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Welcome to today's program.
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It is the end of the week
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and we've had such a wonderful
time together studying
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what the Bible tells us about
The Rapture of the Antichrist
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and the Tribulation.
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the antichrist who's gonna make his big appearance
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after the rapture of the church.
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And today we're going to see
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what the Bible tells us about the antichrist.
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Over all the centuries,
people have tried to guess
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who is the antichrist,
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and there was a period
when some folks thought the
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antichrist was the Emperor Nero.
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There were others who thought
the antichrist was the
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Emperor Trajan.
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Others later thought it was the Emperor Domitian.
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There were people who speculated
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that various popes have been the antichrist or Napoleon.
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Some thought Mussolini was the antichrist,
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some thought Hitler was the antichrist.
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I can remember when people thought
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that Anwar Sadat was the antichrist,
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and then people said that Gorbachev was the antichrist.
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And then many, many people said possibly Henry Kissinger
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was the antichrist.
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And today there are people
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that are saying maybe King
Charles is the antichrist,
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but the truth is we can
speculate as much as we want
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and in a certain way it's all a mute point
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because the identity of the
antichrist is only going
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to be revealed
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after the church is taken out of the way.
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But this character called the antichrist is
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so central in scripture that
the Bible tells us many,
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many features about him
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and that's what we're
going to be seeing today.
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What's he really going to be
like when he finally makes his
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big appearance.
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And today I'm going to give you 31 points
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and we're going to begin with point No.1 in Daniel
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7:24-27, which is about the rising of the antichrist.
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And the Bible tells us that
when the antichrist arise,
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he will subdue kings and
he will subdue kingdoms
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and he will begin to speak
blasphemous words against God.
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That's point No.1.
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Point No.2: Daniel 7:24 tells us the antichrist will
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be diverse.
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And the word diverse means different, which means he's going
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to be a different kind of leader than any leader
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that has ever emerged on the world seen.
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No.3: Daniel 7:24 tells us explicitly
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that the antichrist will subdue kings.
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And the word subdue that
is used in that verse means
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to ab base, to bring low,
to humiliate or to sink.
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He's going to sink other world leaders
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and in context the antichrist
will abase bring low humiliate
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and sink other kings
or other world leaders
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and he will then push himself forward
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as the greatest leader in the world.
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Point No.4: Daniel 7:25 says,
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the antichrist will speak great words against the most high.
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The words, great words - in the Hebrew text really describe
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pompous words.
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It's going to be so blasphemously how he will speak
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and it will be against the most high,
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which is the word used in the
Old Testament to describe God
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as the supreme power of the universe.
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But the antichrist, according to Daniel 7:25, is going
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to assault the reputation of
God and the integrity of God.
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Then we come to point No.5:
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and Daniel 7:25 says,
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the antichrist will wear out the saints.
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And those words - wear out - mean to afflict, to destroy,
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to devour, to engulf, to persecute, to ruin
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or to swallow up.
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And the word saints, describes God's holy people
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and it describes the people of Israel
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and those that are saved during the time
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of the great tribulation who refuse
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to receive the mark of the beast.
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According to Daniel 7:25, the antichrist is gonna try
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to wear them out.
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Then we come to Daniel 7:25.
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Again, this is point No.6:
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the antichrist will think to change times
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and laws. My friends,
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the Bible tells us so much about the antichrist
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and when the Bible says to
change, it means he is going
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to completely alter
times and laws and times
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and laws refers to the
specific appointed time
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or season, the period during
which the antichrist rules
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and the word laws refers to
religion codes, moral ethics.
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He's going to try to completely change the landscape
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of the human race.
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No.7: Daniel 7:25 says,
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the antichrist will have times
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and law in his hand until a time and times
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and the dividing of times. That is specifically
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what Daniel 7:25 says. This phrase, a time and times
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and the dividing of times, refers to the last three
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and a half years of the great tribulation.
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So we see that for a limited period of time, three
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and a half years, it seems the antichrist will have all
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power delivered into his hands.
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No.: In Daniel 7:26,
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the Bible says the
antichrist will be judged
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and his dominion will be taken
away and he will be consumed
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and destroyed.
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The word judgment that is used
in this verse is a word which
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describes the verdict
issued by a court of law,
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which means God is going to
examine all the evidence,
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Heaven is going to issue a verdict
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and his kingdom will be taken away.
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The word taken away, means to remove
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or to strip, as one would
strip a royal garment from a
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dignity, he's going to be stripped of his dominion.
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The word dominion refers to authority, power or sovereignty,
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and Daniel 7:26 says eventually he will be consumed
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and destroyed unto the end. The word consume, means
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to annihilate, decimate, destroy, exterminate, obliterate,
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perish or completely wipe out.
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And the word destroy means to destroy, to completely be lost
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or to utterly waste, which means that the end
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of the day, Christ is going to destroy the rule
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of the antichrist.
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No.9: Daniel 8:26 says, the antichrist will be a king
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with a fierce countenance.
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The word fierce that is used
in this verse cares the idea
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of something that is defiant,
fierce, harsh, impudent,
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inhuman, mighty strong or just terrible.
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And even though the
antichrist will style himself
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as being a progressive leader, Daniel 8:23 tells us,
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in fact, he will be very inhumane.
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No.10: Daniel 8:26 says,
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the antichrist will understand dark sentences.
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This phrase - dark sentences - carries the idea of one
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who deals in darkness.
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And this connects for me to the word occult
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because the word occult, describes things that are dark,
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things that are hidden
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and it implies that the
antichrist will move in dark
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occultic powers
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and we know from scripture
that he's going to come
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with signs and wonders that
are energized by Satan.
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No.11: Daniel 9:26 tells us the antichrist is the
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prince that is to come.
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The world will receive
him as a world prince.
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And this word prince depicts
one that is a commander
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or one who is a great governmental leader
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and he will be a Satan empowered leader,
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but my friends God eventually will remove him.
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Then point No.12: Daniel 11:21 says,
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the antichrist will be a vile person,
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and the word vile means contemptible, despised, disdained
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or to be scorned. He's going to be truly a horrible,
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horrible individual.
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No.13: Daniel 11:36 says,
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the antichrist shall do according to his own will.
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According to his own will,
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depicts one who acts in accordance
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with his own pleasure, which
means his chief concern will
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not be the welfare of the world,
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but his chief concern will be himself
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and executing his own wishes.
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No.14: Daniel 11:36 goes on
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to say - The antichrist will exalt
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and magnify himself above every god.
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The word exalt, means to be highly lifted up
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and is used in both the old
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and the New Testament to describe the highly elevated status
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of God, but here we find
that the antichrist is going
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to exalt himself and he
will magnify himself.
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The word magnify means
to promote or to magnify,
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and the verse says - above every god. The word
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every, is all inclusive,
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which means he will not just
exalt himself above Jesus,
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but he will exalt himself above every form of God
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and every religion on planet earth.
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No.15: Daniel 11:36 says,
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the antichrist shall speak marvelous things
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against the God of gods.
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But the phrase marvelous
things really describes
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that which is blasphemous,
that which is blasphemous
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and the word against describes
him speaking blasphemies
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against God
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and the word against also
carries the idea of being
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above, beyond and over.
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And thus it implies that he will blasphemously exalt himself
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above, beyond, and over God himself.
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Wow. No.16: Daniel 11:36 says,
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the antichrist will prosper.
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Actually the Hebrew word
means he will advance
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until the time of wrath is fulfilled.
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And the word prosper
really means to advance.
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It means to push forward,
to succeed or to thrive,
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and it carries the idea of
advancement, prosperity,
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and success
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and the antichrist will
experience a time of success
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until the indignation be accomplished.
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And the word indignation,
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refers to the wrath of God that is going
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to be poured out during the
time of the great tribulation.
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He will succeed
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until God is finished
pouring out his indignation
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and his wrath and then the rule
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of the antichrist will be accomplished.
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It will be finished.
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No.17: Daniel 11:37 says,
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the antichrist will not
regard the God of his fathers.
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The word regard means to consider, to grasp
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or to understand.
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The word fathers, is from a word that refers to forefathers
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and it was used in the Old Testament
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to denote not only paternal forefathers
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but also those who pass their
faith from one generation
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to another generation.
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And some believe this means
the antichrist may come from a
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Jewish heritage,
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but he will not be connected
to the God of his forefathers.
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He'll be disconnected.
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Others believe that he'll be a gentile and that he
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likewise will reject the faith of his forefathers,
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but he will not regard the
God of his fathers according
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to Daniel 11:37.
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Then we come to No.18: and Daniel 11:36
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likewise says - listen to this one -
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the antichrist will have no desire for women.
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The word desire, means to desire to delight in
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or to have pleasure.
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The words desire of women seem to indicate
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that the antichrist may be a homosexual.
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The verse does not explicitly state that,
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but it's logical to think that's what this verse would mean,
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and in prior times,
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a homosexual would never become a world leader,
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but we're living at the end
of the age when anything is
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possible and Daniel 11:37 says,
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the antichrist will have no desire for women.
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No.19: Daniel 11:37 says,
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the antichrist will not regard any god.
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And the word any, again is all inclusive.
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And Daniel repeats this over and over
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and over that the antichrist will disregard every god,
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the God of gods and any and every god that is in the world,
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and of course he's going to exalt himself as if he is God.
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Point No.20: Daniel 11:30 says,
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the antichrist will magnify himself above all,
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and the word magnify again means to become great, to promote
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or to magnify,
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and it was most certainly
used in the Old Testament
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to describe the act of magnifying God,
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but here we find the antichrist is going to magnify himself
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above all, and the word above means against, above, beyond
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and over, which means there will be no God, no religion,
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no governmental authority, literally nothing
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or no one at all
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that he will not audaciously
exalt himself above.
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No.21: Zachariah 11:16 says,
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the antichrist will be a ruthless leader.
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It actually says he'll be
harsh and he'll be inhumane.
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We also see this in Revelation 13:10,
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where we read that anybody that does not fall in line
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to worship him and to receive
his mark will be massacred
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with the sword.
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Then No.22: we come to 2 Thessalonians 2:3,
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where we read the antichrist will be a man of sin;
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and we've seen in previous programs
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that the word sin is a Greek
word anomia from the word
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nomas, which describes law,
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but you put an 'a' on the front, it's one that is lawless.
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He will try
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to unshackle the world from all previous moral codes.
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He will try to unshackle the world from the word
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of God itself and the authority of God
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and create a brand new world
that is lawless of old laws
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and old beliefs, and he'll try
to create a brand new world.
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No.23: 2nd Thessalonians 2:3 says,
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the antichrist will be suddenly revealed,
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and we have seen in previous programs he will be revealed
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the moment that the great restrainer is taken out
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of the way. we're told in 2 Thessalonians 2:
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8, that then at
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that exact moment he will be revealed.
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Then point No.24:
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2 Thessalonians 2:3 says, The antichrist will be the son
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of perdition.
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Now this is quite opposite from how he is going
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to style himself.
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He's going to style himself
as the great world leader
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that everyone has been waiting for,
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but the Bible says actually
he'll be the son of perdition.
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The word perdition, in Greek is the word, apoleia.
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It describes ruin, it describes rot,
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and it means there will be
absolutely no redeeming values
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to the rule of the antichrist.
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Everything he touches will turn to rot.
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No.25: 2 Thessalonians 2:4 says,
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the antichrist will oppose
and magnify himself above God.
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The word oppose tells us
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that he will oppose every previous belief,
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every previous moral code.
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He will oppose all of it.
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He will oppose every other world authority
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and he will magnify himself as if he is God himself.
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In fact, point No.6, is found in 2 Thessalonians
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2:4, which says
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that he will seed himself in
the holy of Holies as God.
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He is going to enter into a
rebuild temple in the city
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of Jerusalem and actually
sit in the holy of Holies
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and declare himself to be God.
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That is clearly what the Bible teaches.
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Then we come to point No.27: 2 Thessalonians 2:4 says
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the antichrist will show himself that he is God.
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And the word show means he will do whatever he needs to do
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to demonstrate that he is divine.
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And we know from 2 Thessalonians 2,
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that he will come with lying signs and wonders.
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He will be energized by Satan himself
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and he's going to
supernaturally try to prove
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to the watching world
that really is divine.
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No.28: 2 Thessalonians 2:6 says,
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the antichrist will be revealed in his own time,
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which means, there really is a moment,
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an appointed season when the antichrist is
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going to be revealed.
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Now, he may be waiting right now; he may be on stage,
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but he is behind the curtains
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and he cannot be revealed as long as the church is here,
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but the moment the great restrainer has been removed,
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then he is going to be revealed in his own appointed time.
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No.29: 2 Thessalonians 2:8 says,
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the antichrist will be the wicked one - the wicked one.
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And the word wicked, pictures one
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who possesses no fixed moral standards
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and the antichrist will completely depart from past moral
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norms and from God's word
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and try to unshackle the world from pass codes
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of conduct and from forms of morality.
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No.30: 2 Thessalonians 2:9 says,
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the antichrist will be empowered and energized by Satan.
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I've covered that in previous programs.
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You need to go back to the archives
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or by the entire series
where I teach on the fact
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that the antichrist will
come with supernatural signs
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and wonders, and that's what we see in point No.30.
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In 2 Thessalonians 2:9,
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the antichrist will be empowered and energized by Satan.
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And then we come to point No.31:
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which we find in Revelation 13:1,
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the antichrist will be a beast.
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That is what he is called.
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And the word beast, is the Greek word therion.
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This word therion, describes a brute dangerous savage
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wild beast.
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It is used to denote any force
that was chaotic, dangerous,
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evil, hostile or wild,
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and it means
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that though the antichrist
may feign benevolence
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and kindness as a leader,
at least at first, that's
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how he portrays himself -
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eventually, it will be seen that he really is a beast
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and he'll no longer be able to hide the fact
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that he's callous, cold-blooded, cruel and vicious.
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Now, I have given you 31 points about the antichrist,
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which we gather from the book of Daniel, Zephaniah
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and from 2 Thessalonians
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and from the Book of Revelation.
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There are actually many more,
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but these are primary points. My friend,
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you need to understand that when this man makes his
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appearance to the world, he
will style himself in one way,
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but his goal is to promote himself as God,
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to promote his own will, his own wishes.
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This will be a man of
perversion, a man who tries
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to unshackle the world
from the word of God
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and past moral codes
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and to create a new
world of his own making,
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and he will be a beast.
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Now, when we come back in
the next program, we're going
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to see where the antichrist
is going to come from,
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but I'll be back in just a moment
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and I'm going to pray for you.
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Hey friends, my name is Rick Renner
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and somebody has asked: What is the judgment seat of Christ?
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Well, it's referred to multiple times in the New Testament,
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but we read about it very specifically in 2 Corinthians
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5:10, which says, For we must all appear
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before the judgment seat of Christ.
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And notice it doesn't say, we must all grovel
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before the judgment seat of Christ.
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and the judgment seat of Christ is not a place
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where we're going to be reminded of all of our past sins.
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The word, judgment seat, is the Greek word bema.
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what we're gonna do in all of eternity.
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But one day we really will stand
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We won't grovel there,
we're gonna stand upright,
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It's called the Ministry Expansion Project.
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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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The thank you for being a part.
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You know, as I was teaching today,
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I could hear someone thinking - Why do we need
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to know all these points about the antichrist?
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Because the Bible gives them to us.
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And if the Bible tells us something,
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it means we need to understand it.
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We need to understand what is coming
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to the world in the future.
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But if you're a child of
God, you won't be here.
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And that's another reason why
you need to reach the unsaved.
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You don't want them to be here either.
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But please my friend, order the whole series
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which is called, The Rapture, the Antichrist,
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and the Tribulation, it's 20 parts:
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comes with a study guide,
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and be sure to order the book, 464 pages, cover
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to cover, fully illustrated called The Rapture,
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the Antichrist, and the Tribulation, an End-Times Countdown
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an What Happens Next. You need to know what's going
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to happen next so you can be prepared
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and so you can help other people to be prepared.
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But when we come back, we're going to see
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what the Bible tells us about possibly
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where the antichrist
is going to come from.
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That's a question of great debate,
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so we're gonna cover it in the next episode.
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But Father, I thank in the name of Jesus that you allow us
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to gather together and
to study the Word of God.
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Thank you that you've given
us so much information, Lord,
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that you want us to be prepared.
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We thank you for this in Jesus' wonderful name - Amen.
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Alright, I'll see you in the next program,
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but please remember Ecclesiastes 8:4, it 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, I repent
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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. If you just prayed
the prayer of salvation
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with us, would you please
let us know by going
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to renner.org/salvation?
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We would love to connect with you.
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Renner Ministries is proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ
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through every available media avenue
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to the uttermost parts of the earth.
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Discover the many ways you can
help us make a difference in
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lives around the world
with the word of God.
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We invite you to partner with
us in teaching, strengthening
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and rescuing lives for the glory of God.
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Together we can make a difference
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that will last throughout eternity.