQUAKES 00:43:46.02\00:43:49.22 AND FAMINES, AND PESTILENCE, AND DISEASE, AND THE NATIONS ARE 00:43:49.22\00:43:54.20 WITHOUT REST, AND THEN YOU HAVE THE INSTABILITY IN POLITICS, AND 00:43:54.20\00:43:59.17 CLIMATE, WHETHER IT IS CLIMATE CONTROLLED OR NOT, WHETHER 00:43:59.17\00:44:02.84 THERE'S GLOBAL WARMING OR NOT. IT'S STRANGE TO HAVE 70 DEGREES 00:44:02.84\00:44:06.88 ONE DAY, AND 52 IN THE MIDDLE OF-DECEMBER. CREATION ITSELF IS 00:44:06.88\00:44:12.48 GROWNING TO BE DELIVERED. AND THEN YOU HAVE THE PROPHETIC 00:44:12.48\00:44:16.55 TIMETABLE. THE FOUR NATIONS. 00:44:16.55\00:44:18.02 FRIENDS WE ARE LIVING IN THE LAST -- THE TOES OF THE IMAGE OF 00:44:18.02\00:44:21.92 DANIEL 2. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:44:21.92\00:44:24.93 >> DANIEL 7 ALL INDICATING THE POWER OF ROME IN THE AFFAIRS OF 00:44:24.93\00:44:28.53 THE LAST DAYS, AND ANYBODY WHO IS POLITICALLY AWAKE KNOWS THERE 00:44:28.53\00:44:32.70 IS NO POWER ON THE EARTH OTHER THAN THE POPE OF ROME -- MY 00:44:32.70\00:44:38.11 FAMILY IS PREDOMINANTLY CATHOLIC, SO I'M TIPTOEING 00:44:38.11\00:44:43.41 THROUGH THE TULIPS, BUT I HAVE TO WARN MY FAMILY.-NOBODY HAS THE ADMIRATION THAN 00:44:43.41\00:44:51.52 THE LEADER OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. 00:44:51.52\00:44:54.16 THEN YOU ADD TO THAT THE UNITED STATES AND THE PROPHECY. 00:44:54.16\00:45:00.86 YOU HAVE PROTESTANT AMERICA PUSHING TO JOIN WITH ROME. 00:45:00.86\00:45:03.67 SO WHEN YOU FINALLY GET THE WHOLE PICTURE TOGETHER. 00:45:03.67\00:45:08.00 THE FINAL MOVEMENTS WILL BE RAPID ONES. 00:45:08.00\00:45:10.41 >> THAT'S RIGHT. THAT'S RIGHT. 00:45:10.41\00:45:12.34 YOU KNOW WHEN -- WHEN YOU LOOK AT THESE THINGS, AND LIKE I SAID 00:45:12.34\00:45:16.04 BEFORE, YOU CAN SEE THAT PROPHECY HAS BEEN FULFILLED. 00:45:16.04\00:45:19.81 THERE'S A LINE THAT SAYS -- YOU CAN LOOK BACK AND SAY, WOW, LOOK 00:45:19.81\00:45:24.19 AT ALL OF THESE THINGS I HAVE HAPPEN. 00:45:24.19\00:45:27.92 TO REVELATION 13 IS UPON US, THE FINAL STEPS OF REVELATION 13 AND 00:45:27.92\00:45:32.69 THEN 14 ARE COMING -- ARE COMING TO PASS. 00:45:32.69\00:45:34.76 WE ARE LIVING IN THE TIME WHEN WE ARE SEEING THESE THINGS JUST 00:45:34.76\00:45:39.20 COMING TOGETHER, COMING TOGETHER. 00:45:39.20\00:45:42.40 WE HAD -- WE HAD THE POPE ADDRESS THE UNITED NATIONS IN 00:45:42.40\00:45:47.51 2016. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:45:47.51\00:45:48.28 >> WHEN IN HISTORY -- >> AND CONGRESS. 00:45:48.28\00:45:50.21 >> AND CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES. 00:45:50.21\00:45:53.82 AND THE UNITED STATES CAME TO BEING AS A PROTESTANT NATION. 00:45:53.82\00:45:59.12 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> THE PEOPLE THAT CAME HERE 00:45:59.12\00:46:01.86 FROM EUROPE CAME HERE BECAUSE THEY WERE GETTING AWAY FROM THAT 00:46:01.86\00:46:07.03 CONTROL AND THAT -- I ALMOST SAID THE WORD DICTATORSHIP, BUT 00:46:07.03\00:46:11.73 THAT TYPE OF RELIGIOUS CONTROL THAT WAS OVER THERE, HERE TO BE 00:46:11.73\00:46:16.10 ABLE TO WORSHIP GOD IN LIBERTY. AND NOW THERE'S THIS -- THIS 00:46:16.10\00:46:20.84 COMING TOGETHER, THAT APPARENTLY SEEMS NICE. 00:46:20.84\00:46:24.65 >> THIS WAS UNHEARD OF IN KENNEDY'S DAY. 00:46:24.65\00:46:27.62 THIS WAS ABSOLUTELY NOT POSSIBLE. 00:46:27.62\00:46:29.68 AND SO YOU WONDER, HOW DO WE KNOW THE LAST MOVEMENTS WILL BE 00:46:29.68\00:46:35.32 RAPID ONES, IF THIS KIND OF THING IS HAPPENING, AND NO ONE 00:46:35.32\00:46:40.00 IS .ING TO IT, ONE HAS TO THINK THERE IS ENOUGH THINGS GOING ON 00:46:40.00\00:46:43.97 HERE THAT HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR THE LAST 30 YEARS, WITH THE COLD 00:46:43.97\00:46:48.30 WAR IN THE LATE '80S AND '90S, AND OTHERWISE THINGS HAVE MOVED 00:46:48.30\00:46:54.44 QUITE QUICKLY FOR THE REDEMPTION THAT THIS POWER HAD BACK IN THE 00:46:54.44\00:46:59.35 DARK AGES. IT HAS BEEN UNCANNY FOR IT TO 00:46:59.35\00:47:04.22 HAPPEN THIS QUICKLY. THINGS THAT WERE TOTALLY UNHEARD 00:47:04.22\00:47:08.22 OF ARE NOW, YEAH, IT HAPPENS. >> YEAH, AND IT HAPPENED IN 00:47:08.22\00:47:12.43 AMERICA IN A COUNTRY THAT ACCORDING TO THE CONSTITUTION WE 00:47:12.43\00:47:18.80 SHALL NOT FAVOR ONE RELIGIOUS POWER. 00:47:18.80\00:47:21.97 AND AN AMBASSADOR WAS SENT TO THE VATICAN IN REAGAN'S RULE, AN 00:47:21.97\00:47:29.31 AMBASSADOR WAS SENT TO MAINTAIN A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE TWO. 00:47:29.31\00:47:34.55 AND THERE IS NO AMBASSADOR TO ANY OTHER CHURCH. 00:47:34.55\00:47:39.22 ONLY THIS POWER. BIBLE PROPHECY HAS PREDICTED 00:47:39.22\00:47:42.96 THIS. I WANT TO READ AN EMAIL FROM 00:47:42.96\00:47:47.30 PASTOR CA MURRAY. HE SAYS WATCHING YOU FROM 00:47:47.30\00:47:53.54 PAJAMA. SORRY, WATCHING YOU FROM PANAMA. 00:47:53.54\00:47:57.87 I SAID PAJAMA, SORRY. WATCHING YOU FROM PANAMA. 00:47:57.87\00:48:01.68 GREAT JOB ON A VITAL -- PERHAPS THE MOST VITAL OF OUR TIME, JUST 00:48:01.68\00:48:07.32 RETURNED HOME FROM THE FUNEAL OF MY BROTHER-IN-LAW. 00:48:07.32\00:48:14.52 IRMA AND FAMILY ARE HOLDING ON TO THEIR FAITH IN THE LORD. 00:48:14.52\00:48:17.69 WE HAVE HOPE IN JESUS CHRIST, BLESSINGS TO YOU. 00:48:17.69\00:48:28.14 HOW COULD I GET PANAMA AND PAJAMA MIXED UP -- WE ARE NOT 00:48:28.14\00:48:34.54 GOING TO HANDLE THIS IN A LIGHT WAY, BUT THIS IS A SAD TIME FOR 00:48:34.54\00:48:38.01 OUR DEAR PASTOR AND HIS WIFE, AND HIS FAMILY THERE IN PANAMA. 00:48:38.01\00:48:43.92 OUR PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU. AND WE DO HAVE HOPE IN OUR 00:48:43.92\00:48:48.49 BLESSED LORD JESUS CHRIST. WHAT A VITAL TOPIC. 00:48:48.49\00:48:51.86 I WANT YOU TO TURN TO 2 THESSALONIANS 2. 00:48:51.86\00:48:57.77 THIS TEXT, THE QUESTION WAS BROUGHT UP, WHAT OTHER AVENUE 00:48:57.77\00:49:03.14 THAN PRAYER DO WE HAVE TO COMMUNICATE WITH OUR HEAVENLY 00:49:03.14\00:49:09.88 FATHER. THIS IS A PASSAGE THAT TALKS 00:49:09.88\00:49:13.65 ABOUT THOSE WHO IGNORE THE OBVIOUS SIGNS OF THE SECOND 00:49:13.65\00:49:17.75 COMING OF JESUS. VERSE 10. 00:49:17.75\00:49:25.93 >> DO YOU WANT TO READ 9 FOR CONTEXT. 00:49:25.93\00:49:29.30 >> YEAH. DO YOU WANT TO DO THAT ONE, DEE. 00:49:29.30\00:49:31.60 >> THE COMIG OF THE [ INAUDIBLE ] ONE IS ACCORDING 00:49:31.60\00:49:33.77 TO THE WORKING OF SATAN WITH ALL POWER AND WONDERS, AND WITH 00:49:33.77\00:49:42.88 UPRIGHTOUS DECEPTION. BECAUSE THEY DID NOT RECEIVE THE 00:49:42.88\00:49:45.51 LOVE OF THE TRUTH THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED. 00:49:45.51\00:49:48.08 AND FOR THIS REASON, GOD WILL SEND THEM STRONG DELUSION THAT 00:49:48.08\00:49:52.82 THEY SHOULD BELIEVE THE LIE THAT THEY ALL MAY BE CONDEMNED WHO 00:49:52.82\00:49:57.93 DID NOT BELIEVE THE TRUTH BUT WHO HAD PLEASURE IN UPR 00:49:57.93\00:50:04.67 UPRUPR UPRIGHT -- UNDERRIGHTEOUSNESS. 00:50:04.67\00:50:12.27 >> WE TALKED ABOUT PROPHECY THAT YOU CAN SEE HAPPENING. 00:50:12.27\00:50:19.28 RIGHT IN THE SAME CHAPTER, I'M GOING TO GO BACK A F FEW VERSES 00:50:19.28\00:50:29.56 BEFORE. VERSE 3. 00:50:29.56\00:50:30.66 LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU -- DOES THAT RING A BELL -- 00:50:30.66\00:50:35.06 >> FOR THAT DAY SHALL NOT COME, EXCEPT THERE COME A FALLING AWAY 00:50:35.06\00:50:40.94 FIRST, AND THAT MAN OF SON BE REVEALED WHO OPPOSES AND 00:50:40.94\00:50:50.81 EXSOUGHTS HIMSELF ABOVE ALL THAT IS CALLED GOD, SO THAT HE SITS 00:50:50.81\00:50:54.92 IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD, SHOWING HIMSELF THAT HE IS GOD. 00:50:54.92\00:51:01.19 REMEMBER I TOLD YOU THESE THINGS. 00:51:01.19\00:51:04.19 AND NOW YOU KNOW WHAT HE MIGHT BE REVEALED IN THIS TIME. 00:51:04.19\00:51:07.83 FOR THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY NOW WORK. 00:51:07.83\00:51:14.40 AND THEN SHALL THAT WICKED BE REVEALED, NOW NOTICE, WHOM THE 00:51:14.40\00:51:20.24 LORD SHALL CONSUME WITH THE SPIRIT OF HIS MOUTH AND THE 00:51:20.24\00:51:24.65 BRIGHTNESS OF HIS COMING. >> THAT IS REVELATION 19. 00:51:24.65\00:51:29.35 >> YES. THE SECOND COMING COULD NOT COME 00:51:29.35\00:51:32.12 UNTIL THERE IS A FALLING AWAY. CHRISTIANITY SEEMS TO HAVE 00:51:32.12\00:51:38.53 FALLEN INTO AN ERA OF DARKNESS. >> LUKEWARMNESS. 00:51:38.53\00:51:43.20 >> LUKEWARMNESS. AND THEN YOU READ REVELATION 12, 00:51:43.20\00:51:46.87 AND YOU UNDERSTAND THAT THE DRAGON WAS ROUGH WITH THE WOMAN 00:51:46.87\00:51:50.97 AND WENT TO MAKE WAR WITH THE REMNANT OF HIS SEED. 00:51:50.97\00:51:57.81 THERE WAS A DIVIDING OF TIME, IT WAS MENTIONED TWICE, 42 MONTHS 00:51:57.81\00:52:03.02 IS MENTIONED AS WELL. 1,260 YEARS, THE DARKAGES. 00:52:03.02\00:52:12.43 THIS IS PAST HISTORY. AND THE [ INAUDIBLE ] WAS 00:52:12.43\00:52:16.70 REVEALED AND WILL BE REVEALED AGAIN. 00:52:16.70\00:52:18.17 IT SAYS THERE WAS A DEADLY WOUND WHEN THE ROMAN GENERAL -- NOT 00:52:18.17\00:52:22.70 THE ROMAN GENERAL -- >> FRENCH GENERAL. 00:52:22.70\00:52:25.74 >> FRENCH GENERAL WENT, MARCHED INTO THE VATICAN AND TOOK THE 00:52:25.74\00:52:30.58 POPE CAPTIVE. NO LONGER IN POWER. 00:52:30.58\00:52:32.81 NO LONGER ABLE TO CONTROL AND DICTATE. 00:52:32.81\00:52:35.42 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> AS IN THE PAST. 00:52:35.42\00:52:38.15 BUT -- MUSSOLINI, 1928 -- >> 29. 00:52:38.15\00:52:42.22 >> 29. BEGAN A PROCESS THAT IS NOW 00:52:42.22\00:52:46.70 GROWING, AND GAVE THE VATICAN BACK SOME POWER AND SOME LAND, 00:52:46.70\00:52:51.73 AND ONCE AGAIN, I SEE YOU HAVE YOUR HAND READY -- 00:52:51.73\00:52:57.47 >> GO FOR IT. >> JUST THE LANGUAGE THAT PAUL 00:52:57.47\00:53:04.98 USES IS VERY INTERESTING. THE MAN OF SIN AND THEY SEEM TO 00:53:04.98\00:53:10.12 BE AGAINST GOD. BUT THERE IS ONLY ONE OTHER TIME 00:53:10.12\00:53:12.72 IN ALL OF THE BIBLE, IN THE PRAYER OF JESUS IN JOHN 17, OF 00:53:12.72\00:53:17.79 ALL THAT YOU HAVE GIVEN ME, NONE HAVE BEEN LOST, EXCEPT ONE, THAT 00:53:17.79\00:53:22.50 THE SCRIPTURES MIGHT BE FULFILLED. 00:53:22.50\00:53:24.73 SO SOMEONE WHO WAS IN THE FOLD, WHO WAS WITHIN THE CHRISTIAN 00:53:24.73\00:53:29.04 STRUCTURE, WALKING IN LIGHT, LEFT LIGHT. 00:53:29.04\00:53:31.04 THEY LEFT THE CHURCH. THEY FELL AWAY. 00:53:31.04\00:53:33.51 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> SAME THING IN 2 THESSALONIANS 00:53:33.51\00:53:38.88 2. A SYSTEM THAT WAS NOT CORRUPT, 00:53:38.88\00:53:41.68 BECAME CORRUPT. SOMEONE THAT WAS -- ONE WHO WAS 00:53:41.68\00:53:44.19 PART OF THE 12 AND LEFT THE 12. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:53:44.19\00:53:47.12 >> THAT LANGUAGE IS VERY INTENTIONAL BY PAUL TO MAKE IT 00:53:47.12\00:53:54.23 CLEAR THAT THIS IS NOT SOME INDIVIDUAL. 00:53:54.23\00:53:59.17 THIS IS SPECIFICALLY REFERRING TO A SPIRITUAL INDIVIDUAL. 00:53:59.17\00:54:07.98 >> THAT'S ANOTHER TOPIC FOR ANOTHER DAY. 00:54:07.98\00:54:10.31 I MEAN THIS IS A VERY POWERFUL TOPIC WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 00:54:10.31\00:54:14.38 TONIGHT. AND AS YOU KNOW, THE SEC COMING 00:54:14.38\00:54:17.12 OF JESUS IS THE MOST EARTH-CHANGING, EARTH SHATTERING 00:54:17.12\00:54:22.86 EVENT OF HUMAN HISTORY. AND WE KNOW HE IS NOT GOING TO 00:54:22.86\00:54:27.13 ALLOW THE WORLD TO GO ON AS IT IS NOW. 00:54:27.13\00:54:29.30 THE LORD WILL STEP IN, DELIVER HIS PEOPLE, AND PUT AN END TO 00:54:29.30\00:54:33.60 ALL OF THE THINGS THAT WE KNOW. BUT THE QUESTION MIGHT BE, HOW 00:54:33.60\00:54:38.27 COULD ALL OF THESE THINGS BE HAPPENING? 00:54:38.27\00:54:40.74 >> UH-HUH. >> AND THE WORLD AROUND US ACTS 00:54:40.74\00:54:44.01 AS THOUGH NOTHING IS TAKING PLACE AT ALL. 00:54:44.01\00:54:46.48 >> LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT ONE OF THE SCRIPTURES, I WOULD LIKE TO 00:54:46.48\00:54:50.19 BRING OUR HOUR TO A CLOSE TONIGHT WITH MATTHEW 24 VERSE 00:54:50.19\00:55:02.43 36-39. BUT OF THAT DAY AND HOUR, NO ONE 00:55:02.43\00:55:05.37 KNOWS. NOT EVEN THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN, 00:55:05.37\00:55:07.50 BUT MY FATHER ONLY. BUT AS THE DAYS OF NOAH WERE, SO 00:55:07.50\00:55:11.74 ALSO WILL THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN BE. 00:55:11.74\00:55:15.51 FOR AS IN THE DAYS BEFORE THE FLOOD THEY WERE EATING AND 00:55:15.51\00:55:20.35 DRINKING, MARRYING, AND GIVING IN MARRIAGE, UNTIL THE DAY THAT 00:55:20.35\00:55:24.39 NOAH ENTERED THE ARC, AND DID NOT KNOW UNTIL THE FLOOD CAME 00:55:24.39\00:55:29.56 AND TOOK THEM ALL AWAY, SO ALSO WILL THE COMING OF THE SON OF 00:55:29.56\00:55:35.26 MAN BE. IF WE COULD WRAP UP THIS TOPIC 00:55:35.26\00:55:39.17 TONIGHT, WHAT APPEAL WOULD YOU MAKE TO THOSE WATCHING AND 00:55:39.17\00:55:42.24 LISTENING TO THE PROGRAM? BECAUSE THIS -- THE MOST 00:55:42.24\00:55:45.34 GLORIOUS EVENT -- THE STAGE IS SET IN EVERY PARTICULAR, THE 00:55:45.34\00:55:49.08 LAST CHURCH, THE LAST IMAGE IN DANIEL 7, THE LAST MEDAL IN 00:55:49.08\00:55:59.05 DANIEL 2. WHAT WOULD YOU TELL THOSE 00:55:59.05\00:56:02.02 WATCHING AND LISTENING, WHAT CAN THEY DO TO BE READY FOR THIS 00:56:02.02\00:56:06.53 EVENT. >> THE BIBLE SAYS THAT GOD 00:56:06.53\00:56:09.13 BLESSED US WITH AN EVER-LASTING LOVE. 00:56:09.13\00:56:11.63 AND JESUS WANTS EVERYONE TO BE SAVED. 00:56:11.63\00:56:14.77 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> JESUS CHRIST IS COMING SOON. 00:56:14.77\00:56:17.54 AND THE BIBLE SAYS BE ALSO READY. 00:56:17.54\00:56:20.18 BE ALSO READY. >> DEE? 00:56:20.18\00:56:21.61 >> KEEP YOUR EYES ON JESUS. JESUS IS COMING TO YOU 00:56:21.61\00:56:25.85 INDIVIDUALLY. JESUS LONGS AND DESIRES TO BE 00:56:25.85\00:56:28.38 WITH YOU. AND BECAUSE OF THE VALUE HE 00:56:28.38\00:56:30.59 PLACES ON YOU, THIS IS WHAT NEEDS TO TAKE PLACE. 00:56:30.59\00:56:32.82 HE IS ASKING FOR US TO TAKE THE SIGNS THAT WE SEE HERE 00:56:32.82\00:56:39.36 SERIOUSLY. BECAUSE OUT OF HIS LOVE FOR US, 00:56:39.36\00:56:41.20 HE GAVE US THIS INFORMATION. >> WE HERE AT 3ABN ARE 00:56:41.20\00:56:45.30 CONTINUING TO PROCLAIM THE 3 ANGEL'S MESSAGES, WE COVET YOUR 00:56:45.30\00:56:51.94 PRAYERS AND YOUR SUPPORT. THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU DO 00:56:51.94\00:56:55.61 FOR THIS NETWORK. WE DO DESIRE AND PRAY THAT THE 00:56:55.61\00:57:01.35 SECOND COMING OF THE LORD WILL BE YOUR FOCUS IN 2017, AND UNTIL 00:57:01.35\00:57:08.66 JESUS COMES. SO UNTIL WE SEE YOU AGAIN, MAY 00:57:08.66\00:57:12.53 GOD PREPARE YOUR HEART FOR THAT GLORIOUS DAY. 00:57:12.53\00:57:16.53 GOD BLESS YOU. ¤ 00:57:16.53\00:57:20.67