WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.730 (MUSIC) 00:05.730 --> 00:11.640 GOOD EVENING, LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH. LET'S DO SOMETHING A 00:11.640 --> 00:14.939 LITTLE DIFFERENT TONIGHT. I DON'T KNOW WHAT KIND OF DAY YOU 00:14.939 --> 00:17.129 HAD. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE JUST COMING FROM WORK OR YOU'RE 00:17.129 --> 00:21.300 COMING FROM HOME, BUT LET'S REPOSITION OUR HEARTS RIGHT NOW 00:21.300 --> 00:27.960 AND JUST EXALT THE LORD. FATHER, WE GIVE YOU PRAISE. WE GIVE YOU 00:27.960 --> 00:32.338 GLORY. YOU ARE THE KING OF KINGS. YOU ARE THE LORD OF 00:32.338 --> 00:37.677 LORDS. I EXALT YOU ABOVE MY FEELINGS. I EXALT YOU ABOVE THE 00:37.677 --> 00:44.100 KIND OF DAY I HAD. I EXALT YOU ABOVE MY NEEDS AND WANTS. 00:44.100 --> 00:48.119 AND I WELCOME YOU TO HAVE YOUR WAY TONIGHT. 00:48.119 --> 00:50.716 IN JESUS' NAME. LET'S RAISE IT UP, COME ON. 00:50.716 --> 01:18.411 (WORSHIP MUSIC) 04:19.591 --> 04:26.598 (WORSHIP MUSIC) 04:26.598 --> 04:32.771 IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE, GOD IS TAKING YOUR FAITH, 04:32.771 --> 04:37.776 YOUR PRAYERS, YOUR PRESS, YOUR "NEVER QUIT" ATTITUDE, AND HE 04:37.776 --> 04:42.281 IS WORKING IT FOR YOUR GOD. DO YOU BELIEVE THAT TONIGHT? 04:42.281 --> 04:49.288 (WORSHIP MUSIC) 05:10.310 --> 05:12.312 COME ON, PROPHESY OVER YOUR SITUATION. 07:35.788 --> 08:23.670 (WORSHIP MUSIC) 12:19.072 --> 12:21.408 (WORSHIP MUSIC) 12:21.408 --> 12:24.745 HALLELUJAH. FATHER, WE THANK YOU TONIGHT THAT YOUR GLORY IS 12:24.745 --> 12:29.186 PRESENT WITH US. WE THANK YOU TONIGHT THAT YOU'RE TOUCHING 12:29.186 --> 12:34.316 LIVES IN THIS PLACE, JUST AS WE SANG. YOU'RE TOUCHING LIVES 12:34.316 --> 12:39.206 AROUND THE WORLD, NOT ONLY IN THIS PLACE, BUT AROUND THE 12:39.206 --> 12:43.855 WORLD. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ANOINTING. THANK YOU FOR YOUR 12:43.855 --> 12:49.735 POWER. THANK YOU FOR YOUR GIFTS. THANK YOU, LORD, THAT YOU GIVE 12:49.735 --> 12:55.466 US BREATH AND LIFE. WE WORSHIP YOU IN THIS PLACE TONIGHT. 12:55.466 --> 13:00.947 YOU'RE WORTHY OF ALL PRAISE AND GLORY, AND WE GIVE YOU HONOR. 13:00.947 --> 13:06.686 OH, MAGNIFICENT, AWESOME GOD, WE PRAISE YOU IN THIS HOUSE 13:06.686 --> 13:17.456 TONIGHT. WE THANK YOU. WE HUMBLY THANK YOU FOR GIVING US INSIGHT 13:17.456 --> 13:23.216 AND WISDOM. YOU TELL US IF ANY OF US LACK WISDOM WE CAN CALL ON 13:23.216 --> 13:28.765 YOU AND YOU WILL PROVIDE IT. HMM WHAT'S MORE IMPORTANT THAN 13:28.765 --> 13:33.716 WISDOM? IF WE HAVE THAT WE HAVE EVERYTHING. OH THANK YOU JESUS 13:33.716 --> 13:40.225 FOR WISDOM. WE RECEIVE IT NOW. JUST SAY THIS WITH ME, I RECEIVE 13:40.225 --> 13:48.115 GOD'S WISDOM IN MY LIFE. AMEN. HALLELUJAH. THANK YOU JESUS. 13:48.115 --> 13:53.557 PRAISE GOD. THE LORD KIND OF GAVE ME TWO WORDS HERE TONIGHT 13:55.135 --> 14:01.975 TOGETHER AND IT WAS TRANSITION AND DIVERSIFICATION. IS THERE 14:01.975 --> 14:04.826 SOMEONE HERE AND YOU'RE GOING THROUGH SOME TRANSITION IN YOUR 14:04.826 --> 14:08.725 LIFE? IT MIGHT BE TRANSITION WITH YOUR BUSINESS, IT MIGHT BE 14:08.725 --> 14:12.806 TRANSITION IN YOUR EMPLOYMENT, IT MIGHT BE TRANSITION IN WHERE 14:12.806 --> 14:15.745 YOU'RE LIVING, BUT YOU'RE DEALING WITH SOME TYPE OF 14:15.745 --> 14:20.546 TRANSITION. COME UP HERE QUICKLY. THE LORD WANTS TO 14:20.546 --> 14:28.135 MINISTER TO YOU TONIGHT. ISAIAH CHAPTER 43:19 SAYS, "BEHOLD, I 14:28.135 --> 14:34.076 DO A NEW THING." AND SO TRANSITION IS GOOD. IT CAN BE A 14:34.076 --> 14:46.105 GOOD THING. WHO HERE IS INVOLVED IN SPECIFICALLY TRANSITION FOR 14:46.105 --> 14:52.796 YOUR BUSINESS VENTURE? YOU HAVE A BUSINESS VENTURE. I FELT THE 14:52.796 --> 14:57.086 DIVERSIFICATION ISSUE SPECIFICALLY IN MY HEART AND YOU 14:57.086 --> 15:03.385 TOO, BUSINESS. DIVERSIFICATION CAME TO ME IN ECCLESIASTES 11, I 15:03.385 --> 15:09.416 BELIEVE IT'S VERSE 2 TELLS US, AND MOST OF US LOOK AT IT AS 15:09.416 --> 15:12.895 INVESTMENT ADVICE, BUT IT SAYS DIVIDE A PORTION, THERE IT IS, 15:12.895 --> 15:19.765 GOOD, GIVE A PORTION TO SEVEN AND ALSO TO EIGHT. AND ANOTHER 15:19.765 --> 15:27.086 VERSION SAYS INVEST A PORTION TO SEVEN AND ALSO TO EIGHT. IT 15:27.086 --> 15:31.436 DOESN'T JUST MEAN, IT CAN APPLY TO YOUR INVESTMENTS, LIKE 15:31.436 --> 15:36.145 SPREADING OUT, IT'S WISDOM IF YOU'RE INVESTING YOUR RESOURCES 15:36.145 --> 15:40.135 TO BE A GOOD STEWARD, TO NOT HAVE EVERYTHING IN ONE SPOT. IN 15:40.135 --> 15:43.316 OTHER WORDS, IF YOU'VE GOT SOME CASH, YOU HAVE IT IN THE BANK, 15:43.316 --> 15:47.005 MAYBE YOU ALSO HAVE SOME REAL ESTATE, MAYBE YOU ALSO HAVE SOME 15:47.005 --> 15:51.176 MONEY IN A 401K OR OTHER INVESTMENTS, MAYBE YOU OWN SOME 15:51.176 --> 15:55.076 PRECIOUS METALS, WHATEVER IT IS, DIVERSIFICATION IS GOOD, BECAUSE 15:55.076 --> 15:58.375 THAT MEANS IF SOMETHING GOES DOWN, PROBABLY SOMETHING ELSE 15:58.375 --> 16:01.436 YOU OWN IS GOING TO GO UP AND YOU WOULDN'T LOSE IT ALL IF 16:01.436 --> 16:06.265 THERE WAS SOME TYPE OF ECONOMIC HARDSHIP. SO THAT'S GOOD, BUT IT 16:06.265 --> 16:11.576 ALSO WOULD APPLY INVESTING YOUR TIME AND YOUR TALENTS. DON'T 16:11.576 --> 16:17.066 JUST FOCUS ON THE ONE THING THAT YOU'RE DOING IN YOUR BUSINESS. I 16:17.066 --> 16:21.446 BELIEVE THE LORD'S SAYING, "LOOK AT SOME DIVERSIFICATION." WHAT 16:21.446 --> 16:25.405 ELSE CAN YOU DO, WHAT CAN YOU ASK GOD THAT WOULD GO ALONG WITH 16:25.405 --> 16:29.245 YOUR BUSINESS BUT WOULD DIVERSIFY IT? AND WHAT THAT 16:29.245 --> 16:32.905 ALLOWS THE SAME THING TO BE TRUE AS YOUR PERSONAL INVESTMENTS, 16:32.905 --> 16:36.416 WHEN YOU DIVERSIFY IN YOUR BUSINESS. IN FACT, I WAS TALKING 16:36.416 --> 16:40.765 TO SOMEONE YESTERDAY THAT HAD A CLOTHING STORE AND THEY SAID 16:40.765 --> 16:45.625 THEY DECIDED TO ADD JEWELRY LINE TO IT SO THAT THEY COULD SELL 16:45.625 --> 16:49.495 TWO THINGS IN THE SAME LOCATION. NOW, THAT'S A SIMPLE EXAMPLE, 16:49.495 --> 16:52.105 BUT I'M JUST GIVING YOU THAT TO HELP YOU TO UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M 16:52.105 --> 17:00.505 TRYING TO SAY. DIVERSIFICATION IS IMPORTANT. SO IS PASTOR 17:00.505 --> 17:04.976 ANTHONY HERE? CAN YOU COME DOWN HERE, PASTOR ANTHONY? I THINK 17:04.976 --> 17:07.796 YOU HAVE THE ANOINTING ON THIS TONIGHT. I WANT YOU TO PRAY FOR 17:07.796 --> 17:10.914 EACH OF THESE HERE TONIGHT. I'M GONNA PRAY FOR THOSE ONLINE, 17:10.914 --> 17:15.174 THAT THEY HAVE THE WISDOM THEY NEED FOR THIS TRANSITION TIME IN 17:15.174 --> 17:20.965 THEIR LIFE, AND ALSO IF THEY NEED DIVERSIFICATION. YOU LAY 17:20.965 --> 17:25.226 HANDS ON THEM IF YOU WOULD. AND FOR THOSE OF YOU WATCHING ONLINE 17:25.226 --> 17:29.246 THAT YOU MAY BE FEELING THIS IS SOMETHING THAT YOU'RE DEALING 17:29.246 --> 17:33.806 WITH. FATHER, WE LIFT UP THOSE ONLINE THAT ARE WATCHING AROUND 17:33.806 --> 17:37.945 THE WORLD TONIGHT, AND I THANK YOU, LORD, THAT YOU GIVE THEM 17:37.945 --> 17:42.086 WISDOM. HELP THEM, LORD, TO UNDERSTAND THE NEXT STEPS. LORD, 17:42.086 --> 17:45.415 THE WORD SAYS THAT THE STEPS OF A GOOD MAN OR WOMAN ARE ORDERED 17:45.415 --> 17:49.105 BY YOU. SO WE BELIEVE, LORD, THAT YOU'RE ORDERING THEIR STEPS 17:49.105 --> 17:52.526 DURING THESE TRANSITION TIMES. GIVE THEM FAVOR. GIVE THEM 17:52.526 --> 17:55.885 FINANCIAL BLESSING AS THEY MOVE FORWARD. I THANK YOU, LORD, THAT 17:55.885 --> 18:01.165 YOU GIVE THEM INSPIRATION, DIVINE INSPIRATION, IF THEY NEED 18:01.165 --> 18:05.395 TO DIVERSIFY IN SOME AREA OF THEIR LIFE. I THANK YOU, LORD, 18:05.395 --> 18:08.546 THAT THEY HAVE THE ANOINTING OF GOD AND THEY MOVE FORTH IN MIGHT 18:08.546 --> 18:12.746 AND POWER TO ACCOMPLISH ALL THAT YOU'VE CALLED THEM TO DO IN THE 18:12.746 --> 18:16.586 MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS. AND I THANK YOU FOR IT. HALLELUJAH. 18:16.586 --> 18:19.675 AND WE'LL PUT UP THE LET'S PUT UP THE PRAYER LINE NUMBER REAL 18:19.675 --> 18:24.536 QUICK. AND IF YOU'RE AT HOME OR WHEREVER YOU'RE AT AND YOU NEED 18:24.536 --> 18:29.096 PRAYER SPECIFICALLY FOR WHAT WE PRAYED FOR TONIGHT, YOU CAN CALL 18:29.096 --> 18:33.205 THAT NUMBER. AND OUR PRAYER TEAM IS AVAILABLE 24 HOURS A DAY TO 18:33.205 --> 18:38.846 MINISTER TO YOU IN THAT SPECIFIC AREA. ONE OTHER THING, AND THIS 18:38.846 --> 18:44.756 IS A LITTLE ODD, I FELT THE HOLY SPIRIT SHOW ME A PICTURE. HOW 18:44.756 --> 18:51.476 MANY OF YOU REMEMBER THE PLASTIC SCALE MODEL, LIKE YOU COULD BUY 18:51.476 --> 18:56.635 CARS OR AIRPLANES OR TRUCKS IN A LITTLE BOX, AND THEN YOU GLUE 18:56.635 --> 19:00.326 THEM TOGETHER AND THEN YOU COULD PAINT THEM? DOES ANYONE RELATE 19:00.326 --> 19:04.346 TO THAT? THAT THEY HAVE, OKAY. IS THERE SOMEONE HERE THAT USED 19:04.346 --> 19:08.066 TO REALLY ENJOY DOING THAT OR THAT WAS YOUR HOBBY OR MAYBE YOU 19:08.066 --> 19:11.791 STILL DO? I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF PEOPLE STILL DO THAT. IS THERE 19:11.791 --> 19:14.935 SOMEONE HERE? OH, COME ON UP HERE, PAUL. 19:14.935 --> 19:21.994 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 19:21.994 --> 19:24.776 I USED TO DO THAT. I THINK I STARTED DOING THAT WHEN I WAS 10 19:24.776 --> 19:28.016 OR SOMETHING AND THEN THERE WAS A SPECIAL GLUE THAT YOU HAD TO 19:28.016 --> 19:33.655 USE ON THOSE PIECES AND IT WOULD AFFECT, I WAS ALLERGIC TO IT OR 19:33.655 --> 19:36.115 SOMETHING, IT WOULD AFFECT MY EYES AND I GOT SOME KIND OF A 19:36.115 --> 19:38.996 RED EYE AND I WENT TO THE EYE DOCTOR AND HE SAID, "WELL, YOU 19:38.996 --> 19:45.296 CAN'T USE THAT GLUE." SO I HAD TO QUIT DOING THAT. BUT I ALWAYS 19:45.296 --> 19:47.905 THOUGHT IT WAS FUN TO PUT THOSE THINGS TOGETHER, YOU KNOW, AND 19:47.905 --> 19:51.925 SEE THEM COME TO LIFE. AND HERE'S WHAT I BELIEVE THE LORD 19:51.925 --> 19:54.746 IS SAYING TO YOU, PAUL. THERE'S BEEN SOME THINGS IN YOUR LIFE 19:54.746 --> 20:00.145 THAT HAVE BEEN PIECEWORK OR PIECES, AND GOD'S GONNA WORK 20:00.145 --> 20:03.776 THROUGH YOU AND YOUR SKILLFULNESS TO MAKE SOMETHING 20:03.776 --> 20:06.385 BEAUTIFUL OUT OF THAT, WHATEVER THAT IS. I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF 20:06.385 --> 20:10.945 THAT RELATES TO YOU OR IF YOU KNOW, BUT WHATEVER IT IS, GOD IS 20:10.945 --> 20:16.705 RESTORING THAT. YOU HAVE A GIFT TO PUT THINGS TOGETHER, AND YOU 20:16.705 --> 20:20.336 HAVE A WAY TO TAKE A PILE OF WRECKAGE AND PUT IT INTO 20:20.336 --> 20:25.125 SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL. AND GOD'S USING YOU IN THAT IN EVEN A NEW 20:25.125 --> 20:29.145 WAY. AND IF THERE'S BEEN SOMETHING BROKEN IN YOUR LIFE, 20:29.145 --> 20:32.476 IT'S GONNA BE RESTORED BACK TO YOU, RENEWED AND BETTER THAN 20:32.476 --> 20:35.596 EVER IN THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS. AMEN, SO RECEIVE THAT 20:35.596 --> 20:39.405 NOW. AND THEN IF THERE'S SOMEONE WATCHING ONLINE AND THAT'S FOR 20:39.405 --> 20:44.625 YOU, AGAIN, YOU CAN CALL THE PRAYER LINE NUMBER AND RECEIVE 20:44.625 --> 20:47.145 THE PRAYER OF AGREEMENT FOR GOD TO DO THE SAME THING IN YOUR 20:47.145 --> 20:49.816 LIFE BECAUSE HE'S NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS. IF HE'LL DO IT FOR 20:49.816 --> 20:54.465 PAUL, HE'LL DO IT FOR YOU. SO, PRAISE GOD. HALLELUJAH. THANK 20:54.465 --> 20:58.365 YOU, JESUS. WELL, I THINK I'M DONE. IS PASTOR KEITH HERE? I'LL 20:58.365 --> 21:01.605 TELL YOU WHAT. DO THIS. SHAKE HANDS AND TELL PEOPLE IT'S GOOD 21:01.605 --> 21:03.615 TO BE IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD ON A WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THEN 21:03.615 --> 21:06.266 PASTOR KEITH WILL BE UP HERE TO RECEIVE OUR OFFERING. 21:06.266 --> 21:41.300 (MUSIC) 21:41.300 --> 21:53.863 HALLELUJAH. WELL, IF YOU NEED A ENVELOPE TO GIVE WITH, YOU CAN 21:53.865 --> 21:58.096 RAISE YOUR HAND AND USHERS WILL GIVE YOU ONE. I'M GONNA GIVE YOU 21:58.096 --> 22:08.236 A SIMPLE WORD. DON'T BE A THIEF. CAN I TELL YOU AGAIN? IT'S A 22:08.236 --> 22:14.955 SIMPLE WORD. DON'T BE A THIEF. NOW, I WANNA EXPLAIN THAT, 22:14.955 --> 22:18.076 BECAUSE YOU COULD SAY, "WELL, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS TELLS ME 22:18.076 --> 22:23.836 THAT. I KNOW THAT." BUT YOU KNOW, JESUS EXPANDED THE TEN 22:23.836 --> 22:28.455 COMMANDMENTS. SO THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS EXPANDING THE TEN 22:28.455 --> 22:34.395 COMMANDMENTS. 'CAUSE HE SAID, YOU KNOW, DON'T COMMIT ADULTERY. 22:34.395 --> 22:39.885 AND THEN HE WENT ON TO SAY, DON'T LET IT, RESIDENT, COME 22:39.885 --> 22:47.056 INTO YOUR MIND AND BECOME A REALITY THERE. SO I TOOK THAT 22:47.056 --> 22:52.605 THOUGHT AND I FOUND A WORD FROM GOD A LONG TIME AGO THAT KIND OF 22:52.605 --> 22:57.885 MADE ME THINK ABOUT THAT VERY CONCEPT. IN THE BOOK OF 22:57.885 --> 23:02.296 EPHESIANS, THE FOURTH CHAPTER, AND YOU CAN STUDY IT FOR 23:02.296 --> 23:12.256 YOURSELF, IN VERSE 28, HE SAYS, "LET HIM WHO STOLE, STEAL NO 23:12.256 --> 23:23.296 LONGER." DON'T BE A THIEF. DON'T BE A THIEF. NOW, LET'S EXPAND 23:23.296 --> 23:30.105 UPON THAT. "BUT LET HIM, RATHER LET HIM LABOR, WORKING WITH HIS 23:30.105 --> 23:38.596 HANDS WHAT IS GOOD, THAT HE MAY HAVE SOMETHING TO GIVE HIM WHO 23:38.596 --> 23:52.766 HAS NEED." THE EXPANSION IS THIS. EVERY PERSON AS A BELIEVER 23:52.766 --> 24:02.608 WHO ISN'T PURPOSEFULLY PLANNING, PREPARING, WORKING TOWARDS, 24:02.608 --> 24:11.776 SETTING A GOAL OF ACHIEVING, GIVING, IS A THIEF. THAT STRUCK 24:11.776 --> 24:26.865 ME. THE PURPOSE IS PART OF THE PROCESS. SO IT'S NOT JUST GOING 24:26.865 --> 24:32.175 TO YOUR NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE AND TAKING HIS GOODS. IT'S ALSO NOT 24:32.175 --> 24:38.655 PREPARING, PLANNING, AND BEING READY TO GIVE. BECAUSE THE 24:38.655 --> 24:46.155 SCRIPTURES ALSO TELL US IN 2 CORINTHIANS THAT HE HAS GIVEN US 24:46.155 --> 24:54.286 GRACE TO HAVE THE ABUNDANCE TO GIVE. SO WHEN WE DON'T APPLY 24:54.286 --> 25:01.786 OURSELVES TO THAT PURPOSE, WE ARE STEALING FROM GOD AND FROM 25:01.786 --> 25:10.935 OTHERS. AND WE DON'T WANT TO BE THIEVES. SAY, I'M NOT A THIEF. I 25:10.935 --> 25:17.986 PURPOSE, I PLAN ON, I PREPARE FOR MY GIVING. SO YOU'RE READY 25:17.986 --> 25:22.726 TO GIVE? YOU CAN PUT THE GIVING INFORMATION UP. AND OUT THERE 25:22.726 --> 25:27.076 ONLINE, YOU CAN GIVE AS WELL. DON'T PURPOSE TO BE A THIEF. 25:27.076 --> 25:32.296 PURPOSE TO BE A GIVER, BECAUSE THAT IS WHERE YOU ARE BLESSED 25:32.296 --> 25:38.536 FROM, FROM YOUR GIVING AND YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM. IF YOU 25:38.536 --> 25:41.776 GOT YOUR GIVING READY, STAND UP WITH ME. LET'S DECLARE A 25:41.776 --> 25:46.215 BLESSING OVER IT. FATHER, I DECREE IN THE NAME OF YOUR SON, 25:46.215 --> 25:51.375 JESUS CHRIST, THAT THE RELEASE OF YOUR ANOINTING ON EVERY GIFT 25:51.375 --> 25:55.336 GOES FORTH TO ACCOMPLISH YOUR WILL, AS THEY PURPOSE IN THEIR 25:55.336 --> 26:00.016 HEART TO BE CHEERFUL GIVERS, AND TO GIVE OUT OF THE POWER OF YOUR 26:00.016 --> 26:04.486 HAND WORKING THROUGH THEM AND IN THEM, THAT THEY WILL BE RELEASED 26:04.486 --> 26:09.316 TO ACCOMPLISH GOOD ON YOUR BEHALF IN EVERY WAY. AND I 26:09.316 --> 26:16.875 DECLARE IT IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. YOU CAN GIVE AS PASTOR DOUG 26:16.875 --> 26:35.355 COMES. AMEN, THANK YOU, PASTOR KEITH FOR THAT. LET ME JUST DO 26:35.355 --> 26:41.101 ONE THING HERE. I JUST REMEMBERED THAT MY WIFE, EILEEN, 26:41.101 --> 26:44.776 MENTIONED, AND I BETTER DO IT RIGHT NOW BECAUSE I MIGHT 26:44.776 --> 26:47.056 FORGET, I GET SO EXCITED ABOUT WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 26:47.056 --> 26:52.096 TONIGHT, I MIGHT FORGET THIS, BUT THE CORE YOUTH BAKE SALE IS 26:52.096 --> 26:56.776 THIS SUNDAY AFTER SERVICE, AND I ASSUME THAT'LL BE IN THE CHAPEL 26:56.776 --> 27:01.066 OR CONNECT CENTER. IN THE CONNECT CENTER, CORE YOUTH BAKE 27:01.066 --> 27:06.675 SALE. AND THEY'RE RAISING FUNDS FOR YOUTH CAMP. SO DON'T GO OUT 27:06.675 --> 27:10.786 TO THE STORE AND BUY YOUR PIES AND CAKES ON FRIDAY OR SATURDAY, 27:10.786 --> 27:14.955 WAIT AND GET THEM SUNDAY HERE. AND THEN YOU CAN BLESS CORE 27:14.955 --> 27:19.576 YOUTH AND STILL TAKE SOMETHING HOME SWEET TO EAT. AND EVEN IF 27:19.576 --> 27:22.875 YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO EAT SWEETS, LIKE I'M IN THAT 27:22.875 --> 27:25.846 CATEGORY, THEN I'LL JUST BUY SOMETHING AND GIVE IT TO MY 27:25.846 --> 27:30.316 NEIGHBOR AND THEN I DON'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE CALORIES, BUT I 27:30.316 --> 27:33.256 STILL BLESS THE YOUTH AND BLESS SOMEONE ELSE AND PLANT A SEED, 27:33.256 --> 27:36.046 SO I'M GETTING A LOT OF BLESSING THAT WAY. SO, YOU KNOW, BLESS MY 27:36.046 --> 27:40.605 BODY WITH NO SUGAR, BLESS MY NEIGHBOR WITH A GIFT, AND BLESS 27:40.605 --> 27:43.846 CORE YOUTH WITH, YOUTH, I MEAN, IT'S A THREE-WAY BLESSING, SO, 27:43.846 --> 27:47.266 YOU KNOW, WE GOTTA REMEMBER TO DO THAT, EILEEN. SO, OKAY, SHE 27:47.266 --> 27:52.338 SAYS OKAY. IF SHE SAYS OKAY, THEN WE CAN DO IT. OH, 27:52.338 --> 27:58.395 HALLELUJAH. WELL, TONIGHT, OH, THE OTHER THING I WANTED TO 27:58.395 --> 28:03.256 MENTION THAT IS TOMORROW NIGHT IS OUR FIRST CLASS OF NEW LIFE, 28:03.256 --> 28:06.855 NOW WHAT? AND I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THIS TOO 'CAUSE IT'S GONNA 28:06.855 --> 28:10.786 BE EVERY FOURTH THURSDAY AND ESPECIALLY FOR PEOPLE THAT GET 28:10.786 --> 28:14.086 NEWLY SAVED, EVERY FOURTH THURSDAY WE'RE GONNA HAVE THIS 28:14.086 --> 28:17.655 CLASS AND IT'LL GIVE THEM A PLACE TO FIGURE OUT WHERE TO GET 28:17.655 --> 28:21.105 STARTED, HOW TO READ THE BIBLE, HOW TO LEARN TO PRAY, HOW TO 28:21.105 --> 28:24.435 BUILD RELATIONSHIPS, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING IN CHURCH ON 28:24.435 --> 28:27.316 A REGULAR BASIS. ALL OF THOSE THINGS WILL BE COVERED BECAUSE 28:27.316 --> 28:30.733 TOO MANY TIMES, HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW, IT'S EASY TO GET SAVED AND 28:30.733 --> 28:34.036 MAKE A DECISION HERE AND THEN THEY WANDER AND DON'T KNOW WHAT 28:34.036 --> 28:38.625 TO DO. SO, BUT EVEN IF YOU FELT LIKE YOU NEEDED TO JUST BE 28:38.625 --> 28:41.715 INVOLVED WITH SOMETHING LIKE THAT, TO LEARN MORE, OR BE A 28:41.715 --> 28:45.526 SUPPORT TO KEVIN AND CANDY JONES WHO ARE LEADING THAT CLASS ON 28:45.526 --> 28:51.195 THOSE THURSDAY NIGHTS. YOU CAN SHOW UP 6:30 AT THE LOH CHAPEL. 28:51.195 --> 28:55.215 AND SO THEY'D APPRECIATE A SIGN UP, BUT IF YOU JUST WANT TO SHOW 28:55.215 --> 28:57.826 UP, THAT'S FINE WITH THEM TOO. THERE'S PLENTY OF SEATING THERE. 28:57.826 --> 29:01.365 SO JUST WANTED YOU TO KNOW ABOUT THAT. WELL, WE'RE ON THE BOOK OF 29:01.365 --> 29:06.556 REVELATION AGAIN TONIGHT. AND I THOUGHT MAYBE I COULD DO THIS IN 29:06.556 --> 29:09.046 ONE MESSAGE, AND THEN I DECIDED IT'S GOING TO BE AT LEAST TWO 29:09.046 --> 29:14.086 MESSAGES. SO TONIGHT'S PART ONE, NEXT WEDNESDAY WILL BE PART TWO. 29:14.086 --> 29:17.986 THE BOOK OF REVELATION, IT'S A BOOK OF FUTURE PROPHECY BUT IT'S 29:17.986 --> 29:21.556 REALLY MUCH MORE THAN THAT. AND THE WORD REVELATION MEANS 29:21.556 --> 29:26.115 UNVEILING OR DISCLOSURE. LET'S PRAY, FATHER I THANK YOU THAT 29:26.115 --> 29:28.875 TONIGHT AS WE LOOK AT THE BOOK OF REVELATION, LORD, THAT'S THE 29:28.875 --> 29:31.546 ONLY BOOK IN THE BIBLE THAT'S PROMISED A BLESSING IF WE READ 29:31.546 --> 29:36.226 IT AND OBEY IT AND WE RECEIVE THAT TONIGHT. LORD, HELP US TO 29:36.226 --> 29:42.766 RECEIVE WHAT IT MEANS TO SEE THE UNVEILED CHRIST IN THIS BOOK AND 29:42.766 --> 29:47.865 HELP US, LORD, TO RECEIVE THE DISCLOSURE OR THE REVELATION OF 29:47.865 --> 29:52.455 THE BOOK AND WHAT IT MEANS IN OUR LIVES AND HOW WE CAN LEARN 29:52.455 --> 29:57.226 ABOUT YOU AND WHAT YOUR PLAN IS FOR THE FUTURE AND HOW IT 29:57.226 --> 29:59.895 INVOLVES US. AND WE THANK YOU FOR IT IN THE MIGHTY NAME OF 29:59.895 --> 30:04.605 JESUS. SO TONIGHT WE'RE GOING TO BELIEVE GOD TO UNVEIL OR 30:04.605 --> 30:09.316 DISCLOSE TRUTH TO US. AMEN. AND IT MIGHT BE REVEALING SOMETHING 30:09.316 --> 30:12.826 NEW THAT YOU'VE NEVER HEARD, OR IT MIGHT BE JUST REPETITION OR 30:12.826 --> 30:15.736 REVIEW OF SOMETHING THAT YOU'VE ALREADY HAVE KNOWN FOR A LONG 30:15.736 --> 30:19.486 TIME. BUT TRUTH IS GOOD EITHER WAY, RIGHT, WHETHER IT'S NEW OR 30:19.486 --> 30:24.885 OLD. LAST TIME WE TALKED ABOUT THIS, WE CONCLUDED A TEACHING ON 30:24.885 --> 30:29.086 THE SEVEN BLESSINGS FOUND IN REVELATION. BUT TONIGHT I WANT 30:29.086 --> 30:33.496 TO START A BROAD OVERVIEW OF THE WHOLE BOOK. AND SO WE'RE GOING 30:33.496 --> 30:37.027 TO TRY AND GET PARTWAY THROUGH REVELATION TONIGHT AND THEN 30:37.027 --> 30:40.086 FINISH NEXT WEEK IF WE CAN. IF NOT, WE'LL MAYBE GO TO THREE 30:40.086 --> 30:45.217 MESSAGES, WE'LL SEE. IT'S A LOT TO COVER. BUT WE DID DISCUSS THE 30:45.217 --> 30:50.196 FACT THAT REVELATION IS THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST. AND 30:50.196 --> 30:53.346 IT'S THE ONLY BOOK IN THE BIBLE, AS I MENTIONED, THAT PROMISES A 30:53.346 --> 30:56.017 BLESSING TO THOSE THAT READ AND OBEY IT. SO I ALWAYS TALK ABOUT 30:56.017 --> 30:59.166 THIS EVERY TIME I TALK ABOUT REVELATION. THE BLESSINGS FOUND 30:59.166 --> 31:02.376 IN REVELATION 1:3, JUST BECAUSE I KNOW THERE'S PEOPLE THAT 31:02.376 --> 31:06.636 MISSED OUR PREVIOUS TIMES TOGETHER. REVELATION 1:3 SAYS, 31:06.636 --> 31:10.477 "BLESSED IS HE WHO READS "AND THOSE WHO HEAR THE WORDS OF THE 31:10.477 --> 31:13.777 PROPHECY "AND KEEP THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE WRITTEN IN IT, "FOR 31:13.777 --> 31:16.896 THE TIME IS NEAR." SO YOU HAVE A THREEFOLD BLESSING IN THIS 31:16.896 --> 31:21.487 SCRIPTURE. READS, THOSE WHO READ, THOSE WHO HEAR, AND THEN 31:21.487 --> 31:25.146 FINALLY THOSE WHO KEEP THE WORDS. IN OTHER WORDS, OBEY WHAT 31:25.146 --> 31:29.676 WE FIND OUT AND WHAT IS DISCLOSED TO US. SO AS WE TALKED 31:29.676 --> 31:33.727 ABOUT BEFORE, THE APOSTLE JOHN WAS EXILED TO THE GREEK ISLAND 31:33.727 --> 31:38.497 OF PATMOS WHERE HE RECEIVED AND WROTE DOWN THE SERIES OF VISIONS 31:38.497 --> 31:43.237 THAT ARE CONTAINED IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION. ROMAN AUTHORITIES 31:43.237 --> 31:47.227 USED THIS ISLAND TO DEPORT POLITICAL PRISONERS AND 31:47.227 --> 31:50.826 CRIMINALS SO THEY NO LONGER REALLY HAD TO DEAL WITH THEM IF 31:50.826 --> 31:55.086 THEY SENT THEM OFF TO PATMOS. IT'S SIMILAR TO OUR GITMO, WHICH 31:55.086 --> 31:59.616 IN THE UNITED STATES IS THE MILITARY PRISON ON GUANTANAMO 31:59.616 --> 32:07.237 BAY IN THE NAVAL BASE AT CUBA. SINCE 2002, THE US HAS USED 32:07.237 --> 32:13.686 GITMO OR GUANTANAMO BAY AS A PLACE TO HOLD PRISONERS THAT 32:13.686 --> 32:17.737 THEY DON'T WANT ON OUR SOIL. PEOPLE THAT WERE INVOLVED IN THE 32:17.737 --> 32:23.227 WAR ON TERROR THAT WERE CONVICTED OR WHATEVER ARE SENT 32:23.227 --> 32:28.957 TO GITMO. SO YOU NEVER WANT TO GO TO GITMO. AND HEY, EILEEN, 32:28.957 --> 32:33.817 CAN I TELL THEM ABOUT YOUR CUBA PROPHECY? IS THAT OKAY? OKAY. SO 32:33.817 --> 32:38.227 YEARS AGO, EILEEN HAD A MINISTER PROPHESY TO HER THAT SHE WOULD 32:38.227 --> 32:43.086 GO TO CUBA SOMEDAY AND EVANGELIZE. SO I ALWAYS THINK 32:43.086 --> 32:47.299 ABOUT THAT. SHE WON'T WANT TO GO TO GITMO AND EVANGELIZE THOUGH. 32:47.299 --> 32:51.336 THAT COULD BE A TOUGH PLACE TO EVANGELIZE. BUT THE THING IS, 32:51.336 --> 32:57.143 SHE SAYS, UNLESS THE LORD SHOWS ME, I DON'T WANT TO GO TO CUBA. 32:57.143 --> 32:59.826 BUT I TELL HER, YOU GOT TO LET THAT PROPHECY BREATHE. IT MIGHT 32:59.826 --> 33:06.517 BE FOR A LATER TIME. SHE SAID, OH, SHE'S BEEN TO HAITI, AND 33:06.517 --> 33:10.237 THAT WAS ENOUGH FOR HER. BUT MAYBE CUBA WILL BECOME A US 33:10.237 --> 33:12.727 TERRITORY, AND IT'LL BE OPENED AND EASIER TO GO THERE. YOU 33:12.727 --> 33:15.277 NEVER KNOW THE WAY THINGS ARE GOING. SO THERE HAS BEEN TALK 33:15.277 --> 33:20.646 ABOUT THAT. BUT ANYWAY, THAT'S NOT MY SUBJECT TONIGHT. BUT SOME 33:20.646 --> 33:25.176 HISTORIANS SAY JOHN WAS EXILED TO PATMOS BY ROMAN AUTHORITIES 33:25.176 --> 33:28.407 FOR PREACHING THE GOSPEL. WE BELIEVE THAT'S HOW HE GOT THERE. 33:28.407 --> 33:33.846 AND THEY TRIED TO BOIL HIM IN OIL, COULDN'T KILL HIM, AND SO 33:33.846 --> 33:39.247 THEY SENT HIM OFF TO PATMOS. SO GOD HAD A PURPOSE FOR HIM EVEN 33:39.247 --> 33:42.757 IN PATMOS, WHERE THE OTHER CRIMINALS MIGHT HAVE BEEN. HE 33:42.757 --> 33:46.537 DID A GREAT THING THERE BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE HE PENNED THE BOOK 33:46.537 --> 33:50.166 OF REVELATION. SO, YOU KNOW, AND SOME CHRISTIANS AVOID STUDYING 33:50.166 --> 33:54.997 REVELATION BECAUSE THEY FEEL IT'S TOO HARD TO COMPREHEND. BUT 33:54.997 --> 33:59.376 JESUS HAS ACTUALLY GIVEN US A GOLDEN KEY TO HELP US UNDERSTAND 33:59.376 --> 34:03.277 THE BOOK. AND THIS GOLDEN KEY IS HANGING ON THE FRONT DOOR OF THE 34:03.277 --> 34:07.446 1ST CHAPTER OF REVELATION. AND IT HELPS US UNDERSTAND THAT 34:07.446 --> 34:12.396 THERE ARE REALLY THREE DIVISIONS IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION. AND 34:12.396 --> 34:16.117 WHEN YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THOSE THREE DIVISIONS ARE, IT HELPS US 34:16.117 --> 34:21.246 UNDERSTAND HOW THE BOOK IS LAID OUT. SO REVELATION NOT ONLY 34:21.246 --> 34:24.246 COMES WITH THAT BUILTIN BLESSING FOR READING IT, BUT IT ALSO 34:24.246 --> 34:26.737 COMES WITH A BUILT-IN OUTLINE. AND WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THAT 34:26.737 --> 34:31.597 TONIGHT. REVELATION 1:19 SAYS, "WRITE THE THINGS WHICH YOU'VE 34:31.597 --> 34:36.967 SEEN AND THE THINGS WHICH ARE AND THE THINGS WHICH WILL TAKE 34:36.967 --> 34:42.186 PLACE AFTER THIS." SO THE THINGS YOU HAVE SEEN, THE THINGS WHICH 34:42.186 --> 34:45.516 ARE, AND THE THINGS WHICH WILL TAKE PLACE. THREE THINGS THERE. 34:45.516 --> 34:48.306 LET'S LOOK AT THIS ON A CHART TONIGHT. I WANT YOU TO SEE THIS. 34:48.306 --> 34:52.507 IF YOU PUT THAT ON THE BACK WALL. SO, THE THREE THINGS, 34:52.507 --> 34:55.987 THREE DIVISIONS, THE PAST, THE THINGS WHICH YOU HAVE SEEN. THIS 34:55.987 --> 35:00.007 IS THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST IN HIS GLORY THAT IS IN 35:00.007 --> 35:04.987 REVELATION CHAPTER 1. THAT'S THE PAST. THEN THE PRESENT, WHICH IS 35:04.987 --> 35:09.246 THE AGE THAT WE'RE IN RIGHT NOW, THE THINGS WHICH ARE. AND THAT'S 35:09.246 --> 35:12.817 REVELATIONS 2 AND 3, WHICH REPRESENT THE LETTERS TO THE 35:12.817 --> 35:16.927 SEVEN CHURCHES AND REPRESENTS THE CHURCH AGE. SO, WE'RE PART 35:16.927 --> 35:21.367 OF THIS AGE RIGHT NOW. AND THEN, THE THINGS THAT WILL TAKE PLACE 35:21.367 --> 35:24.786 AFTER THESE THINGS, THAT'S THE FUTURE. THE THINGS THAT WILL 35:24.786 --> 35:29.016 TAKE PLACE AFTER THESE THINGS, REVELATIONS 4 THROUGH 22 TALKS 35:29.016 --> 35:32.797 ABOUT THOSE FUTURE EVENTS, INCLUDING THE TRIBULATION, THE 35:32.797 --> 35:35.797 MILLENNIAL REIGN, THE ETERNAL ORDER OF THINGS, AND WE'LL GET 35:35.797 --> 35:38.286 INTO THAT A LITTLE MORE. BUT I WANTED YOU TO SEE THAT 35:38.286 --> 35:41.376 THREE-POINT OUTLINE THERE, BECAUSE IT KIND OF HELPS YOU TO 35:41.376 --> 35:45.907 UNDERSTAND WHAT WE'LL BE LOOKING AT TONIGHT AND HOW THAT FITS IN 35:45.907 --> 35:52.867 A TIMELINE OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION. AGAIN, JUST TO BE 35:52.867 --> 35:55.507 CLEAR, RIGHT NOW WE'RE IN THAT MIDDLE CATEGORY CALLED "THE 35:55.507 --> 36:00.217 THINGS WHICH ARE." BUT RIGHT OUT OF THE GATE IN CHAPTER 1, JESUS 36:00.217 --> 36:03.907 BEGINS TO REVEAL HIMSELF. REMEMBER, REVELATION IS NOT JUST 36:03.907 --> 36:07.686 ABOUT THE FUTURE, IT'S ALSO ABOUT THE UNVEILING OF THE 36:07.686 --> 36:12.786 EXALTED CHRIST. GOD IS SAYING, "I WANT YOU TO SEE WHO I AM IN 36:12.786 --> 36:17.646 THIS BOOK." SO THE BOOK IS BOTH A REVELATION FROM JESUS, BUT 36:17.646 --> 36:22.777 IT'S ALSO A REVELATION OF JESUS. SAY THAT WITH ME. THIS BOOK IS A 36:22.777 --> 36:31.746 REVELATION FROM JESUS, BUT IT'S ALSO A REVELATION OF JESUS. 36:31.746 --> 36:38.496 AMEN, SO REGARDING REVELATION FROM JESUS, THE BOOK WAS GIVEN 36:38.496 --> 36:42.936 BY GOD TO JESUS AND THEN TRANSMITTED BY AN ANGEL TO GOD. 36:42.936 --> 36:45.726 AND YOU CAN PUT THAT UP SO THAT WE REMEMBER WHERE WE'RE AT. IT'S 36:45.726 --> 36:50.197 A REVELATION FROM JESUS CHRIST THAT GOD GAVE HIM, AMEN. IT 36:50.197 --> 36:53.706 EMPOWERS THE BELIEVERS TO OVERCOME. IT CALLS US AS 36:53.706 --> 36:56.976 CHRISTIANS TO BE OVERCOMERS IN EVERY AREA OF LIFE. I THINK 36:56.976 --> 36:59.766 PASTOR BRENDA DID A GREAT JOB ON HER MESSAGE FRIDAY NIGHT. SHE 36:59.766 --> 37:03.036 TALKED ABOUT WHEN YOU'RE, AND YOU MEN THAT ARE HERE, GO BACK 37:03.036 --> 37:05.887 AND WATCH THAT IF YOU DIDN'T SEE IT. FRIDAY NIGHT'S MESSAGE FROM 37:05.887 --> 37:09.876 PASTOR BRENDA WAS EXCELLENT ON HOW TO OVERCOME. WE ALL HAVE 37:09.876 --> 37:13.177 THINGS THAT COME AGAINST US IN THIS LIFE. AND SHE TALKED ABOUT 37:13.177 --> 37:15.277 BEING ABLE TO STAND UP AND OVERCOME. THAT'S WHAT WE'RE 37:15.277 --> 37:19.686 CALLED TO DO, AMEN? AND LIVE A LIFE OF CONTINUOUS ONGOING 37:19.686 --> 37:23.856 VICTORY. JESUS GAVE US REVELATION TO HELP US ALSO 37:23.856 --> 37:28.416 UNDERSTAND GOD'S PLAN. SO THAT WAS THE REVELATION FROM JESUS 37:28.416 --> 37:32.047 CHRIST. IT ALSO SERVES AS A ROADMAP TO UNDERSTAND GOD'S 37:32.047 --> 37:37.416 ULTIMATE PURPOSE IN THE PLAN FOR MANKIND AND GIVES US INSIGHT 37:37.416 --> 37:40.626 INTO THE FUTURE AND WHAT'S AHEAD FOR THOSE THAT CHOOSE CHRIST AND 37:40.626 --> 37:44.916 ALSO WHAT'S AHEAD FOR THOSE THAT REFUSE TO CHOOSE HIM. AND THEN 37:44.916 --> 37:48.306 THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST, IF YOU'LL PUT THAT ONE UP, THERE 37:48.306 --> 37:52.777 WE GO, GOOD JOB. THIS BOOK ALSO IS A REVELATION OF JESUS. IT 37:52.777 --> 37:56.706 MEANS THE BOOK UNVEILS AND REVEALS THE TRUE NATURE OF 37:56.706 --> 38:01.867 CHRIST. IT SHOWCASES JESUS AS THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA. HE'S 38:01.867 --> 38:05.827 THE LIVING ONE THAT HOLDS THE KEYS OF DEATH AND HELL. 38:05.827 --> 38:09.396 REVELATION GIVES US A FULLER UNDERSTANDING OF JESUS. HE'S 38:09.396 --> 38:13.027 FULL OF LOVE, BUT HE'S FULL OF POWER, AND HE'S FULL OF 38:13.027 --> 38:17.166 AUTHORITY. THE TRUTH PROVIDES US WITH THIS HOPE, ENCOURAGEMENT, 38:17.166 --> 38:21.217 AND A PICTURE THAT JESUS WILL HAVE FINAL VICTORY OVER EVIL. 38:22.356 --> 38:27.487 WHO'S A BETTER SOURCE ON JESUS THAN JESUS? NOBODY. LET'S LOOK 38:27.487 --> 38:33.757 AT REVELATION 1, VERSES 1 AND 2. THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST, 38:33.757 --> 38:38.376 WHICH GOD GAVE HIM TO SHOW HIS SERVANTS, THINGS WHICH MUST 38:38.376 --> 38:43.777 SHORTLY TAKE PLACE. AND HE SENT AND SIGNIFIED IT BY HIS ANGEL TO 38:43.777 --> 38:47.976 HIS SERVANT JOHN, WHO BORE THE WITNESS TO THE WORD OF GOD AND 38:47.976 --> 38:53.106 TO THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST TO ALL THINGS THAT HE SAW. SO 38:53.106 --> 38:58.657 IT'S A REVELATION OF THE IMMINENT SOON COMING EVENTS. THE 38:58.657 --> 39:03.724 WORD SAID THERE ARE THINGS THAT WILL SHORTLY TAKE PLACE. AND 39:03.724 --> 39:06.396 THIS VERSE ALSO EXPLAINS THAT REVELATION IS AN ACCURATE 39:06.396 --> 39:10.867 TESTIMONY OF THE WORD OF GOD AND THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST. 39:10.867 --> 39:15.306 IN VERSE FIVE, WE SEE JESUS IS THE FAITHFUL WITNESS. AND FROM 39:15.306 --> 39:18.757 JESUS CHRIST, HE IS THE FAITHFUL WITNESS TO SEE THESE THINGS, TO 39:18.757 --> 39:21.637 THE FIRST TO RISE FROM THE DEAD AND THE RULER OF ALL THE KINGS 39:21.637 --> 39:26.106 OF THE WORLD. ALL GLORY TO HIM WHO LOVES US AND HAS FREED US 39:26.106 --> 39:30.637 FROM OUR SINS BY SHEDDING HIS BLOOD FOR US. YOU KNOW, IT CAN 39:30.637 --> 39:32.677 BE HARD TO FIND A FAITHFUL WITNESS TODAY, 39:32.677 --> 39:36.186 SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T SPIN THE TRUTH. WHEN 39:36.186 --> 39:40.447 JESUS SPEAKS, HE'S THE FAITHFUL WITNESS. HE SPEAKS TRUTH, AND HE 39:40.447 --> 39:46.027 SPEAKS TRUTH IN LOVE. THERE ARE INDIVIDUALS THAT HAVE THE TRUTH, 39:46.027 --> 39:49.536 BUT THEY USE IT AS A WEAPON TO DESTROY RATHER THAN A TOOL TO 39:49.536 --> 39:54.817 BUILD. THESE PEOPLE CAN EVEN BE TECHNICALLY OR THEOLOGICALLY 39:54.817 --> 39:59.677 CORRECT IN THEIR POSITION, BUT THEY HURT PEOPLE IN THE WAY THAT 39:59.677 --> 40:04.777 THEY PRESENT THE TRUTH. WE SHOULD ALWAYS SHARE TRUTH IN 40:04.777 --> 40:10.027 LOVE. IN FACT, NOTICE THE LAST SENTENCE OF REVELATION 1:5. IT 40:10.027 --> 40:14.407 SAYS, "ALL GLORY TO HIM WHO LOVES US AND HAS FREED US FROM 40:14.407 --> 40:18.456 OUR SINS BY SHEDDING HIS BLOOD FOR US." WHAT A DECLARATION. 40:18.456 --> 40:23.677 THIS MESSAGE IS FROM JESUS, BUT HE LOVES US. SAY THIS WITH ME, 40:23.677 --> 40:29.617 "JESUS LOVES ME." AMEN. IT'S A DECLARATION. I MEAN, THIS BOOK 40:29.617 --> 40:37.637 IS FULL OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUSTICE ON EVIL. BUT HE STARTS 40:37.637 --> 40:41.657 OUT IN THE FIRST CHAPTER JUST REMINDING US HOW MUCH HE LOVES 40:41.657 --> 40:46.907 US. WHAT A DECLARATION. THE WORDS ARE FROM A SOVEREIGN, 40:46.907 --> 40:50.536 POWERFUL GOD IN CONTROL OF EVERYTHING. HE COULD STOMP US 40:50.536 --> 40:54.916 ALL OUT TONIGHT IF HE WANTED TO. BUT HE ENDS THE VERSE 40:54.916 --> 40:58.126 PROCLAIMING HIS LOVE FOR US. NOW FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT MISSED OUR 40:58.126 --> 41:01.786 LAST TEACHING ON REVELATION, I WANNA GO BACK AND REVIEW OUR 41:01.786 --> 41:05.507 TIMELINE CHART HERE JUST FOR A MOMENT, JUST TO GIVE YOU AN 41:05.507 --> 41:10.186 UPDATE ON KIND OF WHERE WE'RE AT AND HOW THE BOOK IS LAID OUT. SO 41:10.186 --> 41:15.226 FIRST OF ALL, WE HAVE CHAPTERS ONE THROUGH THREE OF REVELATION 41:15.226 --> 41:18.737 HERE. THIS IS THE CHURCH AGE. THIS IS WHERE WE ARE NOW. WE 41:18.737 --> 41:25.456 TALKED ABOUT CHAPTER ONE BEING THE EXPOSITION OF THE GLORY OF 41:25.456 --> 41:31.126 JESUS CHRIST, AND THEN CHAPTERS TWO AND THREE TALKING ABOUT THE 41:31.126 --> 41:34.007 SEVEN LETTERS TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES. SO THAT'S THE AGE WE 41:34.007 --> 41:38.177 ARE IN NOW. AND THEN AS WE MOVE TO REVELATION 4 AND 5, HERE WE 41:38.177 --> 41:43.306 HAVE THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH EXPLAINED IN A GREAT WAY THERE. 41:43.306 --> 41:47.896 SO THAT'S REVELATION 4 AND 5. AND THEN AS WE MOVE ON TO 41:47.896 --> 41:52.757 REVELATION 6 THROUGH 18, BY THE WAY, THANK YOU SAMUEL HERE 41:52.757 --> 41:55.277 TODAY. YEAH, SAMUEL, THANK YOU FOR MAKING THAT CORRECTION. WE 41:55.277 --> 41:58.186 FOUND AN ERROR IN THIS CHART AND HE CORRECTED IT FOR ME. IT'S 41:58.186 --> 42:01.817 REVELATION 6 THROUGH 18 THAT TALKS ABOUT THE SEVEN YEAR 42:01.817 --> 42:04.336 TRIBULATION. AND WE'RE GONNA GO INTO THAT A LITTLE BIT TONIGHT 42:04.336 --> 42:10.786 AND HOW THAT TRIBULATION PERIOD OCCURS. AND THEN REVELATION 19 42:10.786 --> 42:13.907 IS THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS. AND WE'RE GONNA EXPLAIN AGAIN 42:13.907 --> 42:16.246 TONIGHT, FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT MIGHT HAVE MISSED IT, THERE IS A 42:16.246 --> 42:19.036 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH AND THE SECOND 42:19.036 --> 42:22.186 COMING. WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT. AND THEN IT MOVES 42:22.186 --> 42:25.487 INTO REVELATION 20, WHICH TALKS ABOUT THE THOUSAND YEAR 42:25.487 --> 42:29.717 MILLENNIAL REIGN. THAT'S WHEN WE COME BACK AS THE CHURCH, RIDING 42:29.717 --> 42:33.347 ON HORSES ALONG WITH JESUS. HE'S LEADING THE WAY ON A WHITE 42:33.347 --> 42:37.516 HORSE, AND WE'LL BE RULING AND REIGNING WITH HIM A THOUSAND 42:37.516 --> 42:40.967 YEARS ON EARTH DURING THE MILLENNIAL REIGN. IT'S A 42:40.967 --> 42:45.436 MONARCHY. JESUS IS IN CONTROL. HE'S RULING AND REIGNING FROM 42:45.436 --> 42:50.416 THE CITY OF JERUSALEM. AND THEN ALSO IN REVELATION 20, IT MOVES 42:50.416 --> 42:54.257 INTO JUDGMENT, THE LAKE OF FIRE, FINALLY TO THE GREAT WHITE 42:54.257 --> 42:58.067 THRONE OF JUDGMENT. AND THEN IN REVELATIONS 20 THROUGH 22, IT 42:58.067 --> 43:01.456 WINDS UP WITH THE NEW HEAVEN AND THE NEW EARTH. SO THAT'S KIND OF 43:01.456 --> 43:04.847 THE LAYOUT ON REVELATION THAT'LL HELP YOU TO UNDERSTAND A LITTLE 43:04.847 --> 43:08.387 BIT AS WE GO THROUGH IT TONIGHT. I THINK IT'S ALWAYS GOOD TO SEE 43:08.387 --> 43:10.487 THE PICTURE. SEVERAL PEOPLE TOLD ME THEY ENJOYED SEEING THE 43:10.487 --> 43:13.876 PICTURES OF THAT JUST TO KIND OF UNDERSTAND HOW THE BOOK IS LAID 43:13.876 --> 43:22.067 OUT. IN THAT, IT'S INTERESTING, CHAPTER 19 TALKS MORE ABOUT 43:22.067 --> 43:25.516 JESUS AND IT EXPLAINS THE FACT THAT HE'S THE ONE CALLED 43:25.516 --> 43:28.606 FAITHFUL AND TRUE. HE'S CALLED THE WORD OF GOD. HE'S DESCRIBED 43:28.606 --> 43:32.746 AS KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. AND HE'S DEPICTED AS THE 43:32.746 --> 43:38.086 VICTORIOUS WARRIOR, THE ULTIMATE TRUTH, AND THE SUPREME RULER 43:38.086 --> 43:42.376 RETURNING TO JUDGE IN RIGHTEOUSNESS. SO, WE'LL TALK A 43:42.376 --> 43:44.833 LITTLE MORE ABOUT THAT AS WE GET THROUGH THE END OF THE BOOK. 43:46.666 --> 43:51.137 CHAPTER 1, REVELATION, JOHN'S WRITING EVERYTHING THAT JESUS IS 43:51.137 --> 43:55.036 SHOWING HIM IN THIS MAGNIFICENT REVELATION OF CHRIST. LET'S LOOK 43:55.036 --> 43:59.806 AT REVELATION 1:11. IT SAYS, "WRITE IN A BOOK EVERYTHING YOU 43:59.806 --> 44:03.556 SEE "AND SEND IT TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES "IN THE CITIES OF 44:03.556 --> 44:08.896 EPHESUS, SMYRNA, PERGAMON, THYATIRA, SARDIS, PHILADELPHIA, 44:08.896 --> 44:13.996 AND LAODICEA." THESE WERE LITERAL CHURCHES. PASTOR BRENDA 44:13.996 --> 44:16.606 PREACHED ON THOSE LAST NOVEMBER. YOU CAN GO BACK AND LOOK AT THAT 44:16.606 --> 44:18.827 IF YOU WANT TO, AND SHE DID AN EXCELLENT JOB GOING THROUGH 44:18.827 --> 44:23.536 THOSE SEVEN CHURCHES. BUT THE WORDS OF JESUS WERE EXPLAINED TO 44:23.536 --> 44:27.226 THOSE ACTUAL CHURCHES IN EXISTENCE. AND THEY APPLY TO US 44:27.226 --> 44:29.927 TODAY BECAUSE THERE'S CHURCHES THAT FIT INTO THOSE CATEGORIES 44:29.927 --> 44:33.347 TODAY. THE WORDS OF JESUS TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES SPEAK 44:33.347 --> 44:37.666 PROPHETICALLY. IT'S KIND OF LIKE AN OVERVIEW OF CHURCH HISTORY. 44:37.666 --> 44:40.847 AND INSTEAD OF THE CHURCH GROWING STRONGER AS THOSE SEVEN 44:40.847 --> 44:44.416 LETTERS PROGRESS, WE FIND IT GROWING WEAKER. THE FIRST 44:44.416 --> 44:47.956 CHURCH, THE CHURCH OF EPHESUS, IS A GROUP OF BELIEVERS THAT ARE 44:47.956 --> 44:51.976 BEGINNING TO LOSE THEIR PASSION, AND THEY'RE IN DANGER OF LEAVING 44:51.976 --> 44:55.996 THEIR FIRST LOVE, ACCORDING TO JESUS, WHEN HE TALKS TO EPHESUS. 44:55.996 --> 45:00.166 AND THEN THE LETTERS END WITH THE SEVENTH LETTER TO THE CHURCH 45:00.166 --> 45:05.447 OF LAODICEA. AND THAT CHURCH HAS BECOME SO CORRUPTED THAT JESUS 45:05.447 --> 45:09.976 CALLS IT A LUKEWARM CHURCH. AND HE SAYS, "BECAUSE YOU'RE 45:09.976 --> 45:14.387 LUKEWARM "AND NEITHER COLD NOR HOT, I VOMIT YOU OUT OF MY 45:14.387 --> 45:20.056 MOUTH." NOW, THAT'S A PRETTY STRONG STATEMENT. BUT IN 45:20.056 --> 45:24.766 REVELATION CHAPTER 3, VERSES 19 AND 20, AS WE END THAT SEVENTH 45:24.766 --> 45:28.456 LETTER, WE ACTUALLY SEE JESUS ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE CHURCH OF 45:28.456 --> 45:33.137 LAODICEA. HE'S KNOCKING AND TRYING TO GET BACK IN. IT'S 45:33.137 --> 45:37.067 AMAZING. THIS CHURCH IS SO CORRUPT THAT HE SAYS, "YOU MAKE 45:37.067 --> 45:41.686 ME SICK. I WANNA JUST VOMIT YOU OUT OF MY MOUTH." AND YET RIGHT 45:41.686 --> 45:46.786 AFTER THAT, WE SEE JESUS KNOCKING, TRYING TO GET BACK IN. 45:46.786 --> 45:51.706 LET'S READ THAT, REVELATION 3:19-20. IT SAYS, "AS MANY AS I 45:51.706 --> 45:57.677 LOVE, I REBUKE AND CHASTEN. THEREFORE BE ZEALOUS AND REPENT. 45:57.677 --> 46:01.757 BEHOLD, I STAND AT THE DOOR AND KNOCK. IF ANYONE HEARS MY VOICE 46:01.757 --> 46:04.487 AND OPENS THE DOOR, I WILL COME INTO HIM AND DINE WITH HIM AND 46:04.487 --> 46:11.206 HE WITH ME. SO HERE WE HAVE JESUS TELLING THE CHURCH, YOU 46:11.206 --> 46:16.847 MAKE ME SICK, YOU'VE BECOME SO ROTTEN TO THE CORE. AND YET HE 46:16.847 --> 46:20.297 FOLLOWS IT UP WITH ANOTHER PLAN OF REDEMPTION. IF THEY'LL ONLY 46:20.297 --> 46:24.317 OPEN THE DOOR, LET HIM IN, HE'LL SAVE THEM AND ALLOW THEM TO COME 46:24.317 --> 46:29.237 RIGHT BACK INTO FELLOWSHIP, AMAZING. THAT'S OUR GOD, 46:29.237 --> 46:34.007 HALLELUJAH. SO IN REVELATION CHAPTER 4, WE HAVE A CHANGE 46:34.007 --> 46:36.646 THERE. WE LOOK UPWARD AT THIS POINT AND WE'RE GONNA SEE WHAT'S 46:36.646 --> 46:40.456 GOING ON IN HEAVEN. THE CHURCH IS REMOVED IN THE RAPTURE, WE'RE 46:40.456 --> 46:45.166 SAFE AND SECURE IN GOD'S ARMS, BUT LET'S READ REVELATION 4, 46:45.166 --> 46:50.086 VERSES 1 THROUGH 5. IT SAYS, "THEN AS I LOOKED, "I SAW A DOOR 46:50.086 --> 46:53.567 STANDING OPEN IN HEAVEN. "AND THE SAME VOICE I HAD HEARD 46:53.567 --> 46:57.166 BEFORE SPOKE TO ME LIKE A TRUMPET BLAST. THE VOICE SAID, 46:57.166 --> 47:01.306 'COME UP HERE, AND I WILL SHOW YOU WHAT MUST HAPPEN AFTER 47:01.306 --> 47:05.237 THIS.'" SO AS WE LOOK AT THAT PASSAGE, WE SEE IN VERSE ONE, 47:05.237 --> 47:08.746 JOHN WRITES, "COME UP HERE, AND I WILL SHOW YOU WHAT MUST HAPPEN 47:08.746 --> 47:12.766 AFTER THIS." HE'S REALLY TALKING ABOUT THE RAPTURE BECAUSE THIS 47:12.766 --> 47:16.456 CHURCH AGE HAS ENDED AT THE END OF CHAPTER THREE AND THOSE SEVEN 47:16.456 --> 47:19.996 LETTERS TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES. NOW WE MOVE INTO CHAPTER 4, AND 47:19.996 --> 47:23.626 JESUS SAYS, "COME UP HERE, JOHN. "I WANT YOU TO SEE WHAT MUST 47:23.626 --> 47:28.036 HAPPEN AFTER THIS." JESUS HAS JUST CONCLUDED THE MESSAGES, AND 47:28.036 --> 47:31.547 HE'S GONNA SHOW US WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN AFTER THE CHURCH AGE ON 47:31.547 --> 47:34.907 EARTH. BEFORE THE TRIBULATION BEGINS, THE CHURCH IS GOING TO 47:34.907 --> 47:39.106 BE REMOVED. WE DISCUSSED THIS IN DETAIL EARLIER. IF YOU WANNA 47:39.106 --> 47:43.907 LOOK BACK AND UNDERSTAND THIS IN FULLER DIMENSION, I CAN'T GO 47:43.907 --> 47:47.927 OVER EVERYTHING EVERY TIME, BUT FEBRUARY 4TH AND MARCH 25TH, IF 47:47.927 --> 47:50.717 YOU WANT TO LOOK AT THOSE ARCHIVES, FEBRUARY 4TH, MARCH 47:50.717 --> 47:53.867 25TH, WE TALKED ABOUT THE SEVEN BLESSINGS OF REVELATION, WE 47:53.867 --> 47:56.356 COVERED SOME OF THESE POINTS. BUT I WANT TO MENTION AGAIN, 47:56.356 --> 48:00.016 THERE'S SOMETIMES CONFUSION CONCERNING THE RAPTURE AND THE 48:00.016 --> 48:04.427 SECOND COMING. THEY ARE TWO DISTINCT EVENTS. AND I WANT TO 48:04.427 --> 48:07.876 PUT A SCREEN UP HERE JUST TO HELP YOU SEE THAT AGAIN. IF YOU 48:07.876 --> 48:13.907 WOULD PLEASE PUT THAT ON THE BACK WALL FOR ME. SO, THE 48:13.907 --> 48:19.157 RAPTURE AND THE SECOND COMING. SO, THE CHURCH IS RAPTURED AT 48:19.157 --> 48:23.447 THE END OF CHAPTER 3 THERE AND THEN WE MOVE INTO A TIME THE 48:23.447 --> 48:28.367 BIBLE CALLS A SEVEN YEARS OF TRIBULATION. AND AT THE RAPTURE, 48:28.367 --> 48:31.077 CHRIST RETURNS FOR THE CHURCH. WE'RE GONNA READ THAT OUT OF 1 48:31.077 --> 48:34.186 THESSALONIANS. BUT WHEN HE COMES FOR THE CHURCH, HE DOESN'T COME 48:34.186 --> 48:37.547 TO THE EARTH, HE COMES IN THE AIR. AND HE BASICALLY DOES A 48:37.547 --> 48:40.306 U-TURN, HE CATCHES US UP. THE BIBLE SAYS WE'RE GONNA READ THAT 48:40.306 --> 48:43.246 SCRIPTURE. THE DEAD IN CHRIST SHALL ARISE FIRST, AND THEN 48:43.246 --> 48:46.697 THOSE WHO ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN WILL BE CAUGHT UP TOGETHER WITH 48:46.697 --> 48:51.527 HIM. SO THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS. JESUS COMES DOWN, CATCHES UP HIS 48:51.527 --> 48:54.797 BRIDE, WE GO BACK TO HEAVEN AT THIS POINT. AND THERE'S THINGS 48:54.797 --> 48:57.766 THAT HAPPEN IN HEAVEN THAT AREN'T ON THIS CHART, BUT WE GO 48:57.766 --> 49:01.516 TO THE JUDGMENT OF BELIEVERS AT THAT POINT IN TIME. WE'RE JUDGED 49:01.516 --> 49:04.456 FOR OUR WORKS ON THE EARTH, NOT WHETHER OR NOT WE'RE SAVED. 49:04.456 --> 49:07.996 WE'RE ALREADY SAVED OR WE WOULDN'T GO IN THE RAPTURE. SO 49:07.996 --> 49:10.516 WHEN WE GO IN THE RAPTURE, THEN THE JUDGMENT OF BELIEVERS WHERE 49:10.516 --> 49:13.036 WE GET REWARDED FOR THE THINGS THAT WERE DONE ON THIS EARTH. 49:13.036 --> 49:16.336 THAT'S WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING, WHAT OUR 49:16.336 --> 49:19.097 FUTURE IS, BECAUSE WE WANT TO PUT OUR HAND TO THE PLOW AND 49:19.097 --> 49:23.657 OCCUPY UNTIL HE COMES. AMEN? OKAY. SO THE RAPTURE HAPPENS 49:23.657 --> 49:27.496 HERE. THEN WE GO INTO THE FIRST THREE AND A HALF YEARS OF THE 49:27.496 --> 49:30.347 TRIBULATION PERIOD. AND THAT'S A TIME OF PEACE AND SAFETY WE'LL 49:30.347 --> 49:33.766 LOOK AT A LITTLE MORE AS WE GO THROUGH THIS TONIGHT. BUT THEN 49:33.766 --> 49:37.786 THE LAST THREE AND A HALF YEARS IS CALLED THE GREAT TRIBULATION. 49:37.786 --> 49:40.967 THAT'S WHERE THE JUDGMENTS HAPPEN, BASICALLY STARTING WITH 49:40.967 --> 49:45.137 THE SEAL JUDGMENTS ABOUT MIDWAY THROUGH THAT SEVEN YEARS. IT'S A 49:45.137 --> 49:49.067 THREE AND A HALF YEAR POINT. THE GREAT TRIBULATION BEGINS. AND 49:49.067 --> 49:52.907 THEN AT THE END OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION IS THE SECOND COMING 49:52.907 --> 49:56.297 OF CHRIST. AND HERE'S WHAT HAPPENS SO MANY TIMES PEOPLE IN 49:56.297 --> 49:58.996 THE CHURCH TALK ABOUT THE SECOND COMING AND WE AUTOMATICALLY 49:58.996 --> 50:02.717 THINK ABOUT THE RAPTURE. THEY'RE TWO SEPARATE DISTINCT EVENTS. 50:02.717 --> 50:05.086 DON'T THINK OF IT THAT WAY. THINK OF THE RAPTURE, THE 50:05.086 --> 50:09.856 CATCHING AWAY. THE RAPTURE IS THE GREEK WORD HARPAZO. IT MEANS 50:09.856 --> 50:14.777 CATCHING UP OR THE CATCHING AWAY, THE SNATCHING UP OF THE 50:14.777 --> 50:18.496 BRIDE OF CHRIST. AND THAT'S WHAT THE RAPTURE IS. THE SECOND 50:18.496 --> 50:22.367 COMING IS WHEN CHRIST RETURNS WITH THE CHURCH. WE WILL BE 50:22.367 --> 50:26.056 FOLLOWING HIM, RIDING HORSES, COMING BACK AS HE LEADS THE WAY 50:26.056 --> 50:29.896 ON HIS WHITE HORSE TO DEFEAT THE DEVIL AND SATAN FOREVER. AND SO 50:29.896 --> 50:33.887 THAT'S AN EXCITING TIME WHEN WE ACTUALLY COME BACK. HIS FEET HIT 50:33.887 --> 50:36.916 THE MOUNT OF OLIVES AT THAT TIME AND SPLITS THAT MOUNTAIN IN TWO 50:36.916 --> 50:40.516 AND THERE'S A GREAT VALLEY IN THE MIDST OF THAT AFTER THAT 50:40.516 --> 50:43.606 MOUNTAIN IS SPLIT. SO WE'LL LOOK AT THAT A LITTLE MORE IN DETAIL. 50:43.606 --> 50:47.567 BUT THAT'S WHEN WE COME BACK WITH CHRIST AND THEN WE GO INTO 50:47.567 --> 50:50.387 THAT THOUSAND YEAR MILLENNIAL REIGN DURING THAT PERIOD THAT 50:50.387 --> 50:54.447 ISN'T SHOWN ON THIS SLIDE. BUT THAT KIND OF HELPED TO JUST SEE 50:54.447 --> 51:03.278 THAT AGAIN, AMEN. OKAY. LET'S JUST LOOK AT 1 THESSALONIANS 51:03.278 --> 51:07.586 4:15-17 JUST BECAUSE IT'S SUCH A GREAT DESCRIPTION OF THE RAPTURE 51:07.586 --> 51:10.766 OF THE CHURCH. AND YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS VERSE. IT'S AN 51:10.766 --> 51:12.867 IMPORTANT ONE. MOST OF YOU ALREADY HAVE HEARD IT MANY 51:12.867 --> 51:16.617 TIMES. FOR THIS WE SAY TO YOU BY THE WORD OF THE LORD, THAT WE 51:16.617 --> 51:20.277 WHO ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN UNTIL THE COMING OF THE LORD WILL BY 51:20.277 --> 51:24.567 NO MEANS PRECEDE THOSE WHO ARE ASLEEP. FOR THE LORD HIMSELF 51:24.567 --> 51:27.657 WILL DESCEND FROM HEAVEN WITH A SHOUT, WITH THE VOICE OF AN 51:27.657 --> 51:31.197 ARCHANGEL AND WITH THE TRUMPET OF GOD, AND THE DEAD IN CHRIST 51:31.197 --> 51:35.367 WILL RISE FIRST. THEN WE WHO ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN SHALL BE CAUGHT 51:35.367 --> 51:38.367 UP TOGETHER WITH THEM IN THE CLOUDS TO MEET THE LORD IN THE 51:38.367 --> 51:42.389 AIR, AND THUS WE SHALL ALWAYS BE WITH THE LORD. THAT IS THE 51:42.389 --> 51:44.967 SCRIPTURE, AND THERE'S SEVERAL OTHER REFERENCES IN THE NEW 51:44.967 --> 51:48.536 TESTAMENT CONCERNING THE RAPTURE. YOU DON'T MAKE A 51:48.536 --> 51:54.490 DOCTRINE OUT OF ONE SCRIPTURE. SO IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT. 51:54.490 --> 51:59.577 AND WE TALKED LAST TIME ABOUT SEVERAL REASONS WHY I BELIEVE 51:59.577 --> 52:02.996 AND THIS CHURCH BELIEVES IN A PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE. ONE OF 52:02.996 --> 52:08.246 THE VERSES OUT OF THE SAME BOOK OF 1 THESSALONIANS 5, VERSE 9 52:08.246 --> 52:11.876 SAYS, "FOR GOD HAS NOT APPOINTED US UNTO WRATH, "BUT TO OBTAIN 52:11.876 --> 52:15.657 SALVATION BY OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST." HE DIDN'T BRING THE 52:15.657 --> 52:19.766 CHURCH THIS FAR AND FORGIVE US TO THROW US INTO A TIME OF 52:19.766 --> 52:22.556 JUDGMENT AND WRATH. IT DOESN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE WHEN YOU LOOK AT 52:22.556 --> 52:26.067 THE TIMELINE AND THE THINGS THAT HAPPEN. BUT ANYWAY, THAT'S A 52:26.067 --> 52:29.367 GOOD SCRIPTURE. BUT AS FAR AS OTHER SCRIPTURES THAT VERIFY OR 52:29.367 --> 52:32.126 TALK ABOUT THE SNATCHING AWAY, THE CATCHING UP, THE WORD 52:32.126 --> 52:35.396 RAPTURE ITSELF IS NOT USED IN THE BIBLE. IT WASN'T TRANSLATED 52:35.396 --> 52:40.159 THAT WAY, BUT THE MEANING IS THERE. 1 CORINTHIANS 15:50-55, 52:40.159 --> 52:43.317 IF YOU'RE TAKING NOTES, IT TALKS ABOUT THE MYSTERIOUS 52:43.317 --> 52:45.867 TRANSFORMATION OF BELIEVERS, BOTH THE LIVING AND THE DEAD, 52:45.867 --> 52:49.197 TRANSFORMED IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, IT SAYS. AND THEN JOHN 52:49.197 --> 52:55.976 14:1-3, JOHN 14:1-3, JESUS SAYS HE'S COMING BACK TO TAKE US TO 52:55.976 --> 53:01.827 BE WITH HIM. AND THEN TITUS 2:13 TALKS ABOUT THE BLESSED HOPE, 53:01.827 --> 53:07.019 THE APPEARING OF JESUS. PHILIPPIANS CHAPTER 3, VERSES 20 53:07.019 --> 53:11.036 AND 21, TALK ABOUT THE TRANSFORMATION OF OUR BODIES. 53:11.036 --> 53:14.157 JESUS WILL TAKE OUR WEAK MORTAL BODIES AND CHANGE THEM INTO 53:14.157 --> 53:17.757 GLORIOUS BODIES LIKE HIS OWN. IT'LL HAPPEN IN A MOMENT, IN THE 53:17.757 --> 53:21.146 TWINKLING OF AN EYE, THE BIBLE SAYS. SO THE CHURCH IS NOW IN 53:21.146 --> 53:25.887 HEAVEN, ENJOYING THE GLORY OF GOD. AND REVELATION HAS A LOT TO 53:25.887 --> 53:29.817 SAY ABOUT HEAVEN. CHAPTERS 4 AND 5 DEAL WITH SOME OF THOSE 53:29.817 --> 53:33.356 GLORIES OF HEAVEN. JOHN'S PEERING INTO THE THRONE ROOM OF 53:33.356 --> 53:38.067 HEAVEN IN CHAPTER 4 OF REVELATION. AND AS WE READ 53:38.067 --> 53:41.722 REVELATION CHAPTER 4 VERSES 2 THROUGH 5, WE'RE GONNA SEE THAT 53:41.722 --> 53:45.206 THE THRONE IS ESTABLISHED IN THE MIDST OF HEAVEN, AND GOD IS 53:45.206 --> 53:49.016 SEATED RIGHT THERE ON THE THRONE. THE THRONE OF GOD IS THE 53:49.016 --> 53:51.867 FOCUS. I WANT YOU JUST TO CLOSE YOUR EYES IF YOU WOULD RIGHT 53:51.867 --> 53:56.666 NOW, AND I WANT YOU TO PAINT AN IMAGE IN YOUR MIND OF WHAT'S 53:56.666 --> 54:02.876 GOING ON IN HEAVEN AS I READ THIS. REVELATION 4, VERSES 2 54:02.876 --> 54:07.947 THROUGH 5. "AND INSTANTLY I WAS IN THE SPIRIT, AND I SAW A 54:07.947 --> 54:13.166 THRONE IN HEAVEN AND SOMEONE SITTING ON IT. THE ONE SITTING 54:13.166 --> 54:18.027 ON THE THRONE WAS AS BRILLIANT AS GEMSTONES, LIKE JASPER AND 54:18.027 --> 54:23.067 CARNELIAN. AND THE GLOW OF AN EMERALD CIRCLED HIS THRONE LIKE 54:23.067 --> 54:30.327 A RAINBOW. 24 THRONES SURROUNDED HIM, AND 24 ELDERS SAT ON THEM. 54:30.327 --> 54:34.137 THEY WERE ALL CLOTHED IN WHITE, AND THEY HAD GOLD CROWNS ON 54:34.137 --> 54:38.666 THEIR HEADS. FROM THE THRONE CAME FLASHES OF LIGHTNING AND 54:38.666 --> 54:42.387 THE RUMBLE OF THUNDER. AND IN FRONT OF THE THRONE WERE SEVEN 54:42.387 --> 54:47.907 TORCHES WITH BURNING FLAMES. THIS IS THE SEVEN-FOLD SPIRIT OF 54:47.907 --> 54:51.987 GOD. OKAY, YOU CAN OPEN YOUR EYES NOW. WE'VE GOT A PICTURE 54:51.987 --> 54:58.527 HERE OF GOD'S THRONE. YOU KNOW, NOTHING CAN DO JUSTICE TO WHAT 54:58.527 --> 55:00.806 IS IN THE WORD OF GOD WHEN YOU TRY AND PAINT A PICTURE LIKE 55:00.806 --> 55:05.217 THAT, BUT IT GIVES YOU AN IDEA A LITTLE BIT OF THE THRONE OF GOD. 55:05.217 --> 55:08.817 VIVID COLORS ARE USED TO DESCRIBE THE THRONE ROOM AND THE 55:08.817 --> 55:12.476 ONE THAT SITS ON THE THRONE. GOD IS PICTURED HAVING THE 55:12.476 --> 55:16.646 APPEARANCE OF JASPER AND CARNELIAN. JASPER HAS 55:16.646 --> 55:19.556 CHARACTERISTICS AND COLORS SIMILAR TO A DIAMOND OR A 55:19.556 --> 55:23.697 CRYSTAL. IN REVELATION 21, THE JASPER STONE IS DESCRIBED AS 55:23.697 --> 55:28.706 BEING CLEAR AS CRYSTAL. YOU CAN VISUALIZE SOMETHING LIKE THE 55:28.706 --> 55:32.306 GLEAM OF A DIAMOND WHEN YOU THINK OF THAT. THE COLOR 55:32.306 --> 55:38.786 CARNELIAN WAS A FIERY RED STONE. AROUND THE THRONE IS A RAINBOW 55:38.786 --> 55:43.887 THAT HAS A SHINE OR A GLIMMER OF DEEP GREEN, LIKE AN EMERALD. THE 55:43.887 --> 55:47.697 RAINBOW IMAGE IS MENTIONED AGAIN IN CHAPTER 10 OF REVELATION, AND 55:47.697 --> 55:50.246 THE RAINBOW IS A REMINDER OF GOD'S FAITHFULNESS TO HIS 55:50.246 --> 55:54.686 COVENANT, JUST AS IT MEANT TO NOAH AFTER THE FLOOD. NOT ONLY 55:54.686 --> 55:59.306 IS A RAINBOW AROUND THE THRONE, BUT THERE ARE 24 THRONES AROUND 55:59.306 --> 56:04.916 THE THRONE. AND SEATED ON THOSE 24 THRONES ARE 24 ELDERS WHO ARE 56:04.916 --> 56:08.336 CLOTHED IN WHITE GARMENTS, AND THEY HAVE GOLD CROWNS ON THEIR 56:08.336 --> 56:13.646 HEADS. YOU KNOW, SHORTLY AFTER WE WERE MARRIED, MY WIFE, 56:13.646 --> 56:18.836 EILEEN, AND I—SOME OF YOU GET THAT MESSAGE—TOOK A TRIP 56:18.836 --> 56:23.516 OVERSEAS. AND WE VISITED SEVERAL EUROPEAN COUNTRIES. I'D NEVER 56:23.516 --> 56:26.246 RECOMMEND ANYONE TO DO THIS. IT WAS LIKE 10 COUNTRIES IN 10 56:26.246 --> 56:29.996 DAYS, AND IT WAS JUST A WHIRLWIND. YOU KNOW, I MEAN, YOU 56:29.996 --> 56:33.146 TRAVEL ALL DAY, AND THE BUS LOOK AT ONE OR TWO SITES, AND THEN 56:33.146 --> 56:35.847 YOU'RE PACKING, GO TO THE HOTEL, PACK UP, AND THEY'RE KNOCKING ON 56:35.847 --> 56:38.726 YOUR DOOR AT SIX IN THE MORNING TO GET YOU LOADED AND HEAD OUT 56:38.726 --> 56:43.556 AGAIN IN THE NEXT PLACE. AND IT WAS A MARATHON. BUT FROM THAT 56:43.556 --> 56:48.027 ASPECT, IT WAS FUN, BECAUSE WE GOT TO SEE WHAT WE WOULD WANT TO 56:48.027 --> 56:51.746 SEE AGAIN, I GUESS. IT GAVE US AN OVERVIEW OF EUROPE, YOU KNOW. 56:51.746 --> 56:56.637 NOW I REALLY DON'T DESIRE TO GO BACK TO EUROPE, BUT. BUT MY 56:56.637 --> 57:00.356 FAVORITE PART OF THE TRIP WAS VISITING GERMANY, AUSTRIA, AND 57:00.356 --> 57:05.036 SWITZERLAND. WE HIT ALL THREE OF THOSE COUNTRIES TOO. AND WE WERE 57:05.036 --> 57:09.237 MESMERIZED BY THE BEAUTY AND MAJESTY OF BAVARIA AND THE ALPS. 57:09.237 --> 57:12.327 IN FACT, SWITZERLAND IS PROBABLY THE MOST AWESOME SCENERY THAT 57:12.327 --> 57:14.967 I'VE EVER WITNESSED. IN FACT, WE HAVE A PICTURE OF IT UP THERE. 57:14.967 --> 57:18.987 AND IT'S JUST BEAUTIFUL. AND OF COURSE, BEFORE WE TOOK THIS 57:18.987 --> 57:21.806 TRIP, WE READ SOME BOOKS AND WATCHED A TRAVEL MOVIE ABOUT 57:21.806 --> 57:25.527 THOSE PLACES, BUT NOTHING REALLY PREPARED US FOR WHAT WE 57:25.527 --> 57:31.106 EXPERIENCED. AND IN THE SAME WAY I'M THINKING ABOUT HEAVEN, WE 57:31.106 --> 57:34.257 CANNOT EXPRESS OR PUT INTO WORDS WHAT HEAVEN'S GONNA BE LIKE, 57:34.257 --> 57:38.637 WHAT GOD HAS PREPARED FOR US. YOU KNOW, WE CAN HAVE A PICTURE, 57:38.637 --> 57:41.081 BUT IT'S NOT THE SAME. I MEAN, YOU CAN LOOK AT THAT PICTURE OF 57:41.081 --> 57:43.856 SWITZERLAND, BUT IT'S NOT THE SAME, PASTOR ANTHONY, AS IF 57:43.856 --> 57:46.947 YOU'RE STANDING THERE WATCHING IT. IT'S JUST NOT THE SAME. WE 57:46.947 --> 57:49.947 SAW THINGS THAT WE NEVER WOULD HAVE SEEN IN A PICTURE. CAN YOU 57:49.947 --> 57:54.027 IMAGINE HOW MUCH MORE GRANDIOSE, FANTASTIC AND AWESOME, I DON'T 57:54.027 --> 57:56.936 EVEN KNOW WHAT WORDS TO USE TO DESCRIBE IT, BUT RUDY, CAN YOU 57:56.936 --> 58:00.507 IMAGINE WHEN YOU GET TO HEAVEN SOMEDAY, WHAT WE'RE GONNA SEE, 58:00.507 --> 58:03.206 WHAT GOD'S PREPARED FOR US, THE MANSION THAT YOU'RE GONNA HAVE, 58:03.206 --> 58:06.177 CAN I COME VISIT YOU SOMEDAY IN YOUR MANSION? I'D LOVE TO DO 58:06.177 --> 58:09.027 THAT. I WANNA SEE PASTOR HANK'S TOO BECAUSE HE SAYS PASTOR 58:09.027 --> 58:12.206 BRENDA'S GONNA BE RIGHT THERE NEXT TO HIM, SO WE'LL SEE. 58:12.206 --> 58:15.567 THAT'S WHAT HE BELIEVES. I DON'T KNOW, HE HAS FAVOR WITH GOD, SO 58:15.567 --> 58:22.496 MAYBE HE WILL. HALLELUJAH. BUT IT'S GONNA BE ON WHAT WE COULD 58:22.496 --> 58:27.746 THINK OR ASK. YEAH, IN FACT, 1 CORINTHIANS 2:9 SAYS, "NO EYE 58:27.746 --> 58:32.427 HAS SEEN, NO EAR HAS HEARD, "AND NO MIND HAS IMAGINED WHAT GOD 58:32.427 --> 58:37.286 HAS PREPARED "FOR THOSE WHO LOVE HIM." IF YOU LOVE HIM, YOU 58:37.286 --> 58:42.117 QUALIFY FOR THAT, AMEN? AMEN. A LITTLE GIRL WAS TAKING AN 58:42.117 --> 58:47.786 EVENING WALK WITH HER FATHER AND WITH A LOOK OF AMAZEMENT ON HER 58:47.786 --> 58:51.447 FACE, SHE LOOKED UP AT THE STARS AND SHE EXCLAIMED, "DADDY, IF 58:51.447 --> 58:54.507 THE WRONG SIDE OF HEAVEN IS SO BEAUTIFUL, "WHAT DO YOU THINK 58:54.507 --> 59:00.266 THE RIGHT SIDE OF HEAVEN WILL LOOK LIKE?" YOU KNOW, WE'VE ALSO 59:00.266 --> 59:03.927 HEARD COMMENTS FROM CHRISTIANS THAT SAY, "YOU KNOW, YOU CAN 59:03.927 --> 59:06.896 BECOME SO HEAVENLY-MINDED THAT YOU'RE NO EARTHLY GOOD." HOW 59:06.896 --> 59:09.177 MANY OF YOU EVER HEARD SOMEONE SAY THAT BEFORE, TALKING ABOUT 59:09.177 --> 59:13.077 CHRISTIANS? ALL THEY WANT TO DO IS TALK ABOUT HEAVEN. WELL, THAT 59:13.077 --> 59:17.907 MIGHT BE TRUE TO SOME EXTENT, BUT THE OPPOSITE IS ALSO TRUE. 59:17.907 --> 59:22.797 IF WE DON'T UNDERSTAND OUR FUTURE, WHAT'S IN STORE FOR US 59:22.797 --> 59:27.987 THROUGH ETERNITY? WHAT GOD'S PLAN IS FOR THIS CREATION HE 59:27.987 --> 59:31.496 CALLS MANKIND. IF WE DON'T UNDERSTAND THE RAPTURE OF THE 59:31.496 --> 59:35.246 CHURCH, THE SECOND COMING OF THE LORD TO THE EARTH, WE DON'T 59:35.246 --> 59:39.806 UNDERSTAND THE REALITY OF HEAVEN. WE DON'T KNOW ANYTHING 59:39.806 --> 59:43.347 ABOUT THE MARRIAGE SUPPER OF THE LAMB OR EVEN THE WRATH THAT 59:43.347 --> 59:47.186 COMES DURING THE GREAT TRIBULATION, OR WHAT'S THE 59:47.186 --> 59:50.097 COMING JUDGMENT OF THE BELIEVERS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT AFTER WE'RE 59:50.097 --> 59:53.967 RAPTURED, WHERE WE RECEIVE REWARDS. IF WE DON'T UNDERSTAND 59:53.967 --> 59:58.376 THE NEW JERUSALEM AND WHAT OUR ETERNAL FUTURE IS REGARDING 59:58.376 --> 01:00:01.885 THAT, AND I COULD GO ON AND ON AND ON THROUGH THE BOOK OF 01:00:01.885 --> 01:00:04.827 REVELATION AND LISTING THINGS, BUT IF WE DON'T UNDERSTAND THOSE 01:00:04.827 --> 01:00:11.547 THINGS, HOW ARE WE GOING TO BE REALLY GOOD EVANGELISTS ON THIS 01:00:11.547 --> 01:00:14.726 EARTH TO HELP PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE'S A HEAVEN 01:00:14.726 --> 01:00:18.297 AND A HELL? THERE IS ETERNITY COMING THAT WE HAVE TO PREPARE 01:00:18.297 --> 01:00:23.547 FOR AND THAT WE NEED TO USE OUR TIME ON THIS EARTH AND OCCUPY 01:00:23.547 --> 01:00:27.266 AND GET THINGS ACCOMPLISHED FOR CHRIST BECAUSE WE HAVE A NARROW, 01:00:27.266 --> 01:00:31.617 NARROW PERIOD OF TIME CALLED LIFE ON THIS EARTH THAT WE HAVE 01:00:31.617 --> 01:00:35.876 TO GET THINGS DONE ACCORDING TO GOD'S WILL BEFORE ALL THIS 01:00:35.876 --> 01:00:43.226 HAPPENS. AND I DON'T CARE IF YOU'RE 10 YEARS OLD. THAT TIME 01:00:43.226 --> 01:00:48.146 GOES QUICKLY. SOME OF US HERE, YOU KNOW, I USED TO THINK 40 WAS 01:00:48.146 --> 01:00:54.327 OLD. HOW MANY OF YOU THINK 40 IS OLD? YEAH, SOME OF YOU DO. YOU 01:00:54.327 --> 01:01:00.007 DO? BOAZ DOES. YEAH, WHEN YOU'RE 20, 40 LOOKS REALLY OLD. I DID. 01:01:00.007 --> 01:01:06.547 YOU DID THINK THAT? OKAY. BUT NOW YOU'RE 70, I KNOW. AND IT 01:01:06.547 --> 01:01:09.516 GOES SO FAST. HOW MANY OF YOU WOULD SAY, YOU LOOK BACK AT THE 01:01:09.516 --> 01:01:13.746 YEARS AND YOU THINK, HOW COULD THEY GO THIS FAST? AND YOU START 01:01:13.746 --> 01:01:18.336 LOOKING AT THE AVERAGE LIFESPAN, AND THEN YOU CALCULATE YOUR AGE 01:01:18.336 --> 01:01:20.976 FROM THAT, AND YOU SAY, IF I'M LIVING AVERAGE 01:01:20.976 --> 01:01:23.376 LIFE, GOD BELIEVES THAT MAYBE YOU'LL BE 01:01:23.376 --> 01:01:25.476 LIKE RUDY AND LIVE TO 110, I DON'T KNOW. 01:01:25.476 --> 01:01:28.416 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 01:01:28.416 --> 01:01:32.586 BUT, AND HE'S NOT THERE YET. ARE YOU GETTING CLOSE, RIGHT? JUST 01:01:32.586 --> 01:01:38.737 JOKING. HE KNOWS I'M JOKING. BUT YOU START SUBTRACTING YOUR 01:01:38.737 --> 01:01:43.836 CURRENT AGE FROM WHAT AN AVERAGE LIFESPAN IS, YOU KNOW, JUST A 01:01:43.836 --> 01:01:49.146 NORMAL LIFESPAN. BELIEVE IN GOD, YOU'RE GONNA OUTLIVE THAT. BUT 01:01:49.146 --> 01:01:55.715 YOU REALIZE THE CRACK OF TIME THAT YOU HAVE GOES REALLY FAST. 01:01:55.715 --> 01:01:59.317 SO LET'S GET BUSY FOR GOD. LET'S DON'T TAKE THESE THINGS FOR 01:01:59.317 --> 01:02:03.396 GRANTED. THESE THINGS ARE ALL HAPPENING. THEY'RE ALL 01:02:03.396 --> 01:02:08.317 HAPPENING. AND WE DON'T KNOW, WE'RE NOT SETTING ANY DATES, BUT 01:02:08.317 --> 01:02:11.166 HERE'S THE DEAL. IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT DATE THE RAPTURE 01:02:11.166 --> 01:02:14.226 HAPPENS, WE'VE STILL GOT A LIMITED AMOUNT OF TIME ON THIS 01:02:14.226 --> 01:02:16.836 EARTH. BECAUSE WE'RE EITHER GOING TO GO THROUGH DEATH OR THE 01:02:16.836 --> 01:02:23.166 RAPTURE. SO YOU HAVE TO USE THE TIME THAT YOU'RE ALLOTTED TO DO 01:02:23.166 --> 01:02:29.077 SOMETHING FOR GOD. IF INCREASING OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THESE ETERNAL 01:02:29.077 --> 01:02:33.217 THINGS WILL MOTIVATE US TO BE BETTER STEWARDS OF OUR REMAINING 01:02:33.217 --> 01:02:39.367 TIME ON EARTH, LET'S DO IT. C.S. LEWIS MADE A PROFOUND STATEMENT. 01:02:39.367 --> 01:02:43.356 I DON'T EVEN REMEMBER WHAT YEAR HE HAD PROCLAIMED THIS, BUT THIS 01:02:43.356 --> 01:02:45.817 WAS REALLY GOOD, I THINK, IF YOU WANT TO PUT IT UP ON THE SCREEN. 01:02:45.817 --> 01:02:49.777 HE SAID, "IF YOU READ HISTORY, YOU'LL FIND THAT THE CHRISTIANS 01:02:49.777 --> 01:02:54.157 WHO DID THE MOST FOR THE PRESENT WORLD WERE PRECISELY THOSE WHO 01:02:54.157 --> 01:02:59.766 THOUGHT THE MOST OF THE NEXT. IT IS SINCE CHRISTIANS HAVE LARGELY 01:02:59.766 --> 01:03:04.297 CEASED TO THINK OF THE OTHER WORLD THAT THEY HAVE BECOME SO 01:03:04.297 --> 01:03:09.007 INEFFECTIVE IN THIS WORLD." IN OTHER WORDS, HE'S TELLING US 01:03:09.007 --> 01:03:12.726 THAT BECAUSE CHRISTIANS OFTEN DON'T THINK ABOUT THEIR FUTURE 01:03:12.726 --> 01:03:15.547 IN HEAVEN AND ETERNITY AND WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE 01:03:15.547 --> 01:03:19.387 WORLD, THEY BECOME INEFFECTIVE IN THIS WORLD. BECAUSE THE BIBLE 01:03:19.387 --> 01:03:24.067 SAYS WE GET CAUGHT UP IN THE CARES OF LIFE. JUST MAKING A 01:03:24.067 --> 01:03:29.166 LIVING, EATING, I DON'T WANT TO SAY DRINKING BECAUSE WE DON'T DO 01:03:29.166 --> 01:03:32.317 THAT, BUT YOU KNOW, WHATEVER THE EATING, DRINKING, BEING MARRIED, 01:03:32.317 --> 01:03:37.206 ALL THE THINGS, WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY? GETTING MARRIED AND 01:03:37.206 --> 01:03:39.786 HOPEFULLY NOT GETTING DIVORCED, BUT YOU KNOW, ALL THE THINGS 01:03:39.786 --> 01:03:43.056 THAT PEOPLE DO IN LIFE. WE GET CAUGHT UP IN THE CARES OF LIFE, 01:03:43.056 --> 01:03:47.016 DON'T WE? AND THEN WE FORGET ABOUT ALL THESE THINGS THAT ARE 01:03:47.016 --> 01:03:54.007 GONNA HAPPEN AND THEY'RE HAPPENING QUICKLY. WELL, LET'S 01:03:54.007 --> 01:03:57.847 MOVE ON TO HEAVEN. IN HEAVEN, THERE'S A LOT OF WORSHIPING. AT 01:03:57.847 --> 01:04:03.336 THE SCENE, WE SEE, AND WHAT WE JUST READ, THERE ARE ELDERS, 01:04:03.336 --> 01:04:06.067 THERE'S ANGELS, AND THERE'S REDEEMED. THEY'RE SINGING, 01:04:06.067 --> 01:04:12.577 "HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, LORD GOD ALMIGHTY." REVELATION 4:8-11, 01:04:12.577 --> 01:04:17.586 DEPICTS CONTINUOUS HEAVENLY WORSHIP. THE FOUR LIVING 01:04:17.586 --> 01:04:22.597 CREATURES AND THE 24 ELDERS BOW BEFORE THE THRONE DAY AND NIGHT, 01:04:22.597 --> 01:04:27.157 PRAISING GOD'S ETERNAL NATURE, HOLINESS, AND SOVEREIGNTY. YOU 01:04:27.157 --> 01:04:30.246 KNOW WHAT? IN HEAVEN, THERE APPEARS TO BE AN AWARENESS OF 01:04:30.246 --> 01:04:35.856 WHAT'S GOING ON IN EARTH. IN REVELATION 6, VERSE 10, WE SEE A 01:04:35.856 --> 01:04:39.817 PICTURE OF THE MARTYRED SAINTS IN HEAVEN. AND THEY'RE AWARE OF 01:04:39.817 --> 01:04:44.226 THE TIMING OF GOD'S JUDGMENT ON THOSE WHO TOOK THEIR LIFE ON 01:04:44.226 --> 01:04:48.967 EARTH. SO THEY KNEW WHEN THEY WERE IN HEAVEN, WHAT WAS 01:04:48.967 --> 01:04:53.226 HAPPENING DOWN ON EARTH. AND IN HEBREWS CHAPTER 11, WE SEE THE 01:04:53.226 --> 01:04:57.516 HALL OF FAITH LISTING THOSE THAT OVERCAME TRIALS OF LIFE. AND 01:04:57.516 --> 01:05:00.847 THEN IN HEBREWS 12:1, WE READ THIS, LET'S PUT THIS UP. 01:05:00.847 --> 01:05:04.206 THEREFORE, WE ALSO, SINCE WE ARE SURROUNDED BY SO GREAT A CLOUD 01:05:04.206 --> 01:05:07.896 OF WITNESSES, LET US LAY ASIDE EVERY WEIGHT AND THE SIN WHICH 01:05:07.896 --> 01:05:12.217 SO EASILY ENSNARES US AND LET US RUN WITH ENDURANCE THE RACE THAT 01:05:12.217 --> 01:05:19.806 IS SET BEFORE US. SO THAT SAYS FROM THE BOOK OF HEBREWS THAT 01:05:19.806 --> 01:05:24.067 LIFE IS LIKE A GREAT ARENA WITH THOSE THAT HAVE GONE BEFORE US. 01:05:24.067 --> 01:05:27.817 THE GREAT CLOUD OF WITNESSES, THEY'RE CHEERING US ON AS WE 01:05:27.817 --> 01:05:32.409 ENGAGE ON OUR EARTHLY ASSIGNMENTS. THAT'S EXCITING. WE 01:05:32.409 --> 01:05:35.856 GOT PEOPLE CHEERING US ON. MATTHEW, YOU GOT PEOPLE CHEERING 01:05:35.856 --> 01:05:39.996 YOU ON. PEOPLE THAT WENT AHEAD OF YOU. THEY KNOW YOUR NAME AND 01:05:39.996 --> 01:05:44.047 THEY'RE CHEERING YOU ON AS YOU ACCOMPLISH THINGS FOR GOD. AS 01:05:44.047 --> 01:05:48.336 YOU'RE AT SOMEONE THAT'S BESIDE YOU. THEY'RE CHEERING YOU ON AND 01:05:48.336 --> 01:05:53.047 SAY, PLANT A SEED IN THAT PERSON'S LIFE. AS YOU'RE OUT 01:05:53.047 --> 01:05:55.244 DOING YOUR YARD WORK AND YOUR NEIGHBOR COMES OVER AND ASKS 01:05:55.244 --> 01:05:57.336 WHAT YOU'RE DOING, YOU'RE SHARING SOMETHING ABOUT CHRIST 01:05:57.336 --> 01:06:00.876 AND PLANTING A SEED. PEOPLE ARE CHEERING YOU ON IN HEAVEN FOR 01:06:00.876 --> 01:06:05.166 THAT. WHATEVER YOU'RE DOING, YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT CHRIST AND 01:06:05.166 --> 01:06:09.847 ETERNITY IN THE FUTURE. BUT PASTOR DOUG, DOES THIS MEAN THAT 01:06:09.847 --> 01:06:14.527 PEOPLE IN HEAVEN COULD BE SAD WHEN THEY SEE EVIL TAKING PLACE 01:06:14.527 --> 01:06:18.268 ON THE EARTH? WHAT ABOUT THAT? THOSE PEOPLE ARE LOOKING DOWN 01:06:18.268 --> 01:06:20.887 AND THEY'RE SEEING SOME BAD THINGS HAPPEN DOWN HERE BECAUSE 01:06:20.887 --> 01:06:24.307 THERE ARE TRIALS DOWN HERE. YOU KNOW WHAT? I DON'T THINK 01:06:24.307 --> 01:06:28.507 THERE'LL BE ANY SADNESS IN HEAVEN. REMEMBER THIS, THOSE IN 01:06:28.507 --> 01:06:34.177 HEAVEN ARE NOT LIKE WE WHO ARE NOW ON THIS EARTH. THEY SEE THE 01:06:34.177 --> 01:06:38.586 WHOLE PICTURE. THEY KNOW THAT EVEN IN THE MIDST OF EARTHLY 01:06:38.586 --> 01:06:42.217 CHALLENGES AND HEARTACHES AND TRIALS, GOD IS STILL WORKING 01:06:42.217 --> 01:06:46.507 BEHIND THE SCENES. THEY SEE THAT FULL PICTURE. THEY KNOW THAT 01:06:46.507 --> 01:06:50.436 SATAN'S A DEFEATED FOE. THEY KNOW WHAT HIS END IS AND THAT 01:06:50.436 --> 01:06:54.306 SOMEDAY ALL EVIL WILL BE DESTROYED. AND THEY UNDERSTAND 01:06:54.306 --> 01:06:57.782 THAT CHRIST WILL RULE AND REIGN IN PERFECT PEACE AND JUSTICE. 01:06:59.257 --> 01:07:03.907 REVELATION 5:8 TELLS US THAT THE PRAYERS OF SAINTS ARE HELD IN 01:07:03.907 --> 01:07:08.976 GOLDEN BOWLS IN HEAVEN. THESE REPRESENT ACCUMULATED PRAYERS 01:07:08.976 --> 01:07:13.237 THAT ARE STORED TO BE ANSWERED IN GOD'S PERFECT TIMING. THESE 01:07:13.237 --> 01:07:16.777 PRAYERS ARE PRECIOUS TO GOD AND THEY ARE MIXED WITH INCENSE. AND 01:07:16.777 --> 01:07:21.373 EVEN DELAYED ANSWERS ARE REMEMBERED AND NOT LOST. 01:07:21.373 --> 01:07:24.456 REVELATION CHAPTER 6 GIVES US A VIEW OF WHAT'S HAPPENING ON 01:07:24.456 --> 01:07:28.086 THE EARTH. IN THE BEGINNING, THERE'LL BE A TIME OF PEACE AND 01:07:28.086 --> 01:07:30.996 SAFETY, AND THEN TERRIBLE JUDGMENTS WILL COME AFTER THAT. 01:07:30.996 --> 01:07:34.266 SCRIPTURE INTERPRETS SCRIPTURE, AND WE CAN SEE DIFFERENT ASPECTS 01:07:34.266 --> 01:07:38.677 OF THIS SAME TRUTH WITHOUT ANY DISAGREEMENT AS WE STUDY THE 01:07:38.677 --> 01:07:42.516 ENTIRE WORD OF GOD. THERE'S A GREAT EXAMPLE OF THIS IN 01:07:42.516 --> 01:07:46.536 REFERENCING A PROPHETIC VISION FROM DANIEL CHAPTER 9, AND 01:07:46.536 --> 01:07:50.016 THEN LOOKING AT WHAT REVELATION CHAPTER 6 SAYS. LET'S GO BACK 01:07:50.016 --> 01:07:52.896 BEFORE WE READ DANIEL 9 AND LOOK AT WHERE WE'RE AT ON THIS 01:07:52.896 --> 01:07:56.347 TIMELINE QUICKLY, IF YOU WOULD, JUST PUT THE TIMELINE UP. RIGHT 01:07:56.347 --> 01:08:00.967 NOW, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT REVELATION CHAPTER 6, WE'RE IN 01:08:00.967 --> 01:08:04.177 THE PERIOD AFTER THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH, THE SEVEN YEAR 01:08:04.177 --> 01:08:06.757 TRIBULATION PERIOD. THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW. 01:08:06.757 --> 01:08:09.306 SO I JUST WANTED YOU TO KIND OF HAVE THAT POINT OF REFERENCE 01:08:09.306 --> 01:08:15.097 QUICKLY. BUT LET'S LOOK AT DANIEL CHAPTER 9 AFTER THE 01:08:15.097 --> 01:08:20.287 RAPTURE, REVELATION 6 THROUGH 18 COVERS THAT SEVEN YEAR 01:08:20.287 --> 01:08:24.457 TRIBULATION PERIOD, AND THEN IT ENDS WITH THE SECOND COMING OF 01:08:24.457 --> 01:08:29.106 JESUS IN CHAPTER REVELATION 19. DANIEL CHAPTER 9 TELLS US THAT 01:08:29.106 --> 01:08:34.987 THE ANGEL GABRIEL DELIVERED A PROPHECY THAT COVERED A 490 YEAR 01:08:34.987 --> 01:08:38.377 PERIOD TO THE PROPHET DANIEL. AND AT THE END OF THE PROPHETIC 01:08:38.377 --> 01:08:42.845 VISION, THE LAST WEEK OF THAT VISION, WHICH IS THE LAST SEVEN 01:08:42.845 --> 01:08:47.827 YEARS OF THE VISION, IS THIS SEVEN-YEAR TRIBULATION THAT 01:08:47.827 --> 01:08:51.306 WE'RE LOOKING AT NOW. SO DANIEL 9:27, I'M GONNA READ OUT OF THE 01:08:51.306 --> 01:08:54.216 LIVING BIBLE, WHICH I NORMALLY DON'T USE, BUT JUST TO MAKE THIS 01:08:54.216 --> 01:08:57.367 REALLY CLEAR, I WANTED YOU TO SEE THIS, AND IT SEEMS 01:08:57.367 --> 01:09:01.207 SCRIPTURALLY ACCURATE. IT SAYS, "THE KING WILL MAKE A SEVEN-YEAR 01:09:01.207 --> 01:09:06.516 TREATY "WITH THE PEOPLE. BUT AFTER HALF THAT TIME, HE WILL 01:09:06.516 --> 01:09:11.046 BREAK HIS PLEDGE AND STOP THE JEWS FROM ALL THEIR SACRIFICES 01:09:11.046 --> 01:09:15.127 AND THEIR OFFERINGS. THEN AS A CLIMAX TO ALL HIS TERRIBLE 01:09:15.127 --> 01:09:20.676 DEEDS, THE ENEMY SHALL UTTERLY DEFILE THE SANCTUARY OF GOD. BUT 01:09:20.676 --> 01:09:25.027 IN GOD'S TIME AND PLAN, HIS JUDGMENT WILL BE POURED OUT UPON 01:09:25.027 --> 01:09:29.676 THE EVIL ONE." SO THE SCRIPTURE DESCRIBES A POINT IN TIME WHEN 01:09:29.676 --> 01:09:34.176 WE SEE THE ANTICHRIST FORMING A SEVEN-YEAR PEACE TREATY WITH THE 01:09:34.176 --> 01:09:37.537 NATION OF ISRAEL. THIS IS AFTER THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH. THE 01:09:37.537 --> 01:09:41.527 ANTICHRIST COMES ON THE SCENE, IS REVEALED, AND HE GOES TO THE 01:09:41.527 --> 01:09:44.856 JEWISH NATION, AND HE MAKES A SEVEN-YEAR PEACE TREATY WITH 01:09:44.856 --> 01:09:49.087 THEM. BUT THE PEACE TREATY IS BROKEN HALFWAY THROUGH. IN OTHER 01:09:49.087 --> 01:09:53.106 WORDS, AFTER THE FIRST THREE AND A HALF YEARS, THIS SATANIC 01:09:53.106 --> 01:09:57.877 CREATURE DESECRATES THE TEMPLE. HE BUILT A TEMPLE FOR THE JEWS, 01:09:57.877 --> 01:10:01.926 BUT HE DESECRATES IT. AND THIS IS THE FINAL AND LAST TIME WE 01:10:01.926 --> 01:10:04.867 SEE A DESECRATION OF THE JEWISH TEMPLE. BUT THE ANTICHRIST WILL 01:10:04.867 --> 01:10:08.796 CONTINUE IN HIS WICKED PLAN UNTIL THE TIME OF HIS JUDGMENT, 01:10:08.796 --> 01:10:12.997 COMING A LITTLE BIT LATER IN THIS SCENARIO. BUT THE SCRIPTURE 01:10:12.997 --> 01:10:17.226 PORTION FROM DANIEL ALIGNS WITH WHAT IS DESCRIBED IN REVELATION 01:10:17.226 --> 01:10:21.277 6 THROUGH 18, THAT PERIOD THAT WE CALL THE TRIBULATION PERIOD. 01:10:21.277 --> 01:10:25.386 AND WE SPECIFICALLY SEE IN REVELATION 12 AND 13 THAT THE 01:10:25.386 --> 01:10:28.806 ANTICHRIST IS REVEALED, AND THERE HE IS CALLED THE BEAST, 01:10:28.806 --> 01:10:33.899 THE BEAST OF REVELATION. THAT'S ANOTHER NAME FOR THE ANTICHRIST. 01:10:33.899 --> 01:10:37.476 LET'S LOOK AT THIS TIMELINE OF WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE RAPTURE, 01:10:37.476 --> 01:10:40.476 JUST SO WE'RE CLEAR AGAIN. I'M KIND OF KEEPING THIS SIMPLE, BUT 01:10:40.476 --> 01:10:43.987 I JUST WANT YOU TO FOLLOW ME HERE. SO HERE WE HAVE THE 01:10:43.987 --> 01:10:48.247 RAPTURE HAPPENING, AND THEN WE HAVE THIS THREE AND A HALF YEAR 01:10:48.247 --> 01:10:51.426 PERIOD, THE FIRST HALF OF THE TRIBULATION, WHERE IT'S PEACE 01:10:51.426 --> 01:10:54.817 AND SAFETY. THE ANTICHRIST IS ON THE SCENE. HE MAKES THIS 01:10:54.817 --> 01:11:00.067 AGREEMENT WITH ISRAEL, AND THEY HAVE A TIME OF PEACE. AND THEN 01:11:00.067 --> 01:11:04.987 HE BUILDS A TEMPLE. AND THEN HE DECIDES TO DESECRATE THE TEMPLE. 01:11:04.987 --> 01:11:10.537 AND HE BETRAYS THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND WALKS AWAY FROM HIS 01:11:10.537 --> 01:11:14.686 SEVEN-YEAR TREATY. AND SO THE SECOND HALF OF THE TRIBULATION, 01:11:14.686 --> 01:11:18.226 THIS LAST FINAL THREE AND A HALF YEARS, IS WHERE THE DESTRUCTION 01:11:18.226 --> 01:11:21.617 COMES. THAT'S WHERE THE SEALS, TRUMPETS, AND THE BULLS' 01:11:21.617 --> 01:11:26.117 JUDGMENTS BEGIN. SO WE ARE AT THE SECOND HALF OF THE 01:11:26.117 --> 01:11:29.197 TRIBULATION, THE LAST THREE AND A HALF YEARS AT THIS POINT. SO 01:11:29.197 --> 01:11:33.827 WE'RE GONNA MOVE ON. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT CHAPTER 6, BEGINS 01:11:33.827 --> 01:11:37.546 THE OPENING OF THE SEVEN SEALS. IT'S AN EVENT THAT INITIATES THE 01:11:37.546 --> 01:11:42.346 JUDGMENT OF GOD ON THE EARTH. LET'S PUT UP THE PICTURE OF THE 01:11:42.346 --> 01:11:46.396 SEVEN SEALS OF REVELATION. I WANT YOU TO SEE THIS. THOSE 01:11:46.396 --> 01:11:52.966 SEALS ARE JUDGMENTS THAT BEGIN, THE FIRST JUDGMENTS THAT ARE 01:11:52.966 --> 01:11:57.436 UNLEASHED ON THE EARTH. AND THEY'RE SIGNIFIED, FIRST OF ALL, 01:11:57.436 --> 01:12:02.237 BY THE WHITE HORSE, WHICH IS CONQUEST, THE RED HORSE, WHICH 01:12:02.237 --> 01:12:07.487 STANDS FOR WAR, THE BLACK HORSE, WHICH REPRESENTS FAMINE, THE 01:12:07.487 --> 01:12:13.516 PALE HORSE REPRESENTS DEATH. AND THEN WE HAVE A PICTURE OF THE 01:12:13.516 --> 01:12:21.436 FIFTH SEAL, WHICH IS SOULS CRYING OUT. THE SIXTH SEAL IS 01:12:21.436 --> 01:12:26.207 COSMIC DISTURBANCES, A GREAT EARTHQUAKE. SUN, MOON, AND STARS 01:12:26.207 --> 01:12:30.527 ARE ALL INVOLVED IN THAT. AND THEN THE FINAL SEAL IS SILENCE 01:12:30.527 --> 01:12:34.067 IN HEAVEN FOR 30 MINUTES. I WANTED YOU TO SEE THOSE IN A 01:12:34.067 --> 01:12:39.646 DESCRIPTIVE PICTURE. SO THE SIXTH SEAL, WHICH IS THOSE 01:12:39.646 --> 01:12:44.237 COSMIC DISTURBANCES, INCLUDE THIS MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE, THE SUN 01:12:44.237 --> 01:12:49.037 TURNS BLACK, THE MOON TURNS BLOOD RED, STARS ARE FALLING 01:12:49.037 --> 01:12:52.877 UPON THE EARTH, THE SKY IS RECEDING LIKE A SCROLL, THE 01:12:52.877 --> 01:12:56.627 BIBLE SAYS, AND AT THAT POINT, ALL OF HUMANITY ARE HIDING IN 01:12:56.627 --> 01:12:59.867 TERROR BECAUSE OF THE JUDGMENTS THAT ARE COMING ON THE EARTH. 01:12:59.867 --> 01:13:03.167 THE SEVENTH SEAL, FOUND IN REVELATION 8:1, IS THE FINAL 01:13:03.167 --> 01:13:07.907 SEAL JUDGMENT, WHICH MEANS PROFOUND SILENCE IN HEAVEN. IT'S 01:13:07.907 --> 01:13:11.356 ABOUT A HALF AN HOUR. THIS SILENCE SIGNALS THE PAUSE BEFORE 01:13:11.356 --> 01:13:16.306 THOSE FINAL JUDGMENTS, WHICH ARE THE TRUMPETS AND THE BOWLS THAT 01:13:16.306 --> 01:13:19.726 BEGIN TO FALL ON THE EARTH. SO AND AS I STUDIED REVELATION 6, I 01:13:19.726 --> 01:13:24.587 COULDN'T HELP BUT THINK HOW FAST THESE CHAIN OF EVENTS PROGRESS, 01:13:24.587 --> 01:13:28.067 WHERE THESE JUDGMENTS START PROGRESSIVE AND GETTING WORSE AS 01:13:28.067 --> 01:13:32.027 TIME GOES ON. HAVE YOU EVER LINED UP DOMINOES AND WATCHED 01:13:32.027 --> 01:13:35.237 THEM FALL? YOU KNOW, I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO ACCURATELY PLAY 01:13:35.237 --> 01:13:38.117 THE GAME OF DOMINOES. I'M NOT EVEN SURE HOW YOU DO THAT. BUT 01:13:39.346 --> 01:13:42.976 FOR OUR GRANDCHILDREN, FINN AND MAISIE, I'VE STACKED UP DOMINOES 01:13:42.976 --> 01:13:47.146 CLOSE TOGETHER, AND THEN THEY PRESS ON THE FIRST ONE, AND 01:13:47.146 --> 01:13:49.787 THEY'LL ALL START FALLING. THEY WON'T EVEN LET GRANDPA GET THE 01:13:49.787 --> 01:13:52.006 WHOLE THING SET UP BEFORE THEY WANT TO PRESS IT AND SEE THEM 01:13:52.006 --> 01:13:58.726 FALL, YOU KNOW? SO, BUT THEY ALL SEQUENTIALLY FALL QUICKLY. THE 01:13:58.726 --> 01:14:02.686 SAME COULD BE SAID OF THE EVENTS THAT WE READ ABOUT HERE. ONCE 01:14:02.686 --> 01:14:05.356 THE CHURCH IS RAPTURED OFF THE EARTH, THE ANTICHRIST WILL BE 01:14:05.356 --> 01:14:09.197 REVEALED, AND THEN THE OTHER EVENTS HAPPEN, AND THEY COME 01:14:09.197 --> 01:14:15.121 TOGETHER JUST LIKE DOMINOES, ONE AFTER ANOTHER, JUST QUICKLY. 01:14:15.121 --> 01:14:18.466 OKAY, BACK FROM DOMINOES TO THE FIRST FOUR SEAL JUDGMENTS. I HAD 01:14:18.466 --> 01:14:20.333 TO GET YOU TO LAUGH FOR A MINUTE ABOUT THE DOMINOES, 'CAUSE WE'RE 01:14:20.333 --> 01:14:24.527 IN A SERIOUS TIME HERE. SO, THE FIRST ONE THAT WE SAW WAS THE 01:14:24.527 --> 01:14:30.077 WHITE HORSE, AND HE'S DESCRIBED AS CONQUEST. THE WRITER CARRIES 01:14:30.077 --> 01:14:34.396 A BOW AND HE'S GIVEN A CROWN. LET'S LOOK AT REVELATION 6 01:14:34.396 --> 01:14:38.447 VERSES 1 THROUGH 2. AND IT SAYS, "AS I WATCHED, THE LAMB BROKE 01:14:38.447 --> 01:14:42.497 THE FIRST OF THE SEVEN SEALS ON THE SCROLL. THEN I HEARD ONE OF 01:14:42.497 --> 01:14:48.827 THE FOUR LIVING BEINGS SAY WITH A VOICE LIKE THUNDER, 'COME.' I 01:14:48.827 --> 01:14:52.277 LOOKED UP AND I SAW A WHITE HORSE STANDING THERE. ITS RIDER 01:14:52.277 --> 01:14:56.537 CARRIED A BOW AND A CROWN WAS PLACED ON HIS HEAD. HE RODE OUT 01:14:56.537 --> 01:15:00.527 TO WIN MANY BATTLES AND GAIN THE VICTORY. SO WHEN YOU FIRST READ 01:15:00.527 --> 01:15:04.756 THIS VERSE, YOU CAN INITIALLY MISTAKE THIS FOR BEING JESUS 01:15:04.756 --> 01:15:08.146 CHRIST. HE'S RIDING A WHITE HORSE. AND PEOPLE SOMETIMES DO 01:15:08.146 --> 01:15:12.016 THAT. BUT REVELATION 6, ONE IS NOT SPEAKING OF JESUS. IT'S 01:15:12.016 --> 01:15:15.886 SPEAKING OF THE ANTICHRIST. BUT PASTOR DOUG, WHY WOULD THE 01:15:15.886 --> 01:15:20.237 ANTICHRIST BE RIDING ON A WHITE HORSE LIKE JESUS DOES? BECAUSE 01:15:20.237 --> 01:15:24.886 THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THE ANTICHRIST IS. HE'S A PRETENDER. 01:15:24.886 --> 01:15:30.256 HE'S AN IMITATOR. THE PREFIX ANTI NOT ONLY MEANS AGAINST, BUT 01:15:30.256 --> 01:15:35.327 IT MEANS INSTEAD OF. WHEN THE ANTI EMERGES ON THE SCENE, HE'S 01:15:35.327 --> 01:15:42.106 NOT GONNA BE DRESSED HEAD TO TOE IN BLACK. BACK IN 2006, I KNOW, 01:15:42.106 --> 01:15:45.737 BOAZ, YOU PROBABLY WEREN'T EVEN ALIVE IN 2006, WERE YOU? WERE 01:15:45.737 --> 01:15:52.037 YOU? IT WAS WHAT? 2007, OH, YOU WERE PARTIALLY ALIVE THEN. I 01:15:52.037 --> 01:15:54.497 MEAN, YOU WERE ALIVE, BUT YOU JUST WEREN'T BREATHING AIR 01:15:54.497 --> 01:16:00.226 OUTSIDE. OKAY, GOT TO SAY THAT RIGHT. BUT ANYWAY, IN 2006, 01:16:00.226 --> 01:16:03.796 BEFORE YOUR TIME, BOAZ, YOUR MOM MIGHT'VE WATCHED THIS MOVIE, BUT 01:16:03.796 --> 01:16:08.777 THERE WAS A MOVIE CALLED "THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA." AND IT WAS 01:16:08.777 --> 01:16:13.216 ABOUT A DEMANDING, EVIL FASHION MAGAZINE EDITOR. SHE'S A WICKED 01:16:13.216 --> 01:16:16.846 BOSS THAT WAS CONSUMED WITH PERSONAL AMBITION AND SHE 01:16:16.846 --> 01:16:21.497 TREATED HER STAFF LIKE THE DEVIL WOULD. AND SHE DRESSED IN 01:16:21.497 --> 01:16:24.976 STYLISH BRANDS OF LUXURY CLOTHING, BUT SHE MADE HER 01:16:24.976 --> 01:16:28.667 SUBORDINATES FEEL LIKE THEY WERE LIVING IN HELL. HAVE ANY 01:16:28.667 --> 01:16:31.262 OF YOU EVER HAD A BOSS LIKE THAT BEFORE? 01:16:31.262 --> 01:16:33.092 (LAUGHING) 01:16:33.092 --> 01:16:36.453 DAN SAYS, SO YOU'RE SAYING THAT SINCE YOU'VE BEEN AT LORD OF 01:16:36.457 --> 01:16:41.027 HOSTS YOU'RE FEELING THAT? OH NO, I WOULD HOPE NOT, OKAY. BUT 01:16:41.027 --> 01:16:44.716 YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES THOSE BOSSES IN THE WORLD ARE TOUGH. BUT THE 01:16:44.716 --> 01:16:48.527 ANTICHRIST IS NOT GONNA HAVE STEAM RISING OFF HIM AND HAVE A 01:16:48.527 --> 01:16:54.780 DARTH VADER THEME SONG PLAYING BEHIND HIM WHEREVER HE GOES. 01:16:54.780 --> 01:16:58.697 HE'S GONNA COME OFF LIKE A MAN OF PEACE. HE'S THE OPPOSITE OF 01:16:58.697 --> 01:17:03.136 CHRIST, BUT HE'S A PRETENDER, HE'S AN IMITATOR. IN FACT, AS WE 01:17:03.136 --> 01:17:05.896 MENTIONED EARLIER, WHEN HE INITIALLY EMERGES ON THE SCENE, 01:17:05.896 --> 01:17:09.077 HE ESTABLISHES A PEACE TREATY WITH ISRAEL. WE'RE TOLD IN 01:17:09.077 --> 01:17:14.296 DANIEL 8:25 THAT THROUGH PEACE, HE WILL DECEIVE MANY. IT SAYS IN 01:17:14.296 --> 01:17:17.957 THE NEW LIVING VERSION, HE WILL BE A MASTER OF DECEPTION AND 01:17:17.957 --> 01:17:21.766 WILL BECOME ARROGANT. HE WILL DESTROY MANY WITHOUT WARNING. HE 01:17:21.766 --> 01:17:25.367 WILL EVEN TAKE ON THE PRINCE OF PRINCES IN BATTLE, BUT HE WILL 01:17:25.367 --> 01:17:29.867 BE BROKEN, THOUGH NOT BY HUMAN POWER. HALLELUJAH, HE'LL BE 01:17:29.867 --> 01:17:34.457 BROKEN, SO THAT'S VICTORY, IT'S COMING. BUT THE ANTICHRIST WILL 01:17:34.457 --> 01:17:38.447 BE ABLE TO DO WHAT NO ONE ELSE HAS BEEN ABLE TO DO. HE WILL 01:17:38.447 --> 01:17:42.676 TEMPORARILY SOLVE THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE PUZZLE AND RID THE 01:17:42.676 --> 01:17:46.966 WORLD OF TERRORISM. PRESIDENT TRUMP IS TRYING HIS BEST TO DO 01:17:46.966 --> 01:17:50.657 THAT, BUT AT THIS POINT NO ONE HAS BEEN ABLE TO PULL THAT OFF. 01:17:50.657 --> 01:17:55.067 MAYBE HE WILL, I DON'T KNOW. ANTICHRIST WILL ACCOMPLISH PEACE 01:17:55.067 --> 01:17:58.067 FOR THREE AND A HALF YEARS, WE DO KNOW THAT. WHATEVER IS GOING 01:17:58.067 --> 01:18:00.886 ON AT THAT TRIBULATION TIME, HE'S GONNA COME AND BE THE MAN 01:18:00.886 --> 01:18:05.896 OF PEACE, THE PRINCE OF PEACE IN HIS OWN WAY AS IMITATING CHRIST. 01:18:05.896 --> 01:18:09.707 HE EVEN MANAGES TO DECEIVE THE HEARTS OF MANY JEWISH PEOPLE 01:18:09.707 --> 01:18:13.997 BECAUSE HE REBUILDS THEIR LONG-AWAITED TEMPLE. AND IT'S 01:18:13.997 --> 01:18:18.346 ALL PART OF HIS WICKED PLAN. YOU KNOW, OUR MODERN WORLD AND THE 01:18:18.346 --> 01:18:21.587 MODERN CHRISTIAN CHURCH IS ALL ABOUT A GOD OF LOVE, WHICH IS 01:18:21.587 --> 01:18:24.280 VERY TRUE. ARE YOU GUYS OKAY ON TIME WITH ME? ARE YOU FOLLOWING 01:18:24.280 --> 01:18:27.587 ME? CAN I GO FIVE MORE MINUTES? MAYBE FIVE, SOMETHING LIKE THAT, 01:18:27.587 --> 01:18:35.176 I SHOULD BE DONE. BUT WE DO KNOW THAT GOD IS LOVE. BUT THE MODERN 01:18:35.176 --> 01:18:38.567 CHURCH, MANY TIMES, DOESN'T WANNA TALK ABOUT THE OTHER SIDE 01:18:38.567 --> 01:18:42.555 OF GOD. THEY DON'T WANNA TALK ABOUT HIS RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT. 01:18:42.555 --> 01:18:47.117 2 CORINTHIANS 5:17 TELLS US, "IF YOU BELONG TO CHRIST AND YOU'RE 01:18:47.117 --> 01:18:50.386 FOLLOWING HIM, "OLD THINGS HAVE PASSED AWAY AND ALL THINGS 01:18:50.386 --> 01:18:54.527 BECOME NEW." THEN YOU'RE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF JUDGMENT. YOU'VE 01:18:54.527 --> 01:18:58.037 ACCEPTED CHRIST, YOU'VE REPENTED OF YOUR SIN. YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE 01:18:58.037 --> 01:19:02.777 SAYS IF WE JUDGE OURSELVES, WE DON'T HAVE TO BE JUDGED. SO WE 01:19:02.777 --> 01:19:05.176 CONTINUALLY NEED TO JUDGE OURSELVES. AND IF WE FIND 01:19:05.176 --> 01:19:09.197 SOMETHING WRONG, HOLY SPIRIT SHOWS US SOMETHING, WE REPENT 01:19:09.197 --> 01:19:11.716 AND THEN WE CAN MOVE FORWARD, AMEN? IS THAT RIGHT, KATE AND 01:19:11.716 --> 01:19:16.006 PASTOR MARK? AMEN. I'M ON TRACK, I DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING WRONG YET? 01:19:16.006 --> 01:19:21.556 OKAY, GOOD, THEY GIVE ME A THUMBS UP THERE. THE MODERN 01:19:21.556 --> 01:19:27.100 CHURCH DOESN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH A GOD OF JUSTICE AND WRATH. 01:19:27.100 --> 01:19:31.367 MOST HAVE TRIED, MANY CHURCHES ANYWAY, HAVE TRIED TO PURGE 01:19:31.367 --> 01:19:35.806 GOD'S REPUTATION OF ANY JUDGMENT AND THE REALITY OF FUTURE WRATH. 01:19:35.806 --> 01:19:38.056 AND THEY'RE ONLY DOING PEOPLE A DISSERVICE BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT 01:19:38.056 --> 01:19:41.386 GETTING THE FULL TRUTH. WE NEED TO KNOW ALL THE TRUTH OF GOD'S 01:19:41.386 --> 01:19:46.577 WORD. THERE'S SOME THINGS WHERE GOD HAS TO DEAL WITH EVIL, AND 01:19:46.577 --> 01:19:52.096 I'M THANKFUL FOR THAT. WE CAN'T JUST LET EVIL RUN RAMPANT. MANY 01:19:52.096 --> 01:19:56.777 MODERN DENOMINATIONS WON'T EVEN MENTION THE WORD HELL. THEY 01:19:56.777 --> 01:19:59.327 DON'T EVEN WANT TO TALK ABOUT HELL BECAUSE IT MIGHT OFFEND 01:19:59.327 --> 01:20:01.966 SOMEONE, OR THEY MIGHT LEAVE THE CHURCH IF YOU START TALKING 01:20:01.966 --> 01:20:08.417 ABOUT HELL. LET ME GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE OF THIS. AND THIS IS 01:20:08.417 --> 01:20:11.777 FROM THE WEBSITE OF A LOCAL DENOMINATIONAL CHURCH. IT'S 01:20:11.777 --> 01:20:15.676 RIGHT HERE IN OMAHA. IT'S A LARGE CHURCH. I WON'T NAME THE 01:20:15.676 --> 01:20:18.796 CHURCH, BUT IT'S PART OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. AND 01:20:18.796 --> 01:20:24.197 THEY PUT THEIR DOCTRINE OUT ON THEIR WEBSITE. SO I'M NOT SAYING 01:20:24.197 --> 01:20:27.407 ANYTHING THAT IS NOT TRUE. I'M NOT TRYING TO BRING 01:20:27.407 --> 01:20:31.697 DISPARAGEMENT, OTHER THAN TO SAY, I WANT TO SHOW YOU WHAT 01:20:31.697 --> 01:20:35.386 SOME OF THE MODERN CHURCHES ARE ACTUALLY BELIEVING NOW AND 01:20:35.386 --> 01:20:38.417 TEACHING THEIR PEOPLE, BECAUSE WE NEED TO BE AWARE OF THAT. AND 01:20:38.417 --> 01:20:43.457 WE LOVE THOSE PEOPLE. BUT WHEN THEY'RE TAUGHT, I MEAN, GO BACK 01:20:43.457 --> 01:20:46.533 TO THE SEVEN LETTERS TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES IN THE BOOK OF 01:20:46.533 --> 01:20:50.806 REVELATION, AND A MAJORITY OF IT WAS WRONG TEACHING THAT CAME 01:20:50.806 --> 01:20:53.747 INTO THOSE CHURCHES THAT THEY GOT OFF, WRONG DOCTRINE. THEY 01:20:53.747 --> 01:20:57.346 LET WOLVES ENTER IN AND THEY ALLOWED WRONG DOCTRINE TO BE 01:20:57.346 --> 01:21:00.527 TAUGHT AND THE PEOPLE GOT OFF AND THEN THEY FELL AWAY FROM 01:21:00.527 --> 01:21:06.886 GOD. SO, IN THIS ONE UNITED METHODIST POSTING, THEY LIST 01:21:06.886 --> 01:21:10.067 THEIR EIGHT POINTS OF PROGRESSIVE THEOLOGY. I WANT TO 01:21:10.067 --> 01:21:13.367 TAKE A QUICK LOOK AT THOSE, BUT I'M JUST GOING TO SHOW YOU THREE 01:21:13.367 --> 01:21:16.436 OF THEM. I COULD GO INTO MORE OF THEM. THERE'S EIGHT POINTS TO 01:21:16.436 --> 01:21:20.247 THIS, BUT I JUST WANT TO SHOW YOU THREE TONIGHT. NUMBER TWO IN 01:21:20.247 --> 01:21:23.726 THEIR LISTING OF EIGHT POINTS OF PROGRESSIVE THEOLOGY, IT SAYS, 01:21:23.726 --> 01:21:27.266 "WE RECOGNIZE THE FAITHFULNESS OF OTHER PEOPLE WHO HAVE OTHER 01:21:27.266 --> 01:21:31.766 NAMES FOR THE WAY TO GOD'S REALM AND ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THEIR WAYS 01:21:31.766 --> 01:21:37.707 ARE TRUE FOR THEM AS OUR WAYS ARE TRUE FOR US." CAN YOU SEE 01:21:37.707 --> 01:21:41.697 THE DECEPTION IN THAT? JUST WHATEVER PEOPLE BELIEVE OR WANT 01:21:41.697 --> 01:21:45.567 TO BELIEVE, WE JUST KIND OF ACCEPT. YOU KNOW, IF IT'S TRUE 01:21:45.567 --> 01:21:50.516 FOR YOU, KAMALA, THAT'S FINE. IT MAY NOT BE TRUE FOR ME, BUT 01:21:50.516 --> 01:21:53.516 THERE'S REALLY NO ULTIMATE TRUTH. IT'S JUST WHATEVER YOU 01:21:53.516 --> 01:21:58.976 KIND OF WANT IT TO BE. LET'S LOOK AT POINT FOUR IN THE EIGHT 01:21:58.976 --> 01:22:03.717 POINTS. WE INVITE ALL PEOPLE TO PARTICIPATE IN OUR COMMUNITY AND 01:22:03.717 --> 01:22:07.676 WORSHIP LIFE WITHOUT INSISTING THEY BECOME LIKE US IN ORDER TO 01:22:07.676 --> 01:22:10.707 BE ACCEPTABLE. AND THAT SOUNDS REALLY GOOD. I MEAN, YOU KNOW, 01:22:10.707 --> 01:22:14.697 WE DON'T EXPECT EVERYONE TO DRESS LIKE I DO, OR WE DON'T 01:22:14.697 --> 01:22:18.627 EXPECT EVERYONE TO DRESS LIKE JANET DOES. WE DON'T EXPECT 01:22:18.627 --> 01:22:24.686 EVERYONE TO ACT THE SAME. BUT LOOK AT THAT. WE ALLOW THEM TO 01:22:24.686 --> 01:22:27.627 COME IN. THEY DON'T HAVE TO CHANGE IS BASICALLY WHAT WE'RE 01:22:27.627 --> 01:22:32.610 SAYING. WELL, WE WANT EVERYONE TO COME IN, BUT THERE IS TRUTH 01:22:32.610 --> 01:22:36.117 THAT WE HAVE TO ADAPT TO. AND WHEN YOU BECOME A BELIEVER, 01:22:36.117 --> 01:22:40.961 THERE'S A SET OF STANDARDS WE HAVE TO FOLLOW TO BE RIGHTEOUS. 01:22:40.961 --> 01:22:46.407 AND WE CAN'T JUST ALLOW EVERYONE TO BELIEVE EVERYTHING AND ACT 01:22:46.407 --> 01:22:49.197 ANY WAY THEY WANT AND THINK THEY'RE ALL GONNA GO TO HEAVEN, 01:22:49.197 --> 01:22:52.886 IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER BECAUSE GOD IS FULL OF MERCY AND GRACE 01:22:52.886 --> 01:22:56.997 AND HE DOESN'T, HE'LL JUST LOOK PAST ANYTHING IN YOUR LIFE THAT 01:22:56.997 --> 01:23:00.627 YOU DON'T HAVE TO LINE UP WITH THE WORD OF GOD. IT'S IMPORTANT 01:23:00.627 --> 01:23:03.717 TO KNOW THAT GOD LOVES YOU AND YOU CAN JUST LIVE ANY WAY YOU 01:23:03.717 --> 01:23:09.657 WANT AND YOU'RE FINE. NOW LET'S LOOK AT POINT SIX. FIND MORE 01:23:09.657 --> 01:23:15.238 GRACE IN THE SEARCH FOR MEANING THAN IN THE ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY 01:23:15.238 --> 01:23:21.501 AND FIND MORE VALUE IN ASKING QUESTIONS THAN HEARING ANSWERS. 01:23:21.501 --> 01:23:26.577 WHATEVER THAT MEANS. THERE'S MORE GRACE IN YOUR SEARCH FOR 01:23:26.577 --> 01:23:31.257 MEANING, PASTOR ANTHONY, THAN IN ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY. WE DON'T 01:23:31.257 --> 01:23:33.596 HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY. THERE'S NOTHING IN 01:23:33.596 --> 01:23:37.317 THE BIBLE THAT'S ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN OR ABSOLUTELY TRUE. WE 01:23:37.317 --> 01:23:42.686 CAN JUST LIVE ACCORDING TO WHAT WE MAKE UP AS WE GO. THAT'S WHAT 01:23:42.686 --> 01:23:46.497 IT SAYS TO ME. MAYBE I'M MISINTERPRETING IT. IF I AM, 01:23:46.497 --> 01:23:50.067 LORD FORGIVE ME. BUT THAT'S WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE TO ME. AND THEY 01:23:50.067 --> 01:23:54.837 PUT THAT ON THEIR WEBSITE TO TALK ABOUT BEING ALL INCLUSIVE 01:23:54.837 --> 01:24:01.046 IN BELIEFS. AND LIKE I SAID, WE WELCOME EVERYONE IN THIS PLACE. 01:24:01.046 --> 01:24:05.997 WE NEED TO WELCOME THEM. BUT WHEN THEY MAKE A DECISION TO 01:24:05.997 --> 01:24:10.317 SERVE CHRIST, THEN CHANGE NEEDS TO START TO HAPPEN. AND IT MAY 01:24:10.317 --> 01:24:13.287 NOT HAPPEN OVERNIGHT. WE HAVE TO GIVE PEOPLE GRACE. GOD GIVES US 01:24:13.287 --> 01:24:16.617 GRACE. GIVE US ROOM. WE ARE GOING TO MAKE MISTAKES. WE MAKE 01:24:16.617 --> 01:24:20.577 MISTAKES NOW, EVEN THOUGH WE'RE TRYING OUR BEST. BUT WE ALSO 01:24:20.577 --> 01:24:25.257 HAVE TO BELIEVE THAT THE BOOK IS TRUE AND FOLLOW TO THE BEST THAT 01:24:25.257 --> 01:24:28.317 WE CAN GOD'S TRUTH FOR OUR LIVES. WE HAVE TO LINE IT UP, 01:24:28.317 --> 01:24:31.497 AND WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS GRACE, AND THERE'S 01:24:31.497 --> 01:24:35.516 MERCY, BUT THERE'S ALSO BALANCE. THERE IS JUDGMENT. WE GO DOWN 01:24:35.516 --> 01:24:39.356 THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD BELIEVING IN GRACE, AND MERCY, AND LOVE, 01:24:39.356 --> 01:24:41.877 BUT WE ALSO BELIEVE AND UNDERSTAND THAT THERE'S JUDGMENT 01:24:41.877 --> 01:24:47.515 AND A RIGHTEOUS GOD THAT WE SERVE. 2 TIMOTHY 4:3 IN THE 01:24:47.515 --> 01:24:53.096 AMPLIFIED SAYS, "WANTING TO HAVE THEIR EARS TICKLED WITH 01:24:53.096 --> 01:24:56.007 SOMETHING PLEASING, THEY WILL ACCUMULATE FOR THEMSELVES MANY 01:24:56.007 --> 01:25:00.176 TEACHERS, ONE AFTER ANOTHER, CHOSEN TO SATISFY THEIR OWN 01:25:00.176 --> 01:25:06.105 DESIRES." AND THAT'S WHAT CAN HAPPEN IN THE MODERN CHURCH. 01:25:06.105 --> 01:25:09.837 THANK GOD FOR PASTORS THAT STAND ON THE TRUTH, STAND FOR THE 01:25:09.837 --> 01:25:15.596 BIBLE, AND DON'T BACK DOWN. I'M SO THANKFUL. I COULDN'T BE HERE 01:25:15.596 --> 01:25:18.724 IF PASTOR HANK AND BRENDA JUST SAID, WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT, WE'LL 01:25:18.724 --> 01:25:21.386 JUST BELIEVE WHAT WE WANT TO BELIEVE, AND SOME OF THE BIBLE'S 01:25:21.386 --> 01:25:24.176 TRUE, AND SOMETIMES WE CAN TEAR OUT A PAGE IF WE DON'T BELIEVE 01:25:24.176 --> 01:25:27.806 IT. THAT'S BASICALLY WHAT THEY'RE DOING. JUST TEAR OUT 01:25:27.806 --> 01:25:31.676 WHAT YOU DON'T WANT AND LIVE BY THE THINGS THAT YOU ENJOY 01:25:31.676 --> 01:25:38.577 READING. OH, BY THE WAY, IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT, THERE'S A NEW 01:25:38.577 --> 01:25:41.037 MOVIE THAT CAME OUT THE BEGINNING OF APRIL. IT'S CALLED 01:25:41.037 --> 01:25:45.747 THE GREAT AWAKENING. AND IT TELLS THE STORY OF THE FIRST 01:25:45.747 --> 01:25:49.527 GREAT AWAKENING IN THE 13 COLONIES THROUGH THE LENS OF 01:25:49.527 --> 01:25:54.476 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BECOMES GOOD FRIENDS 01:25:54.476 --> 01:25:58.317 WITH AN EVANGELIST BY THE NAME OF GEORGE WHITFIELD. GEORGE 01:25:58.317 --> 01:26:03.634 WHITFIELD WAS SAVED AND TRAINED IN ENGLAND. HE STARTED PREACHING 01:26:03.634 --> 01:26:06.386 THE GOSPEL AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND BASICALLY KICKED HIM OUT 01:26:06.386 --> 01:26:10.436 BECAUSE HE WAS JUST PROCLAIMING TRUTH AND SALVATION. AND SO HE 01:26:10.436 --> 01:26:16.106 GOT ON THE BOAT, CAME ACROSS TO THE NEW COLONIES, AMERICA, AND 01:26:16.106 --> 01:26:22.136 STARTED EVANGELIZING. AND THE MOVIE PROCLAIMS IT. DID YOU SEE 01:26:22.136 --> 01:26:26.306 IT, JANET? IT PROCLAIMS THE GOSPEL SO CLEAR. I MEAN, SO MANY 01:26:26.306 --> 01:26:29.757 MOVIES THAT YOU SAY A CHRISTIAN MOVIE, YOU DON'T REALLY HEAR THE 01:26:29.757 --> 01:26:33.896 GOSPEL MESSAGE. THEY REFERENCE IT, BUT AN UNBELIEVER WOULD 01:26:33.896 --> 01:26:37.136 NEVER GET IT. BUT THIS MOVIE, YOU HEAR IT OVER AND OVER. IT'S 01:26:37.136 --> 01:26:41.757 SO GOOD. DID YOU KNOW THAT 80% OF THE PEOPLE LIVING IN AMERICAN 01:26:41.757 --> 01:26:46.556 COLONIES HEARD GEORGE WHITEFIELD PREACH IN PERSON AT SOME POINT 01:26:46.556 --> 01:26:49.436 IN THEIR LIVES? HE MADE THAT MUCH OF AN IMPACT. AND HE DID IT 01:26:49.436 --> 01:26:53.277 WITHOUT AMPLIFICATION. HE WAS TRAINED IN HOW TO RAISE HIS 01:26:53.277 --> 01:26:56.277 VOICE AND I HAVE TO HAVE AMPLIFICATION. I CAN'T DO IT 01:26:56.277 --> 01:27:01.377 WITHOUT THAT. BUT HE SPOKE TO THOUSANDS. SOMETIMES THERE WERE 01:27:01.377 --> 01:27:05.306 30,000 PEOPLE LISTENING TO HIM AND HE WAS DOING IT JUST OUT OF 01:27:05.306 --> 01:27:10.226 THE POWER OF HIS VOICE. BUT ANYWAY, THAT MOVIE, I DON'T KNOW 01:27:10.226 --> 01:27:14.516 HOW LONG IT'LL BE ON, BUT IT'S WORTH IT. WE NEED TO SUPPORT 01:27:14.516 --> 01:27:17.396 MOVIES LIKE THAT 'CAUSE IT WAS SO GOOD. SO IT'LL BUILD YOUR 01:27:17.396 --> 01:27:20.867 FAITH. I DIDN'T HAVE THAT AS PART OF MY MESSAGE, BUT I WAS 01:27:20.867 --> 01:27:23.757 JUST THINKING ABOUT IT BECAUSE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE MODERN 01:27:23.757 --> 01:27:26.186 CHURCH AND I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT GEORGE WHITEFIELD AND THE 01:27:26.186 --> 01:27:32.277 AMAZING IMPACT THAT HE HAD. AND IF YOU PROCLAIM THE TRUTH, WE'LL 01:27:32.277 --> 01:27:35.217 STAND BEFORE GOD SOMEDAY. PASTORS HANK AND BRENDA, THEY'LL 01:27:35.217 --> 01:27:38.817 STAND BEFORE GOD SOMEDAY AND GOD WILL SAY, "WELL DONE, THOU GOOD 01:27:38.817 --> 01:27:43.106 AND FAITHFUL SERVANTS, ENTER IN." BECAUSE THEY'RE TRYING TO 01:27:43.106 --> 01:27:47.967 PROCLAIM THE TRUTH THE BEST THAT THEY KNOW. THE TRUTH OF GOD'S 01:27:47.967 --> 01:27:53.067 RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT OF EVIL, IF THERE'S NO REPENTANCE, PERMEATES 01:27:53.067 --> 01:27:57.356 THE BIBLE. BUT IT'S ESPECIALLY CLEAR IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION. 01:27:57.356 --> 01:28:00.296 REVELATION INVITES US TO SING ALONG WITH THE SAINTS OF HEAVEN, 01:28:00.296 --> 01:28:03.627 A SONG THAT CELEBRATES THE WRATH OF GOD. ACTUALLY, WE'LL BE IN 01:28:03.627 --> 01:28:08.367 HEAVEN SINGING, CELEBRATING THE WRATH OF GOD AS A DEMONSTRATION 01:28:08.367 --> 01:28:12.596 OF HIS PERFECT JUSTICE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS. REVELATION SHOWS 01:28:12.596 --> 01:28:15.926 US THAT THE WRATH OF GOD WILL FALL ON THE EARTH TO CLEANSE AND 01:28:15.926 --> 01:28:21.476 PURIFY IT. FINALLY, EVIL WILL BE DESTROYED. REVELATION PROVIDES 01:28:21.476 --> 01:28:24.447 US WITH A RESPONSE TO THE QUESTION, "WHY DOESN'T GOD DO 01:28:24.447 --> 01:28:27.537 SOMETHING ABOUT ALL THE EVIL AND THE SUFFERING IN THE WORLD?" 01:28:27.537 --> 01:28:30.417 HAVE YOU EVER HEARD ANYONE ASK THAT QUESTION? THE ANSWER IS 01:28:30.417 --> 01:28:36.657 THIS, "BE PATIENT. EVIL'S DAY OF DOOM IS SURELY COMING." AMEN? 01:28:36.657 --> 01:28:39.686 ALL THE WHILE, WE'VE ALREADY SEEN AND WILL CONTINUE TO SEE 01:28:39.686 --> 01:28:43.346 THAT GOD'S MERCY IS CONTINUALLY EXTENDED THROUGHOUT THE GREAT 01:28:43.346 --> 01:28:46.587 TRIBULATION. I'M SO EXCITED. NEXT WEEK, WE'RE GOING TO TALK 01:28:46.587 --> 01:28:50.186 ABOUT THERE'S GOING TO BE AN UNPRECEDENTED REVIVAL DURING THE 01:28:50.186 --> 01:28:53.726 END TIMES, DURING THIS TRIBULATION PERIOD. DESPITE THE 01:28:53.726 --> 01:28:57.266 DARKNESS, A GREAT NUMBER OF PEOPLE DURING THE TRIBULATION, 01:28:57.266 --> 01:29:02.096 PEOPLE THAT MISSED THE RAPTURE, ARE GOING TO BE SAVED. GOD'S 01:29:02.096 --> 01:29:07.886 MERCY JUST IS SO ABUNDANT, EVEN IN THAT TIME. HE RESURRECTS TWO 01:29:07.886 --> 01:29:11.667 WITNESSES THAT WILL GO AROUND THE WORLD PROCLAIMING CHRIST. 01:29:13.077 --> 01:29:19.556 ALSO, HE RAISES UP 144,000 JEWISH EVANGELISTS, JEWS THAT 01:29:19.556 --> 01:29:24.146 GET SAVED AND THEY TURN TO HIM. THEY'RE YOUNG CELIBATE MEN THAT 01:29:24.146 --> 01:29:28.368 GO FORTH ACROSS THE WORLD AND PROCLAIMING THE GOSPEL, 144,000 01:29:28.368 --> 01:29:33.596 OF THEM. THAT'S GOD'S MERCY FOR REDEMPTION OF MANKIND. AND THEN 01:29:33.596 --> 01:29:38.127 IN ADDITION TO THAT, HE HAS AN ANGEL THAT'S GONNA BLANKET THE 01:29:38.127 --> 01:29:41.516 EARTH WITH THE GOSPEL, PROCLAIMING THE GOSPEL TO THE 01:29:41.516 --> 01:29:46.587 EARTH. AN ANGEL WILL FLY ACROSS THIS EARTH, PROCLAIMING THE 01:29:46.587 --> 01:29:51.056 GOSPEL. WHAT ELSE COULD GOD DO? YOU KNOW, AND IF YOU'RE IN THE 01:29:51.056 --> 01:29:55.106 TRIBULATION PERIOD AND YOU MISS THE RAPTURE, YOU STILL HAVE A 01:29:55.106 --> 01:30:03.176 SECOND CHANCE, PASTOR MARK. YOU STILL HAVE ANOTHER CHANCE. IT'S 01:30:03.176 --> 01:30:07.226 NOT FUNNY, BUT YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST, I'M JUST JOKING BECAUSE 01:30:07.226 --> 01:30:10.527 I'VE USED PASTOR MARK AT THAT EXAMPLE. HE'S GOING IN THE 01:30:10.527 --> 01:30:15.837 RAPTURE, BY THE WAY. BUT, YOU KNOW, THAT'S JUST SHOWING YOU 01:30:15.837 --> 01:30:19.587 GOD'S MERCY, WILLIE. PEOPLE THAT ARE LEFT BEHIND, THEY MISS IT, 01:30:19.587 --> 01:30:24.146 THE HARD-HEARTED, YOU KNOW. AND WHAT WAS IT PASTOR HANK WAS 01:30:24.146 --> 01:30:27.747 TALKING ABOUT? THE GNASHING OF TEETH, OR WHAT WAS THE OTHER? 01:30:27.747 --> 01:30:32.791 THE WEEPING? WEEPING AND GNASHING OF TEETH. SO THERE'LL 01:30:32.791 --> 01:30:35.853 BE SOME THAT'LL JUST SHAKE THEIR FIST AT GOD DURING THE 01:30:35.853 --> 01:30:39.207 TRIBULATION, AND EVEN WHEN THEY HEAR THE GOSPEL AGAIN, THEY JUST 01:30:39.207 --> 01:30:42.627 ARE HARD-HEARTED AND THEY'LL REFUSE. BUT THERE'LL BE SOME 01:30:42.627 --> 01:30:45.717 THAT WILL WEEP AND ASK FOR FORGIVENESS. THEY MIGHT HAVE TO 01:30:45.717 --> 01:30:49.467 GIVE THEIR LIFE, BUT THEY'LL GO TO HEAVEN. AND GOD GIVES THEM 01:30:49.467 --> 01:30:57.087 THAT CHANCE DURING THIS TIME OF TRIBULATION. THE HOLY SPIRIT 01:30:57.087 --> 01:31:00.717 WILL CONTINUE TO BE ON THE EARTH, ENABLING PEOPLE TO BE 01:31:00.717 --> 01:31:05.396 SAVED, EVEN DURING THIS TIME OF INTENSE TRIBULATION. PEOPLE 01:31:05.396 --> 01:31:07.738 CAN'T BE SAVED WITHOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT. SO THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL 01:31:07.738 --> 01:31:11.306 NOT BE GONE. HE'LL BE ON THE EARTH DOING HIS WORK. HE WON'T 01:31:11.306 --> 01:31:15.641 BE HOLDING BACK THE EVIL BECAUSE GOD'S ALLOWING THAT TO HAPPEN. 01:31:15.641 --> 01:31:20.652 BUT HE WILL BE WORKING IN MAN'S HEARTS. THE TRIBULATION IS 01:31:20.652 --> 01:31:24.822 DESIGNED TO BRING PEOPLE TO REPENTANCE, INCLUDING LEADING 01:31:24.822 --> 01:31:30.657 ISRAEL TO NATIONAL CONVERSION RATHER THAN MERE DESTRUCTION. 01:31:30.657 --> 01:31:33.851 AND THE OTHER GOOD THING ABOUT IT IS GOD FINALLY LIMITS THE 01:31:33.851 --> 01:31:37.841 DURATION OF THE EVIL. JESUS STATES THAT IF THE DAYS WERE NOT 01:31:37.841 --> 01:31:41.502 SHORTENED, NO FLESH WOULD SURVIVE. SO GOD PUTS A LIMIT TO 01:31:41.502 --> 01:31:44.962 HOW MUCH EVIL CAN HAPPEN DURING THAT DESTRUCTION DURING THE 01:31:44.962 --> 01:31:49.242 TRIBULATION. SO, WELL, THAT'S ALL WE'RE, I'M SORRY, IT'S 8:30, 01:31:49.242 --> 01:31:54.162 SO WE'LL DO PART TWO NEXT TIME. AS WE CLOSE TONIGHT, WHY DON'T 01:31:54.162 --> 01:31:57.162 YOU JUST STAND WITH ME AND WE'RE GONNA PRAY. FATHER, WE THANK YOU 01:31:57.162 --> 01:32:03.221 FOR WHAT YOU'VE SHOWN US AND DISCLOSED TO US IN THE BOOK OF 01:32:03.221 --> 01:32:06.942 REVELATION. WHAT A MAGNIFICENT BOOK, LORD. WE'RE SO THANKFUL 01:32:06.942 --> 01:32:09.162 FOR IT. AND WE'RE SO THANKFUL TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO 01:32:09.162 --> 01:32:14.771 UNDERSTAND YOUR PLAN FOR MANKIND. NOT ONLY WHILE WE'RE ON 01:32:14.771 --> 01:32:17.801 THIS EARTH, BUT WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE. WE'RE 01:32:17.801 --> 01:32:20.862 THANKFUL FOR THAT, LORD. YOU'VE REVEALED TO US, SOME PEOPLE ASK 01:32:20.862 --> 01:32:24.311 QUESTIONS AND SAY, WHY NOT THIS AND WHY NOT THAT? AND HOW DO I 01:32:24.311 --> 01:32:27.761 KNOW THIS? AND IS THERE GONNA BE JELL-O IN HEAVEN? AND ALL THOSE 01:32:27.761 --> 01:32:31.032 TYPES OF THINGS. I DON'T KNOW. WE DON'T MAKE A DOCTRINE OUT OF 01:32:31.032 --> 01:32:35.681 THAT. MAYBE THERE WILL BE JELL-O IN HEAVEN. BUT GOD'S GIVEN US 01:32:35.681 --> 01:32:40.002 WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW. HE'S GIVEN US EVERYTHING THAT WE NEED TO 01:32:40.002 --> 01:32:43.032 KNOW TO MAKE IT THERE. THAT'S WHAT'S IMPORTANT. AND WE'LL FIND 01:32:43.032 --> 01:32:46.692 OUT WHEN WE GET THERE, JANET, IF WE CAN EAT JELL-O. AND MAYBE 01:32:46.692 --> 01:32:49.091 IT'LL BE RED JELL-O, AND MAYBE IT'LL BE GREEN JELL-O. I DON'T 01:32:49.091 --> 01:32:54.912 KNOW. MAYBE WE'LL SEE MICHAEL JACKSON IN HEAVEN. THERE MIGHT 01:32:54.912 --> 01:32:59.442 BE A LOT OF THINGS THAT OPEN OUR EYES AND SURPRISE US. AND ONLY 01:32:59.442 --> 01:33:04.362 GOD KNOWS THAT. WE DON'T HAVE TO KNOW ALL THAT. BUT BE THANKFUL 01:33:04.362 --> 01:33:06.851 FOR WHAT YOU DO KNOW AND WHAT YOU CAN GLEAN WHILE YOU'RE ON 01:33:06.851 --> 01:33:10.752 THIS EARTH. AND THINK ABOUT ETERNITY AND SOULS AND WHAT CAN 01:33:10.752 --> 01:33:15.402 WE DO TO REACH PEOPLE. AND IF YOU NEED TO LINE YOUR LIFE UP TO 01:33:15.402 --> 01:33:22.101 BE MORE PRODUCTIVE IN WHAT GOD'S CALLED YOU TO DO, THEN DO IT. 01:33:22.101 --> 01:33:26.952 LET'S DO IT. LET'S REACH PEOPLE FOR CHRIST. LET'S USE OUR TIME 01:33:26.952 --> 01:33:31.782 TO BUILD RELATIONSHIPS AND GET INVOLVED IN OTHER PEOPLE'S 01:33:31.782 --> 01:33:36.462 LIVES. YOU KNOW, THIS LIFE THAT WE HAVE TODAY, I BELIEVE SOCIAL 01:33:36.462 --> 01:33:40.872 MEDIA AND TV AND INTERNET AND ALL THOSE THINGS, AS GOOD AS 01:33:40.872 --> 01:33:45.011 THEY ARE, CAN ALSO BE A CURSE IN SOME WAYS, BECAUSE WE ISOLATE 01:33:45.011 --> 01:33:47.381 OURSELVES. WE DON'T HAVE RELATIONSHIPS. WE DON'T TALK TO 01:33:47.381 --> 01:33:50.771 PEOPLE ANYMORE. IT'S ALL PEOPLE DON'T EVEN TALK TO PEOPLE 01:33:50.771 --> 01:33:53.082 ANYMORE WHEN THEY ASK FOR A DATE. THEY JUST GOT TO FIND THEM 01:33:53.082 --> 01:33:55.721 ONLINE AND WHATEVER. I MEAN, I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW THEY DO THAT 01:33:55.721 --> 01:33:58.841 ANYMORE, PASTOR ANTHONY, BUT THEY FIND THEIR WAY SOME WAY. 01:33:58.841 --> 01:34:02.021 YOU CAN'T EVEN ASK SOMEONE FOR A DATE ANYMORE. YOU JUST GOT TO DO 01:34:02.021 --> 01:34:08.292 IT ONLINE. AND AS GOOD AS WE'LL USE IT TO REACH PEOPLE WITH THE 01:34:08.292 --> 01:34:14.471 GOSPEL. BUT DON'T BE ISOLATED. TALK TO PEOPLE. BUILD 01:34:14.471 --> 01:34:20.082 RELATIONSHIPS. AND LET'S TAKE AS MANY PEOPLE AS WE CAN WHEN IT'S 01:34:20.082 --> 01:34:25.091 TIME FOR THE RAPTURE. AMEN? AMEN. WELL, GOD BLESS YOU. THANK 01:34:25.091 --> 01:34:28.332 YOU FOR COMING TONIGHT. BE IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD SUNDAY. 01:34:28.332 --> 01:34:31.212 AND WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO IT. AMEN. 01:34:31.212 --> 01:34:32.652 AND I'LL SEE YOU NEXT WEDNESDAY NIGHT, AND 01:34:32.652 --> 01:34:34.631 WE'LL GO THROUGH PART TWO. AMEN. THANK YOU. 01:34:34.631 --> 01:34:36.842 (APPLAUSE)