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Take your Bible and turn to the book of Romans chapter 5, Romans chapter 5, verse 20. More over the law entered that the offense might abound, but where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. You say, well, what does that mean? Well, change the words here just a little bit where it talks about where sin abounded. All right,Redditor at your debt. well that’s that’s credit. So what God did is let’s say you had a thousand dollars worth of debt and God is going to apply grace to the debt.

It means that let’s say He put in enough to cover $995 worth of a thousand dollar debt. You would still be in debt for how much? You’re still in debt because there wasn’t enough grace to cover the indebtedness. So what God did is He put an unlimited supply of money into the account and it doesn’t matter what the debt is, there was enough grace to cover the debt. So, regardless how many sins you commit, there was enough grace put into the escrow account to cover whatever the dead is.

Now isn’t that grace? That’s good. In verse 21, that as sin had rained on the death, even so might grace rained through righteousness unto eternal life. debt created death. That’s the end result because you couldn’t pay it, it produced this. But if God paid for all of it and you’re released from this debt, then you’re free. Free to get further into debt. No, God said, I’ll pay the debt, set you free so that now because you’re free because of the liberty that you have because of what Christ did for you.

Therefore, don’t let this liberty become a stumbling block to the flesh. In other words, don’t use your newfound freedom as an opportunity to get further in a debt. Now some Christians live their life this way. What God has done is set you free, but you have voluntarily chosen to be a slave again. And I’m not talking about money wise, I’m talking about because of the sinful nature that we have. Look what he says in verse 1, shall we continue in sin get further into debt?

That grace may abound. In other words, so because God’s going to give me all the grace that I need to pay for Whenever you go shopping and I did this one time well several times But he said you can’t even go get some groceries, so I give her $50 bill and she goes and well buys groceries She knows all she has is $50 So sometimes she will write down whatever she’s getting and the price of every item So that when she gets to the cash register register, she doesn’t have to take back three or four items because she knows she’s only got so much money.

She can only spend so much. So that means she can only buy so much. What if I told her one day, honey? I have an unlimited supply. It doesn’t matter. You just go get whatever you want to get. When it comes to serving the Lord, serving God and doing right is unlimited. But when it comes to sin, God doesn’t want you to commit one, not one sin.

Understand a little bit about this scenario. Here’s a man who has committed a crime. He’s been placed into prison. He’s been there for 10 years. 10 years. He’s been in prison. He’s paid his debt to society. So finally, he is released and he’s free. And he don’t know what to do with his newfound freedom. He don’t have a job, don’t have any money, don’t have any friends, don’t know where to go. And so he gets to the end of the day.

And so he goes and commits a crime, a minor crime, just so they can send him back to prison. He would rather be in prison than to be free. So here you are as a Christian. And let’s say you have been in a prison 20 years. You’ve been a slave, Christ has set you free. He signed your pardon. You’re free, you’re free to go. Now, when you trusted Christ as your savior, That means that you don’t have to go to hell.

The penalty has been paid. Your pardon has been signed. And then because you’re now free to go into this area of freedom, this liberty out there. Because you don’t know how to handle that freedom and that liberty. Some of God’s children choose willingly to commit the sin to still live in this prison. to live in a prison. A freedom, fearful of the responsibility, making the right choices because sometimes we don’t always make the right one and some people are so afraid of failure they do absolutely nothing.

They never step out never find how to walk on water never venture out further than the safety of that little security area that they have. This is why every week I get articles about missionaries. Missionaries, and I love stories on missionaries, how that they lead the security of home, the United States, and they go across the around the world, and they bury themselves in some little old grass hut just so they can minister to some people that were not gone, and give up everything, because you see they’re free.

They’re free to go. Some Christians have become such a slave to the things of the world. They’ve gotten themselves so entangled with the affairs of the life. They can’t serve God the way God wants them to because they’re still a slave. See, as a Christian has God, signed my pardon, said that I was free, and then leaves me in this prison house down here, where I can’t do anything in Romans 8 when he says, there is therefore now no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus.

I believe it goes two-fold. One concerning justification, the other sanctification. Justification that when you trusted Christ as your Savior, God, by judicial decree, has declared you righteous, you’re just because of what Christ has done for you and that’s put to your cam, that is your position in Christ. You’ve been justified. There is therefore now no condemnation to those that are in Christ. You can never be condemned again. But that’s my position in justification. But in sanctification, this experimental part of my life that I’ve got to experience.

God has not condemned me to a life as a slave to my Old Sinful nature. That would be a terrible thing. As you read in the scripture, it says in the book of Ephesians in chapter 2 that the people that were without God, that had no knowledge and it says they were without hope in this world without hope. Would it be a shame to, yes, be free from the penalty of sin and live in this life and be condemned to live as a slave under the power of the sinful nature for the rest of my life?

So God not only set us free from the penalty of sin, but He is in the process of setting us free from the power of sin in our life. But because some people can’t handle freedom, because when it comes responsibility, I must read and study and yield in order to do it to be what God wants me. Now why don’t you look at our numbers in chapter 6. Chapter 6 deals with our sanctification. Chapter 5 deals with our justification.

Because in chapter 5 it’s talking about how we have been just made just by faith in God. Justified. Look in chapter 5 and verse 1. Therefore being justified by faith we have peace with God. In sanctification, this is that part of the life that we’ve got to live. You can have the peace of God. See, peace with God is our judicial decree by God who declared you like in a court of law, you are innocent. And so you never committed a sin.

A payment’s been put. The debt’s been paid. You’re clear. And you can never be condemned again. That’s a wonderful thing. But what about my life that I’ve got to live? All right, let’s just kind of go with the flow. as you go from Romans and chapter six and you begin to go through here you find something like in verse 11 Likewise, reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed on the sin Live unto God and then in verse 13.

He says neither yield ye your members yield yield yield So it’s talking about you making deliberate choices about yield into god But let’s say you do Let’s say that after you trust the Christ as your Savior, you realize that now I’m a child of God. I have not only been set free from the penalty of my sin, I’ve been released from the prison, from the power of the sinful nature who enslaved me and caused me to be a servant to my own nature for the rest of my life.

In other words, it means that you don’t have to live the rest of your life under that domination. There’s a scripture here in chapter 7 that uses this illustration. Here’s a woman married to a man. And the Bible says that as long as the man lives**************** she’s in bondage to the man. But if that man’s dead, well, she’s free. Isn’t that a wonderful thing? But even let’s say, okay, he’s dead. She doesn’t have to obey a dead man anymore.

She’s free. She can get married again or stay single or something, but she’s free from that dead man. Whenever you trust in Christ your Savior, you and I are supposed to believe that our old sinful nature, the old man died. Well, if he’s dead, then why does he still have power over my life? Only because I choose to give him power over my life. Your sinful nature can not control you without your permission. So you and I don’t have to live our life in sin.

Well, we don’t. You see what I still commit sin? I know that there’s a difference in committedness sin and living there. Everybody sins and makes mistakes and falls and so forth. But now what’s the end result? I want you to see that. Look in verse 16, know you’re not that the home ye yields yourself servants to obey his servants you are to whom you obey, whether sin and the death of obedience under righteousness. And in verse 17, but God be thanked that you were the servant of sin or slave of your old sinful man.

You had an old nature that ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine that was delivered unto you, being then made free from the sinful nature. You became the servants of Christ or of righteousness. So you have a choice after you trusted Christ as your Savior. I can serve the Lord or I can serve sin. It’s a choice that I can make. Second Corinthians and chapter three, this is a very important verse. Remember this, you can blame anybody you want for why you are not a godly individual.

But for you not to be a godly individual is your choice. You can be godly or sinful. You can be spiritually minded, currently minded, your choice. If you’re currently minded, you chose to go back to prison. You chose to go back to prison voluntarily. Here in 2 Corinthians in chapter three, look down to in verse 16. Nevertheless, when it, the mind shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away. Now the Lord is that spirit where the spirit of the Lord is, there is what?

Liberty, where the spirit is Lord. In other words, say in your life. If the Holy Spirit is the Lord, the Master of your life, and you voluntarily yield yourself as his servant, then you’ll know what freedom’s all about. When Christ made the statement, if you know the truth, the truth will make you free. So it means if you don’t know the truth, you can’t be free. The reason that I want people to come and study the Bible, whether Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday, it’s because I want you to live a free life.

I want you to be a free person. But it’s truth that sets you free. It’s lies that enslave. This is why some people say, well, I can’t do this, I can’t do this, I can’t do, I can’t, I can’t, I can’t. Yes, you can. It’s your want. It’s the fear that robs a man or a woman out of the blessings of God because they can’t see, they can’t believe because they’ve chosen to make themselves a prisoner of an old, sinful nature.

Look what he says here. Now the Lord is that spirit and where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, I get this, but we all, with open face beholden as in a glass, the glory of the Lord. In other words, it’s like a person looking in a mirror and you see yourself and what if you can look in the mirror and see yourself transformed and watch it happening. Wouldn’t that blow your mind? What if a woman, a real ugly woman, looked in a mirror and she saw this ugly woman and all of a sudden she begins to transform and all of a sudden she’s a beautiful woman right in front of your eyes and you saw that happen.

Wouldn’t you like that? Here’s a 98 pound weakling. He looks in the mirror. He don’t like what he sees but all of a sudden he begins to change, transform. All of a sudden he’s got this muscular body, this belt, and all of a sudden there he is and he looks like this Charles Atlas before everybody had to look like Charles Atlas. And all of a sudden you begin to change. Wouldn’t you like that? Now God says, look, you’re looking at that mirror.

All you see is flesh. That’s all you’ve seen all your life. It’s the way you are. It’s the real way you are. The the way you thought, the way you lived, the way you made your decisions, the way you responded to pressure, everything about you. Now, the Holy Spirit indwells you, and as you begin to yield to the power of the Holy Spirit, and his freedom begins to slowly change you from the glory of the flesh to the glory of the Spirit.

And you can see over the years how God has transformed you. Since you’ve trusted Christ as your Savior, have you noticed a transformation in your life? He said, I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God that you present your bodies as the living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service, and be not conformed to this wirbabiah, transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove or discover what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

In other has there been a transformation in you? Not in the physical features, because in this old body, we’re getting older, and yeah, it’s being transformed, all right. But I’m talking about the real you now. I’m talking about you. The person that lives inside of the body. Are you a free person? Are you free from the power of the sinful nature to control your life? Now he didn’t say, walk in the spirit and you will not have the lust of the flesh.

They didn’t say that. It says walk in the spirit and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. The longer you serve God, yes, as you serve God, you still have the desire of sin in your body, in your mind. Well, what do you do? Now, I’ll go back to Romans. Here you are, your God’s child. I dedicated my life to the Lord. I want to serve God. God bless you a little pea picking heart. So you begin to yield and you do all the right things.

Your desire is yes, I do. Verse 15, for that which I do, I allow not in other words, I didn’t give myself permission to do that. I didn’t want to do that. You are faced with this desire. Put yourself in these verses and say these things about you. personalize it. For that which I do, I allow not. For what I would, that’s the desire. That’s desire. What I would, this is what I would do. I do not. Who knows I don’t do what I want, but what I hate, that’s what I wind up doing.

In other words, I don’t want to do like that. I don’t want to be like that. If you ever said or done something that just makes your stomach turn because you wish you hadn’t said or done that and you don’t understand why. I don’t know why no world I did that. You ever feel like such a failure? And yet this is to the person who wants to yield. This is to the person who wants to serve God. This is not the person that doesn’t want to.

It’s the person that does. And he’s struggling. fights, a battle that’s going on, looking for 16. If then I do that which I would not, in other words I wound up doing what I didn’t want to do, I can send unto the law that it is good. Because when there’s something that I don’t want to do because it’s bad, then I have to mentally give consent that there’s a law that says that’s wrong. There’s a law that says that’s wrong.

So I must say that the law is good and the law does work and it works in my conscience because I’m able to judge that something is right or something is wrong because there’s something that I want to do that is right that I have consented into the law that there’s some things that are right and the law that condemns certain things and so therefore when I know that something is wrong then the law works because I know that’s wrong that’s wrong that’s wrong why because the law says the word says God says And so since I can send it to do that which is right, why am I doing that which is wrong?

And this is talking to the person who wants to serve God. Since you trusted Christ as your Savior and you dedicated your life to the Lord, have you ever done anything that you didn’t really want to do? I wish you had to done. Even though you want to do right and yet you fail, it’s called an old sinful nature. Look in verse 17. Now then, it is no more I that do it. But that old dead man that I got to drag around with me, you know, I was told that if a man killed a man, that what they would do is take the man that killed this man and then handcuffed the dead man to the live man.

And that live man couldn’t go anywhere without dragging that dead man with him. Wouldn’t that be a terrible penalty? That you couldn’t get rid of that dead man. And after four days he stinketh. And you had to carry that dead man and drag him around with you all the time. That’s a terrible punishment. When you eat, slap at dead men’s with you all the time. And many Christians are dragging around a dead man with him. When he makes this statement here in verse 18, he says, for I know that in me, that is in my flesh, I develop no good thing.

For to will is present with me, the desire to do what’s right, but how to perform that which is good I find not. Or here you are. You are in this prison under the power of this warden, the old sinful nature, that’s old man. He’s running this prison and he’s got all these people in Christ, pager, penalty, and you can go free out of that prison. the penalties paid, but would it be a shame for you to live the rest of your life voluntarily under the power of that old warden and you just decide to stay in prison?

See, when you live in the flesh, when you decide to commit those sins voluntarily, you’re saying, I would rather be under the power of that old warden than the man who paid my sins so I can go free. You see it’s like getting a brand new pair of shoes. After a while when you wear shoes they kind of shake to your feet. They kind of feel good and sometimes the older my shoes are the better they feel. And then you get a new pair of shoes and generally I get a new pair of shoes something hurts somewhere.

Some hurt somewhere and I’m tempted to take those things off and put on mine. My old shoes again. Why? Because I’ve been walking in him for so long and it kind of fit and kind of like go together. Whenever you trust a Christ your Savior, it’s kind of hard walking in new shoes. It’s a Christian life. It’s something that’s a struggle. You haven’t done it before and you’re not sure about what to do and how to live. But God says with this newfound freedom, if you’ll just stay at it, Just keep doing what’s right.

God will bless you. Those sore spots, they harden up after a while and you get used to it and things break in. And you’ll find out that walking with the Lord ain’t so bad. You’re not used to walking with the Lord. You’re not used to having somebody else tell you what to do and always be right. Now you have people to tell you that, but he always is right. And God will bless you. When he makes this statement verse 19, Now, for the good that I would, I do not.

You ever want to do right and you don’t do right? But the evil which I would not, that I do, there’s things that are wrong, I know it’s wrong, and you do it anyway. How can you get free from all of that? It’s a battle, it’s a struggle. But you have to understand that even to the most godless of individuals and go through this war. Because the greatest victory you’ll ever have is not what you accomplish in the world.

It’s the personal battle you have within yourself. Satan can’t defeat you until he defeats you in your mind. And that’s why he can take you captive. These scriptures, I don’t believe is talking about salvation, how to get to heaven. I believe these scriptures is talking about your life, how you live, and the battle that you’re going through. And he makes this statement here in verse 23. In verse 23 he says, but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind.

In other words, what I want, something is law, war, and against me. In your physical body is your sinful nature. And here you’ve got a mind that you wanna do what’s right, but in your desires of the flesh, it wars against what I want to do. How can I live as a free man? Because I can assure you, whenever you choose to live in sin, you’re choosing to go back into that prison house, but that old man rules over you.

He says one thing to, you know, to commit a sin, to stumble and fall. It’s another thing to lay in the mud and never get up again. It’s a one thing to let something happen to you that so places upon your shoulder such a load of guilt that you never want to serve God again because I failed, I failed. And I don’t want to be a hypocrite and try serving God and then I’ll fail and I’ll mess up so I won’t do anything.

Whenever you trust in Christ as your Savior and He opened the doors wide of opportunities in a new world of freedom, and you can walk with the Lord and God a legion, guide you and take care of you, meet all you need. And whenever you do sin, I’m glad. When that old warden over there wants to pull me back into that little old prison house and under his power, I have this get out of jail card free. Whenever he wants to put me back under his power, just because I mess up one time or two time or whatever it might be, I’ve got this first John, 1 9.

That if I confess that sin to God, He cleanses me and that is what keeps me from going back into His captivity. But see, a lot of God’s people, when they fail, they don’t use that get out of jail card free. They just become captured and they live a life of a slave to their their own sinful nature, they can make it never be free from it. God did not condemn you to live under the power of that old warden you’ve been set free.

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See, I have a few little objections to certain things and I can’t swallow it all because I have problems with other verses that says, even what about this? But what about this? So before I just believe something because well, that’s the standard position of most independent fundamental Bible evolutionary minded Baptist. I just have to wait. How do I know that’s the truth? So I read it and study a little bit more and at least I want to be able to say I’ve read it, I’ve studied, I’ve looked at all the options and this is what I think.

So when I tell you what I think, it still might be a little yank-yology. That means that I can’t swear by the hair of my chinny chin chin. But this beast that is talking about seven heads, ten horns, the ten horns, as you see, are ten kingdoms. In verse 12, the ten horns which thou sought ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet. So they didn’t exist at this time until it’s not talking about Rome doesn’t exist yet.

And is talking about whoever this woman is is writing upon this beast and is talking about doing the tribulation period. Wasn’t doing it then. It doesn’t say it doesn’t in between. It’s doing this seven year tribulation period. I saw a woman riding on a beast. Now, the beast hates the woman. Whoever the woman is, the beast hates this woman. Well, how do you know that? Glad you asked. Well, how do you know that?

Glad you asked. Look what he says there in verse 13. These kings have won mine, give their power and strength unto the beast. So it’s done democratically. They do it because they want to. They’ve been lied to, deceived. And in verse 14, These shall make war with the lamb and the lamb shall overcome them, for he is the Lord of Lord and King of kings. And they that are with him are called and chosen and faithful. So this is talking about the kings that are going to be existed.

Whoever this beast is, he’s the one that is destroyed by the Lord when he comes back. And when you read the book of Daniel in chapter two, verse 43 and verse 44, It says, in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven come to the earth. He’s the stone cut out of the mouth and without hand and destroys this gentile power. So the woman that’s riding on this beast, well, the beast is the Antichrist because he’s the head of this last world government.

So whoever this woman is, it’s got to be somebody that the beast don’t like, but he had to give them a ride. Look, verse 15. And he said unto me, the waters which thou saw us with the horse saideth are people and multitudes and nations and tongues and the ten horns which thou saught upon the beast, thee shall hate the whore shall make her desolate and naked and shall eat her flesh burner with fire. Whoever this woman is, the beast is going to destroy her.

The beast don’t the beast hates this woman. Whoever this woman is, the beast hates the woman. And it says in verse 17, for God hath put in their hearts to fulfill His will and to agree and give their kingdom unto the beast until the words of God shall be fulfilled and the woman which thou thought is, there it is, The job to underline it. That great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth. So whoever it is has to be a place where the Antichrist, the head of this last world government will set up his palace in the Holy Land and he is going to rule as king over the earth.

whatever city that might be. Now as you read it and you come across a few other verses that says a little bit more that might give a little bit more light. Look there in chapter 18 in verse 10. When this city or a country or whatever it is when it falls, or whoever this woman is that’s riding upon this beast, she is throne and whoever the beast is is going to try to destroy her completely. In verse 10 standing afar off for the fear of her torment.

Alas, alas, that great city, Babylon, that mighty city. And one hour is that judgment come. One hour. Now that’s a short period of time. So whoever this woman is, she is going to be destroyed in a short period of time. Not long, but a short period of time. Looking verse 18, and cried when they saw the smoke of her burning saying, what city is like unto this great city? Now are we talking about New York City? Well it might be New York City.

After all, look how bad she is and there’s a lot of commerce being done and when you reach some of the descriptions through this you might come to the conclusion it has to be. Unless between now and the tribulation period something else happens that overshadows the greatness of America. Now, it might be America. It might be Rome. It might be Babylon over there in Iraq. But maybe it might be something else. But look what he says there in verse 21.

He said, and a mighty angel took up a stone like a giant, a great millstone cast it into the seasam, thus would violence shout that great city Babylon be thrown down and shall be found no more at all. And that in verse 22 found no more. In verse 23, no more, no more, no more. Wonder what city this is. Now maybe you have it all figured out. But I still have a few little problems with a few little things here and there.

But let’s just jump over to a place where God wants to show somebody something. And it’s amazing that it uses these words. Take your Bible look there in Revelation chapter 21. Revelation chapter 21. And look in verse 1. And I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth was passed away. No more sea. John saw the Holy City, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Now here’s a holy city coming down from God out of heaven called the Holy City. Do you know of any other place that’s called the Holy City? The Holy City. Jerusalem is is called the Holy City. The nation of Israel called the Holy People, a holy nation. But look over here in verse nine. He said, and there came unto me one of the seven angels, which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues talk with me saying, come up here.

I will show thee the bride, the land’s wife. And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain and showed me and underlined these three words, that great city. And what city was that great city? The holy Jerusalem descending out of heaven from God. So we know according to the Bible, there is going to be a great city, new Jerusalem, holy Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven down to the earth. And there will be a new heavens and a new earth.

Now take your Bible and turn all the way over there to the book of Daniel. The book of Daniel. And chapter 9, remember the 70 weeks of Daniel is not upon everybody in the world as far as prophecy goes. I believe it deals mostly with the nation of Israel. And you look there in verse 24, 70 weeks are determined upon and underlined this word, die people. And upon this word, die holy city. Now the holy city, Israel, is supposed to be a city of peace, but it’s been everything but a city of peace.

When he makes the statement about the city been destroyed. It mentions that up there in verse 25 down to verse 26 and the city shall be destroyed and the sanctuary. But what city do you think he’s talking about? The city here that’s going to be destroyed is the city of Jerusalem. Now take your Bible and turn over there to the book of Matthew and the Bible tells us something else that’s going to happen here and I want you to see it in chapter 24 Matthew chapter 24 and look there in verse 15.

Remember where Christ was when he gave this prophecy. He was sitting there while his disciples were you know marveling over the temple, Herod’s temple. And he told him, says, this temple is going to be destroyed. And he said, well, when’s all this going to happen? And then he talks about some things. And he says in verse 15, when ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spoken up by dang of the prophets, sent in the holy place. Then he says, let them who soever read it, let them understand, and they’re to flee.

So forth out of there. Well, when does this take place in verse 15 in the middle of the tribulation period. Well then where must the guy be? That’s gonna do all of this. He claims to be God. When you read 2 Thessalonians in chapter 2, it says that he goeth into the temple and claims himself that he is God. So we know where he’s at. And when you read the book of Daniel, and I believe in chapter 11, he talks about he shall plant his palace between the seas and the Holy Land.”

So if he’s in the Holy Land and he heads up this last world government, then the city that he’s riding upon, and remember who does the Antichrist make a peace treaty with. It’s made with the nation of Israel. Israel is a woman. Is it possible that in the last days that the Arab nations will make peace with the woman that they hate the most? There isn’t anything anybody where they hate more than Israel. Israel is the most despised. In Matthew in chapter 23, look there where he says in verse 34, he says, wherefore behold I send unto you prophets and wise men and scribes and some of them ye shall kill and crucify.

Some of them shall you scourge in your synagogues and persecute them from city to city. That upon you become all the righteous blood shed upon the earth from the blood of righteous able unto the blood of Zechariah. Able is your A, Zechariah is your Z, all the way from A to Z. I thought I just thought that for you. You know, home ye slew between the temple and the altar. Barely I send you, get it. All these things shall come upon this generation.

All these things that he’s talking about shall come upon this generation. What generates the people that are living during the tribulation period. Because in he gets to chapter 24 he explains where it’s going to take place, who is coming, and what’s going to happen to this city. Now when you look in verse 37, oh Babylon, Babylon, O Rome, O Rome, oh New York City, New York City, what does it say? Says, Jerusalem. Jerusalem. Remember the 70 weeks of Daniel is upon a thy people and upon thy holy city.

So here you have the tribulation period. Why should I believe it’s anybody else? I don’t necessarily have to believe it’s anybody else. I’m not saying it is. I’m not saying I’m right, but I’m giving you another option just to look at, you know, to consider, to think. Because the last thing you want to do is just believe what everybody says. I don’t want you to believe it because I say something. You got a Bible. You read it and you studied.

If you don’t agree with me, just have chapter in verse. That’s all. Just chapter in verse. But look what he says, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, bow that killeth the prophets and stone up them, which are synodim. When he talks about over there, you have martyred God’s people, you have slain God’s people. What city has been wicked, more wicked than the city of Jerusalem over the years? And last of all, he sent his son. And what did they do to him? didn’t God say that the peace treaty will be made with Israel, this woman, and one who makes the treaty hates the woman.

So when you see this, then when you read chapter 12 about the woman and how the beast goes after the woman, and we know that that woman there is the nation of Israel, then you can see a little bit more as you take that and use that to understand some of the other scriptures. Not sin and right, but it sure looks good to me. He says, how often I would have gathered thy chickens or children together, even as a hen gathered her chickens under whoming and you would not.

Now look in verse 39, for I say unto you ye shall not see me hence for him, till ye shall say, blessed is he that cometh and the name of the Lord. Now is it possible that God is going to use the tribulation period and use this wicked nation to chasten God’s people when Israel was in the land and they wouldn’t obey the Lord? Didn’t God promise even in the book of Deuteronomy that he was sent another nation that spoke another language and bring them in as a rod to chasten God’s people and they were taken away captive in the court in Jeremiah, they would be there for 70 years.

Well, it happened just like God said. Now, if He kept His word on that, is it possible that He’s not through with the chasening of Israel? So when you read chapter 9 of the book of Daniel and it talks about to finish the transgression, to finish the sins upon Israel, The seven years, seven years, is God’s chasin’ upon God’s people and upon His holy city, Jerusalem. And how it’s going to have this great earthquake read Zechariah 14. Now, who would have ever thought this because when John wrote Jerusalem, it had already been destroyed.

The temple had already been destroyed. 70 AD, written about 90 AD. So you’re talking about 20 years, there’s already Pat. So it seems like you’re talking about some other place. When it might be written in such a way, throw the curiosity seeker off, but somebody who really wants to know the truth, you look at it and you read it and you’re studying it, say, is it possible? Now go back there to the book of Revelation chapter 11.

Revelation chapter 11. And you’ll notice in chapter 11, it makes a statement there in verse eight. And verse eight says, and their dead bodies shall lie in the street of, and here’s those three words again, the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt where also our Lord was what? And where were these two prophets killed? In Israel. Where was the Antichrist? Where was his throne in Israel? So now look there very quickly in Revelation in chapter 12.

And there appeared a great wonder in heaven, a woman clothed with a son. Now as you go through this you’ll see that this woman is talking about Israel. Look in verse 3 and it had the great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns. Just a coincidence. And he’s after the woman and he wants to kill the son that this woman is going to have. Last part of verse 4. To devour her son as soon as he’s born. What didn’t that happen when Christ was born?

Mm-hmm. Then when you read chapter 5 and she brought forth a man-childed, this woman, what woman? Isn’t that an Israel? And the sun was caught up into heaven. And that’s where he’s at. And then there’s going to be a little battle going on and we’ll get into that next week when we talk about the whole chapter. But look in verse 13, when the dragon saw that he was cast into the earth, and that takes place in the middle of the tribulation period, persecutes the woman which brought forth the man child in the midst of the week Daniel 927.

When ye shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel, this is that time. And he know it that he hath but a short time. And he says to the people that are born the earth, whoa, whoa, whoa. For he knoweth that his time is short and he hath great rap that’s up in verse 12. And then you come down here to verse 17 and the dragon was rocked with the woman and went to make war with the remnant of her seed.

This is Israel. So is it possible that the woman of chapter 17 might be Israel? I don’t know. I can look at it from all those angles. You said, do you have a purpose? Well, of course I do. Which one do you hold to? Well, if you haven’t figured it out by now, you probably won’t. But I’m not saying that it’s it’s not the other reviews. I’m just saying that I have a problem with some of the logic, some of the reasoning and that I can’t definitely prove it by scripture.

But the book of Revelation, the tribulation period, is about Israel. It’s about the holy city. And that this city is going to be destroyed because God’s going to see to that. That’s why it’s going to be destroyed. And it’s just like here’s the anti-Christ and he sets up his place there in Israel and he is head over all all the earth. And people could say, well, how could you make war against so great a power? Look who he is.

Look where is that? He’s in the Middle East. He’s sitting in the ideal spot. And if he’s ahead, then he controls all of commerce all over the world. Now, there is a possibility. The Lord may come back tonight. And there’s a possibility. The Lord may not come back for a hundred years, whether you like it or not. There’s been people every century since Christ that will believe He’s coming back in their lifetime and two thousand years has passed. I believe He could come back.

He could come back at any moment, but He could, any moment, but he could be on down the road and everything that you see today may not exist that away in 50 years or 25 years. But I believe that the Word of God, it will not change. It will still be saying the same thing, but people will be able to understand it better. I don’t have to understand everything to believe that the Word of God is true, that We’re living at a miraculous time upon the earth.

And I love life. I can’t hardly wait for the next day. I love knowing what I know. And I’m also thankful I don’t know all of it. There’s some things I’m glad I don’t know yet. I don’t know how to handle it. I don’t know what I’d do with it. It’s about me knowledge that would be too much to bear. God doesn’t let us see everything or know everything. He says secret thing belonging unto the Lord. And I believe this time goes on more of a be revealed.

So this is not in concrete, but I need to explain to you, mind you, so that you can study better and you might come up with a greater understanding. Look up here. And just in case somebody happens to be watching Saudi Arabia or Pakistan or who knows where, I want people to know. God loves you. This hand represents you and me. The Bible says that you and I are all sinners, and that we have all sinned, we’re all condemned.

And God says that He loves us, and He wants us to go to heaven, and to go to heaven we have to be perfect, as righteous as God, and none of us are perfect, none of us are righteous. And God says that you cannot save yourself, you cannot earn eternal life, you cannot work your way to heaven. We need a Savior. This hand represents Jesus Christ. He is the Lord God in the flesh. He came into the world because he loves us, but he hates our sin because our sin separates us from him.

So Jesus Christ took the sin, paid for it on the cross, came back from the dead, and said if we would believe he did it for us, he would put this payment to our account and we get to go to heaven on what Jesus Christ did. That’s good news. Best news in all the world. One of these days, it’s going to all be over. One of these days were me out of here. And the longer I live, the more excited I get about it.

I’m more excited about it now than I was 35 years ago, 40 years ago. Because I know I’m getting closer to this side than I was on the other side. I’ve got family on the other side, so every time I lose somebody that I know, heaven gets a little bit more precious to me. And I wonder sometime, I wonder what they’re doing. I wonder what Hank’s doing today. What do you think he’s doing right now? You think he’s listening to the sermon?

You think he’s looking at you? He’s not very looking down at you. Say, you’d not go ahead and get busy. Do something. I don’t know. But it’s great to wonder sometimes we live at a great time in history. One day it’ll all be over. Let’s pray, shall we? Every head bowed and every eye closed. No one looking around. If you’re here tonight, and the auditorium, or if you’re listening by internet, God loves you. He loves you so much that he died on that cross to pay for your sins.

He said, if you believe he did it for you, he would give you as a free gift of our lasting life. He said, you couldn’t earn it, you couldn’t work for it, you can’t buy it. You see, it’s gift. It’s totally free. Friend, I never heard that before. Not until I was 18 years old. Somebody gave me the good news. I didn’t know that you could have eternal life and know that you’re going to heaven. But when I heard it, I was not going to turn it down.

God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, the who so ever believe it than him should not perish but have everlasting life. So if you’re here tonight and you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior, would you trust him right now? Just talk to the Lord. You can’t make a mistake that way. Only the true and living God knows your thoughts. to say something simple like this, Lord, I don’t understand at all. I know my sinner.

I believe Christ died paid for my sins. And right now I will trust him as my Savior. I believe he died for me. Infinite friend, if you’ll trust him, God will save you and give eternal life. Our Father, we thank you so much for this time together. We thank every person here. We’re thankful for the radio ministry, for the internet ministry. And we pray, Lord, that people around the world of the seeing here and understand that in spite of all the things that are going to come up on this earth, we’re all going to die.

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In the book of Revelation, I want your turn there To the book of Revelation we have been going through the book Sunday I kind of spoke on the book of Revelation chapter 11 that was the next chapter that we were going to be looking at into cover. So we probably are supposed to go to the next chapter which would be chapter 12. So chapter 12 is where we are for real and but I know that sometimes it’s difficult to go on when you’re trying to maybe get hung up on one little word or phrase and in the 17th chapter of the book of Revelation it talks about a woman chapter 18 talks about a woman chapter 12 talks about a woman when you get right down to it the church is a woman.

Boy talks a lot about women in the Bible. But here in the book of Revelation, there is a phrase mentioned there in verse 8. If you look there in verse 8 of Revelation chapter 11, and their dead bodies shall lie in the streets of the great city which spirits is called Sodom and Egypt. We’re also able to re-crucify. As you go through, you’ll come across some verses that talks about that great city, that great city, that great city. And sometimes you want to just, who is this great city?

What I want you to do is look over there with me also in Revelation chapter 14 and look there in verse 8. And there followed another angel saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen that great city because she’s made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of our fornication. Here talks about this great city and that she’s guilty of making all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of our fornication. Now I have to admit over the years a lot of people tried to figure out just who is this woman that rides this beast found there in the book of Revelation chapter 17.

And who is this Babylon? The great Babylon is fallen, is fallen. Well here it says Babylon is a city. And in other places it seems like it’s a whole nation. Is it talking about Babylon that’s over there in Iraq? There are scriptures in the Old Testament that seems to be that everything that’s mentioned there hasn’t totally been fulfilled. So many people believe that Babylon could be rebuilt after it had been destroyed and maybe become this great city someday once again.

Maybe all this money that we helped spend over there in Iraq is going to help rebuild this country and Iraq will be the Babylon? Well, there’s people that believe that, yes, maybe a possibility. There’s also this possibility that maybe maybe it’s the United States. Some believe that the Antichrist is going to come from America and that America is that great city that comes up out of the sea. Because if you were standing in Israel and you’re looking straight across through the strait of Gibraltar there and through the Mediterranean and all out and keep on good.

And this beast comes up out of the sea. God, maybe it’s America. So there’s people that believe it, it could be America. Because if the Antichrist is going to take over and rule the world, well, it seems like it has to either conquer America or take over America and utilize the military power, the might of America in order to control the world. Either that or America has to be destroyed if it’s somebody else, so therefore it has to be America.

Well, that sounds good. Now, the problem that I have is I try to stay away from discerning the word of God by what I see going on in the world because the nations rise and nations fall. People come and people go. Over the years, there’s been many people that have named different popes as the anti-Christ. This is the one. They said, Hitler was the anti-Christ. Mussolini was the anti-Christ. Stalin is the anti-Christ. Obama is the anti-Christ. I’ve heard everything and you probably have to.

I think I’ve even had a few people call me an anti-Christ. But anyway, you don’t try to utilize the things in the world to explain the scripture. I believe that you should explain the scriptures with the scriptures that you have. Now, a lot of times we refer to Israel becoming a nation in 1948, and that’s true, but many people take that very same statement and say, well, the generation that’s living when Israel becomes a nation will be the nation that’s alive when Jesus comes back.

Maybe. better hurry because you know that was a few years back. And as we go, there’s not many years left, but then you got to get into how long is the generation. But then the Bible says this, in Matthew 24, when ye shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophets and in the holy place, let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains. Yea, that see these things. And then in chapter 24 of Matthew, then it makes this statement, this generation shall not pass until all these things be fulfilled.

Well, it’s talking about the people that are living in the tribulation period. When ye shall see the abomination of desolation, that’s the antichrist in the holy place in the tribulation period in the middle of it. I won’t be here. So that can’t be referring to when Israel becomes a nation, but Israel has to become a nation in order to fulfill the prophecies concerning it and a peace treaty and to rebuild the temple. So there’s a lot of things that comes together, but you have to be careful trying to put it all together and you try to force pieces of the puzzle where it don’t really go.

I have to be very careful of that because I just want to understand it all and something God hasn’t given me and it’s hard not to imagine. So I have a great imagination. And so I have looked at all these options and I’ve studied it from all of these viewpoints. I can preach a sermon on every one of these points that I just mentioned to you. And if I wanted to, probably could convince you that each one of those is right.

But they can’t all be right. If I wanted to, I could convince people that the religion of Mormonism is true. I know enough about it. I can talk to people about the religion of Jehovah’s Witnesses. I know enough about their religion and I could make a good argument and people who don’t really know their Bible, I probably could convince them. I could convince people Catholicism is true. That’s dangerous. So what you have to watch is not using any of your talent and abilities that you may have to make people believe something that the book really doesn’t say.

So sometimes it scares me to death to say, the Lord says, the Word of God says, and it may not say that. But because I have a preconceived idea or I hurt somebody’s say and then you run off on a tangent, trying to make it fit into your little scheme of things. It could be a dangerous thing to do. So as I read it and I studied, I tried to figure out, well, what does it maybe, what does it really mean?

And I’ll have to admit, I don’t understand it all. But I got to read in the shear like in verse eight, where it says, and there followed another angel saying, by Evelyn is fallen. He has fallen that great city because she had made all nations drink of the wind of the wrath of a fornication. I wondered. What city is this? Well, look what he says there in verse 19 in the same chapter. And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth and gathered the vine of the earth and cast it into the great wine press of the wrath of God.

Now this is the Hindu tribulation period. The wine press was trodden without the city. Blood came out of the wine press even unto the horses bridled by the space of 1,600 furlum. Well, this city here is not talking about some place in Rome. I don’t think it’s talking about the blood going to be that high in Rome or over there in Iraq. I believe there’s a good possibility it might be referred to some city in Jerusalem, a possibility. In words, there’s a lot of options.

But as you study the scriptures, you have to be careful of even getting somebody’s common terries, even though they might have wrote three or four hundred years ago, because you see, there’s a lot of things that they may not know or do not see, and you don’t want to polypare what somebody says, I don’t even want people to do that about me. I want you to study the book and you become convinced this is what the Word of God says.

But because there are so many options, and it looks like it could be so many, you don’t want to become divisive just because everybody don’t hold your view on prophecy. Because I just told you through four different options that certain things can be and yet they can’t all be true. So anyway, as we read this, I want to show you this in just a moment. Now look over there in the 17th verse of the 16th chapter, 17th verse of the 16th chapter.

In Revelation chapter 16, you look there in verse 17 and the seventh angel poured out his valent in the year. There came a great voice out of the temple of heavens from the throne saying, it is done. Now this is the seventh angel. You know you’re at the end of the tribulation period. It is done means that what God means that God is going to be consummated. In verse 18, there were voices and funders and lightning and there was a great earthquake and there stood on the shore, Tad, one and one of the thunder came from.

Oh, I just thought I’d throw that in there. But anyway, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty and earthquake and so great. Now, we know that when we read in the book of Zechariah chapter 14, when Christ comes back and His feet touch upon the Mount of Oluk, there’s going to be a great earthquake and Jerusalem is going to be divided. It’s going to be split in half. And the Bible says that that’s going to take place and it tells when it’s going to take place.

Now, you notice there in verse 19 and the great city, you’re on the line those words, that great city. It doesn’t tell you who the great city was, just says the great city. But then it’ll seem like it It says it’s just referring to Babylon, but Babylon has been destroyed, but is Babylon that same city that’s sitting over there on the Euphrates River? Here it says, was divided into three parts and the cities of the nations fail. In great Babylon came and remembrance before God to give unto her the cup of the wind of the fierceness of his wrath.

this this city is it’s gonna have to be because it’s one bad city this city is guilty of the blood of the martyrs of Jesus Christ they’ve killed God’s people I wonder who it is but as you go through and you read it and you see so many things and wonder what now who could this be this woman because it talks about so many women. You read the third chapter of the second chapter of the book of Revelation, talks about the woman there called Jezebel.

Have you ever heard of Jezebel before? talks about a woman named Jezebel there. And as always these women down through the book of Revelation. Now in chapter 17 of the book of Revelation, I want you to look here in verse 1. them. And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials and talk with me, saying, under me, come hither, I will show thee the judgment of the great whore that siteth upon many waters, with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication.

The inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wind of a fornication. Well, that’s what we’ve been reading about this woman, this other woman. That great city, Babylon. Now many people do not believe that the woman of chapter 17 is the same woman of chapter 18. Maybe it’s a different woman altogether. Maybe it is. But I sure like to encourage people to study the Word of God. Not to have everything spoon fed to you, but to study it.

If you really want to chew on something, buddy, the book of Revelation has a few little things. morsels for you. Paste you little morsels. And I guarantee you, you’re not going to swallow it all in one meal. You’re going to have to chew a little bit and then come back and then chew a little bit more. But now look what he says about this woman. In verse 3, so he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sit up on a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy having seven head, ten horns.

Now majority of people that I read and studied from, they almost all unanimously say, well chapter 17 is the spiritual church, the wicked church, you know the bad church. God took His people but this is the accommodation of all the wicked people that don’t believe right And this is the spiritual dead church in a sense that this represents the one world religion. And if this is the one world religion, you got to have ahead of this one world religion.

Well, and it has to be wrong because that’s what everybody says. So because everybody says that, it must be true. Now, I’m not saying it’s not, but I’m not satisfied to say that this is This is wrong. I don’t believe that they’re guilty of all the martyrs, of all the people that have been killed. I don’t believe. Now, there’s a lot of things that’s going to happen. And I don’t have time for all that right now. The colors and all that, maybe.

Maybe this woman is talking about the Roman Catholic Church. And that really causes you trouble when you accuse the Roman Catholic Church of the antichrist, you know, the Pope’s the head of it. And if you would captain now that don’t set too good. I’m not saying that but it’s not maybe the best way to win them. No more than, you know, talking about the angel baloney. I mean, Moroni, Momaroni. And you may have fun with it, but if you want to win somebody, you may want to choose the words a little bit more carefully.

Look what he says here in verse five. Up on her forehead was a name written, mystery, Babylon the great, the mother of harlitz, and abominations of the earth. I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints, with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration. So this is some woman that’s guilty of an awful lot. She’s a bad woman. I just wonder who she is. But it says that this woman is riding this beast and that this beast is the last world government because it says that it has seven heads, ten horns.

See what it says there in last part of verse three? Full of names of blasphemy having seven heads, ten horns, seven heads and ten horns. I’ve heard of that before. If you look over there in verse nine, they talk about and this is the mind that hath wisdom. He says, the seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sets. So here’s this woman who sets on the seven mountains. So does he roam, sets on seven, he also it has to be roam.

Well, maybe it is, but maybe it isn’t. He holds and mountains are not exactly the same. But when you read it down a little bit further, these seven heads or seven mountains in verse 10, and there are seven kings. So it’s not about seven heels on what a woman says. It’s talking about kingdoms upon the earth, kingdoms, kings. So I don’t believe it’s the city a room. So that kind of, see, I have a few little objections to certain things and I can’t swallow it all because I have problems with other verses that says, even what about this?

But what about this? So before I just believe something because, well, that’s the standard position of most independent fundamental Bible, admission, or reminded Baptist, I just have to wait. How do I know that’s the truth? So I read it and study a little bit more. And at least I want to be able and say I’ve read it, I’ve studied, I’ve looked at all the options, and this is what I think. So when I tell you what I think, it still might be a little yank-yology.

That means that I can’t swear by the hair of my chinny chin chin. But this beast that is talking about seven heads, 10 horns, the 10 horns, as you see, are 10 kingdoms. In verse 12, the 10 horns which thou sought 10 kings, which have received no kingdom as yet. So they didn’t exist at this time. So it’s not talking about Rome. doesn’t exist yet. And it’s talking about whoever this woman is is riding up on this beast and is talking about doing the tribulation period.

Wasn’t doing it then. It doesn’t say it does it in between. It’s doing this seven year tribulation period. I saw a woman riding on a beast. Now, the beast hates the woman. Whoever the woman is, the beast hates this woman. Well, how do you know that? Glad you asked. Look what he says there in verse 13, these kings have won mine, give their power and strength unto the beast. So it’s done democratically. They do it because they want to.

They’ve been lied to, deceived, and in verse 14, these shall make war with the lamb, and the lamb shall overcome them, for he is the Lord of Lord and King of kings, and they that are with him are called and chosen and faithful. So this is talking about the kings that are going to be existed. Whoever this beast is, he’s the one that is destroyed by the Lord when he comes back. And when you read the book of Daniel in chapter 2, verse 43 and verse 44, it says, in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven come to the earth.

He’s the stone cut out of the mountain without hand and destroys this Gentile power. So the woman that’s riding on this beast, well the beast is the Antichrist because he’s the head of this last world government. So whoever this woman is, it’s got to be somebody that the beast don’t like, but he had to give him a ride.” Look, verse 15. And he said, to me, the waters which thou saw us with the horse, saideth our people and multitudes and nations and tongues, and the tin horns which thou sought upon the beast, these shall hate the whore.

Shall make her desolate and naked and shall eat her flesh, burner with fire. Whoever this woman is, the beast is going to destroy her. The beast don’t want her. The beast hates this woman. Whoever this woman is, the beast hates the woman. And it says in verse 17, For God hath put in their hearts to fulfill his will and to agree and give their kingdom unto the beast until the words of God shall be fulfilled and the woman which Thal thought is, there it is yawdah underlining that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth so whoever it is has to be a place where the anti-Christ the head of this last world government will set up his palace in the holy land and he is going to rule as king over the earth whatever city that might be now as you read it

and you come across a few other verses that says a little bit more that might give a little bit more light. Look there in chapter 18 in verse 10. When this city or a country or whatever it is when it falls, or whoever this woman is that’s riding upon this beast, she is thrown and whoever the beast is is going to try to destroy her completely. And verse 10, standing afar off for the fear of her torment, alas, alas, that great city, Babylon, that mighty city.

And one hour is that judgment come, one hour. Now that’s a short period of time. So whoever this woman is, she is going to be destroyed in a short period of time. Not long, but a short period of time. Looking verse 18, and cried when they saw the smoke of her burning saying, what city is like unto this great city? Now are we talking about New York City? Well, it might be New York City. After all, look how bad she is.

And there’s a lot of commerce being done. And when you reach some of the descriptions through this, you might come to the conclusion it has to be. Unless between now and the tribulation period, something else happens that overshadows the greatness of America. Now, it might be America. It might be Rome. It might be Babylon over there in Iraq. But maybe it might be something else. But look what he says there in verse 21. He said, and a mighty angel took up a stone like a giant, a great millstone, cast it into the seasam, thus would violence shout that great city Babylon be thrown down and shall be found no more at all.

And on in verse 22, found no more. In verse 23, no more. No more. No more. Wonder what city this is. Now maybe you have it all figured out. But I still have a few little problems with a few little things here and there. But let’s just jump over to a place where God wants to show somebody something. And it’s amazing that it uses this.

Take your Bible look there in Revelation chapter 21. Revelation chapter 21. And look in verse one. And I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth was passed away. No more sea. John saw the Holy City, new Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. Now here’s a holy city coming down from God out of heaven called the Holy City. Do you know of any other place that’s called the Holy City?

The Holy City. Jerusalem is called the Holy City. the nation of Israel called the Holy People, a holy nation. But look over here in verse nine. He said, and there came unto me one of the seven angels, which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, talk with me saying, come up here. I will show thee the bride, the land’s wife. And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain and showed me and underlined these three words.

that great city. And what city was that great city? The holy Jerusalem descending out of heaven from God. So we know, according to the Bible, there is going to be a great city, New Jerusalem, holy Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, down to the earth. And there will be a new heavens and a new earth. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida, with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message.

Our two of this teaching will conclude with tomorrow’s broadcast. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bible Line and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll-free 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. If you wish to hear today’s program again or would like to download a free MP3 of today’s or any previous Bibleline program, go to BibleLineMinistries.org and click on the spinning globe in the upper right corner of our homepage.

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We pray that you’ll enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ and that today’s concluding message of this teaching will be a blessing to you and your family. Now get this. So he says you’re in verse three, and I will give power unto my two witnesses. And they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and three score days, a 42 months or another way of saying three and a half years. He says, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and three score days, clothes and sack club.

These two fellows have got the dream job. I mean, they don’t have to worry about anything. Nothing can happen to them because they have been given the power to do whatever they want to do and their judgment. And I believe there’s a lot of the so-called the seven angels that do what they do and Bring the plagues that they do Because of the command of these two individuals now. I don’t have scripture to prove that but in circumstantial evidence leads me to that conclusion, but look what he says in verse five and If any man any man will hurt them fire proceeded out of their mouth and devoured their enemies and if any man will hurt them he must in this manner be killed.

Woo doggy, you got to watch what you say about those two. Now today you can bad mouth the preacher, you can have roast Reverend, potted pastor and nobody will do anything to you. That’s why I said this would be a dream job. You know, it’s like I double dog dare you to say anything that upsets me. You are really being respect of the pastor. But that day isn’t here. This is doing the tribulation peered upon the earth. This is the worst part of time that the world has ever known.

But God always has his witness and God is going to get his job accomplished. And God says that even the angel will be preaching an everlasting gospel or the messenger that preaches the message because God in spite of all the damages going to be going on, God is still a God of mercy. And the Bible says there will be multitude of people of every nation that will trust Christ as their Savior. See God does not make anybody trust Him.

You do not have to accept Jesus Christ as your Savior. You can do your dead level best to try to earn your way to heaven that God’s already said you can’t earn it, you can’t work, or you can’t buy it. You do not join a church to go to heaven. You cannot pay for salvation. It’s already been paid for. Christ paid for all the sins of all the world when He died on the cross and all that you have to do, all that you can do is to accept that payment He made for you.

And God will save you. And during this period of time they can also still be saved. And multitude of people, you read chapter 7 where it says that they trust Christ a Savior from all the nations. He says, where’s come of these? He says, sir, these came out of great tribulation and it made their robes swight in the blood of the Lamb. So it was because of Christ and the payment He made. Now look at this. He says in verse 6, these have power to shut heaven that it rain not in the days of their prophecy and have power over water to turn them to blood and to smite the earth with all plagues as often as they will.

Now I can see why a lot of people believe that is a good possibility of Moses and Elijah because Elijah did part of this when he didn’t reign for three and a half years and also Moses because of the plague down in Egypt. So is a good possibility that that might be them? But I can’t say dogmatically because I don’t have scripture that says Moses and Elijah but it could be them. But whoever it is, who doggy to be able to have the power.

Maybe God can trust them. God probably couldn’t trust you or me. We’re probably misused it. Are you explosive now? Do you lose your temper now and anger now if somebody makes you mad? Just think if you could speak. Okay. That’s all she wrote. You eliminate the whole world, wouldn’t you? Look what he says here in the verse six. These have power to shut heaven that it rain not in the days of their prophecy have power over water to turn them to blood.

And the world. is going to be turned to blood. And it’s not going to reign. All these things are going to happen, and they’re listed in some of the bowls of judgment that God’s going to pour out upon the earth. So God’s got his two men that are the two keys that says, boom, boom, boom, and what they say goes. It’s going to be awesome. And look what he says in verse seven. In verse seven, and when they have finished their testimony, the beast that ascended out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them and shall overcome them and kill them.

So this is what’s going to take place. Now who are these two? Just look up there real quick in verse four. See in verse four? And do you remember us reading anything like this over in the book of Zechariah in chapter four, where it says these are the two olive trees, the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. Remember we read it over there? That was written 400 and something years, almost 500, before Christ. Now we’re almost 2,000 years on this site that that’s a long period of time.

I think that’s out of reach of those people who wrote like Zachariah and the fulfillment of the the scriptures. And here we are. Are we living at a time on planet Earth when these things can happen? Is there a move on trying to make a peace treaty with Israel? Yes. All these things are true. Look what else happens here. That can’t be just a coincidence. Look at this. And it says there in verse 7, and when they shall have finished their testimony, they finished their testimony.

The beast that sent it out of the bottomless pit and shall make war again. This is the antichrist. This is the old devil himself. And you’re talking about the prince of the power of the heir. That’s why you have it going all the way over here. And there’s a battle in heaven. That’s in chapter 12 of the book of Revelation. And so he has got his man to do his will, just like God the Father has his Son to do his will.

Satan is going to have his man to do his will and he’s going to do everything the devil wants them to do and he will give him his power. He reads the 13th chapter of the relation and he says that Satan gives him his power to do what he does, the authority to do it. But remember they all have their limitations. The devil tried to get it Job. But God put a hedge about him and he couldn’t touch anything that he had.

God moved away one of those hedges and allowed the devil to get at what he had. We couldn’t touch Job. Later on God took away another hedge and says you can get a Job but you can’t take his life. See the devil always had limitation. He can’t do everything he wants to do. God is still in charge. God is on the throne. He is the boss and he can use everything that goes wrong in this world to his honor and to his glory.

And just because things will always happen good in your own personal life, he says, all things work together for good to those who love him. Do you believe it though? He was that’s my favorite person? All things work together for good to those who love the Lord to those who are called according to his purpose, not yours, his purpose. He always has a higher purpose than you do. You can’t see behind the scenes of how God is working, the providence of God.

It’s not just an accident. God knows what he’s doing, and he says, this is what’s going to take place. So he makes a statement here in verse eight, and their dead bodies shall lie in the streets of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt where also our Lord was crucified. I wonder where he was crucified. Anybody got a clue where he was crucified. I believe it’s a good possibility this takes place in Israel, in Jerusalem. Remember that’s where he’s gonna plant his tabernacle between the seas and the glorious holy mountain.

This is the 70th week of Daniel, and it says these are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city. So I believe this is where this is going to take place. The devil is going to sit up his man on his throne in the place where Jesus Christ is supposed to be. It’s all coming together. I love it when I see a plan come together. Now look what he said. In verse 9, And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and a half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in the graves.

So here’s these two guys. They’ve had their ministry for three and a half years. They done anything they wanted to do that they thought was right. That God wanted them to do. They fulfilled the will of God. And they could not be killed. They couldn’t touch him, couldn’t harm him in any way. And then when they finished their testimony. In other words, when God is through doing what he wanted to do, he allows the old devil, the antichrist to take their life life and now they’re dead and their bodies are left in the streets of Jerusalem for three and a half days.

Their dead bodies in the street and didn’t let them get buried. I wonder why we would do a thing like that? Well look what he says, verse 10, and they that dwelt upon the earth shall rejoice over them and make Mary and shall sin give one to another and be all celebrated Christmas and everybody had a wonderful time.

Well, they said, gifts to everybody, didn’t they? Well, they’re not what Christmas is about. This isn’t Christmas. This is talking about a time when people all over the earth can see two dead bodies laying on the street and that people all over the world can send gifts one to another. Now, could they do that 2,500 years ago? Can they do it today? They can do it today. Do you think that we live in a time when you’ll be able to see two dead bodies land in the street on the other side of the earth?

This was written that long ago. Just a coincidence? You imagine what people thought when they read this 2000 years ago? Never happened impossible. Can’t be done Yes, it can Because God’s word is true. Now. Look what he says and verse 10 and They that dwelt upon the earth shall rejoice over them rejoice what because they’re dead Why are they rejoicing because of the Plagues that they brought upon the earth But why did they do all that because God was trying to get the people to wake up to realize the trust crisis their Savior?

and it says, and yet they did not, they would not believe on Him, and they hardened their hearts. You’ll see that in the book of Revelation chapter 16, but look what he says here. And he says, and shall sin gives one to another because these two prophets tormented them that dwell on the earth. And after three days and a half, the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet and great fear fell upon them which saw them and they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them come up here now they hear the voice at the rapture they don’t hear the voice at the rapture when Christ comes in the air in a moment in the twinkle of an IP we’re gone here these two witnesses, the world will hear come up hither.

They’ll hear the voice of God. And they’ll see their two bodies come to life and ascend up into the sky. Now, you know, I could see how somebody could read this and say, this is for out, man. This is wild. But what if it’s the truth? Are we saying that the God who created the heavens and the earth can’t do this? Can’t create life? Now, the devil cannot create life. He is an imitator. He will look like he can create life in chapter 13, but he doesn’t have the power of life.

He has the power of death. Only Christ has the power of life. Now get this. In the last part of that it says, and they ascended up to heaven in a cloud and their enemies behelmed. The people of the earth watch this happen. Do you think that if you’re reading the Bible and you saw that happen, you thought, wouldn’t you believe, you know, this thing might be true? This just might be true. And the same hour there’s an earthquake.

And it says here in verse 13, and the same hour there was a great earthquake and the 10th part of the city fell, I believe it’s Jerusalem. And in the earthquake were slain 7,000 men. The remnant where a Friday and gave glory to the God of heaven. The second world was passed, behold, the third world comeeth quickly and look now in verse 15. Because now we have moved through the tribulation period and it gives you a kind of a thumbnail sketch of what’s going to take place as a fulfillment if you read the book of Daniel, chapter 2 and chapter 7, chapter 9 and 11, all talking about the time when the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdom of Christ that belonged to him.

See there verse 15 the seventh angel sounded. Great voices in heaven say the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ and He shall reign forever and ever. That little sweet little baby Jesus that everybody talks about at Christmas time there’s nothing in the Bible that tells us to worship the birth of Christ, but we suppose worship the one that died on that cross. He was born that he might die. You can’t just go to the birth and leave it there.

If this one that was born was virgin born, if he truly was the holy one, he was God. And if he’s God, that changes everything. He’s not just a baby that was born. He died on the cross, came back from the dead, and the Bible says, he will come again. He is the king of Israel, and he is going to set up his kingdom. And that means that he’s going to rule and reign upon this earth, to realize that’s not far away.

Now, if I knew all of this and understood all of this, But I live back here. I might get discouraged. This is possible to happen in my lifetime. This could be fulfilled in our lifetime. We may not die. There is a generation living that will never see death. Because when Christ comes back in power and great glory, the Bible says we are going to be changed in a moment the twinkle of an eye and caught up to meet the Lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

Seven years later, we’re back in glorified bodies. Wouldn’t it be awesome for supernatural people to be walking right on this earth? I will. If you don’t believe it, won’t be no skin off my nose. I can’t make you believe a word that I’m saying. I would like to see you disprove what I’m saying. I double dog dare you. I don’t don’t think you can do it. Because I believe the Bible is true. I believe that God means exactly what He says.

He’s coming back just like He said. And if you have not trusted Christ as your Savior, you will be lost just like He said. And if all this is true, then this is true. You don’t need someone to down the cross and pay for your sins to keep you from going to a place if it doesn’t exist. That’s why we need a Savior to save me from this final lake of fire. I don’t want to go to hell. I did not trust Christ as my Savior because I love the Lord.

I did it for fire insurance. I didn’t want to go to hell. You say, that’s not a good motive. It’s a good motive to me. That was 50 years ago, I was 18 years old. In a little old living room, I wasn’t in a church. So you don’t have to go to church to trust the Lord. You can trust the Lord anywhere, anytime. Up to the time you draw your last breath. But it makes sense to trust the Lord as soon as you can because afterwards, your God’s shall, now you got your whole life, you can serve the Lord.

You can learn all kinds of things and do things because see, what you have here is gonna be a result of what you did for the Lord. So your future has been determined by your own obedience to God today. So you don’t become obedient to go to heaven, but you should be obedient because you’re arguing there. I should be obedient because I am a child of God. Look what he says here. Luke down there in verse 17 saying, we give thanks, oh Lord God Almighty, which art and was an art to come because thou has taken to the thy great power and hath reigned.

The nations were angry, thy wrath has come, the time of the dead that they should be judged, and that thou should have give reward unto thy servants, the prophets unto thy saints, and then that fear thy name, small and great, should have destroyed them which destroy the earth. In other words, God says, I have had enough, and God’s going to step onto the world scene. And in chapter 10 it talks about a great angel, which I believe is the Lord himself, and he puts one foot upon the land, one foot upon the sea, and he says, time is no longer to be.

In other words, no more to lay. Time’s up. This is it. And God’s going to keep his word, just like he promised. So you and I, that no crisis are Savior, don’t get down and discourage. Look at our redemption, draweth nine. He’s on his way and if you’re listening closely, you can hear them rattling the silverware for the marriage supper of the lamb. It’s not gonna be long because this is where we’re headed. And then we’re gonna come back and power and great glory to this earth because Jesus that was born came back from the dead and is coming back again.

And I believe it with all my heart. Let me show you something. Letting this hand represent you and me. This wallet represents sin. We all have sin on us. Everybody is a sinner. It means nobody’s perfect. Now to go to heaven, you have to be perfect. But you see, we can’t go to heaven because of sin. But what do I do about my sin? Well, the pay for the sin is death and hell. So we’re all condemned. The whole world’s in the same boat.

and nobody can save themselves. You can’t get out of this mess. But God can do something for you. God says, you can’t earn eternal life. You can’t work your way to heaven. He says, this is what I did for you because I love you. God does not want us to go to hell. God wants us to go to heaven. So the Bible says that God sent his son, this hand representing Jesus Christ, into the world. He was born as a babe.

He was a holy one. He had no earthly father, so he had no sinful nature. Never did anything wrong. No fault was ever found in him. No sin, he didn’t have to die. But because of his love for us, he took all of our sin, and the Bible says he became sin for us. By doing so, then God, the father had to slay his own son. And that’s why he was the lamb that was slaughtered for our sins. He died and came back from the dead.

And God says, the only thing you and I have to do to go to heaven is believe he did it for you. If you will believe he did it for you, he’ll put that payment to your account. You get to go to heaven or what he did. You don’t earn it, you don’t worth it. You do not promise God anything. You don’t have to promise God you’re gonna stop being bad So that’d be a lie. But you still will be bad.

You don’t have to promise God, you’re gonna be good because you won’t. You’re not gonna change the way you are. You’re still a sinner. And no matter how hard you try, you just get frustrated because you realize inside, there’s still a lot of ugliness that you can’t get rid of. You need a new birth. Jesus Christ said, if you’ll believe He did it for you, It put this payment to your account. You get to go to heaven on what he did.

That’s the gift of God. For by grace are you saved through faith that not of yourself, it is the gift of God, not of works lest any man should boast. If offered you my microphone and you accepted, what would you have? Microphone. If offered you my Bible and you accepted, what would you have? No Bible. If offered you my wallet and you accepted, what would you have? An empty wallet. these people here, they know me so well. If Christ walked in here right now and offered you eternal life and you accepted what would you have?

Eternal life, if it’s eternal life, how long would it last? If it lasts forever, and all you send your paper, where would you go when you die? So can you know you’re going to heaven before you die? Sure. That’s why in spite of knowing all of this, I know this. I’m going up. I have eternal life. I’m God’s child. I know I’m going to heaven when I die. And if you have not trusted Christ as your Savior, you’ll be lost for all eternity.

It doesn’t have to be that way. Now, if I was to ask you to join the church this morning, you ought to really check us out before you do that, so you don’t want to do that. If I said you had to give money, well, how much? Oh, million. Now, aren’t you glad you don’t have to buy your way? If I said you had to pray, well, you got to, well, how long? How sincere. What do I pray for?

You see, it’s not that. But what do I have to do? Believe. You mean that’s all? God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. The who’s so ever, believe it. Should not perish. May He won’t go to hell. But have everlasting life. You mean that’s all I gotta do? He that believe it on me have everlasting life. And he that believe it, not the Son shall not see life, the wrath of God, abide at the fawn him.

Oh, believe it. If you’ll believe that when Christ died, He died for your sins, then you can know that you’re going to have me die. I told this to a person just the other day. I went to a hospital to see a guy that wears his security guard. And he brought up a guy that was a security guard with him. So I didn’t know the guy. For the first thing I asked us, sir, can I ask you two questions?

He said, sure. I said, isn’t it true you’ve heard all your that Christ died on the cross and paid for all the sins of the world. I said, yeah. I said, question number two, if he paid for all the sins of the world, why should you go to hell and pay for any? Yeah, I never thought of that. If he paid for all of them, why do you have to pay for them? Why do you have to go to hell and pay for sin if he already paid for your sins?

Because you haven’t accepted the payment he made. I said, will you accept the payment Christ made on the cross for you. Yes. Because that’s all you have to do. It’s where you believe it. I’m talking about you’ve got to really believe it. And he that believe it to me hath everlasting life. If he that believe it hath something, hath what? Have everlasting life. If you believe it you have everlasting life. How do I know when I really got everlasting life?

Well when you really believe it. Well how do you know you really believe it? When you can say you have it. You can’t say you have it. You don’t have it. You have to have it. Do you have Never lasting life. I had to. Best news in all the world. Let’s pray, shall we? Every head bound, every eye closed, no one looking around. If you hear this morning, and you’ve never trusted Christ as your savior, I hope that I’ve given you something to make you think yet the Bible is true.

I do see these things heading up. I am concerned about where I’m gonna spend eternity. Friend, don’t you wanna go to heaven? If you want to go to heaven, there’s only one way. You must accept Jesus Christ as your savior. So it’s just reasonable for me to say, well, would you trust Him? Would you believe He did it for you? And friend, we’ve had Boudnite’s clothes and no one looking around. I’m gonna ask you just a moment to raise your hand.

Raising your hand does not save you. It just lets me know that what I said made sense to you and you said, and preacher, that made sense to me. And right now I will trust Christ as my only hope of going to heaven. Would you trust Him? I’d like to have prayer for you. If you are this morning saying, yes, I will accept Christ as my Savior. And you’ve never done it before. Say, preach out, I want you to pray for Him.

It would just slip you in it very quickly and put it right back down. Anyone at all? Just slip it up real quick and put it right back down. If you have trusted Christ as your Savior, your God’s child and you’ll go to heaven when you die. A lot of people don’t know this. It’s a wonderful story. Our Father, we thank you so much for all you’ve done for us. We thank you for this time together and for your word that’s given to us so we can understand these things.

And help our minds to be clear. We’re gonna have to give an account someday. Bless each one here in Christ and we pray, Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, You can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3771.

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Thanks for joining us on Bibleline, and now a closing thought from Pastor Arnold. friend one day it will happen the trumpet will sound we will be changed caught up to meet the Lord in the air so live today and every day believing that the Lord is coming soon just keep looking up

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I want to talk to you about some things this morning that I hope will be a blessing to you. or turning your Bible to the book of Daniel chapter nine. Daniel chapter nine. I wanna speak this morning on my two witnesses. The two witnesses that are described in the book of Zachariah and chapter four in Revelation in chapter 11 is to me the pastor’s dream of power. In other words, when somebody doesn’t do what you want the dude, zap.

Wouldn’t that be neat? Fire from heaven. Get him. You know, if somebody says something, you don’t like it, take care of it, just like that. And bring whatever plagues you want on anybody, any nation, any legislative body, all at one time, well, wouldn’t that be power? Now I know why God won’t let me be one of them.

I would probably think that I was God’s a avenging angel. Lord, let me zap anybody who’s not doing right by you, okay? I don’t want nobody to do me that way though. But these two guys have got it made. They are invincible. They couldn’t kill them until God was ready at the right time. If anybody ever wonders whether or not, you know, is the Bible true, I want you to listen this morning. If there’s any reason why you say, well, I can’t trust Christ as my Savior because I don’t believe I need one.

I don’t believe in heaven and hell. I don’t believe in God. I don’t believe the Bible is true. Well, you’re not the first one. There’s been a lot of people that held that view. But as I read the Bible and study the facts, I find out that it has a lot of evidence, that demands a verdict. And I come down on the side of it has to be true. Man could not have written this book. Oh, God used a man to write, but he was the author.

This book is real. This book is true. I believe it from cover to cover. I even believe the cover. Here in the book of Daniel in chapter nine, the children of Israel had been beaten up a little bit and taken out of their land, taken to the place of Babylon. They were in captivity. And Ezekiel was one of the prophets there and also Daniel was there and Daniel found out by reading the book of Jeremiah that they were going to be there for 70 years.

He got it already told them this in advance. You’re going to be there 70 years. Well, 70 years they get to go back. just like God said. Now, here in Daniel chapter nine, look there in verse 24. He’s a 70 weeks are determined upon thy people, that’s Israel, upon thy holy city, that’s Jerusalem, to finish the transgression or the judgment that God has bringing upon the nation of Israel and captivity, an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity.

In other words, a payment for sin. God is prophesying in His word that there’s going to be a payment for sin, and then bring in everlasting righteousness and to seal up the prophecy and to to anoint the most holy. So that’s what God’s Word says. That’s a prophecy. He’s telling us in advance how many years it’s going to be from the time they issued the decree to go back to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple that was destroyed until the Messiah, when he comes and he’ll be cut off.

So from the time in the Old Testament, when Christ came and was cut off, would be 483 years. He died right on schedule. If a person wants to know if the Bible is true, lucky guess, huh? Just a lucky guess. It never happened to nobody else. The prophecy was always far enough in advance to those who gave the prophecy could have nothing to do with its fulfillment. So Jesus Christ came right on schedule, born right on schedule, in the fullness of time made of a woman.

He was born into this world. And it says that He was born King of the Jews. Behold this day is born unto you in the city of David a Savior which is Christ the Lord Jesus Christ came the first time just like he said right on schedule and he died right on schedule At the right time He was the Passover lamb the lamb of the world that takes away the sin of the world So the Bible says Christ came just like it was prophesied now look what else he says here He says there’s a seven-year period.

See, when Christ died, there were 70 weeks, 69 took it up to the cross. There’s one week left. One week was seven years. Seven, sevens is what we get, you know, the years from. And so there were 70 weeks, so 70 times seven is 490 years total. 483 to here. So that means there’s one, seven-year period left. and that’s why this is called the 7-year tribulation all this in here is the church age because He was rejected so the kingdom was shoved that into the future you didn’t want the king can’t have the kingdom, but it was a legitimate offer and so now God is doing another thing he’s taken individual believing Jews and Gentiles and making a new body, a church.

And that’s why for the last 2000 years we have the church age called the church age or the time of grace. It’s a different period of time than how God deals with men concerning responsibilities and so on. So we know that after the seven-year tribulation period, because everything’s about the making of the reconciliation, the payment for sin, and then the completion, and then the millennial reign of Christ upon the earth to anoint the king from heaven Christ coming back.

All this is mentioned in the Old Testament. Now these days have happened just like God said. So now the world must get ready for this seven year period of time. Because whenever the Lord comes for you and I, called the rapture, we’re going to be caught up out of this earth. And God says this seven year period of time, and this could just slide back over here, and it flows right on through like it was never a break. Israel is God’s timetable, God’s timepiece.

Now look in verse 26, after three score and two weeks shall the Messiah be cut off. So it’s telling us when the Messiah is coming and he’s going to be cut off. This is in advance. Now you think it’s just a lucky guess? No. God knows the future and he tells them. Now unless you can figure out another way how they could have known this. Oh that’d be great. But there is no other way. God had to do this.

And then look what he says. The temple is going to be destroyed. So the Messiah is going to come, Christ. Temple will be destroyed and he was cut off and get down here in verse 27. And he, this is the prince that shall come, the anti-Christ, referred to up in verse 26, he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week. One week, there was 70 of them total, 69 are gone, one week left and the Antichrist is going to make a peace treaty, a covenant with the nation of Israel for one week.

That is right ahead of us. That’s why we’ve had a bunch of presidents trying to get Israel in the Arab nations to have peace. Isn’t it amazing? It’s the only ones that you’re trying to do this with. After all these years, 2,000 years and before 400 years, 500 Cheers! And we’re living in a time when the nations of the world are trying to have this so-called peace in the Middle East. And it all boils down to a little obitination like Israel.

But the whole world revolves around what happens in the Middle East. And a lot of the troubles that happen right now with America and the bombing over there in Afghanistan or Iraq, all that stuff that’s going on is because of the nation of Israel. Because of our position with Israel. It’s not just a coincidence. It’s part of fulfillment of Scripture. God said this is going to happen. And it says, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together one day against Israel.

It’s not going to be long. Even America will turn on Israel. Every nation, but there’s going to be a peace treaty made first, but it’ll be a false treaty. They won’t keep their word. Can’t believe that. Can’t believe they’re I have a tree and nobody keep their word. Just like we wanna take and have this treaty with Russia. You can trust Russia. I wouldn’t trust the bear or a rattlesnake. Now let me be president. I know how few things or how I could solve a few things, but not today.

But there’s going to be a peace tree. And in the middle part of that, what it says, he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week. And in the midst of the week, he shall call the sacrifice to stop. So that means during this period of time, The temple will be rebuilt. The Antichrist is going to come on the same. And he’s going to plant his palace in the Holy Land. Look there in chapter 11. Chapter 11, look at verse 41.

The Antichrist is going to come on the same. And verse 41, he said, who’s the Antichrist? He is going to be the head of the last world government. You see, the nations of the earth are going to come together and form a world government. You say, nah. Yeah. Aren’t you excited about that? I’m not. But I know it’s going to happen and I know what’s going to happen afterwards. They’re not going to bring in a utopia. They’re not going to bring in peace, but it’ll be a false peace for the first 30 and a half years.

So, in the midst of the seven years, the first part of it is going to be a takeover, a promise of peace and people given their power and this man’s going to come in and he’s going to go into the temple in Jerusalem and he’s going to claim he is God and demand that people worship him. So he’s going to be anti-God, anti-Christ. That’s why we call him an anti-Christ, because he makes himself God. Now in verse 41, he shall enter also into the glorious land.

That’s Israel. Many other countries shall be overthrown and these shall escape out of his his hand even eat him in Moab and the chief of the children of Ammon. He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries and the land of Egypt shall not escape, but he shall have power over the treasure of the gold of the in silver and blah blah blah blah. Goes on down there, verse 44, but tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him.

He shall go forth with great fear to destroy and utter to take away many. Verse 45, and he shall plant the tabernacle of his palace between the seas and the glorious holy mountain. The seas is talking about the Dead Sea and the Mediterranean Sea and in between, in the mist, a place called Israel, a place called Jerusalem, a place called the Temple, a place called Mount Moriah. He is going to plant his tabernacle and he’s going to claim that he is God.

So that day is coming. That’s right ahead of us. The world is in a mess. They’re looking for a Superman, some place along the way to kind of deliver us from this devastating dilemma that we’re in. Now take your Bible and turn to the book of Zechariah. Zechariah just turned to your right, book of Zechariah, and chapter 4. Zechariah chapter 4. And look there in verse 11. verse 11 says, then answered I and sent unto him. What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick?

And upon the left side thereof, and I answered again and said unto him, what be these two olive branches, which through the two golden pipes emptied the golden oil out of themselves in verse 13? And he answered me and said, Noah shall not what these be?” And I said, no, my Lord. Then said, these are the two anointed ones that stand by the Lord, Jehovah, God of the whole earth. So God has got two men coming into the world.

When you read that, you said, where do they go? I mean, when is this going to happen? That’s going to be during the tribulation period right here. God has got two men. A lot of people try to figure out who they are. I don’t care who they are. Some say it could be maybe John, because he says he’s going to prophesy again. Some say it could be Moses, and it might be Elijah. It may be. Whoever they are, they have got the dream job.

Because they are like, supermen in this world. God’s going to send two men into this world from, I believe, out of space, a place called heaven, and they’re coming here. Two men. And they’re going to represent the Lord. And through their ministry, it probably will be where the 144,000 will hear the gospel and believe on the Lord. And that will be 12,000 from every tribe of the nation of Israel. So that is coming. So take your Bible and I’ll turn to the book of Revelation chapter 11.

Revelation chapter 11. Here’s John, he’s an old man, about 90 years of age up in heaven. He was caught up and God showed him the future because everybody wants to know what’s going to happen next. Well John was curious, he was out there on on the allapatmas exiled because of his testimony for the Lord and God revealed these things to him. He wrote them down into a book and the book of Daniel cannot be understood without the book of revelation.

So that’s why these two books go together so well. One can see only one reveals, but look there in the book of Revelation. You can tell which one reveals. This is the book of revelation, reveal, and look there in verse one. He says, and there was given to me a read, like unto a rod, and the angel stood, saying, rise and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and then that worshiped therein, and the court that is without the temple, leave out and measure it not, for it is given unto the Gentiles, for the holy city shall they tread into foot, forty and two months.

How long is forty-two months, three and a half years. You can figure it out if you want to. It’s three and a half years, 42 months. And it says, this is when John wrote, and the temple at this time had been destroyed in 78D. This is 20 something years later, when John wrote. And you find out that this is referring to the temple. Boy, just been destroyed. And he’s talking about another temple that’s going to be built. And he says, and the Gentiles are going to have control.

So there’s a time in the future when the Gentiles will have control of the temple. But that means the temple has got to be rebuilt. That means if Israel is going to ever build a temple in Israel over there, in Jerusalem, they’re gonna have to be some kind of a peace treaty made. So I believe, well, Yankeeology, that the world is gonna have to come together and they’re gonna have to give Israel the right to exist as a nation, the right to their land, the right to rebuild their temple, in order for them to have the peace of the Arabs and so forth.

And somehow, I believe Jerusalem will be made into an international city. Now I taught this over 46 years ago when I was a student from the Baba College. And I told Dr. Avery Stanford at that time, I said Jerusalem has to be made an international city. In order to get done, what has to be done and for scripture be fulfilled. He wasn’t too sure, but he’s 94 years old now. I think he probably agrees with me. But as we’re moving right along, This temple is going to be rebuilt.

The Antichrist is going to go into the Holy City and he’s going to claim that he is God. So he says the temple and the out of course that’s been given because it’s under the rule of Gentile domination. One of these days, see, Israel will not be dominated by any Gentile powers. Israel is a little obitimmonized seed and it’s going to grow into be a great mountain. It’s going to be the biggest, the greatest kingdom in the world, the low Israel.

And you look at the globe and you’ll find out that the center and the hotspot of all the world and the best place of all nations is right where Israel sets. That’s God’s chosen land. ++++ That God knows what he’s doing. Now get this. Verse three and I will give power under my two witnesses and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and three score days That’s 42 months or another way of sin three and a half years He says, and they shall prophesy a 1,203 score days closed in sack club.

These two fellows have got the dream job. I mean, they don’t have to worry about anything. Nothing can happen to them because they have been given the power to do whatever they want to do and their judgment. And I believe there’s a lot of the so-called the seven angels that do what they do and bring the plagues that they do because of the command of the God. to individuals. Now I don’t have scripture to prove that but in circumstantial evidence leads me to that conclusion.

But look what he says in verse 5. And if any man, any man will hurt them, fire proceeded out of their mouth and devour their enemies. And if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed. Woo doggy, you got to watch what you say about those two. Now today you can badmouthe the preacher, you can have roast reverend, potted pastor, and nobody will do anything to you. That’s why I said this would be a dream job.

You know, you’re just like, I double dog dare you to say anything that upsets me. You would really be in respect of the pastor. But that day isn’t here. This is doing the tribulation peered upon the earth. This is the worst part of time that the world has ever known. But God always has his witness. And God is going to get his job accomplished. And God says that even the angel will be preaching an everlasting gospel or the messenger that preaches the message because God, in spite of all the damage that’s going to be going on, God is still a God of mercy.

The Bible says there’ll be multitude of people of every nation that will trust Christ as their Savior. See, God does not make anybody trust Him. You do not have to accept Jesus Christ as your Savior. You can do your dead level best to try to earn your way to heaven that God’s already said, you can’t earn it, you can’t work, or you can’t buy it. You do not join a church to go to heaven. You cannot pay for salvation.

It’s already been paid for. Christ paid for all the sins of all the world when He died on the cross and all that you have to do. All that you can do is to accept that payment he made for you. And God will save you. And during this period of time, they can also still be saved and multitude of people. You read chapter 7 where it says that they trusted Christ as Savior from all the nations. He says, where’d it come at these?

He says, sir, these came out of great tribulation and it made their robes swight in the blood of the Lamb. So it was because of Christ and the payment he made. Now look at this, he says in verse six, these have power to shut heaven, that it reign not in the days of their prophecy, and have power over water to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will. Now I can see why a lot of people believe that it’s a good possibility of Moses and Elijah, because Elijah did part of this, when he didn’t reign for three and a half years, and also Moses, because of the plagues down in Egypt.

So it’s a good possibility that that might be them. But I can’t say dogmatically because I don’t have scripture that says Moses any larger, but it could be them. But whoever it is, who doggy, to be able to have the power, maybe God can trust them. God probably couldn’t trust you or me. We’re probably misuse it. Are you explosive now? Do you lose your temper now and anger now if somebody makes you mad? Just think if you could speak, and that’s all she wrote.

You eliminate the whole world, wouldn’t you? Look what he says here. In verse six, these have power to shut heaven, that it rained not in the days of their prophecy, have power over water to turn them to blood, and the water is gonna be turned to blood. And it’s not going to rain. All these things are going to happen, and they’re listed in some of the bowls of judgment that God’s gonna pour out upon the earth. So God’s got his two men that are the two keys that says, boom, boom, boom, and what they say goes.

It’s gonna be awesome. And look what he says in verse seven. In verse seven, and when they have finished their testimony, the beast that ascended out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them and shall overcome them and kill them. So this is what’s going to take place. Now who are these two? Just look up there real quick in verse four. See in verse four, and do you remember us reading anything like this over in the book of Zechariah in chapter four, where it says, these are the two olive trees, the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.

Remember we read it over there? That was written 400 something years, almost 500, before Christ. Now we’re almost 2,000 years on this site that that’s a long period of time. I think that’s out of reach of those people who wrote, like Zachariah, and the fulfillment of the Scriptures. And here we are. Are we living at a time on planet Earth when these things can happen? Is there a move on trying to make a peace treaty with Israel? Yes. All these things are true.

Look what else happens here. It can’t be just a coincidence. Look at this. And it says there in verse seven and when they shall have finished their testimony when they finished their testimony The beast that sent it out of the bottomless pit and shall make war again. This is the anti-Christ This is the old devil himself and you’re talking about the prince of the power of the air That’s why you have it going all the way over here and there’s a battle on heaven That’s in chapter 12 of the book of Revelation And so he has got his man to do his will just like God the Father has his son to do his will Satan is going to have his man to do his will and he’s going to do everything to devil wants him to do and He will give him his power you read the 13th chapter of elation and

Says that Satan gives him his power to do what he does the authority to do it But remember, they all have their limitations. The devil tried to get it Job, but God put a hedge about him and he couldn’t touch anything that he had. God moved away one of those hedges and allowed the devil to get at what he had. He couldn’t touch Job. Later on, God took away another hedge and says, you can get a Job, but you can’t take his life.

See, the devil always had limitations. He can’t do everything He wants to do. God is still in charge. God is on the throne. He is the boss. And He can use everything that goes wrong in this world to His honor and to His glory. And just because things don’t always happen good in your own personal life, He says all things work together for good to those who love Him. Do you believe it though? He says that’s my favorite version.

All things work together for good to those who love the Lord, those were called according to his purpose, not yours, his purpose. He always has a higher purpose than you do. You can’t see behind the scenes and how God is working. The providence of God. It’s not just an accident. God knows what he’s doing and he says, this is what’s going to take place. So he makes a statement here in verse 8, and their dead bodies shall lie in the streets of the We are also our Lord was crucified.

Now I wonder where He was crucified. You’ve got to clue where He was crucified. The good possibility this takes place in Israel, in Jerusalem. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you will be the best. that you were blessed by today’s message. Our two of this teaching will conclude with tomorrow’s broadcast. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach by the line and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3771.

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Here in chapter 7 of Ecclesiastes he says a good name is better than precious ointment and get the last part of the verse and the day of death than the day of one’s birth. We generally in our life and our understanding, we celebrate when a baby is born, try when they leave this world. And then to leave this world and to go to heaven, that’s a precious thing in the eyes of the Lord. The death of the saints is precious in the eyes of the Lord.

But the Bible says we all are like sheep and we’ve all gone astray. We don’t think right? We don’t love right, we don’t do right. And he says, there’s none that doeth good, no not one. Look what he says here in Ecclesiastes chapter 7, and I want you to look there in verse 20, for there is not a just man upon earth that doeth good and just sendeth not. Now the Bible tells us that we are supposed to bring forth good works.

He also talks about let men see your good works and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Well, if there’s not a just men up on the earth that do with good, then can we do anything good? When we compare ourselves with each other, we might consider ourselves to be fairly well. And many people do compare themselves. I’m just as good as so and so. I’m better than they are. But when we compare ourselves to the Lord, then of course we’ve all come short of perfection.

Jesus Christ made this statement to a man who asked him, Sir, what must I do? Good master. To inherit eternal life. He says, why call us thou me good? There’s none good but God. One in him to recognize that not only was Jesus able to perform miracles but Jesus Christ was good but also that Jesus Christ was God. Can a man do good? But I think there’s two parts to this verse and I want you to look there again, for there is not a just man upon earth that doeth good and sin if not.

After we trust Christ as our Savior, God says that we’re justified, so there is a just man upon the earth. And God tells us to bring forth good works and to maintain good works, so evidently yes, we can do good deeds. We can do good works. But can a just man upon the earth do good and sin not? I don’t believe that there’s any of us that will live our lives with our sin. It would be great if we could, but we don’t.

So after we trust Christ as our Savior, we still, even though we want to do right, we want to do good, we still fail and make a lot of mistakes. Do a lot of things that we should not do. Look in 2 Samuel, 2 Samuel in chapter 1. The Bible tells us that the King of Israel, Saul, and his son, Jonathan, had just been killed. Saul had done his dead-level best to kill David, hunted him down like a dog, and yet David never said or did anything against Saul.

Could have took in his life several times, but he didn’t do it. And then when he died, he made this statement in verse 19, the beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places. How are the mighty fallen? Tell it not in gat, publish it not in the streets of Askelon. Bless the daughters of the Philistines rejoice. Bless the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph. David didn’t want the heathen to rejoice because a giant had failed. And he was the king of Israel and still looked up to and honored and respected.

Look in verse 25. He says, and how are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle. You and I are supposed to understand that when we dedicate our life to the Lord, not only we saved, we’re in the world, but we’re in the midst of a battle. And many of us are going to go down in this world, and hopefully we’ll go down fighting. But one day all of us are going to die. But while you live, will you fight?

Fight the devil with everything that you have. Fight the sinful nature. Fight the lust of the flesh and the trials and temptation that want to destroy. I believe that is the will of God for us to fight all the way. How are the mighty fallen and the weapons of war perished? I want you to notice something in verse 27. When David made the statement, how the mighty fallen and the weapons of war perished. Every person who trusts Christ as Savior is a potential mighty weapon for the Lord.

Now we use weapons, we use the sword of the Word, we use the shield of faith, and we prepare ourselves to battle. Whether it’s the teenagers or whether it’s the adults, every person we train to serve the Lord is a soldier. They are potential weapons for God to use. So God uses every individual’s. And in the midst of this war, in this world, in this life, we’re going to get wounded. We’re going to get scars. And we’re going to lose battles in this life.

But one day it will all be over. But in the midst of our battle, whether we’re young, in the middle, or toward the end of our lives, there’s a great battle on, a great war. And how are the mighty fallen? And I hope that we fall while we’re fighting, and not to quit, and not to give up, but to keep doing what God wants us to do. I want you to take your Bible and turn to Isaiah 61. The other night I was covering a couple things concerning Christmas.

And I had them look at Isaiah chapter 61. But I want you to notice there in this verse. It says Isaiah 61 in verse 1. It’s a quote in the New Testament in the book of Luke where Jesus Christ quotes these verses. And this is in verse one, as Jesus refers to these verses, he says, these scriptures speak about me. So when we read this verse, we know that we’re talking about Jesus Christ. He says, the spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek.

He hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted. And when you stop and think the good tidings, this good news of Jesus Christ coming into the world so that we can have as a free gift ever lasting life. And I’ll have to admit when I was 18 years old, I was one of those that was brokenhearted. I remember whenever Betty’s dad sat down and explained the gospel to me that night, all I knew if what he said was true, I was going to hell.

And I remember sobbing like a baby, just broke down in tears. I had never been to church where I saw anybody cry like that. I’d never seen anybody get saved. So I didn’t know what the rules were. I didn’t know what you did. You didn’t do. I’d never heard about being saved before. And I remember that night as clear as a bell, I remember the details. I remember what he said and I remember what I did. And yes, I went.

I cried like a baby. I had a broken heart, but I can tell you this. Trust in Jesus Christ as my Savior healed that broken heart about where I was spent eternity. Since that time, I’ll have to admit there has been an awful lot of events in my life that you could consider to be good things or bad things, but I’ve had a lot of broken hearts. Whether you considered them with your kids or your grandkids or whether it’s ministries or whether it’s health, whether it’s finances, you name it, you’re going to have broken hearts.

But the same God that can heal the broken heart of being lost is the same God that can also heal you in every other way. I would venture to say that Jeanette at this moment has a broken heart. And I believe that it’s good and proper for God’s people to pray for her. Because it’s going to be very hard, very difficult. When people have been married for so long and been in the ministry for so long, it must be a devastating thing.

But can God still heal even toward the end time of your life? I believe God is sufficient for every person for all time. It doesn’t matter the circumstances. And yet you and I can still sit here and maybe we’re not hurting physically, but you can still have a broken heart over something. But whatever it is, Christ says He came to heal the broken. I want you to take your Bible and turn to the book of Hebrews in chapter 10.

Hebrews and chapter 10. The Bible tells us after we trust Jesus Christ as our Savior that we are, yes, saved by faith. Placing our faith in what Jesus Christ did for us, he saves us, gives us eternal life, and we become his children. His children, children for all eternity. He said he never casts us out, he never loses. But we are still in this world. Can a just man do good and send if not? I don’t think that it’s possible for a child of God to live his life without sin.

In regards to how much we love the Lord and And how strong we think we may be. We’re not above failure. We can sin and fall at any given time. Say and do things that we shouldn’t. I know I’ve done that over my life. Nobody lives perfectly all the days of their life. But if a man made 99 decisions, 99 decisions out of 100 and made one bad decision, it doesn’t annul the 99 good decisions. As you live your life, you have to remember that God forgives you of every sin.

And in the forgiveness of your sin, you and I are to forgive ourselves. many people never forgive themselves for the things they have allowed themselves to do. And so they live under a load of guilt. He says, If thou serveth not the Lord thy God with joyfulness and gladness of heart. He said, I will put a yoke of iron upon your neck until it destroys you. But I am so thankful that God in his wisdom saw fit to put the 11th chapter of Hebrews in the Bible.

We often refer to the 11th chapter as the Hall of Faith. Down here you hear of the Hall of Fame. Those who have really done outstanding things in various ways and so they get their name in the Hall of Fame. And what’s great to know is that what God does record. But I also want you to be impressed by what God does not record. You see, God has an ability to do something you and I can’t do. He can forgive and forget and we can never forget.

We don’t forget. We try. We’d love to. But if somebody ever wrongs you, You might forgive them, but it’s hard for you to forget. And sometimes as time goes on, it might get a little easier. But somebody can say one thing, and all of a sudden, it causes flashbacks back to a time or a moment when somebody said or did something that really hurt you. We all go through that. But what I want you to see here in chapter 10, look there in verse 38.

Verse 38 says, Now the just shall live by faith. Is there a just man upon the earth that doeth good and sineth not? I don’t think so. Is there a just man upon the earth? Yes. The Bible even says that Lot was a just man. A just man. But he vexed his righteous soul from day on the day by the things he saw and heard. and it cost him his wife and it cost him his kids. But in the midst of the battle he made some wrong decisions.

But here it makes the statement, the just shall live by faith. But if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him, and my soul shall have no pleasure in him. Could be a reference to the apostle Paul, whom I believe God used to write the book of Hebrews. But even if it’s a reference to God Almighty, our Heavenly Father. It does say that God has no pleasure. See, God is not pleased with our failures. God’s not pleased with our mistakes.

He’s not pleased with our turning our backs upon God and not doing right. God is not pleased when we think wrong and when we do wrong. He’s not pleased when we hurt one another. I don’t think God even likes us to have broken hearts, but we do because we’re people living in this world. And he makes this statement here. If any man draw back, my soul is in love with God. shall have no pleasure in him, but,” well, my glad I like that word, but we are not of them who draw back unto predation or destruction, but yes, you can be a saved individual and slide back in your service to God, but it’s never a reference to losing salvation.

It means that what we know we don’t do, what we’ve learned we don’t share. It means that we fail God in performing our duties as a good soldier. So he says here in verse 39, but we’re not of them that draw back unto perdition and you ought to underline this part of the verse, but of them that believe to the saving of the soul just because the just doesn’t perfectly perform in all of his life and every area of his life doesn’t mean that you’re not a just person.

Doesn’t even mean that you’re not a good person. It means that you are a just person doing good, but not what I’ve sinned. It says in the book of John, first John, he says, a man that said he hath no sin, he is a liar. It means that you and I, we do have a sinful nature and we still do sin. And we do fail and we do get upset. We do get bitter. We do say hateful things because we’re still people.

We’re human. But the Lord can forgive us, restore, and we can keep walking with the Lord. If not, then no Christian would ever mature if we didn’t have a wonderful, loving, forgiving, heavenly Father. He says here, but of them that believe to the saving of the soul. In other words, we may believe that a person can draw back, but we don’t believe that they can never lose their soul. So then you come to chapter 11 where when he’s talking about the just shall live by faith.

And as time goes on, we have broken hearts and God heals them. But there’s something that I want you to notice here. Not what is recorded. I want you to see what is not recorded. You say, how can you show us what’s not recorded? When you read the Old Testament, you get the full story, the full story. You read the Old Testament and you’ll find out what happened and what God did. Verse five of chapter 11, by faith, Enoch was translated that he should not see death and was not found because God had translated him for before his translation he had this testimony that he pleased God.

Isn’t that a wonderful thing? But do you believe that Enoch because he pleased God never displease God? Do you believe that because of his testimony that he was such a good, a righteous man that God took him on to heaven and didn’t even let him die? Isn’t that awesome? Does that mean he never failed? It doesn’t mean that. It doesn’t mean he never sent it doesn’t mean that. See every one of these people fail, but in chapter 11 you don’t find God recording any of the failures of any of his servants.

Because you see, God was able to do something. God says, a man shall live by faith. And what a man does for the Lord, God records. And the other that God has forgiven is never brought up again. When you read the whole story in the Old Testament, yeah, you find out where the men did that which was wrong. But when you come to chapter 11, you don’t find any of those things. It’s almost like when we get to heaven, what’s God going to bring out?

He doesn’t bring out our sins because they are buried in the depths of the sea. They’re removed as far as the east is from the west and their sins will remember no more. Aren’t you glad of that? But what you did by faith for the Lord, God said he’s going to reward you for. Look there in chapter 10 and notice in verse 32. Verse 32 is he’s talking to these Hebrew Christians he says, but call to remembrance the former days.

Can we remember the former days? There’s a lot of things in my life I remember some things I like to forget. But he says, I want you to remember something. After you were eliminated, after you were saved, when you saw and you heard, you understood. You believed in the Lord. After you were living, he endured a great fight of affliction. You see, God’s saving us and leaving us in this body, in this world, is a battle in itself. He left us in a body that fights against everything God wants us to do.

My body don’t want to go sometimes. You still have and I have the lust of the flesh. We get tired, we get weary, we get worn, but maybe there’s times when you endured a great fight of affliction. You were afflicted, but you fought. 33, partly while you were made a gaze in stock both by reproaches and afflictions, partly while you became companions of them that were so used. Sometimes it’s because of literal things that you’ve done. Sometimes it’s because you’re a companion with those that are suffering.

While I was in Colorado, I had a very dear man whom God brought alongside of me to help me in the ministry there. His name was Bob Daly. And as time went on, we led a lot of people to Christ. Saw a lot of wonderful things happen. But there also came time when we had persecutions. And that man, he stuck with me and it hurt him. He was greatly hurt, but he stuck with me because he believed that I was right.

The suffering that he went through, he’s still my friend today. And I hurt because of what he had to bear just because he chose to be my friend. And I’ve always respected Him for that, knowing that He didn’t have to. As you read these scriptures and it makes statements about things that you’ve done, look what He says here in verse 34. He says, For ye had compassion of me and my bonds and took joyfully the spallen of your goods, knowing in yourselves one of the reasons unfocused that you can fight and go through afflictions and bear through things that maybe you didn’t have to but you chose to because of your faith in the Lord.

It’s never in vain and He makes His statement knowing in yourselves that you have in heaven as a result of the way you are, decisions you make, the labor, the fight, deflections. You’re gaining something in heaven. See, going to heaven is free. That’s a gift. That’s because of His love for you. But what you have when you get there is going to be indirect ratio to the caliber of your love for Him in this world. And so He makes this statement in verse 35, cast not away therefore the confidence which hath great recompense of reward.

The Bible tells us the the Apostle Paul in chapter one of Galatians made this statement, If I seek to please men, then I cease to please God, because you can’t please both. If you seek to please God in the process of pleasing God, it doesn’t please man. Can you handle that? Can you live with that? As you and I live our life, we don’t have to spend our lives fighting, but just keep going, just keep doing what’s right. Seek Him to please God and God will honor you for doing just that.

You ever have a child? Just because you have a child that makes a mistake on something, that means you made a mistake on everything. But there’s good people that say bad things, good people that do bad things. And that’s why the Bible says in this world we learn to love each other and to forgive one another. But what’s not mentioned here? Take your Bible and look there. Verse 21, he says, By faith Jacob, when he was dying, bless both the sons of Joseph and worship, leaning upon the top of his staff.

You remember that there was a time in Jacob’s life where he stole his brother’s birthright, where he lied to his father, deceived his father, but it’s not recorded here. This is where God says, when we go to heaven and we are standing the judgment city of Christ God’s going to be worse but what we’ve done. You’ll suffer loss of what you could have done and didn’t do, but what you did do is recorded. So anything from the beginning of your Christian life to the end of your Christian life, whatever you’ve done for the Lord, God will never forget.

Isn’t that wonderful thing to know? One of these days you’re going to die. I’m going to die. And when we get to heaven, the times where we failed will never be brought up again. That’s a wonderful thing. You see, the greatest thing you’ll ever have in this life is your faith in God. It doesn’t mean that your faith in God is so great that you never sinned. It’s that even when you fail God, you have enough faith in God’s word that you can confess that to God.

Say, Lord, I sinned, I failed against you. and I want you to forgive me and God can forgive. And you can keep on serving the Lord. Never let some sin that you’ve ever done today or in the past or tomorrow, whenever ever keep you down. Because I got good news for you. We serve a God of second chance, third chance and fourth chance and fifth chance and seventh chance and eighth chance. He’s always willing to forgive and he can always use you.

He may not be able to use you to the extent he could have at one time, but he could still use you. Let God use you to the fullest. Wherever you are in this Christian life of yours, God will bless you for it. This end representing you and me and the wall represents sin. We all have sin upon us. God, He loves us. He loves you. He loves me. He loves everybody in the whole world. It’s the sin that we have a problem with.

Because you see our sins separates us from God. This end represents Jesus Christ, God is our sins separates us from Him. That’s why God hates sin. Because He’s perfect and we’re not. And He can’t fellowship with us. We can’t fellowship with Him. We can’t go to heaven because of the sin. And God says that since we committed it, we have to pay for it. It’s eternal separation from God in hell. He loves us, He wants us to go to heaven, and to go to heaven we have to be perfect, because righteous is God, and nobody’s perfect.

Nobody is. We’re all sinners. The Bible says we cannot save ourselves by the good deeds that we do. The only payment for sin that God would accept is the payment of death. The sin represents Jesus Christ, God in the flesh came into the world. Because He does love us, He took the sin, paid for it on the cross. This was his way of showing us that he loves us. God so loved the world that he gave his only big gotten son whosoever in the world made it even, whosoever believe it.

Made it where anybody can have it. It’s not hard, it’s not complicated. Even a child can understand it. But all they had to do was believe it, he did it for them. And he would put the payment to their account. They’d go to heaven and what Christ did for them. If I offered you my tie and you accepted, you’d have a tie. If Jesus Christ walked in here and offered you eternal life and you accepted, what would you have?

Eternal life. If it’s eternal life, then it lasts forever. And where are you going to go in your life? You go to heaven. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida, with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3771.

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Here in Matthew in chapter 6 I want you to see this. in verse seven. You see what in the world is praying going to do with the kingdom? I’m glad you asked. Because you see, there was a portion of scripture that many people will use as the Lord’s Prayer. Now the Lord’s Prayer is found in John chapter 17. That’s the one he prayed. The one that’s mentioned here, our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom He didn’t pray that prayer.

That was only a manner, a way, a method. It wasn’t to be used as vain reputation. See there, he says in verse seven, that when ye pray, use not vain reputation as the heathen do. In other words, learning wrote prayers. Now that’s fine for little children when you’re teaching them how to pray. But when you get older, would you like for the pastor to read the prayer and every week I read the same prayer or to you know just just a memorized prayer.

Don’t you believe a prayer ought to be you know a talk between you and your heavenly Father not something that’s made up but something that’s real it’s just seems like that’s often be the way it is but he says is for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. So it’s not how much you say in a prayer, it’s the quality of the prayer, not quantity. It’s the honesty, the sincerity. It’s your humility between you and God.

And he says in verse 8, be not ye therefore like unto them, for your father know of what things you have need up before you ask. That doesn’t mean you’re going to get it because it says you have not because you asked us or you ought to ask. But don’t think just the multitude of words is what gets it for you. Then look in verse 9, he says, after this manner, therefore pray, our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

So is teaching us to have the respect that that we want to and talk to our Father and then bring to him your petition. But look what he says in verse 10, die kingdom come, die will be done in earth as it is in heaven. In other words, they were always praying the kingdom would come, the kingdom would come. Now the king is here.

So he’s going to set up his kingdom. But the Course, as you know, the King was rejected, the Kingdom postponed. But the desire should be that I want Christ to rule here the way He rules there. I want Thy will, which is in heaven, to be fulfilled here on the earth. And if I want that as an individual, I can’t speak for everybody else. I still can allow the Lord in heaven to rule me on earth. And I can still, as an individual say, thy will be my will upon the earth, so that I can still do whatever it is God wants me to do.

And it has nothing to do what anybody else does or doesn’t do. Now this is what he taught his disciples. This is how you’re supposed to pray not the words to say but the method the idea behind it The holy respect you have my father I want your will to be done in me. I want your kingdom to come And he says, and look at the very next word, in verse 11, give us this day our daily bread. That is to keep you constantly, daily, dependent upon the Lord.

Give us this week our weekly bread. Give us this month our monthly bread. Well, just go ahead and ask for the year. Like some people like the security, Lord, just give me for the rest of my life. God wants us dependent upon him every day. And that’s why he maybe doesn’t smell too much on giving you too much more than what you need. You see, that’s what keeps sometimes keeps a person humble. It keeps you dependent upon the Lord.

If you had too much, you might not need to pray as much. You may not need to look to the Lord and depend upon Him because after all, I don’t have to worry about it. I’ve got two million dollars in the bank? Well, it’s designed, life is designed where we need the Lord. And look what he says there in verse 12, and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. Now, under the law, you want to be forgiven?

You’re forgiven. Under grace we forgive because we have been forgiven. But on the law, it was law. You want this? you’ve got to do this. So he says, this is my will and they prayed for the kingdom. They were looking forward to this kingdom. Now the church is not the kingdom. The church is not going to bring in the kingdom. Christ is not the king over the church. You can be the king, but he’s called the head of the church, the head of a body.

It’s a different thing altogether. So in the book of Revelation in chapter 11, I want you to go back there. And you’ll notice that this is the seventh angel saying what’s going to take place and he’s wrapping it up toward the end. So you can see the combination of all these things coming together and this is what he said. In verse 17 saying, we give the thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art and was an art to come because thou hast taken to thee thy great power and hath rained and the nations were angry and thy wrath is come.

The time of the dead that they should be judged and that they should have given reward unto thy servants the prophets and to the saints and and then that fear thy name, small and great, and should have destroyed them, which destroyed the earth. So this is what is coming. And whenever you read about the seven thunders, as though it comes after this, and maybe the order in how he was going to do it wasn’t right, I don’t know. I do have an acquired mind.

But I noticed that in chapter 12, the very next things to follow things not only new to the New Testament, but was prophesied in the Old Testament by the Saints, the prophets. And now here, we’re here, iterated again by John and his prophecy, and look in chapter 12. And you’ll notice there in verse one, he’s talking about the woman, talking about the woman, Israel, and how she began. And then in verse three and four, it talks about Satan. Now this is also outlined here in the Old Scholfield reference Bible.

And in verse five and six, it talks about the child, which is Christ. The fourth thing in verse seven, eight, and so forth, is talking about the archangel and Michael and the battle that takes place in heaven. And then in verse 13 down to verse 16 talks about Satan and Israel in the tribulation. Now all of these are types or things that have been mentioned before, and now are mentioned again right after the closing of the sixth angel and his comments are the seventh angel.

And then in verse 17, the dragon says there’s a remnant left and this remnant is what God is going to begin the kingdom with. And they’re going to go into the the millennial reign of Christ. And so there’s going to be the small as a mustard seed and he’s going to build the greatest nation in the face of the year. Now whether or not all of this and maybe I’m seeing a lot of things that are not there but I have a habit of seeing things that maybe not there but I read and I study and I sometimes put things together and sometimes I don’t and sometimes it makes sense and sometimes it don’t but I want to prick your mind, the word you have a desire to want to study the book and find out what might this mean.

What can I glean from this or learn from this? And it doesn’t matter sometime whether or not I get it all in the right sequence and all. But whatever it does for me, it challenges me to want to live more holy, more godly. It refreshes my mind. It warms my spirit. I get challenged and motivated because of the word of God. And I want to do more of whatever God wants me to do with my life. So these things are here and they’re the good and it’s it ought to be this way This is what the Lord says now take your Bible and turn to the book of Jeremiah in chapter 15 Jeremiah in chapter 15 Jeremiah 15 Look there in verse 16 verse 16 He says thy words were found.

How I did eat them Thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of host. That phrase there, thy words were found and I did eat them.” Now this is mentioned several times in scripture about eating the word of God. I don’t believe it means that he literally took the pages and he put him in his mouth and he ate him up. The Bible also talks about as newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the word that you may grow there by.

I don’t think we’re supposed to sit down chew on scripture. But we are doing it spiritually. And he says, taste and see that the Lord is good. So I’m going to tell you what, taste if the Lord is good. when you read the scriptures and you enjoy what it tells you and it feeds your soul, you get full and happy and satisfied. It’s one of the reasons we like to eat because it’s so satisfying. But did you notice that it doesn’t last?

You always got to eat some more, drink some more. But here he’s talking about what the Word of God does to him. And sometimes when you understand the Word of God and you know that you have eternal life and you know you’re going to have me die. Sometimes you think about, okay, I’m going to heaven. Right off the bat I was so thankful that I was going to heaven. I cried my eyes out, all I was happy. Right off the bat I got, I got sad.

I got filled with bitterness. I thought of thinking about my mom and my dad and my brother and my sister and if they don’t trust the Lord they’re going to go to hell and all of a sudden something So sweet turns a sour. It’s hard to explain something like that, but it does happen. Look in the hundred and nineteen Psalm, the hundred and nineteen Psalm.

I’d mentioned to you before how that when I had found myself there in the street for Louisiana and I was a little on the discouraged side. I didn’t know enough of the Bible to encourage myself. But I just sat down and I opened it up and I found myself reading the 119th Psalm. And you’ll notice there in verse nine, where it says, wherewith all shall a young man cleanse his way by taking heed according to thy word, thy word.

And then down there in verse 11, thy word, have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee? And so if you look over the 130th verse of the entrance of thy word and give us light. And at looking 105, it says, thy word is a lamp and under my light, under my path. You find there’s some wonderful verses to the thing. And God’s been good to us. He really has and teaching us all these things.

But I want you to look at verse 103, looking verse 103, where he makes the statement, How sweet, how sweet are thy words unto my taste. Yay, sweeter than honey to my mouth. Sweeter than honey to my mouth. Now, this is not really, it’s not real honey, and you don’t really put the word in your mouth, but it’s when you read and you understand and you face upon it, it brings such wonderful joy, such a sweet thing to know.

There’s power there, it’s so good. And yet at the same time, you’ll find out there’s a lot of bitterness in knowing truth. The more you know the more sorrow you’re going to have. Believe it or not. Look in the 19th Psalm, the 19th Psalm. In the 19th Psalm, there’s a couple verses here that I want you to see. It’s starting in verse 10, in verse 10. The verse 10, more to be desired are they than gold. Yeah, then much fine gold.

Sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover, buy them as thy servant warned. What is he talking about here? Well, just quickly look up in verse 7. The law of the Lord, we’re talking about the Word of God. The Word of God is perfect, converting to soul. The testimony of the Lord, that’s the word of God, is sure, making wise to simple. The statutes of the Lord, that’s the word of God. All right, rejoicing the heart, the commandment of the Lord, that’s the word of God.

It is pure enlightening the eyes. The fear of the Lord is clean and doing forever. More to be desired of they than goes with more important than gold and silver is the knowledge of the word of God. To feed upon it, to feast upon it. How sweet it is. Somebody says, how sweet it is. Yeah, this is what sweet. Now look down here in verse 11. In verse 11, more over by them is thy servant warned. And in keeping of them, there is great reward.

Who can understand his errors? Cleanse thou me from secret faults. Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then shall I be upright and I shall be innocent from the great transgression. Verse 14, let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart heart be acceptable in thy side. Oh Lord, whether they are acceptable in God’s sight is going to be his God’s word acceptable in your sight. You see his word comes first and you feed upon him and then when you read over there in the book of Ezekiel we won’t turn on there right now but in the book of Ezekiel he also had a book and he was told to eat the book.

Jeremiah was told to eat the book And he says, and it was sweet. And then it bitter in my belly. Now go back to Revelation in chapter 10. Revelation chapter 10. And you’ll notice there in verse eight. And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again. And said, go and take the little look which is open in the hand of the angel which stands upon the sea and upon the earth. And I went unto the angel and said unto him, give me the little book.

He said unto me, take it and eat it up. And it shall make thy belly bitter. But it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey. When you begin to read in the study, the word of God, and even when you study prophecy and you know how it’s going to end, that someday when it’s all over with, then we’re gonna be in heaven and we’ll be walking on streets of gold, and mansions and gates of pearl and walls of Jasper and all that stuff all want to be wonderful.

Yeah, but whenever you know the truth do you see how much ugliness is going to happen to can you see what God is going to have to do during the tribulation period because people will not accept him? Think of all the damage it’s going to be done. Look at all the suffering is going to be because of the devil and God pouring out his wrath upon this earth and in spite of all these things See, there’s so much good, but then there’s all this bad that makes it bitter.

I had a person tell me one time after I let him to the Lord. They said, I never had such trouble. I’ve never had such heartache and sorrow and testings as I’ve had since I trusted the Lord. When I was lost, the devil left me alone. But when I trusted Trisha, my Savior, and he said, I’m going to serve the Lord. Everything seemed to be turned upside down in my world. Because now there’s the devil ain’t going to let you alone.

There’s a fight. But as you read and study the Word of God, it’s wonderful to know that you’re going to heaven. But there’s a lot of things that might happen between now and then they can make life very bitter. There’s people that can make you bitter. There’s experiences you go to that make you bitter. Leave you bitter, patient in your mouth. Have you ever done something that you just, man, you just feel like your whole gut’s rotten out on you.

It just makes you feel sick. You say, how can I be so evil? How can I be so wrong? I can be so ugly because that’s the way we are. We got no sinful nature. And then there’s a part of us that new birth just loves everything. It’s right. And as you feed upon the Word of God, it’s so nice. So wonderful. And yet the more truth you know, the more heartache it can bring. Because you know there’s a lot of people that you know and love that are going to spend an eternity in hell.

And you know you’re going to heaven and you’re glad about that, but you’re sorry about the other. And you know you can’t make it happen. You can’t make somebody trust Christ’s Savior. You explain the gospel, but you can’t make Him respond. So look what He says there in that verse, verse 90, and I went unto the angel, said unto Him, give me the little book, and He said unto me, take it and eat it up. And it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey See it tastes good until you really digest And then when you really digest it you really think about what all this is God is talking about Yeah, there’s a sweetness there, but there’s also bitterness there You you’ll find this in your life as you live your life When you want to do something good you think everything’s supposed to open up the doors everything’s just wonderful

And they don’t work that way. It seems like the devil jumps on you with all four feet and his long tail and his pitch for it go off same time. And nothing goes right. And if anything gets accomplished, you say, the Lord did it. The Lord did it. You’d be surprised how close all of God’s children are just hanging it up, not walking with them. We’re so close sometimes I’m just quitting. Just stop being faithful. close that we could have messed up our life forever.

But by the grace of God, He has enabled us and kept us going. And He did things for us and kept you on the right trail. And sometimes you want to know how, how worse my life could be. It may not be the best right now, but you realize how bad it could be. And when you think even that way, boy, God is good. Boy, the Lord has been good to me. And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand and ate it up.

And it was in my mouth sweet as honey. I don’t believe we literally ate the book. I got other scriptures to talk about what that means and to feed upon the Word of God and to taste and see that the Lord is good. Yeah, we’re supposed to do that. And I had eaten it. My belly was better. He said in me, thou must prophesy again before many people, the nations and tongues and kings. So God isn’t through, but it’s all coming to a head.

And as we look at the things that are going on in the world today boy a lot of stuff is just all coming together and it seemed like it’s up here in this down here and it’s up here in this down here I don’t worry about none of it don’t you worry about what’s going on in Washington I don’t care what they do in Washington I don’t do what they do in one I’m not gonna be able to change it I’m just gonna keep serving the Lord and doing what try as long as I can to just win people and challenge people and I believe that the best way to save America just get America saved and try to challenge people that I can influence that serve the Lord and do right and leave the rest of the Lord.

Some things are beyond my power to do anything about them. Now not everybody’s going to think the same way. So I’m glad there are those that will try to figure out and solve some of these things and not pray for them and I want the best to be done and I want God’s will for America. I want God’s will for me, my wife, my family, for our church and but I’ve also cheated a little bit. I kind of read ahead and seeing how it all comes out.

And then there’s not word about it. You don’t have to worry about it either. God knew the times in which we lived. I’ve had people say, well, we thought about having a family, but these are some hard times. These are hard times. Moses was born in a hard time. Jesus was born in a hard time. I was born at a hard time. My dad, when they were just coming out of the depression and they didn’t have anything. You talking about poor, we couldn’t even pay attention.

We were so far back in the woods, we had to pipe in the sunlight. That was way back in the woods. And my daddy had an old T model and we had water on the well and we had running water, we had running, get it. We had an outhouse out back And you can see the chicken through the floorboard and went blowing through the cracks of the wall. And we didn’t have electric lights. We had kerosene liners and fireplace, cut stow wood and put it in stove.

And that’s how my mama cooked. She had solid irons in front of the fireplace. And she would iron with those and wash clothes and big old pot out there in the yard. Yeah, we was born at the back. But I sure am glad I was born. And you ought to be glad you’re born. Everybody seems to be born at a bad time. Well, I’m glad I’m here. Glad you are too. And doesn’t matter how bad some things look, there’s also some honey and it’s sweet to the taste.

Don’t let the bitter override the honey. Keep your eyes focused upon the things of the Lord. Look up here. This hand represent you and me. The wall of represents sin. We all have sin upon us. God loves us. Now he hates our sin, but he does love us. And he says for us to pay for us. sin is eternal separation from God in hell. And God doesn’t want us to go to hell. He wants us to go to heaven.

And to go to heaven, you have to be perfect. And righteous is God. None of us are perfect. None of us are righteous. And so God says, because of sin, we can’t get into heaven. And the Lord says, your good works won’t pay for sin. There’s nothing you can do to get out of this trap. So that’s why God, who who loved you and me sent his son Jesus Christ into the world. He had no sin, didn’t have to die, but because he loved us.

And our sin separates us from it. He took the sin, paid for it on the cross, came back from the dead and said that if we would believe that he did it for us, he’d put this payment to our account and we get to go to heaven on what Jesus Christ did for us. Best news in the world. Let’s pray, shall we? Every head bowed, every eye closed, no one looking around. If you hear tonight and you’ve never trusted Christ as your savior, yeah, there’s some bad times coming, but there’s some good times coming too.

Jesus is coming. That’s good. That’s good. Don’t let the evil that you see, the bad that you go through cause you’re not to see that the Lord is good. And that is word is like honey. And even though you digest and you can see all the other in it, and make your belly better. Keep your eyes focused upon the Lord and realize who you are and where you are. Time will be over soon. Time shall be no more. And if you’re here tonight, you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior.

Why not like down the quietness of this moment simply say something like this, Lord, I know I’m a sinner. I don’t understand it all, but I want to go to heaven when I die. And I know I’m not good enough. Friend, none of us are. That’s why we trust that Christ is our Savior. Won’t you do the same? Just say something like this, Lord, I don’t understand at all. I know my center. I know I’ve done things wrong, and I believe Christ died on that cross and believe He paid for all of my sins, and I want to trust Him to take me to heaven when I die.

I believe He died and was buried and came back again from the dead. And right now I will accept Him as my only hope of going to heaven. of going to heaven. And if you’ll do that, God’s it, he’d save you. So they hid bow nice clothes in when it all said, yes, pray for me. I will trust Christ as my Savior. I pray, I’d like you to pray for me. Just live in it very quickly. Just live it up real quick, and put it right back down.

Our Father, we are thankful so much for all you’ve done for us. We thank you for this time that we have, the focus upon Jesus Christ. We pray that many people will understand who He is. Why He came. Why he was born, that he came to die and to pay for the sins of the whole world, get into one, and believe it in him. We are not perish but have everlasting life. We thank you for this time together. Christ in the Supreme Court.

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Take your Bible and turn to the book of Revelation, the book of Revelation. A book of revelation. Sometimes I have the downtown Bible study. And so sometimes I’ll, whatever I teach, sometimes they will ask questions and I never know where it’s going to go. So we enjoyed talking about the book of revelation. I’m kind of doing some studies there too just as well. And so sometimes I will say the same thing here that I say there. But I love the book of revelation.

And I want you to take your Bible and look there in the book of Revelation and chapter one. Revelation chapter one. You say we’re starting all over again? No, no, no, no, we’re not starting all over again. But I want to establish something. John, whom God used to write this book, was a prophet. He was prophesying. The whole book of Revelation is a prophecy. You see there in verse 1 of chapter 1, the revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave to him to show unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass.

So it’s talking about the future even if it’s a short period of time and to the brother in the course it would be the churches on down the road here after on into the future. So the whole book is a prophetic book. Looking verse 3, blessed is he that readeth and they that hear the words of this what this prophecy. So the book of Revelation is a prophecy and although God gave to John the vision, the words John is a prophet and John is prophesying.

He is teaching forth and for telling. He’s doing both. So John is continuing a prophecy that was also given in the Old Testament times to the Old Testament prophets. So go to the book of Revelation in chapter 10, Revelation and chapter 10. And look there in verse 7, Revelation chapter 10 verse 7. But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound the mystery of God should be finished or complete. As he hath, and you are on the line this in your Bible, had declared to his servants the prophets.

Now, so it’s already been done once and now he’s telling John because of what he saw. Remember what he saw and when he wrote, it may not be at exactly the same time. He wrote it but how long afterwards did he write from when he saw that I’m not sure. We believe some time around the 96 AD after Christ. The temple had been destroyed in 70 AD. So he writes about the temple in chapter 11. And you’re talking about, you know, the other one was just finished in 64 AD, when Herod rebuilt the temple.

And it took a long time to rebuild the temple, but it was finished. and now they’re destroying the temple in John’s day. Then he talks about there’s going to be another temple in chapter 11. So there’s a tribulation temple. But now notice what he says. He said half declared, that’s past tense, to his prophet, that means in the Old Testament. So John is going to reveal some things. That had been revealed in time past, but not everything understood. You remember, even when you studied the book of Daniel, it talks about many of the prophecies that are related to in the book of Revelation, but not totally understood.

So you need the New Testament prophecy to help understand the Old Testament prophecy. The reason this is important because chapter 10 is not a very big chapter. It’s pretty small in comparison to some of the chapters. And it talks about a mighty angel and a little book, a mighty angel and a little book. We also see that same relationship in the fifth chapter of the book of Revelation, when he talks about there was this book that nobody could open.

And John went because nobody was found worthy to open this book. And lo and behold, one says that the elder says, don’t try John. The line of the tribe of Judah, he hath prevailed. He Cosponsors opened the———————————————— So the Bible says that Jesus took the book and Jesus had the book and Jesus opened the book. Now here it is in chapter 10, five chapters later. Now is it possible that this could be the same picture where you have the mighty angel?

Now remembering the Old Testament the Ophonies was a pre-manifestation of Christ in angelic form and he’s still God, but he had taken upon himself the form of an angel and many places called the angel of the Lord and he is seen and does things and now we have of this angel described. Some of these characteristics looks like it must be himself. see there in verse one, and I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven. Close with the cloud and a rainbow was upon his head and his face was as it were the sun and his feet as pillars of fire.

I remember in chapter one whenever John first saw Christ, he used some of the same language and it was a description that was to him. Now we know that when the Lord wanted to make a vow and he swore, you usually swear by something greater, but there is nobody greater, so he swore by himself. So now can this angel here swear by him that created all things? And you think, well, he’s talking about somebody else. Well, maybe he’s not talking about nobody else.

Can you swear by himself? Since there is nobody that’s greater than him. Well, it might be. And if you look at some of of these things here, it says in verse 5, and the angel which I saw, stand upon the sea and upon the earth, lifted up his hand to heaven, and swear by him that liveth forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things that which are therein, that there should be time no longer, no more delay it is time for the fulfillment of all these prophecies.

Now when he says here and this is why sometimes it gets a little touchy. Well then is the is this another angel giving honor to the Lord or is this angel the Lord? Well there was only one in chapter 5 that could open this little book and the other question was I had I have a lot of questions when I get to have them on when asked the Lord. I might provoke some questions and provoke some thoughts, but buddy, I always tell the ones that I haven’t got answered.

I don’t even mention. But I want to ask the Lord, you know, a few things, because in chapter 5 is the book, the book of Revelation. And as it’s open, he’s revealing it. And so the book that he opens up is the book of Revelation itself. I don’t know. Or is it another book that people call me? Well, it’s a title lead to the earth. Well, okay, Well, what kind of a title did he have?

And is the in chapter five, that was worthy to take the book and to open the book, is this the same one here? Look up there in verse two. And he had in his hand a little book opened. Now, remember in chapter five, the Lord Jesus is the one who took the book, and he was the only one that had a right to this little book. But he says, and he said his right foot upon the sea in his left foot upon the earth.

And cried with a loud voice is when a lion roars. And when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices. Seven thunders uttered their voices. And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write. And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered and write them not. Now, you know, I’m having an inquiring mind. And right off the bat, when he says, I heard these seven funders and I was about to write.

And he says, don’t write about that. Now, I want to know what was it? Don’t you have a little curiosity that says, who was he going to write? What are those seven funders that we’re not supposed to know about? So somebody look at that and they say, okay, he just says, seal that up. and not supposed to know what they are. Seal up those things with the seven thunders uttered, write them not. And yet I have a curious mind and like to know everything.

So take your Bible and turn all the way over there to the 29th Psalm, the 29th Psalm, and you need to write this course in the scripture down, write it in your notes and underline it and you’ll be surprised that you can easily forget. You can hear what I’m saying, but you know you need to really unlearn something. You need to hear it five or ten times to get it down. I could preach the same sermon five or ten times in a row and then you’ll really get it.

I won’t do that though. But the 29th Psalm, looking verse 1, give unto the Lord, oh ye mighty, give unto the Lord glory and strength. Give unto the Lord like glory do unto his name, worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.” I mentioned before, I love that statement. Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. I love that statement. It’s just awesome. But anyway, verse 3, look what he says, the voice of the Lord is upon the waters, the God of glory thundereth.

The Lord is upon many waters. And it seems to say that these voices, like it says over there in chapter 10, the roar of a lion. So what was God going to say? The seven funders is something that God’s saying. It’s the voice of God thundering out something and I want to know what it was. I guess there’s enough that God has given that we ought to be satisfied with. And we always want to know what does he want me to just kind of like Adam and Eve in the garden of all the fruit They could have had they wanted the one that he says don’t you doubt one?

Well now that just Did it? Like telling the kid you can have anything in every refrigerator anything in the cabbage. Just don’t touch that jar over there Now he’s gonna find now. What’s in that jar over there? He has to it’s just that’s our nature Well look what he says here in verse 3, the voice of the Lord is upon the waters and the God of glory thunder. When I saw that for the first time, I wondered, I wondered just how many of these funders are here.

How many times do you find the word voices mentioned here? So I just looked down to it and I saw in verse 4, oh the voice of the Lord is powerful. The voice of the Lord is full of majesty. The voice of the Lord in verse five, in verse seven, the voice of the Lord, verse eight, the voice of the Lord, verse nine, the voice of the Lord. Do you know I counted up all those voices and guess how many I came up with?

Seven. Seven. Now, as you read the book of Revelation, you’ll find out seven is mentioned an awful lot of times. Seven is supposed to be the number of perfection, completeness. Well, I wondered if these voices that God talks about are the ones that we’re supposed to know about and what is it that he was going to say, but he says, don’t say. So it looks like he’s never going to reveal what he was going to say, but I’m not sure about that.

Go back to the book of Revelation in chapter 10. in chapter 10. If you’ll notice in verse 4 when he ends up, he says, and write them not. And then he talks about the angel which I saw in verse 5, stand upon the sea, and he so lifted up his hand to heaven. And he’s swear by him that liveth forever and ever, who created heavens and the things that they’re in are, I believe that’s a reference to Jesus Christ.

But this could be Jesus Christ, giving honor and glory to himself and swearing by himself because there is none higher, there’s nothing better, there’s nothing greater. But I could be wrong. Now look where he says in verse 7, but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, now there’s a possibility in my mind as I read this and when he says these things about the seventh under and write them not but In verse 7, but, in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound the mystery of God, which I believe is a possibility, could refer to those seventh wonders that we didn’t understand.

Then they will be given or mentioned, and he’ll write about him then. Not that they would not be written forever. I don’t know. So when I saw the little word there, the seventh angel begins to sound, I took that as a clue, because he’s talking about the consummation of all the prophecies coming together. And in the last part of verse seven, which he had declared into his prophets and times before, and then he tells John, if you look down here in verse 11, and he said unto me, thou must prophesy again before many people and nations and tongues and kings.

Now, as he writes the prophecy of the book of Revelation, has this prophecy gone to all the world and people of every language? I believe so, as he writes, and what we have, we have a prophecy written by John. So I don’t see as John has to come back and prophesy again someday. But what he’s writing is a prophecy like the one that the prophets in the Old Testament talked about, but he has more and is completed and he’s talking about the consummation of all these prophecies coming together.

But what I want you to see there’s in chapter 11. Look over there in chapter 11. And you’ll notice in verse 15, because one of the keys was, it says, when the seventh angel begins to sound, then it’s kind of like, then I’m going to reveal more. But in verse 15 says, and the seventh angel sounded. There were great voices in heaven saying, the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ. And he shall reign forever and ever.

Now you know what John This hasn’t happened, but he’s writing it as though it has. It has become the kingdom because that’s the way prophecy is written. Hold your place right here and turn all the way over there to the Book of Matthew in chapter 6. Matthew in chapter 6. The Book of Matthew is the picture of Jesus Christ as the king, King as the lion from the tribe of Judah. This is where he picks his cabinet and how he’s going to rule during the kingdom upon the earth, the kingdom of heaven.

And so you have in this book many of the things of how he’s going to actually rule with the rod of iron when he’s here. That’s why he says, if somebody slaps you on this cheek, you turn to him the other cheek because he’s here and he’ll take care of it. But now if you get me on this cheek, I’m just glad I hit you back because we’re not there yet and I don’t want to take scripture out of context.

But anyway, here in Matthew in chapter 6, I want you to see this. They’re in verse 7. You see what in the world is praying, got to do with the kingdom. I’m glad you asked. Because you see, there was a portion of Scripture that many people will use as the Lord’s Prayer. Now, the Lord’s Prayer is found in John chapter 17. That’s the one He prayed. The one that’s mentioned here, our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come.

He didn’t pray that prayer. That was only a manner, a way, aRumeth. it wasn’t to be used as vain reputation. See there, he says in verse 7, that when ye pray, use not vain reputation as the heathen do. In other words, learning wrote prayers. Now that’s fine for little children when you’re teaching them how to pray. But when you get older, would you like for the pastor to read the prayer? And every week I read the same prayer? Or to, you know, it’s just a memorized prayer.

Don’t you believe a prayer out to be, you know, a talk between you and your heavenly Father. Not something that’s made up, but something that’s real. It’s just, it’s like, that’s off to be the way it is. But he says, for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. So it’s not how much you say in a prayer, it’s the quality of the prayer, not quantity. It’s the honesty, the sincerity. It’s your humility between you and God.

And he says in verse eight, be not ye therefore like unto them. for your father know of what things you have need of before you ask. That doesn’t mean you’re going to get it because it says you have not because you asked us. So you ought to ask. But don’t think just the multitude of words is what gets it for you. Then look in verse nine, he says, after this manner, therefore pray our father, which art in heaven, how will be thy name?

So it’s teaching us to have the respect that we want to and talk to our Father and then bring to Him your petition. But look what He says in verse 10, Thy kingdom come, thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven. In other words, they were always praying the kingdom would come, the kingdom would come. Now the king is here, so he’s going to set up his kingdom. But the course, as you know, the king was rejected, the kingdom postponed.

But the desire should be that I want Christ to rule here the way he rules there. I want Thy will, which is in heaven, to be fulfilled here on the earth. And if I want that as an individual, I I can’t speak for everybody else. I still can allow the Lord in heaven to rule me on earth. And I can still, as an individual, say, thy will be my will upon the earth, so that I can still do whatever it is God wants me to do, and it has nothing to do what anybody else does or doesn’t do.

Now, this is what he taught his disciples. This is how you’re supposed to pray, not the words to say, but the method, the idea behind it, the holy respect you have, my Father, I want your will to be done in me. I want your kingdom to come. And he says, and look at the very next word, In verse 11, give us this day our daily bread. That is to keep you constantly daily dependent upon the Lord. Give us this weekly bread.

Give us this monthly bread. Well, just go ahead and ask for the year. Like some people like the security, Lord, just give me for the rest of my life. God wants us dependent upon him every day. And that’s why he maybe doesn’t smile too much on giving you too much more than what you need. You see, that’s what keeps sometimes keeps a person humble. It keeps you dependent upon the Lord. If you had too much, you might not need to pray as much.

You may not need to look to the Lord and depend upon Him because after all, I don’t have to worry about it. I’ve got two million dollars in the bank. Well, life is designed to where we need the Lord. And look what he says there in verse 12, and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. Now, under the law, you want to be forgiven, you’re forgiven. Under grace, we forgive because we have been forgiven. But on the law, it was law.

You want this, you got to do this. So he says, this is my will and they prayed for the kingdom. They were looking forward to this kingdom. Now the church is not the kingdom. The church is not going to bring in the kingdom. Christ is not the king over the church. He can be the king but he’s called the head of the church, the head of a body. It’s a different thing altogether. So in the book of Revelation in chapter 11 I want you to go back there and you’ll notice that this is the seventh angel saying what’s going to take place and he’s wrapping it up toward the end so you can see the combination of all these things coming together and this is what he said.

In verse 17 saying, we give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art and was an art to come because thou hast taken to thee thy great power and hath reign. And the nations were angry and thy wrath is come. The time of the dead that they should be judged and that they should have give reward unto thy servants the prophets and to the saints and then that fear thy name small and great and should have destroyed them which destroyed the earth.

So this is what is coming and Whenever you read about the the seven thunders as though it comes after this And maybe the order in how he was going to do it wasn’t right. I don’t know I Do have an acquired mind But I noticed that in chapter 12 the very next things to follow are things not only new to the New Testament but was prophesied in the Old Testament by the saints, the prophets. And now here, we’re here iterated again by John and his prophecy and look in chapter 12.

And you notice there in verse 1, he’s talking about the woman, talking about the woman, Israel and how she began. And then in verse 3 and 4 it talks about Satan. Now This is also outlined here in the Old Scholfield reference Bible. And in verse five and six, it talks about the child, which is Christ. The fourth thing in verse seven, eight and so forth is talking about the archangel and Michael and the battle that takes place in heaven.

And then in verse 13 down to verse 16 talks about saying an Israel in the tribulation. Now, all of these are types or things that have been mentioned before. And now are mentioned again right after the closing of the sixth angel and his comments, or the seventh angel. And then in verse 17, the dragon says, there’s a remnant left. And this remnant is what God is going to begin the kingdom with. And they’re going to go into the millennial reign of Christ.

And so there’s going to be the small as a mustard seed. and is going to build the greatest nation in the face of the year. Now whether or not all of this, and maybe I’m seeing a lot of things that are not there, but I have a habit of seeing things that maybe not there. But I read and I study and I sometimes put things together and sometimes I don’t. And sometimes it makes sense and sometimes it don’t. But I want to to prick your mind, the where you have a desire to want to study the book and find out what might this mean.

What can I glean from this or learn from this? And it doesn’t matter sometime whether or not I get it all in the right sequence and all. But whatever it does for me, it challenges me to want to live more holy, more godly. It refreshes my mind. It It warms my spirit. I get challenged and motivated because of the Word of God. And I want to do more of whatever God wants me to do with my life. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida, with Dr.

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So live today and every day, believing that the Lord is coming soon. And just keep looking up.

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Angels desire bodies, and if they can’t have a person’s body, person’s body, they want the body of an animal. When he was going to cast them out of this one individual, they said, can we go into that herd of swine? Remember the story? So he let them go into a herd of swine. What did this swine do? They ran off of a cliff and jumped and they died. They died. That’s where you get devil’s ham. And see, you didn’t know some of this stuff.

What else does it prove? It proves that people will put it with the devil when a hog won’t. See, that’s what’s behind the sink, you know. But not all of the fallen angels were roaming free, but some have been placed in other places. Look there in the book of Jude. The book of Jude, right before the book of Revelation and look in Jude and verse 6 and the angels which kept not their first estate but left their own habitation he hath reserved in everlasting change under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

Now if this great day is a reference to the great white throne judgment okay there’s gonna wait till then but what if the great judgment that God has talked about about is the tribulation period and they will be there until God is ready to use them to accomplish his purpose. So remember the devil and fallen angels have limitations upon their power of what they can and cannot do. They can’t just do anything they want to do. The devil is not omnipotent.

He is not omnipresent. He is not all wise. There’s love things he don’t know and love things he cannot do. He can’t be everywhere at the same time.}); But he got a lot of demons. How many? I don’t know. I haven’t counted them. I really don’t care how many of God. But he says here, he hath reserved in everlasting change under darkness until the judgment of the great day. So there’s angels that are there. Now the place that it mentions, look there in the book of 2 Peter in chapter 2.

2 Peter chapter 2, and you’ll notice there in verse 4, it says, for if God spared not the angels that sin. So angels were able to sin, but cast them down to hell. And this is the only place this word is found, which is Tartarus, not Tartus sauce, Tartarus. And delivered them in the chains of darkness to be reserved unto judgment. So they are there until God is ready. Now is it the judgment of the angels or is it the judgment upon the earth?

and God uses them for His purpose. I don’t know. There is a scripture in the book of 1 Corinthians that talks about shall not we, the Christian, judge the angels. So there is a timeptin where Aadhaar we are going to judge the angels. Don’t agree, I don’t know, but that’s what the book says. So go back there to the book of Revelation in chapter 9, chapter 9. Now remember, out of this pit, a lot of smoke, whether it’s because of no vapors, I don’t care, I don’t know.

But it’s going to come up somewhere there in the Middle East. And whenever it opens up and it comes up, it seems like the Bible says toward the end of the tribulation period, which is when some of these things begin to take place, that you will not be able to see… The sun, one third, and you will not be able to see the moon for one third, and that it’s going to be dark upon the earth. A third. So we talked about a third, a third, a third, which is what you find in chapter eight when it talks about, you know, a third of this was destroyed, a third of that and so on.

I haven’t put all of this together. I’m just being honest with you. I do have an enquiring mind and I wish I sure could, but I haven’t been able to do that. But now, are these locusts that comes up out of this? Are they real locusts? I believe there’s a good possibility they could be supernatural locusts, not the natural locust that we see, but able to do the same thing that locusts can do. But they’re prohibited from eating the green stuff and only to persecute the people that do not have the mark of God on their forehead.

So my question was, that means if they’re not allowed to torment God’s people, but only those that are not God’s people, why would the devil torment his own house? And that’s always bothered me. How can this be? If Satan is the angel that comes down and the angel that is the king of the bottomless pit when they come out, he’s under his authority. But why doesn’t he go after the believers instead of the unbelievers? Good question. And this is why I have a problem time to figure all of this out.

But believe that it will happen, I do believe it. Now look there in verse two. He opened the bottomless pit and there arose a smoke out of the pit as a smoke of a great furnace. Now, whenever you read the book of Genesis in chapter 19, you’ll notice it talks about that when he got lot out of the city at Solomon Gomorrah. The Bible says that there was a great fire and there’s great smoke as of a great furnace.

And it talks about the fire and the brimstone and whatever happened there. The same type is what he’s talking about right here. The smoke is of a great furnace. So it means it’s got to be hot and something’s coming up out of the ground. And I believe that there’s something under the ground. Now, when you read several scriptures, you’ll find out as mentioned twice in chapter five, it talks about those things that are in heaven and things on the earth and things under the earth.

You’ve ever heard the scripture And he hath given him a name which is above every name, that the name of Jesus every knee should bow, well the things in heaven, things on the earth, and things under the earth. Is it possible there’s something under the earth? The Bible says there’s something under the earth. Now we know that whenever Christ died on the cross, he went to the heart of the earth. is the heart of the earth, mode and lava like they tell us it is, or as it could be a big ole core where it’s like paradise was.

Paradise had to be somewhere, and it had to be, as the Bible says, in the heart of the earth. Now, anywhere you go, when it’s a hole there, it’s like a bottomless pit because there’s no bottom, it’s there, but where’s the bottom? Is it at the bottom, I don’t know. It’s interesting trying to put it all together. I hope y’all do. But there are angels that God said that were in the earth in a certain place, and there were believers from the Old Testament that were in the heart of the earth.

And Christ told the thief on the cross, today, shout thou be with me in paradise. And he says in the book of Ephesians in chapter for when he ascended, what is it that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth and led captivity out so there were people there. But he only took out the believer. So that means a lot of other unbelievers are all still there. When he says in the book of Revelation chapter 1, concerning Jesus Christ, he said, I am the alpha and oh my God, I’m the beginning and the end.

I’m the first and I’m the last and I have the keys of death which was rough into the grave and Hades Here’s the word Hades So if he has the keys that he can open up the graves and bring out the bodies then there’s also something in Hades That are still there Because what would be the point of saying that I have the keys of Hades if all the believers are taken out and there’s nobody else there, but they are somebody there.

And one day at the Great White Throne Judgment it says death and hell shall deliver up the dead. So there’s the souls and there’s the bodies and they’re gonna come together and stand before God and that’s at the end which is at the Great White Throne judgment. So yes, there’s There’s fallen angels and there’s possibility of something under the earth. Is it possible that with all the drugs, the chemicals that have been spilt running to the ground? Is it possible to cause some things to be deformed?

I don’t know. But I do believe that there’s a good possibility that these things that comes up out of this, and these locus which don’t have a stinger, but scorpions do. And it says they’re like the scorpions. So these are a little bit different from your normal everyday locus or little scorpions that you see. And there’s descriptions. It talks about them having hair like a woman. Now just because it says they had hair like a woman doesn’t mean the hair had to be on their head.

They could have long hair like a woman, but they could have it on their arms or on their legs or part of their body. I don’t know. I really don’t care. But got to be some funny looking, strange looking creatures. So look what he says. In verse three, and there came out of the smoke locus upon the earth, and unto them was given power as the scorpions of the earth have power. In other words, the ability to stay. These are going to be able to torture people for five months.

Now, let’s say, for example, that I am one of these locusts, and I just came up out of the earth, and I’m looking for my victim. Ah, there’s a victim. And I can only sting those who do not have the seal of the Lord in their forehead. Now what that seal is I don’t know. I’d be guessing anybody else would too. I tried to figure this out. When I sting him and he can’t die, will he just suffer for six months because of it?

Or can I get him a whole bunch of times in that six month, five months, and really make him suffer? Now if these were just people in a war, would no warriors just go through life and just portrae you and keep you alive for six, five months? In wars that you kill each other. this is not the same. So he says there in verse five, and to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months.

And their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when it struck at the man. And in those days shall men seek death and shall not find it, shall desire to die and death shall flee from them. It’s going to be pretty bad. Explain it all. I don’t know if anybody can. But remember, he saw something 2000 years ago describing something that’s in our day. Now, there’s a good possibility that I’ve heard all kinds I’ve seen in different books and people say there’s a good possibility when you tie this together with the book of Joel and the day of the Lord and some of the things that are going to happen and they describe some of the same timing of the day of the Lord, of that it could be helicopters, you know, and they look funny and they can paint faces on them or you know,

I don’t, they all kind of stuff, but they come like in swarming over, I mean they all coming out there, I don’t know, I don’t really care. I’m not going to be here, but I do want to try to figure out as much as I possibly can. Somewhere along the line, it’s got to all make sense and it will all come together and it will perfectly dovetail and it will be right. And what God says in His word, it will be true.

Now I do not know whether or not it’s going to be, and this is all totally symbolic of some machine that man has made. I believe that there’s going to be a lot of people that’ll be warring and they’ll have the river dried up to make way for the kings of the east. And I read in one book where the man says is going to be 200,000. And somebody else says, well, I know that’s that’s that’s that’s going to be two million.

Well, it’s just going to be a whole bunch. Now look what he says, in verse seven and the shape of the locus were like under horses prepared on the battle. In other words, rather not these things have got wings and they can fly. and they sound like a whole herd of horses, stampede-ing, they’re coming across the landscape, in the book of Joel and name, it talks about, like they cover the land, and like they’re up in the air. And some people say, well that’s airplanes, and they’re shooting missiles in there.

You know, they can shoot you this way, and they got a fire on the other end, and it’s going them forward. So how would you describe it if you just saw it, you know, 2000 years ago? What have you been interested in? So, it’s a lot of speculation. But it does not cloud my judgment as far as believing that the book is truly the Word of God. And just because I don’t understand it all doesn’t mean it ain’t true and that it won’t happen.

And I believe when it’s all over with, it’ll be as clear as day. We’ll see it and it’ll make so much sense. And it says here get this. and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. Now, I don’t know if you’ve ever taken a grasshopper. Grasshopper in the locust looks a lot alike, and get real close to that old grasshopper, and just stare it in his face. Well, this got a nose, it’s got a mouth, and it’s got two eyes.

And if you match them just right there, to back a juice on you. But anyway, you can do it right on my own. Now there’s some people I know that dump them in chocolate and eat them. Now these are going to have some problems because they’re going to be able to sting, which the normal locust doesn’t do, but they tend to eat. And they have a very good appetite and can totally destroy anything in their site. But it says they were not to eat that.

They were just to torment people. And it says here in verse nine, and they had hair as the hair of women. So naturally you think of, you know, here’s a, here’s this thing and it’s got nice flowing hair on there. Well, it could be, well, it’s a horse and it’s got the mane, you know, that that’s what it is. Well, it could be, but it might mean that they got long hair on their arms or on their legs or on their body.

I don’t know. But it’s the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen in the scripture. Do you see how would you like to teach the ninth chapter of the book of Revelation? Wouldn’t you have a lot of fun? Trying to see now, what in the world does this mean? Now, there’s a lot of things we can understand, but a lot of it you and I are not going to understand. But anyway, he says here in verse nine, and they had breast plates as it were breast plates of iron.

Didn’t say it was, it’s as as, and face as a man, and hair as a woman. And so you notice here in verse nine, and breast plates as it were breast plates of iron, and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses run into battle. And they had pales like under scorpions, and there were stings in their pales, and their power was to hurt men for five months. So whether or not one sting lasted five months, or they were just torturing the people up to five months.

I don’t know. Have you ever had mosquitoes get on you, and they’re drilling for blood, and you can’t even knock them off because they got that little nose down in there in their second blood and You have to just kill them and blood squirt everywhere. I hate mosquitoes But I’m glad that generally the mosquito who bites me only bites me one time So he’s gonna be a dead mosquito I’ve was fishing up there in northern Minnesota and And we was sitting around talking how we’re going to go fishing the next day early in the morning.

And they told me, says, now, Yankee, there’s no, there’s not one single mosquito in Minnesota. I found out they were all married and had large families. We got out there and those mosquitoes blacked all my arms, black. They’re all in your face, on your eyes. and they could sit there and fish, and it didn’t bother them at all. Man, I’m tonsillist. I was so miserable, I never been so miserable in all my life. Every mosquito for a mile around knew that I didn’t like them.

And they all wanna come over there and torment me. And just torment me, flying around, all of my face and eyes and so forth. And those guys that I was with, it didn’t phase them when I owed them. And they only had not even a third of the mosquitoes on them that I had on me. What was it? I don’t know what it was. I have no idea. But they drank so much coffee up there when they slapped that thing.

Coffee came out. Now, look what he says. And they had the power to do this for five months and they came out of this pit. Now, what does it all mean? As you try to tie it all together, you’ll find out the last part of this chapter also tells you a little bit more and about the people and how they died in the three various ways. But notice in verse 13, and the six angels sounded and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God.

So that’s in heaven. Say unto the six angel which had the trumpet, loose the four angels which are bound in the Great river Euphrates. The four angels were loose which were prepared for an hour a day a month, a year for the slave and you hear that third part of them. They slay the third part of them. So at what time in all this takes place, it’s hard to tell. But not only did a third of the land in the sea and the people, it’s incredible.

Something happens that’s going to take care of about a third of the earth. And some of this is taking place in the Middle East because of where it’s located here. Now, when you study the book of Revelation and you hear all this about Euphrates and the battle of Armageddon and all these things, did you know that there’s one place that’s mentioned just about more than any other place outside of the nation of Israel in the Bible and it’s Iraq?

Babylon, Persia area. All that is mentioned from the very beginning. Now is it possible that in the last time Iraq is going to have some leadership position among the nations? We’re probably helping them to rise to power. Aren’t you thankful for that? But get what he says. And he says in verse 15, and the four angels were loose. Third part of the men. The number of the army of the horsemen were 200,000,000, and I heard the number of them.

And when I saw the horses in the vision and then that sat on them having breast plates of fire and adjacent and brimstone and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions and out of their mouth issued fire and smoke and brimstone By these three was the third part of men killed the fire the smoke and the brimstone which issued out of their mouth and get this for their power is in their mouth and in their tails for their tails were like on the serpents and had heads and And with them, they do hurt.

Now, is this descriptive of airplanes with the ability to shoot down and, I don’t know, the helicopters? I don’t know. But one day we’ll find out, of course I’m hoping to have that ringside seat up in heaven as I’m watching from that viewpoint of what’s going to take place upon the earth. And remember, after everything that was done, God was trying to get the people to come to and they still would not. And look what he says here in verse 20, and the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues, yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, idols of gold and silver and brash and stone and of wood, which neither can see nor hear nor walk.

That’s what I had referred to from later that I had talked two years ago. Neither repented day of their murders nor of their sorceries where you get the word pharmacy from which is on drugs nor of their fornication and of their theses. So it didn’t work as far as getting people upon the earth to come to the Lord. So majority of people will die. Now there is a the time where the Antichrist will be killing the believers. And then later on, the unbelievers.

And then whenever you get to the battle of Armageddon, anybody that’s left, he says, one taken one left, one taken one left, one taken one left. That’s not the rapture. They were taken to be destroyed at the battle of Armageddon. That’s in the book of Luke chapter 17 when you read that says where were they taken and Says where the body is there where the eagles began that gathered together that’s revelation chapter 19 So the study of the book of Revelation There’s a lot in here You are not going to understand it all but you get a little bit here and a little bit there next thing You know you’ll move to another chapter.

No, there’s something over there. They’ll help me understand this over here a little bit better But you understand that this is what’s going to happen in the tribulation period. It is real. I can’t explain at all but I’ll let God demonstrate it all. And the people that will be here will see it, and they will understand it. Look up here. Let this hand represent you and me, and this wall of represents sin. Now we all have sin on us.

God loves us. Now he hates our sin, but he loves us. And for us to pay for sin is eternal separation from God in a place called hell. God doesn’t want any of us to go to hell. The Bible says, hell was prepared for the devil and his angels. But there was found no place for the lost man. He couldn’t go to heaven and hell wasn’t prepared for him, but that’s where he’s going to spend forever in the lake of fire.

And Bible says, as wandering stars in the midst of darkness forever and ever and ever. So God says that He loves us once, is to go to heaven and none of us are perfect. And you’ve got to be perfect to go to heaven. But because of sin, we can’t get in. This hand represents Jesus Christ. He’s the Lord God in the flesh. He came into the world because He loves us. And He hates our sin because it separates us from the Lord.

So the Bible says that Jesus Christ took the sin, paid for it on the cross, came back from the dead. And that if we would simply be lead that he did it for us, he would give us as a free gift, he turned life and we get to go to heaven on what Jesus Christ did for us. Do you realize how many times I have probably given this little illustration? Do you know sometimes nobody will trust the Lord? I won’t see any indications of anybody.

So I should probably just quit, I’m not doing it anymore. Nah. Would you hear Sunday morning? We had about six that indicated they would trust Christ to save you. And some one Sunday you won’t, but it doesn’t matter. You got still be faithful to give the gospel. I have no clue how many people might be watching on the internet. And they sit near and they’re listening and they’ve never trusted Christ to save Him. And they just heard the name chapter of Revelation and they’re scared to death.

And only thing they have to be concerned about is, Will you trust Jesus Christ as your Savior? Will you believe he died on that cross and paid for your sins? So that whenever you die here in this world You’ll have eternal life in heaven Best news and all the world. Let’s pray show you If tonight you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior Maybe you’ve heard about it, but you just never did If you can see the things that are coming upon this earth It’s not gonna be pretty But if the rapture took place right now if Christ came back right now and took all the Christians out of here You would be in the tribulation period.

This is what you would have to face I’m so glad that I don’t have to worry about that But if you hear tonight and you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior will you trust him? I’m not gonna have you forward not gonna embarrass you by right where you’re sitting See that made sense to me. I want to be certain of going to heaven tonight I will accept Jesus Christ right now as my Savior friend God said if you’d trust him he would save you Would you believe he died for you that he paid for all of your sins?

Would you believe it? If you’re making that decision you say yes, I believe it. I believe he did it for me Then friend I’m gonna ask you if you’re just gonna be in it very quickly and better up back down Zimran at all So yes, I believe Christ died paid for my sins and I’m trusting him and him alone to take me to heaven when I die You’ve never done it before do it right now Our Father, we do thank You so much for all that You’ve done for us.

We’re thankful for the free gift of eternal life. And that anyone who’s watching by internet, they don’t have to be in the church service. They don’t have to sign a card, don’t have to raise your hand, they don’t have to do anything. But they do have to trust You. And by doing so, You’ve guaranteed them eternal life and You’ll never cast them out. Thank You so much for this time together. In Christ’s name we pray, Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr.

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Caught up to meet the Lord in the air. to live today and every day, believing that the Lord is coming soon, and just keep looking up.

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We pray that you will enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ and that today’s first part of this two-part message will be a blessing to you and your family. Let’s take our Bible and turn to the book of Revelation. The book of Revelation. I hope you enjoy the book of Revelation. I do. Tonight’s subject is a little on the difficult side. I’ll have to admit, it’s a difficult chapter for me to teach. I would rather teach any chapter in the book of Hebrews than the ninth chapter of the book of Revelation.

Revelation has a lot of symbolism in it, types, and it’s sometimes difficult to put all of it together. So don’t worry about what we don’t understand. Let’s just see how much we can understand. Sometimes people let a piece of a gristle. You know, they’re eating a tea bone steak and they get a piece of gristle and say, well, I can’t eat no more because I got this gristle. No, spit off the gristle and keep eating a good meat. That’s what I would do.

So you’re not going to understand everything that’s in it. I’ve only been studying it for right 50 years and I still haven’t figured it all out yet. But it is a tremendous chapter. It’s sometimes looked upon as the three trumpet woes, because these last ones, the fifth, sixth, and the seventh are the last three trumpets. And it’s also the last three woes. This is the worst period of time upon the face of the earth. And it’s going to describe it.

And there’s a few things here that I have not yet been able to figure out. And of course you’re going to help me You’re going to study this and drive yourself crazy Because I want to give you some things to think about Look in chapter 9 and verse 1 The fifth angel sounded and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit now It doesn’t mean that he had the key, but it was given to him to open up this bottomless pit and then there arose this smoke out of a pit, this abyss, like a big old well, a hole, but it doesn’t have a bottom to it.

That’s interesting. But I believe the star mentioned here is the devil himself and I have a few reasons for believing that. I want you to take your Bible and look there in the book of Luke chapter 10. Just hold your place here but look in Luke chapter 10. Matthew, Mark and Luke Luke and Luke chapter 10. Jesus Christ is talking to His disciples. He has sent them out two by two, about 70 of them. And they came back and they were all excited because even the demons were subject unto them.

So He says in verse 17 of Luke chapter 10, and the 70 returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us to thy name. And Jesus said, that’s nothing. Just those little devils, those little demons, the head of them is the devil, the devil himself, Satan. And I saw him fall. See there in verse 18, and he said unto them, I beheld Satan as a lightning fall from the heavens. Now, when he said it, it wasn’t so much that it either has already happened or maybe it was going to happen.

It’s just that whenever it happened, God saw it. He saw it in the Old Testament, you know, before Adam and Eve. He also can look into the future and he sees it happening when he’s cast out there. Now, go back to the book of Revelation and you’ll notice there in chapter 12, look in chapter 12. The devil has but a short period of time to do his damage. So in Revelation 12, look in verse 12, therefore rejoice ye heavens and ye that dwell in them.

Now, that’s in heaven, you can rejoice. But on the earth, whoa, to the inhibitors of the earth and of the sea, for the devil, get the devil, is come down under you having great wrath because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. So I believe that the angel that’s seen there in chapter nine is the devil. He is cast out upon the earth and his angels. And of course, there’s a big war with the the Lord’s angels and the devil’s angels.

And you can imagine who won. Now look there in chapter 12 and you’ll notice something else. In verse 3 of the same chapter and there appeared another wonder in heaven. The whole great red dragon having seven heads, ten horns, seven crowns upon his head. Now, who is this great, red dragon? If you look down in verse 9, it says, and that great dragon was cast out that old serpent called the devil and Satan. You see how scripture explains scripture.

The Bible will teach itself. You just have to look for the answer somewhere else. But he says that that devil is going to be cast out upon the earth. He knows he has but a short time. And so he’s really going to do all the damage that he can do. Well, what kind of damage is he going to do and who’s he going to do it to? Remember the tribulation period is a time of judgment upon the earth from God, poor not his wrath, the wrath of the Lamb.

And then you have the devil, poor not his wrath. And you have people, well, they got an old sinful nature and so that they’re just meaning ugly also. They didn’t want Christians around so okay that God took them out of here. So how is the world doing while we’re not here? You know we are the salt of the earth. It is the Christians, that’s the salt that the preservative is the reason God hasn’t judged this earth more than what he has.

But one of the days he’s going to take us out and and Katie borrowed the door. Now, notice what he says in verse four. And his tale drew the third part of the stars of heaven. So this is where we get the idea that the devil took at least one third of the angels with him. Because he is also seen as a star, Lord talks about it as a lightning, and it’s the devil and he’s coming down. And the Bible says, and he has an agenda.

If you understand the main agenda of the devil on the tribulation period, remember he wants to destroy the nation of Israel. He is working through certain nations today. And he’s slowly, well, I don’t know if it’s slowly anymore, working on America and upon Britain in a few other countries that are behind the nation of Israel. Well, slowly the Bible says, every nation shall turn against Jerusalem. It is every nation, but one, it says every nation. So it doesn’t look good for the nation of Israel.

And the devil behind the scenes is trying to destroy this nation of Israel. Israel is like here in chapter 12, like a woman. Now remember, Israel as a woman and God as a man, God as a man. It was Jehovah, God in the Old Testament that presented the law to Israel. And Israel says, all that thou commandest me, I will do. Well, that was I do and you do and you’ve got a marriage. So God took Israel to be his wife.

So you look at Israel as a woman in Jehovah and there was a marriage a long time ago. Well, they didn’t get along. The Lord would tell Israel what to do and his wife would not obey. He had a disobedient wife for about 1500 years. How would you like to have a wife that long? That was disobedient. And anyway, she wasn’t always faithful to the Lord. But God and this woman Israel, well, they had a child. And the child was born of this woman.

And they only had one kid. And he happened to be a perfect child. And it was, he was just like his father. wasn’t like his mother at all. Now, I might have looked a little bit like his mom, but he was in every bit of character like his daddy. So, God says that the Holy Spirit came upon this little woman one day, planted the seed into Mary, and this is that holy thing shall be called the Son of the Highest.

This is what we’re talking about at Christmas time. So Jesus Christ was born. But now notice who wanted to do him in when he was born. So you see here, so did you get the idea. Look in verse one, chapter 12. And there appeared a great wonder in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet and up on her head a crown of 12 stars. I believe that represents the 12 tribes of Israel. And she, this woman, been with child pride, travailing in birth and pains to be delivered.

So they kept wondering, when is this woman going to have this kid? So there were many prophecies given, but I can say this, and this is why the Bible words it this way in the book of Galatians. And the fullness of time Jesus was born in the fullness of time. Generally in the fullness of time, a child is born. We usually consider close to about nine months. And Lord behold, a woman’s going to have a baby. In the fullness of time, Jesus came and was born.

And look what happened. And there appeared another wonder in heaven, this old devil. And he had a goal. And that was in verse four. And his tale drew the third part of the stars of heaven. Did cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman, which was ready to be delivered. For it get to the underlying to devour her child as soon as it was born. So did the devil want to destroy Jesus Christ from the very beginning.

Of course, you know, here it goes there and says, bring me word again that I may come and worship him also. Yeah, boy, he really wanted to worship him, didn’t he? Killed all the babies from two years old and under. Now, why was he doing that? Because he was stabbing at one baby. He killed all the babies, stabbing at one kid. Now, in his mind, he just, I’m the king and I don’t want another king. Where is he that is born king of the used.

But the devil was working behind the scenes and the devil can use people to accomplish his purpose. The Lord can use people to accomplish his purpose. So that’s why you and I have to be very discerning to see and who is using me. Is God using me or is the devil using me? So he says this in verse 5 and she brought forth a man child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. Well, who do you think that was?

That’s Jesus Christ. And her child was caught up into heaven and to his throne. So there’s been about 2000 year gap since the time he was born and left this world and he’s been up in heaven. And the devil is still in for Israel. You see, it’s not just that there’s all those Arab nations that want to destroy Israel. There’s something behind it, something ugly behind it. There are pawns, there are tools in the devil’s hands, and so they’re doing their damage, and it’s going to shake the world.

So we look at it says in verse 6, and the woman fled into the wilderness where she had a place prepared of God that they should feed her there, a thousand two hundred and three scored eight. Let’s a lot of years pass between now and then. But it says this is three and a half years. And so she’s going to be taken into a certain place and looked after. Otherwise the devil would totally destroy this woman. You see over there in verse 13, when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, this is in the middle of the tribulation period, I believe, he persecuted the woman Israel, which brought forth the man child, Christ.

And so that’s why during the tribulation period, this is all about the devil behind the scenes trying to destroy the nation of Israel. And he’s working in nations today. But Hendrance is keeping him from being able to do so. Now go back to Revelation chapter 9. Revelation chapter 9 and it says here, was given the key of the bottomless pit. Now also I want you to look there in verse 11 and they had a king over them which in the is the angel of the bottomless pit whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Avaran but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollion.

So there’s another leader over something that comes up out of his pit. Now… I’ve always wondered, is this the devil? And then I had a question of two problems that always kind of bothered me. And that was in verse four, where it says, and he commanded them that they should not hurt the grass, but only those men which have not the seal of God in their forehead. Now, if you’ll read chapter 8, it already tells you that one third of the earth has been scorched.

One third of the trees and the green grass has already been scorched. You see there in verse 7 and 8, when you read that, you’ll notice there’s a and the third part of the trees, Berna. And then down it says in verse 8, the third part of the sea became blood. in verse 10, a third part of the rivers and upon the fountains of water. It seems like there’s something, if you pitch it the whole earth. One third of the earth.

It looks like it’s going to be unusable. And somebody has been annihilated. Talks about a third of the people being destroyed. So somewhere in this period of time, somebody is going to nuke somebody, but not all the trees and so forth were destroyed, because when these locus comes up out of this pit, and it says that they were not to hurt the trees or the green grass, well evidently there’s still some green grass, and it must not be in the Middle East, because these things are coming up out of the area of the river Euphrates.

So if you’re talking about the area of the river Euphrates and there’s green stuff there, then evidently that’s not the place that’s been bombed or annihilated, someplace else. So that means two-thirds of the landmass might be all right,, but what could have happened to the other third? I’ve often wondered, you know, How to put all the pieces of the puzzle together. But as I live, and the longer I live, I get a little bit here and a little bit there, but I’m not saying my views is always right.

But I like to stir people’s minds so you can think about it yourself and not have many nights where you can sleep. So that it bothers you, it makes you stay up all night long trying to figure it out. The angels, what about these angels? angels that God says that when He created them did not go in the rebellion. There were other angels that were in the rebellion. So we believe that a third of the angels went in rebellion against the Lord.

And the place we get that is found right there in chapter 12, look in chapter 12 again, and look there in verse for and that his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven. So we believe that this is a reference to the angels and in his rebellion he took a third part of all the angels in rebellion with him. Now not all of these angels, we call them little demons, not all the fallen angels were placed in the bottomless pit or in the place called Carter’s, but the Bible says that they were able to roam free throughout the earth.

And that there are in the days of Christ, especially Jesus, been able to see, know and understand what’s really going on in people’s lives, knew that a lot of people were possessed of the devil, indwelt by the demons, fallen angels. Angels desire bodies and if they can’t have a person’s body they want the body of an animal. When he was going to cast them out of this one individual they said can we go into that herd of swine? Remember the story?

So he let them go into a herd of swine. What did the swine do? They ran off of a cliff and jumped and they died. They died. That’s where you get devil’s ham. See you didn’t know some of this stuff. What else does it prove? It proves that people will put it with the devil when a hog won’t. See that’s what’s behind the scenes. But not all of the fallen angels were roaming free. But some have been placed in other places.

Look there in the book of Jude. The book of Jude right before the book of Revelation. And look in Jude and verse 6. And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation he hath reserved in everlasting change under darkness under the judgment of the great day. Now if this great day is a reference to the great white throne judgment, okay There’s gonna wait till then But what if the great judgment that God has talked about is the tribulation period and they will be there until God is Ready to use them to accomplish his purpose So remember the devil and fallen angels have limitations upon their power of what they can he cannot do They can’t just do anything they want to do The devil is not omnipotent.

He is not omnipresent. He is not all wise. There’s a lot of things He don’t know and a lot of things He cannot do. He can’t be everywhere at the same time But he got a lot of demons How many I don’t know I haven’t counted them. I really don’t care how many he got But he says here he had reserved in everlasting change under darkness until the judgment of the great day So there’s angels that are there now the place that it mentions look there in the book of 2 Peter and chapter 2 2 Peter chapter 2 and You’ll notice there in verse 4 It says for if God Spared not the angels that sin so angels were able to sin But cast them down to hell and this is the only place this word is found which is Tartarus not Tartarus sauce target and delivered them in the chains of darkness to be reserved on the judgment.

So they are there until God is ready. Now, is it the judgment of the angels or is it the judgment upon the earth and God uses them for his purpose? I don’t know. There is a scripture in the book of 1 Corinthians that talks about shall not we, the Christians, judge the angels. So there is a time coming where we are going to judge the angels. Don’t agree. I don’t know but that’s what the book says So go back there to the book of Revelation and chapter 9 chapter 9 Now remember out of this pit a lot of smoke Whether it’s because of no vapors wrong.

I don’t care. I don’t know But it’s gonna come up somewhere there in the Middle East and And whenever it opens up and it comes up, it seems like the Bible says toward the end of the tribulation period, which is when some of these things begin to take place, that you will not be able to see the sun one-third, and you will not be able to see the moon one-third. And it’s going to be dark upon the earth, a third.

So we talked about a third, a third, a third, which is what you find in chapter 8 when it talks about, you know, a third of this was destroyed, third of that and so on. I haven’t put all of this together. I’m just being honest with you. I do have an inquiring mind and I wished I sure could, but I haven’t been able to do that. But now, are these locusts that comes up out of this of the real locusts?

I believe there’s a good possibility they could be supernatural locusts, not the natural locusts that we see, but able to do the same thing that locusts can do. But they’re prohibited from eating the green stuff and only to persecute the people that do not have the mark of God on their forehead. So my question was, that means if they’re not allowed to torment God’s people, but only those that are not God’s people, why would the devil torment his own house?

And that’s always bothered me. How can this be? If Satan is the angel that comes down and the angel that is the king of the bottomless pit When they come out, he’s under his authority. But why doesn’t he go after the believers instead of the unbelievers? Good question. And this is why I have a problem trying to figure all of this out, but believe that it will happen. I do believe it. Now look there in verse two and he opened the bottomless pit and there arose a smoke out of the pit as a smoke of a great furnace.

Now, whenever you read the book of Genesis in chapter 19, you’ll notice it talks about that when he got lot out of the city at Sodom and Gomorrah. The Bible says that there was a great fire and there’s great smoke. As of a great furnace. And it talks about the fire and the brimstone and whatever happened there. The same type is what he’s talking about right here. The smoke is of a great furnace. So it means it’s got to be hot and something’s coming up out of the ground.

And I believe that there’s something under the ground. Now when you read several scriptures, you’ll find out as mentioned twice in chapter five. It talks about those things that are in heaven and things on the earth. and things under the earth. You ever heard this scripture? And he hath given him a name which is above every name. That the name of Jesus every knee should bow, well the things in heaven, things on the earth, and things under the earth.

Is it possible there’s something under the earth? The Bible says there’s something under the earth. Now we know that whenever Christ died on the cross, He went to the heart of the earth. Now is the heart of the earth, mode and lava like they tell us it is, or as it could be a big ole core, where it’s like paradise was. Paradise had to be somewhere. And it had to be, as the Bible says, in the heart of the earth.

Now anywhere you go, when it’s a hole there, it’s like a bottomless pit, because there’s no bottom, it’s there, but where’s the bottom? Is it the bottom? I don’t know. It’s interesting trying to put it all together. I hope ywordpress. But there are angels that God said that were in the earth in a certain place, and there were believers from the Old Testament that were in the heart of the earth. And Christ told the thief on the cross, today shout out, be with me in paradise.

And he says in the book of Ephesians in chapter four, when he ascended, what is it that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth and led captivity? Yeah, so there were people there. But he only took out the believer. So that means a lot of other unbelievers all still there. When he says in the book of Revelation chapter one, concerning Jesus Christ, he said, I am the Alpha and, oh my God, I’m the beginning and the end.

I’m the first and I’m the last. And I have the keys of death, which is rough to the grave, and Hades is the word Hades. So if he has the keys that he can open up the graves and bring out the bodies, then there’s also something in Hades that are still there. Because what would be the point of saying I have the keys of Hades if all the believers are taken out and there’s nobody else there, but they are somebody there.

And one day at the Great White Throne Judgment, it says death and hell shall deliver up the dead. So there’s the souls, there’s the bodies and they’re going to come together and stand before God and that’s at the end, which is at the Great White Throne Judgment. So yes, there’s fallen angels and there’s possibility of something under the earth. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida, with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message.

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When God had done a miraculous thing for the nation of Israel, He took them down into Egypt. they were in their incubation period. 400 years they were given the choice land. There rose up a pharaoh that knew not Joseph. This new pharaoh put them in the bondage. They became a slave. And now the time has come for deliverance. Scriptures talk about many times about as the pains of childbirth, travail. And he says that Israel was travailing in pain, seeking to be delivered.

The Bible tells us that out of Egypt have I called my son. We know it’s a double reference. One, later on Jesus Christ after he had been taken there by Joseph and Mary. Later on he came back from Egypt and it says that he fulfilled the scriptures and that God had promised that out of Egypt have I called my son. But also out of Egypt did God call his son the whole nation of Israel and Israel is looked upon as one individual.

And God as the king over Israel wanted to direct Israel and God gave them laws. And God God says that I will not put any of the diseases of the nation of Egypt upon you. I will protect you. I will make you victorious. I’ll give you the land that flows with milk and honey and all kinds of things that God just couldn’t wait to do for Israel. But He also promised me, says, now, if you serve me, I’ll bless you.

If you don’t, I’m going to chasten you. And so Israel had a choice. wanted to direct and rule his people one on one. The other nations around the bottom had a king and they wanted a king too. But they wanted a literal man to set up on a throne in Jerusalem and rule. And the Lord told them, says, look, if I give you a king, that king is going to take your land and that king is going to take your money and that king is going to take your sons and daughters.

So you’re going to pay a great price just to have that that king. When you didn’t have to do that, all you had to do is just let God speak through His prophet and the prophet would tell you and that’s what you would do. The children of Israel had rebelled against God. They wanted to have this literal king and God was angry with him. Anybody know the name of the first king of Israel? The Apostle Paul. Saul became the king and as time goes on, well, he rebelled against God.

First Samuel in chapter 12, he says here in verse 6. Now remember, he’s already said, if anybody has any reason, anything against me, because I was the prophet and you refused to obey God through me, if I wronged you in any way, let me know. And of course nobody said anything. Nobody had anything against Samuel. And that’s pretty good from his childhood all the way up to now he says, I am old. He says I’m gray headed. But look at verse six.

Samuel is now rehearsing to them. Now always seek to understand the scriptures by how would I receive this message or what would God want me to do if I heard this message? And so are there anything in your own light that you need to correct? Remember, everybody has to have something that rules them. Something has to tell you what to do or not to do. Sometimes we feel like if we could educate the masses, then the education is supposed to solve most people’s problems.

Samuel said unto the people, it is the Lord that advanced Moses and Aaron. And that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt. Now therefore stand still that I may reason with you. In other words, let me talk to you for a little bit. Every once in a while people need to shut up, sit down, and listen to what God has to say. This is why your personal time between you and the Lord is such a valuable time.

If you get too busy in life that you don’t have no time to stop and let God speak to you, then you’re too busy. You’re just too busy. Stop something. You’ve got something that you’re doing that you don’t need to do if you don’t have time for the Lord. Period. He says here in verse 7, I want the reason with you about what God did for you. Now the reason you and I should serve the Lord, because if we stop and think about what God has done for us, how that he saved us from a place in hell and gave us eternal life and made us his children, and of all the blessings that he wants to give to us in this life and how he wants you, every person, if they would only just reason, they’d want to serve the Lord.

But see, people can’t stop and think because if they reasoned about this thing, then they would do it. The devil will keep your mind so busy, keep you so busy that you can’t think about the priorities. Remember this, when you read the book of Revelation in chapter 2, and he’s talking about the church, he says, I know by works and I know your patience. I know the tribulations He says but I have somewhat against thee. He says because bow has left thy first Your first love So you can do a lot of things But if you ever lose your first love nothing else matters Everything that you do you’re not rewarded for Because God rewards the efforts that are done because of the labor of love If I do all things and give my body to be burned, and if I could move mountains because of my great faith,

or if I could speak with a tongue of angels, but if I don’t have love, it profiteth me how much. It doesn’t profit you anything. So you can go to church and not get one reward. You can read your Bible and get no rewards. You can even witness and not get a reward. Because the reason why you do it, if it’s not to honor the one that did all these things, did all these things for you, he says, your labor is in vain.

Now I would rather you do it because the man who hears the gospel, even with your wrong motive, still can hear the gospel, trust, Christ, to save you, still go to heaven when he dies. But if you want the blesses of God, then he says, don’t lose your first love. That means don’t let anything or anybody come between you and God. If you do, God can remove anything that comes between you and him. Always keep it in mind. So he says here in verse 8, When Jacob had come into Egypt, and your fathers cried unto the Lord, then the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, which brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, made them dwell in this place.

When they forgot the Lord of their God, he sold them into the hands of Cicera, captain of the host of Hazar, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab and they fought against them and they cried unto the Lord and said we have sinned because we have forsaken the Lord and have served a balum and ashteroth but now deliver us out of the hands of our enemies and we will serve thee.

In other words, you can look at it as an individual. They got a lot of whoopons they didn’t need to give. They got a lot of whoopons because they were rebellious. I got whoopons when I was a kid. Some of them I deserved. I also believe I got some I didn’t deserve but when I was going to school if you did get a whooping in school You did get one when you got home and it didn’t matter what the reason was you got one in school when you got home You got another one and the one that got at home was a lot worse than one I ever got in school I think God they’ll probably get back to a little bit of that But anyway now you know you touch my kid you say anything to my kid they come on beat you up

So you though you in jail God says his children God, a lot of whoopons they didn’t have to get. Now here you are, you trusted Christ as your Savior. You’re going to heaven when you’re done. You’re God’s child. You don’t see God in human form. I mean, you don’t see God. He’s a spirit. You don’t see the Holy Spirit. You don’t even see the devil. You don’t see heaven. You don’t see hell. We live by faith. We believe in all of that because God says, so we live our lives because I believe that God is alive and he’s working and I’m his child, he’s my father and he’s going to do what he promised.

So as you live your life, God says we are going to receive a lot of weapons, spanking, chasting, we didn’t have to have. But because God is concerned about our attitudes, God knows our anger, he knows our bitterness, he knows the results of what we do, what we do. He knows if we lose our first love. knows he’s going to have to lay the rod. But he’s a good God, a loving God, a forgiving God, and then he will always deliver.

And in every case, when they cried out to God, God forgave them and everything was fine. And you would think, well, they ain’t going to do that again. Have you ever had a kid? It didn’t matter how many times you whooped that kid, it did not help. And in your sometimes, you can just look at one of them and, and bud, they straighten up. You don’t have to touch them. If you don’t obey your heavenly Father like you should, then you should understand God is going to have to chaste.

But when he chasteens you, it’s not because he hates you, it’s because he what? He loves you. Can you say that? God loves me. He loves me. Jesus loves me. This I know. He loves us, but we don’t always obey him. And he says there in verse 11, and the Lord sent, durable, and beat and, and Jeffup, and Samuel and delivered you out of the hands of your enemies. Some of these were the various judges. On every side and you dwelled safe, God sent different individuals.

And God used those men to do miraculous things for the nation of Israel. Gideon was using a great mighty way. Looking verse 12. When ye saw that nay has the king of the children of Eman came against you. You said unto me, nay, but a king shall reign over us. When the Lord your God was your king. So we want a king over us. He says, you already had a king. It was God. God ruled over you. Well, we don’t want God.

We want us that king. And it is, or I’ll ever get some bad kings. Do you know that God caused Saul and Jonathan to die in a battle with the Philistines all because of disobedience. But look what he says here. Now therefore, behold the King whom ye have chosen and whom ye have desired. And behold, the Lord hath said a King over you. Sometimes God just love and let you have it. He’ll let you have your own way. And that thing that you wanted so bad will become the very thing that you’ll hate and despise afterwards.

Remember one time I was listening to Ray and he was telling the story about this guy in and say no solemn. And he was walking down the hallway and he heard a guy down at the end of the hall hollering, Susie Susie! He says, what’s he hollering for? He says, he used to go with a girl named Susie and she left him for another man and it drove him crazy. Went down another hallway, another guy on the other end with hollering, Susie Susie!

He said, well what happened to him? He said, he got her. In verse 14, you ought to, on the line, verse very important in his first. If ye will fear the Lord and serve him and obey his voice and not rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue following the Lord your God. He says, if you will keep certain God, just like the told you to, then God says, I’ll bless you and the king.

So God says, all right, I’ll give you a king. But the king is still a listen to me. And you are still to listen to me. And if everybody listens to God, then everything will work all right. And he’ll guide the king and so forth. So he says, the people are going to get the kind of a king they deserve. The people will get a king like they deserve. But that doesn’t mean that, you know, just because you don’t like or agree with all the person to sit.

That doesn’t make him a wicked man. Just because you don’t agree with your husband on everything doesn’t make him a wicked man. Just because the preacher doesn’t say anything that you like doesn’t make him a wicked man. You’re wicked when you do wicked things. Not just something you disagree with. He makes a statement down here in verse 15. But if he will not obey you notice in God’s word he’s always a positive and then a negative. Saying if you will do this this is what I do But if you don’t, this is what kind of, uh, this is why if you read the Bible, the Old Testament stories and their stories, a lot of stories, you don’t see as much doctrine on teaching as you do the stories, but these stories, if you really understand them, teach doctrine.

It’s telling you what God will do and what God will not do. It teaches the principles of God. And if I will obey God, what he’ll do, if I don’t, what will happen. And so the Bible says this in the 19th Psalm, thy word is sure, making wise the simple. And the testimonies of the Lord are sure. In other words, the testimonies that are in the Bible of the various individuals are teaching principles about God. And that if you will do what God says do, this is what you can expect.

He says in the book of Romans in chapter 15. That the scriptures were written a four time for our benefit for our profit so that we studied the doctrine in the Bible in the New Testament, a lot of doctrine in the New Testament. But you go back to the Old Testament and there’s your sugar and your salt and your pepper that flavors those doctor no teachings so that you can enjoy them and understand them. The nation of Israel is like the teaching of eternal security.

It’s the doctrine of chastisement. You can see it all. There is the doctrine of salvation, so tearyology in the Old Testament that you can see and understand and help you. But he makes the statement here in verse 15, But if you will not obey the voice of the Lord, but rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then shall the hand of the Lord be against you as it was against your fathers. Alright, the Bible says that this was not written to us, but this was written for us now as you read that Can you get anything out of that?

Can you learn anything from what the verses are saying? I Can’t I can see it scares me to death That God is not a Respector of persons That if I do what they did God will bless me too But if I do what they didn’t do if I do that then God’s gonna chase me just like he did here because it’s the same God. When you read in the New Testament and in the Hebrews when he makes a statement, Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, forever.

He doesn’t change. God doesn’t change. His character never changes. But how he works with the various people at different times and certain things, yes, he may tell you something different. But it still boils down to either obey that or disobey. Whatever he told Adam and Eve was a simple think about obey or disobey. What he told Israel is simply an obey or disobey. The New Testament is always just in an obey or disobey. This print was still saying today, obey or disobey.

Either you do what God says or you don’t do what God says and if you do, he’ll bless it if you don’t, he’s got to chase him. And many of God’s children living today go on the church, we can still be chasing by God. He said, you may not perceive it as a chastening. You say it’s just something that happened. Just an accident. Anything can happen and you’re the one that has to decide in your mind. Is this simply a testing by which God is going to make me stronger or is this something because of something that I’ve done?

Is this because of the way that I’m thinking? Is this a result of something else in my life that I need to get? is God trying to get my attention. You’re the one who has to decide that. And somebody else observing might not know the difference between being chastened or being blessed. Because a chastening can be a blessing. Trials and tribulations can be a blessing because that’s where you learn and draw you closer to the Lord. But sometimes it’s because God got so much for you to learn and wants to grow, but it might be because you did something you didn’t correct.

That’s the decision and you have to make so that you have that confidence between you and God. You’re walking with the Lord. Now, I guess what he says up here in verse 16. Now, therefore, stand and see this great thing, which the Lord will do before you. Right. Guess what? He says in verse 17, is it not wheat harvest today? I will call unto the Lord and he shall send thunder and rain that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the Lord and asking you a qua- a came.

See in their mind they didn’t see anything wrong with it. That’s what the other nations have. Why can’t we have it? Wickedness is not from your perspective. Just because I don’t see anything wrong, I don’t think it’s that bad, it has nothing to do with your perception. It all has to do with God’s perception. God’s the one that says what’s right, God’s the one that says what’s wrong, and based upon God’s perception something is right or wrong not yours in mind and therefore when you read the Word of God and you see that God says this is right this is wrong you better just mark it down that wrong is wicked in God’s eyes do right and you govern your life by what the word of God says from his view point not from yours but in their eyes they didn’t think was so bad otherwise

they probably would have not have asked for a king but they did and God said it was a wicked thing. So in verse 18, so Samuel called unto the Lord and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel. And all the people said unto Samuel, pray for thy servant unto the Lord thy God that we die not, for we have added unto all our sins this evil to ask us a king.

So they knew it wasn’t just that one sin, it’s added to all the other ones. See God knows there’s an accumulation where people, yeah we fail, but did you take care of it? Or do you just let it go overlook it and try to forget it about it? And you know that it’s wrong, but you don’t do anything about it. And then you do another one and then you do another one doing another and you’re just trying to block it out of your mind.

And God knows you never dealt with this sooner or later that two before is on its way. I’ve been preaching long enough and I’ve been watching people long enough and I’ve never seen a person go against God and ever win sooner later the two before is going to hit you over the top of the head. In verse 20, and Samuel said unto the people, fear not ye have done all of this wickedness, yet turn not aside from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart.

Regrets of what you have done, and regardless of how bad it was, listen, you can correct the problem. You don’t have to keep doing that way. And there’s tying things that somebody else may not know that we may hide secret sins in our own heart. God knows. Confess things to God, keep things clean between you and the Lord and keep doing what’s right. And He says here in verse 21, turn you not aside, for then should ego after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver for their vain.

Any time you turn away from doing what God wants you to do with your life, your life is in vain. There’s no profit there. God is only going to reward you when you get to heaven for what you’ve done for him. So everything else you do is in vain. It doesn’t profit. It doesn’t last. It’s only temporary. And there’s pleasure in sin for a season. It’s temporary. But if you’ll do what God says to do, your land of treasures that you’ll never lose.

Now get what he says in verse 22, For the Lord will not forsake his people for his great name sake. You are God’s child. You are a Christian, you trusted Christ, that’s what makes you a Christian. For His name’s sake, He’ll never cast you out and never lose you. There’s a verse in the book of Hebrews in chapter 13 that says, I’ll never cast you, I’ll never forsake you, never. See, we have New Testament doctrine that states all these things that we’re reading right here.

We’re reading right here, the book of Hebrews chapter 12 about Chasen. Right, it’s over here. First Corinthians in chapter 10, That’s all right here. See, New Testament doctrine is the basis, the foundation for all these stories. Verse 23 should be a verse that you underline. It is a tremendous verse. I’ve had kids learn this verse when they go to camp. More over as for me. Now this is Samuel saying this to the people of Israel. More over as for me, God forbid, or I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you.

But I will teach you the good and the right way. Isn’t that a good prayer? My prayer to God is that I am going to pray for you and that I’m going to teach you the right way. So he says not only what he said, but didn’t he also in the first part of the chapter say, look what I did. From childhood to an old man, he says, you look at my whole life, my life is a testimony of what I believe.

Bring charges against me if you have them. They say, we don’t have them. So what I believe and what I’ve done is to teach you the right way. So Samuel is, spite of what they’ve done that was wrong and And what they did was a wicked thing. He says, I’m here for you. I’m going to pray for you that you’ll still do right and honor God. And he says, I’m going to teach you the good and the right way.

Look in verse 24. Only fear the Lord. You know, he didn’t say fear to King. He says, fear the Lord. Fear the Lord. There’s a story that I heard years ago. I don’t know if I can remember it as well as I used to. I don’t know if I remember anything like I used to. But I was reading an article and it was talking about doing the time of Rome and they had all these wrestlers that would come into the arena and the gladiators would all fight and they had these professional wrestlers but they were wrestlers they would wrestle even on today.

sometime, those at loss would be fed to the lions. And that saw them that refused to fight, they would put sharp stakes into the ground, and then they would take the wrestlers and set them on it. And poor pitch over them and light them on fire. And they said everybody in the realm had to acknowledge that Caesar was king. As you know, part of the problem with the Christians was that now they believed that Jesus was the king. And that they were bowed to Christ, but they were bowed to no man.

They was pledge allegiance to Christ, but they wouldn’t pledge allegiance to no man. Well, they lined up all the wrestlers that they had and all the gladiators and everybody that fought in the arenas and told them that this was a new decree, that everybody had to swear allegiance to Caesar and state Caesar is king and pledged their allegiance to him. Allegiance to the king means to totally obey the king and whatever the king says do. It was called the divine rights of the kings and you’ll do whatever the king tells you to do.

Well, that was kind of hard for those that believed in the Lord. And that if they didn’t do it, then they would die. Forty wrestlers stepped forward, Satan, they’d say they would not pledge their allegiance to Caesar. And doing so, they knew that they would die. It was in a dead and winter time. The lake was frozen, and they marched them out into the middle of the lake. They built the fire on the beach. And the rest of them were around the fire keeping warm, but they marched those forty out there.

They stripped them of their clothes and those forty wrestlers would march in a circle. And they marched and they said, 40 wrestlers wrestling for the O Christ, to thee the victory for us the crown. And they would walk in the circle and they kept saying that. restless wrestling for thee to thee the victory for us the crown. And after a while it was 39, restless wrestling for thee O Christ, to thee the victory for us the crown. And then 30, restless wrestling for thee until after a while there was no voice left.

And yet the fire was right there on the shore and all they had to do was come over there and renounce their faith in Christ. But they would rather die for their faith. We have people the day that can’t even live for their faith, let alone die. Have you placed yourself over God? Are you more powerful in your own eyes than God wiser than God? Can you make better decisions than God? Remember years ago I took a blank piece of paper and I said on this piece of paper, many people they write down what they want out of their life.

And then they say, God, would you kind of sign it right there? This is what I want. They speak God to sign it. And then when they don’t get what they want out of life, I try God. And what God wants you to do is, He wants you to sign your name on the bottom and say, Lord, you just fill it in. Whatever you want from a life, that’s good enough. I’m not demanding anything. I’m your to use. Until death.

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So these 10 nations will become one kingdom. This one kingdom, I believe, these 10 nations are going to get together and give their power to one person. And that will be the head of the last one world government. So they’re five or fallen, one is yet to come and the eighth is of the seventh. The eighth is of the seventh. So the eighth one has to be part of these 10. Because they’re going to give their power. If they gave it, that means they have to be democracies.

Somehow, somewhere along the line. So I believe this to come. Now look there in verse 10. There are seven kings, five are fallen, one is, the other is not yet come. When he cometh, he must continue a short space. The beast that was is not, even he is the eight and is of the seven and goeth into perdition and that 10 horns which thou sawth are 10 kings which have received no kingdom as yet. So when they say well this is a revival of the old Roman Empire it was divided up when they had 10 generals and so forth and blah blah blah.

It says they never had one yet. They haven’t existed yet so it can’t be just a revival of the Roman Empire. I can see where they get it from but I have problems with it. I’m not saying I’m totally accurate 100%, but there’s a few questions in doubt that I have not been able to find anybody that can answer some of my questions that would make me totally believe it. So therefore I believe this. Now, and he says these 10 horns have not received their power yet.

And he says in verse 13, they have one mind and shall get this give their power and strength unto the beast. So these last 10 nations, and whether these are just 10 nations or 10 sections of the globe that’s cut up in different sections and they give their power to a person that will rule. You see, right now people around the world economically are in a chaos. I I mean, there’s the money woes all over the world. It’s not just in America.

Right now they’ve got trouble up there with, well, all of them, Ireland and Spain, Greece and Portugal, and I mean, it’s all in the news. So what they are gonna come up with eventually down the road is seeing that they need a one world currency, one world bank and a one-world government, a one-world religion. All of it is just setting the stage for what God prophesied in His Word 2,000 years ago. And in some cases a lot longer than that when you go all the way back to the book of Daniel.

And get what else it says. And these 10 kings in verse 14, these shall make war with who with the Lamb. So here in Daniel chapter 2 they make war with the Lamb. In Daniel chapter 7 they make war with the Lamb and in Revelation chapter 17 they make war with the Lamb. So is it possible that all of these are saying the same thing about the same event and you start with them and you back up and you can find a little bit better or maybe a key that helps unlock some of the other things.

Remember this, it is very difficult sometimes for people to understand how God sometimes does things. For example, let’s take the book of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, four books in the Bible. Now. If you was going to try to understand when did these take place? So Matthew, he recorded from here up to here. And then Mark comes along and he records what happened from here to here. And then Luke comes along and records what happened here to here. And then John comes along and records what happened to here to here.

See, there’s how he said it was to understand the Bible. That’s how each one did it, and all you gotta do it, just read them, and that’s over a period of all these years, and that’s what happened. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. If in every one of these books, it talks about and ends with the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the resurrection of Jesus Christ. So talking about the death, barely the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

at the end of each one of these books, right? Well, you know that he couldn’t have done that four times. True? So you don’t read it that way. You have to put it down as Matthew and Mark and Luke and John and they all happened at the same time. That way all the crucifixions lines up together. It’s not four events, it’s only one time. just viewed at from four different angles. Matthew always pictured Christ as the king of Israel and Mark as the servant and Luke as the perfect man and John as God.

So whenever you study these books, you’re seeing Jesus Christ as the King of Israel. And so in the book of Matthew talks about the gospel of the kingdom, talks about him coming and setting up the kingdom of heaven, and the phrase son of man is mentioned about 31 times. Because the son of man shows his humanity and the Son of God, His divinity. So you have a little bit better understanding that whenever you read each one of these Gospels, it’s all about Christ.

But each one revealed different things. Though Jesus was the King, He was a servant. And though He was God, He was a man. He was the perfect God-man. But one of these by itself will not explain them. So what you do is you can line up something that’s the same in every one of them and that’s the cross. And you go backwards and you can understand a little bit more about it. Now when we come to the book of Revelation, there’s a lot of things that seems like it ought to be like this.

Oh, you know, we got the seven seals, Then we have the seven angels and we got the seven trumpets and we got the seven bowls of judgment and they all happen afterwards like this. You’re going to have trouble because they are written it’s, it’s, you’ll have the the angels, the trumpets, the bowls of judgment, the seven seals on and it’s parallel. It’s like it’s all happened at the same time but from four different views. So as you study each one of these, you might see something from the eye of God, as God sees it.

Then you’ll see something from the man’s view, as man sees it. And then from my person perspective as a servant of the Lord and as Christ ruling upon the earth, because the whole book is about the revelation him being revealed and he is clue who he claimed to be he is the king. Now take your Bible and turn back there now to the book of Revelation and chapter 8 Revelation chapter 8. Now notice now in verse 5 verse 5 and the angel took the sensor and filled it with fire of the altar cast it into the earth.

I want you to underline or notice these four things that are mentioned here. One is voices, thundering, lightening, and an earthquake because these same things that happens is not that’s going to happen four or five, six times throughout the book. It might be clues that is going to happen at a certain time, and if you line those up, then you can line up all the stuff that goes before it, and you know where it’s supposed to be. Now, I do not have all the answers to the book of Revelation.

It’s just too much here. But I’ve got a few little things that you might take it and run with it and say, I can see this and see that, and maybe it’ll help you a little bit more. even if it does nothing more than cause you to study the book. God promises a blessing to those who study this book. And then what he says, here in verse five, voices, thunderings, lightnings and earthquake. Now take your Bible looking Revelation chapter 11, chapter 11.

And you’ll notice now this is in chapter 11 and around verse 19 I wanna show you, I want you to read from verse 15 down. So look in verse 15. The seventh angel, now if the seventh angel is sounding then it’s at the end of something because there’s seven angels, had seven trumpets and here’s a seven angels. So it’s probably closer to the end of the tribulation period. But look what he says. The seventh angel sounded and there went great voices in heaven saying, the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ.

He shall reign forever and ever. Now, wait a minute, that’s what we’ve read to a three times over there in the book of Daniel that there’s coming a time when his saints, his people will possess the kingdom. So we know that The next thing to happen, there’s the tribulation period. Christ comes back to the earth and there is 1,000 years on the earth. The kingdom that He’s going to set up, that’s the kingdom from heaven. The king is going to rule.

Now, it was going to happen way back here, time of the cross, but they rejected Christ, so they rejected the king. So the kingdom was postponed. The king is coming back. They will accept the king and the kingdom will be set up upon the earth. And the saints shall possess the kingdom. So that’s why when you read in the book of Daniel, when he says the saints shall possess the kingdom and talking about until the ancient of days in these tinned right here, every one of those will be existed when Christ comes back.

And that’s what ends the Gentile dominion over the nation of Israel. And Israel will dominate the world. Now here in Revelation chapter 11 and verse 15, the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever. But evidently it hasn’t happened yet. It’s seen as though it has, but it’s real and it’s going to. And but it’s written as though it’s sadon dio. But look what else she says.

And the four and twenty elders which sat before God on their thrones fell before upon their faces and worshiped God. Say, and we give thee thanks O Lord God Almighty which art and was an art to come because thou has taken to thee thy great power and hath reigned. And the nations were angry and thy wrath is come, the time of the dead that they should be judged, and that thou should have give reward unto thy servants the prophets.”

So this is talking about everything that’s going to happen. It’s kind of like put it all in a little nutshell of what’s going to take place and then he’s talking about when he’s going to give rewards. You see, when Christ comes back at the end of the tribulation period, there’s going to be rewards for people who have served the Lord and they’re going to rule and reign with Christ. After the great white throne judgment that takes place over here, the Bible talks about He is going to give the rewards to His saints according to their words.

So you see, just because we believe salvation is by grace, and I do totally, 100%, you’re saved by grace don’t have to do one work of any kind. God will save you, give you turn life and you get to go to heaven when you die. But I’m not there yet. I am not just interested in getting my little pinkies inside the pearly gates. That’s already been taken care of 50 years ago. There just might be something else there that I want.

I don’t know what it is. I can’t explain it all. But if There’s one reward that God wants to give to me. I want it. You say, you’re greedy. Call it anything you want. I don’t want to miss out on one blessing, one reward. I don’t want to miss out on anything. I want all that God wants me to have. If that’s wrong, then you’ve got a problem with God. God says that we are reward motivated people. Now, as we’re moving right along here, look what he says here in verse 19, and the temple of God was opened in heaven.

And there was seen in his temple the Ark of the Covenant. I believe it’s the one that was on the earth is made after the model of the one that’s in heaven, just like the tabernacle upon the earth was made after the pattern of the one that’s in heaven. and get these four things here in verse 19, and there were lightnings and voices and funders and an earthquake and great hill. I wonder if there’s a possibility if those things mentioned here could relate to the very same thing that’s happened in chapter eight.

Now see in my mind, I see that and I think it’s the light that goes on because I line up those things. And we know this happens at the end. So also I lined up something else. When I saw that, I also saw something. Look there in chapter 16 of the book of Revelation. Revelation chapter 16. Now in verse 13, he talks about, and I saw three unclean spirits like frogs. And you know how a frog catches his prey with the tongue.

The way the antichrist is gonna take over is gonna use the tongue, gonna lie, deceive, and convince. Buddy, he’s gonna be some orator. He’s gonna have all the right words to say and convince everybody that he is the answer and got the solution to the problems of the world. Can you believe that somebody would come on the scene and have that kind of ability and people are gonna swallow it? Boy, I could say a bunch right now, but we’ll just keep looking on here.

In verse 13 it says, out of the mouth of the dragon, that’s the devil, out of the mouth of the beast, that’s the antichrist, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, there’s your religious. So you have the antichrist, the political head and the religious head. And those two last ones are mentioned in the book of Revelation, chapter 13. One beast that comes out of the sea, one beast that comes out of the land, one is repolitical and one is religious, and they will be heads overall.

And their religious one causes the people to worship the first one. And there behind all of this is a devil that’s pulling strings and got people in the palm of his hand. They didn’t want God. They didn’t want the Holy Spirit. Don’t want the church. Don’t want the believers. Okay, this is what you got. The worst part of time the world has ever known. I’ve had it. Now, I want you to see. They’re in verse 14, for they are the spirits of devils or demons, miracles which go forth unto the kings of the earth.

Now get this, they go forth unto the kings of the earth and of a whole world to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. Behold I come as a thief. Now see the thief here, I come as a thief. This is when at the rapture or this is the end of the tribulation period. Well look at it. I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watch it and make it his garments. I keep it this garment unless he walk naked and they see a shame and he gathered them together in a place called in the Hebrew tongue and there’s that little fancy word Armageddon.

You ever heard of that before? Call the battle of Armageddon. This is at the end of the tribulation period because this is when they’re going to have this great big earthquake. This is when the Lord’s coming back. When the Lord comes back, He takes care of these ten nations, these ten toes, these ten kings, and then He says here in verse 17. And the seventh angel, so that means it fits the seventh angel, it must be toward the end, right?

I mean, there’s not an eighth or ninth or tenth, the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air. There came a great voice out of the temple of heaven from the throne saying it is done. Now in Daniel and chapter 9 when he talks about the 70 weeks of Daniel it talks about so much time in order for to bring in the treaty and to bring in the sacrifices and they cause the oblations to cease and they cause in the righteousness and so forth of God to be set up into the kingdom.

All these things are mentioned there. And he says, it’ll be all done. It’ll be completed. So now we’re studying the book of Revelation how God says, it is done. Now we know when he died on the cross and he says these words, it is finished, that that’s all there was to do for the payment of the sins of the world. He died. Now he’s telling us that in order to set up his kingdom. It’s done. He’s done everything he said he was going to do.

All these prophecies are all coming together and God is keeping his word. When he says that Christ is the spirit of prophecy, he is the epitome of prophecy. He is the person of prophecy. He is the fulfillment of all prophecy. Look what he says here. In verse 18, and there were, hmm, voices, thunders, lightnings, there was a great what? Earthquake. Such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty and earthquake and so great. I wonder if it could be put together with the one over in chapter 11 and verse 19, or chapter eight and verse five, If there’s any connection in all of this or when you go all the way back to Zachariah in chapter 14 And you read it and it says that no the the Lord the day of the Lord has come And his feet will touch upon the

Mount of Olives and it will cleave in the mist And all these things is going on and in verse 12 and Zachariah says and this shall be the plague Where will God will smite the nations that have come against Jerusalem? And while they stand upon their feet, their flesh out and simmer away off their bones and out of their eye sockets and blah, blah, blah. Now look what he says. Verse 19, “‘And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and great Babylon came and remembered before God.

To give unto her the cup of the wind of the fierceness of his wrath.'” This is at the end, but it’s going to get really bad. Now, I know that sometimes we wonder whether or not who is this Babylon. Just question. Well, a couple of them. In verse 20, and every island fled away. The mountains were not found. There fell upon men a great hail out of heaven. And every stone about the weight of a talent, which they say is about a hundred to 120 pounds.

I don’t know. It doesn’t matter to me. Probably pretty heavy. Probably gonna give somebody a bad headache. Every stone. And men blaspheme God because of the plague of the Hail. For the plague thereof was exceeding great. Now, so this is what’s going to come. It’s going to happen. And some of this toward the end of the tribulation period. But like I said, you take these verses that I just referred to, the one in Revelation chapter 8, chapter 11, chapter 16, and you put them together this way, and then you read the scriptures up to them.

and you’ll be surprised how that they will line up. But if you try to put one here and then the next one here and then the next one here, did you got the same thing? I know history repeats itself, but not that quick. And that’s why I don’t believe that the other way that many of the Bible scholars have tried to explain it because I got too many problems with it. Like I said, I’m not saying that I’m totally 100% correct, but I think I’m close enough until the experts get here.

All right, let me show you something. But just in case somebody is watching the broadcast tonight and you hear all of this and you could be scared to death. Do you know in spite of everything that you know, you don’t have to be afraid? We don’t have to be afraid because of what’s coming because I know what comes after this. It’s just like here I am. No, you can die with this. You can die with it. Yeah, I know, but what happens right after I die?

I mean, how long is it gonna take me to die? I don’t know, but soon it’s over with, I’m gone. And I will be in heaven, in paradise for all eternity. So I don’t have to worry about that. But until then, until then, yeah, we gotta live life. We got things to do. And there’s a lot of things God wants us to accomplish. So look up here. Jesus Christ is the Lord who’s coming back again, but He’s coming back to get those who have trusted Christ as their Savior.

And here is the reason why everybody should trust the Lord. See, this is you and me. This is sin. We all have sin upon us. God loves us. Now he hates our sin, but he does love us. And the thing for this sin is eternal separation from God into a literal fire burning hell. Now I know there’s people today that don’t even like to talk about hell and they wanna know, Are you sure church one of those hell fiber and stone preachers?

Yeah. Yeah, if you mean do I believe it, yes. If I didn’t believe it, why, what am I doing anything for it? You take away hell and there’s no reason to do anything. Who cares? But because I do believe that there is a hell, then I believe I need a savior. So what do I need to save you for if there’s no place to be saved from? If there is no hell, why did Jesus Christ down the cross keep me from going to a place that don’t exist.

But God loves us, wants us to go to heaven, and to go to heaven we have to be perfect just as righteous as God. None of us are perfect. None of us are righteous. We have all sinned and come short of God’s perfection. So none of us are good enough to go to heaven. Now this hand represents Jesus Christ. He’s the Lord. God in the flesh. He came into the world because he loves us. He hates our sin because our sins separate us from God.

So Jesus Christ took our sins, paid for it on the cross, came to the end. came back from the dead. He said, if I would believe he did it for me, he would give me as a free gift everlasting life. I get to go to heaven on what he did. He that they leave it on me. Believe what they did this should not perish but have everlasting life. So if I believe it, I have everlasting life. So 50 years ago in a little living room, the best I knew how I believed that Christ paid for my sins.

And I’m trusting him. Why him? Because he’s doing the paid for it. He’s when it came back from the dead. He’s God in the flesh. How can you go wrong by trusting the only true and living God there is? Can’t go wrong that way. So you trust Christ as your Savior, and He gives to you as a free gift ever lasting life. So I trust that Christ is my Savior, and I know that I’m going to heaven. And I hope that you have also.

If there’s any here tonight, if you’ve never trusted Christ as Savior, or if you’re watching by internet, why not right now in the kindness of this moment? Just realize, yes, Christ is coming back. And all these things that we talked about tonight, it is true. But you can escape all of this. You can escape the place called hell just by trusting Christ as your Savior. So in the quietness of this moment, just between you and the Lord, would you just say something simple like this Lord?

I know I’m a sinner. I don’t understand it all, but I believe Christ died and paid for my sins. And I’m going to trust Him as my only hope of going to heaven and preach. I’d like for you to pray for me. I’m not going to have you forward. Not going to embarrass you. I’m not going to call you out. I’m not going to point to you. But I’d like to know what I said made sense to you and the only way you can do that is Just to skip it a real quick and put it right back down.

I was doing it all. So yes, pray for me tonight. I will accept Christ as my Savior. I want to be certain of going to heaven when I die. Is anyone at all? Our Father, we do thank you so much for all you’ve done for us for the study of your Word. And Lord, even though there’s a lot of things we don’t know, there’s still a lot of things we can’t know. And the most important thing that in spite of how bad we are, it’s how good you are.

Your love does. paid for our sins, died and came back from the dead. And you said in your word, you’re coming back again someday. Until then, help us Lord to keep looking up. Christ and we pray. Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida, with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, You can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3771.

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We’re going to talk about the book of Revelation. So if you will, take your Bible and turn to the book of Revelation. Revelation and Chapter 8. Revelation, Chapter 8. In the previous chapter it talks about the believing Jews and the believing Gentiles of that trust of the Lord during the tribulation period. And it says that there were multitudes of all nations and so on that trust of the Lord but were killed in the tribulation period. So the tribulation period is a time that God has described in his word.

But what we have is the cross and this is where we are right now. We are right here and the rapture takes place. We’re out of here. Then there will be seven years tribulation period upon the earth and then Christ comes back to the earth to rule upon the earth. So that’s a simple layout but in understanding that when you study the Scriptures you need to know where to hang the Scriptures. Say well this belongs here or this belongs there and it will help you tremendously.

Now here in the book of Revelation chapter 8 we’re going to see that it starts off with about the seven angels who had the seven trumpets that is going to deliver seven messages of judgment upon the earth. Chapter seven, it talks about the angels and the four corners of the earth and they were not to do their responsibility or fulfill it until the 144,000 were sealed. And And so they were not to hurt the earth. So the first four trumpets of the angels that we find here in chapter eight, when it starts being fulfilled, remember chapter seven says not to do it until.

So we know that this has to be after the ceiling of the 144,000 Jewish evangelists. So I want you to look there in verse one. And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. Now the Bible does not really tell us why there’s this silence. I know that whenever the High Priest, then they was going through the ceremony and the ritual of making sacrifices for sins and so forth, there was always a lot of singing and trumpets blowing and people praising the Lord and so forth.

But when the priest goes into the Holy, then it’s like a quiet. And whether or not we call us that, in the presence of Lord and what’s going on, I don’t really know. But anyway, I’m actually glad that when you get to heaven, though, it’s not about men and women. It just says that we’re all one in heaven. It’s hard to understand that it’s not male and female up there who are not going to get married and have kids in heaven.

We’re going to have a body like the Lord. But that’s another sermon for another day. But right now, I want you to see here in verse two. And I saw seven angels which stood before God to them were given seven trumpets. Now they are preparing themselves the sound. See they’re in verse 6, the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves the sound. So then that’s starting the fulfillment of the seven trumpets. But what I want you to also look at is there in verse 5 where it says in verse 5, and the angel took the sensor and filled it with the fire of the altar and cast it into the earth and there was voices and thunderings and lightens and earthquakes.

These four things that are mentioned here is mentioned in several other scriptures. A lot of times whenever you’re studying, you’re looking for key words, key verses, some little truth that unlocks the door. Well, the Word of God is in such a way that it’s like if you really want to know you have to search, you have to find the key. And sometimes we find them and sometimes we don’t. And there’s a few keys that I haven’t found. But there’s a few that I feel like I have that kind of unlocks and helps you to understand the person of scripture.

Now, it’s difficult sometimes to teach the whole book of Revelation without ever going back to the book of Daniel. These two books go together, just like the book of Ephesians and the book of Joshua, they kind of go together about victory and so on. But anyway, I want you to take your Bible and turn all the way over there to the book of Daniel Daniel in chapter 2 You know, what does this have to do with the book of Revelation?

Well, you’ll see there’s always a connection But in the book of Daniel in chapter 2 It tells us about a man named Nebuchadnezzar that had a vision he had a dream was more like a nightmare and He wanted somebody that could explain it. So, of course, God enabled Daniel to understand the dream and the interpretation of the dream. He starts off there in verse 31, Thou O King, sauced and behold a great image, this great image whose brightness was excellent stood before thee and the form thereof was terrible.

The image’s head was a fine gold, a billion arms of silver, a billion eyes of brass, his legs of iron and feet part of iron and part of clay. Thou saw to that a stone was cut out without hands which smote the image upon the feet that was of iron and clay and break them together. Then was the iron that the brass of the silver and the gold broke into pieces together and became like the chap of the summer threshing floor.

And the wind carried them away and there was no place found for them. The stone was that smoked, the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth. So when you read that, you can probably because you’ve been a Christian to understand some things about prophecy and so on, you can kind of figure what it’s talking about. But what we have here is that we have an image of a man. And this man is a beast. So we know that number one was the, they had a gold that was never a caneser.

Then there was the Medes and Depersions. And that acted them the Alexander Empire and then the Roman Empire. But then it talked about, and there was ten toes. And then it tells us that there’s going to be a stone of that’s going to come down and smite the ten toes and cause the whole image to crumble and be totally destroyed. So whenever I read this, I don’t always start with the first one, number one, and then two, three, four, five.

Though a lot of people instead in scripture, that’s what they do, and it seems like that would be a logical thing. You got number one, number two, and then you see in order. But there seems to be a problem down in the verses 41 and 42 and so on. Is there four here or is there five here? And so that’s why many people teach a revival of the Roman Empire. The last one is just a revival of it. Well, as you study the scriptures, you’ll find out also it says that the last one that there’s never been a kingdom like his kingdom.

And whenever it says the stone that smites the ten toes, that it causes all of them to be destroyed together. See there in verse 35, then was the iron, one, clay, two, three, brass, and silver, and gold. As five mentioned there, broken the pieces and there’s that word together. Look there in chapter two and look in verse 44. And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom. And I believe in these kings, let’s talk about these 10 that I’ll show you just a minute.

And it says, she’ll set up a kingdom. So we know that the last one, line up the last ones that it’s mentioned and then go backwards instead of going forward. So it’s said of here, going this way, and up here, go that away. Now it’ll work. I’ll be the same thing. I’ll come out with the same thing. So if these are here, are existing, when Christ comes back, the stone cut out of the mountain of the kingdom and sets up his kingdom.

So that’s why he says here, in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom. So God is gonna set up his kingdom. So we know that the kingdom that God sets up is comes right after this one. So there’s one, two, three. Four, five. And then he’s going to set up his kingdom upon the earth. So as I read this and study this, I believe that there’s five. Look here in verse 45. For as much as thou saw it, that the stone was cut out of a mountain without hands, that it break and pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold, that’s five things mentioned here.

And so there’s just four. In verse 40, he talks about the fourth is the Roman Empire. Now the fourth may be the Roman Empire. Roman Empire, but these last 10 toes is a different one altogether. And I believe there’s a good possibility, not only does history repeat itself, that this one has come and gone, the major and the persons have come and gone, the Alexandian Empire has come and gone, the Roman Empire has come and gone, and there’s one right ahead of us, see we still have Iraq.

We still got Greece. We still got Rome. I mean those places are still around. You still got Persia which is all like Iraq over there and those countries that are coming together and talking about Libya and Ethiopia and a few other little places that you find in the book of as Zikul in chapter 38. But what I want you to see is this, as you line them up, you will find that the key is the last one because that’s the one that has to stay the same for the stone which is Christ to destroy.

Now take your Bible and turn to the book of Daniel chapter 7. Daniel chapter 7. And this is when in the first year of Bill Shazar, he has another dream. And this one he says in verse 3, and he had a dream, and four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. Look in verse 1, the first was like a lion, but you’ll notice if you have a homie in here, you have to go through a reference Bible.

Alright, what does this say right above it? What kingdom is this first one. Never can I say it? And the second one is the major depersion. And the third one is the Alexander and the fourth one is the Roman Empire. So see, they’re taken in Daniel and chapter 7. It talked about four kingdoms, but they seem to miss something along the way because this is about four kingdoms that shall arise. Babylon has already come and gone. So why would you count Babylon again?

It’s already come. When you read chapter five, that’s when he was having his little party going on and the man’s hand on the wall and the Lord says, thou art weighed in the balances and are found wanting. Thy kingdom has departed from you and Darius that Meek comes in and He takes the kingdom the very same night. So? See what He says here? And He goes down to 1, 2, 3, 4. Now look down in verse 7. Verse 7.

After this I saw in the night vision behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible and strong exceedingly and it had great iron teeth. It devoured and breaking pieces, stamped the residue with a feet of end and get this. It was diverse or different from all the beasts that were before and it had how many horns? 10 horns. So this one here has 10 horns. If this one has 10 horns and that had 10 toes, is it possible that you line it up with these and go backwards?

If this is the last one, then that means there’s only three before that one. And the first one would not be never coniser. So I believe there’s a good possibility that these four were yet future. Now look there in chapter seven and verse 17. And notice in verse seven, he says, these great beasts, which are four, are four kings. Now what’s the next part of the verse say? Which shall arise out of the earth? What the other than, how can you include the first one as being Babylon when these are future ones to come?

Babylon has already gone off the same, or about to go off the same because it was doing the dream of Bill Shazor. See up there in verse one, he’s already ruling. This is the end of his kingdom. This is the grandson in place. And then the means and the person’s coming. So this is why I say, line these up, not one and two like this and then go forward. Line up the last one. You know the last one has to be the one that has the The battle with the Lord.

So the tin toes is going to be destroyed by the Lord. And now there’s talking about these tin horns. So look there in verse 21, verse 21, same chapter. Of course, if you wanted to know any of these, you would want to know probably about the fourth beast. Well, just look very quickly in verse 18. He says, but the saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom and possess them. the kingdom forever, even forever and ever. Oh, when?

After the fourth beast. So that means that when this one ends, it has to begin the kingdom of God upon the earth. So now, what do these 10 horns represent? Well, I’m glad you asked. Verse 21, I beheld and the same horn made war with the saints and prevailed against them until the ancient of days came and judgment was given. So this is the one right before the Lord comes back and then he says in the last part of verse 22 and the time came that the saints possess the kingdom.

So we’re talking about there is a time coming when the saints are going to possess the kingdom. But the kingdom that we possess is after these ten toes, ten horns, the last one. So look what else it says in verse 23. Then he said, the fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms. Now this is why I don’t see it as just a revival of the Roman Empire. Now it would solve a lot of problems to say it’s a revival of the Roman empire.

But is it possible that all these kingdoms could be revived and all of them all put together or existing when Christ comes back again? But I believe it’s going to be a lot more than just that. So I don’t look to Rome as to be the answer for all of my prophetic learning. Now look what else? In verse 24 and the 10 horns out of this kingdom, the sporeth kingdom, the ten horns are ten kings that shall arise and remember this is a different one than all the ones that’s gone before.

So it’s not one of those it’s already gone before. This is a different kingdom and these ten kings and they’re different. They’ve never been before. They shall arise and shall and after them. This is the one that’s going to be here when the Lord comes back and when the Lord comes back, then he’s going to have his kingdom, see there in verse 27, and the kingdom and dominion and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the saints, of the most high whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and all the minions shall serve and obey him.

So Christ coming back is after the ten toes, Christ coming back to the earth now we’re talking about is after the ten horns. And the ten horns are what? They’re 10 kings. Now take your Bible and turn all the way over there to the book of Revelation chapter 17. Revelation in chapter 17. Chapter 17, you’ll notice there in verse 9, and here is the mind which hath wisdom, the seven heads, seven mountains on which the woman sits. and there are seven kings by fallen one is the other is not yet come.

Now look up here now there’s a good possibility I may not be right on this but I don’t think I’ll be too far wrong. Now this is the cross there was the Kingdom of Egypt the Assyrian, Babylon, Medes and Depersians, Alexandria. Rome was here when Christ was here. So now when John on the Alapatmas wrote the book of Revelation, he says, five are fallen. One is at that time where he was. And one is yet to come. This last one is composed of ten nations.

So these ten nations will become one kingdom. This one kingdom, I believe, these ten nations are going to get together and give their power to one person. And that will be the head of the last one world government. So there are five are fallen, one is yet to come and the eighth is of the seventh. The eighth is all of a sudden, so the eighth one has to be part of these 10 because they’re going to give their power.

If they gave it, that means they have to be democracies, somehow, somewhere along the line. So I believe this will come. Now look there in verse 10. There are seven kings, five are fallen, one is, the other is not yet come. When he comes, he must continue a short space. The beast that was is not even he is the eight and is of the seven. and goeth into perdition and that ten horns which thou sawth are ten kings which have received no kingdom as yet.

So when they say well this is a revival of the old Roman Empire it was divided up when they had ten generals and so forth and blah blah blah. It says they never had one yet. Well actually they haven’t existed yet so it can’t be just a revival of the Roman Empire. I can see where they get it from but I have problems with it. I’m not saying I’m totally accurate 100%. But there’s a few questions and doubts that I have not been able to find anybody that can answer some of my questions that would make me totally believe it.

So therefore I believe this. Now, and he says these 10 horns have not received their power yet. And he says in verse 13, they have one mind and shall get this give their power and strength unto the beast. So So these last ten nations, and whether these are just ten nations or ten sections of the globe that’s cut up in different sections, and they give their power to a person that will rule. You see, right now people around the world economically are in a chaos.

I mean there’s the money woes all over the world. It’s not just in America. Now they got trouble up there with… Well, all of them. Ireland and Spain, Greece and Portugal. And I mean, it’s all in the news. So what they are going to come up with eventually down the road is seeing that they need a one world currency, one world bank, and a one world government, a one world religion. all of it is just setting the stage for what God prophesied in His word 2,000 years ago.

And in some cases, a lot longer than that when you go all the way back to the book of Daniel. And get what else it says. And these 10 kings, in verse 14, these shall make war with who? With the Lamb. So here in Daniel chapter 2, they make war with the Lamb. In Daniel chapter 7, they make war with the Lamb and in Revelation chapter 17, they make war with the Lamb. So is it possible that all of these are saying the same thing about the same event and you start with them and you back up and you can find a little bit better or maybe a key that helps unlock some of the other things?

Remember this, it is very difficult sometimes for people to understand how God sometimes does things. For example, let’s take the book of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, four books in the Bible. Now, if you was going to try to understand when did these take place? So Matthew, he recorded from here up to here. And then Mark comes along and he records what happened from here to here. And then Luke comes along and records for what happened here to here. And then John comes along and records what happened to here to here.

See there’s how he said that it was to understand the Bible. That’s how each one did it. And all you got to do is just read them. And that’s over a period of all these years. And that’s what happened. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. If in every one of these books it talks about and ends with the resurrection of Jesus Christ. resurrection of Jesus Christ. The resurrection of Jesus Christ. The resurrection of Jesus Christ. So talking about the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ at the end of each one of these books, right?

Well, you know that he couldn’t have done that four times. True? So you don’t read it that away, you have to put it down as Matthew and Mark and Luke and John and they all happened at the same time. That way all the crucifixions lines up together. It’s not four events, it’s only one time. It’s just viewed at from four different angles. Matt, you always pictured Christ as the… King of Israel and Mark as the servant and Luke as the perfect man and John as God.

So whenever you study these books, you’re seeing Jesus Christ as the King of Israel. So in the book of Matthew talks about the the gospel of the kingdom talks about him coming and setting up the kingdom of heaven and the phrase son of man is mentioned about 31 times What the cussing the son of man shows his humanity and the son of God his divinity So you have a little bit better understanding that whenever you read each one of these Gospels, it’s all about Christ.

But each one reveals different things. Though Jesus was the King, he was a servant. And though he was God, he was a man. He was the perfect God man. But one of these by itself will not explain him. So what you do is you can line up something that’s the same in every one of them and that’s the cross. And you go backwards and you can understand a little bit more about it. Now when we come to the book of Revelation, there’s a lot of things that seems like it ought to be like this.

Oh, you know, we got the seven seals, then we had the seven angels and we got the seven trumpets and we got the seven bowls of judgment. And they all happen afterwards like this. You’ll have trouble because they are written, it’s parallel. You’ll have the angels, the trumpets, the bones of judgment, and the seven seals on them, and it’s parallel. It’s like it’s all happening at the same time, but from four different views. So as you study each one of these, you might see something from the eye of God as God sees it.

Then you’ll see something is from the man’s view, as man sees it. And then from my person perspective as a servant of the Lord and as Christ ruling upon the earth, because the whole book is about the revelation can be revealed. And he is through who he claimed to be. He is the king. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida, with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message.

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Take your five moments. Look here in the book of Acts. The book of Acts. Look there in Acts chapter 17 first of all, and then there’s another scripture that I want to see. Chapter 15. But look there in Acts chapter 17. God says in verse 31, because this is Acts 17 verse 31, because he hath appointed a day in the way he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained, talking about Christ. In other words, everything is going to be judged according to His Son, Jesus Christ.

Are you as perfect? Are you as righteous as His Son? That’s the only way you get to heaven. Everybody is going to be judged according to Him. And so either you will be as righteous as Christ or you don’t get to go in. So that’s why we accept Christ as our Savior and He gives us His Now everybody said it, because he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained, where he hath given get this assurance unto all men and that he hath raised him from the dead.

So it’s not a matter just believing in anybody named Jesus, but your assurance of your salvation comes because of Christ’s not only dying dying for sin, but coming back from the dead. The payment was paid. God accepts the payment and you can’t trust a dead Christ to save you. He came back from the dead. He is alive and we trust him and he can save us. Now, here’s what it says in verse 32. If they did not have to believe anything about the resurrection of Christ or the payment for sin that he made, you know, the apostle Paul to say to themselves a lot of trouble by not mentioning the resurrection.

You know they got in trouble when they preached that. Look what happened when they preached in here. And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some monk, now they’re just going to hear the again and then why they get in the issue? They don’t have to believe them why they get in the issue. What talk about it? But it tells you who Jesus is. That’s why it’s so important. And because of it, it’s in verse 34, how certain men clave unto him and did what?

And believed. And they believed in the Jesus that died and rose again and God says, your assurance is based upon the resurrection and because he paid for all of my sins and came back from the dead, I have a shirt of the resurrection. I have eternal life. So that whenever I die, I’m going to rise again. My body’s going to come back from the dead. What? Because he is. Anyway, look now in chapter 15, chapter 15. And you’ll notice in chapter 15, now what you’re looking verse 13, this is a This course going on in the church there in Jerusalem James is the pastor of the church and there had Risen a problem about do you have to keep the lawn so forth to be saved or to stay saved?

For verse 13 said and after they had held their piece James answered saying Men and brethren parking on the me Simeon, or figure, have declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles to take out of them a people for his name. Now this is where we’re getting the fullness of the Gentile. I believe that there’s only so many cells in the body. And so whenever that body is complete in its full, complete, done, the rapture takes place.

I don’t know, but I would mind when in the last person to the Lord that causes the rapture take place. I don’t know if that’s what he’s referring to, but sure sounds pretty good. Now look what else he says. In verse 15 and to this, agree the words of the prophet, the Old Testament. as it is written, we’ll back to the Old Testament. In verse 16, after Christ takes out a people for his name of the believing Jews and believing Gentiles.

Remember on the day of Pentecost, it was the believing Jews. Chapter 10, believing Gentiles. And they were put together into one body. This is a mystery, never been known about before. Only the God was going to do something. And then he says, after this, the church is complete. And the raptor takes place. And we’re out of here, look what he says in verse 18. After this, what’s that word? I will return. That means he had become before this time.

So he’s already been here once. Now he’s gonna return, get what he said. And build again the tabernacle of David, Which has fallen down and I will build again the ruins thereof and I will set it up That the residue of men might seek after the Lord and all the Gentiles under whom my name is called says the Lord who do it all these things known in the God are all of his wonderful works from beginning the time so God says in the Last days, this is what’s going to take place Well, this is where we are now in our prophecy Take your Bible and now go to the book of Revelation in chapter 7.

So the rapture has taken place. The fullness of the Gentile has come in. The Jews are going to be grafted back in as a nation, which will take place when Christ comes back in power in great glory. Now there’s other Jews that are going to be reached way before this at the end of the seven-year tribulation period. So he says he’s going to seal them in their foreheads. See there in verse 3, hurt not the earth, neither the seed nor the tree.

That means the trumpets are not supposed to sound by these angels until God gets this done. In the other words, there’s something God has to take place. Who leads these people to the Lord? I don’t know. And exactly what time does these two prophets come into the world that’s been and then chapter 11. Remember it says to measure the city and the temple and the outer core is for the Gentiles but the temple in Jerusalem and it’s talking about this and then talked about there’s two witnesses that show up.

So I believe the temple is already there and this is probably close to the middle of the tribulation period. It’s interesting trying to put all the pieces of the puzzle together. But when it says that they were lying in the streets of the city, I believe that city is Jerusalem. And there’s an interesting thing that I want to show you on all the 17th chapter and who is this Bible on Jesus? Paul on Jesus, Paul on. That’s very, very interesting.

But look, they’re now in verse 4. And I heard the number, the number of them which were sealed. And there were 140 and 4,000 of all the tribes of the children of Israel. Now as you go down through here and you look at these various tribes, now the tribe of Levi was not given a portion of land in the land. They just simply lived among the other 11 tribes because they had a priestly work to do and all the other tribes gave a hint in order to support the tribe of Levi.

So they had a responsibility to service the people and to act as priests and so forth. Now, everybody was supposed to go into Jerusalem at certain times of the year for their celebration of these memorial feasts that they had. Well, there was one tribe that was way up north. And I’ve been there six times now. And way up north in Israel is where Dan was, about their sheep. We’re North is a tribe and that’s where Dan was. Now, Dan didn’t want to tackle all that way, all that way.

So it wasn’t long before they, you know, if you can direct your lives, they wanted their own bridge. There’s not a habit at one house, Michael, but then they went into the whole tribe. So it led to idolatry and it was rebellion to God. And they had their own little statues and so forth. And God was not well pleased. Now when you read in the 49th chapter of the book of Genesis where Jacob is dying and he’s talking about his sons and he talks about Dan is like a serpent, by the way, and bites the writer.

I believe that there’s a good possibility. I’m not saying I’m right, but many Bibles probably believe that Dan is the tribe from which the Antichrist may come. I don’t know. but there’s a good problem. But the tribe of Dan is not mentioned here. Now Joseph was one of the sons, but in many scriptures it does not refer sometimes to Joseph as one of the tribes as it does Ephraim and Manasseh. Those were the two sons of Joseph. And so here it will mention Manasseh and it mentions Joseph, but Joseph is probably the same as his son, which is Eveom.

So you’re going out through here looking verse 7 of the tribe of Simeon works, he was 12,000. I’ll be talking about Levi, where he was at 12,000. This is not possession of land. This is people in the various tribes and there’s 12 tribes, 12,000 from each tribe and then is the one that he’s talking about. Now in verse 9 I believe that there’s a multitude but this is mainly Gentile. So God is reaching Jews and Gentile but he’s using both but look what happens to these ones in verse 9.

Act this behold a great multitude which no man could remember. All nations and and tingles and people and tongues stood before the throne and before the lamb. The flow was white robed and palms in their hands. And then his psyche goes all the way through the whole scenario of the tribulation period. And like it jumps all the way out there into the kingdom and all the way out there into the great white throne, and even pass that into the time when they got the white away all tears from the rhymes.

But look what he said. As they go to all of this, he says there in verse 10, cried with a loud voice saying, salvation to our God which seteth upon the throne and unto the Lamb. And all the angels stood round about the throne. So believe this is the same taking place in heaven. The Elvirs are there, which is 24, for these the living creatures fell upon the throne before the throne on their faces and worship God. and saying, Amen, blessed, blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be unto our God forever and ever, Amen.

And one of the elders answered, said to me, what are these which are raised in white robes and which came they? I said, and insert, Bob Lewis. He said to me, these are they which came out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the land. See, the only reason we’re cured because of the blood of the land, not because of righteousness that we have done. Therefore, looking verse 15, therefore are they before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple.

And he that sit on the throne shall dwell with them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun light on them nor any heat, for the lamb which is in the mist of the throne shall feed them. Now I like that part when it says about, He’s gonna feed us when we get to heaven. I love eating. I think that’s one of the greatest inventions I’ve ever read about in the whole study of God’s work.

I like sleeping too, sleeping. I got to where I liked that too. And the older I get, the more I wanna eat, the more I wanna sleep, it’s the length and how that works. I think I’m about ready for heaven now. I’m ready for that long, big, wonderful rest up there. And then they were the eight, and they said, no more work, but he says we should have. He said, what in the world are we gonna do and have it?

Sit around and fill it up with thumbs. I mean, everybody up there is perfect. I’m gonna have fun in the presence of everybody in perfect. I’ve never been running away like that. Are we going to enjoy it? If it isn’t, God says it’s going to be so wonderful that the mind cannot conceive of what God has for us. He says, I have not seen, here have not heard, neither have entered into the heart of man to think that God has prepared for them that mother.

Now there’s a few things God has revealed, but all of it hasn’t been told us yet. And I can’t wait to see what it’s going to be like when we get to heaven. I think a little bit, it’s almost like cheating. You know, my mom’s already in heaven. My sister, she’s already up there. Another sister, she’s already up there. He left us here with all this stuff. Well, I’m not here. And you’re saying, they’re already up there. They’re already enjoying the good life.

That’s the good life. And here we are. Have you ever thought about and wondered if they know what we’re doing? I want to take and see us and know what we’re doing. Do you want to do more because you think they might know or you hope they don’t know? If you wonder that they can see you, if they can see us, that’s scary. I don’t want my Father law. He led me to the Lord. But, you know, there’s a lot of things that we just don’t understand.

And so by faith what God has said we believe and we act upon that and we do the thing that God wants us to do But look what else he says here in verse 17 the land which is in the mist of the throne chafidim and shall lead This into living fountains of water and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes Now when he likes the way I was tears from their eyes now is this during the tribulation period or Or is it already a picture waiting to the future at the end of time when it says in chapter 22 of Revelation, God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes?

I don’t know, I don’t care. I know there’s a time coming when we won’t have to worry about it anymore. But I believe there’s a good possibility that we may see opportunities that we messed up on that we wish we would have taken advantage of. We might even see people that we could have witnessed too and didn’t. I feel even kind of bad at this today, the way back from the Bible study. We came around the bin from the airport cut off.

And a couple of cars had stopped on the side of the road and an 18 wheeler had flipped over and was upside down off on the right-hand side of the road and got into a low part. And I didn’t know if they’d been there for a while or what. So I just quickly pulled over the side of the road. Betty got on the phone and called 911. I went down there and a few other cars started stopping. Then I ran down there and got down there.

And I was wondering, I want the guy in there. And he already got out of what? And I looked in there and there was a black man in there and he was all bent out of shape. And he got his feet up in the air He’s laying back on his back and then he’s laying there. And so when I got there, the windshield was all smashed, but you couldn’t get at anybody. It was all cracked up and the steering wheel was over and the door was straight up in the air.

And I’m looking in there and I saw the guy there and says, can you hear me? Yeah, I hear you. I says, you are right. I said, I think I am. I think so. And then some other people start to come up around. And I said, we’re not going to move you. We don’t let you just face still until they get here. I said, they’ve already been called. We could try to say a few things, we’re trying to come a little bit, and then a bunch of other people come up there, and they’re trying to get their hands in there, and they’re not trying to say, they’re letting them alone, they’re leaving alone.

And a couple of women got there, and you don’t tell them anything. And anyway, they stuck their head in hand, and they’re trying to lift up their heads, and you leave them alone. And, but you don’t know whether or not the guys that you got as head injured or anything are back hurt. So anyway, I told one guy, I said, look around the other corner of the cab there and see if you can look in there and see if he’s all right.

So he did and the guy began to move his leg and then he moved his arm and actually, you know, the boy got up and stood straight up. And by the time they got there, you know, it was all right because a lot of people came around. So I want to add left. And then I thought, which had had time to preach in the 30 minute message, that it just didn’t work out that way. But there’s always possibilities of maybe we could have done something else, because maybe you said something or did this or that, the other.

But we’ll have a lot of time to remember what we could have done or should have done. And maybe by the time the time is all over with God, I got to him after I wiped away some tears from my heart because, you know, heaven will be heaven for long. I hope we’re going to do a sit around a week. I was talking to him with great Stanford one day and I says, if the only ones that are going to heaven are those in God’s family.

Passes and the only ones that are gonna be there are saved people. It’s a different family all together. I said, why would it be more over those that were not in the family? You know, actively great black Chinese. I don’t know. I should think about it for a minute. I’m talking about great Stanford. You know we gotta know everything. I says, the only ones there are those born in the God’s family. We never miss those that’s never been born to our family.

Do you miss the people that’s never been born? Why would I miss those that have never been born? That is, you know, into the second verse. But because we will see each other at the great, bright, growing judgment, there’s a good possibility. see and understand and remember enough that we’re going to have tears. When we think about what we could have done for the Lord and just did not take your Bible there and do it real quick. But we’re in chapter 8 and I think I’ll save all of this chapter 8 because it’s got a lot of good stuff in it and I hope that you’ll enjoy the study of the book of Revelation.

But let me Yes, it’s something. If you’re here tonight and you have never trusted Christ as your Savior, well, according to the Bible, where would you spend eternity if you die without trusting Christ? You’ll spend an eternity separated from God in hell. Do you really believe that there are people who are going to go to a literal fire burning hell? You really believe that. I believe that. That’s one of the greatest motivating factors in a person’s life. Is that you just don’t want people to go to hell.

You don’t want them to go there. And so knowing that and believing that is what challenges and motivates us to be found faithful to the gospel. Let’s see this book right here. This represents you and me. And all of these little things in here. Those are all of our sins. Y’all have a bunch. Look how many sins y’all have committed. Oh, here, here, here’s mine. This must be mine.

How many sins will it take to keep me from going to heaven? Just one. So it doesn’t matter whether somebody only has you, like me and Peter and Maro. But if you have this many, It doesn’t matter how many sins. Christ died and paid for all the sin of all the world. There is no difference in God’s eyes. We’ve all sinned and come short of God’s perfection. And because of that, we can’t go to heaven. You have to be perfect to go to heaven.

We don’t care. This hand represents you and me. The wall represents sin. We all have sin on us. God says that he loves us. by the age what we do wrong. And for us to pay for this sin is eternal separation from God, then hell. And God doesn’t want us to go to heaven. And to go to heaven, we have to be perfect as righteous as God. Now you don’t have to be good. You have to be perfect. No sin, not even one, I want to feel.

That’s why we’re all condemned. There is none perfect. And God says you cannot save your soul from hell. You can’t, in other words, you can’t keep you from going to hell. There’s nothing you can do to keep you from going there. You are condemned. You and I, we are guilty. And by our good works, we can’t deliver ourselves. That’s why it says, a deliverer will come out of Zion. Jesus Christ, the Lord God in the flesh, came into the world for one main reason, to deliver us from hell, to deliver us from the penalty of sin.

So Jesus Christ, who had no sin, didn’t have to die, so he came, took our sin, paid for the one to cross and came back from the dead. And God said, all that I have to do is believe that He did it for me, and He pushed the payment to my account, and I am delivered. I can’t go to hell. I didn’t have to deliver myself. He did it for me. He paid for everything I have ever done. And all I have to do is accept the payment he made.

For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, the host, so ever, he lived within him. If you believe he did it for you, should not perish. That means you will not go to hell. But have everlasting life. We go to heaven. I want Jesus Christ. did for us. Let’s pray. If you’re here tonight and you cannot absolutely say, I know I’m going to heaven when I die and bring right now, understand this, according to the Bible, you are lost.

You’re lost. You’re not going to heaven. But if you want to go to heaven, then you must believe that you are a sinner and cannot save yourself. You can never be good enough to earn a turn away. Salvation is again. God will save you so that you don’t have to go to hell. He can deliver you from it. And once you accept Christ as your Savior, you are saved. It means you cannot today, tomorrow or ever in any time in the future ever go to hell.

You don’t earn it, you don’t work for it. God loves you that much. It is the gift of God not a works list in the mansion. So in the kindness of this moment, with every head bound, every eye closed, is there any one of those? Yes, that made sense to me and I want to be certain going to heaven when I die. And I’m going to ask you if you just slip be in it very quickly and put it right back down.

Just slip it up and put it right back down. By that you mean, yes, I’m trusting Christ as much Savior tonight if you’ve never done it before, but you’ll do it tonight. Then God said He was saving, give you eternal life. And you can know that you’re going to heaven. Is that you want to go before we close? Just slip it up real quickly and repurrk down in the talk. If you have trusted Christ as your Savior, utilize the time that God has given to you and serve or tell people how to have eternal life.

Serve the Lord in such a way that you get people out under the sounds of the gospel. Let God use your power of influence in other people’s lives. Our Father, we thank you so much for all you’ve done for us. We thank you for this time together, being good to us, you’ve blessed us, given us a free gift of eternal life. We thank you for our church, for the radio ministry, and for a long time. for the internet ministry that you’ve given us.

And probably know that there’s a multitude of people that bless you for God’s sake. All because of the internet. And we thank you for that ministry. We’re doing good to us. We thank you for it. We just want to bless you for listening. We pray. Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bible line and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3771.

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Take your Bible and turn it into the book of Revelation, the book of Revelation. I do not try to cover everything in the NFL. I don’t cover every verse or every word. That’s for other. I just hit generalization. I like to do a biblical survey. And I like to give people a general idea of what things talk in the box. And then you can read and study on your own. No preacher can live long enough to teach everything in the Bible.

And because of the time you don’t learn something, and learn some more, and anyone learns some more. And it just, is it no end to it? But we covered last week about the seven angels who had the seven trumpets that had the seven judgments. And that came out in the eighth chapter in comparison with the 16th chapter. And as we told you that there’s a lot of parallels. They all run at the same time throughout the book of Revelation concerning the tribulation period the earth.

We believe the first part is the beginning of sorrow the first three and a half years of the tribulation period. Now the tribulation period, the seven years upon the earth is the worst of time known to man and it’s the period of time that’s right ahead of us. You’ll find two phrases mentioned one is the great tribulation and the other one is the wrath of God. The great tribulation is is the tribulation that people are going through because of the devil is free to do whatever he wants to do.

And he’s doing a lot of damage. And it’s causing a lot of tribulation concerning the people and the mark of the beast, the last world government and all these things that he has caused. And the Lord allows him to do what he can do, but he’s always limited. So then you have the wrath of God. His point on his wrath also on the earth. And I believe there’s a good possibility that the Great Tribulation and the wrath of God are running parallel also in the last three and a half years, upon the earth.

Now, we’ve already covered the sixth seal, but I want to take your Bible and look at the sixth seal in chapter six of Revelation. And you know it’s there in verse nine, there is a picture of the scene taking place in heaven. Now this is what is taking place in heaven but during the tribulation period. So even though it was written 2000 years ago, it’s in regard to that little seven-year period of time that’s coming upon the earth so that we can understand what’s going to take place.

It’s a very scary time upon the earth. And it says in verse 9, and when he had opened this fifth sea of, I saw under the altar of the souls of them that were slain by the Word of God and for the testimony which they held. Now, we live in a country where we’re not really persecuted for our faith. I believe the date will come if God should tear it. That is going to greatly change. I believe there will be people here in America that will either be put in jail or killed because of their faith in Christ.

That is happening in other countries. It’s just that we haven’t had it happen here because of our freedom that we have here. But that is slowly changing. Believe it or not, there are many people today that are slowly losing their freedom, because there are so many things you can’t do anymore. Whatever you can do, they tax it. If it moves, tax it. If it brings, you can eat it, it tax it. No matter what it is, understand where America is and have better trade agreements and blah, of a lot.

But one thing they don’t like is they don’t like. They continue devaluing the dollar because it’s not worth as much. If I was to loan him $50,000 and I got to pay him back, well I don’t have $50,000 so I print up me some more money. Now I can give him that money that I just printed up. But the only problem is this money that I printed up is it’s worth as much as it was when I made that loan.

So I am paying him back with money that’s worth less than what he borrowed. So I’m using cheaper money. Now otherwise he would say, no, no, no, no. You owe me $50,000 but because the money’s not as worthless but in New York, you owe me $70,000. And this is why there’s countries that have invested in America and they’re losing money because they keep printing money and when they keep printing money, there’s more of it but it’s worth less. And so the value is gone.

And so one of these days we’re going to find ourselves with paper stuff that ain’t worth the quarter just like the sudden Confederacy when they found out they only had these Confederate dollars. They were useless. And one of these days theyWAYS don’t find out the money is useless of no value. And so we’re trying to do something that doesn’t have to be done. But it says in verse 10, and they cried with a lot of voice saying, how long, O Lord, holy and true, does not want to judge and avenge our blood on them that go on the earth.

So now God is going to judge, and he’s going to avenge the blood of those who have already died upon the earth because of their faith in Christ. Now whether or not that’s from the beginning of time, remember the Lord says concerning able who had been slain by pain his blood cry out on me from the ground and this is the same thing as talking about right here. Now is it all the saints are just doing the tribulation here?

I don’t know, I’m going to compare. I just know there’s a scene that takes place in heaven. There’s people that are in heaven who were healed upon the earth and they want to look forward when you’re going to take vengeance upon them. So in the first 12th down when he opens the six seal, he’s going to pour out his judgment upon the earth and it’s called the wrath of the lamb and it’s the worst period of time the throne was ever known.

But right in the middle of doing all this and the opening of the seventh seal in chapter eight, lo and behold here’s chapter seven stuck right in the middle of this. Now chapter seven is like a parenthetical expression in a sentence. You can take it, leave it there and it doesn’t hurt the flow of a sentence or you can take it out and it doesn’t hurt the flow of the sin. So right in the middle of this, there is this parenthetical expression.

Teaching of something about what’s going to happen during this period of time between these seals. And if you’ll notice there in chapter 7, he says, and after these things, I saw four angels standing on the fourth corners of the earth holding the four winds of the earth, that the winds did not blow on the earth nor on the sea nor on any tree. Now we know that when they they start opening up these four angels in their order, one upon the earth, the land of the sea, it’s over.

And then Leila and Paul about the sun. These are the four angels. And before they can do what they do, because of the test starts in chapter eight, about seven angels, but they’re the four before the last three who have the three woes. And so before they can do any of their damage, the Lord says, wait just a minute. I want to seal 144,000 Jewish evangelists.

At least I believe that’s what they’re gonna be doing. And this after the raptor takes place, it’s 144,000, 12,000 from each tribe. These are not Jehovah’s Witnesses. That is a lie. They are not 144,000, because they haven’t even gotten this period of time yet. And they are not of the tribes of Israel. I had two of them coming, man. And next thing you know, they would tell me how they were part of 144,000. And I says, really? Yeah. I said, what tribe are you from?

I said, well, I said, what tribe? I don’t know. I said, well, these are 12,000 from each tribe of Israel. I said, and you don’t even know which tribe you from? How do you know for sure? euphon, I had some fun with them. It was a long time ago, I’m more mellow now and kinder and sweeter back then, I was just constipation. I was looking for a fight. I was looking for an argument. Anything, you know, start something. I’m better not like that anymore.

Now, here he’s talking about something that’s going to happen. Concerning the nation of Israel. And he’s gonna have his Jewish evangelists preaching up on the earth. Now if you look there they’re in verse nine we have the Gentiles. He said, Now who is a Gentile? If you’re not a Jew you’re Gentile. Not a nation, you’re a Gentile. So in verse nine there’s a great multitude and there’s no number on this but now with the Jews there is there’s reporters.

they’re small and memorable. But there’s Jews and Gentiles that will be saved during the tribulation period. Now one of the things that’s keeping mine is it. It’s very easy to say, well when the raptor takes place all the Christians are gone. So how does anybody else get saved? If all the believers are gone, who’s going around? Well now I believe that there’s still possibility if I’m witnessing to him and he’s lost. I planted some seeds and I tell him, you know, the rags are gonna take place, he’s gonna come out here and all of a sudden I disappear.

He might believe. I believe that he can still trust the Lord and tell him, he’s dead. But there’s a time and the tribulation period because they would not believe the truth. They will believe the lies which is the anti-Christ but that’s when he comes on the scene which is a little bit later. So I I believe that people can still get saved. And plus, the seed has been sown and there’s still a lot of people getting trust in it.

But there’s also that possibility of 144,000 that may have heard of gospel, trust, Christ, and Savior, know which one. I don’t know how they come to know the Lord. The Bible doesn’t say, I can’t say. It’s better that whenever the scriptures are silent, be silent when it speaks speak. And but you’re always gonna have opinions. And I’ve got opinions just like you’ve got to say. But this is talking about the Jewish people. And it says concerning the four wins.

Now, take your five on this, hold it right here. But look there in Matthew 24, Matthew and Chester 24. You’ll notice when it talks about these four wins of what I believe is the good tosses of this referring to, you’ll notice that when Christ comes back at the end of the tribulation period, You see, verse 29 of chapter 24, immediately after the tribulation of those days, shall the sun be darkened in the moon, shall not give her light and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

You’ll notice, and then in verse 30, then shall it give the sign of the Son of man and heaven, when right after the tribulation period, when all these things are happening. And then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn. Now, the tribes of the earth is always a thing goes generally to the nation of Israel. The other one they can call the ethnos or the kingdom and the basaliyah, which is the kingdom and ethnos, which really refers to race.

And but nobody says it. In verse 31, and he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet. Now this is what we’ve been studying over there in the book of Revelation about the angels in the trumpet and they shall gather together is elect the Jewish people from the four winds, and he’s from one end of heaven to the other. In other words, all over the earth, they’re gonna come together. The Lord is gonna use his people and they’re gonna be preaching all over the world.

And I believe that multitude of people are going to be saved because of the 144,000 Jewish evangelists. Take your Bible and look in the book of Romans in chapter 11, the book of Romans, the book of Romans and chapter 11. Now we know that the Jews did not accept Jesus Christ as their Messiah. And because Israel had rejected Christ, the kingdom that he came to set up was postponed. And so because of their rejection, well, then you have the Gentiles grafted in.

So, look what he says here in, just start there in verse 17, And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, then Gentile, while olive tree, were grafted in among them, with them, partakers of the root, and backness of the olive tree, boast not against the branches, but if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root. In other words, you were grafted into the root that the nation of Israel rejected, which was Christ. And so they were set aside and the Gentiles were grafted in.

Now how long is this going to be? Now there’s two things to remember. One is the fullness of the Gentiles. The other one is the times of the Gentiles. Now the times of the Gentiles, well that goes all the way back from Babylon all the way up until the end of the tribulation period when God is going to be dealing with the nations of the world with Gentile nations. The fullness of the Gentiles is when it’s a reference to the believing Jew and the Gentile and making a body, the body of Christ, the bride of Christ.

And so the fullness of the Gentile, when that is come in of then the Bible says something else is going to take place. You want to say this here? So he says here in verse 20, well, because of unbelief, they were broken up. And that’s standing by faith. not high-minded but fear, for if God spared not the natural branches Israel, take heedless he also spared not thee, the Gentiles. Behold, therefore the goodness and the severity of God, on them which fail us a very deep, but for thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness, otherwise thou shall also be cut off.

So there’s a time in the future that God can take the Gentiles and set them aside, and then the Jews will come back into the natural room. If God can do it for a while, all in branch and graft them in, what about his own people? It will be easier. And so the day will come when it will be easier for the children of Israel to believe on Jesus Christ as their Messiah, then the Gentiles have believed because it’s only natural for them.

Jesus is of the nation of Israel, He’s of the tribe of Judah, and Jesus is coming back. And this is at a time when the nation of Israel and the Jewish people are gonna have their worst persecution. I mean, what Henry did was bad, but this is gonna be just as bad or worse. The Lord says there’s never been a time like it before. And so great persecution ahead for the nation of Israel. I’ve often thought, man, I love to be an Israeli.

I love to be an Israeli. I really would. But when I read about what’s gonna happen to them, I’m almost trying to not. But now, yeah, what he says. In verse 23, Anna, why are they grasped in? And the other than corrected them? And they also, if they abide not, still in unbelief shall be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. For if thou work cut off or out of the olive tree which is wild by nature and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more shall these?

Which be the natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree. For I would not rather than that you should be ignorant of this mystery. Less you be wise in your own conceit that blindness, that blindness in part, has happened Israel on pill and you’re the underlying until the fullness of the Gentile become in. So that is going to be fulfilled when God has taken all the Gentiles and the believe in Jew and the body of Christ and we’re taken out of here and that shows all over and then the believing Jews, these 12,000 from all 12 tribes are going to be granted in and they are going to flourish and they’re going to be preaching the gospel all that that’s what God wanted them to do originally.

They were to be a light to the Gentiles but they were not a light to the Gentiles. So they were abused by God in order to bring the word God into the world and the Messiah into the world and they were to be thy light to the Gentiles. Of course Christ is the light but they were supposed to spread the light. So they come messed up here and there. Now if you look there in verse 26 and so all Israel, now this is after the fools of the Gentiles.

When we’re taken out of here, Vincent and so all Israel shall be saved so as it is written, there shall come out of Zion, the deliver which is Christ. So I’ll turn away ungottenness from Jacob and this is my covenant unto them when I shall take away their sins as concerning the gospel. See, it’s the gospel that is going to be preached. They’ll see it. They’re here. They’ll understand it. It’s about the Messiah. Christ coming back to great deliver.

It’s been talked about in the Old Testament. So that time is coming. And it’s all about the elite. So when you start off in the book with Romans and you go through chapter 1, chapter 2, and chapter 3, and it says that we have concluded it all or understand. There is none right just no not one. We have before proved that there is none right just no not one. Well, what he says in verse 32, for God hath concluded them all an unbelief that he might have mercy upon how many?

Upon all. So it’s a continuation of the truth that’s made to even in Romans in chapter 3 and here in chapter 11, God says it’s by grace that he can just be so mercy and so all they have to do is believe. But why would they set aside 2,000 years ago because of their unbelief? And the time will come when they will see him. And say, where did you get those wounds in your hand? He said, I received them in the house of my friend.

That’s when he came the first time. That’s exactly right of chapter 13. So the day is coming. Now, take your Bible, man. Look here in the book of Acts. The book of Acts. Look there in Acts chapter 17 first of all, and then there’s another scripture that I want to see chapter 15, but look there in Acts chapter 17. God says in verse 31, because this is Acts 17 verse 31, because he hath appointed a day in the way he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained talking about Christ.

In other words, everything is going to be judged according to his son Jesus Christ. Are you as perfect? Are you as righteous as his son? That’s the only way you get to heaven. Everybody is going to be judged according to him. And so either you will be as righteous as Christ or you don’t get to go in. So that’s why we accept Christ as our Savior and He He gives us His righteousness. Now everybody said it, because He hath appointed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom He hath ordained, where he hath given this assurance unto all men, and that He hath raised him from the dead.

So it’s not a matter just believing in anybody named Jesus, but your assurance, assurance of your salvation, comes because of Christ not only dying for sin, but coming back from the dead. The payment was paid, God accepts the payment, and you can’t trust a dead Christ to save you. He came back from the dead, he is alive, and we trust him and he can save us. Now, give what it says in verse 32. If they did not have to believe anything about the resurrection of Christ or the payment percent that he made, you know, the Apostle Paul could say to him, tells a lot of trouble by not mentioning the resurrection.

You know, they got in trouble when they preached that. Look what happened when they preached in here. And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some monk, another says, who will hear the again? Why can’t they choose? They don’t have to believe them. Why they can’t introduce you? What talk about it? But it tells you who Jesus is. That’s why it’s so important. And because of this in verse 34, how certain men clave in the hymn and did what?

And believed. And they believed in the Jesus that died and rose again and God says, your assurance is based upon the resurrection. And because he paid for all of my sins came back from the dead, I have assurance of the resurrection. I have eternal life. So that whenever I die, I’m going to rise again. My body’s going to come back from the dead. Why? Because he did.

Anyway, look now in chapter 15, chapter 15. And you’ll notice in chapter 15, now what you’re looking verse 13. This is a discourse going on in the church there in Jerusalem. James is the pastor of the church and there hadn’t arisen a problem about do you have to keep the law and so forth to be saved or to stay saved. For verse 13 said, and after they had held their piece, James answered, say it, Men and brethren, parking on the mean.

Simeon, our figure, have declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles to take out of them a people for his name. Now this is where we’re getting the fullness of the Gentiles. I believe that there’s only so many cells in a body. And so whenever that body is complete in its full, complete, done, the rapture takes place. I don’t know, but I like mine when in the last person to the Lord that causes the rapture take place.

I don’t know if that’s what it’s referring to, but it sure sounds pretty good. Now look what else it says. In verse 15 and to this, agree the words of the prophet, the Old Testament. As it is written, we’ll link to the Old Testament. In verse 16, after Christ takes out a people for his name of the believing Jews and believing Gentiles, remember on the day of Pentecost it was the believing Jews. Chapter 10 believing Gentiles and they were put together into one body.

This is a mystery never been known about before Only the God was going to do something and then he says after this the church is complete and the raptor takes place And we’re out of here. Look what he says in verse 18 after this. I Will what’s that word? I will return That means he had become before this time So he’s already been here once, now he’s going to return. Give it a second. And build again the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down.

And I will build again the ruins thereof. And I will set it up that the residue of men might seek after the Lord and all the Gentiles under whom my name is called, says the Lord, who doeth all these things, known unto God are all of his wonderful works from the beginning time. So God says in the last days, this is what’s going to take place. Well, this is where we are now in our prophecy. Take your Bible and now go to the book of Revelation in chapter 7.

So the rapture has taken place. The force of the Gentile has come in. The Jews are going to be grafted back in as a nation, which will take place when Christ comes back in power and great glory. Now there’s other Jews that are going to be reached way before this at the end of the seven-year tribulation period. So he says he’s going to seal them in their foreheads. See there in verse three, hurt not the earth, neither the sea nor the trees.

That means the trumpets are not supposed to sound by these angels until God gets this done. In other words, there’s something God has to take place. Who leads these people to the Lord? I don’t know. And exactly what time does these two prophets come into the world? That’s mentioned in chapter 11. Remember it says to measure the city and the temple and the other quarter. It’s for the Gentiles, but the temple in Jerusalem. And it’s talking about this and then talk about there’s two witnesses that show up.

So I believe the temple is already there and this is probably close to the middle of the tribulation period. It’s interesting trying to put all the pieces of the public together. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. Part two of this teaching will conclude with tomorrow’s broadcast. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ.

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As you know, I believe very, very strongly in salvation by grace. And I believe the way you know it’s really by grace is it is eternal. If a preacher says you’re saved by grace but and then starts button it all over the place then he doesn’t really believe it. If a preacher does not believe in eternal security he doesn’t believe that salvation is by grace because if I can be saved by grace because I’m not worthy of anything I didn’t do any good deeds.

Then I can be kept saved by the very same token. And there’s some things that God has said in His Word that I want you to see about five basic things. For you to understand about this great wonderful salvation that we have. Look there in Romans in chapter 8. Romans 8 and there’s two verses, or three verses, verses 28, 29 and 30, that deal with the purpose of God. In other words, when you look at it from the very beginning, God said that He had a purpose in mind and the purpose that God had from the very beginning was that He would save a man eternally, forever, and do certain things for Him to secure His place in heaven so that when we leave this life, there is nothing better, nothing greater than knowing that we are going to heaven when we die.

Life can be wonderful and you can be very happy and you can love your husband, your wife and your children. But you can lose your wife, you can lose your husband, you can lose your children, you can lose your health, you can lose your job, and one day you will. Maybe all at once. you’re going to die. And the greatest knowledge in all the world is where will you spend eternity? He has purpose before the foundations of the world, before we were ever born, that He is going to do something to everyone who believes.

He is going to justify you. He’s going to make you just as though you had never sinned, never committed a sin. So look what He says in verse 29, for whom He did for know, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his son. Now look up here. Before the world ever began, before time began, before God ever created a man, God had a purpose, God had a plan. And he has determined before any man had ever been born, done any good or bad, that God says, I’m going to take everyone who has trusted Christ as Savior, who will trust Him and God has purposed that He is going to justify them, sanctify them, glorify them, and not because of anything they did.

But this is what He’s going to do because it’s His purpose to every believer so that we can know that we’re going to heaven whenever we die. This is all according to His purpose. So eternal security, predestination, the destiny fixed beforehand, is not that he chose you and you in that the rest of you go to hell. God has chosen to save all who will trust him. Those who will accept Christ as their Savior who give them eternal life and they’ll go to heaven whenever they die.

So because of the purpose of God, we can be leaved very easily in the eternal security of the believer. The other thing I want you to see there in verse 31. Verse 31, for what shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all. How shall he not with him also freely give us all things? One of the reasons that you and I can believe in eternal security is because of the provision that God has made.

He made provision for every one of us. every person who’s ever been born into the world to have salvation. So we know that eternal security is according to the purpose of God. And eternal security is also because of the payment that Christ made the provision that He made. Look what He says there in verse 32. He that spared not His own Son. Now if He did not spare His own Son but gave him as the payment for our sins, it was so that he could secure eternal redemption, eternal security for those that believed in him.

This is something that God has designed. This was his plan. God determined that when he saves a person, he saves the person forever because of the purpose that he designed that every person who believes in him would be justified just as if he had never committed a sin, God would declare him righteous and holy and perfect and glorify him someday when he gets to heaven and he will have an old sinful body or a sinful nature. He’ll be perfect and righteous just like God.

That was God’s purpose. That’s what he decided to do if I could lose my salvation because I committed some terrible sin. Now lost again, or how does that sin that caused me to lose my salvation, how does it get paid for now? If Christ isn’t coming back to the earth and He’s not going to pay for any sins anymore, well how am I ever going to get my sin paid for that caused me to lose my salvation? Then you would be eternally lost.

You couldn’t get saved again. So the Bible does tell us that you cannot be saved and lost and get saved again because his provision for salvation was for eternity and you can’t get lost after you trust him as your Savior. It’s impossible. So God loves us that much. Now these two things I’ve mentioned to you before. You do not find anywhere in the Bible a story or illustration or a verse of any kind that says that God has ever saved anybody and lost them.

There’s no story in the Bible where God has ever saved a man, lost the man, and then saved him again. There isn’t one. Why? Because of the provision that Christ made was once and for what? Once and for all. You can’t do it again. He cannot die again to pay for anybody else’s sin. So either you’re saved forever or not saved at all at all. So eternal security, once saved always saved, is not a separate doctrine in salvation. Eternal security is the good news of salvation.

That’s what makes it so different from all the religions that all the religions have. They don’t have that. There’s not something that I can have the day and can never lose. There’s always based upon your life. Look there in Romans eight verse thirty five. I know that I am eternally secure because of this, because of the perpetual love of God, the Father. You see, we may love God a little bit, but you were not saved from hell because you love God.

So now that I know Christ is my Savior, should I love God, I I should love him for what he did for me. I wasn’t saved because I loved him. I will say because he loves me that much. And he says his love is perpetual. And I am saved because of his love for me. And his love is a everlasting love, a perpetual love. And so my salvation is as secure as the love of God. Look what he says in verse 35, Who shall separate us from the love of Christ or from salvation?

Who can, what can separate you from being saved? Nothing. Nothing can ever change that. The purpose of God can’t be changed and the provision of God cannot be changed. And according to these scriptures, the Bible says that his perpetual love cannot be changed and that there’s nothing that you and I are going to go through or face that can change this. Remember this. I am saved by grace. I am kept saved by grace. I will say because he loves me and I am kept saved because he still loves me.

I didn’t do good deeds to save myself. I don’t do good deeds to stay saved. So when you accept Christ as your Savior, you have God living within you. You have eternal life because the life is in the sun. And He said, I’ll never leave you and never forsake you. So you are eternally secure. That means from this day forward, or since the day you trusted Christ is your Savior, it is impossible, impossible for you to go to hell in the future.

There is nothing that you could ever do. I don’t care how bad, how wicked you live. After you trusted Christ is your Savior, you can never, never, never be lost. And I had people tell me, well, you just given people a license to sin, I am not going to change the gospel story because some people abuse their salvation. And I want you to know on top of that because you can never be lost and your God’s child, you can’t live as you please and get away with it.

But because your Father is your Father and you are His child, your heavenly Father can chase in you. In other words, you put it in another vernacular, Beeth a Torah out of you. And maybe take you home before your time, but you’re going to heaven whether you like it or not. Now you should love it and you should be glad. I believe every person who trusts Christ’s Savior should serve the Lord, but they don’t. They don’t have to. You see, you can abuse the love of God and you can grieve the love of God.

You can resist the will of God. God still loves you with a perpetual love. It’ll never stop. He loves you that much. Now, Romans chapter five and verse eight, I want you to see this, Romans chapter five and verse eight, because of the promises that God has made, you and I are eternally secure, because of the promises that God has made to you and me. You see, he said in his word, as many as shall come to me, he says, I will in no wise cast out.

Did he say that? He said, all that come with me, I will in no wise cast out. And this is the Father’s will, which have sent me, that of all which ye have given me, I should lose nothing. He promised, he had never cast me out for no reason. He promised that he will not lose me. He promised me eternal life. He promised me it was by grace. He told me it was a gift, the gift of God, which is eternal life.

He promised that. Now either God is a God who cannot lie and keeps his word, or he is a liar. He promised. These things have, I’ve written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God that you may know know that you have what eternal life. So I know that I’m saved and I have eternal life because of the promises that God made. Now look there in Romans chapter 5 and verse 8. But God commended His love toward us in that while we were saints, No, while we were yet sinners, sinners, Christ died for us.

See Christ died for us 2,000 years ago before we were born. And while we were sinners before we ever heard the gospel, the Bible says this in verse 9, much more than being now justified by the, I am now justified, now justified. I get this, we shall be saved from wrath. That means I believe a reference toward hell. Through him, I will be saved as the promise and God cannot lie. For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his son much more.

Being reconciled, we shall be saved from this wrath to come by his life. You see, he died to pay for my sins. And once I trust him as my Savior, I am kept saved by the power of his endless life. You see, he made a payment for me and he intercedes for me and the blood that was made as a payment for my sins is incorruptible blood, it lasts forever. So because of the power of the payment that was made for me, the provision, my eternal salvation is secure.

So that I’m not resting in the quality of my life that I live as my security that I know I’m going to heaven because where I go to church and I read the Bible and I’m a preacher. So I should be, should I feel more secure than you? No. I am no more securely saved than a drunk who walks in here this morning and trusts Christ as a Savior. He will be just to save and just to secure as the preacher who tried to live God if of 40 years.

I have no more advantages because what God did for one, he did for every person. He made a complete payment and he says that you are to be say from the wrath to come because he came back from the dead and ever lived it. Look what he says, the last part of verse 10, we shall be saved by his life. Christ now lives in me and lives in you. He’ll never cast you out, he’ll never lose you. And so because of the promises that God has made, you are eternally secure.

There is a multitude of preachers who do not believe this. Don’t you think, but all preachers believe in the same way. No, they don’t. No, they don’t. Take your Bible and turn to the book of 1 Peter chapter 1. 1 Peter and chapter 1. 1 Peter chapter 1, we are eternally secure and you should know that we’re eternally secure because of the power of God, because of his power. Does any man have any power, any power that’s greater than God’s power.

Take all the power that a man can muster. Is it greater than God’s power? No. So God has all authority, all power. And he can decide what he will do. And this is what he has decided that he will do. You see, man didn’t make this up. This was what God wanted. It doesn’t matter how many times you think in your mind, that’s not fair. That’s not right. I don’t I believe a person ought to be able to go out here and do things wrong and go to heaven.

Well, then you don’t believe anybody ought to go to heaven, because everybody has. I had a man tell me one time, well, if what you say is true, I could go out here and live like the devil and still go to heaven when I die. He said, I’ll never believe that. I said, if you don’t believe in salvation by grace, you can’t, and you won’t believe that. But if you believe that salvation is really by grace, unmerited, then why are you thinking that a man’s got to live good enough to merit it?

If he doesn’t have to merit it. means unmerited. Now either man has to merit salvation or he doesn’t merit salvation. One way or the other can’t be both ways. So if a man is saved by grace means he doesn’t merit his salvation. It means that after you are saved, there’s nothing that you have to do to merit keeping it. Now notice what it says here in 1 Peter in chapter 1. Look in verse Verse three, blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again.

That word begotten us again means to be born again. You have been begotten of God. If you were begotten, that means you were born again. But who was your Father? Look what he said. Blessed be the God and the Father of of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Father of our Lord Jesus Christ hath begotten you again. That means you have been born again by God the Father. Now he’s not only the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, he is my Father.

He’s my Father. I’m his son, I am his child. He fathered me. He gave me a new birth born of God, born by the incorruptible seed. Now notice something, when he makes the statement here, according to his abundant mercy, half the Godness again, did it say, because you kept the 10 commandments you were born again, because you did all these good deeds you were born again. Mercy means you didn’t deserve it. You didn’t deserve to be saved by his abundant mercy.

That’s why I’m saved. I’m going to heaven because he had mercy upon me. I didn’t get what I deserved. Grace is getting something you didn’t deserve and mercy is not getting what you do deserve. And notice this. He says, according to his abundant mercy, he hath begotten us again, then born again, get this, unto a lively hope. That word lively hope means a living hope. It means that our hope of our eternal, eternal security is based upon a living person because Christ came back from the dead.

Remember I told you this on Easter. Christ coming back from the dead and the scars in his hands and in his feet and in his side, that’s the stamp of approval that He is the payment. And Paul, he is the proof of payment. So Christ being raised from the dead is the proof that the payment for our sins have been paid and he ever live it as a living eternal receipt. And so our hope is in him. You say, well, you don’t deserve to go to heaven.

That’s right. Look at Christ. He went through that. He did that for me. And God fathered me because of His abundant mercy. Now, because of anything that I’ve done, don’t you ever get on your high horse and thinking that you’re saved because you did something worthy, like you’re better than somebody else. We are all sinners and nobody’s any better than anybody else. Only by the grace of God does somebody explain the gospel to you and the Holy Spirit illuminate your mind and you had a good sense to accept the payment Christ made on the cross for you or you would go to hell.

Well, everybody loves you. Now I want you to look in verse four. In verse four, in verse four it makes the statement that you have an inheritance. It means a place in heaven, an inheritance, incorruptible and undefiled, that faith if not away reserved in heaven for you. Now, when it says your inheritance is incorruptible, it means that your place that you have for you is death-proof. It is death-proof. It means it is not subject to decay. It can’t die.

Whatever inheritance that you’ve got, it’s death-proof. When it makes a statement that it is on the file, it means it is sin-proof. It means that it’s not capable of sin. The Bible tells us in the book of Revelation 21, 27, for there shall in no wise enter into it anything that defile of a work of the Bomination or even a lie. But they which are written in the Land of the Book of Life, no, we’re not even a sin.

It can’t enter there. So God has a place. It can never be defiled. It’s sin-proof. And that’s the place He has for me. That’s my place. I have an inheritance that’s incorruptible. It’s death proof. It can never die. It’s mine. No end to it. And it’s sin proof. No sin can get in there. It cannot defile it. That’s mine. That’s my inheritance. You see, when I trusted Christ as my Savior, I became an heir of God and joined heirs with Christ because He’s my Father.

I inherited all of this. You see, a man one day came to Christ and says, what must I do to inherit eternal life? You can inherit eternal life unless you’re his child. It’s nothing that you do. You see, eternal life is something that you have when you trust Christ as your Savior. Now get this. And the last part of it says, and that fadeth not away, that fadeth not away, it means it’s time-proof. It means that in the future, It can’t gradually fade away and I lose it.

All of these words are down here for this reason. When he says it is incorruptible means that I can’t lose it. When he says it, fate if not away means I can’t lose it. When he says that it’s undefiled means that I can’t lose it. Why do you think even the Lord says, lay up treasure and so forth in heaven because you can’t lose it? He says that this is all secured for me because of the power of God.

Now I know and I believe in eternal security for several good reasons. I do it because I believe very strongly in the purpose of God designed it and his payment that he made designed it. And so we have, according to the Word of God, the power of God that secures him. Now look what he says here in verse 5, look in verse 5, who are kept, who are kept, who refers to me, who refers to you, who are what?

Kept, you are kept, you are have been born again, born of the Father, you have a place that is inherited by you, that’s incorruptible and undefiled and that paid if not away, that’s all been put to your account. That’s all yours. That’s yours. And then he said, well, what about you? Why reserve a place like that for you? That’s death proof and sin proof. That means it’s all there and it’s all yours. Yet at the same time, having to where you might not show up.

So he says in verse five, who are kept by the power of God. Who saved you? He did. Who keeps you saved? He does. You were saved by Him and you are kept saved by Him, has nothing to do with your performance. Now, if this causes you to go out and live like the devil, so be it. I can’t help that. But I want you to get the other side of the coin, because this is true. It is the Word of God.

And I don’t usually take a habit of changing and pushing the book If you can show me where from the Bible that what I said is wrong show it to me I’ll try because I know this is the authority the preacher’s not the authority But I want to try to put things in his proper perspective. I Believe that as a child of God Because I’m going to heaven. I don’t worry about that anymore. I don’t even think about it Because what I did 40 years ago in a little old living room and I trusted Christ as my Savior all that was secured That’s all done.

I didn’t save me. I don’t have to worry about that. I don’t have to keep myself saved by anything I do. There’s nothing I can do that can never take it away. But because I’m God’s child, I want to serve Him because of where I’m going. I want to serve Him because of what He did for me. Because all of this is so real and so true. I want to live for the Lord. But I don’t do that to get to heaven.

I do it because I’m going to heaven. Salvation is totally free. You have a place that’s reserved in heaven for you. Look at the last part of verse four. He says, reserved in heaven for who? For you who are kept by the power of God through faith and desalvation. All right, now look up here just a moment. Let me show you a simple illustration. This hand represents you and me and a wallet represents sin. We all have sin upon us.

Now, for you and I to go to heaven, we have to be perfect as righteous as God. No sin. Nobody is. We’ve all sinned and to pay for the sin is eternal separation from God in hell. So if we’re all guilty, then we have to pay. So that’s why we need a Savior. You cannot save yourself. And the sin has to be dealt with. And so God says you cannot earn eternal life. You cannot work your way to heaven.

You have to pay for this. And to pay for your sins means you go to hell. This hand represents Jesus Christ, God in the flesh. He came into the world because He loves us, hates our sin. So what Christ did was He took our sins, paid for them on the cross, came back from the dead. All the sins of all the world has been paid. And whosoever believes that Christ did that for them. He puts that payment to their account and you go to heaven on what he did for you, that substitution.

You are justified just as if you had never committed one single act of sin. God gives to you his eternal life, his Holy Spirit. You become his child, born of God, and you are going to heaven whenever you die. You’re just not there yet, but you’re going to heaven whenever you die. That cannot be changed. His purpose cannot be changed. His power cannot be changed. His promises cannot be changed. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr.

Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. If you wish to hear today’s program again or would like to download a free MP3 of today’s or any previous Bibleline program, go to BibleLineMinistries.org and click on the spinning globe in the upper right corner of our homepage.

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Friend, one day it will happen, the trumpet will sound. We will be changed. Hot up to meet the Lord in the air. So live today and every day, believing that the Lord is coming soon. And just keep looking up.

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God judges a nation, or if God judges a man. If God judges the earth, God must be justified. When He does so, in other words, He has to be righteous. Even with every judgment that God does, no man is going to be able to find fault with God. Like God, you didn’t have a right to do that. That was not right. will be cleared by any man’s decision, any man’s judgment. But on top of that, God really doesn’t care about your opinion or mind.

But if a man does, God has all the evidence on his side, how much time has God given to the earth? How many have probably heard preachers pour out their soul for the last 2,000 years and all warning that has been given, it’s like, hasn’t anybody listened as an anybody paid attention to what’s going on in the world? But now look, the next thing, the fourth angel wrath upon the sun. Remember, God’s pouring out his wrath upon the earth and then he means what he’s going to be doing on the earth and about the oceans and about the rivers and the waters, the fountains, the green grass, the trees, the sun, he’s just about covering it all.

He’s going to pour out his judgment upon this earth. Now these are things in the mind of a natural person. These are just natural consequences. You know what, this is just a catastrophic event and it was going to happen anyway and no gods in charge and he’s not going let us do whatever we want to do forever and ever and ever. Payday, someday. Payday’s coming. So look there in Revelation chapter 8 verse 12 and the fourth angel sounded and the third part of the sun was smitten.

Third part of the moon and third part of the stars. So as the third part of them was darkened, the day shone not for a third part of it and the night likewise. And I beheld and heard an angel flan to the mist of heaven. See this is the heavenly view of heaven. Saying with a loud voice, whoa, whoa, whoa to the inhabitants of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels which are yet to sound.

So we know there’s three more that’s going to sound and each one of these last three, number 5, 6, 7, there are going to be three woes and the reason is because it’s really going to get bad because they’re gonna hone in on the effect it’s gonna actually have upon the people. So look there in Revelation 16, verse 8, and the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun. Power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.

Men were scorched with great heat, blasphemed the name of God which had power over these plays and they repented not to give him glory. God wants his people to give him glory, to give him honor, to know who he is. There are several verses that talks about no testament. Every man shall know the Lord. From one end of the earth to the other, all shall know me. And nobody is going to say, do you know the Lord? Because everybody is going to know it.

day is coming. But it says, whoa, whoa, whoa, to the inhibitors of the earth. See those last three things up there? Whoa, whoa, whoa, the ones that I underlined, to the inhibitors of the earth by reason because of the last three that’s coming. Now, in Revelation 16 and verse 8 when it says the fourth angel poured out his valive on the sun, power given to the escorts men with a… But in other words, it’s going to be so hot.

Now whether or not it’s because as we studied last week, the Bible says the earth is going to be shaken upon its axis and it’s going to wobble back and forth like a drunk man. And whether or not it’s going to get closer to the sun or because it’s going to destroy what we call our ozone layer and people are going to be on fire. It’s going to be hot. I have no idea what Al Gore are going to do about all of this.

But it’s going to be the people upon the earth are going to suffer. And these are going to be a bad time in which to live. Look there at the fifth angel, the fifth angel, the rat upon the seat of the beast. The first whoa. Now you won’t see that in the Bible as you read it, but it’s because I have put that there only as notes. I am not trying to change Scripture or add Scripture. These are just notes of mine.

The heavenly divine view, look at this. Revelation chapter 9 and verse 1 says, And the fifth angel sounded. And I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth. and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. He opened the bottomless pit and there arose a smoke out of the pit, and then the smoke of a great furnace in the sun and the air were darkened by reason to smoke of the pit. And there came out of the smoke locust upon the earth, and upon them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

It was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those men which have not the seal of God and their foreheads. And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months, and their torment was at the torment of a scorpion when he strikes a man. And those day shall men seek death shall not find it, shall desire to die, death shall flee from them.

And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared on the battle, and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were the faces of men. And they had hair on the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. And you see, what is that? I ain’t got a clue. I can guess like most people do. Well, these are the fighter jets and the guys who painted pictures on them.

And they roar and they fly and all. And I ain’t got a clue. And there’s a good possibility, a little yank-yology. I believe that there’s probably was a lot of this chemical stuff over and like an Iraq, they probably got a few unbommed. You realize what all that stuff could do as it seeks to the underground? The Bible describes it coming out of the river Euphrates coming from Iraq and that who knows what’s going on under the ground with any kind of weird stuff being produced.

And people and animals or whatever and lococide being deformed and whatever. I’ve seen it where they’ve had it on TV. Some frogs were growing limbs and kind of weird places in their lives were all twisted and all kind of stuff, chemical stuff that had gotten on the some of the frogs. I don’t know if you all ever saw that, they’ve had it on TV before. Who knows what’s been done? But anyway, it’s going to come from a place over there in the Middle East.

Chances are where the river Euphrates is. And there’s going to be a lot of stuff that’s going to take place. And the Bible describes that in the book of Revelation in chapter nine. And it talks about how this is going to be persecution upon the people. But it also is upon what we call a polyon. If you look there at the next page, they had tales like under scorpions and they were steams in their tails and their power was to hurt men five months.

They had a king over them which is the angel of the bottom of the spit whose name in the Hebrew tongue is a baton but in the Greek tongue has his name a polyon. One woe is past and behold there comes two more woe’s here after. So this is going to take place. Well, how bad is all this going to be? It gets some time, let me say, all that, but we’ll look at more of that stuff as we go through each chapter.

But I just wanted to kind of give you a picture of chapter eight and nine when it talks about, you know, the angels and the heavenly view. And compare it with the angels in chapter 16 of the earthly view and show you how they are related and that they do overlap. The earthly view here in Revelation 16 and verse 10. And the fifth angel poured out his valive on the seat of the beast. His kingdom was full of darkness and they gnawed their tongue for pain, blasting the God of heaven because of their pain and their swords and repented not of their deeds.

Now remember this, Satan is the prince of the power of the air. Now the air is the last whoa, but this is the realm of Satan’s power. He has supposedly gotten control of the earth. He’s in charge. Look what a great job he’s doing. He’s pouring out everything that he can, and the Lord is zapping them every time he turns around, and everything is falling apart. And he has no power to stop what God is doing. Now he says, deceived and lied to the people for the first three and a half years, and because they would not believe the truth, they believed the lie.

Now, the sixth angel, his rat is upon the river Euphrates, as you’ll see here. In Revelation chapter 9 and verse 13, it makes this statement, the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar, which is before God. The only reason I’m on the line of a few of these things is to show you that it’s something that takes place in heaven. Saying to the sixth angel, which had to trumpet, lose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.

The four angels were loose which were prepared for an hour and a day and a month and a year for to slay the third part of men. The number of the army of the horsemen were 200,000,000. Or on some say, it’s about 200 million soldiers. Now, some say this could be a reference to a nation like China that just happens to lie east of Israel. And it also talks about that God says that the river Euphrates will be dried up to make way for the kings of the east.

And that China boasts today that they have about 200 million soldiers they can put in on the field. And it’s just a coincidence so probably. I have no idea. But he says, on a number of the army of the horsemen, 200,000,000. And I heard the number of them. And thus, I saw the horses’ indivision. And then that sat on them, having breast plates of fire and of jasmine and brimstone. And the heads of the horses were the heads of lions.

And all the mouth issued fire and smoke and brimstone by these three were the third part of the main kill by the fire, the smoke, and the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. For their power is in their mouth and in their tails. For their tales were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt, and the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hand, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold and silver and brass and stone, and of wood which neither can see nor hear nor walk.

Neither repented they of their murders nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication nor of their theft. In other words, God was trying to ring their bell to get people to straighten up, and they still will not do it. Do you know we’ve got people in America? They know right and still won’t do right. I know Christians that know right and still won’t do right. You don’t know anybody like that, do you?

I mean if we only knew what was right, we’d do it right. We only knew the will of God. Yeah, boy. Now look at the next portion, down in Revelation chapter 16 and verse 12. Here it says, and the sixth angel poured out his val upon the great river Euphrates. So it’s not just a coincidence that in 913 the sixth angel sounded the great river Euphrates and then in chapter 16 verse 12 and the sixth angel poured out his val upon the great river Euphrates and the water thereof was dried up that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.

I want to know where to go on. Well you head east, well from over here and here’s Israel, well, slap my mouth. There’s a battle that’s going to take place. And God says in the last days, He says, now they’ll draw all these nations that are going to come together against Israel. And He’s going to put them into this great big old valley. And then He’s going to jump in there with His feet and have some grape juice called blood.

As high as the horses, bridal. Now whether or not that’s in the plane because I’ve been to the plane and I can’t imagine blood that high, that wide, that long. But maybe by the time it gets down there, by the Kidron Valley, outside of the eastern side of the wall of Jerusalem, it could be. But then what do I know? I don’t know. And most people won’t be able to tell you any different than what I’m telling you right now.

It’s amazing that you can get all these common terrors and you try to read these common terrors and get a little light. It’s amazing how much light the Bible sheds upon these common terrors. Look at this now. And he says, and I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of false prophet. There is your unholy trinity, the unholy trinity. And how does a frog catch its prey with the tongue?

And they are going to life. You realize that there’s people in our own administration here in our own wonderful Christian country of America that lied to us. I knew it was going to shock you, but we have people in government that’s lying through their teeth. Have you ever listened to a politician who promises promises promises? Or what is he going to do for you? It’s not what they’re going to do, you know, for you it’s what they’re going to do to you.

Government can’t do anything for you. Can’t give you anything unless it takes it from you first and can only give you a small portion back to you. If that, but it has to take it from you first. I thought about running for government for office about 30 years ago. I’m glad I didn’t, but they catch you with the tongue, with the lies, the deceit, and people will listen and fall into the trap. And it says, for they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, devils, working miracles.

People say, well, if it’s a miracle, it must be of God. No. The devil has power. The devil can lie and deceive. And it says about the devil himself in chapter 12 of the book of Revelation, he has deceived the whole world. And he says, working miracles going forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. When what’s the name of that battle is?

Well that’s what could be for them. Here’s that statement, Behold I come as a thief, blessed is he that watches and keepeth his garment, lest he walk naked and they see his shame. Behold I come as a thief. See we’re talking about at the end of the tribulation period, look there, and he gathered them together in a place called in the Hebrew tongue what? Armageddon. Behold, I come as a thief in the night. This is the tribulation period. It’s not the rapture.

But anyway, the second woe is passed and behold the third woe comes quickly. Look at the last page. Wrath upon the air. What’s going to happen? With thunder and enlightening earthquakes. God describes a terrible terrible earthquake that’s going to take place upon the earth. Remember when Christ comes back in His feet touch upon the Mount of Ballelujah, close to Cleven the mist and there’ll be a very great valley and I believe the water from the Mediterranean where we’ll be able to run all the way through down to the Dead Sea and it says that people will be able to sit around the Dead Sea and catch fish.

It’s coming. But it’s going to shake in every island. Everything’s going to be moved. Revelation 11, verse 15 said, and the seventh angel sounded. And there were great voices in heaven saying, well, now we done gone through six of these. Now it’s the seventh one. You remember there were seven statements made by Jesus Christ when He was on the cross. And the last statement that he made was, it is finished. It is finished.

Now, here we’re talking about all the things that are going on concerning the wrath of God upon the earth. And here it’s going to say it is done. It’s done. Look there. And the seventh angel sounded and there was great voices in heaven saying, the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ and he shall reign forever and ever. Now see this is looking into the future it’s all over with and it’s done.

Yay we won and John comes back and none of it’s happened yet. Two thousand years still ain’t happened yet but it’s written in the Word of God as though it’s already a done deal. That’s why when we read the word of God, you and I should take hope because see we can tell what’s going to take place and we win, we win. He says the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ and He shall reign forever and ever and the four and twenty elders that we saw back there in chapter four and five which sat before God on their seats fell upon their faces and worship God saying we give these thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art and was, and art to come, because thou hast taken to thee, thy great power, and hath reigned.

And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou should have give reward unto thy servants, the prophets, and to the saints, and to them that fear thy name small and great, and should have destroyed them which destroy the earth. and the temple of God was open in heaven. And there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament or the ark of the covenant that what’s that guy that was trying to find it, Raiders of the Lost Ark?

Well I know where it is. That’s right. And there were lightens and boises and thunders and an earthquake, earthquake and great hail. Now look at the human view in chapter 16. the seventh angel poured out his vial upon the air into the air. And there was a great voice out of the heaven, or temple of heaven, from the throne saying, it is done. And there were voices and thunder and lightens and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth.

So mighty an earthquake and so great. The great city was divided in the three parts, the cities of the nations fell. Babylon came in to remember before God to give unto her the cup of the wind of the fierceness of his rat. And every island fled away. Mountains were not found. There was fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent which they estimate between 100 to 120 pounds. Men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hill for the plague thereof was exceeding great.

Now, say, what did I learn tonight? I haven’t got a clue if we learned anything. Only that God has said what’s going to take place. He’s got seven angels and they’re going to blow their trumpet and the judgments will begin. So he tells us what’s going to take place and then it happens upon the earth. And then when it’s all over with and it’s all done, all the nations of the earth, the kingdoms of the earth will become the kingdom of our Lord.

And he’s coming to give as he says there, rewards to his saints. Now remember, salvation going to heaven, that is the gift of God. He did all the work. He went to the cross, paid for the sins of the world, and all that we have to do is believe he did it for And we trust Him as our Savior and God said He would save us, give us eternal life And we get to go to heaven because of what He’s done for us.

But boy, isn’t there a lot of other stuff in the Bible besides just how to go to heaven? Let me show you this hand represent you and me The wallet represent all the bad things that we do we all have sin on us In other words, we have all done things wrong. And because we have the wages of sin is death, the eternal separation from God. But God loves us. He wants us to go to heaven. God doesn’t want us to be separated from Him.

He wants us to be with Him. Because of sin, we can’t go to heaven. See, God says that He is pure and holy, righteous, and no sin can enter into the holy city. So therefore, only perfection can be there. So how can we ever be perfect? So how in the world could buy our good words, we ever get to be perfect? Can you make yourself perfect if you tried real hard? that you could ever do will ever make you perfect.

That’s why you had needed a Savior. This hand represent Jesus Christ the Lord, God in the flesh, came into the world because He loves us. He hates our sin because it separates us from Him. So Jesus Christ who had no sinned and half to die. But because He loved us, He took our sins, paid for it on the cross, came back from the dead and said, if you and I, if If we would believe He did it for us, it put that payment to our account.

We get to go to heaven on what Christ did for us. There’s no tricks to it, no gimmicks. If I offered you this microphone and you accepted, you would have a microphone and if I offered you my wallet and you accepted, you’d have a wallet. If Christ walked in here and offered to eternal life and you accepted, you would have eternal life. And if it’s eternal life, then it lasts forever. And if it lasts forever, and all your sins are paid, then where would you go when you die?

They go to heaven. So doesn’t it make sense to trust Jesus Christ as your only hope of going to heaven? And once you trust Him as your Savior, God gives you eternal life, you’re His child forever. He’ll never cast you out. That’s the best news I ever heard. Let’s pray, shall we? Every head bowed and every eye closed, no one looking around. If tonight you’ve never trusted Lord, but you know you shouldn’t. You don’t like what you see coming upon the earth.

And I’m just telling you what the book says. I didn’t make it up, I didn’t write it. I can’t explain it all. I know that God loves you. I know you paid for your sins just like you did for me. I can’t answer all your questions. you see, trust the Lord with some of your questions. Learn some things later. Right now, just believe that you need to trust Him to go to heaven. And if you will trust Him, I’d like to have prayer for you.

And I’m going to ask you in just a moment to raise your hand. Raising your hand doesn’t save you. Just to let me know that what I said made sense to you. You’re saying, pray to pray for me. I’m going to trust Christ as I save you tonight. Is there anyone at all before we close? If you’re listening to my way of internet, why not right now just the best you know how? Right where you’re steady. You’re going to say, Lord, I believe Christ did that for me.

And I’m trusting Him right now as my only hope of what heaven. And friend God said, if you trust Him, He would save you. Our Father, we thank you so much for this time together, for the study of your Word. We pray Your will to be done. Thank you for blessing this ministry and give us a good day on Sunday. Bless each one here in Christ’s name we pray. Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr.

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Caught up to meet the Lord in the air. So live today and every day believing that the Lord is coming soon and just keep looking up.

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We are studying in the book a revelation. You might be able to find some other little jewels, and if you study it, if you find that, hey, the preacher’s not right on this, then feel free to come and talk to me. Let me know, because you may see something that I have not seen. I do not know at all. I don’t understand everything in the Bible. I can’t quote the whole book. I know a little bit here and a little bit there.

So I try to teach you what I do understand. But this is the seven angels, the seven trumpets, and the seven bowls of judgment. And I believe the key to understanding some of these things and how they’re happening is finding the seven angels because it’s, the angels have a particular responsibility. And as you look at it and you see it, then you can follow another portion of scripture that says, well, the same angel is doing pretty much the same thing.

So I believe that in every one of these situations, there is a heavenly view and an earthly view. Remember, John was caught up into heaven and there he saw a panoramic view of the what’s going to happen upon the earth. So we see what John saw there and then we see from the human perspective what’s going on on the earth. And I do believe that there is a difference. So as we look at it, I hope that you will be able to see this.

Revelation chapter 8 and verse 2 says, and I saw the seven angels which stood before God and to them were given seven trumpets. But as you get your notes, you’ll look at the top of it. The seven angels, the seven trumpets, and the seven bowls of judgment. In Revelation 8 verse 2, and I saw the seven angels which stood before God, and to them were given seven trumpets. Then in verse 6 it says, and the seven angels, which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

So now I believe this is going to be the pouring out of the judgment of God upon the earth, the wrath of God. And so you’ll notice when you ever read the 16th chapter of the book of Revelation, it’s talking about pouring out the wrath upon the earth. But you have the seven seals and the sixth seal talks about how that they hid themselves because they were afraid of the wrath of the Lamb. And I believe that this starts about the middle of the tribulation period.

I could be wrong on this. Some of these things I have not figured out but believe in that the last part of the tribulation period is the wrath of God upon the earth. And the devil has got his man in position and he has come on the scene and he’s promised peace and safety and abundance and the utopia. Just give me all your power and they’ll do it and trust and be totally deceived. And then he goes into the temple, breaks the peace treaty that’s been made with Israel, himself to be God and begins the great persecution against the nation of Israel.

This is when there really will be an all-out attempt to annihilate every Jew in the world. If you’ll notice, the angels sounds that starts the judgment. So the first angel, rat, is the earth. And then you see there in the bold, the heavenly divine view. In other words, this is the view that John had in the taking place and responsive of each angel. gives another view in another portion of Scripture several chapters away. But we’ll look at that. So in Revelation chapter 8 verse 7 here in your notes, the first angel sounded and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood and they were cast upon the earth.

So they’re in heaven and something been cast upon the earth and the third part of trees was burnt up and all green grass was burned up. So there is a description of a time coming in the world in which it is possible that everything green is going to be burned up. Now we know that we can have a nuclear war, how much all of this is going to go on. God says Xue is going to be a terrible time and this is in the near future.

I believe that if the Lord came back today, we’re talking about within three years the beginning of the great wrath of God upon the earth. So remember it’sCompat the first angel in verse 7 and then look there in Revelation 16 and verse 1. The earthly human view, what people upon the earth are going to see, what they’re going to go through, what they’re going to experience. So it’s like he goes do and chose all the seven angels and their trumpets and what’s going to happen in heaven.

And then chapters later it’s like a repeat, but now it’s what’s going to be done when they fulfill it upon the year. It’s like I said, this is what we’re going to do and now we’re going to do it. So in verse 1 of chapter 16 he says, and I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, go your ways and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.” Now he had already told us in previous chapter 8 about the angels and what they’re going to do.

Now he’s sending them forth. Now they’re going to go do it. And then he says here in chapter 16 in verse 2 of Revelation, and the first went, poured out his vowel upon the earth and there fell a noisim and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast and if on the end worshiped his image. Now if it poured it out upon those who had the mark of the beast, I don’t believe they get the mark of the beast until about the middle of the tribulation period because that’s when the Antichrist takes over.

Unless it’s the mark of a government before they give him total power. So whether or not it can start at the beginning, I don’t know, but I believe there’s a good possibility it’s about the middle of the tribulation period when this is going to be done because there’s people who already have the mark of the beast and upon them which worship his image. So there is going to be these things hitting upon the earth and this is what’s going to take place.

The second angel wrapped upon the sea. There is first of all the heavenly or the divine view and we’re back to Revelation chapter 8 again. So we’re going usually from chapter 8 to chapter 16, chapter 8, chapter 16. And verse 80 says, and the second angel sounded and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea. The third part of the sea became blood and the third part of the creatures which were in the sea and had life died.

And third part of the ships were destroyed. So you know that this is not the normal type of a warfare where people are riding horses and they’re stabbing each other and fighting each other with swords. Neither is it just, you know, somebody with some guns and pulling the trigger and just shooting an individual. This has a lot more. This looks like atomic warfare. Whether it’s a mushroom cloud to see or the a ball of fire coming down out of, you know, the sky and causing all this calamity, we have some nations right now that would love to destroy America, but they want world domination.

I would not be surprised and you shouldn’t be. Communism is not dead. Russia is communistic. China is communistic. And North Korea is communistic. And they all have some nuclear power. Now, China is becoming very, very strong in our day. Russia would love to take Israel. I believe that any one of them could start a war with America and get us so sunk in that the other one could knock us off the map. We do not have, I don’t believe, an administration today that is so set on the defense of our country as it ought to be.

I believe you don’t be priority number one. That is the main goal of our federal government is defense. It is not government welfare programs, all that stuff. That is not the goal, the purpose of a Republican form of government. That’s not in there. Now, on the second angel talking about what’s going to happen to the sea and going to turn it to blood it to blood and things are going to die and shifts are all going to be destroyed.

Well, we know how that can be done today and we know that the shifts when this is talking about is not talking about little wooden shifts out there, you know, like the Nina and Santa Maria. That’s what I said. So we’re not talking about little wood shifts like, you know, the Mayflower and something like we’re talking about big battleships, aircraft carriers, the destroyers that we have today are going to be destroyed. So there’s going to be a war in which this world is going to be knocked off its rocker literally and we covered that last week.

Look at the earthly or human view and In Revelation 16, one, and each one of these, I threw this verse in there because it’s when God told the angels to go their way and to fulfill their responsibility to bring this wrath upon the earth. This is the wrath of God. So the angels sound the trumpet that starts the distribution of all these bowls of judgment upon the earth. So in Revelation 16, 3, and the second angel poured out his vallebon thee, see.

And it became as the blood of a dead man, and every living soul died in the seas. So everything that God says is going to happen, I believe, will take place. It’ll happen. Now some thought that because they had the oil spill, and it could keep on going until, you know, I get into the current and it’s all the coast. all the way around the world and makes things dead. See that fulfills that. Well, I don’t see how that turns it into blood.

Mucky, maybe. But I believe it’s going to happen because of a nuclear type war. The third angel. This is the wrath upon, and I still got the word see there, but it’s supposed to be the rivers and the fountains of water, where has the third angel wrath upon the waters, not in the ocean, but in the waters, the rivers. This is the water that you and I would need probably to drink in order to survive. In Revelation chapter 8 and verse 10, he says, and the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of of the rivers and upon the fountains of waters.

And the name of the stars call wormwood and the third part of the waters became wormwood. And it’s talking about it poisons the water. Now whether it’s because of chemical or biological, I don’t know, I really don’t care. I will not be here only stating that God says that something is going to take place and all the waters is going to be poisoned and when it talks about becoming bitter it means you can’t drink it. When people can’t drink water what generally happens?

People are going to die. And over one fourth of the world’s population is going to be destroyed. It’s going to be bad. Now remember there was a time about I guess 150 years ago or something like this. A place called Haiti did not want the British crown ruling over them. They didn’t want any French. They didn’t want anybody. They wanted their own God and they chose witchcraft. They chose witchcraft as their God. And if you go there today, majority of the people worship witchcraft.

And it’s very difficult to understand for some people while you can pour millions and millions of dollars into the place and… It does nothing, absolutely nothing for them. They have one catastrophe after another. And they cannot get it. I believe they got the wrong God. But also it shows you that if it can happen in one place like this, and you can see the poverty and the decimation by storms and starvation and pestilence and malaria, all the diseases. just think when it happens all over the world.

It’s going to happen all over the world. The Lord says it shall be a snare that takes the whole earth. It’s coming. In verse 10, and the third angel sounded and there fell a grey star from heaven burning as it were a lamp and it fell upon the third part of the rivers and upon the fountains of water. Now turn your page to the earthly view. And you’ll notice in Revelation 16 1, this is still a, as he says, and I heard a gray voice out of the temple, this is in heaven, saying to the angels, go your way and pour out the vows of the wrath of God upon the earth.

So what they’re saying and seeing and doing in heaven is one thing, there’s a vision there. And then fulfillment upon the earth. And so John was able to see into the future what was literally going to take place in the near future from where we are right now. This is almost 2,000 years later. Now many people do not understand that we’re living at a very, I guess you could say, a dangerous point in our own history. We have a Congress that is permitting millions and billions of dollars, trying to sustain our country by printing more fiat money.

Fiat money is money that just printed on paper and there has no real value to it. The only value it has is the confidence that you and I put into it. And when that confidence is gone it has no value. None whatsoever. It’s not backed by silver certificates or gold. It’s not backed by anything. Not even backed by our federal government. They don’t have to make it worth anything. And whenever they print millions and billions of more of those little green backs, it means the ones that you and I have in our pocket or the money we have in the bank or in savings or anywhere else means it’s worth less and less and less.

So they have inflated it. And after a while, it pots the bubble and everything comes crashing down. We’re bankrupt. America’s bankrupt. The only thing that’s keeping us going right now is they just keep printing more money, not backed by anything, and we are becoming a loose cannon. Even other countries don’t trust us Now, and buddy, we can totally collapse very quickly. Just my humble opinion.

Look there in Revelation 16 and verse four and get this and the third angel. So you line up these the angels is, I believe, one of the keys to understanding much of the scripture in the book of Revelation, the third angel poured out his valop on the rivers and fountains of water. And they became blood, and I heard the angel of the water say, Thou art righteous, O Lord which art and was and shall be, because thou hath judged thus, for they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hath given them blood to drink, for they are worthy.

And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgment. In other words, when God judges a nation, Or if God judges a man. If God judges the earth, God must be justified when he does so. In other words, he has to be righteous. Even with every judgment that God does, no man is going to be able to find fault with God. Like God, you didn’t have a right to do that.

That was not right. God will be cleared by any man’s decision, any man’s judgment. But on top of that, God really doesn’t care about your opinion or mine. But if a man does, God has all the evidence on his side, how much time has God given to the earth? How many have probably heard preachers pouring out their soul for the last 2,000 years and all the warning that has been given? like, hasn’t anybody listened as an anybody paid attention to what’s going on in the world?

But now look, the next thing, the fourth angel, wrath upon the sun. Remember, God’s pouring out his wrath upon the earth, and then he means what he’s going to be doing on the earth, and about the oceans, and about the rivers and the waters, the mountains, the green grass, the trees, the sun, he’s just about covering it all. He’s going to pour out his judgment upon this earth. Now, these are things in the mind of a natural person. These are just natural consequences.

You know what, this is just a catastrophic event and it was going to happen anyway and no, God’s in charge and He’s not going to let us do whatever we want to do forever and ever and ever. Payday, someday. Payday’s coming. look there in Revelation chapter 8 verse 12 and the fourth angel sounded and the third part of the sun was smitten. Third part of the moon and third part of the stars. So as the third part of them was darkened the day shone not for a third part of it and the night likewise.

And I beheld and heard an angel flan to the mist of heaven. See this is the heaven leave you up in heaven saying with a loud voice, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa to the inhabitants of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels which are yet to sound. So we know there’s three more that’s going to sound and each one of these last three, number five six seven, there are going to be three woes.

And the reason is because it’s really going to get bad because they’re going to hone in on the effect it’s going to actually have upon the people. So look there in Revelation 16, verse eight, and the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun. Power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. Men were scorched with great heat, blasphemed the name of God which had power over these plagues, and they repented not to give him glory. Is he?

God wants his people to give him glory, to give If he’s on her to know who he is, there’s several verses that talks about in no testament. Every man shall know the Lord. From one end of the earth to the other, all shall know me. And nobody’s going to say, do you know the Lord? Because everybody’s going to know it. That day is coming. But he says, whoa, whoa, whoa to the inhabitants of the earth. See those last three things up here?

Whoa, whoa, whoa, the ones that I underlined to the inhibitors of the earth by reason because of the last three that’s coming Now in Revelation 16 and verse 8 when it says the fourth angle poured out his valive on the Sun power given to it Discourse men with a millward it’s going to be so hot Now whether not it’s because as we studied last week the Bible says the earth is going to be shaken upon its axis and it’s going to wobble back and forth like a drunk man.

And whether or not it’s going to get closer to the sun, or because it’s going to destroy what we call our ozone layer, and that people are going to be on fire. It’s going to be hot. I have no idea what Al Gore going to do about all this, but it’s going to be the people upon the earth are going to suffer. And these is going to be a bad time in which to live. Look there at the fifth angel, the fifth angel, the rat upon the seat of the beast.

The first whoa. Now you won’t see that in the Bible as you read it, but it’s because I have put that there. Only is knows. I am not trying to change scripture. or add scripture. These are just notes of mine. Okay. The heavenly divine view. Look at this. Revelation chapter 9 and verse 1 says, and the fifth angel sounded. And I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth, and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.

He opened the bottomless pit, and there arose a smoke out of the pit, and then the smoke of a great furnace in the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. And there came out of the smoke locust upon the earth, and upon them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. It was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those men which have not the seal of God and their foreheads, and to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months, and their torment was at the torment of a scorpion when he strikes a man.

And those days shall men seek death, shall not find it, shall desire to die, death shall flee from them. And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses, prepared unto battle and on their heads, whereas it were crowns like gold, and their faces were the faces of men. And they had hair on the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. You see, what is that? I ain’t got a clue. I can guess like most people do.

Well, these were, these are the fighter jets and the guys are painted pictures on them and they roar and they fly and all and I ain’t got a clue. And there’s a good possibility, a little yank-yology. I believe that there’s probably was a lot of this chemical stuff over in the like and Iraq. You realize what all that stuff could do as it seeks through the underground? The Bible describes it coming out of the river Euphrates, coming from Iraq.

And who knows what’s going on under the ground with any kind of weird stuff being produced? And people and animals or whatever and locas being deformed and whatever. I’ve seen it where they’ve had it on TV some frogs were growing limbs and kind of weird places in their lives We’re all twisted and all kind of stuff chemical stuff that had gotten on the some of the frogs I don’t know if you all ever saw that they’ve had it on TV before Who knows what’s been done?

Anyway, it’s gonna come from a place over there in the Middle East Chances are where the river Euphrates is and there’s gonna be a lot of stuff that’s gonna take place the Bible describes that in the book of Revelation in chapter 9. And it talks about how this is going to be persecution upon the people, but it also is upon what we call a polyon. If you look there at the next page, they had tales like under scorpions and they had worse things in their tales and their power was to hurt men five months.

They had a king over them which is the angel of the bottom the spit whose name in the Hebrew tongue is a baton, but in the Greek tongue has this name Apollyon. One woe is passed and behold, there comes two more woe’s here after. So this is going to take place. Well, how bad is all this going to be? It gets some time, let me say all that, but we’ll look at more of that stuff as we go through each chapter.

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Do you remember some of y’all want? About 35 years ago or so, people were having to build bomb shelters. Because we’re afraid that Russia was going to drop a few little nukes here and there and people wanted to prepare for it And so kids were told how to duck down underneath their desk and and Prepare for a nuclear fallout and everybody was talking about it at one time. I don’t know how many of y’all remember that I’m not making it up It’s been postponed for a while, but it could take place yet in the future Hold your place right here and look there in the book of 2 Peter and chapter 3, 2 Peter and chapter 3.

I want you to see this. You’ll notice that there’s an interesting verse here. Look there in verse 10. In verse 10. When God had talked about, you know, why does it seem like it’s taken so long for the Son of Man to come back? And so He says, there shall be a mockers in the last day. Saying, where’s the fulfillment of the promise of this coming? And so they mock and they make fun. And he says, God does not count slackness as men do.

And God fulfilled his promise the first time by destroying the earth with water. Says that the next time it’s gonna be by fire. But God is patient. and he describes the future in verse 10. But the day of the L.O.R.D. Lord will come, as a thief in the night, in the which the heaven shall pass away with a great noise. The element shall melt with fervent heat. The earth also in the works that are therein shall be burned up, seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, man or persons ought we to be.

So we believe that this is going to happen. Look in verse 12, looking for and hastening unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens been on fire, shall be dissolved, the elements shall melt with fervor and heat. Now, is that a reference to the same thing that he’s talking about here in the book of Isaiah? It’s a reference at the same time, I believe, I don’t have to happen two or three or four or five times, but I believe that it must be true.

And this scripture will add to this scripture and then some more scripture and some more scripture. And after all, you get a picture of what God’s going to do in the future. Now go back to the book of Isaiah, Isaiah chapter 24. And you’ll notice that when they hide themselves in the pit and they come out like in the window, and then all of a sudden there is a radiation fallout, I don’t know. I can’t say that it doesn’t refer to that.

And if you’ve got a better suggestion, we’re fine. That’s good. Look what he said in verse nine, the earth is utterly broken down. The earth is cleaned, is off. The earth is moved exceedingly. Get this in verse 20. The earth shall reel to and pro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage, and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it, and then shall fall and not rise again. Now this is what God says He’s going to do to the earth.

And as you read the scriptures, it describes a gigantic earthquake that takes place toward the end of the tribulation period and talking about cities being totally destroyed and every mountain being moved and every island being moved, it’s going to be a bad day to be on the earth. Now, where are you going to be when this takes place? I’m going to be with the Lord. Now, if you want to be here, you can go right ahead, but I don’t plan on being here.

And by the way, I’ve already decided that if the Raptor takes place today, y’all can have my motor home. I won’t need it. Peter, you want it? Okay. Peter says he wants it over there. All right. Now, take your Bible and turn over there to Joel chapter 2. Now, generally, you know, we talk about the blowing of the shofar. We talk about when you’re in the Bible. And that is done, a feast of trumpets. There’s going to be the blowing of the trumpet, and there will be a gathering together of God’s people and generally for war, or of the regathering, because God says, I got something I want to do for you.

So God’s going to call his people together. And then seven years later, there’s going to be, oh, it’s really going to blast them. But look in verse one, look in verse one, chapter two, chapter two, below ye the trumpet in Zion. Now I believe this is right at the time of the tribulation period. Sound and alarm in my holy mountain, let all the inhabitants of the land tremble for the day of the Lord cometh. Now we find that in the book of Revelation.

We found it in the book of 2 Thessalonians. Find it in 2 Peter, chapter 3, find it in the book of Isaiah, and chapter 2, verse 12. Now you find it here in the book of Joel. It will, it’s in a lot of places. The day of the Lord will come. But in each case, there’s a little bit extra knowledge that’s given about this period of time. But look at says in verse two, as he describes the tribulation period, this day of trouble, a day of darkness and of gloominess.

They have clouds and a thick darkness as the morning spread upon the mountains a great people and strong There have not been ever the life neither shall be any more after it in other words saying once again There’s never been a time like this before and there never be a time like it after now We read something like that the book of Matthew chapter 24 So I believe there’s a connection And it says even to the years of many generations get to number three a fire devourth before them.

And behind them a flame burneth. The land is the garden of Eden before them and behind them a desolate wilderness, yea, and nothing shall escape them. Now you’ll hear and see some things in here and talks about perhaps there’s something that sounds like a horse but it’s not a horse. In verse 4 the appearance of them is as the appearance of horses and as horsemen so shall they run. Now you’ll find out some of this year also in the book of Revelation when he talks about some weird things coming out of the pit and they have faces like horses and they sound like horses but there’s a possibility they may not be horses but I’ll cover that when we get there.

And as horsemen so shall they run. Look in verse 5, like the noise of the chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that be voweth the st of them. As a strong people said in battle right now some people say well no this could be airplanes, helicopters, something that flies in the air but makes great noise and fires coming down. I don’t know. I don’t know how they would have described it back in their day.

But you know all this here has to happen in that little window. Not a lot of time. So there’s a good possibility that this is the most dynamic period of time upon the face of the earth. It’s just, I’m not going to be here for it. It doesn’t have a good description saying, hey, that’s where I want to be. Not this place. Looking for a sic, before their faces, the people shall be much pained. All faces shall gather blackness.

They shall run Unlike mighty men, they shall climb the wall like men of war, and they shall march everyone on his way, and they shall not break their rank. Neither shall one thrust aside, they shall walk everyone in his path, and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded. They shall run to and fro in the city, they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses, they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.

The earth shall quake before them, the heavens shall tremble, but sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withhold their shining.” This is description of what’s going to take place during the tribulation period. Now I don’t try to figure out every little thing in here. I can see and I can try to put it together. But I know where it belongs. You see, it’s like having, you know, a close rack in the house. You can take a shirt off and you put it on the hanger and you hang it on the rack.

Knowing some of these outlines, a biblical survey, a prophecy, you know, this meat hangs there and this meat that goes there and this year it goes there. And after a while you can find a place for all of it, but I haven’t found the place for all of it yet. I’m still studying it. Look what he says in verse 15 or chapter 1. A last for the day, for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

So you know this is a period of time where God is going to pour out his wrath upon the earth, For all the shenanigans of all these nations and all these people and they thought they’re gonna get away with it. No, they’re not God You’re still on throne Now as you read all of this stuff, there’s a lot of interesting things down through here I ain’t got time to cover all of them, but you know in Joel chapter 2 There’s a scripture found here that’s also minted in the book of Acts and chapter 2 that when they were speaking in tongues on the day of Pentecost.

Peter stood up and says, this is that which is been fulfilled according to Joel, but it wasn’t all that fulfilled. Look what he says in verse 28. Verse 28 says, and it shall come to pass afterwards that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh and your sons and your daughter shall prophesy your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall vision and also upon the servants and upon the handmaids and those days will I pour out my Spirit.

Now this is a fulfillment in Acts chapter 2 of these scriptures that are mentioned right here and it quotes these verses but it it didn’t all happen at that time but it is a reference to the tribulation period. See there verse 30 and I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth blood and fire and pillars of smoke. Get this, the sun shall be turned into darkness, the moon into blood before. Get that, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come.

So right before the Lord comes back this period of time, this great tribulation period of time right here, is when God says the stars are going to fall and the sun is not going to shine and the moon is going to be turned into blood. That’s it. Right before you go. And when you read Matthew 24, you’ll see that it all comes together. It all jives. It’s all in order. And there’s no contradiction in the word of God. Now, that’s going to happen at that period of time.

Now look there in verse 2 of chapter 3. And I will gather all nations and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat and will plead with them there for my people for my heritage Israel whom they have scattered among the nations and parted my land and look there in verse 4 all the coast of Palestine. Do we have it in our time when they want to part the land of Israel? That’s what they’re talking about. This is written at most 800 years before Christ.

Just a coincidence and all of it has to hit within a certain period of time. It’s awesome. It really is. And this is where you find out when it’s all over. The God says, I want to take your medal and make pruning hooks out of it. Plow shares, not weapons of war. See that in verse 9. Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles. Prepare a war. Wake up the mighty men. Let all the men of war draw near. Let them come up.

Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say I am strong. So there’s going to be a time when they will do this and then there’s going to come a time when they will not do this because God says it’s going to all be changed. See, the Gentiles are going to come against Israel in the Valley of Jehoshapal, we call it sometimes the plains of Jeh Israel, the Megiddo area. This is when God takes and pulls in all these grapevines from all of the earth and pulls in the Gentiles into this great big old valley and God’s going to stop them with his feet and all this grape juice, which is the blood as it goes down 200 miles, it’s going to come into the valley right there to Kidron Valley We believe at Jerusalem.

And that’s why when he says, multitude, multitude in the Valley of Decision. This is referring to those people that go there. Remember when Christ says that the day will come, when two will be in the bed, one taken one left, two will be in the fields, one taken one left? Meaning people think that’s talking about the rapture. No. Because it asked the question where were they taken and they were taken to the battle of Armageddon for destruction That’s not the Rapture means people think I talk about no, it’s not Raptors not revealed in Matthew 24 is talking about at the end of the tribulation period and So he says they’re gonna part his land, but look in verse 15 now chapter two of the book of Joel He says in verse 15, the sun and the moon, Chabi darken, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.

The Lord also shall roar out of Zion and utter his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth shall shake, but the Lord shall be the hope of his people and the strength of the children of Israel. So this is what is going to take place. Now, as you go through and you study all of this, it sure does get good. I want to show you one of the verse. Look there in the book of Ezekiel 37. Go back to your left.

Ezekiel 37 and look there in chapter 37. Ezekiel chapter 37. The Lord talks about how he is going to take the children of Israel and he says, I am going to have them born in a day. That’s in the 11th chapter of the book of Romans. But here you’ll notice it written in verse 25, 26, and 27. And he’s talking about the new birth. God says, this is what I’m going to do. But it says, there’s going to be a time when he’s going to take these dry bones and he’s going to bring them together.

And God’s people are going to rise again. If you will, you’ll look there in verse 11 of chapter 37, then said, under me, son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. This is future. And it’s the whole house of Israel. Some people talk about the lost tribes of Israel. They’re not lost. God knows right where everybody is. I told a person the other day, Jewish person, I said, I believe there’s a good possibility. I have have no proof of it, have no way of proof.

But I have, I have, I did. I said, I believe that somewhere along the line, they’re going to be able to prove by the DNA code, somehow every person in the nation of Israel, what tribe they came from. I believe that somehow God has pre-programmed it into their DNA. And they’ll be able to find out what tribe they belong to. That’s just the Yankee algae. I can’t prove a word at it. But it sounds good. Don’t it sound good?

I think it sounds good. But anyway, he says there’s a time coming. Remember Solomon, who really messed up with all those women? You say, well, that’s why he was so wise he had all those counselors. But God split the kingdom after he died. And because God split the kingdom, 10 nations, 10 tribes became known as Israel. Their capital was in Samaria. And you had the southern two tribes Judah and Benjamin and their capital was in Jerusalem. So you had Jews, Israelites.

But the whole house of Israel, well once again be one stick, not two sticks. So God says that I’m going to join them together. Look there in verse 19. The last part of verse 19, the last line, they shall be one in my hand. One stick.” And then he says there in verse 21, and say unto them, thus saith the Lord God, behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen and bring them into their land.

Verse 22, and I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel. One king shall be king to them all, and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms anymore at all. Now down in verse 24. And David, my servant, shall be king over them. I believe that King David is once again doing the thousand year reign upon the earth is going to be here. Now it’s interesting that he is explaining all of this in the 37th chapter.

Then he backs up when he gets to the 38th chapter. The 38th chapter has got to happen and the 39th chapter got to happen before the 37th chapter can happen. So he tells you what he’s going to do. Then he tells you now, first of all, this has got to happen. So when you read the 38th chapter, you’re talking about a battle that’s going to take place, the Battle of Gog and Magog, that God says is going to take place.

This is during the tribulation period. There’s another battle that takes place at the end of the thousand year reign upon the year and that’s Over without any problem. Lord just nets over this is a battle that takes place here on the earth and God describes it and even mentions of the the allies of Russia and goes on down through here and says a lot of good stuff that you can read later on on your own But what I want you to see there is in verse 19.

So it says, in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken. Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel so that the fishes of the sea and the fowls of the heaven and the beasts of the field and all creeping things that creep upon the earth and all the men that are upon the face of the earth shall shake at my present and the mountain shall be thrown down.

The steep places shall fall and every wall shall fall to the ground.” See, this is what we’ve been studying in the other places. Same thing, but see, this is at the end of the tribulation period. This is doing that period of time. I don’t get too caught up on the little detail stuff. I just like to have the whole picture, you know, what’s going on. So look what he says in verse 21, And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, sayeth the Lord God, every man’s sword shall be against his brother.

And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood. I will reign upon him and upon his bands and upon the many people that are with him and overflowing rain and great hell stones and fire and brimstone. Thus will I magnify myself and sanctify myself. And I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know I’m the Lord. This whole thing is about people knowing that God is God. He’s God. He is the Lord.

There is nobody like him. And of course, there’s a lot of things we could go into, but we don’t need to. Let’s go back now to chapter six in Revelation. And close right there. I don’t just see something. Revelation chapter six. Now look there again at verse 12. After we have been around the world, in verse 12 he says, and beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and lo, there was a great earthquake. Now we just read scripture, the talk to bat, there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel.

Let me show you this. Now hold your place right here, but look over there to your right, right to the 16th chapter of the book of Revelation. 16th chapter book of Revelation. In verse 17 and the seventh angel, which is the last angel poured out his valop on the air and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven from the throne saying it is what? Done. It means it must be then at the end of of the period of time God poured out of his wrath.

Now there’s other things that happened after this, but this kind of gives you a synopsis of this is what’s going to happen and it’s though it’s already done. But give me what he said. Verse 18, and there were voices, thunder, lightning, such, and there was a great earthquake such as was not since men were upon the earth so mighty and earthquake and so great. And the great city was divided in the three parts and the cities of the nations fell.

In great Babylon came in and remember before God to give unto her the cup of the wind and the fiercest of his wrath and every island fled away. The mountains were not found and there was fell upon men a great hail out of heaven and stones about the weight of a talent, a hundred, a hundred twenty pound and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail for the plague thereof was exceeding great. This is upon the nation of Israel, over a lot of this is going to take place.

But the nations of the earth and we’ll see more of that as we get to it. They go back here at the sixth chapter of the book of Revelation. So he says, we know this in verse 12, and the sun became black asack cloth of hair and the moon became as blood. See, all this is mentioned. You’ll also see that same scripture mentioned in the book of Joel in chapter 2, found in the book of Acts in chapter 2, when it talks about that which was being poured out upon them, which was the Holy Spirit.

The stars of heaven fell upon the earth, even as a fig tree catches her untimely figs. When he is shaken of a mighty wind, the heavens departed as a scroll when it is rolled together. every mountain and every island moved out of their places. Now, do you want to be here when this happens? Surely you don’t want to be here when this happens. That’s why the most important thing anybody can ever do is to accept the payment Jesus Christ made on the cross corner.

Let me show you something real quick. This is you and me, this is sin. We all have sin on us. God says that He loves us. Now He hates our sin, but He loves us. For us to pay for sin, turn of separation from God in hell. But he loves us and wants us to go to heaven. But to go to heaven, you have to be perfect as righteous as God. And none of us are perfect, none of us are righteous.

We have all sinned and come short of God’s perfection. We have all done things wrong. And God says, you cannot save yourself. That’s why you need a Savior. This hand represents Jesus Christ. He’s the Lord. God in the flesh came into the world because he loves us. hates our sin because it separates us from him. So Christ took the sin, paid for it on the cross, came back from the dead. And God said that if you would, if we would believe He did it for us, He’d put this payment to our account, we get to go to heaven, or what He did.

That’s a gift. That’s free. That’s a substitutionary payment of what He was my substitute. He died for my sins, So that I don’t have to die and pay for my sins. So when I accept Him as my Savior, God gives me the free gift, the eternal life, and I’ll go to heaven whenever I die. And He said, He’ll never cast you out and never lose you. Best news in all the world. Let’s pray, shall we? With every head bound, every eye closed, no one looking around.

If you hear this evening and you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior, I hope by the understanding of some of these passages of Scripture And about the future of what’s going to take place and things that are going on in the world today It would convince you this book is true This has to be a truly inspired God divine book God has revealed these things to us only God could have done this no man could have done this and If you have never trusted Christ is your Savior because you’ve got questions in doubt friend I would trust the Lord with my questions in doubt Because you can agree on this.

God says you’re a sinner. So am I. You can agree with God on that. You’re not perfect. Neither am I. You can believe that God sent his son to down that cross and pay for your sins. And if you’ll trust him right now, God said he would say to give you eternal life. Would you trust him? Would you believe he died for you? Paid for your sins? That he came back from the dead. And would you trust Him as your only hope of going to heaven?

If you will, I’d like to have prayer for you. I’m not going to have you forward, not going to embarrass you, but right where you’re sitting. So yes, that made sense to me. Tonight I will accept Christ as my Savior and preacher. I’d like you to pray for me. As you and I’ll be fully close, so yes, pray for me. Just leave me in a very quickly and write back down. Then we’ll go. My Father, we thank you so much for the opportunity we have to come together and to study the words.

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Revelation and chapter six, we’re studying about the seals that are being opened. What I want to do tonight is focus upon the opening of the sixth seal. I believe there’s enough material here to probably teach the whole lesson on tonight. Because we know that this day is coming during the tribulation period and look what it says here in verse 12. And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, And though there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black, a sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood.

And the stars of heaven fell upon the earth. Even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs when she is shaken of almighty wind. And the heavens departed as a scroll when it is rolled together, and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. And the kings of the earth, and the great men, the rich men, the cheap captains, captains, the mighty men and every bondmen, every free man, hid themselves, the dens and in the rocks of the mountains, and said to the mountains and rocks fall on us and hide us from the face of him that set it on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb.

For the great day of his wrath is come and who shall be able to stand. Now, I believe the good possibility refers to the last half of the tribulation period. The great day of his wrath is come. The first four seals talks about the false prophet, talks about peace being taken from the earth war. And then the third seal in verse five is talking about a famine. And then the fourth seal, that in verse seven, is talking about pestilence and people dying the death.

So these are four of the main seals in the The fifth seal is a picture of in heaven of the people that have already been slain because of the testimony they have for the Lord. So now, if the first opening of these seals, this is the time of sorrow, the first three and a half years of the tribulation period. And then you have the last half of the tribulation period, which is called the great tribulation. All of it is a seven year period of time, but the last half of it is the worst period time that the world has ever known.

So very quickly, just hold your place here and turn over there to the book of Matthew 24. Matthew 24. So in Matthew 24, we know verse 15 says, when ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the Prophet sent in the holy place. This is the middle of the tribulation period. So the beginning of sorrows is the first three and a half years, and IPM tells you what’s going to come. And then you have the last three and a half years, which take place after verse 15, as you’ll look down in verse 21.

For then shall be great tribulations, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there shall no flesh be saved, but for the next eight those days shall be shortened. So this is, I believe, the last part of the tribulation Then it tells you about the, you know, it’s kind of like, I’m telling you what I’m going to tell you, then I tell you, and then I tell you what I done told you.

So then he goes back about the false prophet there, the opening of that first seal which you’ll find over there in the book of Revelation in chapter 6. That’s the Antichrist, the false prophet that comes on the same. And he looks really, looks, the gentleman, what? That must be Christ. No, it’s not Christ. He says, when you want to know who I am, and when I come back, he says, the lightening will be as far as the east is from the west.

Every eye will see him when he comes back at the end of the tribulation period, and he’ll come back in power and great glory. Then you’ll know that’s him. So the one in Revelation in chapter six, the one on the white horse there, that is an imitator. That is not the true Christ. Now here in Matthew and chapter 24, you see there in verse 27, tells you how he’s going to come. The lightning cometh out of the east, shining even unto the west, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be.

Now in verse 29, immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, moon shall not give her light, stars shall fall from heaven, powers of the heaven shall be shaken. Now this looks like what we will read over there in chapter six under the sixth seal. So I believe the sixth seal is telling us about the last part of the tribulation period and what’s going to take place. Then he goes and tells you how all of it’s going to happen.

It tells us about there’s seven angels and he goes to the angels. And then they tell you about the, well, these angels are gonna do something. So the angels have seven trumpet, da da da da, and then they blow their seven trumpets. And then each one time when they blow the trumpets, then there’s a bowl of wrath that is poured out upon the earth. So you have seven angels who play the seven trumpets, who pour out the seven vials upon the earth.

And so all of this is gonna take place on the last half of the tribulation period, a worst period of time the world has ever known. So if you will, look there in Matthew chapter 24 and then he says in verse 30, And then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in Heaven, and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

And the Bible says they are crying out for the rocks and the mountains and so forth, and hiding themselves in the dens and the caves, that they would fall upon them and kill them, the highest from the wrath of the Lamb. This is talking about that last three and a half year period time upon the year. Now, sometimes you wonder, well, exactly what is it referring to? Let me show you this. Look there in the book of 2 Thessalonians in chapter 2, 2 Thessalonians and chapter 2.

You’ll notice, and I’m not going to cover this in total detail right now, but just so that you get an idea because I want to go to the book of Isaiah and maybe a few other books there right quick to show you a couple things. Here in 2 Thessalonians in chapter 2, look in verse 1, he says, Now we beseech you brethren by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and by our gathering together unto him. Now here in this verse, areas a coming and a gathering.

That’s I believe is the rapture. They were going through such tribulation, but I believe many believe that maybe this is the tribulation period that they’re going through. And so he says, let no man trouble you by any means, whether by letter, by from us and so on. So he says in verse 2, that you be not soon shaken in mind or be troubled, neither by spirit nor by word nor by letter, as from us as that the day of Christ is at hand.

Now that phrase, day of Christ is at him, is not a reference generally to the coming of Christ for the rapture. It is mentioned at one place in the book of the Philippians in chapter 1 verse 6 talking about the day of Christ. But I believe here the day of Christ is a reference to the day of the Lord. It’s the day, yes, when Christ will come back to the earth that’s mentioned in book of Matthew in chapter 24.

Then he says here in verse 3, let no man deceive you by any means. But that day, which I believe is a reference to the day of the Lord, shall not come, except there come a fallen away first and that man of sin be revealed the son of perdition. For look up here. Here’s our seven years of tribulation period. The rapture will take place, a coming and a gathering were taken out. And then he says, this day will not come until first of all, there is the catching away and then the man of sin will be revealed and then he will have all this terrible stuff happening in here and then the son of man will come.

Look what he says here in verse 4, who opposes the Antichrist and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worship so that he as God said it in the temple of God showing himself that he is God so that means that a peace tree has to be made with Israel. Because when we’re taken out of the world at the Rapture… Seven-year tree relation peer to fund the Europe. There’s going to be a peace treaty made because it says they will have a treaty made for one week.

In the midst of the week, they will cause the sacrifices that were being made in the temple to cease. And this is when Israel are supposed to flee out of Jerusalem when they see this happen. And then the Antichrist is going to go into the temple and claim himself that he is God and demanded that he isn’t worshiped as God. And then this land. part of the tribulation period. So he says here in verse 5, remember you not that when I was yet with you I told you these things.

Now when he was with him the first time he was with him about three weeks. Can you imagine not only had he preached the gospel led them to the Lord, grounded them in the truth and taught them prophecy in three weeks time. Now that’s pretty good teaching is that’s moving on. Today, you know, you hear a little bit of the gospel and six months later you say, oh, I heard something about a rapture. He taught him at the first three weeks with what he says.

And verse six, and now you know what would hold it that he might be revealed in his time. In other words, I know a lot of people would like to figure out who is this antichrist, but the scripture tells that when we are taken out, then He is revealed. He’s revealed here in the middle of the tribulation period. But is it possible for us to see the man on the rise? It may be possible. If the rapture was to take place the day, then the antichrist, no doubt, must be alive now.

Somewhere and it’s somebody. There he is. No, no. We don’t know who it is yet. We have an idea. Everybody’s got an opinion. But then what he says in verse six, and now you know what with hold it that he might be revealed in his time. I believe the only thing is keeping all of this from happening is that God hasn’t taken the church out yet. See this seven years keeps being pushed out here until the rapture takes place and we’re like a parenthetical expression in the sentence.

God’s gonna take us out and then And this is going to slide back against the cross and time will flow once again with Israel. But anyway, that’s how I see this. And in verse 7, for the mystery of iniquity, that already work. Now I believe the mystery of iniquity is the opposite of the mystery of godliness. Now when you studied the book of Timothy, and in chapter 3 talks about, great is the mystery of godliness. Talk about God was manifested in the flesh.

of angels and so forth. And yet he died and came back to life and went back into heaven. Now that is the truth of how that Jesus Christ was God in the flesh. Now the Antichrist is about the mystery of iniquity or the mystery of the seed, perhaps Satan. I don’t know. But I do believe the Antichrist will be the embodiment, the fulfillment of the devil himself. But he is a man Because later on the Bible says in the 19 chapter the book of Revelation that the beast and the false prophet were cast into the lake of fire now you look here in verse 8 and Then shall that wicked be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of his Coming our look at the order we’re taken out here and And then the anti-Christ comes on the scene, claims himself that he is

God demands to be worshiped. And then the great tribulation period coming upon right here. And then it says, whose coming is before the Lord. And Christ when he comes back is after the working of Satan. This is when he comes back to the earth. And he says there, and shall destroy with the spirit of his mouth and shouted a story with the brightness of his coming. So this is a reference in the very next verse talking about the working of Satan.

Look there in verse 9, even him who’s coming Christ is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders. So the devil is a bad man and he’s gonna have his man on the scene and he’s gonna fool a lot of people and gonna demand that people worship Him. Now today we have people they don’t want God, they don’t want Christ, they don’t want Christians, they don’t want the Bible, they don’t want the Holy Spirit, they don’t want nothing like that.

Okay, they’re gonna get their wish and then they’re gonna be the utopia they think it’s going to be. It’ll be the worst period of time that the world has ever known. Now take your Bible and go all the way back there to the book of Isaiah, the book of Isaiah. And look at chapter 2, Isaiah and chapter 2.

I believe this is the first time in the book of Isaiah that the phrase, Day of the Lord. And remember now we’re talking about when Christ comes at the end of the seven year period of time. So that’s why many believe that the phrase day of Christ is a reference to, even though in the Greek it has the word Christos, it means Christ, the Messiah coming at the end of the tribulation period. If you’ll notice there in the book of Isaiah chapter two, look there in verse two.

And it shall come to pass in the last days, the last days. And the last part of that verse two says, and all nations shall flow into it. So it’s giving you a picture of into the future the day will come when all the nations of the world are going to come to worship at Jerusalem. And you think, well, that must be the next thing to happen. No, not so fast. Before that, though, all the nations are going to be gathered against Israel.

So there is a time, yes, when all the nations are going to come together and they’re going to go to Jerusalem for to worship. That day has not yet come. And you’ll notice in verse 5, oh, house of Jacob, come ye and get this, you’re going to on the line of, let us walk in the light of the Lord. L-O-R-D, all caps means Jehovah himself. Now look there in verse 12, in verse 12, for the day of the L-O-R-D of hosts shall be upon everyone that is proud and loved.

Now the day of the Lord we’re talking about specifically this day when Christ comes back in power and great glory. But many times there’s an overlapping period of time, the wrath of the Lamb. Sometimes it’s a reference to the millennial reign of Christ upon the earth. So context has to dictate which one is referring to. But now what I want you to see, down in verse 19. And get now, remember we read some of these same words and phrases in the sixth chapter of the book of Revelation.

Remember now that Isaiah was written over 700 years before Christ. Verse 19, And they shall go into the holes of the rocks and into the caves of the earth for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of His majesty when He arises to shake terribly the earth. And that day a man shall cast his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which they have made each other, for himself to worship to the molds and to the bats.

Why? Because they’re going to be trying to hide and their silver in their gold will not deliver them. There’s a time coming when money will not be worth anything. And verse 21, to go into the clefs of the rock and into the tops of the ragged rock for fear of the Lord. And for the glory of His Majesty, when He arises to shake terribly the earth. In other words, there’s a day coming when God’s going to take this earth and He’s going to shake it like a drunk man.

And it’s going to rock back and forth upon its axis. Now, you see, is that really in the Bible. No, I just made it all of us. Now I looked there in Isaiah chapter 24. Isaiah chapter 24. Now remember, when these things were written, there has to be, you know, a time in the future when it will be possible for these things to happen. In other words, what can possibly cause the earth to shake like that? Well, look there in verse 17 of Isaiah chapter 24.

Now remember, I believe there’s a good possibility that there’s going to be a nuclear war. Nuclear bombs are going to explode somewhere upon this planet. When you read Zechariah chapter 14 verse 12 and it says, and this shall be the play with God will spite all the nations who gathered against Jerusalem the battle. And it says, while they stand upon their feet. Their eyes shall consume away in their holes and their flesh shall consume away off their bones and their tongue shall consume away right out of their mouth.

Why they stand on their feet? What kind of a battle would cause such a thing? Well we’re living in a time now where we know that’s very well possible. When they dropped the bomb from Hiroshima and Nagasaki they saw all of this take place. When thousands and thousands of people were killed just like that. Look what he says in verse 17. This is a reference to something that’s going to happen in the future. Fear and the pit. And the snare are upon thee, O inhabitants of the earth.

And it shall come to pass that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall unto the pit. And he that comeeth up out of the mist of the pit shall be taken in the snare. For the windows, who are on high, are open and the foundations of the year of due shape. Now many people who believe the Bible try to understand now what could this mean? Well, is it possible that this could be a description of a nuclear war and radiation to fall out in people?

Hi, do you remember some of y’all want? About 35 years ago or so, people were having to build bomb shelters because we were afraid that Russia was going to drop a few little nukes here and there and people wanted to prepare for it. And so, kids were told how to duck down underneath their desk and prepare for a nuclear fallout. And everybody was talking about it at one time. I don’t know how many of y’all remember that? I’m not making it up.

It’s been postponed for a while, but it could take place yet in the future. Hold your place right here and look there in the book of second Peter and chapter three, second Peter and chapter three. I want you to see this. You’ll notice that there’s an interesting verse here. Look there in verse 10. In verse 10. When God had talked about, you know, why does it seem like it’s taken so wrong for the Son of Man to come back?

And so he says, there shall be a mockers in the last day. He said, where’s the fulfillment of the promise of this coming? And so they mock and they make fun. And he says, God does not count slackness as men do. And God fulfilled his promise the first time by destroying the earth with water. Says that the next time is going to be by fire But God is patient and then he describes the future in verse 10 But the day of the L.

O. R. D. Lord will come There’s a thief in the night in the which the heaven shall pass away with a great noise The elements shall melt with fervent heat the earth also in the works that are there in shall be burned up seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved. Men are persons ought we to be. So we believe that this is going to have to look in verse 12, looking for and hastening unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens been on fire shall be dissolved.

The elements shall melt with fervor and heat. Now is that a reference to the same thing that he’s talking about here in the book of Isaiah? It’s a reference at the same time, I believe, I don’t have to happen two or three or four or five times, but I believe that it must be true. And this scripture will add to this scripture and then some more scripture and some more scripture. In that drawing, you get a picture of what God’s going to do in the future.

Now go back to the book of Isaiah, Isaiah chapter 24. And you’ll notice that when they hide themselves in the pit and they come out like in the window and then all of a sudden there is a radiation fallout. I don’t know. I can’t say that it doesn’t refer to that. And if you’ve got a better suggestion, we’re fine. That’s good. Look what he said in verse nine, The earth is utterly broken down. The earth is cleaned is off.

The earth is moved exceedingly. Get this in verse 20. The earth shall real to and pro like a drunkard and shall be removed like a cottage and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it and shall fall and not rise again. Now this is what God says He’s going to do to the earth. And as you read the scriptures, that describes a gigantic earthquake that takes place toward the end of the tribulation period and talking about cities being totally destroyed and every mountain being moved and every island being moved, it’s gonna be a bad day to be on the earth.

Now where are you going to be when this takes place? I’m gonna be with the Lord. Now if you want to be here, you can go right ahead, but I don’t plan on being here. And by the way, I’ve already decided that if the raptor takes place today, y’all can have my motor home. I won’t need it. Peter, you want it? Okay. Peter says he wants it over there. Now take your Bible and turn over there to Joel chapter 2.

Now generally, you know, we talk about the blowing of the shofar. We talk about when that is done, a piece of trumpets, there’s going to be the blowing of the trumpet and there will be a gathering together. Of God’s people and generally for war, or of the regathering because God says, I got something I want to do for you. So God’s going to call his people together. And then seven years later, there’s going to be, oh, it’s really going to blast then.

But look in verse one, look in verse one, chapter two, chapter two. Bloyee the trumpet in Zion. Now I believe this is right at the time of the tribulation period. Sound and alarm in my holy mountain. Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble for the day of the Lord come it. Now we find that in the book of Revelation. We found it in the book of 2 Thessalonians. We found it in 2 Peter chapter 3. Found it in the book of Isaiah in chapter 2 verse 12.

Now you find it here in the book of Joel, it will, it’s in a lot of places. The day of the Lord will come, but in each case, there’s a little bit extra knowledge that’s given about this period of time. But Louis says in verse two, as he describes the tribulation period, this day of trouble, a day of darkness and of gloominess. They have plowed in a thick darkness as the morning spread upon the mountains, a great people and strong, there have not been ever the life, neither shall be any more after it.”

In other words, saying once again, there’s never been a time like this before, and there’ll never be a time like it after. Now we read something like that in the book of Matthew 24. So I believe there’s a connection, and it says, even to the years of many generations, get to this in verse 3, a fire devoured before them, and behind them a flame burneth. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness, and nothing shall escape them.”

Now, you’ll hear and see some things in here and talks about perhaps there’s something that sounds like a horse, but it’s not a horse. In verse 4, the appearance of them is as the appearance of horses and as horsemen, so shall they run. Now, you’ll find out some of this year also in the book of Revelation when he talks about So weird things come in the bottom of the pit and they have faces like horses and they sound like horses But there’s a possibility they may not be horses But I’ll cover that when we get there And as horsemen, so shall they run looking verse five like the noise of the chariots on the tops of mountains Shall they leap like the noise of a flame of fire that be bowerth this devil as a strong people sit in battle Now some people say, well no, this could be airplanes, helicopters, something that flies

in the air but makes great noise and fires coming down. I don’t know. I don’t know how they would have described it back in their day. But you know, all this here has to happen in that little window. Not a lot of time. So there’s a good possibility that this is the most dynamic period of time of on the face of the Europe. I’m not going to be here for it. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr.

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So live today and every day, believing that the Lord is coming soon. And just keep looking up.

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We read just a moment ago how that God says, woe unto the man that strived with his maker. Why would a man want to go against God? Fight against God. Well, be like you going up against this wall right here trying to push that wall down. You can’t win. So don’t fight God. Find out what God wants you to do and just go with it. You’ll enjoy life, it gives you purpose to life, and you know that the one that created the heavens and the earth, that created you.

You’re working together in harmony with Him. And it’s so important. Take your Bible and turn to the book of Isaiah chapter 45 and verse 6. But look there in verse 6. That they may know from the rising of the sun and from the west that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, there is none else. I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create evil. I the Lord do all these things.” That little phrase and I create evil, don’t let it bother you.

God creates the results of evil decisions. For example, you may choose the sin, okay, but God gets to choose the results of the sin. God can say, because you did this, this can happen. If you do this, this can happen. It’s called the law of sowing and reaping. So God creates all those consequences of wrong decisions. And it is God that can choose to bless the good results of good wise decisions. So we’re the one that makes the decision, but God’s the one who is in charge of the consequences.

Isn’t that awesome? Just understanding that helps you in your life to make wiser decisions. as I the Lord do all these things. Then in verse nine, we’re going to Him that strive us with His maker. There was a little story here, and let me just share this with you. Says that a college professor and about atheist was teaching his class. He shocked several of his students when he flatly stated he was going to prove that there was no God.

Addressing to ceiling, he had shouted, God, if you’re real, then I want you to knock me off this platform. and I’ll give you 15 minutes to do it. The lecture room fell silent. You could have heard a pin fall. 10 minutes went by. Again, he taunted God’s end. Here I am, God, I’m still waiting. His countdown got down to a last couple of minutes when a Marine just released from active duty and newly registered in the class walked up to the professor, hit him full force in the face, sent him tumbling from his lofty platform.

The professor was out cold. At first the students were shocked and babbled in confusion. The young Marine calmly took a seat in the front row and set silent. The class fell silent, waiting. Eventually the professor came to and was badly shaken. He looked at the young Marine in the front row when he regained his senses and could speak. He said, what’s the matter with you? Why did you do that? God is busy watching over my squad in Iraq. He sent me to take care of the small stuff.

I love that. Hit him one more time. And I was talking to the teenagers just Friday night about not mocking God and the way you mock God is you mock sin. Because you say, I can do this and get away with it. God says you can’t. You try to prove to God you can do whatever you want to do and there’s no consequences. There’s consequences to our decisions. So down here in verse 12, he says, I have made the earth created man upon it.

I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens and all their hosts have I commanded. He created the heavens and the earth. He is your maker and you’re not here to fight with God. Look what he says there in verse 17. But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation. You know, that’s the same as Ephesians 2, 8, and 9. This is John 3, 16. How that God’s going to save with an everlasting salvation. See, there’s no temporary salvation.

When God saves a person, He saves them for how long? Forever. See, there is the gospel in the Old Testament. Look at verse 18. For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens, God in self, that formed the earth and made it. He had established it. He created it not in vain. He formed it to be inhabited. I am the Lord. There is none else. There is no one beside God. God had a plan. The plan of salvation was not designed by an individual.

So look what he says in verse 19. I have not spoken in secret in a dark place of the earth. I said not unto the seed of Jacob. Seek ye me in vain. I the Lord speak righteously. I declare things that are right. So if you understand that God is a good God, a righteous God, a perfect God, a holy God, a just God, then God can do no wrong. So there’s no reason for you and I to ever get mad or bitter at God.

Now this same God that did all these things allows things in this world to happen to us. We may not understand fully the reasons why but that doesn’t mean that God is wrong. Then He makes a statement down here in verse 22. I want you to look in verse 22. He says look unto me and be saved all the ends of the earth. Salvation is not in a church, it’s not in a kingdom, it’s not in good works of anything.

Salvation is in the Lord. Look under me be ye saved all the ends of the year for I am God and there is none else. There’s only one true and living God and even though this is in the Old Testament written 700 years before Christ ever came, the salvation that God promised was based upon His Son coming into the world. He says in verse 23, and you heard this statement mentioned in the New Testament. But here it says, I have sworn by myself, the Word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness and shall not return that unto me every knee shall bow and every tongue shall swear.

Now when you read these verses there in the book of Philippians in chapter 2, where it’s talking about these screams, same scriptures, and it talks about the Lord. And he says, let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, that though he was God, he thought it not Robert to be equal with God, but made himself of no reputation. And he took upon himself the form of a servant, became a man. And he suffered and suffered under death.

And the Bible says that whereby God had highly exalted him and given him a name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is the Lord to the glory of God the Father. Those scriptures comes from right here. And so if those scriptures come from right here then this is talking about salvation. Eternal salvation in the Old Testament, in the book of Isaiah before Christ ever came.

But it tells us why Christ had to come so that God could fulfill the promise that He made. Look upon me all the ends of the earth and be saved. Everybody can be saved and there’s nobody else that can do it. So then if there’s no other person that can save them, then evidently Jesus Christ must be gone. That’s awesome. Looking at verse 25, in the Lord, L-O-R-D caps, that’s Jehovah. In Jehovah shall all the seed of Israel be justified and shall glory.

So how are you going to be justified through the Lord. You’re not justified by the law or anything else. See, even the Old Testament taught justification by faith and faith alone. Now look in verse 5 of chapter 46. He says to whom would ye liken me and make me equal and compare me that we may be like? You can’t compare God, Our God, our God, who is the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ with any other God. Take your Bible and turn to the Book of Luke and chapter 3, verse 23.

Jesus Christ, though He’s going to come into the world, had to come at a certain time in a certain way, in a certain place, certain city, certain year. All these details are given in the Old Testament. But in the New Testament, it’s reality. There is the prospects in the Old Testament and the expectation. But now the real thing happens. And whenever the real thing happens, some of the people did not see nor understand. Let me read this to you.

This is by Ari Torrey. Says here, Thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins. Why should the Son of God step down from the throne of heaven? Lay aside his infinite glory and consent to enter this world to the lowly door of Bethlehem’s manger. The incarnation was for the purpose of the death. Jesus Christ’s death was not a mere incident of his human life. It was the supreme purpose of it. He became man in order that he might die as man and for man and give his life as a ransom for many.

That’s the reason that he came. He came as a man that he might die as a man for the sins of man. Here in the book of Luke, there is the genealogy of Mary. In the book of Matthew chapter 1, it gives a genealogy of Joseph. Here is the line of Mary and it is the son-in-law of Helai. He doesn’t have two fathers. And so as you go down through here and you see the genealogy of Jesus Christ from Mary and it goes all the way back.

But the purpose of this is to prove that Jesus Christ is a man. Because you see he could not pay for our sins as God, he had to do it as a man, but he had to do it as a perfect man. So this is the reason for the virgin birth. Mary was also of the same line of David. And Joseph was of the other line, but that one had a curse on it. So by Joseph, Mary and Mary, did Jesus be in born?

He didn’t have the sinful nature of the man. But he has the legal right because Joseph was his legal father. And that’s why you have here in verse 23, and Jesus himself being again to be about 30 years of age, being as was supposed the son of Joseph, but he wasn’t his son. In verse 31, it makes a statement last part of it, which was the son of Nathan, which was the son of David. So you see, David had Nathan, David had Solomon.

And so both lines, represented the king and one as the son of man, but they all went through David and then on back into Abraham. But this genealogy goes all the way back to verse 38 which was the son of Enos which was the son of Seth which was the son of Adam, the son of God. So he goes all the way back to the very first man showing that Jesus Christ the lineage goes all the way back Jesus Christ is truly he is a man.

Now take your Bible and turn there to the book of Matthew. You’ll notice in Matthew chapter 1 when it makes this statement. In verse 1 this is the book of the generation of Jesus Christ the son of David the son of Abraham. Now here see it doesn’t go all the way back. It doesn’t go all the way back to Adam. It only goes concerning Abraham. See God had made a promise to Abraham that he was going to make of him a great nation and through this nation, God promised to David who came from the line of Abraham that he would be the king of Israel.

So this is why the book of Matthew pictures Jesus Christ as the king of Israel. The book of Luke you’ll find this is where in chapter one Dr. Luke gives the story of of the virgin birth of Jesus Christ, and tells about stuff that you don’t find in the others. Because it show in Jesus Christ as a baby, as a child, and he grew in wisdom and statue and so forth. He was a man. Luke pictures Jesus Christ as a man and the other one pictures Jesus Christ as the king.

This is why in the book of Luke it says in chapter 4 talks about, Behold is born unto you this day in the city of David a Savior. A Savior was born in Luke, but in the book of Matthew show us where the king was born. In chapter 1 of Matthew it says, born a king. In Luke, born a Savior. You see, the king doesn’t pay for our sins. But the Savior as the man does. So that’s why Jesus Christ has to prove that He is both and can do both jobs.

This is the problem that Israel had. They pictured the Messiah coming, but only as the knight in shining armor that’s going to set up a kingdom and deliver them from the iron hill of Rome and set up this beautiful kingdom of all the earth. So they looked at the king and they forgot about the Savior, the babe. But now notice here in Matthew chapter 1, so he starts in verse 2, Abraham begot Isaac and Isaac, Jacob and Jacob, Judah and so forth, and then on down the line down to verse 6, and Jesse B.

got David the King. David the King, he got Solomon and so forth. So this here’s David and Solomon and you read the book of Luke and it’s David and Nathan because it’s talking about two lines. One for Joseph to claim the throne of Israel and the other one a human individual that could make the payment for the sins of the world he had to be a man. And so this is why the virgin birth had to take place. Look there in Matthew chapter 1 and you’ll notice it comes all the way down to verse 16 and Jacob begot Joseph, the husband of Mary of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

But nowhere do you find that Joseph is the Father of Jesus Christ. He was not the Father. Jesus Christ was born because the Bible says the Holy Spirit, hovered over Mary and it says that Holy thing that shall be born of these shall be called the Son of the highest. In other words the Holy Spirit fathered Jesus Christ. Now go back over there to the book of Luke and chapter 2 here it says in verse 8 and there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the fields keeping watch over their flock by night.

Hello, the angel of the Lord came upon them and the glory of the Lord shone round about them, and they were so afraid. And the angels said unto them, Fear not, for behold I bring you good tidings of great joy, which I be to all people, for unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord, and then talks about the sign that they’re going to find. How are they going to find this child?

And all of this is written so that we could know and understand and believe that Jesus Christ is who He claimed to be. Look there in verse 40 of chapter 2. And you won’t find all these types of things written in the other book, but you’ll find them here in the book of Luke, because Luke, Dr. Luke, writes it from a medical point of view from a physician’s point of view. And the child grew, waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom and the grace of God was upon him.

Look down there in verse 52. And Jesus increased in wisdom and statue and in favor with God and man. That means increased in wisdom mentally. And it says and in statute physically and in favor with God spiritually and with man socially. So in every area, Jesus Christ as the perfect man, perfect in every way, never committed his sin, and he knew perfectly how to deal with everybody under every circumstance. Never did it wrong, never just mean retaliation, but everything he said, what he thought, what he did his whole life.

Now, what was the purpose of this perfect man coming into the world? Just to live a nice, beautiful, glorious life, he was born that he might die, that he might pay for our sins. Let me read this to you. So he didn’t have a beard of gray, nor a cute round button nose, eight rain deer never pulled a sleigh, he never wore red velvet clothes. No one ever wrote of him or wrote to him, advising that they’d been nice.

In fact, it almost been forgotten no one ever really thinks twice. So let me tell you of the reason that we celebrate this day. It’s not just the winter season to give us a holiday. He was born to us a tiny child on a steel and silent night, a bade so small, so meek and my own, to save man from a sinful plight. He cared so much that he left his home in heaven up above. To be born on earth, he gave up his throne, the greatest gift of love.

So why then is it Santa’s story told on this sacred day? Why does he get all the glory with a man made grand display? It’s up to us to tell the real story. We must take them to the stable to ensure that all the Christmas glory is not given to a fable. There’s no Christmas without Jesus. We must help the blind to see. the reason why we celebrate is God’s gift to you and me. So remember to think of Christ this season and to tell His story to all because Jesus is truly the real reason, not because of a man in a mall.

I want to close to these words. Look over there in the book of Philippians in chapter 2. This is really, I guess you could say Christmas in a nutshell, but not not only that, but it gives us the purpose of our life in a nutshell. So look there in verse 5, talking about how should a person think the attitude, because if all this is true, that means there really is a heaven, there really is a hell and we really have important choices to make.

So it says in verse 5, let this mind be in you, no word learned to think like this, was also in Christ’s Jesus. In other words, this is how he thought. His actions were by product of the way that he thought. So God says, let his mind be in you. Think the way God thinks. And what was that? He said, who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, because he is God.

He’s not stealing something from God. He has God. Made himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant. You know, down here, sometimes we become very concerned about our reputation. But I guess all I need to do is just take care of my character, my reputation, and take care of itself. In other words, you go ahead because of your character, you do right. You can’t determine what people think about you. Your reputation is what you are in life, but your character is what you are in the dark.

the reason why you do what you do. You can’t make somebody else exalt your reputation. But he says here in verse 7, but made himself of no reputation, took upon him the form of a servant, was made in the likeness of men. And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. What I want you to see. Before he became of no reputation and became a servant, he already existed.

Before he became a man, he already existed. Because it says, in verse 6, who, being in the form of God, who? Being in the form of God. He existed before he became a man. And this is what people need to understand. Jesus Christ did not begin when he was born in that little baby’s body upon this earth. Jesus Christ existed from eternity past. Jesus Christ was God. And he says here in verse 8, and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself to his heavenly Father, became obedient unto death, the death of the cross.

Him dying was an obedience to his heavenly Father because he was obedient even under death so his death was an obedience to obeying what his father wanted. It means that was the purpose of why he came and he was obedient to that purpose. Now get this. In verse 9, where for God also had highly exalted him and given him a name which is above every name that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow. Things in heaven, things in earth and things under the earth.

We read this verse just a while ago in the book of Isaiah that at the name of Jesus every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is the Lord to the glory of God the Father. Now in view of that, in view of that, what should that do for me? How should I be? Now that all this is true. Verse 12. Wherefore is here because of what just went before it. Wherefore it might be loving as you have always obeyed.

Now he’s talking about here you are. Now Christ, at this kind of a mind, he obeyed his heavenly Father’s will even unto death. Wherefore let his way of thinking be in you that even though he died, God highly exalted him. Here we are. He wants us to be obedient, even under what? Death. And then whenever we get to heaven, God will highly exalt us, not just getting to heaven. That’s not the exaltation. Being exalted in heaven is a position because of our obedience after we trust the Lord, because this obedience here in verse 12 not talking about your salvation.

This is talking about you are saved. Now what? So he says, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, not work for it, but work it out. Work out that which God has put within. See, the Holy Spirit lives within you to work through you. Now let that happen. He that hath begun a good work in you will perform if you just get out of the way.

Then he makes his statement. Verse 13, for it is God which worketh where? In you. So his work is not over. Just because he saved you and gave you eternal life, his work is not over. That’s just the beginning. Have you not only allowed God to save you from hell, giving you eternal life and you’ve learned to have him, will you let God continue the work in you that he began? Do you actually believe you have reached your potential as a Christian?

For it is God that worketh in you both to will and to do of his good what? His good whatever pleases God. It is the will of God for him to work in you to make you whatever pleases him. Get verse 14. Do all things without murmuring and disputing. Look at verse 15. That you may be blamed and harmed as the sons of God without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation or world. And you ought to underline these words.

Among them, in other words, this is talking about our life now. This is where we are. Among them, ye shine as lights in the world. God loves us, but He hates our sin. And for us to pay for sin is eternal separation from God in a place called hell. No wages of sin is death. But God loves us and wants us to go to heaven and to go to heaven, we have to be perfect as righteous as God and none of us are perfect.

And God says, you cannot save yourself by your good works. You need a Savior. This hand represents Jesus Christ, He’s the Lord, God in the flesh. He came into this world because He loves us. He hates our sin. The Bible says it separates us from it, so Christ took the sin, papal and the cross came back from the dead. Instead of, well, believing did it for us, he’d put this payment on our account. We’d get the good of heaven on what Jesus Christ did for us.

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Take your Bible and turn to the book of Matthew chapter 24. Matthew chapter 24. When they had asked Jesus Christ concerning the times of the end, the promise of your coming, the signs of your coming, and when the temple is going to be destroyed, he says to him in verse 15, when ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet stand in the holy place, then he says, whosoever read it, let him understand, then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains.

There is a place that God has reserved for His people during this terrible tribulation period that’s coming upon the earth. And I’ll show you that in just a second. But this verse 15 tells us that there is going to be a peace treaty made with Israel. And right now you would wonder about a couple of the peace treaties that had already been signed. It doesn’t look too good like they’re going to hold up. And it looks like who knows what’s going to happen with many of the Arab nations?

And are they going to be all wonderful and kind and loving to Israel? How we just love Israel? And they’re willing to make a peace tree with Israel because they’re in love with Israel. Or are they going to try to all join together and say, now at the time to wipe them out, let’s all go together and do it? You see, a lot of people don’t believe America is strong enough to defend Israel. Israel has questions about America’s loyalty.

I’m not joking, I’m just telling you straight. I believe God will bless America as we are a blessing to Israel, but if we turn on Israel, we have no protection upon us because God said, I’ll bless them, that blessed be. I will curse them, that cursed them. Now whether or not you like the Jews or not, I don’t really care. I’m just telling you what the book says. God promised a blessing upon those who are a blessing to Israel and a curse if they do not.

Any way you want to let it fall. But He makes a statement, the day is coming and look down in verse 21, for then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be, and except those days should be shortened, there shall no flesh be saved. But for the elect sake, those days will be shortened. That God says a terrible, terrible time is coming up on this earth.

And whether we like it or not, you see, the world is not going to get better and better and better and better and better. And it’s going to become so good. Well, we’re going to make this utopia upon the earth. It’s not going to happen. God’s word promise is going to get worse and worse and worse. And that’s the direction that we’re headed. And there doesn’t seem to be adequate leadership, but understands truth and what direction to go. Take your Bible and turn to the book of Daniel 8.

Daniel in chapter 8, all the way over there in the Old Testament to the book of Daniel, and you’ll notice in the book of Daniel, in chapter 8, and look in verse 23. Daniel 8, verse 23. You see Daniel had seen several visions. God has spoke to him about things that were going to happen in the end times. And he makes the statement in Daniel chapter 8 and verse 23, and in the latter times of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance and understanding dark sentences shall stand So this is a promise that In the last days, during this tribulation period upon the earth, the time we call the 70th week of Daniel.

Now, as you study through the book of Daniel, there are many times what we call a near prophecy and a far prophecy. One that happens then, but not all of it. And then later on down the road because history repeats itself, God gives a fuller explanation of what’s going to take place. So it seems like it’s talking about right here, and then you look at something that can’t be happening here. That’s talking about over here. And the Word of God is written in such a way not just the satisfied curiosity seekers, but those who know the Word and believe the Word and compare the Word to fit it all together.

But look what he says here in chapter 8. And you know it’s in verse 23, a king of fierce countenance and understanding darstings shall stand up, and his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power.” Now we know that in the tribulation period, according to the book of Revelation chapter 13, that the dragon will give power to the beast. So he doesn’t have his own power. He’s getting it from somebody. Now you and I have never seen the devil.

No, it’s not your wife, it’s not your mother-in-law. There is a real devil and he is a spirit, but you cannot see him, but he works behind the scenes. And the Bible says that he is going to give this individual his power. See, Satan has wanted to rule this world, and God is going to let him have seven years to do all his damage. He’s going to take us out of here and then let him have his seven years.

And the devil is going to do all the damage he possibly can and God is going to take, pour out his wrath, the devil’s poured out his wrath and you’re talking about this is no place to be. Earth will not be the place to be. That’s why I’m so glad I’m going to get out of here. But now here in Daniel, look they’re now in verse 24, and his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power and he shall destroy wonderfully and shall prosper and practice and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.

See, there’s gonna be people here upon the earth. 144,000 Jewish evangelists are gonna be preaching the gospel during the seven year period of time. 12,000 from 12 tribes, 144,000, chapter seven of Revelation, also chapter 14. So that’s going to be done. And the Bible says in the book of Revelation, chapter six, multitudes of people, multitudes. And chapter seven will be in heaven because they were killed during the tribulation period. So this beast that comes, this antichrist, of this king of fierce countenance, he is going to be so wicked.

He’s gonna come after all of God’s people and kill as many as possible. That’s why when Christ comes back at the end of the tribulation period, it says they’re gonna be ruling and raining upon the earth. And he says, and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for their testimony during this tribulation period. So how were they killed? Most of them will be killed by beheaded. Now, that means that there has to be a form of government that will be so severe and so wicked that that’s exactly what they’re going to do.

There is a religion on the world seeing that this is their main way of executing. And they have not taken over because they are a peaceful religion. It’s because they use fear and intimidation. They cause people not to say something because you don’t want to make them mad. They’ll kill you. So whatever we do, don’t offend the religion of Islam. And I’m telling you straight. government is afraid to say the truth about it. And there’s many people across this country that are afraid to say anything because if you draw a picture and you offend the religion of Islam, are you offend that Quran?

Look out buddy. Well I want you to know that Quran is a war manual. Religion of Islam is not a peaceful religion is how to conquer, how to destroy. It’s force, brute force, it’s fear and intimidation. And I decided years ago as a channel of God, I don’t believe my heavenly father wants me to live my life in fear and I am not afraid. But if I know truth, I should stand for truth, and I should not be afraid.

But I believe we have all of Europe is afraid today and they’re living in fear. We’ve got people in our country right now, and I told y’all not long ago, it won’t be long before they want to try to put Sharia law into our court system. I mentioned it right here. It’s coming, it’s coming because it will make sense.

And we don’t wanna offend them because you know they’re willing to die for what they believe. And so out of fear, temptation, we sit idly by and do absolutely nothing. But I want you to understand what this book is talking about. Look what he says there in verse 25. And through his policy, also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand. He shall magnify himself in his heart and by peace, get that, by peace shall destroy many. You see that?

By peace destroy. And he shall also stand up against the prince of princes. That’s a capital P. That means this is the one that’s going to be here when the prince, Christ, returns. So we know that we’re talking about the tribulation period, which is right before Christ comes back to the earth. But this day cannot come. So first of all, there is a departure and then the man of sin and then he will be destroyed by the brightness of his coming.

Second Thessalonians chapter 2, we just read just a moment ago. But you see, you can’t understand all of this without understanding the book of Thessalonians or the book of Matthew or the book of Revelation. It all ties together and each one gives us a little bit more of a revelation of understanding. And look what he says here in verse 26, and the vision of the Eden in the morning which was told is true. Wherefore should thou up the vision?

For it shall be for many days. And Daniel says this was a dark day in his life and he did not understand the vision. Now take your Bible and look there in the book of Daniel chapter 9 and verse 27. During this 70th week, it is after the coming of Christ. It is after the temple is destroyed in Jerusalem. You see how do I know that? Look there in verse 25. Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem because it had been destroyed.

You see Daniel was in the place called Babylon, they had been taken captive. And so now he’s having a revelation about how long it’s going to be until the Messiah. And is it unto the Messiah, the Prince shall be seven weeks, three score and two weeks, and the streets shall be built again. The walls even in trouble is time. After three score and two weeks shall the Messiah be cut off. So we know that while they were in Babylon, the city had been destroyed, the temple destroyed, they go back and they rebuild the temple.

Christ comes and then it says here and the Messiah is cut off. So what we’re talking about in verse 27 is afterwards and it’s for seven years, one week left, a week of seven years in verse 27 and he, the prince that shall come, I’m not talking about Christ, this is the small P from verse 26. And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week. In the midst of the week, he shall call the sacrifice and aberrations to cease.

So there’s going to be a temple rebuilt. They’re going to have their sacrifices and this anti-Christ that comes on the scene. It’s going to cause the sacrifice to stop. He goes into the temple and he claims himself. He is God and demands the world to worship him. Can you believe that a man could come on the face of this earth and claim that he is God and people believe it? Now, Jesus Christ really did, and they wouldn’t believe it.

They crucified him. So what did he do? Come back from the dead. And we’ve been preaching that story ever since, but there’s going to be another one come on the scene. And the world, they’re going to believe it. and he’s going to have a ministry. And people are going to believe his lies. Very, very deceptive. Look in Daniel chapter 11, Daniel chapter 11. And look at verse 21. And And look at verse 21.

Verse 21, And in his estate shall stand up a vile person to whom they shall not give the honor of the kingdom, but he shall come in peaceably and obtain the kingdom by flatteries. And the people see are going to believe in the lies. Somebody could come into this world system and be able to convince the world he is the answer to their problems. Because, see, the world today is looking for somebody, some leader, that not only can lead a country, but the world.

The world is ready for a world leader. And they’ll put everything together. And it’s going to make so much sense. And this guy, whoever he is, there’ll be some people who will know the truth and know he’s lying. But the majority of the people will not believe he’s lying. They will swallow it, hook, line in, sink it, because the Bible says, because they received not the love of the truth, God will send him strong delusions that they will believe the lie.

And that’s how he will control. And he will promise he’ll use flattery, peace, So the first three and a half years of the Antichrist, the seven years, is a false peace. By peace he conquers. And people, the Bible says they will give their power to this man. He don’t have to take, he’ll give it to him. Of course he’ll destroy those that won’t, but they’ll do it very willingly. And for three and a half years, the most worst, the most wicked It’s a period of time on the face of this earth.

And the Bible’s talking about, there’ll be famines. Do you realize how close this world is to a world famine? I’m serious. I said it before and I’m gonna tell you again. Store up on some water, store up on some food. Don’t put all your cash in the bank. It’s only a stop-gap measure. It only lasts for a little while, we all know that. But it might give you a chance to think or find a way of what you can do.

I don’t know. I would not just be totally at the mercy without anything. You say, you’re an alarmist. I know. You’re trying to scare us. I know. I want God’s people to be knowledgeable of the times in which they live. Is that wrong? Am I wicked because of that? If you want a nice little Sunday school teacher, you need to get somebody else beside me. But when I came here, you said you wanted me and you got me. This is me.

But there’s times when you have to know and I have to feel like I believe this is part of my responsibility, not only to feed the flock, but to warn the flock. So anyway, he says here in chapter 11, look there in verse 22, and with the arms of a flood shall they be overflowed from before Him and shall be broken. Yay, also in this small prince of the coming, the one that makes this treaty of chapter 9 in verse 27.

There is a peace treaty that will be made. It will be broken. It will be broken. Look there also in verse 28. Then shall he return into his land with great riches, and his heart shall be against the Holy Covenant, and shall do exploit and return to his own land.” And then he makes the statement about this in verse 30. There’s other powers in the world that are not totally under the Antichrist, that are going to cause him problems.

And he says, he saw the indignation against the, and here’s that word again, Holy Covenant. So shall he do, he shall even return and have diligence or intelligence with them that forsake the Holy Covenant.” Now, Israel has forsaken her Holy Covenant. She’s made peace treaties with those that she should not. She is willing to part her land which she should not. In the book of Joel, and also in the book of Hosea, chapter 4, it talks about, they parted my land.

This was not and is not the will of God. But Israel will do so out of fear, trying to appease, have you noticed that anytime Israel tries to appease, it don’t work, it doesn’t work, because all you doing is feeding a monster. They got the nose inside of the tent and they won’t quit until the whole camel is on the inside. And get this, you’ll notice also in verse 32, and such as do wickedly against the covenant, the peace tree, shall he corrupt get this by flatteries?

But the people that do know their God shall be strong and do exfoli- so God has His people and they’re still going to be doing things. God’s going to have the two witnesses that are going to be here and they’re going to be punishing and bringing down fire and all kinds of stuff. This is going to be one while show. When I’m up in heaven, I’m going to get me a ringside seat. I don’t know what the rest of y’all going to be.

But I want to know. I want to see all of this stuff going on. But you’ll notice down in verse 35, he says, and some of them have understanding Shafayo to try them and to purge and to make them white, even to the time of the end. We’re talking about the time of the end. of the end before Christ comes back and power and great glory and sets up his kingdom upon the earth. As you study through the book of Daniel, find the words time of the end, time of the end, time of the end, time of the end, mention over and over again.

Let’s talk about at the end of the tribulation period. The time of the end of the 70th week of Daniel. All this is coming. Now I want you to look in verse 41. Verse 41. He shall enter also into the glorious land. This is like, you know, you read what’s going to happen and then he goes back and it tells you, no, this is how it’s going to happen. So it’s like boom and then it goes back and now let’s break it down.

It’s like sometimes I give people my outline of my message and then I go back and I teach my lesson. Well, God’s Word does exactly the same thing. So there in verse 41 he shall enter also into the glorious land. Many countries shall be overthrown, but these shall escape out of his hand, Edom, Moab, and Ammon. this is that part of Jordan where the place called Petra where God has got a place preserved. And it says that with a great eagle he’s going to take his people into the wilderness and they’re going to be protected.

That’s why he says whenever you see this man of sin going to that temple and claim himself that he is God. You get down, you get out, don’t stop to get anything just get out of there and this is I believe where they’re going to be headed. Now that’s also in the book of Revelation chapter 12 toward the end of the chapter. And then look down here in verse 43, He shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver over all the precious things of Egypt and Libyans.

Hmm hmm and the Ethiopian shall be at his step but tidings out of the east and out of the north and blah blah blah he’s gonna trouble him and look in verse 45 and he shall plant the tabernacle of his palace between the seas and the glorious holy mountain that’s in Israel. So this is where the Antichrist is going to plant his seat of authority right there in Jerusalem. And I said years ago, I may not be right, but Jerusalem in order for there to be any peace under the United Nations will have to be made an international city where they will guarantee peace and they’ll be able to have these three925 things according to a covenant.

The right to exist is the people, the right to exist in their land and the right to rebuild their temple. Believe it’s all coming. You just remember that you said here at church one day and you heard some of this, regardless of how you believe it right now, you just watch and see if it don’t come that way. Now, in Daniel chapter 12, I want you to look at this very quickly. At that time shall Michael stand up for the great prince which stand up for the children of thy people, talking about Israel.

There shall be a time of trouble, time of trouble. that’s the time of sorrow. That’s the seven-year tribulation paired upon the earth. This is when this peace tree is supposed to be made. He says, such as never was since there was a nation, even to that same time and at that time thy people shall be delivered. So God is going to deliver his people, but only God is going to be able to deliver his people because the nations of the world are coming together.

And in Zechariah chapter 14, in verse 1, it says, And all the nations of the earth will gather together against Jerusalem. And the Lord himself shall go and fight for his people. And it says, In that day shall his feet touch upon the Mount of Olives, and it will cleave in the mist. And during this period of time, it makes the statement in verse 12 of chapter 14, And this shall be the play where will God will smite those nations that came against Jerusalem in the bottom, that why they stand upon their feet, their flesh shall consume away off their bones and their eyes shall consume away out of their sockets.

It’s coming. It’s coming. And those that know the truth will be able to see it and know what’s happening and those that refuse this book and don’t believe what this book says will going to be sucked in to believe in a lie. And it will make so much that they’ll be deceived. But you see, when you’re deceived, you don’t know you’re deceived. The only way you can detect air is knowing truth. When you don’t know truth, you don’t know it’s air.

You don’t know what’s wrong. You can’t tell. That’s why there’s an advantage of studying the word of God. And I pray that as we get closer, and you get older, that you have a greater love and appreciation for this book. It truly is what it claims to be, the Word of God. Look up here. This hand represents you and me and the wallet represents sin. We all have sin on us. Now God says that He loves us. Now He hates what we do wrong, but He loves us.

Now He loves you, but He don’t like what you do wrong, but He loves you. And the Bible says to pay for this sin is eternal separation from God in hell. But God loves us and wants us to go to heaven. And to go to heaven we have to be perfect as righteous as God. And none of us are perfect. None of us are righteous. So by our good deeds we cannot earn the right to go to heaven. God says it’s not by works that were saved.

This hand represents Jesus Christ. He’s the Lord. God in the flesh. He came into the world because He loves us. He hates our sin because it separates us from Him. So Jesus Christ who had no sin did not have to die. He took ours and died for us. Came back from the dead and said, if you and I, if we would believe He did it for us, He would put this payment to our account, and we would go to heaven on what Jesus Christ did for us.

That’s the best news in all the world. Eternal life is the gift of God. If I offered you this microphone and you accepted, you’d have a microphone. If I offered you my wallet and you accepted, you’d have an empty wallet. If Christ came here right now and offered you eternal lifequartered it, you would have eternal life. And if it’s eternal life, it would last forever. And if it lasts forever and all your sins are paid, then where would you go when you die?

So can you know you’re going to heaven before you die? Yes. I know that I’m going to heaven whenever Iycle. I know if the rapture took place right now, I know I’m going. I’ve got God’s word on it. He promised. God can’t lie. If you have never trusted Christ as your Savior. If the Lord came back right now now and the Lord is, the Lord is s way out of the Word of the Spirit, which is the Lord of the Lord of the Spirit, which is the Lord of the Father who has a heart of the Lord of the Lord of the Lord of the Lord of the Lord of the Lord of the Lord of the Father.

It makes sense. The trust, Christ, the Savior. Now, you know a person would be a fool that turned on a free gift. Now, if I was trying to get you to promise how good you’re going to live, that would be hypocritical. Because you wouldn’t know if you could perform or not. But if I say, look, it’s a gift. It’s free. Will you trust Christ as your Savior? That’s all you have to do is believe He died on that cross and paid for your sin.

And if you accept it, then God puts that payment to He made to your account. You get to go to heaven on what He did. See, you didn’t earn that. You didn’t work for it. You didn’t buy it. It’s the gift of God. Let’s pray, shall we? Every head bowed and every eye closed, no one looking around. If you hear this morning and never have trusted Christ as Savior, would you just talk to the Lord right now and say something simple like this?

Lord, I know I’m a sinner. And I believe Christ died, paid for my sins. And I’m going to trust Him right now as my only hope of going to heaven and preach out life for you to pray for me, closing. Friend, would you just slip your hand up very quickly, put a rut back down and say, yes, I believe that made sense to me. And I want to trust Christ as my Savior. I want to be certain I’m going to heaven.

And when it all be full of clothes. If you have trusted Christ as your Savior, serve the Lord with all your heart while you can. Tell people about it. Get people to understand. Salvation is the most important thing. You may not be able to explain all the stuff about the government and the stuff about the tribulation period of the Antichrist, but you can tell them that, look, God loves you. Christ paid for your sins. Will you trust Him? That’s so important.

Our Father, we thank You so much for this time together. Bless each one here. Help us, Father, to have the wisdom to know how to live. This side of eternity. In the days and the wise ahead of us. Help us to do right. In Christ’s name we pray. Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida, with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bible line and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3771.

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Well, I want to talk to you a little bit about something that’s going on in the world today. I don’t have all the answers, but I got a few things that Christians need to think about. So turn in your Bible to 2 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, and 2 Thessalonians, chapter 2, 2 Thessalonians, chapter 2. Many of God’s people, Thessalonica, were going through some severe tribulation. And He told them that God will take vengeance upon those that trouble you. And then he tells us that the Lord Jesus Christ is going to return in glory.

Take vengeance upon those that did not believe the gospel. And that’s in verse 8 of chapter 1. But down in chapter 2 he says, Now we beseech you brethren by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto Him. So the Rapture is a coming of Christ and a gathering of God’s children to the Lord. So He’s coming for us. But that day will not come until we understand something else that’s going to happen. This is why we need to try to get as many people as we can to trust Christ as Savior while they can.

But we know that right after the Rapture, there is going to be a world-wide movement to try to convince the world that the man that’s coming on the scene, that he’s a good man. When the Bible talks about he shall even be able to deceive the very elect, it means that It’s possible that you and I are living at a very interesting time in history where we could even be deceived by the forerunner of the Antichrist himself. You see, we probably think all we have to do is expose whoever this guy is that’s going to come on the scene and kind of whip the world into a frenzy and fall behind him as he’s the great Savior of the earth.

But the Bible says that he’s going to be a liar, a deceiver, but the problem is not the good people who see the air. It’s all the bad people who believe the air and will give him, I guess you could say, the element of success. We must be right. Look how many people are listening to him. It’s just like you could come to the same conclusion because of how many people support something. It must be right. Look at the various religious people today.

You could even say with the religion of Islam when they meet in Mecca over two million people come together. It must be true. It must be good. Look how many people believe it. But does that mean that it is good and that it is right? No, it doesn’t mean that. No more than it means that you are right when you can get a lot of people to believe something that you say or that I am right because I can get a lot of people to believe what I say.

Truth is still always truth. A lie is still always a lie, regardless of how many people believe it. Here in 2 Thessalonians he makes a statement, in verse 3, let no man deceive you by any means. So that means that there are going to be people trying to deceive you by any means. But God says, don’t be deceived. Well, how can you keep from being deceived? by knowing the truth. Well, isn’t it true that almost everybody believes that whatever they believe it is the truth?

Most people believe that. So that’s why we have differences of opinions. That’s why we have wars and rumors of wars. And Christ said, Matthew 24, there will be wars and rumors of wars until the end of time. If you look at the world’s situation today, It is a genuine mess. Everybody is overthrowing somebody. We are even having people, even in America, that’s believed that the more people they can get out, they want to change whoever the politicians mind. They want to change their mind because look at the protest.

Everybody got to protest something. Well, just because so many people protest something, still doesn’t make it right. And the people that don’t protest, something doesn’t make something right. We have got ourselves in a pickle. America is in a mess and you know it. And the world is in a mess and we know it. Well, what we need is some Superman to come on the scene with all the answers. The world is getting ripe. I mentioned to you last week kind of briefly that the The world is experiencing, I guess you can say, travail, pains to be delivered as a woman who is going to have a child and all the pain that she has.

Well it’s like the earth right now, we are going through labor pains. Second Thessalonians chapter 2, let no man deceive you by any means for that day shall not come except there come a fallen away first and that man of sin be revealed, the son in a predation that references to the verse previously, talking about the day of Christ or the day of the Lord. When the tribulation period comes upon the earth and then Christ returns to the earth and flaming vengeance upon those who rebelled against the gospel.

See when Christ comes for us at the rapture, He’s not coming back to whip the earth. That’s what He does when He comes back seven years later. But it says, first of all, is going to be a departure. We’re going to be out of here, the rapture. And then He makes the statement, and then that man of sin will be revealed, the son of perdition. The son of destruction is coming. In other words, the worst leader that the world has ever known is coming soon.

Now some people believe he’s already arrived, but I just believe he’s going to be here soon. Because whoever he may be, it must appear that the people who know truth will be able to see and recognize a lie and can say, that’s a lie and will not be deceived by it. But the majority of people today that don’t know the truth and this is truth. Jesus says, I am the way the truth and the life. St. If I am through thy truth, the word is truth.

This is where we get truth from. It’s settled and it can’t be changed. And when we believe what God says, we’re going to be on solid ground. When you get away from the Bible, everything is shifting sand and you won’t know what to believe or who to believe. But This gives us an anchor, a place to say, I’ve got a rock that will not move. Now in verse four, it talks about this anti-Christ that’s going to come. Of course, he’s not gonna have on him a sign that says, I am the anti-Christ.

He won’t have that. He will be just like the good guy. He’ll probably come on the scene wearing a white hat. Looking good. Evidently promising peace and safety to the world. Isn’t it strange that in our little lifetime we have seen what’s happening in the Middle East with all the Arab nations right now? And here’s little Obiti Israel. Struggling, fighting for its life. And God had promised that all the nations of the earth will come against little Israel. And Israel will become a burdensome stone to all the nations of the world.

And it is amazing that nobody knows for sure how it’s going to come down with all the Arab nations today. You said, well, you ought not talk about government stuff. You ought to just talk about the Bible. Well, blessed be God, this is Bible. This is the Bible. This is what God said in His Word that’s going to happen in the last days, and we’re supposed to teach people what the Word of God says. So look what he says.

In verse four, who opposed talking about this man that is going to come, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worship, so that he as God saideth in the temple of God showing himself that he is God. Now, is this going to be something that’s really going to take place? That there really is going to be a temple built in Jerusalem, and some guy is going to go and claim that he is God?

The Bible says that’s going to take place. Well, when you see the world situation, shouldn’t that challenge and motivate you and I to realize You know, we don’t have a lot of time left. That it’s so easy for us to get wrapped up in so many things that a hundred years from now it will not matter. This guy that whoever he may be, does God give us any description of what he’s like? How he’s going to take over? Well, I believe that God’s word has a little bit to say about this.

And if you look at the world situation, we are ripe for a one world leader. The world today sees more than ever before why we need to have unity and not think about the sovereignty of individual nations, but look at this world globally and have a global impact as far as a one-world government, a one-world currency so that, you know, what happens in this place doesn’t affect over here and over here, over here, and there’s no end to it.

But see if we only had one government, one currency, or we wouldn’t have anybody to fight, wouldn’t it be neat? Well, it will make sense to the people of the world. We are already moving in that direction. This is part of the problem that we’re having in Washington and many state legislatures because there’s people who are thinking more globally. In other words, not just the sovereignty of America, not just our constitution, it’s more about what the United Nations has to say.

For example, this is just very briefly, this is just a little bitty rabbit trail. I’m not going to stay there long. But isn’t it true that only Congress has the right to declare war? And was this done even just recently? Did Congress have anything to say about what was being done. Or we have placed America and the troops and whatever we want to do with it underneath NATO, which is totally to me. I’m not naive. I’ve studied the Constitution.

I know what it says. I taught it. But what’s been done is not right. I believe it’s totally wrong. Now, I don’t like a lot of things that a lot Well, the other presidents have done and the administration has done, but we’re little by little, we’re getting to the place where it doesn’t matter what our Constitution says. There’s just do what you want to do anyway. And what are you going to do about it? And majority of people? Nothing.

We’re just going to go for the ride until it’s all over and that’s the way it’s going to go. Now notice how this man and what he’s supposed to do. Look what he says here in verse five. He says, remember that when I was with you, I told you these things. Now you know that what withhold that he might be revealed in this time, in other words, there’s something that’s stopping it from all happening. You see, God’s people, remember it didn’t really happen until, well, the flood until God had taken care of his people.

and he put him in a big old boat. We call it the art, and then he destroyed the rest. And it wasn’t until God took Lot and his kids and his wife out, oh yeah she turned to a pillar of salt later, but then he destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. And the Bible says that God’s going to take His people out. Before there’s destruction here, you and I know, as you studied the Bible, that God has to judge America. We have killed, murdered so many unborn children.

Abortion is murder. There is no other nice way to say it. The choice that women need to make is before they go with that man and have sex. Not afterwards, and then try to hide one sin with another sin. So I believe that it is wrong in what is being done. I believe that the homosexuals in America, I believe it is wicked, that it is a wrong thing to have in our society. It’s wrong because it’s wrong. And you can’t make it right.

And all the legislatures can pass whatever laws they want to. It will never be right because there’s a God in heaven. And until you change his mind and change this book, it will always be wrong. Sex outside of marriage is wrong. And I don’t care about what anybody else thinks on that subject. I guess I shouldn’t say that way. I care, but this overrides all of man’s opinions. Either this is true, and we go by it, or take the thing and throw it in the trash, and then just do whatever you want to do.

But I believe that we live in critical days, and there’s a God in heaven that’s gonna chase in this country, and not just this country, but we are facing the great tribulation that God talks about. Now, I believe that a lot of things can start to happen before we get out of here. I’d love to see the rapture take place. Now would be a good time. I mean today, right now, be fine with me. You know, we’re a God.

But it may not happen that way. But I want you to look there in this verse, look in verse eight. Then shall that wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, shall destroy with the brightness of his coming, even him who’s coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lion wonders. So Satan is going to be behind this man and give him his authority. This is Revelation chapter 13 and will cause the people and blind the people to believe the lie.

So we are at the place in the world where the Bible is not respected. The preacher is not respected. People honor science, false science. And so that becomes their God. And so that determines what they do and they don’t do. Nobody cares what the preacher says anymore. That’s why the churches are not packed, unless you don’t preach the book, preach some kind of a social gospel. But tell people the truth, and people don’t want the truth. They don’t wanna know what this book says.

And so they’re blind and they cannot discern when they’re listening to a lie, when they’re hearing something, and it doesn’t jive with their conscience about, I know this is the truth. Now, it says here in verse 10, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish, because they receive not the love of the truth that they might be saved. So for this cause, God shall send them strong delusions that they should believe a lie, because people refuse the truth, they’re gonna believe a lie.

God’s going to allow them to be deceived. So there is a perfect man coming on the scene who is gonna be able to take the world and deceive them because they will not accept the truth, they will believe a lie. And he’s going to come on and promise so much. And I want you to see a little bit of this. Take your Bible and turn to the book of Matthew 24. Matthew 24. When they had asked Jesus Christ concerning the times of the end, the promise of your coming, the signs of your coming.

And when the temple is going to be destroyed, he says to him in verse 15, When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, then he says, whosoever read it, let him understand, then let them, which means ye flee into the mountains. There is a place that God has reserved for his people during this terrible tribulation period that’s coming upon the earth. And I’ll show you that in just a second.

But this verse 15 tells us that there is going to be a peace treaty made with Israel. And right now you would wonder about a couple of the peace treaties that had already been signed. It doesn’t look too good like they’re going to hold up. And it looks like who knows what’s going to happen with many of the Arab nations. And are they going to be all wonderful and kind and loving to Israel? Oh, we just love Israel. And they’re willing to make a peace tree with Israel because they’re in love with Israel.

Or are they going to try to all join together and say, let’s now at the time to wipe them out. Let’s all go together and do it. You see, a lot of people don’t believe America is strong enough to defend Israel. Israel has questions about America’s loyalty. I’m not joking, I’m just telling you straight. I believe God will bless America as we are a blessing to Israel, but if we turn on Israel, we have no protection upon us because God said, I’ll bless them that blessed thee.

I will curse them that cursed them. Now whether or not you like the Jews or not, I don’t really care. I’m just telling you what the book says. And God promised a blessing upon those who are a blessing to Israel and a curse if they do not. Any way you want to let it fall. But He makes a statement, the day is coming and look down in verse 21, for then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be, and except those days should be shortened, there shall no flesh be saved.

But for the elects that those days will be shortened, that God says a terrible, terrible time is coming up on this earth. And whether we like it or not, you see, the world is not going to get better and better and better and better. And it’s going to become so good, well, we’re going to make this our utopia on the earth. It’s not going to happen. God’s Word promise is going to get worse and worse and worse, and that’s the direction that were headed.

And there doesn’t seem to be adequate leadership, but understands truth and what direction to go. Take your Bible and turn to the book of Daniel chapter 8. Daniel and chapter 8. All the way over there in the Old Testament to the book of Daniel. And you’ll You’ll notice in the book of Daniel in chapter 8, and look in verse 23, Daniel chapter 8, verse 23. You see, Daniel had seen several visions. God has spoke to him about things that were going to happen in the end times.

And he makes the statement in Daniel chapter 8 and verse 23, and in the latter times of their kingdom. When the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance and understanding dark sentences shall stand up. So this is a promise that in the last days during this tribulation period upon the earth, the time we call the 70th week of Daniel. Now as you study through the book of Daniel, there are many times what we call a near prophecy and a far prophecy.

One that happens then, but not all of it. And then later on down the road because history repeats itself, God gives a fuller explanation of what’s going to take place. So it seems like it’s talking about right here, and then you look at something that can’t be happening here. That’s talking about over here. And the Word of God is written in such a way not just the satisfied curiosity seekers, but those who know the word and believe the word and compare the word to fit it all together.

But look what he says here in chapter eight. And you know this in verse 23, a king of fierce countenance and understanding darcy and shall stand up and his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power. Now we know that in the tribulation period, according to the book of Revelation chapter 13, that the dragon will give power to the beast. So he doesn’t have his own power, he’s getting it from somebody. Now you and I have never seen the devil.

No, it’s not your wife, it’s not your mother-in-law. There is a real devil and he is a spirit, but you cannot see him, but he works behind the And the Bible says that He is going to give this individual His power. See, Satan has wanted to rule this world, and God is going to let Him have seven years to do all His damage. He’s going to take us out of here. And then let him have his seven years. And the devil is going to do all the damage he possibly can, and God is going to take, pour out his wrath, the devil’s poured out his wrath, and you talk about this is no place to be.

Earth will not be the place to be. That’s why I’m so glad I’m going to get out of here. But now, here in Daniel, look there now in verse 24, And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power, and he shall destroy wonderfully and shall prosper and practice and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.” See there’s going to be people here upon the earth. 144,000 Jewish evangelists are going to be preaching the gospel during the seven-year period of time.

12,000 from 12 tribes, 144,000, chapter 7 of Revelation, also chapter 14. So that’s going to be done. And the Bible says in the book of Revelation, chapter 6, multitudes of people, multitudes. And chapter 7 will be in heaven because they were killed during the tribulation period. So this beast that comes, this antichrist, of this king of fierce countenance, he is going to be so wicked. He’s going to come after all of God’s people and kill as many as possible.

That’s why when Christ comes back at the end of the tribulation period, it says they’re going to be ruling and reigning upon the earth. And he says, and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for their testimony during this tribulation period. So how were they killed? Most of them will be killed by beheaded. Now that means that there has to be a form of government that will be so severe and so wicked that that’s exactly what they’re going to do.

There is a religion on the world seeing that this is their main way of executing and they have not taken over because they are a peaceful religion. It’s because they use fear and intimidation. They cause people not to say something because you don’t want to make them mad. They’ll kill you. So whatever we do, don’t offend the religion of Islam. And I’m telling you straight. Our government is afraid to say the truth about it. And there’s many people across this country that are afraid to say anything because if you draw a picture and you offend the religion of Islam, Are you offend that Quran?

Look out, buddy. Well, I want you to know that Quran is a war manual. Religion of Islam is not a peaceful religion. It’s how to conquer, how to destroy. It’s force. Brute force. It’s fear and intimidation. And I decided years ago as a channel of God. I don’t believe my Heavenly Father wants me to live my life in fear, and I am not afraid. But I know truth. I should stand for truth, and I should not be afraid. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida, with Dr.

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There is a beginning and an ending to the body of Christ. And it started on a particular time at a particular moment. And I’ll show you that in just a second. But he says, wait for the promise of the Father, which Saviour ye have heard of me. And for John truly had baptized. With water, he says, but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost, not many days in. So we know that after Christ came back from the dead, that the baptism of the Holy Spirit was gonna take place very soon, not many days.

And it was a fulfillment of the promise that God had already made. Now, Christ had promised the person of the Holy Spirit was just like Him. He promised that the Holy Spirit was coming within days, and the power of the Holy Spirit was that we might be witnesses. You see in Acts chapter 1 and verse 8, it says, But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you, and ye shall be famous and rich, and without pain.

and no, you shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and in Samaria and unto the uttermost part of the earth. So God gave the great commission in Matthew 28 before the Holy Spirit came, but the great commission even though it was given before the day of Pentecost, they were to wait in Jerusalem until they were in due with power from on high. So the great commission was to begin on the a Pentecost. That was the beginning of the Great Commission, the Great Command.

Now, the authorization from the highest personal authority, there is no one greater than God. Nobody higher. For lo, I am with you always the continual presence of the Son of God in the person of the Holy Spirit. So he says, go ye, that’s personal. I am with you, and that’s present. You shall receive power, the awesome, dynamic, dynamite, explosive power of God is to do the work of God. You see, when I read these letters that people send, and there’s many of them, and calls, and so forth that I get, over almost 50 years, I have seen the dynamic, explosive effects of the gospel of Jesus Christ, that a man can be in the Philippines and he can hear the gospel and trust Christ as Savior.

Or somebody wants to pull over the side of the road because of the power of the gospel that they hear and they understand. You see, you and I can’t do that to people. The gospel is powerful, it is dynamite. And that’s why the devil fights the clarity of the gospel more than anything else in the world. And that’s why in spite of that, we fight back and we defend the gospel and we project the gospel. He says, he shall receive power, and that’s the power that you and I need to do, the work that God has given us.

You and I have all the power to do, all that God wants us to do. You don’t need anymore. He says, we don’t use the power. We don’t believe the gospel will work. We’re afraid to witness. We’re shy, we’re timid. We say, they don’t wanna know, they don’t wanna hear, where do you think all those thoughts come from? Not from God. They don’t come from Him. The personal authority is from God to each individual. Go ye. If you wanna know who you are and what you’re about, what you’re to do, your command, here it is.

You cannot use it as an excuse. I didn’t know. You will know when you leave this room. This personal authority is from God to each individual, go ye. This personal presence is from God to each individual. I am with you. The personal power is from God to each individual. Yee shall receive. Yee shall. That’s a promise. So we believe that the Thing was moved out into the future. See, the 70th week was shoved out into the future because of the church age.

And that’s where you and I are. But the church age is very important. Now get this. The church age is not replacing Israel and its promises. Those are things God made to Israel. I don’t believe in the replacement theology. I believe that what God promised Israel is to be and will happen into the nation. But God has made something brand new out of individual believing Jews and Gentiles. And we are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets.

Jesus Christ Himself in the chief cornerstone. And whom all the building fitly framed together, grew into a holy temple in the Lord. In whom you are also building together for the habitation of God through the Spirit. So in the Old Testament they had their tabernacle under Moses. And then under Solomon, they had their temple. When Christ was here, they had the temple, Herod’s temple. But you and I, when we trust Christ as our Savior, remember the presence of the Holy Spirit indwells us.

Your body is now the temple of God, just like the tabernacle was in the Old Testament. And that is a holy place. You and I are not to defile the body of God, for the body of God is the temple of God. He lives within you and within me, and wherever we go, we’re like little tabernacles of the Old Testament. But God says, all of us, fitly framed together, build a tabernacle or a habitation for God, the Holy Spirit, to live in.

You and I are the body of Christ and are built upon the foundation of the apostles, fitly framed together. The apostles and prophets laid the foundation, but Jesus Christ is the rock, the foundation. For other foundation can no man lay, then that is laid, which is Christ Jesus. In other words, it is not Peter. Peter is not the rock. He was only a little pebble. But the truth that he said when Christ made the statement to who do men say that I am.

This is maybe Elijah, Jeremiah, one of the prophets. He says, but whom do ye say that I am? He says, thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Christ is upon this rock, that statement that he made. I will build my church. Not upon Peter, he never promised to build anything upon Peter, but he did give him information. And he says, now aren’t a stone, but upon this rock, I will build my church. So Christ is the rock.

The church is built upon Christ. It is not built upon any man. And he says, we are to grow together as individuals through receiving the word. We are built together as we work together, applying the word. This is why I want God’s people to work together because not to work together is not to fulfill the word of God, the will of God. And you and I will be simply people who have taken the advantage of a free gift of salvation.

We have eternal life. We’re going to heaven when we die, but let the rest of the world go to hell. I am not that kind of an individual. I will do what I can. I’ll try to challenge as much as I can. And I’ll go until I can’t go no more. But we’ve got to do the thing that we do and we spend what we spend, not for ourselves, but because of the people that we can reach. We’re running out of time.

We’re at the end of this dispensation. I believe Christ is coming back soon. There’s so much it needs to be done, and it’s not a game to me. I hope you’ll get that idea. Feasies 2.15 says, having abolished in his flesh the Imity, even the laws of commandments contained in ordinances for to make in himself, in himself, up to Jesus, yet a one new man and so making peace so that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the Emmity there by and came and preached peace to you that you are far off and to them of that were naive.

Through him we both have access by the Spirit unto the Father. So God now is taken believing Jews, believing Gentiles, put it in together forming one body called the Church, and given to us a responsibility to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. That’s our job. That’s what we’re supposed to do. That’s why we work. That’s why we pray. That’s why That’s why we give. That’s why we want to support missionaries. Because when we can’t go, we’re to send.

It’s the will of God. Now, for those who were far off, that’s the Gentiles. Those who are not, that’s the Jews. So both believing individual Jews and Gentiles from this new one body, called the church. The death of Christ abolished the old contract and raised up a new man, the church, and is of himself. Second Corinthians, the first Corinthians in chapter 12 and verse 12 says, for as the body is one and have many members, all the members of that one body be in many are one body.

So also is Christ, for by one spirit we’re all baptized into one body. whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we’re bond or free, and have been all made to drink into one’s spirit. So this is what God has done for us, and it’s so important. Christians, hear me well. This is your heritage. It’s your family tree. This is who you are. It’s where you’re from. It’s what you’re about. He that has ears to hear, Let him hear what the Spirit says under the churches.

Now I don’t have all the answers to everything that’s going on in this whole world, but I do believe that we’re living very close to the time when Jesus Christ is going to come back again. The only reason I’d want any of y’all to go to camp is not because I need camp. I don’t need camp. I don’t need to be challenged and motivated anymore. Sometimes I’m so motivated beyond my ability to perform. But I know that there’s other people that needs to know the Word of God and to be challenged.

And sometimes by isolating yourself from all the cares of the world and just for a few days you concentrate upon what is the will of God for me. What does God want my family to be? I’m so thankful that I got a good daughter that loves me to death. I’m so thankful that I’ve got a son that loves me and loves the Word and loves his family, He loves his kids and wants to serve the Lord and does what he can do.

I want that. I want it so bad. I want my grandkids who are struggling right now. I think every dad who is grandkids to serve the Lord. But if you live long enough, you realize you can’t make anybody trust, Christ, you can’t make them love the Lord, you can’t make anybody serve the Lord. No preacher can make the people in his church do anything. You can only teach truth and hope that truth will grab a hold of you and says, I want to do this.

I want something more in my life. Now I want you to take your Bible and turn to the book of John chapter 3, the Gospel of John in chapter 3. I want you just to simply look at a few of these simple verses that you and I take for granted every day. But it says in verse 17, John chapter 3 and verse 17. So it’s for God, not his son into the world to condemn the world. So that’s why I don’t really need to go into the world condemning everybody.

And God’s already done that. I just let people know that yes, we have all sinned, but I don’t have to hammer upon their sin and how bad you are and how wicked you are. Most people already know if you’re not perfect, your center. But God loves sinners. And when Christ came into the world, He didn’t come to condemn everybody. He came to save everybody. But you can’t get saved unless you know you are condemned. So it’s not me condemning a person.

And I had a man tell me one time, he says, who do you think you are? The judge? He said, no, I’m not the judge. I’m just telling you what the judge said. The judge, he says, that we’re all sinners and that And I’m no better than you. There’s no difference. We’ve all come short of the glory of God. All of us. And we’re all in the same boat. But look at the last part of that verse. He says, but that the world through Him might be saved.

Do you believe that? That God wants the whole world to hear the gospel. Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. It’s so important for people to believe that God can use me. I want to be used. I’M going to do something for the Lord. I want to take some teenagers and challenges and motivates them. I want to teach some little kids inername class to know the Lord early and to be able to learn to love the Lord and teach them some verses and plant seeds in their little minds.

And just because we started getting a little bit older doesn’t mean we can’t still plant seeds. You may not be able to do all the things you used to do, but you can still plant some seeds. You know, if every family only reached their family, we could win the world. No, we don’t do it. If we could just get our kids and grand people and, you know, answer uncles and everybody to know the Lord wouldn’t be neat. But don’t let that go.

Now, I want you to hold your place right here and look in Luke chapter 16. You’ve got Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, but Luke chapter 16. You heard the story over and over again about how that Christ came into the world, the save centers and you’ve heard the story about the rich man in Lazarus. Where it says in verse 19 of chapter 16, there was a certain rich man which was clothed in purple and fine linen and ferrous sumptuously every day.

There was a certain beggar named Yankee, Ah, Lazarus, which was laid as a gate full of sores. Also designed to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover, the dogs came and licked his sores. Moreover was the name of the dog. And it came to pass that the beggar died. It was carried by the angels in Abraham’s bosom. rich man also died and was buried. In hell, he lived up his eyes, been in torment.

See if Abraham far off and Lazarus in his bosom. So when you go down through here and you look at these things and you think, just how much can I get from what these verses say? What does this tell me? Are there’s two men and two men died? One is in paradise and one is in torment. So who tells this story? Jesus Christ tells the story. I’ve had Jehovah’s Witnesses tell me, well that’s just a picture. I said a picture of what?

A picture of what? It’s a picture of two men who die and one goes to a place of torment and one goes to a place of paradise. That’s what it’s a picture of. If it’s not true, he should have said so, but he mentions the man by name. So it’s not a parable. It’s not a made-up story. I’m supposed to believe this is true. He talks about Abraham and so it says what Abraham said, what the man said, and if they didn’t say that, then Jesus is a liar.

Duh? In verse 24, any cry, any said, Father Abraham? Have mercy on me. Sin ladseth that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue for I am tormented in this flame. But he says in verse 25, and Abraham said, son, remember that thou end thy lifetime. So that means that there is another lifetime. In this lifetime, does God know who is doing what and where people are and everything that they’ve done? He recalls what they did.

He says, end thy lifetime. Get this. He says, thou receive good things and likewise, a glass of evil things. But now he is comforted in thou art term. So there is a God in heaven that knows what you are receiving, what you are going through and how you are suffering, how you think, how you feel. God knows all of this about all of us.

And he knows all about this lifetime. So you and I are supposed to be, leave that there must be more than this then. There’s got to be something else beside this. And so he says in verse 26, Besides all of this between us and you, there’s a great God fixed. So that they which would pass from hence to you cannot, neither can they pass to us, which would come from then. In other words, if a man in paradise could see the man in hell suffering, he couldn’t bring him any water.

He can’t come from me, he can’t go to them, can’t console them, can’t do anything for them. That’s what the Bible says. the people that are already in hell, they can’t get out. They can’t get out. Picture yourself for a moment, inhale for all eternity in a literal lake of fire. Know it, you’ll never get out. You’ll never, never get out. It will always be like this for all eternity. And you think it didn’t have to be this way.

And God says He will take all of us and wipe away tears from our eyes because there’s no way that you and I will be able to watch those that we know and love suffer without having to wipe away our tears from our eyes. And he says, there’s time coming when he’ll say the former thing will be remembered no more. Now, how God’s going to do all of that? I don’t know. I don’t care. But I’m to believe that this is true.

And there’s something else that he says here. In verse 27, he said, I pray thee, therefore, Father, that thou would have sent him to my Father’s house. Send them to my Father’s house. I’ve got five brothers that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment. He has five brothers on their way to hell, and he knows it. I’ve got five brothers on their way to hell. And the only thing that’s going to stop, that means that they’re either unloved, but we know they’re lost, but maybe they’re unloved by people.

Because evidently somebody has to get the message to them. He says, send somebody, they may testify to them, because unless somebody does, they’re not going to hear. And if they don’t hear, they’re not going to believe. And if they don’t believe, they’re coming to this place. Now, I want you to think for a moment. Your mother, your mom, your dad, do you love them?

Do you care really where they spend eternity? Do you really believe that if they died today, they’re going to go to hell. If they’re not saved, are you dependent on somebody else to reach them? Have you poured out your heart to them? Do they know that you love them and they know that you care about them? Do they know that you want them to go to heaven? Have you ever attempted to talk to them about the Lord? Shame on you if you haven’t tried.

They may reject you. They may shame you. Have nothing to do with you, but you would be better off if you tried and failed than the never attempt at all. What about sons and what about daughters? What about you? your aunts and your uncles? What about sometimes the people that you work with, or somebody you’re close to? And you get along with them, you can talk about football, you can talk about this and that and the other, that you never can talk to them about the Lord.

Why? Why is that? If I was the devil, I don’t care what you do with your life. I don’t care what you talk about, but don’t you talk to people about the Lord? And yet what is the one commandment God gave to us? Be rich, get along with everybody, or to go on all the world and preach the gospel. Tell people how to have eternal life. You know one of the greatest soul wonders that I’ve met around here, and you may not believe this, is James Taylor.

But they’ll have to run to get away from him. If they come on the property, they’re dead meat. I can’t get none of them because he’s done reached them. And I told him, I says, your number one job here as a staff member is you to win people to Christ. If you got time to get the other jobs done, okay, but if not, that’s okay. You just win people to the Lord because God has really blessed this guy with a burden for souls.

And I wish everybody in the church would just kind of take a little fire from him. He may be aggressive, but buddy, they know where he’s coming from. and they know what he believes. I’ve gone down that hall with many times and he’ll have somebody in the cafeteria there and he’s talking about the Lord and they’ll just be in tears. I asked a girl over here the other night, I says, do you know where you’re going to die? She said, oh yeah, James reached me.

I talked to a boy the other day. I was gonna talk to him about the God, do you know where you’re going to die? Oh yeah. I said, when you trust the Lord? He says, James got me out there by the dumpster. I mean, it’s just continually. But boy, if every one of you just find it, listen, you don’t have to be no so-called Billy Graham, just be you, just be you, and let God use you, because there’s people that are hurting.

There’s people that don’t know, aren’t you glad you know you’re going to heaven? Wouldn’t they be glad? And somebody be able to stand someday at the Juggen City of Christ says, I just wanna say I’m thankful for this person right here that led me to Christ. Well that woman back here, my son and school teacher, she explained the gospel to me. Or Peter and model explained the gospel in ranch, and I trusted the Lord. Or my friend got me to come to church and I trusted Christ as my Savior.

Maybe you didn’t tell him, but you got him under the sound of the gospel. Let God use you in whatever way he wants. Where you are. Don’t worry about reaching the world. Just reach the one you got, the one that’s the closest to you. The neighbor that’s right around you, wherever you’re biting. And you’d be surprised what God might do. Leave a track here and there. You can’t talk to him. Leave track. Get tracks out of the office. If you can’t afford to buy them, take them.

Sorry about that, Mike. I don’t know where I’m going. But there’s tracks back in the right, but take them and leave them at places. And just sow the seed. Just keep sowing the seed. Handfuls on purpose. Do it on purpose. Do it deliberately. Because you plan on doing it. You wanna do it. Because you do care. And we do this individually, and we do it collectively. As a body of believers. That’s why I wanna take on as many missionaries possible, but we’ll do it as the money comes in for it.

And we get more than what we need. We’ll take on another one, get some more money. We’ll take on another one. And then we’ll just split between the missionaries that we have. And so God’s been good to us. And now just about every month we have in six to seven hundred dollars it comes in just for missionaries. Ain’t that right, Mr. Posten? Because people give a little bit over and above. And I thank you for that. You see, Jesus, He came to seek and to say that which was lost.

You want to be like Him? This is you and me. this is our sins, the wallet. And God says that we have all sinned. Everybody’s a sinner. We’ve all done things wrong. But God loves us. Now He hates our sin, but He loves us. God loves you. And He says the pay for the sin is eternal separation from God. And because God is a just holy God, He has to condemn sin. It has to be paid. And so God says to go to heaven, you have to be perfect as righteous as God.

None of us are perfect. None of us are righteous. We’ve all sinned and come short of God’s perfection. So because of sin, we can’t get in. God says, you can’t earn your way to heaven. It’s not by going to church. It’s not by giving money. It’s not by your works. There’s nothing you can do. God says for by grace, are you saved through faith that not of yourself. It is the gift of God, not of works list. And you may and should boast.

So that’s why we don’t ask you to join the church to go to heaven. don’t ask you to give money to go to heaven because going to heaven is free. It’s a gift. You see this hand represents Jesus Christ, he got into flesh, he came into the world and paid for our sins and he says it’s free. He’ll put this payment to your account freely. All you got to do is believe he did it for you. If you believe he did it for you, he gives you his eternal life as a gift and you get to go to heaven on what Jesus Christ did for You can’t get any better than this.

Best news in all the world. If you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior, right where you’re setting, you can do that. And if you’re listening by way of internet, right where you are, you don’t promise anything, you don’t stop anything, you don’t join anything. All you gotta do is receive. Receive the free gift of eternal life. And God says as many as received Him, the them gave He the power to become the sons of God. When you believe he did it for you, he saves you and gives you eternal life and you get to go to heaven on what Christ did.

Let’s pray, shall we? With his bow nice clothes and no one looking around, if you’re here this morning and you’re never trusting Christ as your Savior, I pray that you’ll do so. I’m not going to have you forward, not going to embarrass you, but right where you’re sitting, if what I said made sense, you say, yes, I want to be certain of one to heaven when I die. And I believe that Jesus Christ died and paid for my sins.

And right now the best of all, I will accept Him as my Savior. If your friend God said if you trust Him, he would save you and give eternal life and you get to go to heaven. If you reject Christ as your Savior, like it or not, you’ll spend an eternity in hell and it don’t have to be that way. One right where you are, just say Lord, I don’t understand at all. I know I’ve done things wrong, but I believe you died on that cross and paid for my sins and I’m going to trust you to take me to heaven when I die.

I’m going to pray you’ll do that. We’ll heads bowed nice and close. Is there anyone at all? Say, yes, I will trust Christ as my Savior this morning and preach our life for you to pray for me. Just slip it up very quickly. Put it right back down. No one at all. You that have trusted Christ as your Savior, will you endeavor to fulfill the responsibility that God’s given to you? Take all your excuses and set them aside. Whatever the excuse is, put it aside.

God will not accept excuses. He will accept none. He has given to you the power to do what He gave you to do. Our Father, we thank You so much for all You’ve done. We thank You with His good Church, these good people. They know You and they love You. Or thank for the ministries You’ve given us. We ask Your blessings upon each one. In Christ name we pray, amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr.

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Got a lot of things I wanna share with you this morning Because of situations that are going on around the world, I believe that it’s important for everybody to understand the 70th week of Daniel. But this is Old Testament if you’ve ever wondered if the Word of God is true, then maybe something that I will share with you will help you to see that you can trust the Word of God. And you need to understand who we are, where we are, and what’s going on.

Daniel chapter 9 and verse 26, it’s on your screen, says, and after three score and two weeks shall the Messiah be cut off, but not for Himself and for the people of the Prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary and the end thereof. There shall be a flood and unto the end of the time wars and desolations are determined. So this is a prophecy in the Old Testament, about the 70th week of Daniel. But here you have three score and two weeks.

And if you look there, that’s gonna be a period of 69 weeks total, three score, 62 weeks. So 62 weeks, there’s something missing there and you can see it. Because this is the 60 weeks, it’s 434 years. Tilled the Messiah would be cut off. So this is telling us in the Old Testament, in advance, the very year Christ would come and dial the cross. He came right on schedule. And it’s the three score in the two weeks, but the Messiah would be cut off there at the cross.

And so that’s where you take your timetable to. Many people go to the birth of Christ, and it’s the where He was crucified for us. And therefore their timing is off. Now, when we look at this, we find out Jesus said unto them, in the second chapter of the gospel of John, destroyed this temple and in three days I will raise it up. Then said the Jews, it says 40 in six years with this temple in building and will thou rear it up in three days because he was speaking about his body and they thought he was talking about the temple.

So this is where the temple was. See it was 46 in the building but it was about three years time the Ezra and the Amaya all got back and rebuilt the walls, all the work gets done. So the timetable stays accurate But you got to know where to start, and that is at the cross. Cross is always the main thing. It’s the center of history. It’s his story. What goes before him, and what comes after him. Now, when it says, that shall come, that’s a prophecy about the Prince.

And of course, if it’s 69 weeks up until the time of the cross, which is right here, then we should have the 70th week, which is right here, follow, that’s the 70th week, and then we have the kingdom up on the earth. So 70 weeks are determined for 190 years that ends when the kingdom reigns. So God has laid everything out perfectly in order and we’re watching time unfold. In the Old Testament it talks about in the process of time, in the process of time has been processed.

So God has appointed a time in in which things will happen. And that’s not going to be changed by man. Now God has chosen in His sovereignty to give to man a free will. So God is working His will at the same time He allows man to have a free will. Now. The prince that shall come is the Antichrist. And that shall come is future and after the Messiah is cut off. You can see that. It’s also he will destroy the city and the temple after it has been rebuilt.

And so that has happened. So the Bible says in Daniel’s time that the Messiah will come and be cut off and the temple will be destroyed and the city. And as you look back after 2,000 years, has that been fulfilled? has been done. This is also because of history is repeated because people do the same stupid things over and over again. They never learn. It will also happen once again in the 70th week. He says, until the end of the 70th week, wars are determined.

So we know that there’s going to be wars all over the earth, all over the world, until Jesus Christ comes back at the end of the 70 week of Daniel and sets up his kingdom upon the earth. So I am not surprised to see all the wars that we’ve had for the last 2000 years. God promised that. He says it’ll be in trouble as times. Now, this is as Daniel prophesied. When Daniel looked at this, he talked about the six to ninth week up until the cross.

He talks about the 70th week, which is the seven years here. And he talks about the millennium, the age that will come right after this. Now, this is how when you read it in the Old Testament, you’ll see it. There was nothing about the church age written in there whatsoever. Now this is how Daniel’s prophecy has been enlarged because the king was rejected and crucified. We now have what we call the church age, the church age. That’s the period of time in which you and I live because the king was rejected.

the kingdom was postponed. And because the kingdom was postponed, the 70th week was postponed. It means that these times are shoved out into the future. There is here for the church age, a time limit unknown. This is where we’re always trying to figure out when the feast of tabernacles is going to take place. We always want to know, well, when will this happen right here? And so in many times and studying the book of Leviticus chapter 23, we want to know is this the year?

Is this the month? Is it October? Is it September? What year will it take place? Until seven years later, the Bible says that Jesus Christ is going to come back to the earth here in power in great glory and will set up His kingdom upon the earth. So we are not looking for the seven-year tribulation. We’re looking here for the rapture of the church. So we have from the Pentecost until then the church age beginning. It ends when the Lord takes us out.

That is an unknown time. That’s why when we do not really know the day or the hour when the Lord will come, but we can know when it’s pretty close. And when we know what happens during the tribulation period, that’s 70, if weak upon the earth, the seven-year tribulation, then we know that we must be very, very close. I’ve said before, just a couple of weeks ago, something is going to happen in the Middle East that will cause the nations of the Arabs to make a peace treaty with Israel.

It’s gonna be very difficult to see how in the world is that ever gonna work. Because I’d said that they would have to become democracies, so now many of these nations are chosen to have democracy where they vote on whoever they want and not the dictatorial rule that they have because the Bible says these nations will vote to give their power to one imon, or I should say, whoever their leader is going to be, and he will make a peace treaty with the nation of Israel.

It will fool the world. They will show you that they’re trying to be honorable and peaceful, but it’s going to be very, very deceptive. Now that’s what’s coming. It’s interesting to see how fast something can happen in just a couple weeks. I know it on my body physically how fast it can happen. Let alone in this world. So we have here the three and a half years because he said he will make a peace treaty with Israel, this covenant, and this covenant will be in the middle of the week he will break the peace treaty.

And that means that Israel will have to become a nation. There has to be a temple built in Jerusalem. They will have to institute their sacrifices once again because you can’t cause them to stop if they never started. So I believe that that day is coming. Now, peace covenant that we’re always talking about, they need a peace tree with Israel. Well, the peace tree, I believe, has to include Israel’s right to exist as a nation. Israel’s right to the land.

Israel’s right to rebuild the temple on the Temple Mount. And I believe Israel’s right to sacrifice on the altar. So that’s coming. How in the world is this going to take place? There was a picture the other day on the news of three men that were being interviewed in and how they did not want Mubarak, and they had a big old circle on him, and they had the star of David on it, because Egypt has kind of had some peace with the nation of Israel since Arafat back in the 70s, and also with Jordan.

I believe the only two Arab nations that did. They could tumble very quickly, but what’s gonna be the result, somewhere down the road, there is gonna be a peace treaty made with Israel, and it seems like it’ll be just the opposite, But if they become ugly, somebody else is going to have to straighten them out. How it’s all going to play out? I don’t know the details in between, but I know how it’s going to end. And that’s what I focus on.

What God does say. Now what he doesn’t say, I don’t care how God’s going to do it. Only I know that God will do it. And His will will be performed. It’ll be carried out. Now, we have the time in which the church age is going to begin. And I believe very strongly that the six to ninth week ended with the crucifixion of Christ on the cross. The seventh week is out there in the future. So we saw that in between is the period of time God calls the church age.

And on the 50th day after the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit came. Now, that is the beginning, I believe, of the church on the day of Pentecost. Pentecost was to be 50 days from the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Now, when Christ came back from the dead, this was on a Saturday in the evening, I believe. So Christ came back from the grave on a Sabbath. So there’s 50 days in between. And He says in the book of Leviticus chapter 23, verse 15, and ye shall count unto you from the moral after the Sabbath.”

So the moral after the Sabbath, seven Sabbaths, that’d be 49. So that would make it 50 days. So he says, even unto the moral after the Sabbath, seven Sabbaths shall be number 50 days, and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the Lord. So 50 days, the Holy Spirit came on the day of Pentecost, just like God had promised. That’s why it’s called Pentecost. It means 50. So God’s word in the Old Testament written a thousand years in advancing more.

Tells what’s going to take place and that these are types and signs of it. And he says in John 14 verse 16, he says, and I will pray the Father and he shall give you another comforter that he may abide with you forever. Even the Spirit of Truth whom the world cannot receive because it seeeth him not neither knoweth him, but ye shall know him, for he shall dwell with you and shall be in you.” So the Holy Spirit coming on the day of Pentecost was the fulfillment of a promise that Christ made.

He’s the one that says, I will ask the Father. So you and I do not receive the Holy Spirit as a result of us praying and whining and pining and moaning and groaning and for God to give us a baptism of the Holy Spirit. That happens the very moment you trust in Christ as your Savior. Now, in John chapter 7 and verse 30, he says, He that believeth on me as the scripture have said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

But this fake he of the spirit that they which believe on him should receive. He says, for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Christ had not yet been glorified. He had not died, paid for sin, come back from the dead. So the Holy Spirit wasn’t given yet. And so he was given on the day of Pentecost as a result of a promise that Christ had made. Now, he says in Luke chapter 24, even though they were going to receive the Holy Spirit, they were not to go yet.

He says, going to all the world, we’re on priest the gospel, but not yet. Because he says, behold, I send you the promise of my Father upon you. But tear ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be in dude with power from on high. So you were commanded to go, but you’re also commanded to wait until the day of Pentecost, until you receive the Holy Spirit that gives you the power to be the witnesses that we’re supposed to be.

Because to do what God wants us to do takes supernatural power. It takes God’s Holy Spirit. Now. In Acts chapter 1 and verse 4, he says, and been assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem but wait for the promise of the Father. So the Holy Spirit was a promise from the Father, but it began something that’s wonderful. It began the birth of the church. So the church was born on the day of Pentecost.

There’s many people that believe it started with John the Baptist. Some says just lay over from the church in the wilderness in the day. the Old Testament, no, there is a beginning and an ending to the body of Christ. And it started on a particular time at a particular moment, and I’ll show you that in just a second. But he says, wait for the promise of the Father which Saviour ye have heard of me, and for John truly had baptized.

With water, he says, but ye shall be baptized with the With the Holy Ghost, not many days in. So we know that after Christ came back from the dead, that the baptism of the Holy Spirit was going to take place very soon, not many days. And it was a fulfillment of the promise that God had already made. Now, Christ had promised the person of the Holy Spirit was just like Him. He promised that the Holy Spirit was coming within days.

And the power of the Holy Spirit was that He was coming from the Holy Spirit. that we might. we might be witnesses. You see in Acts chapter 1 and verse 8, it says, but ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you, and ye shall be famous and rich, and without pain. And no, ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and in Samaria and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

So God gave the great commission in Matthew 28 before the Holy Spirit came. But the Great Commission, even though it was given before the day of Pentecost, they were to wait in Jerusalem until they were in due with power from on high. So the Great Commission was to begin on the day of Pentecost. That was the beginning of the Great Commission, the Great Command. Now, the authorization from the highest personal authority, there is no one greater than God. Nobody higher.

For lo, I am with you always the continual presence of the Son of God in the person of the Holy Spirit. So he says, go ye, that’s personal. I am with you, and that’s present. You shall receive power, the awesome dynamic dynamite, explosive power of God is to do the work of God. You see, when I read these letters that people send, and there’s many of them in calls and so forth that I get, over almost 50 years, I have seen the dynamic explosive effects of the gospel of Jesus Christ, that a man can be in the Philippines and he can hear the gospel and trust Christ as Savior.

Or somebody wants to pull over the side of the road because of the power of the gospel that they hear and they understand. You see, you and I can’t do that to people. The gospel is powerful. It is dynamite. And that’s why the devil fights the clarity of the gospel more than anything else in the world. And that’s why in spite of that, we fight back and we defend the gospel and we project the gospel. He says, He shall receive power.

And that’s the power that you and I need to do the work that God has given us. You and I have all the power to do, all that God wants us to do. You don’t need anymore. He said, we don’t use the power. We don’t believe the gospel will work. We’re afraid to witness. We’re shy, we’re timid. We say, they don’t want to know. They don’t want to hear. Where do you think all those thoughts come from? Not from God.

They don’t come from Him. The personal authority is from God to each individual. Go ye. If you want to know who you are and what you’re about, what you’re to do, your command. Here it is. You cannot use it as an excuse. I didn’t know. You will know when you leave this room. This personal authority is from God to each individual. Go ye. This personal presence is from God to each individual. I am with you. The personal power is from God to each individual.

Yee shall receive. Yee shall. That’s a promise. So we believe that the Thing was moved out into the future. See, the 70th week was shoved out into the future because of the church age. And that’s where you and I are. But the church age is very important. Now get this. The church age is not replacing Israel and its promises. Those are things God made to Israel. I don’t believe in the replacement theology. I believe that what God promised Israel is to be and will happen and to the nation, but God has made something brand new out of individual believing Jews and Gentiles.

And we are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets. Jesus Christ Himself in the chief cornerstone in whom all the building fitly framed together grew into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you are also building together for the habitation of God through the Spirit. So in the Old Testament, they had their tabernacle under Moses, and then under Solomon, they had their temple. When Christ was here, they had the temple, Herod’s temple. But you and I, when we trust Christ as our Savior, remember the presence of the Holy Spirit in dwells us.

Your body is now the temple of God, just like the tabernacle was in the Old Testament. And that is a holy place. You and I are not to defile the body of God, for the body of God is the temple of God. He lives within you and within me, and wherever we go, we’re like little tabernacles of the Old Testament. But God says all of us, fitly framed together, build a tabernacle or a habitation for God, the Holy Spirit, to live in.

You and I are the body of Christ and are built upon the foundation of the apostles, fitly framed together. The apostles and prophets laid the foundation, but Jesus Christ is the rock, the foundation. For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Christ Jesus. In other words, it is not Peter. Peter is not the rock. He was only a little pebble. But the truth that he said when Christ made the statement to who do men say that I am.

This is maybe Elijah, Jeremiah, one of the prophets. He says, but whom do ye say that I am? He says, thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Christ is upon this rock, that statement that He made, I will build my church. Not upon Peter, he never promised to build anything upon Peter, but he did give him information. And he says, thou art a stone, but upon this rock, I will build my church. So Christ is the rock.

The church is built upon Christ. It is not built upon any man. And he says, we are to grow together as individuals to receive in the Word. We are built together as we work together, applying the word. This is why I want God’s people to work together because not to work together is not to fulfill the word of God, the will of God. And you and I will be simply people who have taken the advantage of a free gift of salvation.

We have eternal life. We’re going to heaven when we die, but let the rest of the world go to hell. I am not that kind of an individual. I will do what I can. I’ll try to challenge as much as I can. And I’ll go until I can’t go no more. But we’ve got to do the things that we do, and we spend what we spend, not for ourselves, but because of the people that we can reach. We’re running out of time.

We’re at the end of this dispensation. I believe Christ is coming back soon. There’s so much it needs to be done, and it’s not a game to me. I hope y’all get that idea. Jesus 2.15 says, having abolished in His flesh the enmity, even the laws of commandments contained in ordinances for to make in Himself, in Himself, up to Jews of Judah, one new man. And so making peace so that he might reconcile both unto God in one body, by the cross, having slain the emotee there by, and came and preached peace to you, that you were far off and to them that were naive.

For through him we both have access by the Spirit unto the Father. So God now is taken believing Jews, believing Gentiles, put it in together for men, one body called the church. and given to us a responsibility to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. That’s our job. That’s what we’re supposed to do. That’s why we work. That’s why we pray. That’s why we give. That’s why we want to support missionary because when we can’t go where to send, it’s the will of God.

Now, for those who were far off, that’s the Gentiles. Those who are not, that’s the Jews. So both believing individual Jews and Gentiles from this new one body called the church. The death of Christ abolished the old contract and raised up a new man, the church, and is of himself. 2 Corinthians, 1 Corinthians in chapter 12 and verse 12 says, 4, as the body is one and hath many members. All the members of that one body, being many are one body.

So also is Christ, 4 by one spirit we’re all baptized into one body. Whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we’re bond or free, and have been all made to drink into one spirit. So this is what God has done for us, and it’s so important. Christians, hear me well. This is your heritage. It’s your family tree. This is who you are. It’s where you’re from. It’s what you’re about. He that has ears to hear, let him hear what the Spirit says under the churches.

Now, I don’t have all the answers to everything that’s going on in this old world, But I do believe that we’re living very close to the time when Jesus Christ is going to come back again. The only reason I’d want any of y’all to go to camp is not because I need camp. I don’t need camp. I don’t need to be challenged and motivated anymore. Sometimes I’m so motivated beyond my ability to perform. But I know that there’s other people that needs to know the Word of God and to be challenged.

And sometimes by isolating yourself from all the cares of the world and just for a few days, you concentrate upon what is the will of God for me. What does God want my family to be? I’m so thankful that I’ve got a good daughter that loves me to death. I’m so thankful that I’ve got a son that loves me and loves the Word and loves his family, loves his kids and wants to serve the Lord and does what he can do.

I want that. I want it so bad. I want my grandkids who are struggling right now. I think every dad who owns grandkids to serve the Lord. But if you live long enough, you realize you can’t make anybody, trust Christ, you can’t make them, love the Lord, you can’t make anybody serve the Lord. No preacher can make the people in his church do anything. You can only teach truth and hold the truth or grab a hold of you and says, I want to do this.

I want something more in my life. Now, I want you to take your Bible and turn to the book of John chapter 3, the Gospel of John in chapter 3. I want you just to simply look at a few of these simple verses that you and I take for granted every day. Look what it says in verse 17, John chapter 3 and verse 17. So it’s for God, not his son into the world to condemn the world. So that’s why I don’t really need to go into the world, condemn everybody.

God’s already done that. I just let people know that yes, we have all sinned, but I don’t have to hammer upon their sin and how bad you are and how wicked you are. Most people already know if you’re not perfect, you’re a sinner. God loves sinners. And when Christ came into the world, He didn’t come to condemn everybody, He came to save everybody. But you can’t get saved unless you know you are condemned. So it’s not me condemning a person.

And I had a man tell me one time, he says, who do you think you are, the judge? So no, I’m not the judge. I’m just telling you what the judge said. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. Our two of this teaching will conclude with tomorrow’s broadcast. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach by the line and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll-free 1-800-576-3771.

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There’s a lot of things that I wanted to do in my life that I don’t think I’m gonna live long enough to do them all. There’s a lot of places that I wanted to go. I don’t think I’m gonna live long enough to do all those things anymore. But there’s one thing I’ve always wanted to do. There’s one thing I’ve always wanted to do. And I haven’t got to do it yet. I want to see God. Now I’ve seen this world.

And I believe that God exists because He’s given me His world to look at. And I come to the conclusion, I didn’t make it, somebody did. They didn’t make itself. So yes, I believe that there is a God and He made a world. But I want to see God, not just His world. And God gave me His Word that tells me all about God. So I have in front of me a Bible that describes what God is like that made the world.

But I want to see God. And God won’t reveal Himself to you personally. He said, why not? There’s a reason. God says if anybody saw his face, they’d die. If you saw his face, you would die. Now, I remember me and Betty was riding along one day in the car, and this one girl came up in a sports car, and she looked over at me and she gave me a great big old smile. I said, Betty, did you see that?

I said, she gave me a big smile. He said, that’s not the first time I saw you, I laughed out loud. But one day we are going to see his face and you don’t know how you’re going to react if you ever met him face to face. I’m talking about literally see the face of God. Now Moses wanted to see God. God had asked Moses to do a big thing and Moses says, how do I know you’re God? He said, let me see you.

And so I want you to turn it with me very quickly to Exodus 33. And look what he says in verse 12. And Moses said unto the Lord, see, thou sayeth unto me, bring up this people, and thou hast not let me know whom thou will sin with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast for I also found grace and thy say, oh, you said, you know my name, you know me, you know me, I’m Moses.

Well, that’s great. You haven’t even told me who’s going to go with me yet. down there to tell Pharaoh, let your people go. He’s in verse 30, now therefore I pray that if I have found grace and thy sight, show me now by way that I may know thee, that I may find grace and thy sight, and consider that this nation is thy people. How do I know? Prove it to me, show me. Let me see you God. Wouldn’t you like that?

I mean, wouldn’t you wanna see God? That’s one of the things that a lot of people say, well, I don’t believe in God what, because I ain’t seen him. You see, before you say there is no God, you should know everything there is to know because if there’s anything that you do not know, it might be the knowledge of God. True? So before you can say there is no God, you ought to have that ability to prove that there is no God.

Well, I don’t think you qualify. But what it says, in verse 14, and he said, my presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest. I, my presence, who’s gonna go with me? He said, I’m gonna with you. Let me see you. As you walk through life, you know according to the word that He’s promised to lead us, to guide us. He’s supposed to indwell us. And He holds me by the hand. He says, let me see you.

And I know that we’d love to be able to lay our literal eyes upon Him. Because if we could lay our eyes upon Him, then we know. It wouldn’t require faith because then it would be fat and you know But God has asked us to trust him. He’s revealed certain things to us that no man could do. He says, I tell you things that are going to happen in advance so that you’ll know that I’m God. And there is no other God beside me.

He says here in verse 15, and he said unto him, if I presence go not with me, carry us not thence. If you’re not going, I ain’t going. He says in verse 16, for therein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight. Is it not in that thou, thou, God, and thy people have found grace in thy sight? go with us. So shall we be separated. I invite people from all the people that are upon the face of the earth and the Lord’s that in the Moses.

I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken, for thou have found grace in my sight and I know thee by name. And he said, I beseech thee, show me thy glory. And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee. And I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious and will show mercy on whom I I will show mercy and he said, thou can’t not see my face, for there shall no man see me and live.”

That’s an awesome statement. And then he says there in verse 21, and the Lord said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand up on a rock. And it shall come to pass when my glory passes by, that I will put thee in a cliff of the rock and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by. And I will take away my hand and I shall see my back part, but my face shall not be seen.”

In other words, you’re going to see the remaining part of my glory, but you can’t see my full glory. Wouldn’t you love to see? Man, I would wish something like that would happen to me. Well, take your Bible and turn there to the book of John chapter 1. John chapter 1. I would like to see the face of God. One day we will. Here in the book of John chapter 1, the Bible says in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.

The same was in the beginning with God. And all things were made by Him and without Him was not anything made that was made. Then He tells us that He came into the world. The Word. The Lord came into the world, revealed Himself. Look what He says up there in verse 18. No man have seen God at any time. They only be God and Son, which is in the bosom of the Father. He hath declared him. In other words, God says, you can’t behold my face because of the glory of the Lord.

There’s even the arc that was made in which God presents the Shekana glory rested upon that arc. But if any man so much has touched the arc, the Bible says he would be shot through like with radiation and die instantly and some people did die because of it. God says you can’t even come close to the mount, tell the people to stay away from the mount. If they touched the mount that he was on, they would literally die, be shot through with whatever force that was on that mount them.

You see, God is power, but you and I could not actually face to face with God, he said, and live in his presence. Must be a powerful God. So God says, I am going to come into the world and reveal myself to you, but I’m going to veil myself. I’m going to tabernacle in our human body, and you’ll be able to see God. You’ll be able to see him face to face with a human face on him. That was Jesus Christ.

You see there in verse 10 of chapter He was in the world, the world was made by Him, the world knew Him not. Verse 14, and the word was made flesh dwelt among us. We beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Fatherful of grace and truth. He took upon a human form and God became a man, lived in a human form so that literally people upon the earth could see God. But now because He He looked like a man that didn’t believe he was God.

Some people never satisfied, are they? If God came into this room today and you say, well, how do I know he’s God? Have you ever seen God before? Well, now how do you, how would you compare? Well, let me see you do some magic tricks for me. What do you want him to do for you? Perform something for you, little miracles for you? Well, when Christ was here, he did a few little miracles like that. You know, he raised the dead.

And they still didn’t believe. He walked on water. And they still wouldn’t believe. He’d feed 5,000. And they still wouldn’t believe. He could read me in spots and tell them everything was going to say, well they still didn’t believe him. What miracle do you think he’d have to perform for you? How would God prove to you he’s God? And yet how many people say, I don’t believe in God. I’ve never seen God. If you had you would die. And if he revealed himself, you won’t believe it.

But the Bible says the day is coming in accompaniment, which every man will confess. Every knee will bow and confess that Jesus Christ is the Lord to the glory of God the Father. One day may will take your Bible look there in John chapter eight. John chapter eight. And notice in verse 52. Then said the Jews unto him Christ. Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, the prophets. And thou sayeth, if a man keep my sins, he shall never taste of death.

Are thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? And the prophets are dead, whom makeest thou by self. Who do you think you are? Who was he? He was God. And the thing is, he was claiming to be God, because everybody wants to see God, and God came. Well now, wouldn’t that convince everybody? No, it didn’t. And it wouldn’t probably convince you. If Jesus Christ today walked into this room and did the miracles that he did, 2,000 years ago, there’s still people who still will not believe it.

God will not go against your will. He won’t make a person believe. So I have people that will approve to me, there’s a God. How am I supposed to do? God couldn’t even prove to some people that he’s the God. What am I supposed to get ahold of God? Bring me to the rooms and borrow your ears. No. You don’t want to believe in God? Don’t believe in God. I can’t make a person believe in God. You don’t believe in God, don’t exist?

Tell him, don’t tell me. Look in verse 54, Jesus answered, if I honor myself, my honor is nothing. It is my father, but honor is me. of whom ye say he’s your God. Yet ye have not known him, but I know him. And if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar just like you. But I know him and keep his saying, your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day and he saw it and was glad.

Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet 50 years old and hast thou seen Abraham. Did they understand what he was saying? Yeah. Jesus said, I saw Abraham Abraham rejoiced to see my day. Has thou seen Abraham, Jesus said to him, barely, barely, I said to you, before, get this, get what he said. Before Abraham was, I am, I am, before Abraham. Do you think they understood what he was claiming to be? That’s what made him so mad.

Because you see, if God, God revealed yourself, all he did, came into the world, did all these wonderful miracles and so forth, and then they didn’t believe him. forth I could just see God, forth I could just see God. Well, then I’d really be convinced, then I’d really know. Well, I don’t think you would. And God knows that. We have a mind that doesn’t perceive things correctly. We don’t love like we ought to, we don’t live like we ought to.

And the thing is, these things that are mentioned here in the Bible are very simple, very clear. The Bible says like the Gospel of John was written so that we might believe that Jesus was the Son of God. Take your Bible and look there in the book of John 14. John 14. I’m just to see that this is awesome. When he says there in verse one, let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me.

Why? I’m God. You believe there’s a God? Well, I’m God. Here I am. I’m revealed in the flesh. And no, you’re not. No, you’re not. You’re a liar. You’re full of the devil. You’re mad. You’re beside yourself. all these are statements that they made about him. He says, in my father’s house for many mansions, if we’re not so, I would have told you, I go to the prayer place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I’ll come again and receive you unto myself.

That where I am, there he may be also. Okay, who’s God and where are you God and what are you doing? He said, I’m God and this is where I’m going. I’m going to a place called heaven and I’m gonna make a mansion for you and I will receive you unto myself. I will come again. I will take you there. He’s gonna do that. Oh God. What man can do that a man can’t do that. Men ain’t got no power Jesus Christ was God Then he says in verse six Jesus said in him I am the way the truth in the life no man come unto the Father but by me now get verse seven verse seven is awesome If he had known me you should have known my father also and from henceforth ye know him ye know God and And you’ve seen him.

Look at those last words. And you’ve seen him. Do you know God and you’ve seen him? Oh yeah, well, when did we see God? In verse 8, Philip said to him, Lord, show us the Father and we’ll be satisfied. It’ll suffice us. Still, the things going on. All the way from Moses wanted to know. Everybody down through time wants to know. And everybody even in this room would love to see God. I was told that if you take everything you’ve got and put it in God’s hands, it won’t be long before you see God’s hand and everything that you’ve got.

It depends on how you look. Or can you see with an eye of faith? Because you believe in God and everything that God says, because you know it’s real. You can see God working in your life. I have seen God work in my life. I haven’t seen God, I’ve seen God work. I’ve seen what God’s done for me and what He’s done to me. I’m not the same person that I used to be. Jesus Christ, God in the flesh, changed my life.

My life has been changed. My goals have been changed. My purpose for a living was changed. The book is real. And I’ve said this before and I’ll sit again. The Lord is more real to me than the clothes that I’ve got on my back. I don’t know if He’s real to you. There’s just somebody you know about, but He’s real to me. In the last part of verse seven, you know Him and have seen Him. Philip, Lord, show us the Father.

It’ll suffice it. And Jesus said to him, Have I been so long time with you? And yet has found not known me, Philip? He that have seen me have seen who? You’ve seen the Father. How can you say show us God? I am God. I’m the Father. I am Him. I am the Father, or one, were one and the same. John chapter 10. Awesome. Look in Revelation 22. Revelation chapter 22. The Bible tells us here, no uncertain terms about heaven, about the Holy City, and all these wonderful things that have gone a big there.

When you and I finally leave this world and we get to heaven, he says there in Revelation 22, and he showed me in verse 1 a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the lamb. In the midst of the tree of it, and on either side of the river was there the tree of life, which bear 12 men are fruits and yielded her fruit every month and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations and there shall be no more curse but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it and his servants shall serve him and you are on the line verse 4 and they shall and they shall what and they shall see his face see his face there’ll be no more curse and you’ll see

God I’m looking for with the day when I get a chance to literally lay these eyes upon God Almighty. One of the greatest moments in a person’s life, I’ve read about Christ and Christ is the revelation, the revealing, the manifestation of God in the flesh. But I didn’t see Him except through the pages of this book. And the story that it tells about Him, I believe it. I believe it wholeheartedly. I believe this book is true. That every word of it is real.

And I believe that one day I’m going to see God face to face. I ball to eyeball. Now, that’s going to be our great happy moment. When we get to heaven, and you see the reason is God says sin cannot enter into heaven for a man to leave this world and say I want to go to heaven, well heaven is a perfect place and the Lord is perfect and you have to be perfect in order to go there. But whenever you get to heaven, am I still me or am I made into something else?

But when I get to heaven, what’s going to happen to my memory? What’s going to happen to my mind? Just listen to this. Psalms 34 and verse 16 says, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. There’s people on the earth because of wickedness and they will not trust Christ as their Savior, God says a time will come when He’ll cut off our remembrance of them. We won’t remember them anymore. She inglest God worked a miracle upon your memory.

Heaven won’t be heaven for eternity. You have right now a lot of heartache and sorrow. You have a lot of things that you personally have done, sins that you committed against God, and even though God has forgiven you, you can’t forget them. Now God can forgive and forget, but you can’t seem to forget. You can forgive your loved ones because they wronged you, but you can’t forget about it. And maybe they don’t either and remind you once in a while.

You can remember the things that you’ve done and the sins that you’ve committed over the years. And every once in a while they can come back like flashbacks and haunt your mind and produce the same horror and the guilt and the feelings of whatever that you experienced 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago. Wouldn’t you like to be cured of that? You stop and think for a moment that a lot of the hurt and the heartache that you’ve gone through in your life is because of what somebody else also has done to you.

People wrong you, people hurt you, people say things about you. People have disappointed you and discouraged you and brought you to despair. And you, because of what people do to you, that’s what causes that hurt and some of that grief and that bitterness and that that Indian and that jealousy and that revengeful attitude, all those things, that’s what’s been eaten at you for years. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just forget about all those things that people have ever done to you and then to think about all the things you’ve done even to God.

Now a verse I’d like to share with you, listen to this, this is in Isaiah 26, I love Isaiah There are several verses that are talking about the peace that you and I are supposed to have, the peace that can pass understanding. And the Lord tells us that they will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed upon thee, because he trusts us in thee, talking about in Jehovah. But here in verse 14, part B it makes a statement, and made all their memory to perish, all their memory to perish where you can’t remember anymore.

Another scripture says in Isaiah 65 verse 17, I want you to see this verse. I want you to turn to this verse. This one is an awesome verse. Isaiah chapter 65, and look there in verse 17, verse 17, for behold I create new new heavens and a new earth. And the former shall not be remembered, nor in your underlying these words come into mind.” Have you ever had somebody else’s, do you remember blah, blah, blah, blah? No, I don’t remember that at all.

Well, let me see if I can refresh your memory. You remember this day, you know, this day here we went there and we did this and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Oh, yeah, now I remember. No, you’re not gonna have anybody be able to help you recall anything because you’re not gonna be able to remember. or come into mind. Look what he says also there in verse 16. That he who blessed himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth.

And he that swerve in the earth shall swear by the God of truth because the former troubles are you are on the line. The former troubles are what? Forgotten. Then he says that there will be a new heavens and a new earth and the former world will not be remembered. So what it means is, let me give you three miracles before we close. Three little miracles that I think are awesome. The Lord will erase all memory of our sins from our minds.

We won’t even know we ever committed them. That’s grace. When we get to heaven, there’s going to be a period of time. And then after the great white throne judgment and the lost are cast unto an everlasting fire called the Lord said, He’ll wipe away all tears from our eyes because up to that time I believe there’ll be tears because we’ll remember and yes there’ll be pain and grief but notice the Lord will erase all memory of our sins from our minds.

We won’t know we ever committed them. Number two, the Lord will erase from our minds all memory of the sins of others. We won’t even know they ever happened. The Lord will erase from our minds the memory of all our relatives and friends who went to hell. We won’t even know they ever existed. I don’t believe you will be in heaven forever in anguish over your loved ones that never trusted the Lord after the great white throne judgment. But at that point at the great white throne the Bible says God will have to wipe away all tears from our eyes because you’ll see that individual and And there will be remembrance and the hurt.

Those people will not be in heaven forever. But then God is going to do a miracle upon our minds, what will no longer remember the former things, the former world. And all of your sins that you’ve committed will be totally erased as though you never did them. You’ll never remember them. All the things that people did against you will be completely erased and done away with. the people that never trusted Christ as their Savior will be as though they never existed.

Because in heaven, it’s only those who are born into God’s family. First birth don’t count, only the second. They were never in the family. In heaven, it’ll only be those that knew the Lord. God says, Moses, I know thee. I know your name. But remember Jesus Christ made the statement in Matthew chapter 7. Many will say to me, Lord, Lord, in that day, have we not? And he said, I never knew you. You need to find out. Does God know you?

Does God know you? What it means is, do you know Him as your Savior? Are you His child? Have you been born into God’s family? Look up here. This is you and me. This is sin. We all have sin upon us. God loves us. Hates our sin. For you and I to pay for this sin is eternal separation from the Lord. In hell. But God loves us. And He wants us to go to heaven. But to go to heaven we have to be perfect, because righteous is God.

None of us are perfect. None of us are righteous. We’re all sinners. We cannot save ourselves. That’s why we need a Savior. This hand represents Jesus Christ, God in a flesh. He came into this world. He, God, came into this world. Took upon flesh. He didn’t have any sin, didn’t have to die. But He loved us. So He took our sin, paid for them on the cross, came back from the dead. And said, if we’ll believe He did that for us, that He put this payment that He made to our account, we go to heaven on what He did for us.

That’s grace. I have eternal life. I trust he Christ as my Savior years ago. God saved me years ago, gave me eternal life years ago, made me his child years ago, and I still am his child. I still have eternal life, and he’ll never cast me out and never lose me. I can’t go to hell, impossible for me to go to hell, because of what he did for me. He paid for my sins. It’s not because I’ve been good, not because I go to church.

It’s not because of my good deeds. By grace are you saved through faith that not of yourself, it is the gift of God and not of works lest any man should boast. It’s the greatest thing in all the world. And by the way, one day you will see Him face to face. Be patient, wait. You saw Him today. You’d have to be dead to do so. Do you want to see Him right now? You think you could wait a little while?

Could wait another year or two years, five or ten years? I think you can. Hang in there. Let’s pray, shall we? We’re heads by nice clothes and no one looking around. I’m not going to ask you to come forward and I’m going to embarrass you, but right where you are. If you have never, honestly, you’ve never trusted Jesus Christ as your Savior. Would you right now to say something between you and the Lord? Say this, Lord, I’m a sinner and I believe Christ died and paid for my sins and I’m going to trust Him to take me to heaven whenever I die.

And for in God said that if you trust Him, He’d give eternal life and never cast you out and never lose you. If you haven’t done it, do it right now. And if you will, I’d like to have prayer for you. And if you will do that, would you just slip your hand up very quickly? And one of the alls, yes, I’ll trust Christ as my Savior and bring you, I’d like you to pray for me. And one of the alls before the close.

Our Father, we do thank You so much for Your blessings to us. I pray, Lord, Your blessings upon each person that’s here. And Father, I know that the desire of each one of our heart’s is, we want to see God. And until then, we have Your Word. And we can see what’s Your life. We can see what you’ve done and we’re to believe it. And one day we will see the face to face. And Christ and we pray. Amen.

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So live today and every day believing that the Lord is coming soon. Just keep looking up.

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Bibleline Bibleline, here God’s word on Bibleline, everywhere, every time. Here God’s truth on Bibleline. Welcome to Bibleline with Dr. Ralph Yankee Arnold, pastor of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida. Clearly declaring the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the radio and the Internet. Your regular prayers and monthdays. and monthly support make it possible for Bibleline to continue on the air. You can reach us He was told free at 1-800-576-3771. Online donations may be made through the Bibleline website at calvaryoftappa.org.

We pray that you’ll enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ and that today’s concluding message of this teaching will be a blessing to you and your family. He says in verse 10, and he said unto me, see all of not the sayings of the prophecy of this book for the time that it has. Now when you read the book of Daniel, so Daniel says, seal up this book until the time of the end. So when this book was written, this is the knowledge they were waiting for.

This is the book that unlocks the book of Daniel. So because of the book of Revelation, we can understand the book of Daniel. And the more we read it, the more we can understand. And yet there are still parts of it that I don’t know if I’ll ever understand. parts in the book of Revelation. I don’t know if I’ll ever get it on. It seems like there’s a lot of pieces of a puzzle that I can’t make it fit yet, and I want to.

I like to understand everything there is to understand. But I want to know so bad, and I don’t know if you’ve ever done that or not, where you want to know something so bad you don’t understand why God doesn’t reveal it to you. Maybe he says it’s not ready yet. Maybe there’s some truth that if we knew it, we wouldn’t know how to handle it. What would I do? I mean if God was to call me tonight of myself all and says, Yankee, I’m coming this Sunday at 12 o’clock.

I said, no, wait a minute, Lord, we got dinner on the ground. We want to have dinner first. Can you come as soon as we get through, we make it one o’clock. Now if I knew it for sure, what would I do? What would I do? Would I have the courage, the boldest, to announce it in In church on Sunday morning at 10.30. Hey, it’s today at one o’clock. I say, well, Lord, I need a sign. How do I know you’re gonna keep your word?

I don’t know what’s for real. How do I know I didn’t have too many onions on my hamburger? But maybe I didn’t sleep good last night. How do I know that what you just told me was really you? I never met you before. And I never had a phone call for me before. I’m gonna check the ID, heaven. Now, he says, the day’s coming. Behold, I come quickly. And I believe he will. And so he says that when he does come, it’s all over.

If you’re saved, you’re saved. If you’re just, if you’re unjust, you’re as the tree ball, so shall it light. Look what he says in verse 11. He that is unjust, Let him be unjust still. He that is filthy. Let him be filthy still. He that is right to let him be right to still. He that is holy. Let him be holy still. In other words, the day will come when it’s all she wrote. And however you are at that moment when you die.

That’s it. No other chances. If you don’t trust Christ as your Savior and you die that way, It’s forever that way. They’ll never be changed. You died lost your lost You die saved your saved So when should you make the decision should you wait till you die to find out? I? Don’t think so That’s why it behooves every man Make sure you trust a crisis your Savior Because when it’s over it’s over There are no more chances But look what he says verse 12 He says, and behold, and you ought to underline these three words.

I come quickly. But not just that he comes quickly. Look what else he says. And my what? Reward is with me. To give every man according as his work shall be. Rewards remember are earned. Salvation, that’s free. Christ came into the world and did a work. He lived a perfect life. Why? Because I couldn’t. Well, what was the value of that? Because he didn’t sin. It means that he wasn’t condemned. It means that he could die for somebody else.

But if he had sin, he’d have to pay for his own sin. Well, he had to pay for his own sin. He couldn’t pay for mine. So he was able to win that battle and he had victory. And he went to the cross and paid for the sins of the whole world, came back from the dead. And all we have to do is accept what he did for us salvation, being saved from help. That’s a gift. That’s free. You don’t earn it.

Don’t work for it. It’s gift. But we’re not talking about salvation. We’re talking about service. When you decide I’m going to serve the Lord, do what God wants me to do with my life. Now nobody can make you do it. But if you do, God says, I want to know I’m going to reward you. And when I reward you, these rewards are forever. the rewards are forever. And I’m coming quickly with my rewards to give to every man according to his works.

I told you a place right here, and look all the way over there in the book of 1 Corinthians chapter three, 1 Corinthians and chapter three. Once you have trusted Christ as your savior, you are his child, you are on the foundation, which is Christ. Look up here in verse 11. For other foundation can no man lay, then that is lay, which is Christ Jesus. So you’re on the foundation, but understand, there’s something about your labor that God is going to reward.

So you see there in verse eight, in verse eight it says, now he that planted and he that water or one. And you ought to underline this because this is what he said over there in the book of Revelation. Every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labor. Isn’t that what we just read over there in the book of Revelation? Yes. He’s going to come quickly and one of these days, pew them, it’s all over. All your chances are gone.

You won’t get no more. Now is the time to do what you’re going to do for the Lord. You can be as bold as you want, or as cowardly as you want. You can be shy or timid, but when you get there, nobody cares. Don’t let the way you are. Keep you from being obedient to the Lord. You can use it as an excuse if you want. I’m afraid, scared, whatever the reason is. Do you want there to be stars in your crown?

Not just that you have a crown, but do you want some stars? I don’t know what all it’s going to be, but whatever it is, it must be. be something. It must be worth it all. And get what he says here. In verse 12, now if any man build upon this foundation, go silver precious stones, hay wouldn’t stubble. Good and bad there. Every man’s work shall be made manifest because the day of Christ will declare it. The Japanese is a Christ because it shall be revealed by fire and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.

I believe the fire is represented of the eyes judgment of God. Christ is going to be the one that decides whether or not was that gold, silver and precious stones or was that hey wooden stubble. See that’s why Paul says I cannot even set in judgment upon myself. But we’ll see what he says here in verse three of chapter four. In verse three he said, but with With me, it’s a very small thing that I should be judged of you or of man’s judgment.

Yeah, I judge not my own self. For I know nothing by myself or against myself. No word, Paul says, I don’t know anything against me. But that doesn’t justify me or clear me. There’s another one that’s going to judge me. And so he says in verse 5, there for judge nothing before the time until the Lord come, who bow were brain to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the councils of the heart, then shall every man have praise of God.

God says, there’s a time coming when he comes, then he’s the judge. And he knows what you’ve done and what you haven’t done. He knows what you could have done and you didn’t do. You see, he’s the one that knows the potential of every individual. And so he makes the statement there in verse 14 of chapter three. He says in verse 14, if any man’s work abide, which he had built their upon after salvation, he shall receive a reward.

If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer the loss, loss of reward. But he himself shall be saved, yet so as by fire. but you and the foundation but you’re still on the foundation. That’s why he says, as a child of God, realize that your body is the temple of the Lord, and therefore you should serve the Lord. And if you will, God said he would reward you and bless you. Now look in 2 Corinthians 5, 2 Corinthians 5, real quick.

And look there in verse 10, verse 10. Remember when the rapture takes place, we will disappear here and we will appear there. And that’s why he says I come immediately or quickly. It’s going to happen quickly. Here in 2 Corinthians in chapter 5, look in verse 10, for we, this is two believers, we must all appear before the the judgment seat of Christ. This is a rewarding stamp that everyone may receive the things done in his body. After your say it, according to that he hath done, whether be good or bad, fruitful or unfruitful, you are going to be rewarded or suffer the loss of rewards.

So it’s not to see whether or not did you get to go to heaven or not? No, this takes place in For remember Revelation chapter 4 we are in heaven and God says there’s going to be a throne. There’s going to be this judgment and it’s going to be looked at your life and what you’ve done for the Lord and God says you’re going to be rewarded. Go back to Revelation in chapter 22. Revelation chapter 22 and let there in verse 16 verse 16 because it’s as important for you to know who he’s talking to.

And remember, it started off talking to the church. And chapter 6 through 19, there’s nothing about the church. Why? Because we’re in heaven. But now, notice how he closes up. In verse 16, I, Jesus. So we know from this verse, when it talks about in the book of Revelation in chapter 5, that I saw a a lamb as it had been slain. And this lamb was the lion from the tribe of Judah. So look at in verse 16, I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you.

These things in the what? Churches. I am the root and the offspring of David. Or look up here just a second. Here’s David. He says, I am the root. That means he’s before David offspring. I am from David. Now, how can that be? How can David say to the Messiah, Thou art my God? If the Messiah has to come from David because he is the root of David, he was before David. That is the son that was given the child was born.

So we know that when it talks about Jesus as the son of man, that’s his humanity, son of God, that’s his divinity. So Jesus Christ was the perfect man, the perfect God, the perfect God man. Now look what he says here in verse 16, I am the root and the offspring of David and the bright and the Spirit and the bride.” Well, when the woman now who’s the bride? That’s the church. What’s the purpose of the church in the world?

Where to say, come. Oh, what do we possess? Say to them, to everyone that hears, they come. To what? Well, look what he says. Let him that heareth say come and let him that is a thirst come and who soever it will let him take the water of life what freely freely this is what we’re going to be rewarded for this is to the church this whole book this is supposed to be the motivating factor in the Christian’s life.

Because this is the end results. This is down the road. This is our future. This is what’s going to happen. And so he says, let the Spirit and the bride say come. Let him that hear it say come. Let him that is a thirst come. Whosoever will let him take the water of life freely. For I testify unto every man that hears the words of the prophecy of this book. If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plays that are written in this book.

Anymane shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy. God shall take away his part out of the book of life. And out of the Holy City, from those things which are written there in the book. Now, I know that those two verses can be a little on the problematic side, but I just try to put it in this context. And that is, I believe he’s talking to the church. And I believe he’s warning you and I and telling us to read it, to believe it, to heed it, to guard it, to keep it.

And if we don’t do it, there’s a price to pay. When he talks about God will take away his part out of the book of life. See, I believe the book of life is the Lamb’s book of life. We know that he can’t cast me out of the book of life. I have eternal life. That’s impossible. The only ones who go to hell are those whose names were not written in the Lamb’s book of life. But the word lot here is a reference to your inheritance.

In other words, you are a child of God, your name’s written in the Land Book of Life, and this is what God wants to do for you and get to you over and above salvation. But because you disobeyed the Lord, you either added to it or you took away from it, it’s not important, and you didn’t do what you should have done with your life, then God says, it’s going to cost you some of that inheritance that you could have had.

Did you know that there’s people today, moms and dads, probably got kids that they might think twice about leaving all their stuff to one kid or this kid or that kid and say, well, because of your obedience, I’m gonna leave you this much. Because of your discipline, I’m gonna leave you this much. They may not tell them that until they’re dead, but people make decisions like that. Here, I think there’s a good possibility that what you could have had, you’re not gonna get.

There’s something about the inheritance, the rewards that you could have had. To be able to be used by God, you’re not gonna get. Because you added things to it that God didn’t say. And you took things out of it that God didn’t say. And be little it or don’t believe it. I have a problem with all of God’s children that always finds a way to justify their rebellion, their disobedience. Why they’re not faithful, or why they don’t win so.

Why don’t read the Bible, why they don’t pray. Why, they always got a good reason. I think it’s adding to and taking away from what God says, because they don’t take God at face value and just believe it. And I think there’s a great price to pay. Look at verse 20. Verse 20, he which testify of these things, say it. You gotta underline those words again. It’s one of the last promises in the Bible. Surely I come, that’s a promise.

It’s the last promise in the Bible. Surely I come quickly. Tell us the things that are going to happen, what life’s going to be like. All the problems that the church is going to have. And buddy, you’ve taken study the seven churches there in chapter two and chapter three, and that is a perfect picture of majority of the churches today. nothing’s changed. And look at the world today. If we’re not getting ready for the tribulation period, I don’t know what we’re getting ready for.

Now I know that I’m not supposed to be looking for the blessed tribulation, but for the blessed hope. I’m gonna be taken out of here. But we can know what’s coming here, because he told us. And because we know these things are true, what kind of a person should we be? Let me give you this one script before we close. in 2 Peter, just turn to your left, just a few pages. 2 Peter chapter 3, and look in verse 10, he said, but the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, and to which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the element shall melt with fervent heat.

Now we believe this is typical of a nuclear explosion. But anyway, the earth also and the works that are there in shall be burned up, seen then that all these things shall be dissolved. What manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and God in what kind of a person should I be if all this is true? If he did destroy the earth before with water, He’s preserving it for fire in the future and it’s all going to be burned up and what he says if it’s true.

What kind of a person should I be here? What are you living for? Are you led of treasures in heaven? Now get this. What kind of a person should I be in verse 12? Looking for and hastening unto the coming of the day of God. When the heavens been on fire shall be dissolved, the elements shall melt with fervent heat. Nevertheless, we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth. We’re in dual of righteousness. It’s coming.

It’s going to happen. And one of these days, it’s going to all be over, and we’ll be rolling in clover. It’s going to be a wonderful time. It could happen any day now. But one of these days is going to happen. You know what most people are doing? They’re doing what it says up there in verse three. Look in verse three of chapter three. He says, knowing this verse, that there shall come in the last days, scoffers, walking after their own lusts, saying, where is he?

Where’s the promise of his come? He’s been promising he’s gonna come. Well, where is he? All I know is that we’re 2,000 years closer to it. 2,000 years closer to it than we were sometime back. Whatever day passes, we’re closer to it. Now one day it’s gonna happen. And they won’t, where’d all the time go? Look up here. Let this hand represent you and me. And the wallet represents sin. We all have sin upon us. God says he loves us.

And God says that he hates what we do wrong. Everybody, I don’t care who you are, everybody, sins, we all do things wrong. So none of us are good enough to go to heaven. We’ve all sinned and we’ve all earned the right to go to hell. We earned it. We deserve to go to hell. We deserve it. Now we don’t want to go there, but we deserve it because you see, God is perfect and we’re not. And how shall two walk together unless they be agreed?

So let’s just begin. Here’s God standing right here. Holy, and here’s me. Unholy, righteous, wicked, good, terrible. He’s everything right and I’m everything wrong. Now how can we get along? There is a problem here. Now the only way who can walk together is that they are agreed. In the God are going to have to have a dialogue and God says come and let us reason together, say it to the Lord. So now God, now you can see that we’re not the same, that there’s a conflict here.

So now one of us has got to get things straightened out here. Now do you believe that He should become like me or do you believe I should become like Him? Now it’s going to have to be that He will have to change me because I can’t change God. Now when you read the book of Romans it talks about man changed the incorruptible God and made him corruptible. He made him like a man and that’s what people are doing.

They’re changing God to make him like they are. God says, that won’t work. So God says, the only way is for me to change you. So this is what he is doing. How can God change me that I can be perfect and holy and righteous like him? By my work, never. I’ll never be good enough. So church is nice, but church won’t get you to heaven. It will not clean the stain of sin. And this hand represents Jesus Christ, he’s the Lord.

Now let’s just pretend, okay, here’s God and here’s me. What we need is somebody who can talk with both of us. So I move over here and hereHouston’s Christ here. You see, Jesus as the son of God is divine. But Jesus as the son of man, he is human. So he is the perfect mediator between God and man, Christ Jesus. He’s a mediator. He goes between us. He mediates for us. So what he did for me was he went to the cross, paid for all of my sins and came back from the dead.

And when I accept that payment God puts it to my account I am accepted Because I am now found in Christ And God accepts his son, and I’m in his son, and so God can accept me because I’m in his son. He doesn’t see me. I’m hid. My life is hid in Christ. I know that sounds complicated, but all it boils down to is this. You and I can’t save ourselves. We’re not good enough. Christ had no sin, didn’t have to die.

So he took our sins, paid for it on the cross, came back from the dead, said that if we, you know, if we would believe he did it for us, he’d put this payment to our account, and he would give me his righteousness. Now if he gave me his righteousness, that would make me as righteous as God. So now because of what Christ did for me, I can walk and talk with God, my Father. not because of any good thing that I’ve done, but because of Christ.

I am in His Son and His Son can sit on the right hand of the throne of God. It makes so much sense. Sometimes it gets difficult trying to explain it, but I hope that you understand all of this. Let’s pray, shall we? If you’re here tonight and you’re not sure of going to heaven when you die, offering listen to me. That’s the most important thing of all is to know that you’re going to have, you don’t have to understand the book of Revelation to go to heaven.

All you have to know is a year’s center, just like I am. All you need to know is that Christ paid for your sins. Christ died for sinners. And that’s us. So he died on the cross, paid for our sins and said if we believe he did it for us, he would give us as a free gift eternal life. We get to go to heaven on what he did. We don’t earn it, that we don’t deserve it. God just simply loves us that much.

So with the head of our nice clothes, and no one looking around, if you will trust Christ as your Savior, I’d like to have prayer for you. I’d like to know what I said made sense to you. I’ll write what you’re saying. If you were to simply say this in your mind, Lord, I know I’m a sinner. I got questions, I got doubts. But right now, the best to know how I will accept Jesus Christ as my Savior. From God said, if you would trust Him as your Savior, hit Savior and give eternal life.

You say, yes, pray for me. I will trust Christ as my Savior right now. And I’d like you to pray for me in closing. Would you just slip your hand very quickly and put a right back down? Then what is all? If you’ve already trusted Christ to save you, you don’t have to do it again. But if you never have, it’s the most important decision you’ll ever make in your whole life. If you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior, I heard you right now.

Just the best you know how to say, Lord, I must send a mouth trust to you as my Savior. I believe you died for me. If you bring God said He would save you, He would give you eternal life. And you can know that you’re going to heaven whenever you die. Our Father, we thank You so much for this time together, for the study of Word. Bless each one for being here. In Christ name we pray, Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr.

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Friend, one day it will happen. The trumpet will sound. We will be changed. Caught up to meet the Lord in the air. So live today and every day. Believing that the Lord is coming soon, just keep looking up.

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Turn in your Bible to the book of Revelation, the book of Revelation. There’s a time coming in the future called the Judgment Seat of Christ. And it won’t matter too much about what we think of each other. It’s going to all matter about what he thinks of us and what he knows we really did. But in the book of Revelation and chapter 4, we covered last week about the scene in heaven when John was caught up. Immediately he was in the presence of the Lord.

And he saw the rainbow and he saw the person sitting on the throne and saw the four living creatures and 24 elders. I believe that this is the next thing in line. It’s what’s going to happen when we get to heaven. And then it talks about some of the things that’s going to happen there, what he saw and what some of them did. And if you’ll notice that verse nine, he says, and when those living creatures, the beast, give glory and honor and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who live it forever and ever.

The four and 20 elders fall down before him that sat on the throne and worshiped him, that live it forever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne. Say, in thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power, for thou hath created all things, and for thy pleasure, they are, and were created.” So this is what they’re going to say and what they’re going to do, and John saw this when he was caught up into heaven, which I believe one day, if the Lord comes back soon, whilst we’re still alive, we’re going to be changed in a moment, the twinkling of an eye, would be caught up to meet the Lord in the air.

And we’re gonna go to the judgment seat of Christ. And we’re gonna see what they saw. And it seems like it’s almost impossible to put it into print, the glory of the Lord. There’s never been somebody’s description of the person sitting on the throne, except by saying bright light, the glory and so forth. or rainbow, like a sardustone or jasper, and so forth. But no description, you know, what they actually saw there, or they didn’t see it. I don’t know.

But I sure would like to know, and I’d like to say, I have an inquiring mind. But the part that I like is where he says, and the elders, the 24 elders, cast down their crowns. Now this little old lady, Bushy, I had a dream one night and She dreamed she went to heaven and when she got to heaven She got her a crown But everybody was walking around and everybody stared at her So she says well, what why is everybody staring at me?

She says because there’s no stars in your crown Thought there’s no stars in my crown. Where are the stars for it? She says, the stars in your crown is because you were a soul winner. And she says, oh my goodness, everybody’s got stars in their crown mind. And she pleaded to let her go back to the earth and be a soul winner. And said, I’m sorry, once you’re here, you can’t ever leave. And then she woke up and became a soul winner.

Now, I don’t know what it would take for you or for me to realize the importance of made to realize the importance of. But I want you to hold your place right here and turn over there to the book of Daniel in chapter 12. The book of Daniel in the Old Testament and chapter 12. Right after the book of Jeremiah and Ezekiel, and of course the Lamentations, I can never worry about that, and go over there to the book of Daniel in chapter 12 and look in verse 1.

This is in the Old Testament, but it’s pretty good. It’s written about 2500 years ago. And look what God said, the Reservant. And in verse one, this is, and at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standethapons the children of thy people Israel. For they shall be, there shall be a time of trouble. Now this time of trouble, that’s the tribulation period. Such as never was, since there was a nation even to that same time, at that time thy people shall be delivered, which is at the end of the tribulation period.

Everyone that shall be found written in the book. In verse 2, and many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth, that’s the bodies that are in the graves, shall awake, some everlasting life, some to shame and everlasting contempt, and get this day that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament. And they that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever. Now we don’t really know what a starless crown would look like or a crown with stars would look like.

I don’t know if there’s stars in the crown, but I know that God talks about the soul winner, the soul winner’s crown, and that there’s something more to it than what we can see and understand, but it must be worth it because the day is coming, that we’re going to wish we had done as much as we possibly can. Now go back to the book of Revelation and whether or not this is symbolic of what all of us will do if we have any rewards at all or any crowns and whether or not the crowns is the reward, Oh, there’s a lot more to it than what we know.

But we do know this that these four and twenty elders, which I believe represent the period of the church age because we’re at the judgment of Christ here, I believe. Of then their representatives of the church and the book of Revelation is written to the church. So these are things that you and I are supposed to he take heart. And did they all, Or is it something that all of us do is cast our crowns before the Lord? If it is, would it be a shame to be at the jedness of the Christ and everybody has something to place at his feet except you because you didn’t serve him?

Because you didn’t have any rewards. In Revelation chapter 19 talks about the righteous acts of the saints that will be dressed in the righteous acts of the saints that kind of gives the appearance that we whatever we’re going to wear, whether it’s the robe or the shoes or the crown on our head or star, whatever it is, it’s a result of the righteous acts of the saints because of what we’ve done for the Lord. Now no one can make us serve the Lord, nobody can make us love God, but he does say that he is going to reward us when we get to heaven for the service that we have rendered on behalf of Christ, for the cause of Christ.

Let me just show you something else real quick. Look there in Revelation chapter 1. Revelation chapter 1, and you’ll notice he says that these are some things that he wants to show his servants, which is to take place in a short period of time. Looking verse 1, the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him to show unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass. Now it seemed like it’s only been 2000 years, but in God’s eyes it’s just a short period of time.

But look what else he says in verse 2, who bear record of the word of God and of the testimony of Jesus Christ and of all things that he saw. Blessed is he that read it, and they that hear the word of this prophecy and keep or guard those things which are written therein for the time is at hand. So the book is actually written, it seems like, to the churches. It’s written to us. And therefore we’re supposed to read this and study it in something.

And this book is supposed to challenge and motivate us to serve the Lord and see the importance of it. So he says, blessed are those that read, that hear, that guard, the things that are written in this book. Now take your Bible and turn all the way over there to the book of Revelation and chapter 21. You’ll notice they talking about after the Great White Throne Judgment. And it says in verse 1, chapter 21, and I saw a new heaven and a new earth.

Well, the first heaven and the first earth were passed away and there was no more sea. And I John saw the Holy City, new Jerusalem coming down from God, prepared as a bride, adorn for her husband. And then he makes the statement there in verse 9. And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven biles full of the seven last plagues and talked with me saying, come hither, I will show thee the bride, the land’s wife.

I’m going to show you the bride, the land’s wife. Well, who in the world is that? That’s us. We are the bride of Christ and we are going to be married to the Lord and wear his wife. But look in verse 10, He carried me away in the spirit to a great and a high mountain. Showed me that great city, the Holy Jerusalem descending out of heaven from God. He says, Now come here and I’ll show you the bride of the land’s wife.

And so he showed them the holy city, New Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven. That’s where the bride is going to live. Upon the earth, the kingdom upon the earth, well, God promised that to the nation of Israel. So when Christ comes, He comes as the king of Israel, but He’s the head of the church. He’s not referred to generally as the king of the church, or it’s not the head of Israel. He is the king of Israel.

He’s the head of the church. They’re two different things. The church is made up of the people from Pentecost to the rapture. So one of these days, we’re gonna be all taken out of here and we go to the judgments of the Christ. He’s gonna reward us, means he’s gonna dress us. Look here in chapter 19. Looking verse seven. Revelation chapter 19, looking verse seven. Let us be glad and rejoice and give honor to him for the marriage of the Lamb is come.

And his wife had made herself ready. We just came from the judgment seat of Christ. We have been dressed in the righteousness. Yes, of Christ is what got us there. But what we’re wearing is a result of what we did for him. Look what he says. His wife has made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed buying linen clean and white for the buying linen is the righteousness of saints. See, there is the righteousness of Christ, the righteousness of God that when you trust Christ as your Savior, He gives you His righteousness, His perfection.

That’s what gets us to heaven. But that’s not what it’s talking about here, talking about the righteousness of the saints. So there’s going to be a rewarding stand. For example, 50 years ago, a little old 18 year old boy heard the gospel for the first time. Me. My daddy was a bootlegger, spent half his life in the chain gain running from the law. I never saw my mom and dad in her church, never saw them read her Bible, never saw them, have prayer.

And I wasn’t sure about what I was going to go to heaven or go to hell. until one day I met a man named Raymond Jackson and he talked to me, he explained it to me and that was the beginning of the greatest thing that’s ever happened to me in my life because that night when I was 18 years old I trusted Christ as my Savior. That moment that I trusted Christ as my Savior God saved me from hell means I can’t go to hell.

I can never go to hell. Couldn’t then can’t now. He gave me eternal life. I became his child. He became my father. He had dwelt me by the Holy Spirit. And little by little, my love for the Lord began to grow. And I began to learn a little bit of Bible here and a little bit of Bible there. And I was told that I should witness and talk to people about the Lord. Only reason I wasn’t going to Bible college, or the wife and two kids, is because I wanted to know how to tell people how to make the gospel clear, how to go to heaven when they die.

I just didn’t want people to go to hell. I never planned on being a preacher, a evangelist, nothing. I just wanted to learn the Bible. I didn’t know all that other stuff. I wasn’t that in a lovely church. It never was. But as I began to learn the word God and grow a little bit, I saw the importance of it. And I knew I could not know the will of God unless I knew the word of God. So it is the will of God to know the word of God so you can know the will of God.

So that’s why you studied the Bible. And as I began to study the Bible, I wanted to do whatever God wanted me to do. I didn’t hear what it was, where it was, how? I didn’t hear. Nothing mattered. Whatever it was. Open up whatever doors close whatever door do anything you want to do. I am all yours Whatever I’m worth you get it and I have been blessed enough to see that God honors his word. I Want to be able to stand here after 50 years and tell you look it’s true God keeps his promises Just serve them put him first.

Don’t try to figure everything out. You never will don’t figure how God’s gonna do some I don’t know how God’s gonna do anything. I don’t have no clue today what he’s gonna do tomorrow. No more than I did 50 years ago. I don’t know what’s coming down the road. I don’t care what’s coming down the road. I just know that whatever’s coming down the road, I know he’s going with me. I know that the one that I walk with knows what’s coming tomorrow and I don’t have to worry about him.

And that I believe that it is worth the serve the Lord and God is going to reward you. Now, I want you to see this. look there in chapter 22, chapter 22. Now we know that we’re gonna live in this holy city, but just look up here in chapter 21, first of all, chapter 21 verse 27. And there shall in no wise enter into it, this holy city, anything that they follow, neither whatsoever, work in the pomination or make it a lie, not even a lie.

In other words, it can be no sin in this place. No sin. It means that for you and I to go there to this place, God gonna have to change us. Well, He gave me my new birth 50 years ago. Well, what’s he gonna change? He coulda do away with the old one. If he did away with my old birth, my old nature, all that’s left is perfection. You ever wanna see somebody that’s perfect? Look up here at me.

You say you’re not perfect. Oh, yeah, but you can’t see the real me. You see this old flesh I got. Now, if you could see beyond this flesh, inside of this flesh is a 17 year old teenager struggling to get out. Now, inside of it, there’s a person in here, my new birth, that when I trust the Christ is my savior, this one is going to die. The worms can have this whole body. I’ll be through with it. Won’t need it anymore.

anymore. Not today though, not right. I want to wait to the rapture. I just go up without dying. But what I want you to see was this. He says down here in chapter 22, look in verse 7, now it’s kind of like he’s told his whole story. Well, all the stuff that’s going on up there, down here the thousand year reign the great white throne judgment the Holy City and like a conclusion to the book because in the last part of verse 6 he made the statement looking verse 6 and he said unto me these sayings are faithful and true and the Lord God of the Holy Prophet sent his angel to show unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.

Now this is at the end of the book, but it’s kind of like wrapping it all up and says, now these are things that must shortly be done, 2000 years ago. And then get what he said, look at in verse 7, Behold and Yara on the line, this, I come quickly. You’d be surprised how quickly this thing’s going to happen. How quickly our lines are going going to be over. But after everything that it said, all the things that are going to happen through the seven churches and then the seven year tribulation period and the thousand year reign upon the year from the great white throne judgment and the holy city coming down.

He said, now, come on back here to reality. He said, this is where we are. He says, behold, I come quickly. I’m coming. And when I come, I’m coming quickly. But look what else he says. See the last part of verse 7. This is similar to what we read in verse 3 of chapter 1. Blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book. Now it’s written to believers. It’s written to the church. It’s written to you and me.

And so he says, now I want you to read it. I want you to believe it. And I want you to guard it and let it challenging motivate you. This is for real. This is for real. This shows us the end of the book and we win. We win. And because of this… It will be worth whatever it is he calls upon us to do. And some things might might get rough. It might even require you to die, but be faithful regardless.

Now look what he says. In verse eight he said, and I John saw these things and heard them. Now remember he said, write the things which style has seen. And that’s chapter one, the things which are chapter two and chapter three and the things which shall be here after. Now he didn’t roll all of that. So he’s kind of like rapping it all up and he says, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which showed me these things and then said, he unto me, see thou doeth it not, for I am thy fellow servant and of the brethren the prophets and of them which keep the sayings of this book.

Now you’re the underlining which keep the sayings of this book. This word keep is to guard to defend, to really believe it because it has to be inside of of you. Not that I got me a Bible and I, well, I’m guarding my Bible and I’m protecting my Bible and I’m guarding. Anybody’s talking about it? Believing it, heaven and inside of you where it challenges and motivates you because you know it’s true. And then what he says, he says in verse 10, and he said unto me, seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book for the time at the time.

Now, when you read the book of Daniel, I told Daniel, seal up this book until the time of the end. So when this book was written, this is the knowledge they were waiting for. This is the book that unlocks the book of Daniel. So because of the book of Revelation we can understand the book of Daniel and the more we read it the more we can understand. And yet there’s still parts of it that I don’t know if I’ll ever understand.

There are parts in the in the book of Revelation. I don’t know if I’ll ever get it on. See, like there’s a lot of pieces of a puzzle that I can’t make it fit yet, and I want to. I like to understand everything there is to understand. But I wanna know so bad, and I don’t know if you’ve ever done that or not, where you want to know something so bad, and you don’t understand why God doesn’t reveal it to you.

Maybe it’s not ready yet. Maybe there’s some truth that if we knew it, we wouldn’t know how to handle it. What would I do? I mean, if God was to call me tonight of my cell phone and say, is Yankee, I’m coming this Sunday at 12 o’clock. I said, no, wait a minute, Lord, we got dinner on the ground. We want to have dinner first. Can you come as soon as we get through, we make it one o’clock. Now, if I knew it for sure, what would I do?

What would I do? Would I have the courage, the boldest, to announce it in church on Sunday morning at 10.30? Hey, it’s today at one o’clock. or say, well, no, Lord, I need a sign. How do I know you’re gonna keep your word? I don’t know if it’s real. I don’t know why I didn’t have too many onions on my hamburger. But maybe I didn’t sleep good last night. How do I know that what you just told me was really you?

I never met you before. And I never had a phone call for me before. I’m gonna check the idea, heaven. Now, he says, the day’s coming. Behold, I come quickly. And I believe he will. And so he says that when he does come, it’s all over. If you’re saved, you’re saved. If you’re just, if you’re unjust, you’re as the tree ball, so shall it light. Look what he says in verse 11, he that is unjust, let him be unjust, still.

He that is filthy, let him be filthy, still. He that is righteous, let him be righteous, still. He that is holy, Let him be holy still in other words the day will come when it’s all she wrote and however you are At that moment when you die That’s that’s it No other chances If you don’t trust christ is your savior and you die that way it’s forever that way They’ll never be changed You died lost you’re lost You die saved you’re saved So when should you make the decision should you wait till you die to find out?

I don’t think so. That’s why it behooves every man. Make sure you trust a crisis, your Savior, because when it’s over, there are no more chances. But look what he says. Verse 12, he says, and behold, and you are on the line these three words, I come quickly. but not just that he comes quickly. Look what else he says. And my what? Reward is with me. To give every man according as his work shall be. Rewards, remember, are earned.

Salvation, that’s free. You see, Christ came into the world and did a work. He lived a perfect life. Why? Because I couldn’t. Well, what was the value of that? Because he didn’t sin. It means that he wasn’t condemned. It means that he could die for somebody else. But if he had sinned, he’d had to pay for his own sin. Well, he had to pay for his own sin. He couldn’t pay for mine. So he was able to win that battle and he had victory.

And he went to the cross and paid for the sins of the whole world, came back from the dead. All we have to accept what he did for us salvation being saved from help. That’s a gift. That’s free. You don’t earn it don’t work for gift But we’re not talking about salvation. We’re talking about service When you decide I’m going to serve the Lord do what God wants me to do with my life now nobody can make you do it But if you do God says I want to know I’m going to reward you and when I reward you these rewards are forever the rewards are forever.

And I’m coming quickly with my rewards to give to every man, according to his works. I told you a place right here, and look all the way over there in the book of 1 Corinthians chapter 3, 1 Corinthians and chapter 3. Once you have trusted Christ as your Savior. You are His child. You are on the foundation, which is Christ. Look up here in verse 11. For other foundation can no man lay, then that is laid, which is Christ Jesus.

So you’re on the foundation, but understand there’s something about your labor that God is going to reward. So you see there in verse 8, in verse 8, he said, Now he that planted and he that water or one. And you ought to underline this because this is what he said over there in the book of Revelation. Every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labor. Now what we just read over there in the book of Revelation?

Yes. He’s going to come quickly and one of these days, pew them, it’s all over it. All your chances are gone. You won’t get no more. Now is the time to do what you’re going to do for the Lord. You can be as bold as you want, or as cowardly as you want. You can be shy or timid, but when you get there, nobody cares. Don’t let the way you are. Keep you from being obedient to the Lord. You can use it as an excuse if you want.

I’m afraid, scared, whatever the reason, or do you want there to be stars in your crown? not this that you have a crown, but do you want some stars? I don’t know what all it’s going to be, but whatever it is, it must be something. It must be worth it all. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. Part two of this teaching will conclude with tomorrow’s broadcast.

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If we who are alive, if we believe in the Lord, that He died and He rose again, even so them all, even so also them that have already died in the Lord. But you notice the only requirement here is if you believe. It’s the only thing a man has to do. It’s the only thing he can do. If you can’t be saved by your work, you’re going to have to believe and trust somebody else. So Christ died on the cross, paid for our sins, came back from the dead and said, if we believe it, then we can have eternal life and go to heaven.

It’s the only requirement to make it for the rapture. I love it. In verse 15, for this we say unto you by the word of Yankee that no, this we say unto you by the word of the Lord that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord alive when the Lord comes back get this shall not prevent. That’s a word that’s a little archaic now but it did mean not to go before. So we will not go before those that are asleep.

that are sweet are going to go before us. He says in verse 16, for the Lord, and even the rest of the verses here explains and tells you that, tells you what he means. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with a voice of the Archangel and with the Trump of God, and here is talking about there’s three things mentioned here. The first part says, and from heaven with a shout, then the voice of the Archangel and then the Trump of God.

When you read it over there in the book of Revelation in chapter 4, and it’s on the voice as of a trumpet. And there it says, and the first voice as I heard. And here is talking about in the book of 1 Corinthians in chapter 15, the last Trump. The last voice, the last thing that he said, right before the raptor takes place. He may not like to take that last trumpet and say that’s the last trumpet in the book of Revelation And there’s seven trumpets in there and so the rapture doesn’t take place until the seventh trumpet And so that means the church has got to go through the tribulation period No, not I don’t believe it Because I don’t studied enough of it to know that that it can’t happen that way if because God has everything in order and There’s a seven-year tribulation and the seven-year tribulation period is

is I believe that pale end of the 70th week of Daniel that goes along with the 69th week, which is part of the law and that the tribulation period belongs to that part of the dispensation. We are a different dispensation. For example, why are you right there in 1 Thessalonians in chapter 5? Look what he says here. In verse 2, for yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord, so cometh as a thief in the night, our look of error.

But day that the Lord comes to the earth, that’s what the book of Revelation is about. This is the day of the Lord, specific day. Now this is the day of Christ. This is when it comes for us and this is when it comes with us seven years later. And he makes the statement and in verse three, for when they shall say peace and safety. Now that’s the first part of the tribulation period. That’s not us. In these verses you’ll notice that they and a them are we in an us.

They in them and we in us. Tell them two different types of people here. For when they shall say peace and safety, then sudden destruction come up upon them. So the destruction is not upon us, it’s upon them. We’re not here. Get what else? He says, as travail upon a woman with child and they, they shall not escape. Well, we don’t have to worry about what we are not here. So how do you know we’re looking for four? But yee yee brethren so we’re not them.

And talking about the thief in the night, which is when Christ comes back empowering great glory at the end, that’s a different time period at the end of the tribulation period. But he says, but ye brethren are not in darkness that that day should overtake you as a thief. Because see, we’re not going to be in the tribulation period. The thief in the night is a phrase that’s used in the book of Matthew also, and it’s at the end of the tribulation period.

It’s not the rapture. Now I know they made a movie some time ago called Thief in the Night. I watched it. I have people trust Christ to save you because of it. But the thief in the night is when he comes at night. It didn’t come in the daytime. The thief comes at night. Let me show you this and get this. In verse 5, ye are all the children of light and the children of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.

Therefore let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch and be sober. Look up here. This time in which we live, this is a day. The kingdom upon the earth, the millennia reign. That is a day. A day where the Lord is a thousand years. It is a thousand years. Here’s a thousand years, two days. But what separates a day from another day over There’s a night. The tribulation period is a time of darkness. It’s a night.

There’s the day. There’s the night. There’s the night and there’s another day. So these two days are separated by a night. So he’s telling us that are here. Ye are not up this period of time. This darkness can’t come upon you. It’s come to come upon them because when the raptor takes place and we’re taken out of here, Then the Antichrist is going to try to win the world by promising safety and peace and prosperity, and then sudden destruction comeeth upon them.

Where are we? We’ve already been taken out of here, and we won’t be caught up and meet the Lord in the air. Look what he says in verse 17, Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so shall we ever be with the Lord. So we have the rapture that’s going to take place. Now go back there to Revelation in chapter 4. So when he says here in verse 2 and immediately I was in the spirit and behold a throne was set in heaven and one sat on the throne.

So the first thing he sees that when he gets to heaven is a throne. I believe the first thing we’re going to see when we get to heaven is going to be a throne. It’s going to be a judgment seat of Christ. And all of us in this time period will stand at the judgment seat of Christ and the judgment seat of Christ is a rewarding stand. It’s not to see if you get to go to heaven or hell.

No, that’s already decided. You’re in heaven. So this is a judgment that takes place in heaven and it’s it’s a reward instead. God’s going to reward you for what you did for him. So that means if he’s going to reward you for what you did, he must be keeping the books on what you’re doing. He knows every thought, every deed, every word, all of it. He keeps the books. That’s why you and I, if we believe this, if we don’t have to worry about what anybody else says or does, we don’t have to to worry about what works and don’t work, what the results are.

All we gotta do is just be faithful, do what we can with, what we have, where we are. Nothing else will matter. When you and I get to heaven, it’s not going to matter how you and your wife got along. Well, it can make a difference. But there’s some things that won’t make a difference. And how things happen, and how people treat you, and their meanness and their ugliness. Whether it’s the husband, whether it’s the wife, or whether it’s the kid.

If you’ll just be faithful and don’t take vengeance, when you get to heaven, will it be worth it all? So that’s why knowing this is supposed to challenge and motivate us to serve the Lord with all our hearts because that day is coming. Now remember, when he saw this, a throne set there, he says he saw the Lord as a jasper in a sardine stone, which is like a blood red. And whether or not that’s a reference to the robe that he had on, of powering majesty and all that, it doesn’t, but there’s no description of what he actually looks like.

And that’s what I would have wanted to focus on, but it doesn’t tell us. It just says he’s there and there’s a throne there and it looks like this stone and the color, which is usually yellow and red, the blend of it. But look what else he says in the verse three. And there was a rainbow round about the throne, a rainbow. Where do you think a rainbow in the world is doing up there in heaven? If you remember, there was a time upon the earth where God, well, he kind of poured out a little water here and a little bit of water there.

And there was a flood and there was mud. And God says, I’m going to give you a rainbow. And the rainbow was supposed to be the validation of the promise of God. promised that he would never destroy the earth again by a flood. People said, well, that’s just a local flood. You’re right. Five months it reigned. And then after that, this thing was over a year. And if it was only a local flood, remember the Apostle Peter made the statement.

He says that the Lord destroyed the earth the first time by a flood but is preserving it in order to destroy it by a local fire. Well if it’s on a local flood it must be a local fire too and if it’s just a local fire, well the easiest thing to do just goes in place in the middle of a desert where the fire can’t burn nothing. You know, I don’t think so. I think that the whole earth was in golf with water And I believe that’s going to be renovated by fire and God’s going to burn it all up.

And he says there in Peter that that’s what’s going to take place. And if it is, what manner of persons ought you and I to be because of what we see coming upon the earth? How we’re supposed to be. Now, in verse four, it doesn’t really say who in the world the 24 elders are. Whether or not it’s a reference to the Old Testament saints and And there’s supposed to be the 12 foundations in the holy city, and then you get the 12 apostles, and maybe it’s a combination of both of them there.

I don’t know. You know what? I don’t care. If God did not tell us who they are, why should I try to guess who they are? Another thing, as you read this, you’ll find out that John doesn’t give us any hints that he understands all of this. He does not tell us, hey, I understand what this is. And it doesn’t try to explain it to you. He just recorded it. I don’t know if John understood because he sure didn’t explain it.

When it was all over with, he might have said, there’s a, now I wonder what this means. I wonder what this means. I wonder what this means. Do you know there was another book that was sealed in the Old Testament where God had revealed things a man and he wrote it but then he didn’t have a clue what it said. Maybe I know who it was? Daniel. He said seal up the book until the time of the end. Did you know the book of Revelation is the book that helps to reveal the book of Daniel?

And understand many of the things in the book of Revelation, you need to book a Daniel. But But this came later on. And it says that in the end time, in the last days, knowledge will be increased. But I don’t know if it’s talking about the technology that we have, because I don’t believe the technology of this world is helping me to understand the Bible. I believe the Bible is helping me to understand the Bible. I do not use world events to validate whether the book is true or not.

If Israel was not in the land, I’d still believe this book, every word of it. If there was no such thing as a Russia, I couldn’t prove anything. I’m still going to believe this book because I believe the book is true. There has been over the last, I guess, 500 years, people have spent a lot of time trying to figure out who the Antichrist is. And it was supposed to be that Pope and then that Pope and then that Pope and then this president.

So they’re trying to figure out who it is. Well the Bible makes this statement that he’s not going to be revealed until the tribulation period. And then he shall be revealed. See the words are say that. I knew he was going to So look there in 2 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, and 2 Thessalonians, and 2 Thessalonians, and 2. You will find that the Antichrist that goes into the holy city is revealed at a certain time. Look at in verse 4.

Talk about the Man of Sin, the son of perdition. The last part of verse 3 there says, and that man of sin be what reveal the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped so that he as God, sit it in the temple of God, showed himself that he is God. This is when it happens, I believe. And if you’ll notice in verse three, let no man deceive you by any means for that day shall not come, except there come a fallen away first, which I believe is a reference to the rapture, and that man of sin be revealed, which is after the rapture, he will be revealed.

Now, can we know who it is before him? Well, there might be some clues. I’ve got a few opinions, but you know, I can’t prove it with the scriptures. I have ideas and most people do. But that doesn’t mean that it’s right. So I’m just gonna wait a little while longer. There’s a few pieces of the puzzle that I haven’t put together. But I can tell you this, we are living in some exciting days. Because you see, the tribulation period is a seven year, we believe, peace treaty.

because there’s a covenant that’s going to be made with Israel. And it says, in the mist of this treaty, which is in the middle, is where he breaks the peace treaty. Well, that means there has to be a nation in order to make a treaty. There has to be a temple and there has to be sacrifices made because he causes the sacrifices to stop and he goes into the temple and claims himself to be gutted. It has to all that has to take place in a seven-year period.

So while we’re up there, he’s down here. And whether or not we’ll know who he is before we leave, I don’t know, but I want the Lord, even though I know it’s gonna be really fast, where we’ll really be moving on. I said this before, I want him to slow it down just enough so that on the way up, I can tell everybody, I told you so, I told you so, I think it’s going to be a great moment.

But anyway, we get to the Thessalonians. That’ll be a very good study also. Go back here to chapter 4. Chapter 4. So he says, in verse 4, and round about the throne, there were four and 20 seats, and upon the seats, four and 20 elders sitting clothed in white raimans, and they had on their heads crowns of gold. Now, there’s a good possibility. These are people. They are individuals. If you look over there very quickly and talk about they were raid in white clothes, look there in Revelation chapter 7.

Revelation chapter 7. During the tribulation period, there will still be multitudes of people that will trust Christ the Savior. Look in verse 9. After this I look in low a great multitude which no man can number of all nations and kindred in people and tongues stood before the throne. So this is in heaven. And before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, palms in their hand, cried with a loud voice and salvation to our God, which said it upon the throne and unto the Lamb.

And all the angels stood round about the throne and about the elders and the four living creatures are beast and fell upon the throne on their faces before the throne and worship God sent a man blessed blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be unto our God forever and ever amen. And one of the elders answered and said to them, what are these which are arrayed in white robes? When they came from, and I said unto him, sir, thou knowest.

And he said unto me, these are they which came out of great tribulation and have wash their robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb. So are there going to be people who are going to be crucified? I mean, killed, as I should say, in the tribulation period. Yet, maltitudes will trust the Lord from all nations and multitudes are going to be killed. And the reason is going to be killed because they will not accept the mark of this last one world government.

That kind of scary sometimes because we’re already conditioning the world to work with numbers. Whether it’s your Social Security number, your bank number, your password, you already got these little secret things all over the place. And I’m just as guilty as a rest idea. But he said, have you already received the mark of the beast? Now, there are some people, some deadness. Believe if you go to church on Sunday, that’s the mark of the beast. Ooh. So now nobody’s gonna come to church on Sunday.

But we are living in the last days. We’re living when we’re talking about some things that can only take place. You see, a lot of these things, they couldn’t have happened 50 years ago. But they can now. And buddy things can move very fast. As the election coming up, you think it’s important, I believe it’s very important. I believe that as Christians we still have a responsibility to try to preserve our way of life as long as we can.

And if it doesn’t, it ought not be because we didn’t try and we didn’t care and we didn’t try to find out who to vote for and so forth. So anyway, I’m going to start right there because after this starts a whole new ballgame and we’ll look at some of these because I think it’s very exciting. If you are here or if listening by way of internet And of course, by some of the letters and phone calls I’ve gotten recently, I know that there’s people that do watch.

And I think it’s exciting. They even got one from somebody in Hungary. And there’s different places where people are watching. I wish I could figure out how many. I love to know that, but not necessary. We just need to believe that it’s worth it. And one day when we get to heaven to find out. So anyway, thanks for having me. We all be excited about it. Look up here. You know what? I got a phone call from a guy named Tom Stokes.

Anybody in here knowing? Everybody knows them? I think everybody knows Tom. He said, preach, I just want to let you know that I led the bus driver to the Lord the other day that picks me up and brings me back. He says, and after I led him to the Lord, Mercedes, the little ladies that sits back there, they can’t see. see. She also rides on that. She said, she was all excited. I’d love to see her get excited. And Tom says, I even did the wall of the illustration.

He said, he did it. He says, and he asked the guy, and the guy says he understood and says he trusted the Lord and Savior. So, hey, if If a blind man can do it, you can do it. So just find a victim, somebody. And it go to town on them. And it will work. So you can do it. Just find somebody that, you know, and explain to them. This hand represents you and me. This is you and me.

This is sin. We all have sin on us. God says that He loves us, but He hates what we do wrong. And because we’ve all sinned, we’re all sinned. all condemned. We’re all condemned to hell. Now we don’t need someone to down the cross and pay for our sins to keep us from going to a place if it doesn’t exist. So I believe there is a literal fire burning hell and I don’t want to go there and I’m so glad to know for over 50 years I have been saved.

I can’t go there. I’ve been saved. I can’t go to hell. I’m going to heaven. But to go to heaven see you, you have to be perfect as His righteousness is God. That means that I’m so good, I’m going to heaven because I’m a sinner. But what happened was this. God says, you can’t earn eternal life, you can’t work your way to heaven. You need to save you. This hand represents Jesus Christ, the Lord, God in the flesh. Came into the world because He loves us, hates our sin because it separates us from Him.

So Christ took our sins, paid for them on the cross, and the payment was death. He had to die and shed his blood, come back from the dead. Said if we would accept the payment he made for us, we get to go to heaven, oh what he did. God says, you’re saved by grace. For by grace are you saved through faith that not of yourself, it is the gift of God, not of works lest any man should boast. So when you trusted Christ as your savior, God saved you from hell, gave you eternal life, you became his child and you’ll go to heaven whenever you die.

So I guess if you do that, you’re good to go. You’re good to go. Or after take place right now, you’re good to go. It’s the only thing you have to do. Now, you know you are going to have to face them. And if you have trusted Christ as your Savior, He wants to reward you for what you did for Him. Maybe we need to get on the stick. You know, every once in a while I like to play a little game of golf.

You heard me use that little illustration about the Godfrey hit the golf ball landing on a pile of ants He swung missed the golf ball killed a thousand ants Swung again, missed the golf ball, killed another thousand aunts. After a while, there was only two aunts left. They looked at each other and said, you know, if we don’t get on the ball, we’re going to get killed. And I could say, if you don’t get on the ball, you’re going to get killed.

This farmer, he goes down there and he’s going to milk the old cow, puts the bucket down there and gets a half full neck, that cow, throw the bucket, slapped him with a tail. Next day, he goes down there and puts that bucket under there. He’s got a half full. God kicked the bucket over and slapped with a tail. Next day he goes down there and puts an axe against the wall. He says, milk or hamburger. Milk or hamburger.

So with you and I, milk or hamburger, let’s pray, shall we? Our Father, thank you so much for your blessings to us. We’re thankful for all you’ve done for us and forgiven us your word, or we don’t claim to understand it all. There’s a lot we don’t know, but father there’s enough that sure is good and just a little bit that we do understand It’s exciting and father. We pray for wisdom as we go through the book to understand more and more And we pray that you’d help us to see it to be challenged by it To realize how important it is to be found faithful to you and father We pray that if there’s anyone here that if they’ve never trusted you savior or we pray that they would Would you have still body nice clothes and no one looking around?

If you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior, would you trust Him right now? The raptor is going to take place. One of the day is going to happen. Just like God said, it’s going to happen. Are you ready? Or do you go into the tribulation period? If you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior, would you trust Him right now? And if you will, I’d like to have prayer for you. I’m not going to trick you or put you against the wall or badger you.

I just want to know because I’m concerned and I’d like to have prayer for you in close. Is there anyone at all before we close? Yes, I’ll trust Christ as my Savior tonight. I’d like you to pray for me. Would you just slip your hand up very quickly, put a wrap back down? If you’ve already trusted Christ as Savior, you never have to do it again, but if you haven’t and you’re not real sure, so I want to be sure of going to heaven.

So right now I will trust the Lord. We just slip it up, and we’re all. Our Father, we thank you again for your blessings, for all you’ve done for us. And there’s many people, no doubt, that has different requests on various people that they know and are hurting. Some need jobs, some health problems, some are facing surgery. And Father, we just commit these people to you. Lord, I know that there are many that have unspoken requests. Father, you know their heart’s desire.

You know what they’re going through and how they think, how they feel, how someone were hurting, how someone was grieving. Nobody will just pray right now as they talk to you and bring their petitions before you, even with Thanksgiving, that you would hear and answer their prayer and answer their request. We commit each person here to you. We just pray your will to be done. Give us a good service that’s coming Sunday. In Christ’s name we pray, amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr.

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A book of Revelation, the fourth chapter, The fourth chapter begins the revelation that as far as we are concerned, deals with our future. But when you get to chapter two, chapter three, that’s the churches. So that’s the age in which you and I live. But when we study the fourth chapter, it begins, I believe, with the rapture. And I’ll show you why. I believe that these things are in sequence and it really makes a lot of sense as you look at it and study it.

You know where scripture goes. See without the bone structure in your body, your meat would just be one blob of flesh laying on the floor and be hard to build muscle without bones. And so it’s hard for people to understand you have to have a bone structure. the solid Bible doctrine that we get that builds the bone structure. And then after you figure out sometimes you have a chart and you can see where we came from, where we are, where we’re going.

And you can say, okay, this here, that goes there. And then, well, this goes here. And this goes over here. But when you don’t have that, you don’t know where anything goes. You just know it’s in there, but you can visualize it so much better. Now, when John was on the Alapadmas, that approximately 90 years of age. Many believe that he was just simply in a trance upon the earth, and he just saw it in his mind, but he never really went anywhere.

It was just in his mind, and he wrote down what he saw. And it could be, but I don’t think so. When you study the same thing in the book of Isaiah chapter 6 where Isaiah says that I in the day the king Yuziah died I saw the Lord and the smoke field is temple and so forth and but he said holy holy but he didn’t give a description of what God looked like though he saw the Lord in his holy temple.

And even when you read in the book of Ezekiel, where he was at the river Cheber, and it says that he also saw the Lord high and lifted up and so forth and wheels and sototot wheels. But there’s no description given of God. When you get here to the fourth chapter, there’s no description given of God. And I guess if we had a description given or an image of some kind, we might wind up worshiping some image or some and God says nobody is supposed to make an image of God and you’re not to worship any graven images of man.

I had a phone call yesterday and this guy he calls me up He says, I’ve been listening to you on the radio, but I got a question for you. I said, sure, go ahead. He said, I was out there in my yard and I was digging. And while I was digging, there’s this root and another root. And believe it or not, preacher, it formed a perfect cross. I knew it was a sign. He says, and one of them was even red.

And that, I knew it was the blood of Christ. I knew it. I even asked some of the neighbors to come over and look at it and they came and look at it. But you know, they are so blinded, so hard-headed. They couldn’t see what I was talking about. You know, not everybody can see what we see. He said, I even had a Baptist preacher come over and take a look at it. And he wasn’t very impressed at all.

Just told me that I needed just, you know, uses as a testimony of some kind. Anyway, I could see that I was not going to get anywhere with this guy. I am not into roots and weird things that happens to people. I believe in what this book says. And he says some things he says, stay away from. That was one of them. I believe that I’m going to see the Lord. It’s going to be the way the book describes it.

And he says, there’s many false teachers and false prophets. And because of that, he says in Matthew chapter 24, when he comes to the earth, every eye will see him. The light will shine from the east to the west. There’ll be no mistake. You won’t have to say, hey, he’s in the desert. He’s in the chamber. You won’t have to say anything of that. Every eye will see him. And they’ll know who he is. Now, Revelation 4. Look there in verse 1.

He says, after this I looked and behold, a door was opened in heaven. And the first voice, which I heard was was as it were of a trumpet. Talk with me which said, come up hither and I will show the things which must be hereafter. Now that word hereafter is in line with what is mentioned in chapter 1 and verse 19. Look at it real quick. Revelation chapter 1 verse 19 which I believe is one of the key verses in the book that lays out the book of Revelation in these three points.

Number one, write the things which thou hast seen, which is the first chapter, and it’s the image of Christ and what he saw. Number two, and the things which are, which is chapter two and chapter three, which is the church in which we live. And then he says, and the things which I’ll be here after. So there’s these three things. We see Christ in all of His glory, and then we see the church, which isn’t so glorious because the Lord reveals the need of the church.

Tells us what we’re doing right and what we’re doing wrong, what we need to correct and what’s going to happen if we don’t. And so you have these seven churches which I believe takes up the church age. Now remember that. In the Old Testament, God gave to Daniel the vision of the 70 weeks, we call it the 70 weeks of Daniel. those weeks we know are a period of years, each week, seven-day, seven years. So each week is seven years long and they’re 70 years, so seven times seven is 49.

490 years from the time that they were issued to the decree to go back and to rebuild the temple in the walls in Jerusalem until the Messiah that shall be cut off, not till his birth. I believe the most people make a mistake by taking that to the time when Christ was born. But in Daniel chapter 9 it talks about and the Messiah shall be cut off. And that goes for 483 years or or 69 weeks. So we know the 69 weeks has already come and gone.

And it ended when Christ died on the cross when he was cut off, but not for himself. So that means that there’s another seven years floating around somewhere. So that seven years is that last week, the 70th So we know we can account for the 69 weeks, but the 70th week is that seven year period of tribulation time. A lot of you like to believe that it’s only going to be three and a half years. No, because whenever the church age, where we are right now, the church age started on the day of Pentecost, 50 days after the resurrection of Christ, and it ends when the rapture takes place.

So we are like a parenthetical expression in a sentence. We should be able to take this out of the sentence, and then we can slide this over here against this. So when the church is taken out at the rapture, the seven-year tribulation period upon the year, which is seven years, will slide right up against the cross. And there is the 70th week. So it goes from the 69th right into the 70th week. But this was pushed out into the future because of the rejection of Christ.

And so we had the church age interjected into this. And so that means that the seven-year tribulation is out here, which is part of the law. and we have the millennial reign of a thousand years out here. So the kingdom belongs to the king. Since they rejected the king, the kingdom was postponed. So whenever God takes this church age out of here, the rapture, then the prophecy will be fulfilled again. Everything starts and stops with Israel. It is God’s time clock.

And so it stopped and it’s going to start again. Now we have 2,000 years of church age and it says we are going to be taken out of here at the rapture. So as we study the book of Revelation, things which thou hast seen, things which are, and the things which I’ll be here after. Now we know that when the rapture takes place if it took place today. We would be caught up and meet the Lord in the air.

So when we meet the Lord in the air, we’re going to go to the judgment seat of Christ. So if this all follows true, then as we start in the fourth chapter with the church age been raptured and the next thing to happen, it should follow right in line. See if it does. Look there in chapter 4 and verse 1. After this, after the church age, I look and behold, a door was opened in heaven. And the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet, talking with me.

Now, so the voice sounded like a trumpet. And a lot of people think that whenever they hear the trumpet, now the, yes, the feast of trumpets can take place seven years apart on the same day and be about the same thing except the gathering of Israel and they call to battle at the Battle of Armageddon. So the trumpets can be a sounding for the gathering of Israel and the warning and so forth and then the time of atonement in here which is a time where God is going to afflict them and they are supposed to have a time of repentance and mourning between them.

So that whenever God gets through with them and he’s going to beat them pretty bad, they will be destroyed if God doesn’t intervene and come into the world. And then they will all see the one that they had rejected and Israel will be saved as in a day. So they will believe on the Messiah. Now, as you go down through here and you see that talking about the trumpet and the voice as of a trumpet, and then it says, which said, come up hither.

Come up here. So I believe that John went up there. He could have had a vision down here, but I believe that because the scripture says, come up here, I hear you went up there. Hold your place right here and look in chapter 11, Revelation in chapter 11. And you’ll notice that in chapter 11 there is verse 3, and I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy 8,203 scored days. That’s three and a half years.

Look there in verse 2, but the court, he says, which is without the temple, leave out and measure it not for it is given unto the Gentiles and the holy city Jerusalem shall they tread under foot forty and two months three and a half years. So this is the middle of the tribulation period when the anti-Christ comes into the city, claims himself he is God and then there’s going to be these two witnesses and the great persecution upon the earth by these two that will bring plagues of all kind.

And there’s a good possibility they could be Moses and Elijah, but if it’s not Elijah, it’ll probably be James Taylor, but it’ll be one of them. Now look there in verse nine, and they of the people in kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and a half. So they’re going to be killed, these two witnesses. Their body is going to be laid in the streets and people all over the earth are going to be able to see them.

Because see, nations shall see their dead bodies. Now how people in other nations are going to see their dead bodies? This was written 2000 years ago. Is it possible today? Is it possible today? But how did it know that 2,000 years ago it must be an inspired book, just a coincidence. And get what he says. And it says, and shall not permit or suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves. So the bodies are dead and they didn’t let them be put in the graves.

Their bodies are just laying there after three and a half days. In verse 10, and they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, make Mary and shall send gifts one to another because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth. And after three days and a half the spirit of life from God entered into them and they stood upon their feet and great fear fell upon them which saw them and they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, and here’s those three words again, come up hither.

And when he says, come up hither, oh, well, what happened? Well, look at it. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud and their enemies beheld them. So over here in chapter four, when he says, come up hither, I actually believe he means come up here. And I believe it’s all those who have trusted Christ’s Savior and are alive when the raptor takes place, ready or not, here I come and you’re going to be caught up to meet the Lord.

Now go back here to chapter 4 and get this. He said in the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me which said come up hither and I will show the things which must be hereafter. And you’ll notice in verse 2 the very next word and what? Immediately I was in the Spirit and behold a throne was set in heaven and one set on the throne. So now just that quick out of here, immediately changed and I believe appear at the judgment seat of Christ.

So I believe we’re gonna disappear here and appear there. Now hold your place right here and look in 1 Thessalonians in chapter 4, 1 Thessalonians and chapter 4. 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 and notice what he says in verse 13. Oh remember 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 of 13 through 18 is about the Rapture. That’s when Christ is going to come back again. You should be able to show somebody where these verses are found. This could be the most exciting event of all time, not to die.

There is a generation of people living that will never physically ever see death. And look what he says in verse 13, but I would not have you to be ignorant brethren concerning them which are asleep. Those have already died in the Lord. That is sorrow not even as others would have no hope for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with them. If we who are alive, if we believe in the Lord, that he died and he rose again, even so them all, even so also them that have already died in the Lord.

But you notice the only requirement here is if you believe. It’s only thing a man has to do. It’s the only thing he can do. If you can’t be saved by your work, you’re going to have to believe and trust somebody else. So Christ died on the cross paid for our sins, came back from the dead and said, if we believe it, then we can have eternal life. and go to heaven. It’s the only requirement to make it for the rapture.

I love it. In verse 15, for this we say unto you by the word of Yankee that, no, this we say unto you by the word of the Lord that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord, alive when the Lord comes back, get this, shall not prevent. That’s the word that’s a little archaic now, but it did mean not, you know, to go before. So we will not go before those that are asleep. Those that are asleep are going to go before us.

He says in verse 16, and even the rest of the verses here explains and tells you that, tells you what he means. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with a voice of the archangel and with the trump of God. And here is talking about there’s three things mentioned here. The first part says, and from heaven with a shout, then the voice of the Archangel and then the Trump of God. When you read it over there in the book of Revelation in chapter 4 and it’s on the voice as of a trumpet and there it says in the first voice as I heard.

And here he’s talking about in the first Corinthians in chapter 15, the last Trump, the last voice, or the last thing that he said right before the raptor takes place. See, many like to take that last trumpet and say that’s the last trumpet in the book of Revelation. And there’s seven trumpets in there, and so the raptor doesn’t take place until the seventh trumpet, and so that means the church has got to go through the tribulation period. No, not unbelievable.

Because I don’t study enough of it to know that it can’t happen that way. It’s because God has everything in order. And there’s a seven year tribulation. And the seven year tribulation period is, I believe, the pale end of the 70th week of Daniel that goes along with the 69th week, which is part of the law. And that the tribulation period belongs to that part of the dispensation. are a different dispensation. For example, why are you right there in 1 Thessalonians in chapter 5?

Look what he says here. In verse 2, for yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord, so come unto the thief and the nine, our look of error, that day that the Lord comes to the earth, that’s what the book of Revelation is about. This is the day of the Lord, a specific day. Now, this is the day of Christ. This is when it comes for us, this is when he comes with us seven years later. And he makes the statement and in verse three, for when they shall say peace and safety.

Now that’s the first part of the tribulation period. That’s not us. In these verses you’ll notice that they and of them are we in and us. They in them and we in us. Probably two different types of people here. For when they shall say peace and safety, then Sutton destruction come up upon them. So the destruction is not upon us. It’s upon them. We’re not here. Get what else he says as travail upon a woman with child and they they shall not escape.

We don’t have to worry about what we are not here. So how do you know we’re looking for four? But ye, ye, brethren, brethren. So we’re not them. and talking about the thief and the night, which is when Christ comes back empowering great glory at the end. That’s a different time period at the end of the tribulation period. But he says, but ye brethren are not in darkness that that day should overtake you as a thief. Because see, we’re not going to be in the tribulation period.

The thief in the night is a phrase that’s used in the book of Matthew also, and it’s at the end of the tribulation period. It’s not the rapture. Now I know they made a movie some time ago called Thief in the Night. I watched it. I have people trust Christ to save you because of it. But the thief in the night is when he comes at night. It didn’t come in the daytime, the thief comes at night. Let me show you this.

And get this. In verse 5, ye are all the children of light and the children of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch and be sober. Aren’t look up here. This time in which we live, this is a day, the kingdom upon the earth, the millennia rain. That is a day. A day with the Lord is a thousand years is a thousand years. Here’s a thousand years, two days.

But what separates a day from another day over here is a night. The tribulation period is a time of darkness. It’s a night. There’s the day, there’s the night, there’s the night. So these two days are separated by a night. So he’s telling us that are here. Yee are not of this period of time. This darkness can’t come upon you. It’s come to come upon them. Because when the rapture takes place and we’re taken out of here, Then the Antichrist is going to try to win the world by promising safety and peace and prosperity and Then sudden destruction come up upon them Where are we?

We’ve already been taken out of here and we won’t be caught up and meet the Lord in the air Look what he says in verse 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so shall we ever be with the Lord. So we have the rapture that’s going to take place. Now go back there to Revelation in chapter 4. So when he says here in verse two, and immediately I was in the Spirit and behold, a throne was set in heaven and one sat on the throne.

So the first thing he sees that when he gets to heaven is a throne. I believe the first thing we’re going to see when we get to heaven is going to be a throne, it’s going to be a judgment seat of Christ. And all of us in this time period will stand at the judgments of the Christ and the judgments of the Christ is a rewarding stand. It’s not to see if you get to go to heaven or hell.

No, that’s already decided you’re in heaven. So this is a judgment that takes place in heaven and it’s a rewarding stand. God’s going to reward you for what you did for him. So that means if he’s going to reward you for what you did, he must be keeping the books on what you’re doing. He knows every thought, every deed, every word, all of it. He keeps the books. That’s why you and I, if we believe this, if we don’t have to worry about what anybody else says or does, we don’t have to worry about what works and don’t work, what the results are.

All we got to do is just be faithful, do what we came with, what we have, where we are. Nothing else will matter. When you and I get to heaven, it’s not going to matter how you and your wife got along. Well, it can make a difference. But there’s some things that won’t make a difference. And how things happen and how people treat you and their meanness and their ugliness. Whether it’s the husband, whether it’s the wife or whether it’s the kid.

If you’ll just be faithful and don’t take vengeance, when you get to heaven, will it be worth it all? So that’s why knowing this is supposed to challenge and motivate us to serve the Lord with all heart because that day is coming. Now remember when he saw this, a throne set there, he says he saw the Lord as a jasper in a sardine stone, which is like a blood red. And whether or not that’s a reference to the robe that he had on, a powering majesty and all that, it doesn’t But there’s no description of what he actually looks like.

And that’s what I would have wanted to focus on, but it doesn’t tell us. It just says he’s there and there’s a throne there. And it looks like this stone in the color, which is usually yellow and red, and a blend of it. But look what else he says in the verse three. And there was a rainbow round about the throne, a rainbow. Where do you think a rainbow in the world is doing up there in heaven? If you remember, there was a time upon the earth where God, well, he kind of poured out a little water here and a little bit of water there.

And there was a flood and there was mud. And God says, I’m going to give you a rainbow. And the rainbow was supposed to be the validation of the promise of God. God promised that He would never destroy the earth again by a flood. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. Part 2 of this teaching will conclude with tomorrow’s broadcast.

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