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and doctrine doesn't bend to culture.
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but dive deep revealing a
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and a mission that touches the
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world. Let's join
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Rick Renner.
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Welcome to today's program.
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My name is Rick Renner and
I've been waiting for you.
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And today we're returning to the series,
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which is called, How Close Are We To the End?
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People are asking that question.
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They're wanting to know
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how quickly is the rapture
really going to take place?
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And so we're gonna answer that question.
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And we're looking at Matthew 24,
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where Jesus gave us a list of signs that we would see
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as we come to the very end of the age.
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But the series is called, How Close Are We To the End?
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It is a 10-part series.
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It comes with a wonderful study guide.
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Everything in the series
is in the study guide
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because I want you to be able
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to see the information while you're seeing
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or hearing the series.
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And I'm so excited about my book, which is called Signs
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You'll See Just before Jesus Comes,
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which really dives into Matthew 24, Mark 13,
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and Luke 21, to enumerate all the signs Jesus said we would
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see as we come closer to the end of the age.
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And right now we want to give you as our gift
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and End-Times Timeline, which shows all the prophecies
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that have already been fulfilled, those
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that are still being
fulfilled, those that are yet
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to be fulfilled because
we want you to be able
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to see right in front of you
in one easy view, everything
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that has happened is happening
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and is prophesied to
happen in front of us.
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And that is our gift to you today.
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All you have to do is call
the number on the screen
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or go online. You can download it
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or if you wish, we will send you a hard copy.
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And hey, when you reach out to us, we wanna pray for you.
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We believe that Jesus answers prayer.
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Jeremiah 33:3 says, Call unto me.
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I'll hear you, I'll answer you,
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and I'll show you great and mighty things.
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And we want to call out to God with you in faith
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and he will hear us and Jesus
will do what needs to be done.
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And if you want us to pray with you,
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then just call the number on the screen
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and please write it down.
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Save that number so you always have it nearby
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if you need somebody to pray with you.
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Maybe you would prefer to write us an email,
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send us an email.
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Either way, whether you call
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or write, we're gonna really pray for you.
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And Jesus is gonna do
what needs to be done.
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But I want you to reach for your Bible.
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We always use the Bible in this program.
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And today we're returning
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to Matthew 24:3.
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And as I've told you in the
two previous programs, Jesus
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and his disciples were seated
on the Mount of Olives.
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Well, if you've ever been to
Jerusalem, you know the Mount
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of Olives is just across the Kedron Valley
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from the Temple Mount.
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And you go up to the top
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and from the top of the Mount of Olives,
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if you sit in the right direction, then
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behind you is this
beautiful view of Jerusalem
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and the Temple Mount.
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And that's where Jesus
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and his disciples were
on this particular day.
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And as they were sitting there
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with this spectacular
prophetic view of Jerusalem
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behind them, Jesus began
to answer questions
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that the disciples put to him.
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And we find their questions in Matthew 24:3,
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and the Bible says, And as he sat on the Mount of Olives,
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the disciples came unto him privately.
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And I wanna say again that when you get along with the Lord,
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you can ask him things
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that you cannot ask in front of other people.
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This was the case with the disciples.
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It is still the case with us.
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And they particularly asked him,
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tell us when shall these things be?
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And they were pointing
to the end of the age.
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They were really fixated
on prophetic questions
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or issues having to do with eschatology.
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In fact, the world of the 1st Century in Israel was very
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fixated on the end of the age.
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And now here we are at
really the end of the age.
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And people once again have a fixation
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and obsession, such a deep
interest in prophetic things
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or things of a eschatological nature.
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People really sense
something is about to happen.
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And they were sensing that
at the first coming of Jesus.
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And so they said, tell us,
when shall these things be?
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What shall be the sign?
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Notice they're just asking
for one: What is the sign
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of thy coming and of the end of the world?
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But as you saw in the previous episodes, all
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of these words are very, very important.
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The word when, the word what, the word sign,
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the word coming,
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the word end the word world.
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All of these are keys to this verse.
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And if you didn't see the
two previous programs,
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please go back and watch them
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because you need to understand
each one of these words.
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But they were asking what is the sign?
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They were just asking for one.
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But if you combine all the texts, Matthew 24,
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Mark 13, and Luke 21, Jesus answered them
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and gave them more than 20
signs, but they asked for one.
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So Jesus began with the foremost sign that we've come
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to the end of the age.
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Most people would say it's
the restoration of Israel.
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And indeed that is really
one of the major signs.
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But that was not the answer
Jesus gave as the sign
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that we've sailed the end of the age.
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And we find the sign, the No.1# sign,
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the foremost sign in verse 4, when Jesus said
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unto them - Take heed that no man deceive you.
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And here we find sign No.1 is Worldwide
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Deception at the end of the age.
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And Jesus said, take heed
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I'm gonna go to the board
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and I want to give you
these words in Greek
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and I want to explain them to you
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and I want you to write these down
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and I'm gonna give it
to you both in the Greek
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and then I'm gonna spell
the equivalent in English
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so you can take notes.
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First of all, Jesus
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This is the word, blepete.
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If you're gonna spell it in English,
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it would be spelled like this.
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But this word blepo means take heed.
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It really means watch,
listen, pay attention.
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It is intended to jar and jolt the listeners - blepo.
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Well, I want you to really hear me.
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Throw your shoulders back, hold your head high.
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Pay attention. I want
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what I am saying.
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So when Jesus used this word blepo, it was an alert
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that they should really pay attention
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because now he was going to
give to them the foremost sign
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that would come to the end of the age.
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And then he added, take heed
that no man, what does it say
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deceive you.
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The word, deceive, is very important,
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and this particular word for deceive
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appears all over the New Testament.
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It is the Greek word planel. Well, it's a form of this word.
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If you wanna spell it in English,
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it would be spelled like this.
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The word planel.
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And this word planel is such a very important word.
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And it was really used between the old
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and the New Testament in the intertestamental period
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by spiritual leaders who prophetically began to forecast
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what was going to happen in society
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and in the world at the very,
very, very end of the age.
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And over and over
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and over they said at the very end of the age, there's going
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to planao or deception,
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deception. But what is this word, planao
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or the word deceive really mean?
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I'm gonna read to you from my notes.
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This word, deceive, describes a deceptive
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moral wandering.
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Did you hear that? It is a moral wandering.
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It depicts a people who have veered from a solid path, those
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who teeter now on a dangerously treacherous moral path.
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And it means to morally wander: particularly it has to do
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with moral veering, moral wandering.
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and rabbis taught between
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and the intertestamental period
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and how Jesus is speaking in the same vein
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that at the very end of the age, this is really
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what they taught - into the earth will be released hards
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and hards of demon spirits
that will cause society
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to leave a well-trodden,
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and will cause society
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to walk right on the edge
of a treacherous moral path.
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They will suddenly throw away
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and replace them with new ideas,
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perhaps even calling
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This is really what the word - deceive - means.
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It is a worldwide moral wandering,
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Jesus said will occur at the
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And it's very important that this word,
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planao, was also used in an agricultural sense
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to describe an animal that got
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so lost it couldn't find its way back home.
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So we're not talking just about a little veering
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or a little wandering, we're talking about an animal
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that has got so lost when it turns around
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and wants to come back home,
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it can't find its way back home.
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And by using this word, deception, Jesus forecasts
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at the very end of the age
worldwide society is gonna go
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so far off track morally
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that they will lose their way
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and will be unable to return
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That's really what Jesus
said in this verse.
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Now they asked, Lord, tell us
the sign of your coming end
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of the end of the age.
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And Jesus said, all right: blepo, blepo, pay attention.
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Here's the Greek word, blepo.
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Hold your head high, throw your shoulders back.
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Watch, listen. Really hear me.
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Remember, understand, let no man - planao - deceive you.
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And Jesus here forecasting worldwide moral
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deception at the end of the age.
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And certainly we are witnessing that with our own eyes.
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And this really agrees with
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what the apostle Paul wrote in
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2 Thessalonians 2.
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So open your Bible to 2 Thessalonians 2,
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and let me give you a little background to that chapter.
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The Thessalonians were really upset
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because someone told them
that the rapture happened
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and the day of the Lord had already begun.
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In other words, somebody told
'em they were already living
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in the tribulation.
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Well, if somebody told you that you missed the rapture
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and you were living in the tribulation, it might upset you.
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And the Thessalonians were really upset.
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So now Paul writes back to them
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and he says to them in verse 3:
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2 Thessalonians 2:3 -
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let no man deceive you by any means:
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for that day -
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That is the rapture
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and the 7-year tribulation period, the day of the Lord -
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It shall not come except there come a falling
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away first
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and then that son of man be revealed, the son
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of perdition.
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But let's look at two words here.
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The words - falling away -
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and the word - first.
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the word - falling away - in Greek is the word, apostasia.
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Do you hear another word?
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It's where we get the word apostasy.
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But here in the King James Version, it is translated falling
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away, but it is the word apostasia
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and it's very importantly a compound of two words.
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The first word is the word apo - write it down
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in English, it's spelled like this.
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But the 2nd words - stasia - is actually a derivative
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of the word histemi, which means to stand.
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But when you put these 2-words together, apo
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and histemi, it forms a very different picture.
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The word apo means away.
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It carries the idea of
putting distance between you
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and something else.
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The word histemi means to stand.
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But when you compound the 2-words together, apo
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and histemi, it forms the word apostasia, which is one
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who steps away from something,
steps away from something,
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and he doesn't just step away from it
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but he actually, apo, he distances himself from what he used
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to be close to.
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apostasy - which is a picture of people
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or groups of people who once
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even walking in faith,
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but now apostasia - they've stepped away from
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what they used to believe.
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But wait, wait, wait, there's even more than that.
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This word apostasia, is used all over
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Greek literature.
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Now, Paul was a linguist
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and when Paul chose these
words, he knew exactly
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what was the meaning of these words.
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Some people today try to infer
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that this word apostasy used in this verse is another way
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of describing the rapture. My friends,
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that is absolutely incorrect.
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If you hear anybody teach you that they don't know Greek.
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This word, apostasia, describes - listen to this -
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it describes a falling away or a revolt - a revolt.
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It describes a political revolt or a mutiny.
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It is a mutinous attitude.
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what it means and that's
what it means in this verse.
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Hence in this verse, the
apostle Paul is saying,
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at the very end of the
aids, before the rapture,
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before the tribulation
begins, there is going
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to emerge a worldwide
spiritual mutiny against the
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rule of God and the word of God.
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That's what's going to happen.
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And this fits very well with this word deception,
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the word planao: which describes a worldwide wandering
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until finally society gets completely off track.
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And now we find apostsia, it's really the idea of a mutiny.
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There is going to be a worldwide mutiny against
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the law of God.
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And Paul says it's going to happen first,
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the Greek word proton - p-r-o-t-o-n.
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It means in the first place, before the rapture happens,
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before the day of the Lord begins, this is going
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to happen first
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and then he continues to say,
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and then that man
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of sin will be revealed. It's talking about the antichrist.
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The word revealed - the Greek word apokalupto, which means
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to pull the curtains apart.
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And here we find the antichrist is going to be center stage
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waiting for his big moment of revelation,
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but he can't be revealed until 1st - the world is primed
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and prepared for him.
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If the antichrist had
appeared 58 years ago,
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the world would've never received him
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because he's going to be
the man of iniquity, the man
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of lawlessness, the man that
is against the law of God
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and the influence of God.
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Wow! In fact, the Bible here calls him the son of perdition,
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which means the son of doom and gloom.
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Everything he touches will turn into spiritual rot.
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And if the antichrist had even appeared 50 years ago,
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the world would've never received a man like that
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because 50 years ago people were still established in
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Judeo-Christian principles.
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But today the word, planao is wandering.
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It has wandered so far from Judeo-Christian principles
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that the younger generation doesn't even know what they are.
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And now the younger generation
has become a lawless place.
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And in a great sense, the whole world
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in this new woke environment has rebelled against the
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law of God.
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And we're living in a mutinous period when the world at
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large is deceived
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and has a mutinous rebellious
attitude toward the dictates
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and the instructions and the law of God.
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All of that had to happen
first before the rapture
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and the day of the Lord
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and the introduction of the
antichrist can take place.
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All of this is very important
for you to understand.
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But I want to give you the RIV of 2
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Thessalonians 2:3.
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It says - In light of these things, I urge you to refuse
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to allow anyone to take
advantage of you in any way.
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For example, you won't need a letter
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to tell you when the day of
the Lord has come; you ought
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to know by now, that day
can't come until 1st -
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a worldwide insurgency, rebellion, riot
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and mutiny against God
has come about in society.
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Once that occurs, the world
will be primed, prepared
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and ready to embrace the
man of lawlessness, the one
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who hates law and has rebellion running in his blood.
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This is the long awaited and predicted - son of doom
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and destruction - the one who brings rot
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and ruin to everything he touches.
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When the time is just right,
he will finally come out
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of hiding and go public.
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Well, that is such a good interpretation
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of 2 Thessalonians 2:3.
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But then when you get down to verse 11, it says -
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Because the world at large rejects the will of God,
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rejects the word of God,
rejects the rule of God,
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God will give them what they want.
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You know when you come to Romans 1, it says
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for this cause God gave them over to a reprobate mind:
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for this cause God gave them over.
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And people think it's a picture
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of God just washing his hands of people.
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But a better interpretation would be
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for this cause God released them.
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God is going to allow you
to have whatever you want.
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And if people at the end
of the age don't want God,
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but they want something else,
God will release them to it.
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He will honor their choice.
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And here we find in 2 Thessalonians 2:11 - For
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this cause. The Greek says - diatauto.
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A better translation would be - for this very reason
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because of this.
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And it pictures God's response to their choice
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For this cause God will send them strong
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delusion - strong delusion.
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What is strong delusion?
Well, it's two words in Greek.
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The first word comes from a form
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of the Greek word energeo: energeo:
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spelled like this in English - energeo.
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And it's where we get the word energy - energy.
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The 2nd word is the word, a form of the word planes,
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which is from the word plano, which we have already seen.
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And it describes a wandering - a wandering.
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Well, when you put these 2-words together,
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it describes an energized wandering, an energized wandering.
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The word energeo, depicts a force propelling something
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forward or an energy
that ignites a process
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and facilitates it all
the way to its conclusion.
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The 2nd word, planeo, again pictures a wandering,
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a moral wandering or a deviant behavior.
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And here we find that if
this is what people want,
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God will release them to it.
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And the RIV of this verse says -
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Because they chose to reject the truth,
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God will send delusion
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and error into their
midst, compelling them
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to believe the lie that
is being offered to them.
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But what I want you to see
is the Holy Spirit says very
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clearly at the very, very end of the age,
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deception is going to affect the entire world.
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And the number one sign
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that Jesus gave is worldwide deception.
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Take heed - the word blepo - hold your head high,
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throw your shoulders back.
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Really listen, I want you to
hear, I want you to see this.
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He's trying to jar them and jar us.
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Let no man deceive you, planeo.
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Don't let anyone lead
you off track morally
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and hear Jesus forecasting
a worldwide moral
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wandering at the end of the age.
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And I want to ask you my friend - Is it happening?
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Do you see it when you live
in a moment when people don't
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even know what gender they are?
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We're talking about a
society that has wandered
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so far off track, it is just
imaginable, unimaginable
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that it could even happen.
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But Jesus forecasts - when you see this,
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No.1: here's the No.1 sign that you've come
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to the very end of the age - worldwide deception.
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Now when we come back in the next episode,
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we're gonna see the next
signs which Jesus gave.
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I'll be back in just a moment
and I'm going to pray for you.
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Someone has asked the question - How can I be sure
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that I'm not being swayed
by false or wrong teaching?
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Well, first of all, we're told in 1 Timothy 4:1,
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that in the end of the age, there's going
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to be false teaching.
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It says some are gonna
depart from the faith.
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And when you read that in the Greek text,
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it has a definite article,
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which means it's not the
departure just from faith,
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but it's from the faith
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or from the clear sound
teaching of scripture.
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And when you read that in 1 Timothy 4:1,
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it's not something that possibly may take place,
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the Holy Spirit says explicitly it will occur.
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And in 1 John 4:1, we are commanded
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to try the spirits to see
whether they be of God.
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That word try means to really test and my friends, your mind
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and your spirit is very important.
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And before you eat what is
set on the table in front
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of you, you need to try it.
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You need to test it
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and make sure you're being
served spiritual food
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that will produce a healthy
state of being in your life.
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We've just seen sign No.1 that Jesus gave us
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that we're near to the end of time
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and it is worldwide deception.
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But when we come back tomorrow,
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we're gonna see sign No. 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.
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You'll See Just Before Jesus Comes -
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and in this book, I really
enumerate all this teaching
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and make it so clear we need
to know what Jesus said.
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And right now I'm excited to tell you about the End-Time
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Timetable which we have for you.
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And if you'll just call or go
online, you can download yours
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or you can ask for us
to send you a hard copy.
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It is so wonderful and we've
designed it as a gift for you
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because we want you to be able
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to see past prophecy fulfilled, those
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that are being fulfilled,
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and those that are about to be fulfilled.
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And it's our gift to you.
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But you can find out more
about all these things
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by going online or by giving this a call.
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And my friend, before we close, I just want
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to speak the peace of God to your heart -
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Jesus is in charge. Say - Jesus is Lord,
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Amen. Amen.
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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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Hey friends, my wife
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and I are coming to the United States
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to hold some wonderful meetings
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and I want to tell you about them,
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but please be sure to go to our website
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to affirm all these times and dates
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because sometimes things change.
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But we are coming to Florida on Sunday, Monday,
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January 11th and 12th to Naples.
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We're gonna be at the Faith
Church with Pastors Andre
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and Jenny Roebert.
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On Friday, January 16th, we're coming to Bradenton, Florida
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to the Happy Gospel Church, to a Friends in Ministry
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with Roberts Liardon Meeting.
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Then on Sunday, January the 18th, we are coming to Newark,
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TX to Eagle Mountain International Church to be
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with Pastors George and Terri Pearsons
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and the whole church. On January 25th, we're coming
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to Green Mountain Falls, CO to Legacy Church to be
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with Pastors Jeremy and Sarah Pearsons.
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On Friday, Saturday, Sunday, January 30th,
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31st and February 1st,
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we're coming to Mesa, AZ to Vida Church to be
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with Pastors Ben and Kara Diaz.
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On Sunday, February the 8th, we're coming to Southfield,
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MI, to be at Word of Faith with Bishop Keith
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and Pastor Deborah Butler.
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On Sunday, February 15th, we're coming to Tulsa, OK
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to be at Millennial Church with Pastors Paul
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and Karen Brady.
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And on Saturday and Sunday, February 21st
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and 22nd, we're coming to Midland, NC
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to Encounter Church to be with Bishop Alan
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and Tera DiDio -
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and friend, I want to invite you to come to one
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of these meetings.
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We're waiting to see you there.
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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.
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Thank you for joining Rick Renner today.
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For more information about Renner Ministries
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and product resources, visit renner.org.