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Hey friends, this is Rick Renner
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and today we're wrapping
up the 20 part series,
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which is called, The Rapture, the Antichrist
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and the Tribulation. 20 Parts
comes in all kinds of formats
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and it comes with a wonderful study guide.
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And today is the last day
on the program which we're
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offering you the book, 464 pages, cover to cover,
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and the book is called, The Rapture,
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the Antichrist, and the Tribulation,
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an End-Times Countdown and What Happens Next.
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And there we have a picture of the angel
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blowing the trumpet.
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Here we have a picture of
the rapture of the church,
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people being caught up into
the presence of the Lord
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and the antichrist who's
going to appear immediately
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after the rapture of the church.
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The Foreword is written
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by my friend Jimmy Evans and friends,
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this is really beautifully illustrated.
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You are going to devour this book.
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It is easy to read
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and it's going to answer
every question I believe
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that you could possibly
ask about the rapture,
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the antichrist, and the tribulation.
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It really taught me a
lot as I was writing it
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and I wrote it in a way that I believe
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that it's going to help you.
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It's going to eliminate fears
and it's gonna give you peace
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and it's gonna put you on a
good foundation about what's
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gonna happen between now
and the end of the age
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and what's going to happen next.
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I really mean it when I tell you that praying for you is one
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of the greatest priorities of our ministry.
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And when I call our office
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and I say, please tell me
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The Bible tells us in Jeremiah 33:3,
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Call into me,
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You have direct access to the Father,
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that you do - but reach for your Bible.
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And today we're gonna answer the question - Why is it taking
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so long for Jesus to come?
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Today we're concluding a 20-part series
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about The Rapture, the Tribulation,
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and the Antichrist - 20 programs -
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we've been looking at this,
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but a natural question is
why is it taking so long
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for Jesus to come?
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But I want to begin
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how I started in the very 1st program. When I was a boy
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growing up, every year we would have revival
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meetings in our church.
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A revival meeting was
usually a week of meetings
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and our pastor would
invite a guest evangelist
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and he would come and
he would preach on hell.
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He would preach to those
that were backslidden.
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And usually one of those nights
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and often the last night he
would preach about the coming
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of Jesus and the rapture of the church.
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And he would say, if Christ came today,
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are you absolutely sure you
would go in the rapture?
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And the way he would ask the
question would just scare the
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living daylights out of me
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because it made me so fearful
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that maybe my faith was defective
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and I would wake up one
day and find everybody gone
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and I was left behind.
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Well, the truth is some people
are going to be left behind.
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We saw this in Matthew 24 when Jesus said,
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one will be taken, another will be left.
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We saw in John 14:1-3,
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that Jesus really did say He is coming again
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to receive us unto himself or
to withdraw us unto himself.
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Jesus said that; Jesus taught about the
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rapture of the church.
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We've seen the rapture
of the church was taught
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by the Apostle Paul in 1 Thessalonians 4,
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where it is prominently taught.
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Then he taught about it very clearly again in 2
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Thessalonians 2.
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Paul taught about it very clearly in 1 Corinthians
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15:51 and 52.
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And we saw yesterday that
Peter taught about the rapture
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of the church in 2 Peter 3:
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3 and 4,
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and even prophesied that at the very end
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of the age mockers would arise that would make fun of us
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who believe in the rapture of the church.
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But you know, when I was
younger, I avoided the subject
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of the rapture because I
realized there was a lot
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of disagreement about this subject
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and I didn't want to turn
somebody off that I thought
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that I could help with the
teaching of the word of God.
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So I just didn't touch the
subject of the rapture.
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But as I got older in the Lord,
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I realized I have a
God-given responsibility
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to bring teaching people can
trust even on the subject
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of the rapture of the church.
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And that's why I've written this book
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and this is why I'm teaching this series.
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But it is a logical question to ask.
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If Jesus is coming for the rapture of the church,
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then why is it taking Jesus so long to get here?
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We've only been waiting 2000 years.
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Well, let's go back to
where we left off in the
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last episode.
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So let's go to 2 Peter 3:3,
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where in the King James Version Peter says -
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Knowing this first.
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And we've seen that, that word knowing, means - know this
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always know this,
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never forget this.
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We saw that the word first
is the Greek word proton.
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It describes something
that is first, foremost,
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very, very important.
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It must be known above all else.
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And Peter says here in the King James Version,
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Knowing this first that there shall come: even the word,
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that, is very important. It points
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to something very important specifically
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that - there shall come in the last days - scoffers.
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And we've seen that the phrase, last days, in the Greek text
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actually says the very end of days.
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And it points to the very,
very, very end of the age,
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the Greek word eschatos.
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It was the word used navigationally to describe a ship
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that had sailed to the very last port.
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And if you've come to this eschatos port,
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there's not another port after that.
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You've come to the end of the trip.
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That's the word which Peter
now uses in this verse.
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And so through him, the Holy Spirit says,
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you need to know this,
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always know this, never forget this specifically that:
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when time has sailed to the last port
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and there's no more time left
for the journey, you've come
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to the very, very ultimate end of days,
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there shall arise scoffers.
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And we've seen that the Greek actually says -
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scoffing scoffers.
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It pictures people that
are given to scoffing.
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They're scoffing scoffers: they're given to mockery
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and they're particularly making fun of those
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who believe in the rapture of the church.
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And the RIV of 2 Peter 3:3
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interprets the verse like this: Knowing, always knowing
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and never forgetting first, foremost and above all else.
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Now, why is this so important?
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Because we should not be
alarmed if this occurs.
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Peter wants us to know
this is going to happen.
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What's going to happen?
Notice again, knowing,
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always knowing and never
forgetting first foremost
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and above all else,
specifically that in the last
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of days when time has
sailed to its last port
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and not much more time
is left for the journey,
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you'll know it
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because of mocking scoffers, those who sneer
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and make fun of those who believe in Christ coming, people
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who are really dominated
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and ruled by their own base instincts
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and who are following after them.
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Wow! And we saw in yesterday's episode that in verse 4,
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Peter tells us what these
scoffers are going to say.
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And in verse 4, the King James Version says -
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And saying, where is the promise of his coming?
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For since the fathers fell asleep,
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all things continue as they were from the beginning
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of the creation.
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And we saw that the word, saying, in verse 3,
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in the King James Version means saying and saying
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and saying, and alleging
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and alleging where - the word, where, is exactly
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where is the promise of his coming.
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In Greek, the word promise
has a definite article,
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which means this is not just any promise,
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but this is the guaranteed
promise that God has made
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concerning Christ coming.
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And the word coming is a form
of the Greek word, parousia,
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which describes the royal visit of a king
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or an emperor who comes
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and he alone has the authority
to put everything in order.
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And the word parousia can be used in two ways.
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It can be used to describe
the rapture of the church
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or the second coming at the end
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of the seven year tribulation.
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Some people say it only
describes the coming
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of Christ at the end of the seven years,
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but that's not correct because
Paul uses it both ways in the
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New Testament. In both events,
it pictures Jesus coming
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with authority, Jesus
coming with authority
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that is dominating and subjugating.
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And when he comes, he's going
to come with the authority
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to begin putting things in order.
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And my friends, that's really what's going
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to happen when he comes for
the rapture of the church.
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Because when the church is withdrawn,
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when the church is extricated
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and removed from the world,
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that is when the process
will begin for Jesus
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to put everything in order.
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The court of heaven is going to
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issue its verdict of judgment.
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God is gonna begin pouring out bowls
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of wrath upon the earth.
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And then finally it's gonna
all be consummated when Christ
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comes at the end of the
seven year tribulation,
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which Enoch prophesied about.
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And that is recorded in Jude chapter -
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there's only 1 chapter - chapter 1:14 and 15.
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It says that Jesus is gonna
come with 10 thousands
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and thousands of his saints
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and my friends, that is gonna be quite a day.
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And Jesus in that event is
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of Olives and set up his millennial kingdom.
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Wow. All of that is in front of us.
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And by the way, all of that
is covered in this book
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that you need to get and you need to read
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so you can understand
all of it very straight.
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But listen to this; it says in the King James Version -
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Where's the promise of his coming?
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For sense the fathers fell asleep.
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The word fathers, is plural.
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to other people that have walked in faith.
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That basically the sense is for a long,
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long time, since the earliest
ages, since our time
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of our great patriarchs,
all things continue.
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The word continue means perpetually
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and unchanged as they
were from the beginning
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of the creation.
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So now we find the scoffers
are gonna say, oh, come on,
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these people who believe in the rapture,
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they're just delusional.
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They've been talking about
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the rapture's never taken place.
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These people are delusional.
Nothing has ever changed.
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Everything is perpetually the same.
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It's basically the same
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And the RIV translates verse 4 like this - They go on
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and on alleging
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and saying exactly where
is the guaranteed promise
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of his glorious coming?
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Those mockers will allege for from the time
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that the fathers died,
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absolutely everything continues perpetually the same.
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of creation. That's what the mockers are going to allege.
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But then when we get to verse 8, Peter then says -
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But beloved.
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He's speaking to you and me, to those of us that are looking
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for Jesus' return.
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He's speaking to us and he says - But beloved.
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Be not ignorant of this one thing
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that one day with the Lord
is as a thousand years
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and a thousand years as a day.
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it means it's just been
two days since Pentecost.
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It's been 2000 years.
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That would be two days on God's timetable.
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But here he says - Be not ignorant.
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The word not is very
emphatic, be not ignorant.
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used here is the Greek word
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lanthano, which means - to forget,
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to deliberately ignore,
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to purposely disregard, to deny,
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to disregard, to forget
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or purposely overlook facts
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that were previously believed.
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Do you know why Peter wrote this?
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Because even in his time there were people
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who previously believed in the rapture.
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They previously believed in
the imminent return of Jesus,
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but now they're disappointed.
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Even in Peter's time,
they were already saying,
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come on, you've gotta be kidding me.
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If it was gonna happen, it should have
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already happened by now.
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It's clear that it's not going to happen.
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This is nothing more than
a delusion or a fantasy.
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Christ is not coming.
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And Peter says, friends
don't forget, don't deny
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what you once believed.
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And most people who today
mock the rapture are people
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who at one time were
very fervently committed
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to the belief in the
rapture of the church,
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but someone has now talked them out of it
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and they have become ignorant,
which means to forget
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to deliberately ignore,
to purposely disregard
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or to purposely overlooked facts
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that were previously believed.
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They have shucked it,
they've put it aside,
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and now they've become cynical.
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And the RIV of verse 8 is translated like this -
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But it is vital that you don't ever forget
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or allow yourself to lose sight
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of this one very important thing. Beloved,
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those whom I deeply love
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and cherish, it is imperative
that you never forget
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or lose sight of the fact that one 24 hour day
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before the Lord is just like a thousand years.
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And a thousand years is precisely like a single
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24 hour day.
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So 2000 years may seem very long to us,
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but in God's mind it's just two days.
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And then Peter adds in verse 9 - The Lord is not slack
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concerning his promise
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as some men count slackness;
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but as longsuffering to us-ward, not willing
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that any should perish,
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but that all should come to repentance.
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But notice that the very first
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of the King James version in verse 9, it says,
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the Lord is not slack
concerning his promise.
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And the word slack is the Greek word braduno.
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And this is very, very important.
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This means to be tardy,
to be slow, delayed
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or late in time: like somebody
who's late for an appointment.
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But specifically it refers
to lateness in reference
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to an appointed time.
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And this word braduno was used medically
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to describe a person
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that was mentally or physically handicapped and
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therefore slow to speak
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or slow in terms of physical movement.
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And ancient Greek writers use this word slack here,
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the Greek word braduno, to picture a person who's hesitant
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to act do either to a lack of direction, commitment,
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or resources,
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and by using this word,
the Holy Spirit states
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that God is not delayed, slow
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or tardy regarding the promise
that Jesus will return.
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Or furthermore, regarding any
promise of a coming judgment.
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Men may think that God is slow, but he is not slow.
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He is not late.
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He's going to keep his appointment,
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he's gonna show up exactly on time.
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In fact, the verse says He's not slack
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concerning his promise.
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His promise again has a definite article -
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the specific promise that he is coming again
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as some men count slackness.
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The word count, a form the Greek word, hegeomai,
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which means to regard, there really are people
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that have just kind of shucked it all.
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And they've said - Ah, if he's coming, he is late,
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possibly he's not coming at all.
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They count it to be slackness
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or they say He is slow, he's tardy.
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It is never going to happen.
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But instead Peter says,
he's long suffering.
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He's long suffering to us.
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Where to now we find out why it's taking
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so long for Jesus to come.
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The word long suffering, in Greek is the word, makrothumeo.
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The word macros
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and the word, thumos. The word macros depicts what is long
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or of long duration
similar to a span of time.
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While the word thumos means anger and it depicts a strong
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and growing passion.
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But when you compound
the two words together,
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it is the long restraint
of anger or long suffering,
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or I say the word long
suffering could be compared
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to a candle with a very, very long wick.
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Doesn't have a short wick,
doesn't burn out real fast,
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it has got a long wick.
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It has the ability to burn
a long, long, long time.
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And here we find that God is patiently waiting.
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He is restraining his anger, he is restraining his judgment.
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Why? Because he is not willing that any should perish
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but that all should come to repentance.
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This does not say everybody's gonna get saved.
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Doesn't say that. It just
says he's not willing
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that any should perish.
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But that all should come to repentance,
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which means the reason it
is taking Jesus so long
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to come is not because he is late.
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He's gonna be right on time,
but he's waiting and waiting
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and waiting like a candle
with a very long wick.
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He's burning and burning and burning
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and burning, waiting, waiting, waiting,
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holding back everything.
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As he awaits that very last
person that's going to repent
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and come to Christ.
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He's not willing that any should perish. Again,
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it does not mean everybody's gonna get saved,
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but God sure doesn't
want anybody to perish.
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But he's holding out
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and he's holding on for that last person
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that's gonna come to repentance.
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And when that last person comes to faith in Christ - boom!
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In that moment, Christ is gonna descend into the lower
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atmosphere with his own shout.
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He's gonna be excited about it; with the voice
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of the archangel, the trumpet blast that we're all going
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to hear, those of us that are in faith
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and the dead in Christ are gonna be raised
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and we which are alive
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and remain including the
last one that just got saved,
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we're gonna all be caught up
into the air to meet the Lord
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and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
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But if anybody says to you,
why is it taking so long
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for Jesus to come, you
can say He's holding out
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for the last person to get saved and friend,
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you could be the one to bring that last person to Jesus.
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Think about that. Think about that.
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We're outta time, 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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Someone asked - When is the rapture going to take place?
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Well, it's going to take place
at the end of the Church Age.
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The church age began in Acts 2:17,
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when God poured his
spirit out on the church
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and that birthed the church age.
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And the church age will end at the end
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of this age when Jesus comes
for the rapture of the church.
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And we read about it in 1 Thessalonians
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4:16.
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For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout,
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with the voice of the archangel and with the trump of God.
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And the dead in Christ shall rise first.
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And then - this is verse 17 -
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And the word then means exactly at that synchronized moment,
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we which are alive
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and remain shall be caught up together
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with them in the clouds to
meet the Lord in the air.
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And this will occur at the
very end of the church age.
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And when the rapture occurs,
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it will trigger the moment when the great
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tribulation begins.
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Are you afraid of what will
happen at the end of the age?
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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
of the Oklahoma State Capitol
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to represent this office, which is in the State of Oklahoma.
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But right now we're trying to pay off this facility.
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It's called the Ministry Expansion Project.
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We've already paid off
78% of the facility.
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And my friends, we need your
help to help us finish this.
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And if you're not already
a part of the Giving Team,
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I'm inviting you to join us
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and to help us pay off this facility.
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And when it is finished being paid for,
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it's gonna release all those finances
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so we can keep taking the teaching of the Bible to the ends
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of the earth.
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But thank you for being apart.
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Well, my friends, we just
wrapped up the series,
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which is called, The Rapture,
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the Antichrist, and the Tribulation.
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It is 20 parts. It comes in all kinds of formats
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and it comes with a study guide.
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You can go online to order this right now,
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or you can give us a call.
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Please order this.
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And today is the last
day that we're offering
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it on the program.
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And today is also the last day
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that we're offering you my book, 464 pages, cover
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to cover called The Rapture,
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the Antichrist, the Tribulation.
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The Foreward is by Jimmy Evans,
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who I believe is really an expert on End-Times.
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And the subtitle says, an End-Times Countdown,
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and What Happens Next.
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And everything we've covered
in this series is in this book
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and much, much, much, much more.
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464 pages of insight,
information, revelation,
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and lots of graphics and
art and illustrations.
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It is so easy to read
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and it will really help you wrap your arms
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and wrap your head around
all of these end time things.
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It's gonna answer your questions.
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So please go online to order
yours now or give us a call
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and please let us know
how to pray for you.
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And right now, let's pray for
our family and our friends
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and our acquaintances that are unsaved.
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And if you want somebody to
pray with you specifically
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for them, please call
the number on the screen
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or send us an email and
we'll put our faith out there
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with you for them to get saved.
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But my friends, Jesus is holding out for the last person
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to get saved and then he's
gonna come for the church.
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So Father, right now,
we pray for our family.
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We pray for our friends
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and our acquaintances that are unsaved, and Holy Spirit
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we ask that you use each one
of us to speak the gospel
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and Holy Spirit, give them
eyes to see, give them ears
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to hear that they could make
Jesus the Lord of their life.
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In Jesus' name - Amen.
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Wow! This has been full and this has been good,
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but I'll see you in the next episode.
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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. Thank you for joining Rick Renner today.
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For more information about Renner Ministries
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and product resources, visit renner.org.