Participants: John Lomacang (Host), Dee Casper, John Dinzey
Series Code: TL
Program Code: TL017501B
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00:13 >> WELCOME BACK TO THE SECOND HOUR OF A VERY INFORMATIVE 00:18 PROGRAM. A PROGRAM ABOUT THE SECOND 00:19 COMING OF JESUS SHOULD BE A FOUR-HOUR, TWO-PART PROGRAM. 00:24 BUT WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN TWO HOURS. 00:26 WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO DEAL WITH IT JUDICIOUSLY AND SCRIPTURALLY, 00:34 BUT WE'RE THANKING THE LORD THAT THIS IS NOT A TOPIC THAT LEAVES 00:40 ANYONE IN THE DARK. GO TO THE WORD OF GOD. 00:44 CURRENT EVENTS -- LET ME MAKE THIS POINT. 00:48 WE SHOULD NOT USE CURRENT EVENTS TO INTERPRET THE BIBLE, BUT THE 00:52 BIBLE TO INTERPRET CURRENT EVENTS. 00:56 SO MANY PEOPLE OFTEN INTO THE OTHER WAY AROUND. 00:59 VERY QUICKLY SOME HOUSEKEEPING. IF YOU WANT TO SEND QUESTIONS US 01:02 TO ABOUT THE TOPIC OF THE SECOND COMING OR SOMETHING SURROUNDING 01:05 THAT TOPIC, SEND THOSE QUESTIONS TO LIVE@3ABN.TV.-THAT'S OBVIOUSLY THE INTERNET 01:13 ADDRESS. OR CALL US AT 618-627-4651. 01:17 AND USE THAT SAME PHONE NUMBER, BY THE WAY, IF YOU HAVE A PRAYER 01:22 REQUEST, AND WE'LL GET THOSE PRAYER REQUESTS TO OUR PASTORAL 01:27 DEPARTMENT. THAT IS 618-627-4651. 01:29 YOU KNOW, WE HAVE -- THERE'S SO MUCH THAT IS HAPPENING IN OUR 01:33 WORLD TODAY, THERE ARE -- THERE ARE FAILED PREDICTIONS ABOUT THE 01:36 SECOND COMING OF JESUS. WE'LL BRING IN -- NEVILLE IN 01:48 JUST A MINUTE. BUT THERE ARE STILL PEOPLE IN 01:50 THE WORLD THAT BEIEVE THAT AS A CHURCH, WE PREDICTED THE SECOND 01:55 COMING OF JESUS AND THAT'S STILL BEING PROLIFERATED AT AN 02:01 ALALARMING RATE. DEE YOU ARE THE YOUNGEST HERE. 02:05 LET'S TALK ABOUT THAT FOR A MOMENT. 02:07 >> THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH WAS BITTED OUT OF THE 02:11 GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT REGARDING THE MILL RIGHT MOVEMENT. 02:17 AND THAT MOVEMENT WAS TOLD TO PR 02:30 PROFASY AGAIN. WILLIE MILLER WAS ACTUALLY A 02:35 BAPTIST. AND THERE WERE METHODISTS AND 02:37 OTHER DENOMINATIONS -- THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST DIDN'T 02:44 EVEN EXIST YET. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 02:47 >> SO IN 1844, IT WAS PREDOMINANTLY BAPTISTS. 02:51 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> THAT'S HOW THE PROCESS 02:53 STARTED AND COMING OUT OF THAT MOVEMENT THROUGH FURTHER BIBLE 02:57 STUDY THEY REALIZED THAT WE DO NOT NEED TO BE SETTING DATES. 03:02 THOSE KEPT SETTING DATES, JEHOVAH WITNESSES WERE ONE OF 03:11 THOSE GROUPS. AND THEN YOU HAD PEOPLE WHO GAVE 03:14 UP ENTIRELY. AND THEN YOU HAD A THIRD, PEOPLE 03:19 THAT KEPT SEARCHING. SO THEY WERE REFERRING TO THE 03:24 HEAVENLY SANCTUARY BEING CLEANSED. 03:27 AND JESUS WAS BASICALLY ENTERING INTO THE MOST HOLY PLACE TO 03:31 BEGIN A PROCESS OF CLEANSING THE HEAVENLY SANCTUARY OF ALL SIN, 03:37 AND TO PREPARE PEOPLE FOR THE SEC COMING OF CHRIST. 03:40 >> THAT'S RIGHT. NOT ONLY DO PEOPLE FOCUS ON 1843 03:47 AND 1844. AND SOME SAY THAT IN 1850 ELLEN 03:54 WHITE PREDICTED THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST. 03:56 AND THAT'S NOT WHAT SHE TALKED ABOUT. 04:00 LET'S GO TO MATTHEW 16:20. NOW ONE OF THE AMAZING THINGS ON 04:06 THE DAY OF PENTECOST, WHEN PETER BEGAN TO PREACH, HE PREACHED THE 04:18 SERMON WITH SUCH URGENCY, AND HE IS PREACHED IN THE CONTEXT THAT 04:22 THIS IS WHAT THE PROPHET JOEL SPOKE ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN THE 04:25 LAST DAYS. THIS IS ON THE DAY OF PENTECOST 04:29 NOT TOO LONG AFTER JESUS AS ASCENDED TO HEAVEN, PETER SAID, 04:36 WE ARE LIVING IN THE LAST DAYS. AND YOU CAN GO BACK AND SAY, 04:41 WELL, COULD IT BE THAT PETER WAS WRONG? 04:46 WELL, THE REALITY IS THIS. AND LET ME SLOW DOWN, BECAUSE I 04:50 CAN BECOME A NEW YORKER VERY QUICKLY. 04:54 I'M FROM NEW YORK. IF YOU FOCUS ON THE DATE, YOU 04:58 MISS THE POINT. THE POINT IS WATCH AND -- 05:01 >> BE READY. >> WATCH AND BE READY. 05:04 BECAUSE NO ONE HAS ETERNAL LIFE. IT'S A PROMISE. 05:10 SO THE LORD IS CALLING ALL OF THOSE PEOPLE IN THAT AGE TO BE 05:14 READY. AT THAT TIME, BE READY. 05:18 LET'S GO TO MATTHEW, AND I'LL TAKE YOU THROUGH THIS QUANDARY. 05:28 MATTHEW 16:28. PASTOR DINZEY WOULD YOU READ 05:31 THAT FOR US? >> SURE. 05:33 JESUS SAID I SAY UNTO YOU, THERE BE SOME STANDING HERE WHICH 05:39 STALL NOT TASTE OF DEATH UNTIL THEY SEE THE SON OF MAN COMING 05:43 IN HIS KINGDOM. >> HOW DO WE HANDLE THAT? 05:47 >> AND THAT'S HOW THE CHAPTER ENDS, BY THE WAY. 05:51 >> THE CLIFF HANGER. >> WAS THIS THE ONE YOU TALKED 05:58 ABOUT? >> YEAH, I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS 06:01 MUCH YOUNGER. YOU KNOW HOW THE BIBLE IS 06:04 DIVIDED IN CHAPTERS. AND I WAS READING, AND READING, 06:08 AND I READ THIS, AND I STOPPED AND SAID WOW, JESUS SAID THERE 06:13 WERE SOME THAT WOULD BE ALIVE WHEN JESUS COMES. 06:16 COULD IT BE THAT ONE OF THOSE DISCIPLES IS STILL LIVE. 06:20 AND THEN I THOUGHT ABOUT THAT FOR A WHILE, AND THEN I SAID I 06:27 TIRED. I'M GOING TO SLEEP. 06:28 AND I WENT TO SLEEP WITH THAT THOUGHT. 06:31 AND FOR SOME REASON I DIDN'T GET BACK TO READING THE BIBLE FOR A 06:34 COUPLE OF DAYS, AND I SAID, MAN, I HAVE TO ASK THE PASTOR ABOUT 06:39 THIS. AND WHEN I ASKED HIM, OH, GOOD 06:48 QUESTION. LET'S KEEP READING THE BIBLE. 06:53 >> YES. THE THOUGHT CONTINUES. 06:55 >> AND THE FIRST FOUR WORDS IN CHAPTER 17 TELL US -- CHAPTER 17 07:00 TO CHAPTER 16 SAYS NOW AFTER SIX DAYS, SIX DAYS AFTER WHAT, AFTER 07:06 JESUS MAKES THIS REALLY PERPLEXING STATEMENT. 07:09 SIX DAYS LATER HE ENDS GOING UP ON THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION. 07:23 AS THEY ARE UP THERE, JESUS'S BODY IS GLORIFIED, AND 07:27 HIS -- HIS CLOTHES BECOME AS WHITE AS THE LIGHT, AND THEN TWO 07:30 MEN COME TO SEE JESUS -- TWO MEN APPEAR WITH JESUS. 07:35 WHO ARE THEY? >> ALLY JA AND MOW CUSS. 07:40 >> ELIJAH AND MOSES. AND MOSES REPRESENTS THOSE THAT 07:49 DIED. AND THEN THE OTHER IS ELIJAH, A 07:53 MAN WHO NEVER TASTED DEATH. SO TWO CLASSES OF THE RIGHTEOUS 08:07 THAT WILL HAPPEN. PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN ARE 08:10 ACTUALLY GIVEN A SNAPSHOT OF THE SECOND COMING. 08:15 JESUS IN THE GLORIFIED BODY, AND TWO CLASSES OF PEOPLE THOSE WHO 08:21 DIED AND THOSE WHO ARE ALIVE. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 08:24 >> THOSE WHO CLASSES ARE PRESENT AT THIS -- 08:27 >> THE TRANSFIGURATION. >> SO JESUS WAS SAYING I'M GOING 08:33 TO GIVE YOU A SNEAK PEAK OF WHAT THE SECOND COMING WILL LOOK 08:36 LIKE. SOME OF YOU WILL GET TO SEE 08:39 THIS. AND THAT'S BASICALLY WHAT 08:40 MATTHEW 17 ANSWERS FOR US. >> MATTER OF FACT, JUST TO GIVE 08:45 SCRIPTURE SUPPORT TO THAT BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATION OF THAT. 08:50 JUST THINK, HE JUST LEARNED THIS STUFF IN 2006, 2008. 08:56 HE HASN'T BEEN AN ADVENTIST FOR VERY LONG, BUT A STUDENT OF THE 09:05 WORD. >> I READ THAT WHEN I WAS 09:07 YOUNGER, AND I SAID WOW, THE SCRIPTURE MAKES SO MUCH MORE 09:10 SENSE. I SEE IT. 09:11 AND THIS IS WHAT JESUS WAS REFERRING TO. 09:14 >> HE WAS SAYING YOU GOING TO SEE A MICROCOSM, JUST A SMALL 09:22 GLIMPSE. LET'S LOOK AT THAT. 09:24 WHY DON'T YOU CONTINUE READING THAT DEE. 09:27 START WITH VERSUS 2. >> VERSUS 2? 09:29 >> WELL, FIRST 1. >> AFTER SIX DAYS JESUS TOOK 09:34 PETER JAMES AND JOHN AS BROTHER, LEAD THEM UP ON A HIGH MOUNTAIN -AND HE WAS TRANSFIGURED BEFORE 09:43 THEM. AND BEHOLDED MOSES AND ELIJAH 09:46 APPEARED TO HIM. WALKING WITH THEM. 09:48 THEN PETER ANSWERED AND SAID TO JESUS, LORD, IT IS GOOD FOR US 09:51 TO BE HERE, IF YOU WISH LET US MAKE THE THREE TABERNACLES. 09:58 >> AMEN. >> AND THEN THEY HEAR THE VOICE 10:02 OF GOD TOO. A BRIGHT CLOUD OVERSHADOWED 10:08 THEM, AND SUDDENLY A VOICE CAME OUT OF THE CLOUD SAYING THIS IS 10:12 MY BELOVED SON, HEAR HIM. >> SO THE BEAUTIFUL 10:17 ILLUSTRATION -- THIS WAS A SNAPSHOT -- 10:20 >> YEAH. >> THAT WORD I HEARD MANY YEARS 10:24 AGO, I NEVER LOST THAT THOUGHT -- THIS WAS A SNAPSHOT, 10:28 A MINIATURE REPRESENTATION OF WHAT THE SECOND COMING IS GOING 10:31 TO BE. ELIJAH NEVER TO SEE DEATH, AND 10:38 THEN MOSES AND THE RESURRECTED. FIRST THESSALONIANS 4. 10:49 >> AND VERSE 6, IT ALSO SAYS THE DISCIPLES FELL ON THEIR FACES, 10:57 WHICH MANY WILL DO. >> YES. 11:00 SO THE GLORY THAT OVERSHADOWED JESUS WAS IN FACT, SURELY THE 11:04 GLORY THAT WILL BE REVEALED AT A SECOND COMING. 11:10 AND THEN THE BIBLE SAYS BEHOLD HE COMETH WITH CLOUDS AND EVERY 11:14 EYE WILL SEE HIM. >> AMEN. 11:17 >> HE WAS ENSHROUDED IN CLOUDS AT THAT EVENT, THE TWO 11:22 EVENTATIONS WERE THERE, THE GLORY OF GOD BEAMED FROM HIS 11:27 PRESENCE. >> AND IT WAS A PHYSICAL 11:30 REPRESENTATION, HE WAS VISIBLY RECOGNIZABLE. 11:35 EVEN MOSES AND ELIJAH WERE RECOGNIZABLE. 11:40 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> THERE IS A VERY PHYSICAL ACT 11:42 THAT IS TAKING PLACE, THAT IS A SNAPSHOT OF THE SECOND COMING, 11:48 WHICH I THINK IS IMPORTANT. THERE'S NOT JUST A HINT THAT 11:52 SOMETHING IS HAPPENING. IT'S NOT JUST THE CLOSE 11:54 OF -- OF -- OF ELIJAH ON THE GROUND. 11:58 >> THAT'S RIGHT. VERY GOOD APPLICATION. 12:05 OKAY. JOHNNY WOULD YOU READ THAT FOR 12:07 US. >> YES, I WANTED TO READ IN 12:09 MATTHEW 17 -- >> SURE. 12:12 >> VERSUS 9. JESUS SAID TO THEM AND AS THEY 12:15 CAME DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAIN, JESUS CHARGED THEM SAYING TELL 12:18 THE VISION TO NO MAN UNTIL THE SON OF MAN BE RISEN FROM THE 12:24 DEAD. SO THIS WAS OMETHING THEY WERE 12:27 TO KEEP TO THEMSELVES UNTIL A LATER TIME. 12:29 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> AND VERY, VERY POWERFUL. 12:32 AND THIS REALLY CHANGED THEIR LIVES. 12:34 >> YEAH. >> THIS BLESSING THEY HAD TO SEE 12:37 IN -- IN THE SNAPSHOT THE SECOND COMING. 12:45 1 THESSALONIANS 4:13. BUT I WOULD NOT HAVE YOU TO BE 12:50 IGNORANT BRETHREN, CONCERNING THEM THAT ARE ASLEEP, THAT YOU 12:56 SORROW EVEN AS OTHERS WHO HAVE NO HOPE. 12:59 WE BELIEVE JESUS DIED AND ROSE AGAIN, EVEN SEW THOSE WHO SLEEP 13:05 WITH JEUS WILL GOD BRING TO THEM. 13:08 WE WHICH ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN UNTO THE COMING OF THE LORD 13:12 SHALL NOT PREVENT THEM WHICH ARE ASLEEP. 13:15 >> SO THERE ARE TWO GROUPS. THOSE WHO ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN, 13:22 ELIJAH, AND THOSE SLEEPING IN THE LORD, MOSES. 13:25 >> UH-HUH. THE LORD HIMSELF SHALL ASEND 13:30 FROM HEAVEN WITH A SHOUT. AND THE DEAD AND CHRIST SHALL 13:34 RISE FIRST. THEN WE WHICH ARE ALIVE AND 13:38 REMAIN SHALL BE CAUGHT UP WITH THEM TOGETHER TO MEET THE LORD 13:42 IN THE AIR, AND SO SHALL WE EVER-BE WITH THE LORD. WHERE FOR COMFORT ONE ANOTHER 13:49 WITH THESE WORDS. >> AND THE BEAUTY OF THAT IS NOT 13:53 EVERYTHING IS GOING TO DIE. AND THE BEAUTY OF THAT IS -- HE 13:59 SAYS DON'T WORRY ABOUT THEM. THEY ARE NOT GOING TO HEFB 14:05 BEFORE YOU, AND YOU ARE NOT GOING BEFORE THEM. 14:07 >> THAT'S IN HEBREWS 11. >> GO AHEAD AND READ THAT. 14:12 >> VERSE 39 AFTER HE GOES THROUGH THE HALL OF FAITH AS 14:16 PEOPLE SAY, AND ALL OF THIS HAVING OBTAINED A GOOD 14:21 TESTIMONY, DID NOT RECEIVE THE PROMISE. 14:22 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> IN VERSE 40 IT SAYS GOD 14:26 HAVING PROVIDED SOMETHING BETTER FOR US, THAT THEY SHOULD NOT BE 14:29 MADE PERFECT APART FROM US. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 14:32 >> AND AGAIN, IT SAYS -- WE'LL BE TOGETHER WITH THEM, AND IT 14:39 SAYS IN HEBREWS 11 A THAT THEY SHOULD NOT BE MADE PERFECT APART 14:44 FROM US. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 14:45 >> THEY ARE NOT GOING TO BE UP THERE UNTIL WE JOIN THEM. 14:49 >> THAT'S RIGHT >> THAT'S A VERY POWERFUL THING 14:52 TO UNDERSTAND, BECAUSE UNFORTUNATELY THERE ARE MANY 14:54 THAT BELIEVE THAT WHEN YOU DIE, YOU EITHER GO TO HEAVEN IF YOU 15:00 ARE GOOD, OR YOU GO TO HELL IF YOU ARE BAD. 15:03 BUT THE SCRIPTURES MAKE IT CLEAR THAT IT IS AT THE VERY END THAT 15:09 THE RIGHTEOUS THAT WERE DEAD GO TO HEAVEN. 15:13 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> AND THE RIGHTEOUS THAT ARE 15:18 ALIVE, THEY GO TOGETHER. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 15:20 >> WE GO TOGETHER. AND MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR. 15:23 >> THAT'S RIGHT. MEETING THE LORD -- THIS SHOULD 15:26 BRING COMFORT TO MANY OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING, AND WE WANT 15:30 TO EMPHASIZE THIS AGAIN. BECAUSE WE HAVE ALL LOST LOVED 15:34 ONES. I LOST TWO PARENTS, THE PEOPLE 15:39 THAT RAISED ME AND THE PEOPLE THAT GAVE ME BIRTH, UNCLES, 15:46 AUNTS, DEATH HAS TOUCHED ALL OF OUR FAMILIES. 15:50 BUT SOME PEOPLE THAT THINK DEATH GIVES YOU AN IMMEDIATE PASSAGE 15:59 TO HEAVEN, AND THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT ACTUALLY COMMIT SUICIDE 16:04 BELIEVING THAT NOW THEY ARE JOINED WITH THEIR LOVED ONES. 16:07 >> UH-HUH. >> THE UNFORTUNATE THING IS THEY 16:11 ARE DETERMINING THE REWARD THEY ARE GOING TO GET BEFORE THE TIME 16:15 COMES TO GET THE REWARD. THEY ARE DETERMINING, WELL, 16:19 SHE'S IN HEAVEN. WELL, HOW COULD YOU APPOINT THAT 16:24 REWARD WHEN HEAVEN IS NOT YOUR PLACE. 16:26 LET'S GO TO REVELATION 22:11-12. I HAVE A NEW BIBLE. 16:37 MY WIFE AND I STARTED THE NEW YEAR'S STUDYING TOGETHER. 16:44 WE ATE SO MUCH BIBLE -- WE HAD BREAKFAST AT 4:00 IN THE 16:50 EVENING. WE CHEWED ON THE WORD OF GOD IN 16:52 THE MORNING WITH PRAYER, AT NOON-AGAIN WITH PRAYER, IN THE EVENING WHEN THE SUN WAS GOING 16:59 DOWN WITH PRAYER. WE BEGAN. 17:03 WE ENDED THE YEAR THAT WAY, AND OUR SOULS HAVE BEEN NOURISHED. 17:11 MY OTHER BIBLE IS SO MARKED UP, THAT IT'S LIKE MY WELL-TUNED 17:16 SWORD, AND SHE SAID HONEY, LET'S STAY ON THE SAME PAGE TOGETHER. 17:21 SO ARE YOU ASKING ME TO PUT MY OLD BIBLE DOWN? 17:25 DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD THAT IS? I HAVE MY NEW BIBLE AND I'M 17:34 STILL CRACKING THE PAGES. THE REWARDS THAT WE ALL RECEIVE 17:38 IS AT THE COMING OF JESUS. HE SAYS, BEHOLD AND BEHOLD I AM 17:43 COMING QUICKLY -- THE KING -- I COME QUICKLY. 17:47 AND MY REWARD IS WITH ME TO GIVE EVERYONE AK CORING TO HIS WORK. 17:54 SO WHEN HE COMES, WHAT DOES HE GIVE OUT? 17:57 >> THE REWARD. >> SO THE REWARD IS NOT AT 18:03 DEATH. OUR FATE IS SEALED AT DEATH BUT 18:05 THE REGARD DOES NOT COME UNTIL JESUS RIFE -- ARRIVES. 18:20 >> JOHN 5:28-29. MARVEL NOT AT THIS, FOR THE HOUR 18:28 IS COMING IN THE WHICH ALL THAT ARE IN THE GRAVE SHALL HEAR HIS 18:34 VOICE, AND SHALL COME FORTH. THEY EITHER HAVE DONE GOOD AND 18:42 THEY WHO HAVE DONE EVIL UNTO THE RESURRECTION OF DAMNATION. 18:50 >> BOTH ARE RECEIVING THEIR JUST DUE. 18:55 >> THAT'S RIGHT. RESURRECTION OF LIFE, RECK 19:00 RECOLLECTION OF CONDEMNATION. THE CASE IS SEALED, BUT THEY 19:03 DON'T GET THE ACTUAL APPOINTMENT. 19:06 BEHOLD, I COME FORWARD, AND MY REWARD IS WITH ME. 19:12 >> I'LL GO TO CHAPTER 6 THEN. >> OKAY. 19:17 >> JOHN 6, JESUS IS TALKING TO THOSE BEFORE HIM. 19:22 >> WHAT VERSUS? >> FOUR TIMES. 19:25 I'M GOING TO READ FOUR VERSES. >> OKAY. 19:28 HE TELLS HIM THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN. 19:32 >> OKAY. >> JOHN 6:39, AND THIS IS THE 19:36 FATHER'S WILL WHICH HAVE SENT ME THAT ALL -- THAT OF ALL THAT HE 19:42 HAS GIVEN ME, I SHOULD LOSE NOTHING, BUT SHOULD RAISE IT UP 19:47 AGAIN AT THE LAST DAY. >> LAST DAY. 19:49 >> THAT'S ONE. AND THIS IS THE WILL OF HIM THAT 19:54 SENT ME THAT EVERYONE WHO SEES THE SON SHALL -- MAY HAVE 20:01 EVER-LASTING LIFE. AND I WILL RAISE HIM UP AT THE 20:04 LAST DAY. VERSE 44. 20:09 AND I WILL RAISE HIM UP AT THE LAST DAY. 20:13 >> THAT'S THE THIRD TIME. THE FOURTH TIME, WHO SO EATEST 20:19 MY FRESH AND DRINKTH MY BLOOD, I SHALL RAISE HIM UP AT THE LAST 20:29 DAY. AND WHEN LAZARUS DIED -- 20:30 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> MARTHA AND MARY SENT SOME 20:35 PEOPLE. HEY, GO TELL THE MASTER THAT 20:40 LAZARUS -- HIM WHOM YOU LOVE IS SICK. 20:45 AND THEY CAME TO JESUS AND SAID, MASTER HIM WHOM YOU LOVE IS 20:50 SICK. MARTHA AND MARY WERE HOPING THAT 20:52 AS SOON AS JESUS HEARD THIS, HE WOULD DROP WHAT HE WAS DOING AND 20:57 GO OVER TO THE HOUSE AND HEAL LAZARUS. 21:02 BUT JESUS LINGERED THERE ANOTHER THREE OR FOUR DAYS. 21:06 AND THEN HE TELLS THE DISCIPLES, LET'S GO OVER TO LAZARUS'S 21:11 HOUSE. AND THEY SAID OUR FRIEND LAZARUS 21:17 SLEEPEST. AND THEY THOUGHT HE WAS 21:19 SLEEPING, AS OF TAKING REST. THIS IS JOHN 11. 21:23 YOU CAN READ IT. >> RIGHT. 21:24 >> AND THEN JESUS SAID TO THEM PLAINLY -- 21:27 >> 14, YEAH. >> BECAUSE THEY SAID TO HIM, 21:30 LORD IF HE IS SLEEPING, HE IS GOING TO DO WELL. 21:33 THEY ARE THINKING HE IS GOING TO HEAL, IF HE IS SLEEPING, TAKING 21:37 A REST, AND JESUS SAID LAZARUS IS DEAD, AND I AM GOING SO I CAN 21:44 RAISE HIM UP AGAIN. NOW IT'S INTERESTING -- DO YOU 21:47 HAVE THAT? >> NO, I HAVE NEVER TEXT. 21:51 >> WHEN JESUS RIVES, AND HE IS TALKING, HERE COMES MARTHA, AND 21:56 SHE SAID OH, LORD, IF ONLY YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN HERE, MY BROTHER 22:02 WOULD NOT HAVE DIED. AND JESUS SAID YOU WILL SEE 22:06 JESUS AGAIN. AND SHE SAID I KNOW I WILL SEE 22:08 HIM AGAIN AT THE LAST DAY. IT SAYS THE LAST DAY. 22:11 >> THAT'S RIGHT. JOHN 11:23, JESUS SAID YOUR 22:17 BROTHER WILL RISE AGAIN, AND MARTHA SAID I KNOW HE WILL RISE 22:22 AGAIN IN THE RESURRECTION AT THE LAST DAY. 22:25 >> SO SHE KNEW IT'S THE LAST DAY. 22:28 NOT NOW. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 22:31 >> SO THEN OF COURSE JESUS -- HE SAID THAT DEATH IS ASLEP. 22:35 HE SAID TO THEM PLAINLY LAZARUS IS DEAD. 22:40 THE BIBLE SAYS IT DOZENS OF TIMES, DEATH -- HE'S SLEEPING. 22:45 AND THEN HE SLEPT WITH HIS FATHER, AND THEY BURIED HIM. 22:51 AND THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID HE IS SLEEPING. 22:58 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> AND THERE IS ONE MORE 23:00 CHAPTER, IT SAYS IN DANA 12:1 AT THAT TIE MICHAEL SHALL STANDING 23:06 UP, THE GREAT PRINCE WHO STANDINGS WATCH OVER YOUR PEOPLE 23:09 AND THERE SHLL BE A TIME OF TROUBLE SUCH AS NEVER WAS, AND 23:13 MATTHEW 24, EVEN TO THAT TIME, AND AT THAT TIME, YOUR PEOPLE 23:17 SHALL BE DELIVERED. EVERYONE WHO WAS FOUND WRITTEN 23:20 IN THE BOOK, AND MANY OF THOSE VERSUS 2, DANIEL 12, AND MANY 23:27 SHALL AWAKE SOME TO EVER-LASTING LIFE, AND SOME TO SHAME AND 23:32 EVER-LASTING CONTEMPT. THIS IDEA OF TWO RECK 23:41 RECOLLECTIONS. AND REVELATIONS 22 AS WELL. 23:43 >> THAT'S RIGHT. AND THE REWARDING FACTOR IS WHAT 23:46 COMES WHEN JESUS RETURNS. THE UNFORTUNATE REALITY IS 23:50 PEOPLE THINK WELL -- IT BECOMES DISHEARTENING AT TIMES, BECAUSE 23:55 THIS IDEA IS SO PROLIFERATED BY THE MEDIA. 23:59 IT WAS SAD WHEN WHITNEY HOUSTON DIED A FEW YEARS AGO, AND HER 24:04 DAUGHTER NOT TOO LONG AFTER THAT DIED, AND THEY SAID AT LEAST 24:09 SHE'S WITH HER MOM NOW. AND I SAW A YOUNG MAN TOOK HIS 24:13 LIFE, AND HIS GIRLFRIEND SAID AT LEAST HE IS WITH HIS UNCLE NOW. 24:17 SO WE HAE THIS IDEA THAT IF YOU TAKE YOUR LIFE, AND I HAVE TOLD 24:23 THE STORY OF A YOUNG SPANISH MAN IN CALIFORNIA, THEY WERE A 24:28 FAMILY OF FIVE, AND THEY WERE VERY, VERY POOR. 24:35 AND HE -- HE TOOK THE LIFE OF ALL OF HIS FAMILY. 24:39 HIS GRANDMOTHER, HIS WIFE, HIS TWO CHILDREN. 24:44 THEN HE WROTE A NOTE AND TOOK HIS OWN LIFE. 24:47 AND HE WADE -- SAID WE ARE ALL AT PEACE, WE ARE HAPPY AND ALL 24:56 IN HEAVEN. AND THE SAD MISCONCEPTION LEAD 25:00 PEOPLE TO MAKE AWFUL DECISIONS. WHEN OUR HOPE IS IN THE SECOND 25:06 COMING OF JESUS. >> WE READ A PASSAGE THAT ALSO 25:12 ILLUSTRATES THIS AGAIN. HE SAYS BUT I WOULD NOT HAVE YOU 25:15 TO BE IGNORANT, BROTHER CONCERNING THOSE THAT ARE 25:21 ASLEEP. IF WE BELIEF THAT JESUS DIED AND 25:25 ROSE AGAIN, EVEN THOSE WHICH ALSO SLEEP IN JESUS, GOD WILL 25:29 BRING WITH HIM. SO IF YOU CONTINUE READING, IT 25:33 SAYS THAT CHRIST WILL RISE FIRST. 25:35 THIS IS WHEN CHRIST RETURNS. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 25:38 VERY, VERY GOOD POINT. THE DEAD IN CHRIST WILL RIE 25:44 FIRST. >> WE'RE CONTRASTING A COMMONLY 25:47 HELD VIEW OF THE RAPTURE. IF JESUS IS TALKING ABOUT DEAD 25:54 BODIES RISING OUT OF THE GROUND, I ASSURE YOU THIS WILL NOT BE A 26:00 SECRET EVENT. IT SAYS HE IS GOING TO COME WITH 26:03 A TRUMP -- TRUMPET, DEAD PEOPLE ARE COMING OUT OF THE GROUND. 26:12 IF THIS THING CAN BE KEPT A SECRET, WE MUST ALL HAVE VIRTUAL 26:19 REALITY GLASSES ON. IT'S NOT POSSIBLE FROM THE WAY 26:23 THE SCRIPTURE EXPLAINS IT THA IT WILL BE AN EVENT THAT NOT 26:30 EVERYONE WILL SEE. IN FACT IT SAYS EVERY EYE SHALL 26:35 SEE. HEAVEN ITSELF IS EMPTY, AND THE 26:38 ANGELS ARE DOING WITH JESUS. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 26:41 >> AND I ASSURE YOU NO ONE IS STAYING BACK IN HEAVEN. 26:47 >> YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED THINGS TO HAPPEN FOR 26:53 THOSE THAT BELIEVE IN JESUS IS ANY SECOND COMING. 26:56 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> AND ONE OF THE LONG-FOR 27:01 THINGS FOR HEAVEN IS FOR GOD TO PUT AN END TO SUFFERING AND SIN. 27:05 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> SO FOR THAT TO BE A SECRET, 27:09 THAT'S NOT A SECRET. GOD IS SO HAPPY THAT THE TIME 27:13 HAS COME, THAT IT -- IT'S A GLORIOUS SCENE. 27:18 WE DIDN'T READ THOSE SCRIPTURES -- THERE ARE MANY 27:23 SCRIPTURES THAT TALK ABOUT AS THE LIGHTNING FROM THE EAST TO 27:26 THE WEST, AND THE TRUMPET SOUNDING, THERE'S LITERALLY NO 27:31 SECRET ABOUT WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN. 27:33 GOD WANTS IT TO BE KNOWN, I'M COMING FOR MY CHILDREN, AND THE 27:38 WHOLE WORLD WILL TAKE NOTICE THAT THE TIME HAS COME FOR THE 27:45 DELIVERANCE. >> AND THE LIGHTNING COMES FROM 27:47 THE EAST AND FLASHES TO THE WEST, SO ALSO SHALL THE COMING 27:52 OF THE LORD BE. MATTHEW 24, 27. 27:57 THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IS HIGHLY VISIBLE. 28:00 EVEN WHEN YOU CLOSE YOUR EYES YOU SEE LIGHTNING STRIKES. 28:04 SO EVEN IF SOEONE HAPPENED TO BLINK, AND IT WAS THAT FAST, 28:07 THEY ARE STILL GOING TO RECOGNIZE IT. 28:09 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> WE'RE NOT TRYING TO BE 28:13 DISRESPECTFUL TO THE PEOPLE THAT BELIEVE AT THIS POINT -- IN THE 28:18 SECRET RAPTURE, BUT WE'RE SHINING A LIGHT -- 28:20 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> -- TO SAY THAT WHEN JESUS 28:24 CHRIST COMES, IT IS NOT GOING TO BE A SECRET. 28:27 HE IS SO HAPPY THAT THE TIME HAS COME, THE WORD HAS TO KNOW IT. 28:31 >> YEAH. >> AND WE -- WE WANT TO 28:34 ENCOURAGE YOU TO BELIEVE WHAT THE SCRIPTURES SAY. 28:37 >> YEAH. AND LISTEN TO PSALMS 50:3. 28:43 >> THERE ARE TWO MORE VERSUSES IN MATTHEW. 28:51 MANY PEOPLE WILL TRY TO TAKE TEXT WRITTEN BY PAUL TO PAINT A 28:56 PICTURE OF THE SECOND COMING. THEN THE SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN 29:02 WILL BE SEEN IN HEAVEN, AND THEY WILL SEE THE SON OF MAN COMING 29:06 ON THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN WITH POWER IN GREAT GLORY, AND HE 29:10 WILL SEND HIS ANGELS WITH THE GREAT SOUND OF THE TRUMPET. 29:17 SO JESUS IS IMPLORING PHYSICAL LANGUAGE AS WELL. 29:21 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> AND JUST TO EXPLAIN THE WAY 29:24 THAT HE PORTRAYS IT, THE WAY THAT JESUS EXPLAINS IT, CONFIRMS 29:33 THE WAY THAT PAUL EXPLAINED IT, AND IT'S HARD TO COME UP WITH 29:39 ANY OTHER -- >> ANY OTHER INTERPRETATION. 29:41 >> YES. >> THE SECOND COMING IS ONE OF 29:44 THE MOST REPEATED AND DISCHIROPRACTORED SCENES IN THE 29:51 SCRIPTURES. PSALMS 50:3. 29:57 OUR GOD SHALL COME. AND SHALL NOT KEEP SILENT. 30:02 A FIRE SHALL DEVOUR BEFORE HIM. AND IT SHALL BE VERY TEMP 30:09 PESTOUS ALL AROUND HIM. VERSUS 4, HE SHALL CALL FROM 30:19 HEAVENS AND GATHER HIS PEOPLE. GATHER MY SAINTS TOGETHER WITH 30:27 ME. LET THE HEAVENS DECLARE HIS 30:32 RIGHTEOUSNESS, FOR GOD HIMSELF HAS JUDGED. 30:33 SO WHEN THE LORD COMES BACK, HE IS NOT COMING BACK SILENT. 30:38 THINK ABOUT IT, WHN NEW YEAR'S EVE CAME FIVE DAYS AGO, IT 30:43 WASN'T SILENT. WE BROUGHT THE NEW YEARS IN 30:46 TOGETHER HERE AT CHURCH ON OUR KNEES. 30:50 WE PRAYED AND SANG SONGS TOGETHER. 30:52 BUT WHEN I SAW IT AT MIDNIGHT HERE IN ILLINOIS CENTRAL TIME, 30:56 I'M FROM NEW YORK, SO I LOOKED AT THE -- FIVE, FOUR, THREE, 31:03 TWO, ONE, ♪ SHOULD ALD ACQUAINTANCE ♪ 31:11 >> AND THE WHOLE THING. AND THEN THEY SAID WE'RE GOING 31:13 TO DO THIS AGAIN FOR THE CENTRAL TIME ZONE. 31:17 THEN THEY SAID NOW WHAT WE DID EARLIER TODAY IS WE ARE GOING TO 31:21 SHOW YOU ALL OF THE PLACE AROUND THE WORLD THAT CELEBRATED THE 31:25 NEW YEAR LONG BEFORE US. THEY BEGAN IN AUSTRALIA. 31:28 THEY WENT TO DUBAI. THEY WENT TO CHINA. 31:32 THEY WENT TO BRAZIL. THEY WENT ALL AROUND -- THEY 31:36 FOLLOWED THE CLOCK AROUND THE WORLD, AND THEN -- AND THEN YOU 31:39 READ THE TEXT. BEHOLD HE COMETH WILL CLOUDS AND 31:43 EVERY EYE WILL SEE HIM. THE REASON I BROUGHT THIS UP IS 31:48 PEOPLE SAY, HOW COULD EVERY EYE SEE JESUS AT THE SAME TIME? 31:52 THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION. BUT AS HE SAYS AS THE LIGHTNING 31:57 FLASHES IN THE EAST UNTO THE WEST -- NOW LET'S DO MATH. 32:04 LIGHTNING TRAVELS AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT. 32:09 THE CIRCUMFERENCE OF THE EARTH -IS 24,000 MILES. 24,000 -- 32:14 >> YOU HAVE DONE THIS BEFORE HAVEN'T YOU? 32:17 >> SO THE LIGHTNING CAN SURROUND THE EARTH IN .6 OF A SECOND. 32:25 SURROUND THE EARTH IN .6 OF -- NOT EVEN A SECOND. 32:30 SO GO TO REVELATION -- DO YOU HAVE A TEXT YOU WANT TO GO TO 32:34 BEFORE I GO TO REVELATION? GO TO REVELATION 6. 32:38 IF THE EARTH CAN BE WRAPPED BY ONE STRIKE OF LIGHTNING 32:43 TRAVELING AT THAT SPEED IN .6 OF A SECOND, HOW VISIBLE WILL THE 32:48 COMING OF THE LORD BE. REVELATION 6, AND WE'RE GOING TO 32:53 LOOK DOWN AT -- OH, LET'S SEE, VERSE 14, AND GO DOWN TO VERSE 33:03 17. WHO READ LAST? 33:03 >> I READ LAST. >> OKAY. 33:06 DEE WOULD YOU READ THAT FOR US. >> AND THE SKY RECEIVED IT AS A 33:10 SCROLL WHEN IT IS ROLLED UP, AND EVERY ISLAND AND MOUNTAIN WAS 33:14 MOVED OUT OF ITS PLACE. AND THE KINGS OF THE EARTH, THE 33:18 GREAT MEN, EVERY SLAVE, AND EVERY FREE MAN, HID THEMSELVES 33:21 IN THE CAVES AND IN THE ROCKS OF THE MOUNTAINS. 33:24 AND SAID TO THE MOUNTAINS AND ROCKS, FALL ON US AND HIDE US 33:29 FROM THE FACE OF HIM WHO SITS ON THE THROWN AND FROM THE WRATH OF 33:33 THE LAMB. FOR THE GREAT DAY OF HIS WRATH 33:36 HAS COME, AND WHO IS ABLE TO STAND? 33:39 >> WOW. SO WHAT DID THE DISCIPLES DO 33:43 DFSH >> THEY FELL IN THEIR FACES. 33:45 >> FELL ON THEIR FACES. SAME REACTION WHEN JESUS COMES 33:49 AGAIN. THE SKY WILL RECEIVE AS A SCROLL 33:51 WHEN IT IS ROLLED TOGETHER. WE DON'T USE THE WORD SCROLL 33:56 TODAY, BUT AS IT'S ROLLED OUT, IT ROLLS UP. 33:58 SO THE SKIES ARE GOING TO PART. AND THE EARTH IS GOING TO ROCK, 34:04 ISAIAH SAID LIKE A DRUNKEN MAN. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 34:08 >> AND THEN THERE IS GOING TO BE AN EARTHQUAKE SO MIGHTY AND 34:13 GREAT AS HAS NOT BEEN. SO THE WHOLE IDEA OF THE SECRET 34:18 RAPTURE IS JUST NOT SUPPORTED BY SCRIPTURE. 34:21 >> IT'S NOT. >> WE HAVE SOME QUESTIONS. 34:23 HERE IS ONE. I JUST WANTED TO PARTICIPATE. 34:26 THANK YOU, JOHN. I WON'T GIVE THE LAST NAME. 34:30 I JUST WANTED TO PARTICIPATE BY SAYING THAT I BELIEVE THAT WE 34:34 ARE RIGHT IN BETWEEN MATTHEW 24:8, AND MATTHEW 24:9. 34:41 LET'S LOOK AT THAT. OH, I KNOW EXACTLY. 34:43 WE ASKED WHEN IS THE CHANGE GOING TO HAPPEN? 34:46 VERY GOOD. THIS IS A VERY GOOD POINT YOU 34:49 MADE TO BRING US BACK ON TRACK. BECAUSE I SAID IN THE FIRST 34:56 HOUR -- READ THAT FOR US. >> ALL OF THESE ARE THE 35:00 BEGINNING OF SORROWS, THEN SHALL THEY DELIVER YOU UP TO BE 35:06 AFFLICTED AND SHALL KILL YOU, AND YOU SHALL BEHEAD ALL NATIONS 35:10 FOR MY NAME'S SAKE. >> VERY, VERY GOOD OBSERVATION. 35:14 SO WE ARE BETWEEN THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS, AND THE PEOPLE OF 35:18 GOD BEING DELIVERED UP. AND WHAT -- WHAT DOES DANIEL 35:23 REFER TO THAT AS? THE TIME OF -- 35:25 >> MICHAEL STANDING UP. >> YEAH, MICHAEL STA 35:30 STACKED -- STANDING UP. BUT NOW HERE THIS IS NOT THE 35:35 TIME THAT JESUS STANDS UP AND DELIVERS HIS PEOPLE. 35:40 THIS IS THE TIME SHORTLY BEFORE THAT. 35:41 THE BEGINNING OF -- WHEN THE TABLE TURNS FROM THE WARS, THE 35:47 EARTHQUAKES THE FAMINE, THE PESTILENCE, TO THE TIME THAT THE 35:54 PEOPLE OF GOD ARE CALLED TO BE MARTYRS. 35:57 >> THEN IT SAYS MANY FALSE PROPHETS WILL RISE UP -- AND 36:02 THIS IS SUPER IMPORTANT BECAUSE THERE IS GOING TO BE A FANTASTIC 36:05 FORGERY THAT TAKES PLACE OF WHAT SEEMS TO BE JESUS AROUND THE 36:11 EARTH. AND JESUS -- MATTHEW 23 SAYS, IF 36:15 ANYONE SAYS TO YOU LOOK HERE IS THE CHRIST OR THERE, DO NOT 36:19 BELIEVE IT. I HAVE TO BE SO CLEAR TO MAKE 36:22 SURE THAT PEOPLE -- IF THEY DON'T REMEMBER ANYTHING I SAY, 36:26 PLEASE REMEMBER THIS, IF ANYONE SAYS THEY ARE JESUS, DO NOT 36:30 BELIEVE HIM. JESUS HIMSELF SAID THAT. 36:33 AND THEN VERSUS 10, AND THEN MANY WILL BE OFFENDED BETRAY ONE 36:39 ANOTHER AND HATE ONE ANOTHER, AND BECAUSE LAWLESSNESS ABOUNDS 36:46 THE -- HE WHO ENDURES TO THE END SHALL BE SAVED. 36:51 THERE IS A CALL TO ALL SEVEN CHURCHES -- YOU SEE IT IN THE 36:57 SEVEN CHURCHES IN REVELATION. AND THEN THIS GOSPEL OF THE 37:01 KINGDOM WILL BE PREACHED AND ALL OF THE WORLD AS A WITNESS TO ALL 37:04 OF THE NATIONS AND THEN THE END WILL COM. 37:06 SO WE EVEN HAVE MARCHING ORDERS HERE. 37:10 WE HAVE A LANDSCAPE. JESUS GIVES US INFORMATION NOT 37:13 JUST TO BETTER INFORM OURSELVES, BUT THERE IS ALSO MARCHING 37:16 ORDERS HERE IN MATTHEW 24. NOT JUST HERE IS WHAT YOU NEED 37:20 TO LOOK FOR, IT'S TIME TO SAVE YOURSELF. 37:23 HE SAYS HERE IS WHAT YOU NEED TO BE LOOKING FOR, AND THIS IS THE 37:27 MAIN FULCRUM THAT SHOWS THAT THINGS ARE REALLY GOING TO END 37:30 WHEN THERE'S A PEOPLE OF GOD WHO TAKES THE GOSPEL SERIOUSLY, AND 37:36 WHOM THE GOSPEL COMPELS THEM TO SHARE. 37:38 ALL OF THE WORLD KNOWS THIS VERY INC. 37:43 AND CHAPTER 10 WAS TO PROPHESIZE TO THESE PEOPLE. 37:52 >> THAT'S RIGHT. SO -- I LIKE THE GEE 37:59 -- GEOMETRIC PICTURE YOU JUST PAINTED WHERE IT'S ALL DOWNHILL 38:03 FROM HERE. AND WHAT DOES IT MEAN THAT THE 38:06 FINAL MOVEMENTS WILL BE RAPID ONES. 38:09 THAT'S WHAT SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT. 38:12 AS OF IN THE DAY OF NOAH, SO SHALL IT WILL BE IN THE DAYS OF 38:20 MAN. >> THE WAY I WOULD EXPLAIN THAT. 38:23 IT'S KIND OF LIKE WHEN SOMEONE IS BUILDING A HOUSE AND THEY LAY 38:26 THE FOUNDATION. IN THAT SOUND WORK TAKES THE 38:29 MOST TIME, BUT ONCE THE FOUNDATION IS LAID, AND THAT IS 38:33 HAPPENING GOVERNMENTALLY, SOCIALLY, AND OTHERWISE RIGHT 38:38 NOW, WHEN THAT GROUND WORK IS LAID, THE EXTERIOR HAPPENS QUITE 38:48 QUICKLY. BUT LAYING THE GROUND WORK IS 38:51 WHAT TAKES THE MOST AMOUNT OF TIME. 38:54 THIS IS WHY HE SAY IT COMES UPON YOU LIKE A THIEF. 38:59 YOU GO ON VACATION AND YOU COME BACK AND THE HOUSE IS BUILT, AND 39:04 YOU SAY HOW DID THAT HAPPEN? THAT'S WHAT IS HAPPENING EVEN 39:08 RIGHT NOW. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 39:10 YOU KNOW, IT'S POWERFUL TO BE ABLE TO LOOK BACK ON THESE 39:14 THINGS. YOU THINK OF DANIEL 2, THAT 39:17 TALKS ABOUT FOUR WORLD KINGDOMS. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 39:20 >> THAT HAS ALREADY HAPPENED. >> WE'RE IN THE LAST KINGDOM. 39:23 >> WE'RE AT THE LAST KINGDOM. WE'RE TALKING PROPHETICALLY. 39:30 >> PROPHETICALLY. >> AND THEY SAY OH, THAT'S 39:34 RIGHT. THE STATUTE, AND THEY KNOW. 39:36 SO YOU HAVE SEEN THE KINGDOM. BABYLON, PERSIA, GREECE, ROME -- 39:42 >> THAT'S RIGHT. THE TEN DIVIDED NATIONS. 39:45 AND ROME IS IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT. 39:48 >> AND ROME IS IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT. 39:50 AND WHEN YOU THINK OF REVELATION 13 -- 39:53 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> WE SEE THESE THINGS, LIKE YOU 39:56 SAID, THE FRAMEWORK IS BEING LAID. 39:59 AND WE'RE JUST UPON THE PRECIPUS, WHEN YOU GET TO THE 40:04 PRECIPUS YOU START GOING DOWN FAST, AND THE FINAL MOVEMENTS 40:09 WILL BE RAPID ONES. BECAUSE EVERYTHING HAS BEEN 40:12 LAID. THINGS HAVE BEEN GOING ON BEHIND 40:15 THE SCENES. THERE IS AN ACCEPTANCE -- I'M 40:18 GOING TO TALK IN GENERAL TERMS. WE UNDERSTAND THAT A DEADLY 40:22 WOUND WAS GIVE TO A POWER CALLED THE LITTLE HORN 40:27 IDENTIFIED IN REVELATION 13 AS WELL, AND THERE'S INFORMATION IN 40:32 REVELATION 14 AS WELL, AND THIS POWER, THAT WE UNDERSTAND WAS 40:35 THE PAPACY. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 40:38 >> THE DEADLY WOUND IN 1798. AND THERE HAS BEEN A HEALING 40:43 PROCESS TAKING PLACE. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 40:47 >> AND NOW YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE LEADER OF THAT 40:51 MOVEMENT GOES ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. 40:55 >> RIGHT, THE POPE TO BE VERY CANDID ABOUT IT. 41:02 >> THAT'S RIGHT. ANY OTHER RELIGIOUS LEADER GOES 41:05 TO ANY COUNTRY. HE GOES IN. 41:07 GOES THROUGH CHECKING. PICKS UP HIS LUGGAGE, GOES TO 41:11 WHERE HE HAS TO GO. AND THEN HE LEAVES, AND NO 41:20 NEWSPAPERS -- >> THAT'S RIGHT. 41:22 >> BUT THE POPE GETS TO A COUNTRY -- BEFORE HE EVEN 41:26 LEAVES, IT'S A ALREADY -- HE IS GOING TO SUCH AND SUCH OF 41:30 COUNTRY, AND THE BIBLE SAYS THE WORLD WANDERS AFTER THE BEAST. 41:37 AND THERE ARE SO MANY IDENTIFYING MARKS THAT POINT IN 41:39 THAT DIRECTION, THAT IT'S DIFFICULT TO IGNORE THE KRIP 41:46 SCRIPTURES. IT'S DIFFICULT TO SAY THAT 41:47 CANNOT BE. THIS IS A MISUNDERSTANDING 41:51 CONCERNING THIS. BECAUSE THEY THINK IT IS THIS 41:55 VERY CHARISMATIC PERSON THAT WILL BE LIKE IN THE UNITED 42:00 NATIONS. BUT THE BIBLE SAYS A WOMAN, A 42:02 CHURCH, RIDES THE BEAST, WHICH IS WORLDLY KINGDOM, WORDILY 42:08 POWER, AND THE ONLY DESCRIPTION -- THE ONLY POWER 42:11 THAT FITS THIS DESCRIPTION IS THE VATICAN. 42:16 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> AND THAT TIME LINE CONTINUES 42:20 IN REVELATION 18 A WARNING IS GIVEN THAT THIS KINGDOM IS GOING 42:26 DOWN. AND GOD IS WARNING, TO SHOW THAT 42:32 WE'RE NOT SAVED BY WHAT WE DO OR THE WORKS THAT WE PERFORM. 42:35 WE ARE ONLY SAVED BECAUSE OF THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST. 42:41 REVELATION 18, REVELATION 19 SHOWS THE NEXT THING THAT 42:44 HAPPENS IS THAT CHRIST COMES AND DESTROYS THIS POWER. 42:47 SO AS FAR AS THE TIME LINE THAT YOU HAVE, MORE DETAILS ARE GIVEN 42:51 IN OTHER TEXT. DANIEL 7, DANIEL 8, DANIEL 11, 42:58 BUT THEN REVELATION 17, 18, AND 19, IT SHOWS THAT KINGDOM IS 43:04 INDEED GOING TO GO DOWN. AND IT'S CHRIST'S COMING THAT 43:08 PUTS AN END TO THAT VERY POWER. IF IT'S ALREADY REIGNING WITH A 43:14 TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF POWER, THE ONLY THING THAT IS LEFT 43:18 PROPHETICALLY TO HAPPEN, IS THAT STONE FROM HEAVEN TO SMASH THIS 43:22 THING TO BITS, AND THE GAME IS OVER. 43:25 >> AND WHEN HE LOOK AT THE CLIMATE NOW, WARS, PESTILENCE, 43:30 FIRES, FLOOD, TERRORISM, -UNTHANKFUL, UNHOLY, CORRUPTION, PORNOGRAPHY, BROKEN HOMES, 43:40 BROKEN MARRIAGES, JUST THE LIST -- YOUR HEAD WILL EXPLODE. 43:46 THAT'S ALL OF THE VITAL SIGNS. AND THEN YOU HAVE EARTHQUAKES 43:49 AND FAMINES, AND PESTILENCE, AND DISEASE, AND THE NATIONS ARE 43:54 WITHOUT REST, AND THEN YOU HAVE THE INSTABILITY IN POLITICS, AND 43:59 CLIMATE, WHETHER IT IS CLIMATE CONTROLLED OR NOT, WHETHER 44:02 THERE'S GLOBAL WARMING OR NOT. IT'S STRANGE TO HAVE 70 DEGREES 44:06 ONE DAY, AND 52 IN THE MIDDLE OF-DECEMBER. CREATION ITSELF IS GROWNING TO 44:12 BE DELIVERED. AND THEN YOU HAVE THE PROPHETIC 44:16 TIMETABLE. THE FOUR NATIONS. 44:18 FRIENDS WE ARE LIVING IN THE LAST -- THE TOES OF THE IMAGE OF 44:21 DANIEL 2. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 44:24 >> DANIEL 7 ALL INDICATING THE POWER OF ROME IN THE AFFAIRS OF 44:28 THE LAST DAYS, AND ANYBODY WHO IS POLITICALLY AWAKE KNOWS THERE 44:32 IS NO POWER ON THE EARTH OTHER THAN THE POPE OF ROME -- MY 44:38 FAMILY IS PREDOMINANTLY CATHOLIC, SO I'M TIPTOEING 44:43 THROUGH THE TULIPS, BUT I HAVE TO WARN MY FAMILY.-NOBODY HAS THE ADMIRATION THAN 44:51 THE LEADER OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. 44:54 THEN YOU ADD TO THAT THE UNITED STATES AND THE PROPHECY. 45:00 YOU HAVE PROTESTANT AMERICA PUSHING TO JOIN WITH ROME. 45:03 SO WHEN YOU FINALLY GET THE WHOLE PICTURE TOGETHER. 45:08 THE FINAL MOVEMENTS WILL BE RAPID ONES. 45:10 >> THAT'S RIGHT. THAT'S RIGHT. 45:12 YOU KNOW WHEN -- WHEN YOU LOOK AT THESE THINGS, AND LIKE I SAID 45:16 BEFORE, YOU CAN SEE THAT PROPHECY HAS BEEN FULFILLED. 45:19 THERE'S A LINE THAT SAYS -- YOU CAN LOOK BACK AND SAY, WOW, LOOK 45:24 AT ALL OF THESE THINGS I HAVE HAPPEN. 45:27 TO REVELATION 13 IS UPON US, THE FINAL STEPS OF REVELATION 13 AND 45:32 THEN 14 ARE COMING -- ARE COMING TO PASS. 45:34 WE ARE LIVING IN THE TIME WHEN WE ARE SEEING THESE THINGS JUST 45:39 COMING TOGETHER, COMING TOGETHER. 45:42 WE HAD -- WE HAD THE POPE ADDRESS THE UNITED NATIONS IN 45:47 2016. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 45:48 >> WHEN IN HISTORY -- >> AND CONGRESS. 45:50 >> AND CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES. 45:53 AND THE UNITED STATES CAME TO BEING AS A PROTESTANT NATION. 45:59 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> THE PEOPLE THAT CAME HERE 46:01 FROM EUROPE CAME HERE BECAUSE THEY WERE GETTING AWAY FROM THAT 46:07 CONTROL AND THAT -- I ALMOST SAID THE WORD DICTATORSHIP, BUT 46:11 THAT TYPE OF RELIGIOUS CONTROL THAT WAS OVER THERE, HERE TO BE 46:16 ABLE TO WORSHIP GOD IN LIBERTY. AND NOW THERE'S THIS -- THIS 46:20 COMING TOGETHER, THAT APPARENTLY SEEMS NICE. 46:24 >> THIS WAS UNHEARD OF IN KENNEDY'S DAY. 46:27 THIS WAS ABSOLUTELY NOT POSSIBLE. 46:29 AND SO YOU WONDER, HOW DO WE KNOW THE LAST MOVEMENTS WILL BE 46:35 RAPID ONES, IF THIS KIND OF THING IS HAPPENING, AND NO ONE 46:40 IS .ING TO IT, ONE HAS TO THINK THERE IS ENOUGH THINGS GOING ON 46:43 HERE THAT HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR THE LAST 30 YEARS, WITH THE COLD 46:48 WAR IN THE LATE '80S AND '90S, AND OTHERWISE THINGS HAVE MOVED 46:54 QUITE QUICKLY FOR THE REDEMPTION THAT THIS POWER HAD BACK IN THE 46:59 DARK AGES. IT HAS BEEN UNCANNY FOR IT TO 47:04 HAPPEN THIS QUICKLY. THINGS THAT WERE TOTALLY UNHEARD 47:08 OF ARE NOW, YEAH, IT HAPPENS. >> YEAH, AND IT HAPPENED IN 47:12 AMERICA IN A COUNTRY THAT ACCORDING TO THE CONSTITUTION WE 47:18 SHALL NOT FAVOR ONE RELIGIOUS POWER. 47:21 AND AN AMBASSADOR WAS SENT TO THE VATICAN IN REAGAN'S RULE, AN 47:29 AMBASSADOR WAS SENT TO MAINTAIN A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE TWO. 47:34 AND THERE IS NO AMBASSADOR TO ANY OTHER CHURCH. 47:39 ONLY THIS POWER. BIBLE PROPHECY HAS PREDICTED 47:42 THIS. I WANT TO READ AN EMAIL FROM 47:47 PASTOR CA MURRAY. HE SAYS WATCHING YOU FROM 47:53 PAJAMA. SORRY, WATCHING YOU FROM PANAMA. 47:57 I SAID PAJAMA, SORRY. WATCHING YOU FROM PANAMA. 48:01 GREAT JOB ON A VITAL -- PERHAPS THE MOST VITAL OF OUR TIME, JUST 48:07 RETURNED HOME FROM THE FUNEAL OF MY BROTHER-IN-LAW. 48:14 IRMA AND FAMILY ARE HOLDING ON TO THEIR FAITH IN THE LORD. 48:17 WE HAVE HOPE IN JESUS CHRIST, BLESSINGS TO YOU. 48:28 HOW COULD I GET PANAMA AND PAJAMA MIXED UP -- WE ARE NOT 48:34 GOING TO HANDLE THIS IN A LIGHT WAY, BUT THIS IS A SAD TIME FOR 48:38 OUR DEAR PASTOR AND HIS WIFE, AND HIS FAMILY THERE IN PANAMA. 48:43 OUR PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU. AND WE DO HAVE HOPE IN OUR 48:48 BLESSED LORD JESUS CHRIST. WHAT A VITAL TOPIC. 48:51 I WANT YOU TO TURN TO 2 THESSALONIANS 2. 48:57 THIS TEXT, THE QUESTION WAS BROUGHT UP, WHAT OTHER AVENUE 49:03 THAN PRAYER DO WE HAVE TO COMMUNICATE WITH OUR HEAVENLY 49:09 FATHER. THIS IS A PASSAGE THAT TALKS 49:13 ABOUT THOSE WHO IGNORE THE OBVIOUS SIGNS OF THE SECOND 49:17 COMING OF JESUS. VERSE 10. 49:25 >> DO YOU WANT TO READ 9 FOR CONTEXT. 49:29 >> YEAH. DO YOU WANT TO DO THAT ONE, DEE. 49:31 >> THE COMIG OF THE [ INAUDIBLE ] ONE IS ACCORDING 49:33 TO THE WORKING OF SATAN WITH ALL POWER AND WONDERS, AND WITH 49:42 UPRIGHTOUS DECEPTION. BECAUSE THEY DID NOT RECEIVE THE 49:45 LOVE OF THE TRUTH THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED. 49:48 AND FOR THIS REASON, GOD WILL SEND THEM STRONG DELUSION THAT 49:52 THEY SHOULD BELIEVE THE LIE THAT THEY ALL MAY BE CONDEMNED WHO 49:57 DID NOT BELIEVE THE TRUTH BUT WHO HAD PLEASURE IN UPR 50:04 UPRUPR UPRIGHT -- UNDERRIGHTEOUSNESS. 50:12 >> WE TALKED ABOUT PROPHECY THAT YOU CAN SEE HAPPENING. 50:19 RIGHT IN THE SAME CHAPTER, I'M GOING TO GO BACK A F FEW VERSES 50:29 BEFORE. VERSE 3. 50:30 LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU -- DOES THAT RING A BELL -- 50:35 >> FOR THAT DAY SHALL NOT COME, EXCEPT THERE COME A FALLING AWAY 50:40 FIRST, AND THAT MAN OF SON BE REVEALED WHO OPPOSES AND 50:50 EXSOUGHTS HIMSELF ABOVE ALL THAT IS CALLED GOD, SO THAT HE SITS 50:54 IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD, SHOWING HIMSELF THAT HE IS GOD. 51:01 REMEMBER I TOLD YOU THESE THINGS. 51:04 AND NOW YOU KNOW WHAT HE MIGHT BE REVEALED IN THIS TIME. 51:07 FOR THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY NOW WORK. 51:14 AND THEN SHALL THAT WICKED BE REVEALED, NOW NOTICE, WHOM THE 51:20 LORD SHALL CONSUME WITH THE SPIRIT OF HIS MOUTH AND THE 51:24 BRIGHTNESS OF HIS COMING. >> THAT IS REVELATION 19. 51:29 >> YES. THE SECOND COMING COULD NOT COME 51:32 UNTIL THERE IS A FALLING AWAY. CHRISTIANITY SEEMS TO HAVE 51:38 FALLEN INTO AN ERA OF DARKNESS. >> LUKEWARMNESS. 51:43 >> LUKEWARMNESS. AND THEN YOU READ REVELATION 12, 51:46 AND YOU UNDERSTAND THAT THE DRAGON WAS ROUGH WITH THE WOMAN 51:50 AND WENT TO MAKE WAR WITH THE REMNANT OF HIS SEED. 51:57 THERE WAS A DIVIDING OF TIME, IT WAS MENTIONED TWICE, 42 MONTHS 52:03 IS MENTIONED AS WELL. 1,260 YEARS, THE DARKAGES. 52:12 THIS IS PAST HISTORY. AND THE [ INAUDIBLE ] WAS 52:16 REVEALED AND WILL BE REVEALED AGAIN. 52:18 IT SAYS THERE WAS A DEADLY WOUND WHEN THE ROMAN GENERAL -- NOT 52:22 THE ROMAN GENERAL -- >> FRENCH GENERAL. 52:25 >> FRENCH GENERAL WENT, MARCHED INTO THE VATICAN AND TOOK THE 52:30 POPE CAPTIVE. NO LONGER IN POWER. 52:32 NO LONGER ABLE TO CONTROL AND DICTATE. 52:35 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> AS IN THE PAST. 52:38 BUT -- MUSSOLINI, 1928 -- >> 29. 52:42 >> 29. BEGAN A PROCESS THAT IS NOW 52:46 GROWING, AND GAVE THE VATICAN BACK SOME POWER AND SOME LAND, 52:51 AND ONCE AGAIN, I SEE YOU HAVE YOUR HAND READY -- 52:57 >> GO FOR IT. >> JUST THE LANGUAGE THAT PAUL 53:04 USES IS VERY INTERESTING. THE MAN OF SIN AND THEY SEEM TO 53:10 BE AGAINST GOD. BUT THERE IS ONLY ONE OTHER TIME 53:12 IN ALL OF THE BIBLE, IN THE PRAYER OF JESUS IN JOHN 17, OF 53:17 ALL THAT YOU HAVE GIVEN ME, NONE HAVE BEEN LOST, EXCEPT ONE, THAT 53:22 THE SCRIPTURES MIGHT BE FULFILLED. 53:24 SO SOMEONE WHO WAS IN THE FOLD, WHO WAS WITHIN THE CHRISTIAN 53:29 STRUCTURE, WALKING IN LIGHT, LEFT LIGHT. 53:31 THEY LEFT THE CHURCH. THEY FELL AWAY. 53:33 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> SAME THING IN 2 THESSALONIANS 53:38 2. A SYSTEM THAT WAS NOT CORRUPT, 53:41 BECAME CORRUPT. SOMEONE THAT WAS -- ONE WHO WAS 53:44 PART OF THE 12 AND LEFT THE 12. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 53:47 >> THAT LANGUAGE IS VERY INTENTIONAL BY PAUL TO MAKE IT 53:54 CLEAR THAT THIS IS NOT SOME INDIVIDUAL. 53:59 THIS IS SPECIFICALLY REFERRING TO A SPIRITUAL INDIVIDUAL. 54:07 >> THAT'S ANOTHER TOPIC FOR ANOTHER DAY. 54:10 I MEAN THIS IS A VERY POWERFUL TOPIC WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 54:14 TONIGHT. AND AS YOU KNOW, THE SEC COMING 54:17 OF JESUS IS THE MOST EARTH-CHANGING, EARTH SHATTERING 54:22 EVENT OF HUMAN HISTORY. AND WE KNOW HE IS NOT GOING TO 54:27 ALLOW THE WORLD TO GO ON AS IT IS NOW. 54:29 THE LORD WILL STEP IN, DELIVER HIS PEOPLE, AND PUT AN END TO 54:33 ALL OF THE THINGS THAT WE KNOW. BUT THE QUESTION MIGHT BE, HOW 54:38 COULD ALL OF THESE THINGS BE HAPPENING? 54:40 >> UH-HUH. >> AND THE WORLD AROUND US ACTS 54:44 AS THOUGH NOTHING IS TAKING PLACE AT ALL. 54:46 >> LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT ONE OF THE SCRIPTURES, I WOULD LIKE TO 54:50 BRING OUR HOUR TO A CLOSE TONIGHT WITH MATTHEW 24 VERSE 55:02 36-39. BUT OF THAT DAY AND HOUR, NO ONE 55:05 KNOWS. NOT EVEN THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN, 55:07 BUT MY FATHER ONLY. BUT AS THE DAYS OF NOAH WERE, SO 55:11 ALSO WILL THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN BE. 55:15 FOR AS IN THE DAYS BEFORE THE FLOOD THEY WERE EATING AND 55:20 DRINKING, MARRYING, AND GIVING IN MARRIAGE, UNTIL THE DAY THAT 55:24 NOAH ENTERED THE ARC, AND DID NOT KNOW UNTIL THE FLOOD CAME 55:29 AND TOOK THEM ALL AWAY, SO ALSO WILL THE COMING OF THE SON OF 55:35 MAN BE. IF WE COULD WRAP UP THIS TOPIC 55:39 TONIGHT, WHAT APPEAL WOULD YOU MAKE TO THOSE WATCHING AND 55:42 LISTENING TO THE PROGRAM? BECAUSE THIS -- THE MOST 55:45 GLORIOUS EVENT -- THE STAGE IS SET IN EVERY PARTICULAR, THE 55:49 LAST CHURCH, THE LAST IMAGE IN DANIEL 7, THE LAST MEDAL IN 55:59 DANIEL 2. WHAT WOULD YOU TELL THOSE 56:02 WATCHING AND LISTENING, WHAT CAN THEY DO TO BE READY FOR THIS 56:06 EVENT. >> THE BIBLE SAYS THAT GOD 56:09 BLESSED US WITH AN EVER-LASTING LOVE. 56:11 AND JESUS WANTS EVERYONE TO BE SAVED. 56:14 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> JESUS CHRIST IS COMING SOON. 56:17 AND THE BIBLE SAYS BE ALSO READY. 56:20 BE ALSO READY. >> DEE? 56:21 >> KEEP YOUR EYES ON JESUS. JESUS IS COMING TO YOU 56:25 INDIVIDUALLY. JESUS LONGS AND DESIRES TO BE 56:28 WITH YOU. AND BECAUSE OF THE VALUE HE 56:30 PLACES ON YOU, THIS IS WHAT NEEDS TO TAKE PLACE. 56:32 HE IS ASKING FOR US TO TAKE THE SIGNS THAT WE SEE HERE 56:39 SERIOUSLY. BECAUSE OUT OF HIS LOVE FOR US, 56:41 HE GAVE US THIS INFORMATION. >> WE HERE AT 3ABN ARE 56:45 CONTINUING TO PROCLAIM THE 3 ANGEL'S MESSAGES, WE COVET YOUR 56:51 PRAYERS AND YOUR SUPPORT. THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU DO 56:55 FOR THIS NETWORK. WE DO DESIRE AND PRAY THAT THE 57:01 SECOND COMING OF THE LORD WILL BE YOUR FOCUS IN 2017, AND UNTIL 57:08 JESUS COMES. SO UNTIL WE SEE YOU AGAIN, MAY 57:12 GOD PREPARE YOUR HEART FOR THAT GLORIOUS DAY. 57:16 GOD BLESS YOU. ♪ |
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