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Welcome to today's program.
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My name is Rick Renner
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and my friend, I have
something so special planned
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for you this week
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and the following week, I have
invited a group of young men
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that I believe really are
prophetically attuned to
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what is happening
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and every day, starting today, in the next 9-episodes,
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one of them, one at a time,
we're going to be with me.
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And today we're going to start
with my friend Alan DiDio.
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And we're going to be
discussing his new book,
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which is called They Lied
to You about the Rapture.
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And then we're going to see
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what Alan feels about what's happening now
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and what is his prophetic
view of the future.
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But you can find out more
about his book by going online
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how to pray for you.
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Just call the number on the
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But right now, let's get started. - Get
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ready for a teaching
that feeds your spirit
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and your mind where the
word is the anchor in
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uncertain times
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and doctrine doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep revealing a
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a love that emboldens,
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Let's join Rick Renner.
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Well, my friends, as I
told you today we're gonna be
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with my very dear friend Alan DiDio.
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And I really respect Alan.
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He's a theologian, he is a pastor.
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He really has a grip on scripture and prophetic things.
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And I just have great, great
respect for Alan DiDio.
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And by the way, if you don't
already watch him online,
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please look him up
because Alan is amazing.
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I regularly watch him.
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I just watched something last week
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that just fed my heart
about the end of the age.
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And I want you to benefit
from Alan's ministry.
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It will really be a blessing to you.
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And Alan, I want to say
welcome to my program.
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What an honor to be with y'all.
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I've watched for so many years. It's so good to be with you.
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Well, thank you for being with me
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and I wanna talk to you today
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and the next week I want you to come back
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and I want us to continue
talking about your book,
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which is called - They Lied
to You about the Rapture.
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And the subtitle says, How
to Prepare for What's Coming.
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Now I wanna really dive into this
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because there's so much in
this book that really fed me
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and I believe as we share
it's gonna feed my audience.
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But why did you call this book - They Lied
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to You About the Rapture?
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Well, it really started with a
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passion I've had for eschatology.
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I had a dream when I was newly born
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again - I may tell you
about that in a moment,
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but I started to see the rapture itself being misrepresented
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by people on our own side.
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So originally I started
writing it to address a lot
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of the misconceptions.
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You know, people say that the
Bible is often harmed more
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by its exponents and its opponents.
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And sometimes people
will take up the mantle
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with a good heart,
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but they don't necessarily
communicate it correctly.
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And so I felt like the blessed hope
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of the rapture was being mis-communicated
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and I wanted to address those lies.
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And then of course it just
grew into addressing a lot
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of the lies that are
said about the rapture
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from all different camps.
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I do notice that when
you talk about the rapture,
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you very frequently use
the term the blessed hope.
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And that's, that's used in scripture.
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But why do you use that?
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Well, it has a powerful meaning
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for me. The word blessed means empowered, right?
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If you are blessed, you
are empowered to prosper.
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And there is a hope, according
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to Titus 2:13, that empowers you.
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And I want every believer
to have an empowering hope.
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And that's what the rapture is.
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I believe if it's taught properly,
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if it's believed properly
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it is an empowering hope
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and it gives you the ability to prosper,
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to occupy while we're here on the earth.
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You know, Alan, some
people say that it's not
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so important, it's, you
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and people have been
talking about the rapture
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for 2000 years.
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What do you say to those folks?
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Well, as far as people
have been talking about it
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for 2000 years, I mean
that's, that's correct.
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And a lot of people will scoff at the idea
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and say every generation has
said they're the generation.
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However, Peter predicts,
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and you write about this
in your book eloquently,
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that there were rise scoffers saying
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where is the promise of his coming?
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So it is true
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that every generation has
said they're the generation
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until us,
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we have more scoffers now than
any generation has ever had
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concerning the rapture of the church.
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But as far as its significance, what I try
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to lay out in the book is that I believe
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that the rapture is,
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'cause a lot of people have
a pan tribulationist view,
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meaning however it pans
out is fine with them.
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They don't care if the rapture happens
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before in the middle or after.
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But I believe it matters
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because I make the case that
the rapture is the helmet
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of salvation that Paul talks about in Ephesians 6.
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And in 1 Thessalonians 5,
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that it protects us from end time deception
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and it empowers us to
occupy until Jesus comes.
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You know, some people
really don't believe
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that we're gonna be raptured
before the tribulation,
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but we're gonna get back to
that in the next program.
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But today I want to ask
you about chapter one.
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I love the title. I read the whole thing.
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It's called A Funny Thing Happened on the
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Way to the Rapture.
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Tell me about that chapter.
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Well, I was newly born
again and I had no experience.
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I was an atheist before I was - before I was saved.
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I thought the red letters in the Bible
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were the words of the devil.
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That's how much I knew about
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scripture. You know, I didn't, are
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You serious?
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I'm serious 'cause it
just made sense to me.
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The devil wears a red cape
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and he is got red horns
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Those must be his words.
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So I, I learned very quickly
that that's not the case.
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I thought the ribbon was the handle.
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So I didn't have this kind of left
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behind that was put into me.
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I didn't, I didn't know
anything about the rapture or
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or eschatology the study of the end times.
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And I have this dream
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and in the dream I'm in my childhood home,
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near my childhood home in an open field
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and the neighborhood,
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everyone's all out like it's
a 4th of July celebration
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or a big family gathering or picnic
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or big holiday celebration.
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And all of a sudden I hear a sound
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and I look into the clouds
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and there's a clock in the
clouds that says it's 11:59
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and the second hand is
quickly speeding around.
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And I, I knew at that
moment Jesus was coming
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and gravity loosed its hold on me.
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And I began to rise
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and I was so thrilled that I'm going
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to see the one who saved me.
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I'm going to see Jesus.
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But then that was quickly
eclipsed when I looked down
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and I saw so many people
unaware of what was happening.
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And I awoke from that dream
with these words on my lips.
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Jesus is coming.
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And from that moment on, I
have this ferocious passion
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for studying the word of God
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concerning the end times and the rapture.
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And I thought every
believer would have this
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excitement about the rapture.
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I just assumed everybody believed it.
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I never imagined that
in the church there was
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so much division over this subject
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and I found that it was very divisive.
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So that chapter is
trying to bring healing.
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A funny thing happened
on the way to the rapture
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that we don't need to
divide over this issue.
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My point is that instead of
arguing over this, we need
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to convince a generation to fall in love with his appearing:
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that this is a love story,
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not an apologetic for us to debate.
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And that's what I wanna restore in
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that 1st chapter is I wanna
bring back that passion,
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that love for the coming
of the Lord regardless of
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where you think it's happening
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and where in the in time
timeline it's happening.
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Let's just fall in love with
the idea that Jesus is coming
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because the apostle Paul
said there's a special reward
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and a crown for all those
who love his appearing.
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By the way, I read in this
book about all those crowns
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that are gonna be given to believers.
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It is just wonderful.
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But you know, Alan, when I
was in the university many,
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many years ago, I was studying journalism,
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I was studying Greek and
I loved to go to church.
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I was more involved in
church than I was in school.
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But a book came out in that time,
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it was in the early
seventies that really tried
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to debunk the rapture
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and that tried to teach
that it was not a teaching
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of the apostolic fathers in the early age,
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that it was a ladder development.
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And it really convinced a lot of people
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that the rapture should
not be believed in.
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And they said there was no early evidence
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that the early church
believed in the rapture.
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What do you say to those folks?
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Well, the first response,
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and by the way, your book
covers this beautifully.
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I addressed this in my book,
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but the way you lay it out in your book,
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the visuals you see the images
of the early church fathers,
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you discover who they were
and what they actually taught
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and you prove that to be incorrect.
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There's other great exhaustive
teachings by William Watson
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who wrote Dispensationalism
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before Darby: Lee Brainerd had done,
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has done some amazing work
on this subject as well,
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as well as Ken Johnson.
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But ultimately, it does not matter
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what the church has taught historically.
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What matters is what's in the Bible.
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You could look at the concept
of justification by faith
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that was promulgated and
pushed by Martin Luther.
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And you could say, well
that's a new doctrine.
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It wasn't taught historically
in church history
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and that wouldn't matter because it's
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what the Bible teaches.
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And so the question ultimately is,
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even though we can prove
in the book as we do,
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I lay out different quotes
from early church fathers
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that show exactly what they said.
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Many of them were pre-tribulational
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or what we would call pre-tribulational,
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though they wouldn't have necessarily defined it that way.
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What matters is what does the Bible teach?
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What does Paul teach in 1st
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and 2nd Thessalonians? What,
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what does the Bible say in 1st Corinthians 15?
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Ultimately that's the case
that needs to be made
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and I think that's the case that you
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and I both make in our
books on the subject.
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Well, in the New Testament there are 5-primary texts
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that have to do with the rapture:
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1st Thessalonians, 2nd Thessalonians,
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1st Corinthians 15, John 14, that is
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so wonderful about the rapture of the church
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and Matthew 24
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where Jesus says - one will be taken, one will be left.
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Those verses really are about
the rapture of the church.
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But it's amazing to me that
anybody can read those verses
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that are so clear and
they not believe in it.
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else that's surprising.
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I'll tell you when we're off camera, one of our friends, you
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and me just went online to say
why the rapture is not true.
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I could not believe it,
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but you know what the, the
Bible says that's gonna happen
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to the very end of the age.
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And Peter said, when time has sailed to the end
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and you've come to the end and
there's nowhere else to go,
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scoffing, scoffers,
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that's exactly the way the Greek says it -
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and it's interesting to me that people who mock the rapture,
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they're usually really cynical.
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I mean, they don't just
laugh at us, they scoff us
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because they think we're so silly.
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But you know, why do you
believe you're a pastor?
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Why do you want your church to
understand about the rapture?
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Well, as I, I alluded to this earlier
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and I wanna, I wanna
make the case right now
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'cause I believe this is so important.
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When the Apostle Paul says in Ephesians 6,
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to put on the helmet of salvation,
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that always bothered me, Dr.
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Renner, because he's talking to saved people.
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And I wonder, do we
take our salvation off?
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You know, when we go to bed at night
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and put it back on what
exactly is he referring to?
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But when you read 1 Thessalonians 5,
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which was written 10 years
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before Ephesians 6, so this is his first study
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of the armor of God in 1 Thessalonians 5;
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let me read it for you here.
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He says - But let us who are of the day -
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he's just talked about the rapture in chapter 4,
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now he's talking about the day of the Lord
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that's coming in chapter 5 - let us who are
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of the day be sober, putting
on the breastplate of faith
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and love and for a helmet,
the hope of salvation
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for God has not appointed us to wrath,
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but to obtain salvation
by our Lord Jesus Christ.
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And so he's referring to the
tribulation, he's referring
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to the judgment that's coming,
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and he says, need you to put on
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So you believe when he says,
when you say when he's not
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appointed as to wrath, you believe
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that's about the tribulation?
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Absolutely. When you read 1 Thessalonians,
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which is unique in and of itself as an epistle,
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1 Thessalonians is the 1st epistle
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that is written in the New Testament.
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So it's not referencing any
other work, it stands alone
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as an island unto itself.
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that he has spoken about in 1 Thessalonians is a reference
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to the day of the Lord, the
tribulation that is coming,
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the time of Jacob's
trouble that is referred
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to in the Old Testament.
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And after referring to
all of that, he says,
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but I want you to put on
the helmet of salvation
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because you've not been appointed to
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that wrath to that time.
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And of course that's the message
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that's communicated all throughout 1 Thessalonians.
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So the point is that a
helmet protects your mind,
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it protects your vision,
protects your speech,
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a helmet protects your hearing.
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Everything that's essential
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for winning the war is in
the helmet of salvation.
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I truly believe it is the
hope of the imminent return
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of Jesus Christ - looking to that blessed hope
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that causes us to be protected.
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who says in his heart, my
master delays his coming.
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So any eschatology that would
allow you to delay the coming
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of the Lord and not make
it imminent opens the door
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to wickedness to come
into the believer's life.
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That's why I believe it's so important
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because the pre-tribulational
rapture is the only one
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that allows for imminence.
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You know, if you're listening to me today
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and you're one of those
people who say, well,
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I don't understand it,
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and maybe it's not so
important to understand it.
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Well, let me tell you a historical fact.
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When the apostle Paul went
to be with the Thessalonians,
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do you know how long he was there?
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Three months - only 3 months.
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Now what in the world are you gonna teach in 3 months?
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You could teach about the Holy Spirit,
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you could teach about
sanctification, the gifts
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of the Spirit walking in obedience.
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You don't have a lot of time in 3 months.
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But yet, when Paul wrote 2nd Thessalonians, he said
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to the Thessalonians, you guys already know all of this
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because I told all of this
to you when I was there.
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Which means in those three months, Alan,
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this is amazing to me,
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Paul devoted a substantial amount of time
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to teaching eschatology.
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And today people say it's not important.
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Paul knew he only had a brief window to be with them
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and they needed to be established in the truth about this.
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Well, if they needed that,
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and if Paul believed that,
then we need to know it.
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And you know, when you come to 2nd Thessalonians
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2, which is one of my favorite verses in the whole Bible,
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chapter 2 and chapter 3 tells us
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that there was some really
bad prophecy teachers in the
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early church and they
were shaking people up
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and they had actually
said that the rapture came
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and they'd been left behind.
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Well, that would shake you up.
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And that's when Paul wrote back
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and he said, guys, listen,
I told you when I was there.
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So Paul had clearly told them
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about all these eschatology events.
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And if that was true of them,
then it needs to be true
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of me, of Alan, of you.
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You need to know
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what the Bible says
about the end of the age.
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And that's why I just love this book called - They Lied
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to You about the Rapture - How to prepare for what's coming.
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And we really should be prepared; that day is not supposed
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to overtake us like a thief in the night. We're children
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of the day; we're supposed to know what's coming.
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And Jesus said, no man
knows the day nor the hour,
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but he didn't say, you
can't know the season
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and we are really in the season of the coming of the Lord.
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What do you say about that, Alan?
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Yeah, no man knows the day or the hour,
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but we can know the season.
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And the reason for that is not
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because we actually know the season, it's
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because we're always looking for him.
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That's the reason why we're in the light.
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And we'll never be caught unaware
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because we're always looking to Jesus.
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And there's been this concept
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that if we've got our head
in the clouds, we'll be
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of no use here on the earth.
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And what my point is in the book is
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that if the rapture is taught properly
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and biblically, you are creating a believer who is prepared
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for any inevitability.
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Because if you're prepared to
meet Jesus, you're prepared
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to meet any obstacle.
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If you're prepared to meet
Jesus, you're prepared
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to face any devil.
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If you're prepared to meet
Jesus, you're prepared
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to meet any spirit of antichrist,
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which is already in the earth
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by the way. The spirit
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of antichrist is already in the earth long
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before the actual antichrist gets here.
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So I just I just want the church to be ready
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for the World Series,
which is meeting Jesus.
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That is the main event.
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And if we'll do that, we'll
be ready for anything.
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Now, some people say that
if you believe in the rapture,
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you're just an escapist.
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You just want to escape the world.
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You just want to escape reality.
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What do you say to those people?
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That is a fundamental misunderstanding of the rapture
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of the church, especially
when you consider
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that the rapture is completely connected
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to the judgment seat of Christ.
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When we are raptured, we go to stand before him.
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In fact, the Apostle
Paul, when he was asked,
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why do you do what you do?
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He says, because of
the terror of the Lord.
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Because we must all stand
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before the judgment seat of
Christ to give an account
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for every word, every deed, every thought.
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So the rapture of the church is a moment
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where you're gonna stand before Jesus
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and you're gonna give an
account for everything not
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to be condemned by the way,
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you're gonna be rewarded during this time.
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But the Bible says you'll be saved,
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but as one saved through the fire.
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So it's gonna be a time
where all the wood, hay,
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and stubble in our lives
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that we've accumulated
is gonna be burned up.
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And we're gonna find out what's really the gold, silver,
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and precious stones.
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That's, that's not an escapist mentality.
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I mean, I don't know about you,
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but I wanna make sure I'm
ready for that moment.
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I need as much time as
I can to be prepared for
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that moment to meet Jesus.
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You know, I'm a firm believer in the pre
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tribulation rapture.
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It doesn't make me say,
oh, let's do nothing
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'cause we're getting out of here anyway.
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I hear that some people go out
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and charge up all their credit cards
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because the rapture are gonna happen
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and then they won't
have to pay their bills.
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I've heard that. I've never
met anybody that did that.
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It's usually the mockers that
say that kind of a thing.
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But you know, when you really
know the time is short,
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you think about your friends,
you think about your family,
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you think about the call that
God gave you that you wanna do
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as much as you can
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in the time that is allotted.
Now, I believe it's okay
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to be a biblical escapist. If
you understand what is coming,
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who wouldn't want to escape it?
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I mean, when the church is abducted,
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when the church is removed,
wrath is gonna be poured out.
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And when we come back in
the next episode next week,
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I wanna talk about the tribulation
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and the difference between
just hardship and wrath
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because they're not the same thing.
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And I don't want to go through wrath.
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And the Bible says very clearly
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that we have been delivered
from the wrath to come.
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And all that word delivered
has to really be considered
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because it's the word rhuomai.
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And that word rhuomai, means to rescue out
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of danger just in the nick
of time, which means just
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before wrath is poured out, God is gonna remove his people.
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God has never judged his
people with the righteous.
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Now God's people have
been through hard times,
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they will continue to
go through hard times.
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But hey, when we come back next week,
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let's talk about the difference
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between hard times and wrath.
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I mean, wrath is on a
whole different level than
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going through a hard dime.
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Let's do it. And nobody slows down
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when they see the finish line.
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Nobody slows down in a sporting event
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when we're given the 2-minute warning,
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that's when everybody kicks it into gear.
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And so this isn't a lazy theology, an escapist theology.
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It's as my good friend Joseph Moore says, A hustle theology.
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That's what we have when you
truly believe in the rapture.
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Oh yeah.
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What would you say is
the primary sign right now
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that we're right at the end
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and the rapture could be
eminent in any moment?
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Well, I believe the nation of Israel is a mega sign
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for us to wake us up.
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However, no prophecy needs to
be fulfilled for the rapture
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of the church to take place.
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That could happen at any moment.
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But the existence of Israel
is a supernatural miracle.
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And it is a sign that
preaches that Jesus is coming
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to everybody who'll pay attention.
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You know, I wrote my book about Fallen Angels, Giants In
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the World Before the Flood.
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And in that book I document that the ark
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of Noah appeared in May 1948, the same month
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that Israel was reestablished as a nation.
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And just the year before is when the Dead Sea
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scrolls were discovered.
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I think those are all prophetic events all
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happening at one time.
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And in those Dead Sea Scrolls
were also the writings
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of Enoch.
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And you, in this book,
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you talk about Enoch's secret prophecy and - duh -
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that's really interesting. Tell me about that.
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Well, Enoch is such a fascinating character
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and it's interesting that this generation is really the
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first to really see this explosion of discussion about Enoch
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and and Jesus said as it
was in the days of Noah,
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so shall it be in the days of
the coming of the Son of man.
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Eeverybody wants to claim Enoch.
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You have 'Enochkian magic': you have the, the Masons want
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to claim Enoch as a source or a founder.
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But the Bible has some
very interesting things
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that is often ignored about Enoch.
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The Bible says that when
Enoch was 65 years of age,
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he gave birth to his
son and the Bible says,
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and he walked with God.
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Something happened at
the birth of his son.
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And this is the lost prophecy
that so transformed his walk
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that by the time he was 365,
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the Bible said he was and he was not.
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For God took him.
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It's as if God said, when
Enoch was on a walk with him,
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we're closer to my house
than we are to yours.
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Why don't you just come
stay with me at my house?
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And Enoch was translated.
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That was the, that
was the first rapture.
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Exactly right. He did not see death.
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He was and he was not, for God took him.
548
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So what happened in his
life that caused him to walk
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with God so closely?
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By the way, the storm clouds
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of the flood were already
lumen over the horizon.
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This is, this is Noah's grandfather.
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What changed in Enoch's life?
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Well, he gave birth to his son and he called him,
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and this is the prophecy, Methuselah.
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Now, what does the name Methuselah mean?
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It means when he dies, judgment comes.
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So can you imagine having a
child that that's his name
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and every time he gets a
high fever, you wonder,
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is this the moment every
time he trips and falls
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and hits his head, you
wonder, is this the moment?
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So what happened in Enoch's life?
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He gave birth to eminence
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and he for the first time,
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and this was the criticism Jesus had of Noah's generation,
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they're eating and drinking and marrying
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and giving a marriage without any
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thought of impending judgment.
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Enoch had the thought
of impending judgment.
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He wasn't just eating and drinking
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and marrying and giving a marriage.
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He was constantly thinking it
could happen in any moment.
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And that's what changed his walk.
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And he walked with God because
of a revelation of imminence.
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And the same thing can happen
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to a believer in this generation.
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We can walk with God and
we may be the generation
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who was and was not.
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For God took us.
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There really is a generation
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that is not gonna taste death.
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And the Bible says in the rapture of the church,
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this corruptible will put on incorruption.
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And that word incorruption describes
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that which is no longer capable of wear, tear, and age.
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I say in the rapture,
it's gonna be the ultimate
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cosmetic surgery.
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We're all gonna get the facelift
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and the body lift we've all wanted.
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It is gonna be amazing.
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We're gonna have bodies just like Jesus.
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But Alan, we're out of time,
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but I'm asking you, would
you please come back
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with me again next week?
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I'm looking forward
to it. Thank you Doctor.
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Thank you so much. I'll
be back in just a moment
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and I'm going to pray with you.
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and Lord, you want us to
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But remember, Ecclesiastes 8:4 says,
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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 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
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for the rest of my life.
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