The Revealing Of The Man Of Sin-NOW THE END BEGINS-JULY 28 2024

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The apostle Paul shows us in 2 Thessalonians 2 that there are two things that must take place before the Pretribulation Rapture of the Church can take place. The first thing is that the major part of the professing body of Christ, saved Christians, fall away into error, apostasy and heresy because they refuse Bible doctrine. We see that now all around us, easy to understand. The second thing that must take place is the revealing of the man of sin just prior to him becoming the son of perdition. Ahh, that’s a little tricker than the first one, OK, a lot trickier. My message today is literally “ripped from the headlines’ about the times and seasons we right now find ourselves in. Just as first century Christians were not overly able to read prophecy and apply it to what was then happening, here in the 21st century it is equally daunting as well. The Days of Noah and the Days of Lot are forming and assembling themselves together for their “big moment” on the global stage, and you, Christian, are getting a foretaste of what’s coming for those who will be left behind.

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00:00:00One day Jesus is coming. You may be at church. You may be at work. You may be asleep. God

00:00:17grant that you will be ready when he makes his personal appearance. My God, what if his

00:00:28appearance occurs on a Sunday morning? My prophetic word to you this morning is get ready! Get ready!

00:00:58The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you.

00:01:18The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.

00:01:29Welcome to church everybody. Open up your Bibles please to 2 Thessalonians

00:01:34chapter 2. And I have a message today. My Bible study on Wednesday night, we said

00:01:42it was ripped from the headlines. Today's message is also going to be ripped from

00:01:48the headlines. And I want to show you something from the Bible today that is a

00:01:52wake-up call for what's going on. 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 and we're going

00:02:00to look at verses 1 through 3. 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 verses 1

00:02:08through 3. These are some of the hardest verses in the Bible for people who are

00:02:15not Bible believers, for people who don't rightly divide and study to show thyself

00:02:19approved. These are verses that will trip you up, that will snare you and put you

00:02:24in a ditch faster than you can blink if you don't look at Scripture in the

00:02:29context of all the Scripture. So we're going to read these first three verses.

00:02:34We're going to pray and then I'm going to ask you a question. 2 Thessalonians

00:02:39chapter 2 verse 1. 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 1.

00:02:49Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and by

00:02:54our gathering together unto him, that ye be not soon shaken in mind or be

00:02:59troubled, neither by spirit nor by word nor by letter as from us, as that the day

00:03:06of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you. Jesus says in Matthew 24 that his

00:03:12apostles come to him and say, Lord, tell us about the end times, tell us when

00:03:16these things shall be. First words out of his mouth, take heed that no man deceive

00:03:21you. The first foundational platform plank of the end times is deception. He

00:03:28says, that ye be not soon shaken in mind or be troubled, neither by spirit nor by

00:03:33word nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man

00:03:38deceive you by any means, for that day, the day of Christ, the rapture of the

00:03:43church, shall not come except there come a falling away first, and that man of

00:03:50sin be revealed, the son of perdition. Heavenly Father, we thank you for all

00:03:56that you have gathered here today. We thank you, Father God, for your preserved

00:04:01word, for your Son, for the shed blood, and we just ask you to meet with us once

00:04:07again, Lord. You gave us a great time in Sunday school this morning, and Lord, we

00:04:12ask you to do it again and open up your word to us that we may understand it and

00:04:16believe it and follow it. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen.

00:04:22Deception is the hallmark of the end times. I have seen a lot of people on

00:04:28social media posting, I'm looking for Jesus Christ, I'm not looking for

00:04:32Antichrist, and that's a true statement. We should be much more focused on the

00:04:38pre-tribulation rapture of the church, which is Old Testament, New Testament,

00:04:42it's Old Testament in mystery form in Song of Solomon chapter 2, it is in New

00:04:48Testament as doctrine from the Apostle Paul, it's in John chapter 10, John

00:04:52chapter 14, it's in Revelation chapter 4, it is all over the place. And Paul says,

00:04:59looking for that blessed hope, Titus 2.13, looking for that blessed hope and the

00:05:05glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ. That is what our

00:05:11hope is, that is what we are looking for, that is where our eyes are focused, comma,

00:05:17not period, comma, Adolf Hitler was so sure that he could defeat Russia, that

00:05:27while fighting England and America, he decides to invade the Soviet Union. Now,

00:05:34looking back in retrospect, can you think of a stupider thing? You're going to

00:05:40invade the world's largest national landmass, and you're going to do it with

00:05:46an army that is a fraction of the size of the Russian army, and you're going to

00:05:50do it while you're fully engaged in the West. You got to be an idiot to do that,

00:05:55right? He couldn't see Adolf Hitler as a type of Antichrist. Deception, that's what

00:06:02he brought, he brought deception. We are looking for Jesus Christ, and Paul says

00:06:07that there are two things that have to take place before the rapture, the day of

00:06:15Christ, can happen. The first thing that has to take place is there has to be a

00:06:20falling away first. Does anybody doubt with the, and I don't need to name any

00:06:26names, but with the unbelievable amount of false teaching that is happening here

00:06:33and now? Well, I will mention one name. There was a St. James River Church, I

00:06:40think it's in the Midwest somewhere. Oh, where is that church? Anyway, about a

00:06:46year and a half ago, they claimed to have a miracle where the toes of a woman that

00:06:53were shot off by her ex-husband miraculously grew back. Now, if you were

00:06:59the woman that was missing the toes, wouldn't it be great if those toes grew

00:07:03back? Wouldn't you want them to grow back? I went up to Brother Wes right

00:07:10before I started playing the piano. I didn't know that he had had tests, and I

00:07:14didn't know that there was a possible problem with his cardiovascular system,

00:07:20but what did I say to him? I said, Brother, we're gonna put you on the prayer

00:07:23list, the NTEB prayer list, starting tonight. Had a praise report last week. A

00:07:30woman that we had been praying for with advanced stage 4 lung cancer, her name is

00:07:36Ida, and it was really, really bad, and we have been praying for her on every

00:07:42broadcast where we do the prayer list, and she had a praise report a couple of

00:07:48days ago. She went in for her checkup to see how bad things were, and the doctor

00:07:53said, I don't know how to... Now, this is somebody that we know. This is not a

00:07:56story on the internet. Doctor said, I don't know how to explain it. It's gone.

00:08:03It's gone. So these are the things that when we pray for somebody, we want to see

00:08:10the miraculous, okay? If you've ever, and this is again a very rhetorical thing to

00:08:15say, but if you've ever had a loved one or a spouse or a child or a brother or a

00:08:21sister or grandparents that's really not doing well, you want to see God step in

00:08:28and do the miraculous, right? Sandy is having problems with her shoulders, blood

00:08:36flow to the shoulders. We put her on the prayer list as soon as she told me. I

00:08:40believe God will do a miraculous work there, and we will continue to pray for

00:08:44that, and whatever God does, that's what He does. And as Christians, as Bible

00:08:50believers, we pray, we ask, He answers, and then that's what we get, right? And

00:08:58that's the way it works. But Paul says in the last days that there is going to be

00:09:05deception. There is going to be a falling away. Lost people can't fall away. Lost

00:09:11people are already fallen. Lost people who don't know Jesus Christ, they're not

00:09:16the ones that are not going to endure sound doctrine. They don't show up to the

00:09:20church in the first place. It is the saved people that will not endure sound

00:09:26doctrine in the last days. It is the saved people who are having a falling

00:09:32away from what the Apostle Paul says. And we were talking about that in Sunday

00:09:37school. We were talking about why most ministers and churches today, they don't

00:09:44spend a whole lot of time preaching from the Apostle Paul, from the Pauline

00:09:48epistles, because Paul calls you to self-sacrifice. He calls you to

00:09:53self-service, to lay it all down for the cause of Christ. That's what Paul calls

00:09:58you to. And then he tells you the gospel of Jesus Christ, which is salvation by

00:10:03grace through faith alone, not of works of righteousness, which we have done, but

00:10:10by his mercy, he saved us. That is, that is a very simple gospel, but that is a

00:10:16very singular gospel. And you can't preach heresy. You can't raise up, you

00:10:23know, a 5,000 person church so that you can live in a 30,000 square foot home and

00:10:29drive a Rolls Royce. Benny Hinn used to like to stay in hotels when he traveled

00:10:34to the foreign countries where they were putting their pennies in, and he would

00:10:38preach to 50,000 people, and they would literally be giving him their last penny.

00:10:42He just came out of a $50,000 a night hotel suite. And you can't have that

00:10:50without, you know, if you don't, if you preach from the Apostle Paul, it's

00:10:56gonna cut all that junk out. Everybody's gonna know the truth. Everybody's gonna

00:11:00know what's going on. And when you try to preach false doctrine, if you follow what

00:11:04Paul says, it is gonna, red flags are gonna pop up right in front of your face.

00:11:09God gives you discernment, and you're gonna say, nope, I'm not following that.

00:11:12That is not the right thing to do. So Paul says that in the last days before

00:11:20the day of Christ, which is not the same as the day of the Lord, Amos 5 8 says,

00:11:26woe unto you that seek the day of the Lord. What good is it unto you? It is a

00:11:31day of darkness and gloominess. Who wants that? I don't want that. You know what, I

00:11:38want, turn to 1st Thessalonians chapter 4. I'll show you what I want, and you tell

00:11:44me if this sounds like something that you would like to have for yourself and

00:11:48your loved ones as well. Verse 13, 1st Thessalonians 4, but I would not have you

00:11:56to be ignorant, brethren, open the Bible, read, believe, learn, but I would not have

00:12:02you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, people who have

00:12:06died, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe

00:12:12that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God

00:12:17bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which

00:12:22are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord, that's 2nd Thessalonians 2 2 3,

00:12:31shall not prevent them which are asleep, for the Lord himself shall descend from

00:12:36heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God,

00:12:40and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we which are alive and remain shall

00:12:47be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and

00:12:50so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore, comfort one another with these

00:12:56words. There is a huge difference between the day of the Lord and the day of

00:13:01Christ. One is the second advent, that's the day of the Lord. One is the removal,

00:13:08the catching up of the body of Christ into the clouds as Paul lays out in 1st

00:13:13Thessalonians chapter 4. So go back to 2nd Thessalonians chapter 2, and

00:13:21evidently somebody had written to the church at Thessalonica claiming to be

00:13:27Paul and told them, hey, you missed the rapture, you got left behind. And this is

00:13:35Paul is now correcting that error. 1st Thessalonians is the very first thing

00:13:40that Paul ever writes. It is the start of his scripture portion of his ministry. So

00:13:47Paul's going to correct that error, and let's just reread those three verses. Now

00:13:52we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and by our

00:13:57gathering together unto him, that ye be not soon shaken in mind or be troubled,

00:14:03neither by spirit, neither by word, nor by letter as from us, that's

00:14:09that false letter, that the day of Christ is at hand. Okay, Paul's

00:14:15saying, you don't have to worry about missing the rapture, because there's two

00:14:21things that have to take place first. You've got to have the falling away of the

00:14:26church. Now, as Paul is writing this, the church is in a time of red-hot believers,

00:14:34people willing to lay down their life for the sake of the gospel. Turn to Acts

00:14:39chapter 5. You want to see how much things have not fallen away? Look at Acts

00:14:45chapter 5 and ask yourself, when's the last time that you thought like this?

00:14:51Acts chapter 5, Peter, James, and John, and they're brought before the council,

00:14:59they're told to stop preaching and teaching in the name of Jesus, and this

00:15:02whole big thing goes back and forth with Gamaliel, but let's just pick up the

00:15:06action in verse 40. And to him they agreed, and when they had called the

00:15:12apostles and beaten them. Now, I can remember back in the 60s and 70s,

00:15:19everybody started talking about police brutality, and there was a day and age in

00:15:25this country where if you got put in jail, it wasn't a country club. They

00:15:31didn't have cable TV. You got put in jail because you were being punished, okay? But

00:15:38things have drastically changed over the last 50 years since I was a teenager.

00:15:45Wow. Wow. But suffice to say that things have drastically changed. Do you think

00:15:54where it says, and we just kind of go through these verses sometimes, we don't

00:15:59really stop to think about what they're saying sometimes. Let's read that again.

00:16:04And to him they agreed, and when they had called the apostles and beaten them.

00:16:09What do you think a first century beating was like? My brother was in the

00:16:15Marine Corps, and I remember the day with my jaw slacked and hanging open when he

00:16:21told me the very first buzz haircut that I ever had was down in 29 Palms in

00:16:27Southern California, and I was just stopping. He had just been stationed

00:16:33there. I had just moved to California. I drove the five hours down to go have

00:16:37lunch with him, and he said, well I can't go to lunch. I got to get my haircut

00:16:42first, and I saw the haircuts, right? And I said, could I get a haircut too? He's

00:16:50like, dude, they don't take walk-ins off the streets. I said, go ask Gunny if I

00:16:55can get, and so they let me have a buzz haircut, and the very first buzz haircut

00:17:00that I ever had was at Camp Pendleton. Maybe it's not 29 Palms. Camp Pendleton

00:17:06in Southern California, right? And it was a whole different life. It was a

00:17:16whole different way of being. Oh yeah, he was telling me about a blanket party

00:17:25that they had to give somebody the night before, and I thought to myself, blanket

00:17:29party, well that doesn't sound so bad, right? I said, what were you watching TV?

00:17:34Did you have some, you know, hot chocolate? Did you have some, did

00:17:38you make s'mores during the blanket party? And he said, he's like, and I'm like,

00:17:44well what's a blanket party? He said, well a blanket party is when one of our

00:17:49members is not holding up their end of the deal, and they don't do something

00:17:55that they're supposed to do, and we all get in trouble. The blanket party is the

00:17:59correction, and I'm like, well how does it work? Well, we throw a blanket over his

00:18:04head, we take bars of soap, we put them in the sock, we knot them up, and we beat him

00:18:09over the head through the blanket until he changes his mind. Now, that's just the

00:18:15Marine Corps in the 1990s, right? What was it like, and to him they agreed, and when

00:18:23they had called the Apostles and beaten them. What do you think of first century?

00:18:27If in the 1990s, in the Marine Corps, they're beating guys over the head

00:18:34through a blanket with bars of soap, right? I can't even imagine that, but this

00:18:40was a whole lot worse than a blanket party. They would have wished for the

00:18:43blanket party, okay? Whatever this is, Bible doesn't say, but what would a

00:18:47first-century beating in the days of Roman persecution, when the heads of

00:18:52Christians were being cut off, put on wooden poles, and a wick drilled into

00:18:58the top of their skull, and the fat set on fire so that the Caesar could have a

00:19:03illuminated roadway on his way back to the palace, okay? This is that same time

00:19:10period, and to him they agreed, and when they had called the Apostles and beaten

00:19:15them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus and let them

00:19:19go, and they departed from the presence of the council, desperately plotting how

00:19:24to take down the Roman Empire, no, no, and they departed from the presence of the

00:19:31council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for the cause of

00:19:39Christ, for his name, and daily in the temple and in every house they ceased

00:19:44not to preach and teach Jesus Christ. This is first-century Christianity.

00:19:51Everybody says, we got to get back to first-century Christianity. Well, this is first,

00:19:55who wants to come up to the front and sign up for this? Very few people want to

00:20:01sign up, but this is what Paul taught. He said that the Apostles were called and

00:20:06considered as the filth of the world, that they were the off-scouring. That's

00:20:11an old-fashioned word that maybe your grandparents used to say, and used to, you

00:20:20would have a big meal and you would get a brillo pad, and it was called a

00:20:24scouring pad, and you would scour off the fat and all the stuff that had burned to

00:20:29the bottom of the pan and the inside of the pan, and it would be this sloppy, it

00:20:33went from being like the best meal that you had to like, this is disgusting, and

00:20:37then you flush it down the drain. That's a little bit of a tricky illustration to

00:20:43use for the Apostles of Jesus Christ. And then Paul says, after blowing everybody's

00:20:49mind with all that stuff, he said, now, follow me as I follow Christ. This is why

00:20:57Paul's not preached. This is why the Pauline epistles are not held in high

00:21:01regard. Back to 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, and I believe we will have

00:21:07sufficiently set the table. Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of

00:21:12our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, that could

00:21:18certainly be the gathering together of the church in Thessalonica. It could also

00:21:22be the gathering together of the body of Christ at the rapture. Let not your

00:21:28hearts be troubled, John says in chapter 14. You believe in God, believe also in me.

00:21:33In my Father's house, heaven, there are many mansions, New Jerusalem, and I go to

00:21:38prepare a place for you. And if I go, Acts chapter 1, and a cloud took him out of

00:21:45their sight, and if I go, I will come again to receive you unto myself, so that

00:21:52where I am, there ye may be also. Right? This is what we call the

00:21:59pre-tribulation rapture of the church, one of the most non-taught Bible

00:22:05doctrines, okay? This is not an interpretation that I'm giving you, this

00:22:10is Bible doctrine from the Apostle Paul, who was our Apostle as one who was born

00:22:17out of due time. This is doctrine, and you don't hear this stuff, and

00:22:23there's a reason why you don't hear, and I'm going to get to that reason in just a

00:22:27few minutes. Verse 2, that ye be not soon shaken in mind or be troubled, neither by

00:22:34spirit nor by word, neither by letter as from us, is that the day of Christ, the

00:22:38rapture of the church, is at hand. Let no man deceive you, Matthew 24, by any means,

00:22:44for that day, the rapture of the church, shall not come except there come a

00:22:47falling away first. This is the Laodicean lukewarm church, who is rich

00:22:52and increased with goods, and they have need of nothing, and Jesus says, hey man,

00:22:56you are poor and wretched and miserable and naked and blind, I counsel thee to

00:23:01buy of me gold tried in the fire, right? Turn to James chapter 5, you know what

00:23:08he's saying? He says, if you don't get the gold tried in the fire, you're going to

00:23:13get this gold, and this is the gold that you don't want. James 5.1, go to now,

00:23:20ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your

00:23:25riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten, your gold and silver is

00:23:29cankered, and the rust of them shall be a witness against you and shall eat your

00:23:33flesh as it were fire. Revelation says, grievous sores are going to sprout up on

00:23:39the people in this time period who take the mark of the beast. Now, from a

00:23:46doctrinal perspective, I know that we are not going to be here for the time of

00:23:50Jacob's trouble, not one day. From a doctrinal perspective, I know that we are

00:23:56not going to be here for the Great Tribulation, not one day. I know from a

00:24:00doctrinal perspective from the Apostle Paul that we are not going to be faced

00:24:04with the mark of the beast. Now, even if suddenly, if I was wrong about all three

00:24:10of those things, if we get, if there is no pre-trib rapture of the church, it's

00:24:15like, okay, we blew that one, now we know what's coming, and it would be as easy as

00:24:20shooting ducks in a barrel, okay? But the Bible does teach and preach a

00:24:25pre-tribulation rapture of the church, and I understand that we are not going

00:24:32to be faced with these things, but what we are watching... Oh, verse 3, your gold

00:24:39and silver is cankered, and the rust of them shall be a witness against you and

00:24:44shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the

00:24:49last days. We are watching a world right now, it is 1142, today is the 29th of

00:25:03July 2024, we are watching a world that at this very moment does not hold this

00:25:12in any type of regard at all. We are living in a world that at this very

00:25:18moment in the majority of Christian churches across America are not

00:25:22preaching and teaching anything that is remotely like what I am telling you

00:25:26today. Maybe they mention the pre-trib rapture, but do they teach it? Maybe they

00:25:30mention the mark of the beast, but do they teach it? Two weeks ago, God laid on

00:25:36Brother Ed's heart to talk in Sunday school about why do so few churches

00:25:44preach on hell? I don't consult with him before I come up with my message. A lot

00:25:49of the times God gives me my message at nine o'clock Sunday morning, okay? And yet

00:25:54we were providentially late that day because we were doing stuff, getting

00:25:59ready to come here, and after I preached the message he had, he was over there

00:26:04playing the piano, and he had this look on his face, and I'm like, what's going on?

00:26:09And he said, you weren't here for it, but in Sunday school I asked

00:26:17the question, why don't more churches preach on hell? Him not knowing that my

00:26:22entire message that day was on the literal, visible, physical reality of a

00:26:29flame-filled place called hell from which there is no escape if you find

00:26:34yourself there. Isn't that amazing how God works? Well, when you want the truth,

00:26:39God gives you the truth. When you don't want the truth, even if you're a

00:26:44Christian, look, I'm not so heavily focused dispensationally that I can't

00:26:50understand that saved people can reject the gospel, okay? They get saved, they have

00:26:58that pink cloud period, then they run into some sort of problem.

00:27:03Somebody dies. They thought they had some sort of a sin beaten, but it pops back up.

00:27:08Whatever the case is, they lose that big job, they become homeless, they go

00:27:12bankrupt, and they say to themselves, God, if I was really saved, if I was really

00:27:18your child, you wouldn't put me through this stuff. Now, how could a saved person

00:27:23say that? Because they're not reading this book. You read this book, and the

00:27:29Bible calls that God's chastisement, God's correction, God's refining fire.

00:27:35And the Bible says if you don't have that at some point in your life, He said

00:27:40you're all bastards if you don't have the correction of God on your life at

00:27:45some point. And so, can a saved person who would go in the rapture, go into the

00:27:53rapture in a backslidden condition, drinking at the bar? The answer is

00:27:57absolutely yes. There is no question about it. Now, there will be a price to

00:28:02pay for that. That person gets to the judgment seat of Christ and is like, whoa,

00:28:06whoa, whoa, what's this fire thing? What do you mean my works? Turn to 2nd Timothy

00:28:13chapter 4. What do you mean my works? I thought that I was judged at the cross,

00:28:18and Jesus is going to say you absolutely were. But now there's a judgment for

00:28:26Christians, saved Bible-believing Christians. And this is why Paul says in

00:28:322nd Timothy chapter 4, for I am now ready to be offered. Okay, he says I'm ready to

00:28:39go home and be with the Lord. I'm not very jazzed about the way that I'm going

00:28:44to go out. I don't appreciate that very much, but amen, Lord. If that's what you

00:28:48want, okay, let it be. For I am now ready to be offered. If you were to die today,

00:28:55are you ready for the judgment seat of Christ? Think before you answer that

00:29:01question in your mind. No need to raise hands. But this is what we're

00:29:08supposed to be doing with Paul's doctrine, with his epistles. For I am now

00:29:14ready to be offered in the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a

00:29:17good fight, okay? Every time somebody dies of something, they're a Hollywood

00:29:23celebrity. Eight out of ten times, somebody says, well, you know, they gave

00:29:28it a good shot, they fought the good fight. That's not the good fight. Dying of

00:29:33an illness of which, if the Lord tarries, we're all going to die of something. We're

00:29:37all going to die of the illness, the stroke, the heart attack, the blood

00:29:41clots, the cancer, getting hit by a truck and, you know, trying to go shopping at

00:29:46the Publix. If the Lord tarries, we're all going to be taken out by something. But

00:29:52the good fight is against the world, the flesh, and the devil. That is the good

00:29:59fight, okay? The world wants to take your affection. The flesh wants to take your

00:30:06testimony. And the devil wants to take this book out of your hand and replace

00:30:11it with anything else. You know, when I was a kid, and this is one of the signs

00:30:16that you're getting old because you talk about, you know, when I was a kid, but it's

00:30:18true, but it's true. When I was a kid, there was something up in New Jersey

00:30:23called blue laws. And you know what that was? Chick-fil-A didn't invent this. I

00:30:29love Chick-fil-A, but Chick-fil-A did not invent this. People were closed on a

00:30:35Sunday out of respect for God. Not that they were Christian merchants, but they

00:30:41had respect for their Christian customers. And there was a understanding

00:30:50of how things need to be. If you're 30 years old, you think the world that you

00:30:56see is the world that's always been, but it's not. And I'm glad that God has

00:31:02allowed me to get into my 60s and giving me some perspective, because you can see

00:31:07everything Ecclesiastes 1.9 says, and the thing which hath been is that which

00:31:14shall be, and there is nothing new under the sun. And that wheel just comes

00:31:20around, and it comes around, and this book, I've said it many times, we live in

00:31:27the game, and the game is rigged, but it's rigged in our favor, and these are

00:31:32the notes. This is the treasure map, right? Okay. So 2nd Timothy chapter 4,

00:31:39Paul says, "...for I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is

00:31:43at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the

00:31:46faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord

00:31:51the righteous judge shall give me at that day, and not to me only, but unto all

00:31:56them also that love his appearing." Now, turn to Isaiah chapter 9. Turn to Isaiah

00:32:09chapter 9, and I want you to look at verses 6 and 7, and I want you to see the

00:32:22unbelievable clarity that is in here. For those of you that have visited our Bible

00:32:31Believers bookstore in Palatka, we have a authentic King James Bible. Amen, amen.

00:32:40They were here at the bookstore just a couple of days ago, and they said, you

00:32:44know what, why don't you just tell us when your church services, we want to

00:32:48fellowship with you. Very, very glad that you guys are here. At our bookstore in

00:32:54Palatka, we have an authentic King James Bible, 5th printing, 1611, actually

00:33:00printed in 1640, 5th printing but of the same run, and I normally keep it open to

00:33:07either Isaiah chapter 9 or Isaiah chapter 11. And look at what these

00:33:44hosts will perform this. Now, we can read that, right? And that's the, that's Jesus

00:33:51Christ, 1st Advent, 2nd Advent. He came as the Isaiah 53 suffering servant. He comes

00:33:57back as the King of Kings, Lord of Lords. He's the Son, He's the Father, He's the

00:34:02Spirit, and in Him, God is pleased that the fullness of the Godhead should dwell

00:34:06in Jesus Christ. Colossians says that all things were made by Him. Go to Genesis

00:34:121, 1 sometime. In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. What

00:34:18does Colossians say? All things were made by Jesus Christ, right? So, those two

00:34:25verses that I just read to you from Isaiah chapter 9, they are very, very

00:34:30easy to understand in 2024, right? Turn to Micah chapter 5. Turn to Micah chapter 5,

00:34:45and I think it's verse 2, but we'll go with verse 1. Micah chapter 5,

00:34:54verse 2. But thou Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the

00:35:05thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall come, shall he come forth unto me, that is

00:35:10to be ruler in Israel, whose goings forth have been from of old, from

00:35:16everlasting. Therefore will I give him, will he give them up until the time that

00:35:21she which Traverith had brought forth, then the remnant of his

00:35:27brethren shall return unto the children of Israel. And he shall stand and feed in

00:35:33the strength of the Lord, Zechariah 12, 13, and 14, in the majesty of his name, in

00:35:40the majesty of the name of the Lord his God, and they shall abide. For now shall

00:35:45he be great unto the ends of the earth. We read these passages, and you might say

00:35:52to me, hey brother, we know that. Why are we going back to the birth of Jesus

00:35:58Christ? Because it was prophesied in the Bible, right? Now, you flash forward to

00:36:06when Jesus was born. How many people connected those verses with that birth?

00:36:12Very, very few. Nobody in the temple. None of the wise men. You've got to have wise

00:36:19men come from Iraq and Iran. Took them two years to get there, traveling by

00:36:26camel. What happened to all the Jewish scholars and the scribes? Why didn't... I

00:36:32mean, we look at these verses and they are pathetically easy to connect with

00:36:39Jesus Christ, right? Okay. Turn to John chapter 6. My message today is actually

00:36:48a very short message, and we're almost there. John chapter 6. Let's

00:37:09start in verse 47. John 6 47. This is the promised Messiah from Isaiah chapter 9

00:37:20verse 6. This is the promised Messiah from Micah chapter 5 verse 2. And

00:37:27what is he doing? He is teaching, okay? Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that

00:37:35believeth on me hath everlasting life. I am that bread of life. Your fathers did

00:37:41eat manna in the wilderness and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from

00:37:45heaven, that a man may eat thereof and not die. I am the living bread which came

00:37:52down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever. And the

00:37:56bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

00:38:01Now, you would think, from a logical, rational, intelligent perspective, these

00:38:11are the same people that were raised on Isaiah chapter 9 and Zechariah chapter

00:38:1612, 13, and 14, and Micah chapter 5, if they had chapters back then. But you

00:38:21understand what I'm saying. He is preaching to the very people who were

00:38:26immersed in these Old Testament scriptures from the day that they were

00:38:31born and an offering was made for them at the temple. These are those people. Can

00:38:37you get any closer to the Messiah than that? He says, I am come not but for the

00:38:44lost sheep of the house of Israel. Paul says, yeah, here's the gospel. Jew first,

00:38:49then to the Greek. That's the order. These are the people. Here's their

00:38:55response. 52, the Jews therefore strove among themselves saying, how can this

00:39:03man give us his flesh to eat? Not talking about his flesh. Then Jesus said unto

00:39:09them, when you got put into the body of Christ, when you got saved, do you have

00:39:15different flesh on your body than you had from before you got saved? No. What

00:39:20happens at the rapture? This body gets transformed from a vile body

00:39:25because it gets sick and it dies. Paul says that our vile body shall be

00:39:31transformed into a body like unto his glorious body. He's not talking about

00:39:38eating his flesh and opening up his wrist and drinking his blood. The Jews

00:39:44therefore strove among themselves saying, how can this man give us his flesh to

00:39:48eat? Then Jesus said unto them, verily, verily, I say unto you, except ye eat of

00:39:54the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Who so

00:39:59eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life, and I will raise him

00:40:02up at the last day. Look down to verse 59. These things said he in the synagogue as

00:40:13he taught in Capernaum. Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this,

00:40:18said, this is an hard saying. Who can hear it? What's hard about that? This is

00:40:24the same guy that the Bible prophesied would be born in a manger, that he would

00:40:31be the begotten son, and that he would be the suffering son. They already have the

00:40:37entire witness of the Old Testament. This is a hard saying. Who can hear it? When

00:40:42Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured in it, he said unto them, doth

00:40:47this offend you? What and if ye shall see the Son of Man ascend up where he was

00:40:52before? It is the Spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profited nothing. The words

00:40:58that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life. But there are some of

00:41:06you that believe not, for Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that

00:41:09believed not, and who should betray him. And he said, therefore said I unto you

00:41:15that no man can come unto me except it were given unto him of my father. From

00:41:20that time many of his disciples went back and walked with him no more. We're

00:41:27not talking about a couple of dozen people, we're talking about thousands of

00:41:30people. We're talking about the people who came for the miracles, for the

00:41:34healings, for the free food. There is a huge section of our country that is

00:41:41focused on government benefits, and give us health care, and give us free food, and

00:41:46pay for this, and pay for that. Well, it was no different 2,000 years ago, okay?

00:41:50Once they got tired of the entertainment of watching the withered arm get

00:41:57restored in the blind man's sea, okay? Somebody once said that if a dog would

00:42:03start talking, it would only stay interesting if he had something

00:42:08interesting to say. Think about that, right? If your dog could suddenly talk,

00:42:15right, you would be blown away. You would get on the phone, you would call

00:42:19everybody up, you got it, Fido was talking, and this is what he's saying, and

00:42:23everybody would crowd around your house until, just like with the telephone, and

00:42:28air travel, and all these other things that were considered impossible at one

00:42:34point, that man could fly. Oh yeah, man can fly. Well, man invents the airplane, and

00:42:40it's stunning, and then you blink your eyes, and just a couple of years later

00:42:45it's being used to kill his fellow man in World War I, okay? These type of

00:42:51things don't stay interesting, and convincing, and vital, and important if

00:42:59your heart is not right with God, and these people's hearts were not right

00:43:03with God. Now, you can say that about lost people, but you can say that about some

00:43:09saved people as well. People say people go through times where their heart is

00:43:14not right with God, and this book becomes like a brick, and these promises seem to

00:43:20get shut up, and as you try praying, and it feels like it's bouncing off the

00:43:24ceiling, and hitting you on the forehead, right? That's what happens when you're

00:43:28not in fellowship with God, but when you're in fellowship with God, you

00:43:33understand, thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path, right?

00:43:40That's what this Bible does. This is our guidebook. This is our rule book. This is

00:43:46the book that shows us things that haven't happened as if they had already

00:43:51taken place. This is that book. All right, go back to 2 Thessalonians chapter 2.

00:43:592 Thessalonians chapter 2. I've given you Old Testament scriptures about the

00:44:12first coming of the Lord. I've given you Old Testament scriptures about the

00:44:15second coming of the Lord. I've given you Old Testament scriptures describing Him

00:44:20and His ministry in detail. I gave you a lot from the Old Testament about the

00:44:27first and second advents of Jesus Christ, okay? I just showed you from John

00:44:33chapter 6 that if a person's heart is not right with the Lord, they turn back,

00:44:39they turn away, and this prophetic word seems to get shut up, and they no longer

00:44:44have access to it. That ye be not soon shaken in mind or be troubled, neither by

00:44:51spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at

00:44:57hand. Let no man deceive you. The number one sign of the end times. By any means,

00:45:06for that day shall come, shall not come, except there come a falling away first,

00:45:11and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition. In Isaiah chapter 61

00:45:19verse 2, there is a comma right in the middle of the verse. The verse starts out

00:45:25talking about His first advent. Isaiah 61... well, just turn there. This is the

00:45:34verse that Jesus was quoting in Luke chapter 4 when He started His earthly

00:45:38ministry. Jesus could have picked any book of the Old Testament. He picked this

00:45:45book, this chapter, and this one-and-a-half verses. The Spirit of the

00:45:53Lord, chapter 61 verse 1, is upon me because the Lord hath anointed me to

00:45:58preach good tidings unto the meek. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to

00:46:04proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to them that are

00:46:08bound, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, comma, and the day of

00:46:15vengeance of our God, to comfort all that mourn. Now, when we rightly divide the

00:46:22word of truth that we are called to study by our Apostle Paul, we understand

00:46:27that there is so far a 2,000 year gap between Isaiah 61 2a and Isaiah 61 2b.

00:46:40And just to hammer the point home, turn to Luke chapter 14. I just want you to

00:46:46see it for yourselves. I know you guys know this stuff, but it's always good to

00:46:51be reminded, amen? Luke chapter 4, and I'm looking, here it is, verse 16, and he

00:47:02came to Nazareth where he had been brought up, and as his custom was, he went

00:47:07into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up for to read. He's been doing

00:47:11this since he was about 12 or 13 years old. And there was delivered unto him the

00:47:15book of the prophet Esaias, and when he had opened the book, he found the place

00:47:20where it was written, and in big letters in my margin, Isaiah 61 1. And he found

00:47:29the place where it was written, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he

00:47:34has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, and he had sent me to heal the

00:47:39brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to

00:47:43the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable

00:47:47year of the Lord, comma's gone, the period is in its place, and he closed the

00:47:55book. Go back to 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, verse 3, let no man deceive you by any

00:48:06means, for that day the rapture of the church shall not come except there come

00:48:13a falling away first, we covered that, and that man of sin be revealed, comma,

00:48:21the son of perdition. Now, I have proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that there

00:48:26is a minimum of 2,000 years between Isaiah 61 2a and Isaiah 61 2b. That is a

00:48:36we nailed that shut. I'm just gonna ask a question here. Is it possible that there

00:48:44is a similar gap when he says, and that man of sin be revealed, comma, the son of

00:48:50perdition? At the start of this message I told you that according to the Apostle

00:48:55Paul, we have not been appointed unto wrath but to obtain salvation by our

00:49:02Lord Jesus Christ, okay? That time period is not for us. It's not called the time

00:49:09of the Gentiles' trouble or the time of the church's trouble, it's called the

00:49:12time of Jacob's trouble. Now, when Jacob was doing the right thing, the Bible

00:49:19calls him Israel. When Jacob is backslidden, God goes back to calling him

00:49:24Jacob. Somebody said to me one time, well, if Jeremiah had meant in Jeremiah 30

00:49:31verses 5 through 7, why didn't Jeremiah just say it's the time of Israel's

00:49:37trouble? And I'm like, he did. Jacob is Israel. Functionally, the entire nation of

00:49:44Israel comes from the loins of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the twelve tribes, and

00:49:49Jesus comes from the tribe of Judah. Jacob is Israel. The time of Jacob's

00:49:57trouble is for the Jewish people, but it is a time of global trouble for

00:50:02everybody. Now, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be

00:50:09revealed, the son of perdition. Turn to John chapter 13. John chapter 13. I want

00:50:19to show you one of the greatest types of the rapture of the church outside of

00:50:23something that Paul wrote. John chapter 13. And let's look at verse 18. I speak

00:50:38not of you all, of y'all. I know whom I have chosen, but that the

00:50:45scripture may be fulfilled. Psalm 41.9. He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up

00:50:50his heel against me. Now I tell you before it come, that when it come to

00:50:57pass, ye may believe that I am he. So this is the scene at the Last Supper. I'm not

00:51:02going to go through the whole thing. We all understand, we all know what happened

00:51:06at the Last Supper. Judas was revealed as the son of perdition, but how is it

00:51:18possible that at this late date, the very same night that Judas is going to

00:51:23kill himself to mock the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, which takes place 12 hours

00:51:29after he kills himself, that's why Judas did not repent from a perspective that

00:51:35he was sorry. He tried to give the money back, but he was a mocker. He was the man

00:51:40of sin from the very beginning. We don't have time to go there, but do you

00:51:45remember, well actually we do, John chapter 12. It's right here. Look at John

00:51:52chapter 12, verse 3. Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very

00:52:01costly, this is Mary of Bethany, we're at Bethany Baptist Church, and

00:52:07anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair, and the house was

00:52:11filled with the odor of the ointment. Can you imagine? You know how you cry at

00:52:16the Publix Christmas commercial, and it's the wandering children come home, and

00:52:22it's that beautiful tinkling piano music, and it's a beautiful Publix deli

00:52:27spread kind of halfway out of sight, and those commercials just tug at your

00:52:32heartstrings, or you watch a Hallmark movie which they film them in St.

00:52:37Augustine from time to time, and immediately our eyes start to well up

00:52:43with tears, just a little bit, we get moist, it's like that, or you hear a song

00:52:47on the radio, and it touches your heart, right? Don't you think this scene

00:52:54in the house with Mary and Martha and Lazarus, don't you think that all these

00:53:01people, when they watch this, it's like, what is she doing? That box is the most

00:53:07valuable thing that she has. She's breaking it open, she said, what is she

00:53:12doing? You would think that everybody's hearts would be tender and open, but

00:53:17there's one man, the man of sin. Then said one of his disciples, Judas

00:53:26Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him, why was not this ointment sold for

00:53:33300 pence and given to the poor? This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but

00:53:38because he was the thief and had the bag, and bare what was put therein. He was

00:53:48always the son, the man of sin. He was never the good guy, not at any point did

00:53:55he do miracles with the eleven, he absolutely did. Jesus says, have I not

00:54:01chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil. Okay, there was no doubt about who

00:54:10he was, it just wasn't revealed to the eleven. So much so, go back to John 13, so

00:54:19much so that Peter says to John, ask the Lord who it is. John chapter 13, verse 22,

00:54:32then the disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he spake. No, 21, when

00:54:38Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit and testified and said, verily,

00:54:42verily, I say unto you that one of you shall betray me. Then the disciples looked

00:54:48one on another, doubting of whom he spake. Now there was leaning on Jesus'

00:54:52bosom one of his disciples whom Jesus loved, that's John. Simon Peter therefore

00:54:59beckoned unto him that he should ask who it should be of whom he spake. Then Peter

00:55:05doesn't even have the guts, he's had so many misfires at this point, that

00:55:10he doesn't even have the guts to ask him directly. He then lying on Jesus'

00:55:16breasts saith unto him, Lord who is it? Jesus answered, he it is to whom I shall

00:55:21give a sop when I have dipped it, and when he had dipped the sop he gave it to

00:55:25Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon. And after the sop, now your King James Bible

00:55:32is the only Bible that says sop. Who here has Italian friends or is Italian? Raise

00:55:38your hand. All right, all right. I can remember in high school I had a friend,

00:55:46his name was Andy, and he had the Sicilian grandmother. Every Sunday, Sunday

00:55:53started about 7 o'clock Saturday night, and the sausage, the sausage, and the

00:56:00meatballs, and the gravy that would cook for hours and hours and hours, and the

00:56:06ravioli, and the pound cake, and all that stuff. And he was my Italian friend. We

00:56:13had lots of Italians where I'm from, but he was my Italian friend, and they would

00:56:18invite me over on a regular basis to have the Sunday gravy with them, okay? And

00:56:24I loved it. It was, if you like to eat, it was some, it's fantastic food. But my

00:56:31favorite part was when I go into the kitchen, we'd be about 15 minutes away,

00:56:36and his mom would just, nobody cuts the bread, they just ripped off a hunk. She

00:56:41said, here, tell me if the gravy is done yet. And you know what? I sopped it, I put

00:56:47it into the pot, and I waited for it to cool, and I ate that delicious

00:56:54gravy with that fresh-baked bread that she just ripped off a hunk. That's what a

00:56:58sop is, okay? All the other versions don't say sop. That has been removed. If

00:57:07you're in the military, what is the SOP? Standard Operating Procedure. So, John

00:57:16chapter 13, verse 27, and after the sop, Satan entered into him, Ben said, Jesus

00:57:25unto him, that thou doest do quickly. Now, no man at the table knew. How is that

00:57:31possible? How is that possible? But they didn't know. Now, no man at the table knew

00:57:39for what intent he spake this unto him. For some of them thought, because Judas

00:57:43had the bag that Jesus had said unto him, buy those things that we have need of, or

00:57:48against the feast, or that he should give something to the poor. He then, having

00:57:53received the sop, went immediately out, and it was night. Have you ever heard

00:57:59that expression? You hear about somebody from your high school, you went to high

00:58:03school a long time ago, and you're driving past the Circle K, and you see

00:58:09what looks like your old high school classmate in rags, begging for change. I

00:58:15have heard a couple of stories like that in St. Augustine in just the last couple

00:58:20of years. When that happens to somebody, either it's a situation that they have

00:58:28been thrust into, or it's a situation that their bad choices created, doesn't

00:58:33really matter. You are where you are, right? The important thing is getting out

00:58:37of that, right? But we say that that person is down-and-out. Well, the very

00:58:45first down-and-out person was Judas. Where was this meal taking place, the

00:58:51Last Supper? In the upper room. What floor was the upper room on? Right.

00:59:00Judas goes down-and-out after he is revealed to be the son of perdition. The

00:59:07apostles are in the air with Jesus Christ and the type of the rapture. You

00:59:14don't have a better New Testament picture of the rapture of the church, the

00:59:18pre-tribulation rapture of the church, than what I just gave you from John

00:59:21chapter 13. There is, outside of what Paul wrote, there is no better example than

00:59:26that. Judas is revealed. He was always the man of sin. He mocks Mary of Bethany. He

00:59:34does all this wrong stuff, bad stuff, but he's part of the group. Jesus even says

00:59:39publicly, have I not chosen you twelve and one of you is a devil? He was never

00:59:44not the man of sin. And then, in John chapter 13, the sop, Satan enters into him.

00:59:54He goes down-and-out into night, and it is darkness, and the eleven disciples are

00:59:59up in the air with Jesus Christ in a beautiful picture of the pre-tribulation

01:00:04rapture of the church. Now, let me wind up my message with this.

01:00:16Many of you know that we have a website called Now the End Begins, and for 15

01:00:23years we have been monitoring end times Bible prophecy. And sometimes it runs

01:00:31really, really hot. Sometimes it runs rather cool. And every once in a while,

01:00:36you have an extended period of calm where you're waiting for something to happen,

01:00:41and nothing seems to be happening. But on March 16th of 2020, and we all know,

01:00:49we all remember, that was the first day of the lockdown. That was the first day

01:00:56that the world was locked down, that a global pandemic was declared for the

01:01:00first time in over a century. And we entered into a time of chaos, confusion,

01:01:08and a very high level of uncertainty. So much so, and I'm just going to give you a

01:01:16very, very small piece of our timeline, just a couple of quick little things

01:01:22to read. If you remember two weeks ago, Donald Trump got hit in the ear with a

01:01:29bullet. Within an hour, the vast majority of people, they were shocked.

01:01:38How could this happen in America? But the vast majority of people did not believe

01:01:44what they were seeing. I'm not saying that the vast majority of people didn't believe

01:01:48that he got shot in the ear. I think we all believe that, okay? I'm saying that

01:01:53the entire substructure around that story, as it began to be revealed,

01:02:01the vast majority of people did not believe it when it was happening in real time

01:02:07at the time. And then a couple of days later, you find out there was a second

01:02:11shooter up on the water tower, and why didn't they take him out,

01:02:15and all these different things, okay? We are living in unbelievable, chaotic,

01:02:22swirling times. And look, I don't ever stand up in this pulpit. I don't preach politics,

01:02:30like go out and if you want to vote, vote. If you don't want to vote, don't vote.

01:02:33Pass the salt. That's how I think, okay? This pulpit is for this book.

01:02:39I'm preaching and teaching what this book has to say. Now, Jesus said in Acts 9 to Ananias,

01:02:46well, you go to the street which is called Straight, and you lay your hands on that guy.

01:02:50I understand you're afraid of him, but he is a chosen vessel unto me,

01:02:55and he is going to preach before the Jews, before the Gentiles, and before kings.

01:03:02There's your politics. You show me one testament, one prophet in the Old Testament

01:03:08that doesn't wind up preaching before a king. You're going to have a very short list, okay?

01:03:13And from that perspective, the Bible is a very political book, okay?

01:03:18I just want to read to you a couple of these, and I'm almost done.

01:03:22I know that we've gone a couple minutes over, but when I tell you that this may be

01:03:26one of the most important messages that you'll hear in recent times,

01:03:31I am not overstating the case.

01:03:34July 8th, Joe Biden says, time to put Trump into a bullseye.

01:03:38July 13th, Donald Trump hit with a shot to the ear, five days later.

01:03:44One day, two days after he was hit, this massive case against him was dropped with no new evidence.

01:03:53On July 14th, we called for a second shooter to be revealed,

01:03:57and two days later, people started talking about second shooter.

01:04:01The Republican National Convention on July 16th had a whole segment,

01:04:06because they have these digital backdrops, if you watch those things.

01:04:11They have this massive stage front, but it's all these LED screens,

01:04:15and they can put anything that they want up there.

01:04:18On the opening night, you had the back of the $1 bill,

01:04:23which said, Novus Ordo Seclorum, New World Order,

01:04:28and you had the all-seeing eye of the unfinished pyramid,

01:04:32also from the back of the $1 bill,

01:04:34and that was the stage set for the first 20 minutes, 25 minutes,

01:04:39of the Republican, not the Democrat, National Convention.

01:04:43July 17th, evidence begins to emerge of a second shooter.

01:04:46July 17th, Tucker Carlson and John Rich attack the C.I. Schofield Study Bible,

01:04:53dispensationalism, and destroy, they think,

01:04:56the pre-tribulation rapture of the church that I just spent an hour preaching on.

01:05:02July 20th, Israel, for the first time ever,

01:05:05launched an airstrike against a military target in Yemen.

01:05:09They had never done that.

01:05:13July 21st, Joe Biden drops out of the race on National Ice Cream Day.

01:05:21Right?

01:05:22Now, everybody laughed, and everybody should.

01:05:24I laughed, but then I did a double.

01:05:28I'm like, wait a second.

01:05:29The same guy who the fake news media, over a three-and-a-half-year period,

01:05:36went to great pains every time he ate an ice cream cone.

01:05:40That was front-page news that Joe Biden likes ice cream, right?

01:05:45He steps out on National Ice Cream Day.

01:05:48That's funny.

01:05:49It's also a red flag, okay?

01:05:5322nd, Kamala Harris attends rally at Delaware headquarter as Joe Biden phones in.

01:06:03Also the same day, the Pentagon announces a new Antarctica strategy.

01:06:09Who here knows that in 1952,

01:06:12the entire epicenter of Antarctica was sealed off with a five-nation treaty,

01:06:17and it is illegal for you to go there.

01:06:19Raise your hand if you know that.

01:06:22Go Google it.

01:06:24Google it right now.

01:06:25Take out your phone right now.

01:06:26Google it right now.

01:06:29In that same section, as all these wacky things are happening,

01:06:34the Pentagon announces a brand-new Antarctic strategy.

01:06:39Also the same day, several European countries have announced

01:06:43that they are returning to conscription.

01:06:46Conscription is when you just start drafting your citizens.

01:06:50You want to make your army bigger.

01:06:52You don't get enough volunteers.

01:06:54Just like my dad used to say to me and my four brothers

01:06:58when the house was a mess, he would say,

01:07:01now one of you clowns either volunteer to clean that up

01:07:06or I'm going to volunteer you.

01:07:08Well, that's what conscription is.

01:07:12Europe is doing that now.

01:07:15The next day, July 23rd, Palestine terror groups,

01:07:20and I talked about this on the Wednesday Night Bible Study,

01:07:2314 Palestinian terror groups flew to Communist China

01:07:28to sign the Beijing Declaration to create a national unity government

01:07:35when the two-state solution in Israel is pushed through.

01:07:39That happened on the 23rd.

01:07:42And all these things that I'm giving you from the timeline,

01:07:45these are just facts that have happened.

01:07:48The 25th, pro-Palestinian activists, thousands of them,

01:07:53tear down American flags in Washington, D.C.

01:07:56and put up the Palestinian flag.

01:07:59And on various landmarks, like a replica of the Liberty Bell

01:08:03at the train station, Union Station,

01:08:06big red letters, Hamas is coming.

01:08:10This wasn't a dozen people.

01:08:12This wasn't the basement-dwelling, Starbucks-drinking,

01:08:18Dungeons & Dragons-playing people who do those sort of things.

01:08:24These were real, hardcore, highly-funded operatives

01:08:29who were also American citizens.

01:08:32Thousands of them, they tore down a dozen American flags,

01:08:39put up Palestinian flags.

01:08:42July 26th, Emmanuel Macron opens up the 33rd Olympic Games

01:08:54in Paris, France.

01:08:57Study World War I and look at the role that France plays.

01:09:01Study World War II and look at the role that France plays.

01:09:06Does the number 33 have any significance?

01:09:09Well, Jesus is said to have ascended back up to heaven

01:09:12when he was 33 years old.

01:09:14The Freemasons, for whatever reason,

01:09:16because they have a counterfeit, they love the number 33.

01:09:20And if you've ever Googled the number 33,

01:09:23you get a whole lot more scary results

01:09:26than you do positive results.

01:09:30So this was the 33rd Olympics, okay?

01:09:36Did anybody watch that?

01:09:39The opening night of the Olympics?

01:09:43You know what they had?

01:09:45They had a golden calf.

01:09:48A very large, golden calf.

01:09:51You know what the Bible says in Psalm 106.19?

01:09:59They made a calf in Horeb and worshipped the molten image.

01:10:03What does a golden calf have to do with

01:10:06who can run the quarter mile the fastest

01:10:09or who can swim or who can shoot or any of those things?

01:10:12You don't need a golden calf at the Olympics,

01:10:15but that's the least of their problems.

01:10:18Then, right before Emmanuel Macron

01:10:23as the president of France,

01:10:26bellowed into the microphone in French,

01:10:29I declare the 33rd Olympic Games to now be open.

01:10:33You know what happened in the 60 seconds before he said that?

01:10:38They had a boat on the Seine River.

01:10:41And on that boat was a mechanical, pale horse with a rider.

01:10:47And that pale horse, it was a mechanical horse,

01:10:50and it was being pulled.

01:10:52You couldn't see what was pulling it.

01:10:54And the spotlight was on this metallic, pale horse with a rider.

01:11:00And that's, if you ever read Revelation chapter,

01:11:03I'm not saying that Revelation 6 was fulfilled that night,

01:11:06but that is an awful, strange choice.

01:11:10The Olympics is happy, and it's comradeship,

01:11:13and it's sportsmanship.

01:11:15What do you have?

01:11:16The creepy, AI, mechanical, silver horse

01:11:21with a single, solitary rider with a hood

01:11:24that the face is shrouded in darkness?

01:11:28That is how you open the games.

01:11:30But it got worse.

01:11:33Luke chapter 17, verse 29,

01:11:36Likewise also, as it was in the days of Lot,

01:11:39they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold,

01:11:42they planted, they builded.

01:11:43But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom,

01:11:46it rained fire and brimstone from heaven

01:11:48and destroyed them all.

01:11:50Jesus says in Luke 17,

01:11:51you want to know more about the end times?

01:11:53It's going to be like the days of Noah.

01:11:55Go back to Genesis chapter 6.

01:11:57What event kicks off the days of Noah?

01:12:01The one-man rapture of Enoch.

01:12:04He's taken out, and then the days of Noah start.

01:12:08We're taken out, and the time of Jacob's trouble starts.

01:12:13So Jesus says in Luke chapter 17,

01:12:16the end times are going to be like the days of Noah.

01:12:19And we understand that.

01:12:20And He says it's going to be like the days of Lot.

01:12:24Do we understand that?

01:12:27Do we understand that we live in a world

01:12:29that is controlled and dominated by the LGBTQIA2SL++?

01:12:35And I'm not talking anybody down.

01:12:38I would love for people like that to come into this church

01:12:41and to hear the gospel.

01:12:42We'd give it to them straight.

01:12:43We would love on them.

01:12:44We'd tell them how they could get saved

01:12:47and how they could avoid the hell that they're headed for

01:12:51like any other lost person.

01:12:53When it comes to lost people as Christians,

01:12:55we should not discriminate.

01:12:58Somebody who's a drunk who tried to get sober ten times

01:13:01over ten years, come on in.

01:13:03We're going to take a shot at time number 11

01:13:06and we're going to do it together.

01:13:08That's what we are called to do with this book.

01:13:11Right?

01:13:12Go out into the highways and hedges

01:13:14and compel them to come in

01:13:16that his house may be full.

01:13:19That's how Christians should look at the LGBTQ

01:13:23from one perspective.

01:13:25On the other side of the fence,

01:13:27from the prophetic perspective,

01:13:29Jesus said the end times, the time of Jacob's trouble,

01:13:31it's going to be like the days of Noah.

01:13:33It's going to be like the days of Lot.

01:13:35So, there is a man in France,

01:13:38perhaps you heard of him.

01:13:39His name is Emmanuel Macron.

01:13:42He first came on my radar back in 2017

01:13:46when he became the president.

01:13:48Now, just nobody get nervous here.

01:13:52He came on my radar back in 2017.

01:13:55He won the vote.

01:13:57He came out of nowhere.

01:13:58Turns out he didn't come out of nowhere.

01:14:00He was a Rothschild's banker

01:14:02and then in 2014 he was introduced

01:14:04at the Bilderberg secret meetings

01:14:06and then two and a half years later

01:14:08he was the president of France.

01:14:10And when he became the president of France,

01:14:13the French newspapers,

01:14:15graphic after graphic,

01:14:17he beat Marine Le Pen,

01:14:19who is still his enemy.

01:14:21He won 66.6% of the vote.

01:14:25She won 33.3%.

01:14:29That's how he started.

01:14:31And so I started to write about this man,

01:14:33Emmanuel Macron,

01:14:35and he said some wacky things.

01:14:37He said when he was running

01:14:39for president that he had a vision

01:14:42that he was flying in on a white horse

01:14:46and he was going to liberate France

01:14:49and he was going to rule over Europe

01:14:53like the god Jupiter.

01:14:55He said that.

01:14:57That's on record.

01:14:58I'm giving you facts, not my opinion.

01:15:01And so over the years

01:15:03we began to keep tabs on this man.

01:15:05I'm not looking for the Antichrist,

01:15:08but since Paul was so kind

01:15:12as to show us that there's two things

01:15:14that have to take place before the rapture happens,

01:15:17there's got to be a falling away.

01:15:19We all know that. We all see it.

01:15:21And the man of sin has to be revealed.

01:15:23Not the Antichrist, not the son of perdition.

01:15:27Judas was the man of sin

01:15:29and he stayed with them

01:15:32and bred with them for three and a half years.

01:15:36And then the day came

01:15:38where the man of sin was revealed

01:15:40to be the son of perdition

01:15:41and up they went.

01:15:42They were already up in the second floor.

01:15:44It's the type of the rapture.

01:15:46So I would write these stories

01:15:50and people would investigate.

01:15:54When I first started writing about him

01:15:56people said, oh, come on, give it a break.

01:15:59Stop looking for the Antichrist.

01:16:01And I would continue to keep tabs

01:16:03and write stories and write stories

01:16:05and over the years people began

01:16:07to check out the stories that I was writing

01:16:09and I would have a fairly good percentage

01:16:11of people come back to me

01:16:13say, I thought you were crazy

01:16:15when you first said that

01:16:17he could possibly be the man of sin

01:16:19but he's doing these wacky things

01:16:23and he's been doing them for years.

01:16:26He seems to be invulnerable.

01:16:28I think I might get on your side of the fence.

01:16:31And so I would write more stories.

01:16:33Two years ago in Paris

01:16:35do you remember those riots?

01:16:37Remember when Paris was on fire?

01:16:39And at one point there was

01:16:41a million Parisians

01:16:43who had come out to the city of Paris

01:16:45the city of love and lights

01:16:47and all that stuff

01:16:49and they were demanding

01:16:51that he step down.

01:16:53Why were they so mad?

01:16:55Because he wanted to change the age

01:16:57of retirement from 60 to 64

01:16:59or 64 to 68

01:17:01but he wanted to increase

01:17:03the retirement age by four years

01:17:05and he

01:17:07couldn't get his parliament

01:17:09to vote it.

01:17:11So you know what he did?

01:17:13He just did a Joe Biden, he did an executive order

01:17:15he pushed it through

01:17:17the parliament said okay we accept that

01:17:19the thing that a million people

01:17:21were up in arms about

01:17:23and you talk to anybody

01:17:25he is a vile person

01:17:27and nobody respects him

01:17:29nobody wants him gone

01:17:31and yet you can't get rid of him

01:17:35no matter what you do

01:17:37and I thought for sure

01:17:39when I was watching a million people

01:17:41setting the city of Paris on fire

01:17:43I said well okay

01:17:45we had a good run

01:17:47we had about five years

01:17:49and the type held through

01:17:51and in my mind

01:17:53I was just waiting for him to be

01:17:55removed physically

01:17:57or voted out or something

01:17:59and then they had elections

01:18:01and he won

01:18:03in an overwhelming

01:18:05percentage of the votes

01:18:07the same people

01:18:09that were so mad at him

01:18:11and hated him so much

01:18:13now voted him back into office

01:18:15now that's

01:18:17I don't know about you but that's a really really

01:18:19strange thing

01:18:21so a couple of months ago

01:18:23if you were following it

01:18:25there's a far right

01:18:27there's a centrist party

01:18:29there's a far left party

01:18:31the far left are the marxist socialist

01:18:33communists, the far right

01:18:35are kind of what we would consider

01:18:37to a certain degree like our

01:18:39conservative party here in America

01:18:41and then the centrist obviously

01:18:43they try to split the difference in the middle

01:18:45between the two groups

01:18:47and he saw that

01:18:49the far right party and his arch enemy

01:18:51Marine Le Pen

01:18:54was about to win

01:18:56not for the presidency

01:18:58but for the parliament

01:19:00and she could

01:19:02through a hopscotching leapfrogging

01:19:04thing she possibly

01:19:06could have become the prime minister

01:19:08so you know what he does

01:19:10he calls for a snap election

01:19:12and he dissolves

01:19:14the entire, this is just a couple

01:19:16months ago, he dissolves the

01:19:18entire parliament

01:19:20now there's no parliament

01:19:22in France and he says

01:19:24we're going to vote Sunday

01:19:26and then we're going to vote a week after that

01:19:28my inbox

01:19:30blew up

01:19:32you're wrong about Macron

01:19:34he got out of everything else

01:19:36he's not getting out of this

01:19:38well

01:19:40you get to the first vote

01:19:42and you know what happened with the far right

01:19:44they walloped him

01:19:46I got more emails

01:19:48you see what I mean

01:19:50he is done, he is finished

01:19:52his time has come to an end

01:19:54and I said publicly

01:19:56no it's not

01:19:58he's not going anywhere

01:20:00and they say how can you say that

01:20:02and so one week later

01:20:04they voted again

01:20:06and you know what he did

01:20:08he formed this alliance

01:20:10like Adolf Hitler

01:20:12with Japan and Italy

01:20:14he formed an alliance with the far left

01:20:16and he's not far left

01:20:18and he got everybody on the far left

01:20:20so excited

01:20:22that they walloped the far right

01:20:24and then after he won

01:20:26he broke his deal with the far left

01:20:28it is over

01:20:30he is more powerful than he was before

01:20:32took place in two weeks

01:20:34okay

01:20:36now

01:20:38and this is the last thing that I have for you today

01:20:40but just as we started

01:20:42this message

01:20:44was something I had never done before

01:20:46to lead the congregation in singing

01:20:48from the piano

01:20:50before giving a message

01:20:52that has never even occurred to me

01:20:54but

01:20:56the book was open to revive us again

01:20:58and I knew what my message was

01:21:00and the Lord just said sing it out

01:21:02revive us again

01:21:04get our perspective straight

01:21:06let's kick off the rust

01:21:08you know

01:21:10clean up the boots and get ready for

01:21:12for action okay

01:21:14so

01:21:16this same man Emmanuel Macron

01:21:20two nights ago

01:21:22the opening of the 33rd

01:21:24Olympics

01:21:26he has

01:21:28unbelievable and scary

01:21:30symbolism from Revelation chapter 6

01:21:32and then

01:21:34he has a

01:21:36mockery of the Last

01:21:38Supper filled with

01:21:40LGBTQ people

01:21:42and he has one of those guys

01:21:44and the Luciferians

01:21:46love to do this stuff

01:21:48they love to have these events where people

01:21:50are on plates like they're the

01:21:52food and they eat the food around them

01:21:54it's not really

01:21:56it's perverted

01:21:58but not in the way that you might think

01:22:00they just do these rituals

01:22:02and that's exactly the Olympics

01:22:04that's how

01:22:06they opened the Olympics

01:22:08and it was the most

01:22:10if you have read any

01:22:12prophecy about the end times

01:22:14for literally more than five

01:22:16minutes it was jumping

01:22:18off the page

01:22:20and it was the most

01:22:22disgusting

01:22:24perverted thing that you

01:22:26could ever possibly imagine

01:22:28in the context

01:22:30of sporting games

01:22:32and most people

01:22:34I don't know if it's true now but

01:22:36when I was watching those things back

01:22:38in the 70s and 80s

01:22:40it was teenagers and young people in their

01:22:4220s people who are really strong

01:22:44and really good at those type of things

01:22:46and

01:22:48if you were to watch this video

01:22:50which the International

01:22:52Olympic Committee

01:22:54has demanded be removed

01:22:56from all social media I have a copy

01:22:58of it but

01:23:02this opening event

01:23:04was so disgusting

01:23:06so unbelievably perverse

01:23:08there is a man standing

01:23:10in shorts behind children

01:23:12and he is exposed

01:23:14this is the opening

01:23:16of the Olympics and

01:23:18Emmanuel Macron said

01:23:20that this is France's finest

01:23:22moment and we present

01:23:24this to the world

01:23:26now I spent

01:23:28hours and hours

01:23:30on social media

01:23:32the other night

01:23:34the entire world

01:23:36got up to speed with how I view

01:23:38Emmanuel Macron for the last seven years

01:23:40now

01:23:42whether or not he is the biblical

01:23:44man of sin time will tell

01:23:46and let time be the judge

01:23:48but I am simply saying to you

01:23:50that

01:23:52just as the people that

01:23:54we read about in the Bible

01:23:56you would think

01:23:58they have all these warning signs

01:24:00they could never get caught by surprise

01:24:02and the Bible says

01:24:04you will absolutely get caught by surprise

01:24:06Habakkuk 1 5

01:24:08behold ye among the heathen

01:24:10and regard and wonder marvelously

01:24:12for I will work

01:24:14a work in your day

01:24:16which you will not believe

01:24:18though it be told you

01:24:20and I submit

01:24:22to you in closing

01:24:24it is my personal belief

01:24:26after having

01:24:28followed the career

01:24:31of this man for the past seven years

01:24:33combined

01:24:35with what he did as a

01:24:37billion people

01:24:39wrap your head around that

01:24:41one eighth of the entire world

01:24:43tuned in to the

01:24:45Olympics the opening ceremonies

01:24:47over one billion

01:24:49people and he presented

01:24:51something that is

01:24:53absolutely from the days of Noah

01:24:55and from the days of Lot

01:24:57Jesus says he who had

01:24:59an ear let him hear what the Spirit

01:25:01saith unto the churches

01:25:03and I am telling you

01:25:05that these events

01:25:07that are taking place

01:25:09we are living in the last days

01:25:11the

01:25:13we are worn out

01:25:15we are tired

01:25:17and it's how much more of this

01:25:19one of my

01:25:21closest friends when we were texting back

01:25:23and forth about this he said to me

01:25:25he said I am

01:25:27worn out with all this

01:25:29not my conspiracy theory

01:25:31he's worn out with the

01:25:33actual things that are happening

01:25:35now he believes that these

01:25:37things are happening from a biblical perspective

01:25:39but he said what I was feeling

01:25:41he said how could this

01:25:43be? rhetorical

01:25:45question because we know how it is

01:25:47but

01:25:51if you take anything away from this

01:25:53message

01:25:55is that we are

01:25:57in the closing

01:25:59moments of the last days

01:26:01from a global perspective

01:26:03the church is

01:26:05asleep

01:26:07sound asleep

01:26:09and we who are saved to believe

01:26:11this book are called

01:26:13to get up and do

01:26:15something about it

01:26:17that's what we are called

01:26:19to do

01:26:21to give Jesus Christ

01:26:23the whole Sunday School this morning

01:26:25was about the

01:26:27parallels between when the Bible

01:26:29talks about the truth

01:26:31and the gospel

01:26:33the truth is the gospel

01:26:35the gospel is the truth

01:26:37the gospel is Jesus Christ

01:26:39and Brother Ed brought a great Sunday School

01:26:41message about that whole thing

01:26:43this morning and I thought to myself

01:26:45God did it again that's a perfect

01:26:47springboard for my message today

01:26:49and we did not consult

01:26:51but what I am telling

01:26:53you that I believe

01:26:55this with 1000%

01:26:57of my heart is that

01:26:59these things are

01:27:01in motion they are active

01:27:03they are going to continue to multiply

01:27:05what form that

01:27:07takes I'm not a prophet

01:27:09I'm not an apostle

01:27:11I'm not psychic I'm not a seer

01:27:13I have a book

01:27:15that has told me the future

01:27:17and I read it I've been reading that book

01:27:19for 33 years but

01:27:21it hasn't been until the last 4

01:27:23years that I'm like okay now I can

01:27:25really see it

01:27:27right in front of my face

01:27:29and what really cracked me up

01:27:31Saturday night

01:27:33today's Sunday sat last night

01:27:35what really cracked me up

01:27:37is on social media

01:27:39right all these

01:27:41people who said I was crazy

01:27:43are now saying that Elon Musk

01:27:45Elon Musk maybe

01:27:47Emmanuel Macron

01:27:49could possibly

01:27:51be the biblical man of sin

01:27:53you judge

01:27:55you look at the verses

01:27:57you pay attention to what's happening

01:27:59but this is what I see

01:28:01and this is what God has put on my heart

01:28:03let's pray

01:28:05Heavenly Father

01:28:07I thank you

01:28:09Lord for this church

01:28:11and these people this place this time

01:28:13and Lord your word does

01:28:15say he who hath an ear

01:28:17let him hear what the

01:28:19spirit sayeth unto the churches

01:28:21and we thank you God for the warning

01:28:23we thank you God for the prophetic word

01:28:25and we thank you God that

01:28:27we can look

01:28:29out around the landscape and we can see

01:28:31these things beginning to

01:28:33come to pass exactly as

01:28:35you said that they would and even

01:28:37as they do

01:28:39the vast majority of us

01:28:41don't know don't

01:28:43care not looking

01:28:45and Father God

01:28:47I just pray that

01:28:49a true spirit of revival

01:28:51would begin to sweep through this land

01:28:53starting right here

01:28:55in this building in this

01:28:57sanctuary with these people

01:28:59in this place in this time

01:29:01and Lord use

01:29:03us for your glory

01:29:05for our good and God

01:29:07I pray that if there's one listening today

01:29:09either here or online

01:29:11who's not saved who doesn't know you

01:29:13maybe you've been calling them

01:29:15for a while and they've been putting it off

01:29:17and putting it off and putting it off

01:29:19Lord I pray that something was said and done

01:29:21that today would be the day of salvation

01:29:23for that person

01:29:25that they would believe

01:29:27the gospel and be saved

01:29:29and for those of us that are saved

01:29:31Father God we just pray

01:29:33that something was said and done in Sunday

01:29:35school and in the message today

01:29:37that would get

01:29:39them and get us back

01:29:41on fire for you the way that

01:29:43we're supposed to be

01:29:45and God we ask all these things

01:29:47with thanks and praise in Jesus name

01:29:49Amen

01:29:51Amen

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