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Let's join Rick Renner.
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Welcome to today's program.
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My name is Rick Renner and my friend
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today we're gonna continue our series about The Rapture,
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the Antichrist, and the Tribulation.
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This is very important teaching.
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In fact, it's so important that I want us
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to begin with prayer.
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Father, I pray that today
you would open our eyes
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to the scripture and
that you would help us
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to understand this undeniable
doctrine of scripture,
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that the rapture is
coming in our near future.
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Remove all fear, and we
ask you to give us peace.
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In Jesus' name - Amen.
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Before we get into the series,
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It's called The Rapture, the Antichrist and the Tribulation,
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You will love it. And we're
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And what happens next?
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And when you get a copy of
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to be amazed You're gonna
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And by the way, when you begin to read it,
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don't jump around.
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You need to follow the
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to the end of the book
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because everything in this is written
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to help you understand
what's going to happen next
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and how you can be prepared.
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But hey, if you need prayer,
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We love it when that phone
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And I assure you that
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and that when you reach
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you will really be prayed for.
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And if you're a partner,
thank you for being a partner.
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We're told in Proverbs 11:21, The lips of the righteous feed
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many. That's our job is to feed many.
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And I wanna say thank you
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for helping us feed many
people around the world.
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And if you're not a partner,
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please pray about joining
our partner family,
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but reach for your Bible.
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Now, the 1st program this week we saw the word rapture,
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really is a New Testament biblical word.
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Then in the last episode,
we saw who's going
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to go in the rapture of the church.
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Everyone who claims to be a
Christian is not going to go.
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And the reason we know that is
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because there's a lot of
mannequins in the church.
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We saw that in 2 Timothy 3:5,
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it talks about those that
have a form of godliness,
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but they deny the power thereof.
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And the Bible prophesies -
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there's gonna be a lot of these people in the church in the
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end of the age, and these
are people that sound right.
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They say the right things,
they dress the right way.
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They might even have a cross
wrapped around their neck
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and carry a Bible in their hand.
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But at the core, there's something defective:
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like a mannequin,
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they look right, but they're just an empty shell.
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That is not who Jesus is coming for.
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We've seen from 1 Thessalonians 4:15
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and 17, he's coming for
those that are alive
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and remain. That word alive, just doesn't mean
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that they're going to be
physically alive at the time
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of the rapture, but it's those
that are spiritually engaged,
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those that are really
living there, robust people
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that are spiritually alive,
that's who he is coming for.
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And the word remain is really
the word for a remnant,
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which implies those
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that are the authentic deal
at the very end of the age,
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it may be a remnant.
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It seems the greater majority
may not be the real thing,
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but he's coming for the remnant
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that have endured
everything they've survived
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to the very end.
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That's who he is coming for.
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And you wanna be sure that
you are a part of that group.
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But then we're going to continue to see
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what else we find out in 1 Thessalonians 4,
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and we're gonna go back to verse 15, which says -
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For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord,
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that we which are alive
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and remain unto the coming of the Lord,
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shall not prevent them which are asleep.
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Verse 16: oh, listen to this -
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For the Lord himself shall descend from Heaven.
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Now listen, if you got your
Bible, I want you to see this
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and you need to underline it.
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The Lord himself shall descend.
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Underline that word - descend - from heaven.
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Underline the two words - from heaven - with a shout.
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Circle the word - shout - with a voice.
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Either underline or circle the word voice of the archangel.
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Either underline the word archangel or circle it.
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And with the trump of God: what is the trump of God?
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You need to underline it
or circle it in your Bible.
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And today we're going to
be looking at these words:
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the word descend, the phrase - from heaven,
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the word shout, the word - voice the word archangel
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and the word - trump.
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The Bible says, The Lord himself shall descend from heaven
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with a shout, with a voice of the archangel, with a trump
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of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first.
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First of all, let's look at the word, descend.
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What does the Bible mean when
it says the Lord will descend?
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Well in Greek it is the word, katabaino.
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It's a compound of 2 words: the word kata
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and the word basis.
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The word kata means down,
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but it carries with it
a sense of a dominating
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and subjugating force.
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The word basis, means to step as one who is stepping forward
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or who is making a forward movement.
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But as a compound, it means
to step down, to come down,
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to move downward from a
higher place to a lower place
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or to descend.
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And it pictures one who
makes downward movement
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with a dominating and subjugating force.
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And here it pictures Jesus literally descending
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or making a movement from
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atmosphere just above the earth.
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And because of the preposition kata, it means he's going
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to come with a dominating
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and subjugating force, which
means he's not just going
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to come to rapture the
church and to raise the dead,
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but he's going to come with
a force to dominate evil.
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And the Bible says He
will come from heaven.
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The word, from, is a contracted form
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of the word ap - means directly from:
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the word heaven describes the highest heavens.
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And when you take this
as a phrase, Paul says,
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the Lord shall descend from heaven
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and it means Christ himself is going to make a move
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from the highest heavens
into the air above the earth.
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And when he does so he's going
to come with a dominating
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and subjugating force.
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And at that moment, at that moment,
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he will rouse the dead in Christ
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and he will supernaturally snatch those
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that are actively engaged in faith
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and he will begin the
process of dominating
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and subjugating evil powers as the worst
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of the worst times on
earth are about to commence
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in a season called the great tribulation.
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But then we also read in 1 Thessalonians 4:16,
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For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout:
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a shout. And this word describes the Lord himself.
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When the Lord descends, he
himself is going to shout,
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he's going to shout. Wow!
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And the word shout is a Greek
word which does not appear
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anywhere else in the New Testament.
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A word specifically used to
describe an order, a command
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or a loud shout that
was intended to arouse.
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This is so powerful,
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listen to this: to arouse horses, charioteers, hounds,
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hunters, rowers,
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and masters of ships to prepare for action
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and for war: it meant a muster the troops to action.
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It is an imperative call to
action that summons troops
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to break camp and to get ready to move
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and this thunderous call beckons other
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forces to action.
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And it is the very word to excite riders
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to move their horses to greater speed: to huntsmen
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to pursue their prey
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and to sailors to give themselves
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to rowing vigorously in order
to make forward movement.
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It really is a war shout. It is a war shout.
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And the very fact that Jesus
will come with this kind
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of a shout means it will be
a time for some to break camp
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and to move upward.
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That's the dead in Christ
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and those that are about to be resurrected, raptured while
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others are going to be aroused to action
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and to move into combat positions: those who break camp
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and move upward will be the dead in Christ as well:
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those of us that are spiritually engaged,
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we're gonna be raptured at that moment.
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We read about this also in John 5:28,
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which says, the dead
in Christ will arise at
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the voice of Christ.
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The Bible says this in John 5:28,
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But at the time of Christ returned to rapture
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and to resurrect the bodies of the righteous,
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the commander in chief will give a shout
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that rouses the dead from the graves
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and catches away those that
are alive and still in faith.
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And all of heavens armies
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and troops will be summoned into combat
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positions for what is about to commence in the world
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after the dead have been resurrected
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and the righteous have been raptured.
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And when this event begins, it will trigger
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what the Bible calls the day of the Lord.
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And the day of the Lord is an expression
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to describe a seven year period,
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the tribulation in which
God will deal with a wicked
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and pour out judgment upon the earth.
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And when the righteous dead
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and the remnant church are raised
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and transported to heaven,
the trigger will be pulled
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for the day of the Lord to commence
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as God wages war against the enemies
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of righteousness.
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And that is why it was
important for us to see
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that when Christ descends,
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that word descend carries
within it the Greek word kata,
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which carries the idea of subjugation, domination:
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Christ is coming not just
to resurrect the dead
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and to rapture the church,
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but he's coming with a dominating subjugating power to deal
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with all the evil upon
the face of the earth
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during the seven year period
called the tribulation,
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which is the day of the Lord.
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But then 1 Thessalonians 4:16 continues to say,
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For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout.
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He's gonna give the shout himself
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and with the voice of the archangel.
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This word voice, is the word phone, which depicts a voice,
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a sound or noise.
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But it describes a noise that is so loud,
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it's like whirlwind.
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It depicts the sound of wings that are fluttering
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or rushing water,
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and it pictures the sound
of a massive multitude
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or an overwhelming sound.
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And Paul does not tell us
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if everyone on the earth is going to hear this,
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but the righteous are going to hear it
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and God's troops are going to hear it.
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And this mighty voice of
the archangel will be a part
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of the process of rousing
all of God's troops
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to full attention and
calling them to action.
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And Paul says, this
particular voice will come
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from the archangel.
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The word archangel is a compound of the word archo
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and the word angelos. The word archo means chief or first.
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And the word angelos is the Greek word for a heavenly angel.
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But as a compound, archangel refers to a chief angel,
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a principle angel
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or one who holds a special authority
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among all the heavenly hosts.
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And in scripture such arch angel make powerful proclamations
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and they carry out divine declarations
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that include carrying out mighty deeds.
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And though Paul does
not give us the identity
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of this particular archangel,
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most scholars believe this will be the archangel Michael:
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he's referred to in Jude 9;
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he's referred to in Revelation 12:7
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and in Daniel 10:13 as the archangel
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that really deals with evil.
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And most scholars believe
this will be the voice
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of the Archangel Michael.
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And we find that at the time
of this event, the voice
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of the archangel will be heard.
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And when it is heard, it will
be intended to galvanize all
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of heaven's troops to action.
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It will summon the dead bodies
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of the righteous from their graves.
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It will alert those that
are spiritually alive,
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spiritually robust, spiritually thriving:
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that is the remaining remnant at this time, that it's time
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for them to be caught up to
meet the Lord in the air.
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And the angelic voice will
also sound a proclamation
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that a battle of the ages
is about to commence.
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And this leads us to the next word in verse 16,
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For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout
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with a voice of the archangel
and with the trump of God.
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Now, I ask you to either underline
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or circle this word trump in verse 16.
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In the Old Testament, trumpets were used
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for multiple reasons.
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First: trumpets were used to call God's people
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to assemble together.
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Second: a trumpet blast was used as a command
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for Israel's troops to march into full scale war.
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And when God would commend his
people in the Old Testament
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to blow the trumpet to call them for the purpose
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of breaking camp, advancing and assembly,
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and fighting against an enemy
until the victory was won,
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the people in the Old Testament understood the meaning
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of this trumpet blast.
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And the overpowering sound
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of such a trumpet blast
caused the enemy's hearts
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to shake and to quiver,
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and enemies understood
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that when they heard the trumpet blast
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it meant not only that war
was about to be commenced,
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but they were about to be slaughtered.
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And now Paul uses this very
word trumpet, to declare
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that when this blast is
sounded at the end of the age,
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it will be God's call for
his people to break camp
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and to move upward.
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And it will also be a war
declaration to the enemy
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that he is about to be
completely obliterated.
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Wow! But the word trump, itself is the Greek word, salpingx.
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Now, some people have tried to extrapolate this
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to describe a Jewish trumpet,
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and maybe it does have some of those connotations
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but Paul used a Greek word. It is a Greek word.
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The word trump, in Greek, is the word salpingx.
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And listen to this - it is a war trumpet
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that announced the commencement of battle. In addition
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to summoning troops to battle,
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the blast of this particular salpingx trumpet was intended
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to be a declaration from the
outset of a military campaign
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that the ultimate victory
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and the vanishing of all enemies was about
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to take place.
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And if you compound the
shout together with the voice
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of the archangel and the trumpet
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and put all of this together, my friends,
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it means when Jesus
comes to raise the dead
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and to rapture the church, he's going
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to make a pre-war
declaration that he's about
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to declare war upon the
enemies of righteousness
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and that his foes are about to
be completely put to an end.
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But what do we know exactly
about this particular kind
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of trumpet, which is called the salpingx?
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Paul used a word that was
very, very known in his day.
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The Roman world would've known it,
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the Greek world would've known it,
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even the Jewish world would've known this word salpingx,
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which here is translated as the word trumpet.
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We know this particular trumpet was very long and slender,
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and the blower held it
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to his lips downward toward the ground.
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And because it had a downward position
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and it was very, very
long, people likened it
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to the trunk of an elephant.
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And the sound of this
trumpet was enormous.
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And in fact, the sound was so
loud, you didn't just hear it,
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you felt it because it was
pointed toward the ground,
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it caused the earth to reverberate.
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And so people could
actually physically feel the
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sound of this trumpet.
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And in court, this trumpet was also used. You said, really?
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How was it used in court?
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The blasting of this particular trumpet,
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which was called the salpingx, was used in connection
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with legal proceedings in a court of law.
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And the horrific blasting
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of this particular trumpet
expressed terror to enemies.
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And at the same it mustered troops.
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And it gave the message in courts
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that a final verdict
was about to be rendered
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similar to the same way it
sounds, signaled the onslaught
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of war in a legal courtroom.
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Its blast heralded the commitment of court
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and the execution of justice.
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And just as the blasting sound
imparted terror in the hearts
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of adversaries on the battlefield, its sound caused terror
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for those who were about to
be judged in a court of law.
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And when the blasting of the
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salpingx, this trumpet, occurred in court,
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it was an announcement that a
serious legal action was about
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to take place and inescapable judgment
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was about to occur.
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So we know 6-facts about this trumpet of God:
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No.1: in the moment this trumpet is blasted,
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it will not be a mere trumpet,
it will be the blasting
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of a war trumpet.
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No.2: In the moment this trumpet is blasted,
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its deafening, invincible
sound will send terror
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to the enemies of God in every realm,
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spiritual and physical.
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No.3: In the moment this trumpet is blasted,
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God will summon his people to break camp, advance
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and move upward, which of course refers to the resurrection
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of the bodies of the righteous dead,
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and the rapture of the living remnant
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of authentic Christians
who remain at that time.
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No.4: in the moment this trumpet is blasted,
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its sound will be a
signal that musters all
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of heaven's troops to engage
in the war of the ages.
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No.5: in the moment this trumpet is blasted,
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not only will it be a declaration
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of war against God's enemies,
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but it will be a declaration
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that the battle will be
consummated in total victory.
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And No.6: in the moment this trumpet is blasted,
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it will mean that the judgments against the ungodly from
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God's court of law are about to be carried out
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as righteous judgment prepares
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to be poured out upon the earth.
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All of that is in this word salpingx, which is translated
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as the word trumpet.
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But when you come to the RIV, the RIV
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of 1 Thessalonians 4:16, this is what we find: listen
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to this - For the Lord himself will descend from Heaven
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and take charge with a
mighty military command
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to arouse the saints and galvanize God's troops to action.
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And along with that command, precisely at
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that time will also be heard
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the immense voice of an archangel, along with a blast
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of God's war trumpet
intended to give the signal
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that the final battle, ultimate victory
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and the vanquishing of all
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of God's enemies are about to occur.
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That war trumpet blast
will be the declaration
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that God's enemies have lost
their longstanding battle
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with him, and that he reigns victorious
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and supreme over everyone
and over every situation
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and over every realm in total victory.
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My friends, that is what that verse really means.
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Wow! So when we talk about the shout, the voice
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of the archangel and the trump of God, there's so much
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for us to understand
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and my friends, we can
hear that shout, that voice
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and that trump any day now. Oh, we're out of time.
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I've got more to say to you
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and then I'll be back in just a moment.
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This is Rick Renner and somebody has asked the question -
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I really want to pray in tongues,
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but I haven't been able to do it.
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Why not? Well, it might be that you're just trying
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to get over yourself.
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You know, sometimes there's
barriers in our mind.
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because when we're finished
paying off this facility,
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that frees up finances.
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So we can take the teaching of the Bible
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to more places across
the face of the earth
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where people are crying out for someone
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to feed them the word of God.
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And so today, if you're not already a part
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of our Giving Team to pay off this facility, I'm asking you
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to join us as a part of our Ministry Expansion Project
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to pay off this facility and
we can say, done, finished,
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and give glory to God - but my friends,
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we can only do it with your help.
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So thank you if you're
already part of the team,
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and if not yet part of the
team, please join us as a part
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of the Giving Team to pay off this facility
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so we can be finished with it
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and use these funds to
take the gospel further
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to other places across the world.
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What we have heard
today is just thrilling.
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All of these events are right in from
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us and they're imminent.
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They could happen at any moment.
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And that's why you need to know
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what the Bible says about The Rapture, the Antichrist,
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and the Tribulation.
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You need this 20 part series
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and you need the study
guide that comes with it.
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And oh, how I really want you to have the book - 464 pages,
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The rapture, the Antichrist, the Tribulation,
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An End-Times count down and what happens next?
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God has given us so much
information so we don't have
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to wonder about the future.
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We can know explicitly
what's going to happen
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and we can know what's
going to happen next.
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And that's why I wrote this
beautifully illustrated book
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that I want you to have, and
you ought to order several
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because you will
definitely wanna share this
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with somebody else.
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But my friends, Jesus is coming
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and he's coming for the church very soon.
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He's coming for a remnant, those
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that are spiritually engaged
in our spiritually alive.
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I pray that that includes you.
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And if you want somebody
to pray with you right now,
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just call the number on the screen.
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We're waiting to hear from you
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and we would love to pray for you right now.
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And Father, we thank in the name of Jesus
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that you've told everything we need
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to know about what's going to happen next
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and that we can be prepared for it in Jesus' wonderful name.
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Amen. Well, I'll see you in the next program,
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but until then, remember Ecclesiastes 8:4 says,
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"Where the word of a king is, there is power."
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If you've never received
Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for
you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now: Lord,
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I repent of my sin and
receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that
I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life. Amen.
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Thank you for joining
Rick Renner today.
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For more information
about Renner Ministries
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and product resources, visit renner.org.