Bible Prophecy & The Last Days: Ready and Not Deceived | Harley Doneburg | January 11th, 2026

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We're thankful, God, to have your word, to know

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that you can see the future. You know the future,

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Lord, and you've warned us. You've exhorted us

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to be ready, to be watchful, to be waiting as

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a church, as your bride, Lord. And so we give

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you this time, Lord. I pray you just stir our

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hearts, God, that you would draw us closer to

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you, Lord, as we see the day approaching, God,

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your soon return. So we just give you this time,

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Lord, in your name. Amen. The book of Hebrews,

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the writer of Hebrews says to not forsake the

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gathering of yourself together as the manner

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of some is. As we see the day approaching, that

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day is the day of the Lord, his return. Because

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what the writer of Hebrews saw was what the Bible

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teaches and what Jesus said is in the last days,

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there's going to be a departure from the faith.

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A slow digression away from fellowship, the word

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of God, real faith, and truth. That's what we're

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going to see in the last days. So the writer

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of Hebrews sees that, understands that, and says,

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hey, don't forsake yourself. Why? Because that's

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the place of encouragement. We sharpen one another.

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We get in the word together. We're reminded of

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what Jesus says, what the Bible says, and it's

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the foundation of our life. It's the truth that

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we stand on, we hold on to, and we walk in. So

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the writer of Hebrews explains that. We're in

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the book of Matthew going through the signs because

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Jesus gave the disciples signs of the last days,

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things to look for, earmarks that the disciples

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and the church for the last 2 ,000 years could

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see these things increasing. Jesus said that

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they would be as birth pains. labor pains. These

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things would increase in frequency and intensity

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as Jesus is coming back. He's returning, right?

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And we've looked at a lot of these things. We've

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looked at, understood in the book of Acts, as

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Jesus is taken into heaven, the disciples are

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looking and the angel says, why do you stand

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gazing up? The same Jesus will come back in like

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manner, in the clouds. He's coming back. And

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that's been the encouragement. of the church

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for 2 ,000 years. And so we're going to look

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at some of the signs. We looked at some of the

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signs the last couple weeks. But here's the reality,

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what Jesus did. If you look at Matthew in particular,

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we call it the Olivet Discourse. Most of what

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Jesus is sharing, most of what he talks about,

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even at the end of Matthew 24, and then all of

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Matthew 25, is a warning. It's an exhortation

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to be watching. These signs are given not so

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you can follow signs because people will go online

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and look at reels and, oh my gosh, what's this?

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There's a comet coming. There's this happening

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and that. And everyone's looking, searching for

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the latest and greatest. What's the next? Earth

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is going to be destroyed on this day, whatever.

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I don't even know what people are looking at,

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but I hear what some people are saying. Jesus

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gave us these signs, not to just look at signs

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all the time, but that we would be ready, that

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we would be busy about his business. If you look

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with me at the end of chapter 24, it says this.

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And I think I read this a couple of weeks ago,

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but I want to remind you. And then all of chapter

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25 is an exhortation of readiness, looking up,

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being prepared. But it says this, we're the servants

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and Jesus is the master. It says this in verse

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45, who then is a faithful and wise servant?

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Whom his master made ruler over his household

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to give them food in due season. Blessed is that

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servant, that's us, whom his master, when he

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comes, finds doing so. What? We're busy. We're

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looking up. We're prepared. We're ready for when

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he does come back. He said, Assuredly, I say

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to you, verse 47, that he will make him ruler

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over all his goods. But if that evil servant

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says in his heart, My master is delaying his

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coming. And he loses sight of this fact. He's

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delaying. He's not coming back yet. Don't worry.

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We've got time. You've got time. Plenty of time

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to get saved. I believe the Bible, but I'm waiting.

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If that evil servant says in his heart, my master's

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delaying his coming, and he begins to beat his

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fellow servants and to eat and to drink with

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drunkards, The master of that servant will come

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on a day when he's not looking, he's not prepared,

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he's not waiting for him. And at an hour when

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he's not aware and will cut him in two and appoint

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him his portion with the hypocrites. And there

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shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. There's

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a level of urgency and awaiting that the church

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has always been waiting, anticipating Jesus's

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return. So Matthew 24 gives us a little bit of

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an outline as we travel through it. Also, I wanted

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to mention this to you. What zaps the church?

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One of the things that draws the church away

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and distracts the church, and we know... I could

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spend a lot of time on this, but I really believe

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the urgency. I mean, for me, it's kind of fun

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to go through all these things, to know the sequence

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of events, what's going to transpire in the last

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days. That's exciting for me. But as Jesus writes

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the seven churches in Revelation, the last church,

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kind of the last church age, is the church of

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Laodicea. I've mentioned this before. And you

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probably are familiar with it. But it's a church

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that's lukewarm. It's not hot. And it's also

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not cold. And Jesus said, I'm going to spew that

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church, I'm going to spew that person out of

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my mouth. Because it's neither cold or hot. And

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Jesus said, I wish you were cold or hot. Pick

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a side. Because when you're lukewarm, it's a

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place of complacency. There's another church.

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We go through all the churches. The church of

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Pergamos is a church that it literally means

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that word means an unholy union. The church of

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Pergamos, I think it's the third church in Revelation,

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and it's a church of compromise. It's a church

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that lets the world in as much as the Lord, right?

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It's a church that claims to be Christian. but

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at the same time allows the world to come in.

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And Jesus uses the example of Balaam and Balak.

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He says that Balaam, this prophet, taught Balak

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how to cast a stumbling block before the children

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of Israel. And if you look it up, you see that

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that stumbling block was to intermarry. Because

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Balaam could not curse the children of Israel,

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couldn't pronounce a curse on them. He went from

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location to location and pronounced actually

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seven oracles, seven blessings over this church,

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over Israel. And he was going to get paid for

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this. And so then he realized, you know what,

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I can't curse these people. I have to say what

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God tells me, but let me tell you what to do.

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They'll curse themselves. And let me tell you

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how. Send your daughters in to the camp. Have

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them bring their idols. And they'll begin to

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intermarry, have sex, and they'll begin to worship

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these other gods. And then God's hand of blessing

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will come off of them. And that's exactly what

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happened. And that's the warning, the church

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of Pergamos. And that's the warning to the church

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today. Compromise. And what we allow in our life,

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what we allow to come into our life as Christians,

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that causes us to not be ready for his return,

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to know that he's coming back, to intermarry

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with the things of this world. We're called to

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be separate, salt and light in this world, that

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the world can look to us as different with answers

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and hope. And if you don't have that hope, Jesus

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wants to offer that. The Bible says today is

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the day of salvation. If you don't have that

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hope, you can have it. The gospel of Jesus Christ

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is full of hope. Jesus Christ wants to give eternal

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life. But this life is so short. The Bible likens

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our life as a vapor. I was looking up. I saw

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something online the other day. was, you know,

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for me, a little funny, a little scary. It's

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like, if you're this old, this is about how many

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years you have left. 20 years. And for me, it

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was 20 years. Obviously, that can be adjusted,

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and I can get healthy, hopefully. Get in shape.

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But the reality is, is we have a short amount

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of time. Limited. I thought 20 years. Leah and

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I have been married for 25 years. I'm past the

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halfway point. This will be our 25th year anniversary.

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How much time do we have left? How much time

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do we have to get ready? How much more time do

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we have to be waiting, to be watching, anticipating

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Jesus' return? Should we be busy? Should we be

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a faithful and wise? Steward, busy about God's

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business and his kingdom. So although Jesus gives

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so many signs that we can track for a reason

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and a purpose, and the purpose is that the church

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will be ready because the Bible clearly says

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that in the last days, there'll be a cooling,

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a departure, a leaving of the faith. So the church

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needs to be prepared because I believe we're

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living in the last days. We're living in where

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these signs, verse 8 in Matthew 24 says, these

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are the beginning of sorrows. And that means

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birth pains. That they increase in frequency

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and intensity. They get harder and closer together

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until the baby comes, right? Until Jesus comes

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back. And so the church needs to be ready. So

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kind of exciting looking at these things, reading

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about these things. Last week we looked at some

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of the first signs. We compared them to Revelation

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chapter 6, which is part of the first half of

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the tribulation, which is tribulation. It's not

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the great tribulation. That's the midway point.

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That's three and a half years into the judgment.

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Where judgment, like the days of Noah, come on

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the whole planet, on the whole earth. So we looked

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at verse 4. I'll just read it, and we'll kind

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of catch up here with what Jesus says. It says,

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Take heed that no one deceives you. For many

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will come in my name, saying, I am the Christ,

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and will deceive many. It will be a heightened

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deception. People being deceived, people in the

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church being deceived. It's very easy to be deceived

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if you don't know the Bible. If you're watching

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reels or random clips online and you don't know

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the word, you might believe them. Maybe they're

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not true. Maybe they are. I don't know. But deception

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will be the first greatest earmark. And there's

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always been deception, right? All these things.

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Then he talks about wars. and famine, and pestilence,

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and persecution. All these things have always

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been, right? But he says they're like birth pains,

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beginning of sorrows. Turn to 2 Timothy chapter

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3 with me for a second. We're just going to look

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at a couple verses, and then we're going to roll

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out all the way to verse 31. We're going to look

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at the tribulation. The middle of the tribulation,

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which is the temple is going to be built and

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Antichrist is going to set himself up in the

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temple to be worshipped. 2 Timothy chapter 3.

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We're just going to be there. I want to read

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you just a couple more verses talking about the

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last days. So I'm trying to keep my spot in Matthew.

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Paul telling Timothy, giving him very important

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information. In verse 1 it says, 2 Timothy chapter

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3, But know this, that in the last days perilous

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times shall come. Those are harsh, fierce days.

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And then he says this. He says, men will be lovers

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of themselves. And we already know that people

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love themselves, right? Husbands are to love

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their wives as Christ loves the church. Love

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your wife as you love yourself, right? The Bible

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understands. And the reality is we do love ourselves.

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But the first, both the great commands that Jesus

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says as he was asked, they're linked together,

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loving God and loving people. It's a deferred

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love. It's understood we love ourselves. But

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if you love God, you're going to love people.

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And that's part of God's equation. When you become

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born again and saved now. You're loving God with

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all your heart, and then you love people. You

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have a heart for people. You want to minister

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to people. You want to share God's love with

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people. But Paul is warning Timothy in the last

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days, something very drastic is going to happen.

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People are going to love themselves, and their

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love is not going to get deferred, even in the

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church. People will go to church. But not have

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a real relationship with the Lord. Listen, it

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says they'll love themselves. They'll love money.

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They'll be boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient

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to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, again,

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unforgiving, slanderers, without self -control,

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brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong,

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haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers

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of God. But then here's the twist is verse 5.

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It says having a form of godliness. Like they'll

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be coming to church. They'll have Bibles. They'll

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have a form of godliness. An outward display

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at times and a profession. They'll have this

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form, but it says they'll deny its power. There

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won't be any power in their life to overcome

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sin and loving yourself and all these sins that

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take place when you love yourself. Like the fruit

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of the flesh. It says, from such people turn

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away. And we've read it before. I encourage you

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to read chapter 3. Chapter 4, he goes on to say,

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Same letter, Paul says, I charge you, therefore,

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in verse 1, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ,

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who will judge the living and the dead at his

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appearing and his kingdom, preach the word, be

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ready in season and out of season, convince,

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rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering. And then

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he goes on to say, the time will come where they

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won't endure sound doctrine, that people won't

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stand for the teaching of the Bible. People won't

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want to hear what the Bible says anymore. They

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won't want to hear any challenge, rebuke, exhortation.

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Like, I love myself. That's ridiculous. We're

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supposed to love ourselves, right? And sometimes

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that's the philosophy of the day. You're not

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happy because you don't love yourself enough.

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You're not happy because you don't have enough

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me time. time on your own or whatever it is.

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And there's a philosophy of the day. And I understand

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that you do need to take time for you and the

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Lord, you and your spouse, you and your kids.

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Those things need to be in balance. But the problem

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has always been a self problem. Jesus came to

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save us from ourselves because our self and our

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sin and this nature was destroying us. So Paul

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says to Timothy, the time will come in the last

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days. This is all part of the same letter. For

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the time will come when they won't endure sound

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doctrine. But according to their own desires,

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because they have itching ears, they will turn

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their ears away from the truth, and they'll be

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turned aside to fables, stories. People will

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turn away from the truth. Other things that make

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him happy, like that guy doesn't say what I want

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him to say. That guy doesn't. And you begin to

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find teachers, pastors, people on TV or the Internet

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that you can agree with. Instead of you agreeing

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with the Bible, you want to find people that

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agree with you to keep you and allow you to live

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the lifestyle you're living. You understand that?

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Does that make sense? So Paul is warning Timothy,

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that's what's going to happen in the last days.

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Turn to 1 Timothy. Chapter 4. Same idea. Paul

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tells Timothy in his first letter to Timothy,

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now the spirit speaks expressly. Like this is

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a fact, Timothy. This is by God's Holy Spirit

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that in the latter times, the last days, some

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will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving

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spirits and doctrines of demons. speaking lies

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and hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared

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with a hot iron. Like when you have your conscience

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seared with a hot iron, anything goes. Your conscience

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is what tells you, no, that's wrong. That's bad.

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That's sin. But the more you do it, it just continues

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to sear that and sear that and sear that. And

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then it becomes callous. And then you can take

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a higher temperature, right? It's not as bad

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anymore. Like 102 is good, then 105, and then

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we can, you know, that callus. If you guys know,

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if you have a callus, it can endure a lot, right?

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Sometimes you need them for your job. Like I

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need this callus. When we used to do flooring,

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Justin and I, it would be like humorous because

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the way you cut carpet along the wall. Your knuckles

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were always scraping on the wall. They're always

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scraping. It was like, oh my gosh, what is that

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on my knuckle? It looks like a, but it was this

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massive callus and now slivers didn't go in.

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And that's what he's saying about your conscience.

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Something that should be sensitive becomes dull,

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becomes hard. And now you don't hear anymore.

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And we need to be careful of that. So back to

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Matthew 24. It says this, these birth pains,

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these sorrows are coming and they've always been.

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But then it says this in verse nine. And if you

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mark your Bible, you can. This is the beginning

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of the tribulation. Verse nine, it says, then

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they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill

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you. and you'll be hated by all nations for my

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namesake. And then many will be offended and

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betray one another, and they'll hate one another.

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And many false prophets will arise and deceive

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many. People will be looking for teachers, having

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itching ears. So these false prophets will arise

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and deceive many people. They'll make you feel

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comfortable in your sin. The tribulation begins.

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It says you'll be hated by all nations. It doesn't

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say except for the United States, by all nations.

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Everyone's going to turn their back as a nation

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against God. We're leaning that way already as

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a Christian nation. Europe is already gone. Europe,

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England, these countries that started out to

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be Christian. And had these great pastors and

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preachers have veered and swerved. And our country

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is doing the same. And we're going to land at

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this place at some point. And I might have mentioned

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this last week. The fastest growing religion

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on planet earth is Islam. It's Islam. It's not

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larger than Christianity. in numbers right now,

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but it's awful close. And if you read, I think

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it's Revelation 20, different parts of Revelation

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talking about the people, the tribulation saints,

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people who get saved. I think it's Revelation

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20. It says that they were beheaded for God's

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name, for the name of Jesus Christ. And the number

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one way of capital punishment in Islam, is beheading.

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And so potentially, some part of the last day's

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religion that Antichrist is going to resurrect

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and raise up and pour all different mixtures

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in there, part of that will be this capital punishment.

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If you don't mold or fold and become part of

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that religion and you proclaim Jesus Christ,

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and him as your savior to do that it's going

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to be very difficult in the tribulation because

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you're going to have to lay down your neck you're

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going to have to be willing to die for your faith

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right right now you know we're trying to live

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for our faith not in a lot of fear what happens

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when somebody pressures you and there's real

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persecution and it's like deny or you die Are

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you willing to? That's a lot of pressure. That's

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what the tribulation saints are going to have

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to endure. Real persecution and death and punishment.

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So you'll be hated. It says, verse 12, because

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lawlessness will abound. Iniquity, your Bible

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might say. People unwilling to obey God's moral

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law. And the law. Because lawlessness will abound.

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Look at the love of many will grow cold. Always

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reflecting on love and what you love and who

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you love. But he who endures to the end shall

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be saved. There's going to be need of great endurance

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in the tribulation. You don't want to go there.

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There'll be deception at an all -time high. Persecution

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at an all -time high. Everything that Jesus talks

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about, when the tribulation kicks off, is going

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to be very, very, very intense. It says, and

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this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in

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all the world as a witness to all nations, and

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then the end will come. Jesus is going to come

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back. So the witness part of that witness, if

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you read the book of Revelation, You read, I

00:27:05.210 --> 00:27:10.529
think it's chapter 7, where God anoints 144 ,000

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Jewish evangelists, 12 ,000 from each tribe that

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are evangelizing the world. You'll read about

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two witnesses in Jerusalem who can't die during

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the tribulation period. Many people think it's

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Moses and Elijah, the law and the prophets. Very

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well could be. I believe that. And they cannot

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die, but they're a witness. And their greatest

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witness is at the midway point when Antichrist

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sets himself up in the temple, kills these guys,

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and the world gives gifts. They all watch it.

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Finally, these guys can die. The world watches

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it. The world is giving gifts to each other.

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You know, CNN, Facebook, Instagram, everybody's

00:27:58.170 --> 00:28:04.579
covering this scene. this news and then in three

00:28:04.579 --> 00:28:08.259
and a half days they they stand up after everyone's

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been just left them there they stand up and they

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walk away from that god takes them to heaven

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like a great witness so there'll be a witness

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throughout the whole world during the tribulation

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there'll be an angel flying at some point declaring

00:28:22.079 --> 00:28:26.980
uh the gospel of the kingdom so the gospel of

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the kingdom it'll be preached during the tribulation

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There'll be tribulation saints. There'll be people

00:28:32.440 --> 00:28:35.859
getting saved. Verse 15 says, therefore, when

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you see the abomination of desolation spoken

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by Daniel, the prophet standing in the holy place,

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then he says, whoever reads, let them understand.

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And then he talks about what to do. Verse 15.

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I know we talked about it a couple of weeks ago.

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Daniel chapter nine. It's when Antichrist makes

00:28:54.519 --> 00:29:01.970
a covenant with Israel. For seven years. Revelation

00:29:01.970 --> 00:29:06.470
chapter 6, also same scenario. When the rider

00:29:06.470 --> 00:29:08.609
on the white horse, that first seal gets opened,

00:29:08.730 --> 00:29:12.529
it's Antichrist. He comes with a bow. That's

00:29:12.529 --> 00:29:16.970
the covenant of Daniel 9. Same thing. And he

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makes this covenant for one week. The one week

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is seven one -year periods. At the midway point.

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He goes into the temple, desecrates it, demands

00:29:30.170 --> 00:29:34.349
worship. Israel figures out this is not the Messiah.

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And he says, then flee, right? So Daniel talked

00:29:38.930 --> 00:29:42.170
about it. Jesus talked about it as a future event.

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It didn't happen. We don't have time to go there.

00:29:45.569 --> 00:29:47.710
I already talked about it. It didn't happen at

00:29:47.710 --> 00:29:54.259
177 or 166 BC. Jesus talked about it as future.

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So the requirement of that, I know I talked about

00:29:56.660 --> 00:29:59.619
this too, there needs to be a temple. Micah,

00:29:59.619 --> 00:30:02.240
I think it's Micah 1 .8, says the Lord that you

00:30:02.240 --> 00:30:05.900
seek, or 3 .1, the Lord that you seek will come

00:30:05.900 --> 00:30:10.539
back suddenly to his temple. So Israel's frame

00:30:10.539 --> 00:30:14.059
of mind, believing Jews that are still waiting

00:30:14.059 --> 00:30:16.960
for Messiah are going to get deceived, but they

00:30:16.960 --> 00:30:19.539
believe for Messiah to come back, there needs

00:30:19.539 --> 00:30:23.920
to be a temple. something, a place for Messiah

00:30:23.920 --> 00:30:26.440
to come back to that he can't come back until

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the temple is built. That's very important. If

00:30:32.960 --> 00:30:36.180
you turn with me to 1 Thessalonians chapter 2,

00:30:36.259 --> 00:30:38.220
this will be my last cross -reference, and then

00:30:38.220 --> 00:30:40.220
we're just going to kind of zip through this.

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1 Thessalonians chapter 2. Actually, it's 2 Thessalonians

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chapter 2. 2 Thessalonians chapter 2. We could

00:31:10.509 --> 00:31:14.150
spend a whole Sunday on this. I'm just going

00:31:14.150 --> 00:31:20.069
to read it. But Paul tells these guys. In verse

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1, 2 Thessalonians chapter 2. Now, brethren,

00:31:22.589 --> 00:31:24.930
concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,

00:31:25.230 --> 00:31:29.509
that's the second coming, and our gathering together

00:31:29.509 --> 00:31:34.950
unto him, that's the rapture. We ask you not

00:31:34.950 --> 00:31:38.349
to be, verse 2, soon shaken in mind or troubled,

00:31:38.549 --> 00:31:43.809
either by spirit or by word or letter as if from

00:31:43.809 --> 00:31:47.109
us, as though the day of Christ has come. So

00:31:47.109 --> 00:31:51.049
they got a letter. From somebody that forged

00:31:51.049 --> 00:31:54.650
Paul's signature and said, you're in the tribulation

00:31:54.650 --> 00:31:56.630
period. And they were going through trouble.

00:31:56.730 --> 00:31:59.329
They were dying. They were going through a ton

00:31:59.329 --> 00:32:01.529
of persecution. So they believed it. They're

00:32:01.529 --> 00:32:04.309
like, we missed the rapture. We're in the tribulation

00:32:04.309 --> 00:32:06.410
period. And Paul says, don't be troubled by that.

00:32:06.970 --> 00:32:10.769
And then he reminds them of his teachings, of

00:32:10.769 --> 00:32:12.970
what he taught them. And it says that the book

00:32:12.970 --> 00:32:14.849
of Acts, and we'll get there, that Paul was only

00:32:14.849 --> 00:32:17.130
there for three and a half or three Sabbaths.

00:32:17.359 --> 00:32:19.599
So he was there for three and a half weeks. Some

00:32:19.599 --> 00:32:22.539
people believe that that was the only place,

00:32:22.539 --> 00:32:25.319
time he could go to the synagogue. And then he

00:32:25.319 --> 00:32:27.319
got kicked out and all the rest of his teachings

00:32:27.319 --> 00:32:30.059
had to be other places. So he might've been there

00:32:30.059 --> 00:32:32.859
longer because it's pretty thorough and intense

00:32:32.859 --> 00:32:35.980
teaching that Paul gives on the last days. But

00:32:35.980 --> 00:32:38.119
he says, don't let anyone deceive you, verse

00:32:38.119 --> 00:32:42.460
three, by any means for that day will not come

00:32:42.460 --> 00:32:45.500
unless there's a falling away comes first. The

00:32:45.500 --> 00:32:49.940
word is apostasia. And there's two views on that.

00:32:50.059 --> 00:32:53.559
It can be the rapture of the church or a literal

00:32:53.559 --> 00:33:01.140
departure from the faith. And there's good arguments

00:33:01.140 --> 00:33:05.000
on both. I just bought a book the other day and

00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:10.440
very good. A lot of evidence that this could

00:33:10.440 --> 00:33:12.920
be the falling away is the rapture of the church.

00:33:13.309 --> 00:33:15.329
But I think it really fits for both because the

00:33:15.329 --> 00:33:18.349
last days there is going to be an apostasy. There

00:33:18.349 --> 00:33:20.369
is going to be a departure from the faith and

00:33:20.369 --> 00:33:26.029
the church is going to be raptured. So it says

00:33:26.029 --> 00:33:29.369
that happens first and then the man of sin is

00:33:29.369 --> 00:33:32.109
revealed, the son of perdition. So you won't

00:33:32.109 --> 00:33:34.230
know if you're a born again Christian here, you're

00:33:34.230 --> 00:33:35.849
going to get raptured. You'll never know who

00:33:35.849 --> 00:33:39.309
Antichrist is on this side of eternity because

00:33:39.309 --> 00:33:41.710
he's not going to get revealed until the church

00:33:41.710 --> 00:33:43.750
is out of here. That's what the Bible teaches.

00:33:44.450 --> 00:33:46.650
Then that man of sin is revealed, the son of

00:33:46.650 --> 00:33:51.410
perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above

00:33:51.410 --> 00:33:53.950
all that is called God or that is worshiped,

00:33:53.950 --> 00:33:56.289
so that, listen, here's the important verse that

00:33:56.289 --> 00:33:59.130
I really wanted to read that I'm getting everyone

00:33:59.130 --> 00:34:03.730
probably confused on. He opposes and exalts himself

00:34:03.730 --> 00:34:07.829
above all that is called God or that is worshiped,

00:34:07.829 --> 00:34:11.909
so that he sits as God in the temple of God.

00:34:12.300 --> 00:34:16.000
showing himself that he is God. And that's when

00:34:16.000 --> 00:34:21.239
Jesus encourages Israel to flee because that's

00:34:21.239 --> 00:34:24.900
not Messiah. Do you not remember when I was still

00:34:24.900 --> 00:34:28.179
with you, I told you these things, and now there's

00:34:28.179 --> 00:34:29.699
no sense in going through that. I'll talk about

00:34:29.699 --> 00:34:32.619
that when we talk about the rapture of the church,

00:34:32.800 --> 00:34:36.579
which will be next week. So he says, listen,

00:34:36.719 --> 00:34:40.079
there has to be a temple. It's going to be the

00:34:40.079 --> 00:34:43.929
abomination of desolation. And we know that the

00:34:43.929 --> 00:34:50.030
Temple Institute in Jerusalem, everything is

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prepared. All the lavers and everything is ready

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for the temple. Once it's built, everything's

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ready. It's already made. And if you ever go

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to Israel, you can go see everything. the things

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that are made out of gold. They're doing DNA

00:35:09.230 --> 00:35:11.730
tests. They want to figure out who the priests

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are to make the sacrifices. It's ready. The temple

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is going to be built. Those who are in Judea

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fleeted the mountains. Many people believe that

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that is the rock city of Petra in Jordan. People

00:35:25.420 --> 00:35:29.760
drop off tracks there. There's food there, non

00:35:29.760 --> 00:35:33.079
-perishable food there. There's tracks and Bibles

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and all kinds of stuff in that city because many

00:35:35.619 --> 00:35:38.860
people believe that that in the geography, I

00:35:38.860 --> 00:35:42.480
think it might be Isaiah 16 also. I can't remember.

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Talks about them fleeing and being sustained.

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Revelation talks about that. Fleeing to the wilderness

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that he's protected. I think it's Revelation

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12. House top, not go down to take anything out

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of his house and let him who was in the field

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not go back to get his clothes. But woe to those

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who are pregnant, those who are nursing babies

00:36:05.219 --> 00:36:08.079
in those days. Pray that your flight be not in

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winter or on the Sabbath. It's very Jewish. What's

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taking place? There needs to be a temple. And

00:36:15.500 --> 00:36:19.880
the tribulation is very Jewish. Okay? The church

00:36:19.880 --> 00:36:23.989
will be out of here. This is God. God's taking

00:36:23.989 --> 00:36:26.530
the scales off of the eyes of Israel during the

00:36:26.530 --> 00:36:29.190
tribulation period is what's going to take place

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here. He says, for then there will be, and this

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is the midway point of the tribulation, there

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will be great tribulation such as had not been

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since the beginning of the world until this time,

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nor ever shall be. Unless those days were shortened,

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1260 days, the Bible gives us that number. I

00:36:50.130 --> 00:36:52.909
think Daniel and Revelation. Unless those days

00:36:52.909 --> 00:36:55.929
were shortened, no flesh would be saved. But

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for the elect's sake, those days will be shortened.

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If anyone says to you, look, here's Christ or

00:37:01.610 --> 00:37:04.929
there, don't believe it. For false Christ, false

00:37:04.929 --> 00:37:08.190
prophets will rise, show great signs and wonders

00:37:08.190 --> 00:37:12.329
to deceive, if possible, the elect. The tribulation

00:37:12.329 --> 00:37:14.829
period is going to be the most deceptive time

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because there will literally be miracles during

00:37:18.050 --> 00:37:20.349
the tribulation. In fact, Antichrist, it says,

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He's going to take a deadly wound, and he's going

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to be healed, resurrected. People will believe

00:37:28.150 --> 00:37:30.510
that he gets resurrected, and that's part of

00:37:30.510 --> 00:37:33.550
what makes the world worship him, right? Comes

00:37:33.550 --> 00:37:39.190
back to life like Jesus. So he says, if it was

00:37:39.190 --> 00:37:42.789
possible, even the elect would be deceived. That's

00:37:42.789 --> 00:37:46.250
Israel. See, I have told you beforehand. Therefore,

00:37:46.469 --> 00:37:50.110
if they say, look. He's in the desert. Don't

00:37:50.110 --> 00:37:52.590
go out or look. He's in the inner rooms. Don't

00:37:52.590 --> 00:37:55.110
believe it. And we're going to close right here.

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Verse 27, for as lightning comes from the east

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and flashes to the west, so will be the coming

00:38:01.690 --> 00:38:03.769
of the Son of Man. This is the second coming

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at the end of the tribulation. For wherever the

00:38:06.730 --> 00:38:09.469
carcass is, there the eagles will be gathered

00:38:09.469 --> 00:38:13.610
together. Immediately after the tribulation of

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those days, the sun will be darkened. The moon

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will not give its light. The stars will fall

00:38:19.130 --> 00:38:23.110
from heaven and the powers of heaven will be

00:38:23.110 --> 00:38:26.570
shaken. And then the sign of the Son of Man will

00:38:26.570 --> 00:38:29.489
appear in heaven and all the tribes of the earth

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will mourn and they will see the Son of Man coming

00:38:32.050 --> 00:38:35.489
in the clouds of heaven with power and great

00:38:35.489 --> 00:38:38.690
glory. And he will send his angels with the sound

00:38:38.690 --> 00:38:41.429
of a great trumpet and they will gather together

00:38:41.429 --> 00:38:45.750
his elect from the four winds and from one end

00:38:45.750 --> 00:38:48.840
of heaven to the other. So don't get confused

00:38:48.840 --> 00:38:51.420
with this trumpet. This isn't 1 Corinthians 15

00:38:51.420 --> 00:38:55.460
trumpet. This isn't 1 Thessalonians 4 trumpet.

00:38:55.579 --> 00:38:58.739
If you read the book of Revelation, it talks

00:38:58.739 --> 00:39:01.920
about seven different trumpet judgments, right?

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People would use a trumpet in war, in battle,

00:39:06.800 --> 00:39:11.219
to sound a lot of things, like go into battle,

00:39:11.340 --> 00:39:14.239
come back from battle, it's launch, you know,

00:39:14.260 --> 00:39:17.059
whatever, right? So just because it's a trumpet,

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You can't associate it with just one event, the

00:39:21.440 --> 00:39:23.239
rapture of the church, right? The last trump,

00:39:23.320 --> 00:39:26.739
the trumpet of God. So we'll look at that next

00:39:26.739 --> 00:39:30.239
week. We're going to look at the regathering

00:39:30.239 --> 00:39:32.239
of Israel next week. And we're going to look

00:39:32.239 --> 00:39:35.440
at the rapture of the church next week and probably

00:39:35.440 --> 00:39:40.840
finalize this little series in Matthew of the

00:39:40.840 --> 00:39:43.199
last days, the end times, really preparing the

00:39:43.199 --> 00:39:46.420
church. We need to be ready for his return. So

00:39:46.420 --> 00:39:50.780
hopefully everything made sense. And next week,

00:39:50.820 --> 00:39:52.719
I'm kind of excited. I want to look at, we'll

00:39:52.719 --> 00:39:59.199
be in Ezekiel, looking at Israel being reborn.

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Isaiah chapter 66 says, Isaiah asks the question,

00:40:05.440 --> 00:40:10.039
can a nation be born in a day, in one day? Can

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the earth give birth in a day? And that's what

00:40:13.650 --> 00:40:18.570
happened May 14th, 1948. Israel becomes a nation

00:40:18.570 --> 00:40:27.130
recognized by the world of its sovereignty. And

00:40:27.130 --> 00:40:31.530
it gave birth in a day. And Israel is very important.

00:40:31.570 --> 00:40:34.130
It's one of the signs. It's a super sign of the

00:40:34.130 --> 00:40:38.650
last days. Israel's important. And the days of

00:40:38.650 --> 00:40:41.659
Noah. The days of Lot, it's the moral condition

00:40:41.659 --> 00:40:43.539
of the planet. So we're going to look at those

00:40:43.539 --> 00:40:46.380
next week. Rapture of the church, the moral condition,

00:40:46.480 --> 00:40:50.559
and Israel, and the exhortation to be ready,

00:40:50.579 --> 00:40:53.559
to be watchful as we see these signs unfolding

00:40:53.559 --> 00:40:56.719
in greater intensity. And Israel is the super

00:40:56.719 --> 00:41:04.860
sign, right? It's reborn and rebirthed at first

00:41:04.860 --> 00:41:08.159
in unbelief, and during the tribulation, the

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blinders come off. The scales come off.