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Let's join Rick Renner.
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Welcome to today's program.
My name is Rick Renner.
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I've been sitting in this
chair waiting for you
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because I am so excited
about what we're going
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to be discussing today.
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Today we're going
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to see when the antichrist will make his
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big appearance.
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When is he finally gonna show up?
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That's what we're going to see today.
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So reach for your Bible.
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We always use the Bible in this program.
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because today I believe you're
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But hey, I'm offering you my series,
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which is called The Rapture,
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It is 20 parts.
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It is very, very in depth
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subjects, and it comes with a study guide
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And we're offering you my book
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and oh, how I want you to have this book.
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It's called The Rapture, the Antichrist,
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and the Tribulation.
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The Foreword is by my friend Jimmy Evans.
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The subtitle says, An End-Times Countdown
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and What Happens Next.
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We can know what happens next
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because the Bible makes
all of this very clear.
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And when the Bible makes
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it means we need to understand it.
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And that's why I've written this book.
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You know, there's a lot of
confusion out there about the
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rapture, the antichrist, the tribulation.
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Some people think we're
already in the tribulation.
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What does the Bible really say?
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That's what this book is about.
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And my friends, I want you to have it
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to clear up all the confusion
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And today we're going to continue
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where we left off in 2 Thessalonians
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2:3.
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And for review, the Thessalonians were very, very upset
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because someone wrongly taught them
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that the rapture happened
and they missed it.
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Well, that would be upsetting.
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And even more,
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the same person told them now
they were living in the great
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tribulation and their faith
was really, really shaken.
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So Paul wrote to them
to bring a correction
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to this wrong teaching.
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And that's what we've been covering.
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And today we're going to
begin again in verse 3.
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But today we're specifically going
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to talk about when will
the antichrist make his
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big appearance.
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And you know, over the century
there have been many people
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that were potential antichrist.
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And based on people's likes
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and dislikes, they've
been trying to figure out
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who is the antichrist for
2000 years. Among them,
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some guess that Nero was the antichrist.
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Some speculated that perhaps
Trajan was the antichrist.
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Some said maybe Hadrian
was the antichrist.
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Large numbers of Christians believe
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that Domitian was the antichrist.
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Over the centuries, people believed
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that various popes have
been the antichrist.
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There was a time when people believed
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that Napoleon was the
antichrist: Mussolini.
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Some believed that Hitler
was the antichrist.
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I can personally remember
when people speculated
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that perhaps Anwar Sadat was the antichrist.
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Some said that Gorbachev
was the antichrist.
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And wow, it was really
popular for a while to believe
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that Henry Kissinger was the antichrist.
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And today some people are speculating
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that King Charles is the antichrist
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and the list just goes
on and on and on and on.
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But the truth is it's all a mute point
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because the antichrist
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and his identity will not be revealed
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until the great restrainer has
been removed from the earth.
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And the great restrainer is the church.
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The antichrist cannot make his appearance
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until the church has been
removed in the rapture.
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And I'm going to show you
that today in scripture.
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But the RIV
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of 2 Thessalonians 2:3 says,
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In light of these things, I urge you to refuse
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to allow anyone to take
advantage of you in any way.
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For example, you won't need a letter to tell you
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when the day of the Lord has come.
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You ought to know by now
that this day can't come
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until first a worldwide insurgency, rebellion,
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riot, a mutiny against God
has come about in society.
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Once that occurs, then the world will be primed and prepared
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and ready to embrace the man of lawlessness: the one
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who hates law and has rebellion running in his blood.
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This is the long awaited
and predicted son of doom
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and destruction, the one who brings rot
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and ruin to everything he touches.
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When the time is just right,
he will finally come out
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of hiding and go public.
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And we saw in the last episode
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that there has been a conspiracy at work for a long time.
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And 2 Thessalonians 2:7 calls it the
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mystery of iniquity.
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It is a secret plan that
has been in operation
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to modify the world
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and to prepare the world to
become a lawless place so
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that it will receive
the man of lawlessness.
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And my friend, we are seeing
that plan all around us today.
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But then when we come to 2 Thessalonians 2:
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4, the apostle Paul begins
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to explicitly describe the character
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and the nature of the antichrist
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and listen to what he says in verse 4: Who opposeth
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and exalteth himself above all that is called God
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or that is worshiped so that he
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as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself
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that he is God.
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Well, this verse is jam packed
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with information about the antichrist
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and what he's going to
do when he shows up.
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And the very first thing Paul
tells us is he will oppose
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and exalt himself above all that is called God.
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Either underline or circle that word opposeth in verse 4.
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It is a compound of 2 Greek words. The word anti,
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which means against, and the word keimai.
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The word kemai means to set or to lay in place.
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But when you compound
the two words together,
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the new word depicts an
entrenched position against
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everything established.
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The tense paints the picture
of a continual, unending
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and perpetual resistance
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and it reveals
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that rebellion is
ingrained in the very core
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of this individual.
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The antichrist is going
to oppose everything old.
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He's going to oppose former moral codes.
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He's going to oppose the
teaching of the Bible.
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And it categorically tells us
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that when the antichrist appears,
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he'll be brazenly against
all previous Godly ways
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of thinking.
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And he will attempt to lead
the world into a new world.
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He'll try to bulldoze
everything from the past
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to create a new lawless order.
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And when I say lawless, I don't mean that which is filled
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with chaos, but I mean
a world that is filled
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to pass moral laws.
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It's called a lawless world.
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And he will try to create
a new world system free
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of the authority and the law of God.
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He'll oppose God.
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He will oppose every remnant of godliness.
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That's what this word opposeth, really means.
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And then it goes on to say He
will exalt himself above all
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that is called God or
all that is worshiped.
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And the word exalted in Greek
means to highly, highly exalt.
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And this phrase tells us the
antichrist will not only exalt
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himself above Christianity.
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You see, that's what we all
think he'll be against Christ,
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he'll be against Christianity.
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But this verse says, above
all that is called God
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or worship, which means the
antichrist will indeed exalt
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himself above Jesus himself,
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but he will exalt himself higher than all other religious
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forms of worship.
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Every form of religion
that is known in the world,
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he will exalt himself
above everything called God
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or anything that is worshiped.
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And then Paul goes on to say so that he
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as God sits in the temple of God.
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Wow, this word temple is the Greek word naos.
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This word naos is the very
word used in the Bible
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to describe the innermost part
of the temple in Jerusalem,
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in this case the temple in Jerusalem.
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But the word naos, the word temple
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that is used here, describes the holy of Holies
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inside a future rebuilt temple.
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And this implies that
when the antichrist comes
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to power at some point there's
going to be a rebuild temple
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and he is actually going
to enter into the holy
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of Holies in the rebuilt
temple in Jerusalem.
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And he will sit there as if he is God.
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And the word sitteth means he's going
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to really place himself there
in a well-established place.
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He's going to declare that he is God.
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And in fact, verse 4 goes
on to say shewing himself
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that he is God. And the word shewing, the Greek word,
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apodeiknumi. It is a very vivid portrayal.
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It means to point out to
illustrate the show off
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or to make a vivid presentation.
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He's going to do something
to prove to the world
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that he deserves to sit in the holy of Holies
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because he is God.
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That's really what he's going to do.
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And in fact, the RIV
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of 2 Thessalonians 2:4 says
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that like this; Do you understand who I'm talking about?
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I'm describing that person
who will be so against God
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and everything connected
with the worship of God
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that if you can imagine
it, he will even try
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to put himself on a
pedestal above God himself:
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setting in God's rightful
place in the temple
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and publicly proclaiming
himself to be God.
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That is what the antichrist
will do when he makes his
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grand appearance.
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But then when you come to 2 Thessalonians 2:
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6, Paul says,
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And now you know what withholdeth us
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that he might be revealed in his time?
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Well, this verse says, the
antichrist will be revealed in
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his time, but according
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to 2 Thessalonians 2:6,
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there's something withholding
which is stopping him from
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being revealed now, but he
will be revealed in his time
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or in the right moment.
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But the word withholdeth, in this verse is the Greek
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word katecho.
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Now please, please, please listen to this
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because this is key to what
I'm teaching you today.
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I'm gonna talk to you about
the one that withholds,
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or the one who restrains
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what people typically
call the great restrainer.
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And here we come to this word withholdeth, the
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Greek word, katecho.
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It's a compound of two words.
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The word kata carries the notion of domination
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and suppression.
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The word echo, means to have to hold or to embrace.
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But when you compound
these two words together,
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it is the word katecho, which is translated
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withholdeth in this verse,
but it means to hold down
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or to suppress something.
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It depicts a restraining
force, a restraining force
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that is putting forth its
energy to hold down evil
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and to suppress it from rising
to a place of prominence.
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One man has translated as the power
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that restrains, the power that withholds, the power
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that postpones, the power that stalls.
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So in this verse, Paul
says, there's some kind
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of a force in the earth
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that's stopping the antichrist from being
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manifest right now.
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It's holding him back.
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And in verse 2, he goes on to say that he,
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the antichrist might be
revealed in his time.
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And the word revealed we
saw in a previous program,
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it's a form of the Greek word, apokalupto.
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The word apo means a way.
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The word kalupto, describes that which is veiled, covered
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or concealed or hidden.
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But when these two words are compounded,
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it forms the word apokalupto.
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And here it depicts a veil that has suddenly been removed,
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thus exposing what was
behind the veil concealed
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or hidden from you.
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So according to this verse,
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the antichrist is standing behind a curtain.
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He's standing behind a curtain,
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but a day is coming when the curtain is going to be removed.
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But right now the curtain
cannot be separated
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because something is postponing this.
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There's some force in the earth
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that is stalling this from happening
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that the antichrist might
be revealed in his time.
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And the word time is the Greek word kairos,
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which describes an
appointed time or a season,
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and there really is an appointed time,
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a season when the antichrist
will suddenly become apparent
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to the world, the curtain's
going to be pulled apart
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and the whole world will see him.
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They probably won't identify
him as the antichrist,
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they'll just see him as
this benevolent, wonderful,
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progressive new world leader
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who suddenly makes his grand appearance.
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But the RIV of 2 Thessalonians 2:
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6, interprets the verse like this.
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Now, in light of everything I've told you
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before, you ought to be well aware by now
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that there is - my friends
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please listen to this. This is so powerful -
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there is a supernatural force at work preventing
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the materialization of this person
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and the disclosure of his identity.
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This restraining force I'm
referring to is so strong
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that it's currently putting on the brakes
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and holding back the unveiling
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of this wicked person stalling
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and postponing his manifestation.
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But when the right moment comes,
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this evil one will no longer be withheld
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and he will emerge on the world scene.
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The screen that's been hiding his true identity
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and guarding him from worldview will suddenly be pulled back
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and will evaporate
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and he will step out on center stage
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to let everyone know who he is.
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That is a fabulous interpretation
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of 2 Thessalonians 2:6.
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But according to this verse,
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there really is a restraining force
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that's currently putting on
the brakes, holding back evil,
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stopping the materialization
of the antichrist.
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But then when you come to 2 Thessalonians 2:
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7, Paul continues - For the mystery
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of iniquity doth work.
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It's talking about this
conspiracy that's been at work
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for a long time to prepare the world
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to receive the antichrist. For the mystery of iniquity
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doth already work only -
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and the word only, means he alone, only this one, only he
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who now lets.
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The word now, means just now at this very moment
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in the immediate presence,
he who now lets will let
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until he be taken out of the way.
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Well, so you have this word lets, will let.
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Well guess what, in both instances it is again the Greek
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word, katecho.
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And the word katecho, again is a compound of the word kata.
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and the word echo.
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The word kata, denotes domination, suppression.
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The word echo means to have, to hold, to embrace.
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When you put the 2-words together, it pictures one
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that is suppressing something,
holding something back,
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it means to hold down or suppress.
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It depicts a restraining force
that is putting forth energy
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to hold down evil
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and to suppress it from arising to a place of prominence.
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And Paul says - he that is currently restraining -
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that would be a better translation.
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The one that is currently holding all of this back; the one
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that is currently stalling
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and putting on the brakes of all this evil being manifest,
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will continue to let, will continue to stall, will continue
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to suppress, will continue to hold it all back until
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he be taken out of the way.
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That's what verse 7 says. The word
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until, the Greek word heos, means until the precise moment.
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So whoever this is, he's going to be taken out
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of the way in a very precise moment.
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The word be, form the Greek word ginomai,
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which describes a surprising
event where something
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that happens suddenly or unexpectedly
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and takes everyone off guard,
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and the words, taken out
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of the way in Greek literally means - are you ready for this
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to be suddenly lifted
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or removed from the middle of everything.
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So according to the Apostle Paul - the restrainer -
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whatever the restrainer is, in a very exact specific moment,
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is suddenly, unexpectedly, going to be lifted
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and removed from the middle of everything.
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This is the church.
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A moment is coming when Jesus is going
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to descend into the lower
atmosphere with a shout,
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with a voice of the archangel, the trump of God,
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the dead in Christ are going to be raised first,
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then we which are alive and remain,
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Paul says in 1 Thessalonians 4:17,
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we're gonna be caught up to
meet the Lord in the air.
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And this is what Paul is
referring to in this verse.
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Until he, the restrainer, it's the church - be lifted
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or removed from the middle of everything.
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And according to this phrase, the restrainer,
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which is the church, will suddenly
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and surprisingly just disappear.
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The church is going to be removed, suddenly
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and surprisingly the church is going
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to be removed from the middle of everything.
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And what a great description this is of us
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because we are everywhere in every place,
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but a day is coming when suddenly we're gonna be removed.
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And when this day comes, the hindering force - that's you
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and me, that's the church - that's been holding back
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the evil, is going to be removed.
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And in that moment, the evil
forces that have been wanting
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to come center stage are suddenly going
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to rush center stage.
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And that is why 2 Thessalonians 2:8 says,
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And then - then -
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that wicked one shall be revealed.
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And the word then, in Greek is the word tote: means then at
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that very precise moment,
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and it describes what's going
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to happen when the church has been raptured: then at
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that very precise moment, suddenly the curtains are going
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to be pulled back and the antichrist is
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going to step forward.
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And the RIV
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2 Thessalonians 2:7 says it like this -
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These secretive dark events have been covertly in the
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making for a long time.
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Yet the world at large doesn't realize
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that a secret plan is being executed right
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under their noses.
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The only thing that has kept
this plan from already being
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consummated is the restraining force
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that's been holding it all back until now.
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But one day this force will
be removed from the picture.
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And when that happens,
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these iniquitous events will quickly transpire.
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The removal of this restraining force will signal the moment
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when the lawless one will finally make his grand appearance
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to the world.
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So when is the antichrist going to make his appearance?
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Then when the church is removed: then
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that wicked one will be revealed,
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but he cannot be revealed
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until first the church has
been taken out of the way.
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Now this week we've got so much to cover,
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we've just barely touched this subject.
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So please don't miss tomorrow.
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And hey, I'll be back in just a moment
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and I'm going to pray for you.
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This is Rick Renner and somebody has asked the question
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Why do bad things happen to Christians?
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But let's broaden it. Why do
bad things happen to anyone?
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And the answer begins with Romans 5,
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where we find that because of Adam's transgression,
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death entered the planet
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and when death entered the planet, wow, it came
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with the motto - kill, steal and destroy.
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And because of Adam's transgression, all kinds
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of bad things happen in the world today.
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But we're told in 1 John 5, that we have a faith
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that overcomes the world.
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and the death that was
released into the planet
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because of Adam's transgression.
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So my friend, embrace the
greater one that is in you
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and use your faith
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and you can override all the bad things
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that are working in the earth today.
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this facility taking calls,
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answering letters from thousands
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and thousands of people who reach out
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to us every day and every week.
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But in this room we
decided to adorn the walls
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with photographs of all the
places where we have offices
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for Renner Ministries.
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Behind me, there's a
beautiful photograph of Moscow
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because you know we have a
very important office there.
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Then there's a photograph of London
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because we have an office in England
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and we've had an office in
England for years and years.
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Then there's a beautiful picture of Riga where Denise and I
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and I boys live for nine years
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and our European office in Riga handles
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so much correspondence from
people that reach out to us.
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And then there is a photograph
of the Oklahoma State Capitol
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to represent this office, which is in the state of Oklahoma.
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But right now we're trying
to pay off this facility.
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It's called the Ministry Expansion Project.
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We've already paid off 78% of the facility.
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And my friends, we need your
help to help us finish this.
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And if you're not already
a part of the Giving Team,
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I'm inviting you to join us
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and to help us pay off this facility.
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And when it is finished being paid for,
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it's gonna release all those finances
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so we can keep taking the teaching of the Bible to the ends
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of the earth.
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But thank you for being a part.
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Well, today we've been looking
at when will the antichrist
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make his appearance?
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And we've seen scripturally
that he cannot appear,
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his identity cannot be revealed
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until first the Restrainer
has been removed.
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Now, when we come back
tomorrow, we're going
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to see 5 different opinions about who is the restrainer.
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I have already told you it is the church,
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but I want you to see that
there are other opinions
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and understand why people
believe this one or that one
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or potentially this one.
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And why I believe it is the church.
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Please don't miss tomorrow's program,
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it's really going to be good.
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But order the whole series which is called The Rapture,
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the Antichrist and the Tribulation.
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And remember that it
comes with a study guide.
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And be sure to order the
book, you will devour it.
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It's 464 pages cover to cover
and beautifully illustrated.
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My friends, you're gonna flip through this book
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and say, ay...ya, is there anything
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that Rick did not cover in this book?
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It is really gonna put
you on a solid foundation,
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but you can order all these
things by going online
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or by giving us a call.
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And again, let us know how to pray for you
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because we want to pray for you.
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And Father, we thank you
that you've given us power,
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you've given us the spirit,
you've given us authority,
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we have everything we
need to walk in victory
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to the very end of the age.
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And we thank you for it in
the wonderful name of Jesus.
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Amen. Well, I'll see you tomorrow.
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But remember Ecclesiastes 8:4, "Where the word
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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.
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Amen.