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Welcome to today's program.
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I am so glad to be with you
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And today you and I are gonna
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which is called, The Rapture, the Antichrist
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and the Tribulation.
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And today we're going to turn
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to 2 Thessalonians 2,
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and today we're gonna be discussing
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Who Is the Great Restrainer.
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Today, I believe you're
gonna want to take notes
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and we're going to pick up again in 2
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Thessalonians 2.
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And we're looking at the question
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Who Is the Great Restrainer?
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And actually there are
different ideas about
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who is the Great Restrainer.
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For example, some people
believed in the past
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that it was the Roman Senate.
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That's amazing. Some people have believed
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that the Great Restrainer
is Michael the Archangel.
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Others have believed the
great restrainer is the
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preaching of the gospel.
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There are others who believe
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that the Great Restrainer
is the Holy Spirit.
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And then there are those like myself
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who believe the great
restrainer is the church.
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But today we're gonna go through all 5 of these
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to see why people have believed in all these various options
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about who is the Great Restrainer.
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But let's go back to 2 Thessalonians 2,
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where Paul says in verse 6 -
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And now you know what withholdeth that he -
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that is the antichrist - might
be revealed in his time.
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And this tells us there
is an appointed season,
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there is an appointed time
when the antichrist is
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going to be revealed.
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Now, if the devil had his way,
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the devil would reveal him right now.
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And my friends, when the antichrist is revealed, he is going
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to come with all kinds of evil.
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But according to verse 6, there's something
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that is withholding.
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And we've seen that that word withhold, is the
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Greek word, katecho.
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The word kata carries the notion of something
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that's dominating or suppressing. The word echo, means
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to have hold or to embrace.
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But when you compound the
two words together, it means
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to hold something down
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or to suppress something, to postpone to stall,
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to put on the brakes.
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So Paul now says in verse 6,
there is a supernatural force
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that is withholding, restraining,
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or stalling the manifestation
of the antichrist.
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Who is the force that is
stopping his manifestation?
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And then we see in verse 7 -
For the mystery of iniquity,
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death already work.
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And here we've seen that
there is a conspiracy,
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a secret plan that is in operation.
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We studied this in verse 3
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where the apostle Paul teaches us
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that the world is being
primed and prepared
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and modified to receive the man of sin.
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And the mystery of iniquity
is working in society,
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getting the world ready for
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that moment when the
antichrist is revealed.
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But verse 7 goes on to say -
Only he who now lets will let
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until he be taken out of the way.
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And here we see this word letteth and let,
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and in both cases it again
is the Greek word katecho,
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which means to stall, to postpone, to withhold, to hinder,
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to put on the brakes.
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So now Paul says again in verse 7,
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right now at this very present
moment, there is a force
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that is postponing all of this.
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There is a force that's
holding all of this back
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and Paul says it will continue to do so
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until he be taken out of the way.
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And these words - be taken out of the way -
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are very important.
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As we saw in the last program;
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it describes whatever this force is,
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this hindering force, suddenly
instantaneously being removed
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from the middle of everything.
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In fact, when the Bible
says taken out of the way,
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it means he will be removed
from the midst of everything.
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So the restrain, whoever,
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or whatever it is, is in the
midst of everything right now.
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It is everywhere.
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But a moment is coming when
the Great Restrainer is going
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to suddenly be evacuated and removed.
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And I believe the great
restrainer is the church,
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but I wanna give you the RIV
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of 2 Thessalonians 2:6.
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It says it 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 a supernatural
force at work preventing the
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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 center stage
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to let everyone know who he is.
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Then the RIV of 2 Thessalonians 2:7 continues.
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These secretive dark events have been covertly in the making
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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 under
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their own 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 the question is, who is this restraining force?
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My goodness, this is very important for us to understand.
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And as I've told you throughout history,
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there have been 5 suggestions about
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who is the Great Restrainer.
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And today I'm gonna be
sticking to my notes
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because I want to be very careful
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to share this information
with you correctly.
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No.1, in the earliest centuries of the church,
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it was actually believed
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that the Great Restrainer was the Roman Senate.
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Now that may be a shock to you,
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but they really believed
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that. It was believed in the earliest centuries
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of the church
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that the Roman Senate was
holding back the full evil
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of the emperor.
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And that view was held for many centuries,
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and many believed that the Roman Senate alone had the power
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to hinder the evil
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that could have been potentially unleashed
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by Roman emperors at different times.
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And even the early church Father Tertullian,
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around the year 200 suggested
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that the restrainer may have
in fact been the Roman empire
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and that the Roman empire
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and the government itself
was holding back evil.
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And he also suggested
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that the Roman Senate was the restrainer
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that Paul was referring
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to in 2 Thessalonians 2.
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And it was believed then,
as it is believed today,
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that government played
a role in restraining
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aberrant human behavior.
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And they really believed that
the Roman Senate as corrupt
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as it was, operated as a check
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and balance on the growing corruptions
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of the Roman Empire at that time.
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But it was also believed
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that a moment would come when
the government would fall
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and it would be taken out of the way.
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That's a connection to 2 Thessalonians
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And it was believed in the earliest centuries of the church
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that when the Roman government collapsed
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and it was taken out of the way,
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that is when evil would be unleashed
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and the antichrist would step forward.
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However, human government has often failed
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to restrain evil and at times
as even cooperated with evil.
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And the problem with this whole view is
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that eventually the Roman government did
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collapse in the West.
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Eventually it collapsed in the East.
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And when the Roman government in the West
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and the east collapsed
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and was taken out of the way,
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the antichrist did not emerge.
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So No.1, in the earliest years of the church,
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it was believed the great restrainer was the Roman Senate.
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And now we understand it
was not. That is incorrect.
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No.2: many have believed, over 2000 years
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that the Great Restrainer is the Archangel Michael.
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And this is a very interesting view.
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It is suggested that Michael is the restrainer
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because in scripture it is Michael the Archangel
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that contends with principalities and powers.
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For example, when you come to Daniel 10, you find
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that an angel came to speak with Daniel.
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And in Daniel 10:21,
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the Bible says, the angel speaking to Daniel -
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For I come in response to thy words,
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but the prince of the kingdom
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of Persia withstood me one and 20 days.
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So this angel confronted principalities
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and powers, but then he adds -
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But lo Michael, one of the chief princes came to help me
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and I remained there
with the kings Persia.
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So here we see that Michael, the archangel came to contend
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with spiritual principalities and powers.
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This was a conflict in
the spiritual realm.
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But Daniel goes on to say,
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But I will show thee that which is noted in the scripture
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of truth that there is none that holdeth
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with me in these things
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but Michael your prince. Continuing
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to talk about the activities
of Michael, the archangel.
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and the word holdeth that is
used here, guess what it means
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to restrain, to bind or to resist.
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So here we see the role
of Michael, the archangel,
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and he is restraining, he's
binding, he's resisting,
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he is withstanding evil forces.
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And when you come to Daniel 12:1, we read
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that at the very, very
end of the age, Michael,
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the archangel will also
be dispatched to defend
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and to deliver Israel.
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It says, and at that time,
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shall Michael stand up, the
great prince, which standeth
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for the children of thy people
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and there shall be a time of trouble such
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as never was there was a
nation even to that same time.
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And at that time, thy
people shall be delivered,
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everyone that shall be
found written in the book.
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And here we find that Michael
is going to be dispatched
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to defend the people of Israel.
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But there's one more interesting verse about Michael the
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Archangel, and we find it in Jude verse 9.
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And in Jude verse 9, the Bible talks
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to us about when Moses died
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and it says Michael the Archangel, when contending
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with the devil, he disputed about the body of Moses.
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And when the Bible says he contended, in Greek,
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it describes a very fierce disputation, our real wrangling
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between the devil and Michael the Archangel.
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So once again, Michael is involved in dealing
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with principalities and powers.
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But then when you come to Revelation 12:
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7, again, we see a conflict between Michael,
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the Archangel and his angels and evil angels.
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And Revelation 12:7 says,
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and there was a war in heaven, Michael
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and his angels fought against the dragon
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and the dragon fought and his angels.
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So once again, we see Michael,
the Archangel contending
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with evil powers, holding them back, restraining them,
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resisting them and withstanding them.
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And on the basis of these scriptures,
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some people have alleged
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that the Great Restrainer might be Michael the Archangel,
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but there's a problem, there's
a glitch with this view
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because whoever the restrainer is,
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we saw in 2 Thessalonians 2:7,
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he's in the midst of everything
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and suddenly he's going to be removed.
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Michael, the Archangel
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as a singular force is not everywhere in the midst
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of everything and
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therefore he cannot be the Great Restrainer even though he
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is a restraining force.
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No.3: there are those
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who say the Great Restrainer is the preaching of the gospel.
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And in a certain way the preaching
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of the gospel really is a restraining force.
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In Romans 1:16, Paul said,
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for I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ,
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for it is the power of God
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and to salvation to
everyone that believeth.
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And that word power is
the Greek word dunamis.
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It describes dynamic power,
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which means the gospel is dynamite.
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But there's something else.
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That word dunamis was the
very word used when Paul was
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writing this text to
describe the full might
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of an advancing army.
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And it tells us that when
the gospel is preached,
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it releases the power of God
to advance like a mighty army,
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to drive away darkness
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and to bring the light
of God into society.
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And history has proven over 2000 years,
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not only in the time past,
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but even in the present
moment, that entire nations
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where darkness once ruled,
are now being changed
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because of the advancing
light of the gospel.
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The gospel really does restrain evil
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and it brings reformation,
it brings light.
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And when the Bible is proclaimed,
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when the Bible is believed,
when the Bible is applied,
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it eradicates spiritual darkness.
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It removes ignorance, it
dispels disease, inequality,
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poverty and racism.
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But those who reject the
gospel remain in darkness.
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Those who embrace it, they are delivered
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because the preaching
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of the gospel really does
have a resisting effect.
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It holds back evil and it releases good.
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So some people say maybe
it is the preaching
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of the gospel itself
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that is the Great Restrainer,
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but there's a glitch with this view too -
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because the preaching of the word
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of God will never be removed,
it will never be removed,
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it will never be taken out of the way.
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Even during the Great Tribulation,
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we're told in Revelation 7,
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there will be 144,000 anointed
Jewish preachers, evangelists
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who are going to preach the Bible.
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The preaching of the
gospel is here to the end
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of the age, my friend.
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And so it cannot be the great restrainer though it is a
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restraining force.
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No.4: there are those
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who say the Great Restrainer is the Holy Spirit
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and one day the Holy Spirit is going to be removed.
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But there's a great problem with this
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because we read in Revelation 7:4, that
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during the time of the Great
Tribulation, there are going
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to be many, many, many who
respond to the preaching
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of the 144,000 Jewish preachers.
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And they're going to be saved.
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There is going to be an amazing harvest going to take place
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during the Great Tribulation,
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but for anybody to be saved, it requires the work
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of the Holy Spirit.
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You cannot be saved
without the Holy Spirit.
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It is the Holy Spirit
which gives you eyes to see
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that you need to be saved.
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It's the Holy Spirit that
awakens your soul from slumber
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and from sleep and spiritual death so
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that you can see the light of
God and you can be born again.
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You cannot be saved without
the work of the Holy Spirit.
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And in fact, Jesus said in John 6:44,
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No man can come to me except the Father,
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which has sent me, draw him.
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And we know the way the
Father draws sinners is
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through the work of the Holy Spirit.
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So if the people are going to be saved
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during the tribulation
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and they will be saved in
large large numbers according
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to Revelation 7, it will require the presence
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of the Holy Spirit in the earth.
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The Holy Spirit cannot be the restrainer
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because the Holy Spirit will never be removed.
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Then we come to option No.5:
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and this is what I personally believe.
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There are those who believe including me that the restrainer
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that Paul wrote about in 2 Thessalonians 2 is
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the church because the church is definitely going
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to be removed.
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And you have to understand the church is such a restraining
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force that in Matthew 16:18, Jesus said,
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I will build my church
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and even the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
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But you've got to also remember that according to 2
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Thessalonians 2:17, whoever the restrainer is,
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it is currently in the midst of everything.
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Well right now the church is in the mist of everything.
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There are believers in the business world.
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There are believers in the athletic world,
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believers in arts, believers in education,
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believers in government, believers in the medical field.
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There are believers in every single sphere of life.
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We are everywhere.
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But according to 2 Thessalonians 2:
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7, a moment is coming when he who lets - the one
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that is postponing, restraining, holding back, all
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of this evil - will suddenly be taken out of the way.
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And my friends this agrees with
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what Paul wrote in 1 Thessalonians 4:
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17 when he said, We that are alive
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and remain shall be caught up to meet the Lord in the air.
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The Great Restrainer really is the church, even with all
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of our defects and all of our problems,
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and maybe sometimes you get discouraged when you see all the
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stuff that's going on in the church,
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but the fact remains, we are the church.
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The Holy Spirit is in the
church, God is in the church.
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And even with all of our
blemishes, we are a powerful,
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powerful force.
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Now, just imagine if the
church was suddenly removed
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and there was no church in the world.
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Suddenly there would be no force to hold evil at bay
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and evil would come rushing in.
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And that is why we are told in 2 Thessalonians 2:
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8, that when the restrainer is removed, then in
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that very synchronized moment
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that wicked one will be revealed.
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But at this current moment,
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the church is the Great Restrainer,
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and as long as we are present, the antichrist
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and his identity and the mark
of the beast cannot take place
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because we are holding it all back.
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But when we come back in the
next program, we're going
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to see what is the mark of the beast
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and when is it going to be given.
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Don't miss tomorrow's episode,
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but I'll be back in just a
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moment and I'm going to pray for you.
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Someone just asked the question -
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What does Galatians 6:5 really mean?
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And the verse says,
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For every man shall bear his own burden.
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Well, that word burden is
a Greek word was depicted,
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the backpack that was worn
by every Roman soldier
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and every Roman soldier
had a certain amount
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of weight they were obligated to carry
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and they couldn't give their
backpack to somebody else
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and say, I'm tired of bearing this,
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would you please carry my weight for me?
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Everyone had to carry their own weight in the army.
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And in the context of Galatians 6,
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it's really talking about giving.
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And it means every one of us have a God-given responsibility
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that we are to bear, we are to carry,
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and that is to give to the work of God
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and to give for the
expansion of the preaching
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of the gospel around the world.
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And we can ask somebody
else to bear our part.
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Each of us have to
embrace our responsibility
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and do what God has asked us to do.
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Renner and guess where I am.
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This is the lunch room in our Tulsa Ministry
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Headquarters facility.
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People have to have a place to work
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and they work really hard in
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 our boys live for 9 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
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of the Oklahoma State Capitol to represent this office
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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
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who is the Great Restrainer,
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but when we come back in the
next program, we're gonna see
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what is the mark of the beast
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and when is the mark of the
beast going to be given.
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Don't miss tomorrow's episode,
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but please order the entire series,
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which is called, The Rapture, the Antichrist
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and the Tribulation.
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It's 20 parts.
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It comes with a wonderful study guide
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and we're offering you right now the book,
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464 pages from cover to cover.
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And my friends, it's so
beautifully illustrated
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and the name of the book is, The Rapture, the Antichrist,
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the Tribulation, an End-Times Countdown
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and What Happens Next.
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You need to know what's
going to happen next.
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You need to know what the Bible says.
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God communicated all of this
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because he believed we
needed to know these answers,
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and that's why I've
written this book for you.
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I wanted to give you peace
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and to put you on a good foundation.
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But hey, thank you for
being with me today.
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You can order all these
things by going online
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and remember that when you reach out
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to us, we wanna pray for you.
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Just call the number on the
screen or send us an email.
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And the moment we hear
from you, we're gonna pray.
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Jesus is gonna move
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and he is gonna do exactly
what needs to be done.
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And I wanna pray for you right now.
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Father, I thank you that
the church is powerful.
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Lord, help us to value the
church as the Great Restrainer
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that you've put into the world
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and help us to do our job up until the end in Jesus'
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wonderful name - Amen.
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I'll see you in the next program.
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But remember, Ecclesiastes 8:4 says, "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.