All right, we're here in Malachi chapter 4, and we're going to be preaching about the
Day of the Lord.
That's what this chapter is about.
And, you know, I don't preach on the end times a whole lot.
It's not really what I usually focus on too much.
But I know some of you have said, you've been wanting me to preach on the end times.
Well, here it is in Malachi chapter 4.
But go back to chapter 3.
I want to show you verse 15 real quickly.
Verse number 15.
And I covered this briefly last week.
If you remember, we prayed about the volcano last week, so the sermon was shortened.
And I briefly mentioned this.
So notice what it says in Malachi 3, verse 15.
And now we call the proud happy.
Now the word proud is in the book of Malachi only two times, okay?
It's in Malachi 3, verse 15, and it's in Malachi 4.
And in Malachi 4, it's talking about the end times, okay?
That's what Malachi 4 focuses on.
You can tell that from reading it.
That's what we're talking about tonight.
But it mentions the word proud in chapter 3 and chapter 4.
And as I mentioned in chapter 1 or chapter 2, you say, what is it referring to in Malachi 3, verse 15?
I believe this is referring to the Sodomites here.
It says, and now we call the proud happy, okay?
Now you think of gay pride.
What does gay mean?
It means happy.
It's universally been known as that for a long time.
In fact, the word gay is in the Bible, and it has nothing to do with Sodomites because
the word means happy.
And they have their big gay pride parade, so now we call the proud happy.
And guess what we do in today's world?
We call the proud happy.
We call the Sodomites happy.
They're gay.
They're so nice.
The Bible says they go after strange flesh.
Calling them a queer, that is an accurate word for them.
But we call them happy.
They're nice.
They're so funny.
No, big deer, they're such nice people.
You know, I'm a lady, and I have no guys to go shopping with.
And you know, these Sodomites, I can take them out shopping and everything.
They're laughing, telling these jokes and everything like that.
Look, we call the proud happy in today's world, and people think it's normal.
And then it says, yea, they that work wickedness are set up.
And when you look at the wicked people of this world, they are set up in high positions
of government.
They have power.
They have influence, and they're spreading their agenda to us and fighting against us.
And we don't even bring the fight to them.
They actively would try to shut down a church like this.
We preach sermons, but they actively bring the fight to us, and they are set up in positions
of authority and positions of government.
And now we call the proud happy.
I believe that's a reference to the Sodomites.
Why is that important?
Because in chapter 4, verse 1, it says, For behold, the day cometh, thou shalt burn as
an oven, and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble.
Now notice how it mentions the proud, and it just mentioned them just four verses before
that.
I think there's a link between these two things.
And as we're talking about the end times in chapter 4, I think what the Bible's trying
to show us is one thing that's going to come before the day of the Lord is we'll start
calling the Sodomites happy, gay.
And isn't that what we see in today's world?
See there's a reference here.
What it's trying to show you is, you know what, there's going to be a lot of Sodomites
before the end times.
And guess what we see in today's world?
This is why us living today, we can understand things in the Bible better than people that
lived thousands of years ago.
There is no way a hundred years ago I would have looked at Malachi 3, verse 15, and said,
this is referring to the Sodomites.
You say, why?
Because nobody ever called them gay back then.
But now as we're seeing this, and we're seeing the Sodomite agenda as one of the big things
with the end times, and we see the day of the Lord in chapter 4, I see a direct link
between calling them gay, calling them happy, and there's going to be a lot of them before
God pours out His wrath.
And around the world this is what you see.
Around here in the Philippines you see guys dressing up as girls all the time.
You go out to the malls, you go soul winning in parks, you will always see a guy dressed
up as a woman.
But it's not just in the Philippines.
Now we are one of the biggest pro-LGBT countries in the world.
I don't know if you realize that, but when you look at charts, and I don't know how they
determine these things, the Philippines makes the top ten.
And that surprises people, but outside of Germany, Spain, and I think Italy, the Philippines
is right there with any other country.
It's weird because in the United States you think the LGBT is really cramming it down
your throats, but then you come to the Philippines.
It's like, whoa, I never saw guys dress up like girls all the time back in the U.S.
Here it's all over the place.
But don't think it's just isolated here though.
Because this agenda is going to spread all over the world.
All the countries in Africa that had the death penalty for sodomy, that's just slowly going
away.
They're going to all do the same thing, they'll follow the lead of the United States and every
country in the world is going to be filled with this problem.
Why do you believe that?
Why not only see that, but I also see it in the Bible as well.
We're seeing proud mention in chapter four verse one.
If you go to chapter three verse 15, I think it's a direct link to talking about the sodomites.
And you know what?
This is going to be a big part of the end times.
And unless you're asleep, unless you think this world is going to last for 2,000 more
years, when you look outside and look at this world, it's pretty obvious that's going to
be a big part of the end times.
You can't really think of people that are more wicked than the sodomites than the pedophiles,
however you want to call them.
Same thing.
And they are going to be in abundance when it comes to the end times.
The reprobates are just going to increase as we get close to the end times.
This is going to be a big part of it.
It's a big agenda out there, okay?
So in chapter four verse one, what we see is it mentions the proud, yea, and all that
do wickedly shall be stubble.
Stubble's something that just gets burned up really easily.
You know, it's not a problem to burn up.
It's not like a big log or a big thing of wood.
Just like little bits that burn up really quickly.
Shall be stubble, and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts,
that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
But unto you that fear my name shall the son of righteousness arise with healing in his
wings, and he shall go forth and grow up as calves of the stall.
And so the Bible refers to a day in chapter, in verse number one, the day cometh.
And when you're looking throughout this chapter, it's referencing the end times, okay?
You see Moses and Elijah both mentioned, which most of us, including myself, would say are
the two witnesses during the end times.
You see the reference about how God's laws are going to be established.
Obviously when Jesus reigns in the millennial kingdom, it's his rules, it's his laws.
And you can see that this is referencing the end times, and in verse five it mentions the
coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.
So turn to Obadiah chapter one, Obadiah chapter one, and the first point we have here tonight,
it's quite simply that God will destroy the wicked.
God will destroy the wicked.
They're going to be stubble, the Bible says.
And so the Sodomites can cram their agenda down our throats.
The liberal media, the liberal agenda, all these wicked people, they can cram it down
our throats, but in the end they're going to be burned up like that.
It's not going to be difficult.
It doesn't matter that so many wicked people are in positions of presidents and senators
and world leaders, they're going to be destroyed easily by God.
It's not even a challenge.
Now Obadiah chapter one, Obadiah, we just preached this recently, it's in your Minor
Prophets, and it says in verse 15, chapter one verse 15, for the day of the Lord, Obadiah
chapter one verse 15, if you have two chapters then you probably do not have a King James,
so chapter one verse 15, for the day of the Lord is near upon all the heathen, upon the
wicked people, upon the bad people.
The day of the Lord, as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee, thy reward shall
return upon thine own head.
Now usually when we think of a reward, we think of something that's good.
For example, you accomplished something, you finished the Bible memorization challenge
of Jonah, here's your reward.
We think of something as being a good thing.
It's not always a good thing.
You look up reward in the Bible, it's kind of like reaping what you've sown.
If you've done bad, you've got a reward coming as well, but it's not a good reward.
And see, that's what we're seeing here in Obadiah chapter one, their reward shall return
upon their head because they were wicked people, they were evil people, they persecuted God's
people, and it's going to return upon their own head.
Verse 16, for as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually.
Yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had
not been.
But upon Mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness, and the house
of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
And so in the book of Obadiah, with the day of the Lord, we're seeing the destruction
of the wicked.
That is part of what the day of the Lord is.
Now turn to James chapter five, James five.
And you know, obviously everyone who's here tonight, which is, you know, who I'm preaching
to, the people in this room, we understand that when we are going to be going through
tribulation, and after the tribulation, but before God's wrath, we will be raptured, and
God's wrath will be poured out upon the people.
And this is referenced throughout the Bible as the day of the Lord, the day of Christ,
the day of God.
And what you see in the Minor Prophets, and even in the Major Prophets, it mentions this
day and sometimes it has a direct mention of what's happening in that day, but also
another meaning towards the end times.
That's what you're seeing in Obadiah.
Now in James chapter five, James chapter five is primarily about the end times.
I don't know if you've ever realized that, but James five is mainly referring to the
end times.
James chapter five verse one, go to now ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries
that shall come upon you.
Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
Your gold and silver is cankered and the rust of them shall be a witness against you and
shall eat your flesh as it were fire.
Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
The Bible speaks about wicked people that are rich.
Obviously there's people that are rich that are not bad people.
Some people have money.
It doesn't mean they're bad.
In the Bible there's people with money like Job that are good people, but by and large
the rich people are bad people.
And if you remember in Revelation chapter six when it talks about the sixth seal, one
of the things mentioned are the rich men.
You say why?
Because the wicked people are set up in high positions and the rich men and the mighty
men and the chief men, those are people that are generally bad people.
Are there politicians that are not bad people?
Of course there's some, but I'm going to bet five times out of six that they're a bad person.
Even if they're not a reprobate they're not a good person.
If I ran for president I might get like 12 votes, but there's no way I could ever win
because I'd have to be a really bad person to win.
So I want you to realize in general, mighty people, rich people, those are bad people
in general by and large.
Verse four, behold the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is
of you kept back by fraud crieth, and the cries of them which have reaped are entered
into the ears of the Lord of Savioth.
You have lived in pleasure on the earth and been wanton.
You have nursed your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
You have condemned and killed the just, and he doth not resist you.
Here you're seeing bad people, wicked people.
You're seeing reprobates that are destroying other people, rich people with power.
Verse seven, be patient therefore brethren unto the coming of the Lord.
So I said this chapter is actually in reference to the end times, talking about the coming
of the Lord.
We're seeing bad people.
They're going to persecute good people and save people.
That's what you see in today's world.
And it's only going to get worse because we will go through tribulation first, and before
Jesus comes back, it's going to be pretty bad.
It's going to be pretty rough, and we'll look at some of that later on.
Then it says, behold, the husband man waited for the precious fruit of the earth and hath
long patience for it until he received the early and latter rain.
Now I believe the last half of the verse is in reference to soul winning.
You say, why is Jesus not coming back now?
Well, I believe the reason why he's not coming back now is because he's waiting for the precious
fruit of the earth, the early and latter rain.
What I believe he's saying is the gospel needs to go out to everybody.
Give everybody a chance.
Now don't misunderstand me.
As I always say, there are saved people in every country in the entire world except Vatican
City because those are all people that work for the Catholic Church, and it's not really
a country.
There's like 300 people in that country.
There are saved people everywhere, but at the same time, I wouldn't say the gospel's
spread everywhere though.
Everybody knows the name of Jesus.
There's verses in the Bible that said that from 2,000 years ago, but you can't say that
in North Korea they really have easy access to get the word of God and to get saved.
I believe that's going to be something that's taking place during the end times.
Those doors of opportunity are going to open up.
Now in our country, you can freely worship God.
You can hear sermons online and things such as that, but in some countries they ban you
from looking at certain things.
It's illegal to listen to a sermon online.
It's illegal to have a Bible in certain countries.
In those countries, there are saved people, and those are saved people that are probably
not going to openly confess them for fear of their life.
I do believe that God's going to open up these doors so the gospel can get out there, and
I do believe in the days of the cell phone and things such as that, we can get the word
of God out more than we ever could before.
I don't believe we're at the time right now because we still got to get the gospel out
there, but what's going to take place is evil people in every country are going to persecute
the good people.
Now turn to Revelation 6.
Revelation, chapter 6.
And I know these are famous verses.
I know we know them, but let's just be reminded of these things.
And in Revelation, chapter 6, this is perhaps the most important chapter in the book of
Revelation.
It's the one that goes through all of the seals, and you can look at Revelation 6, 7,
and 8, and it's very clear that it teaches a pre-wrath, post-trib rapture.
We can see that.
But I want you to see in Revelation 6, verse 15, and the kings of the earth and the great
men and the rich men, there's a reference to the rich people, the rich men, and the
chief captains and the mighty men and every bond man and every free man hid themselves
in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains.
So why would all these powerful people be hiding?
Because God's judgment is upon them, and they're scared.
And so they think they can just go up to some mountain and hide under a rock and God won't
see them.
That's like a little kid that puts a blanket on their head, and they think that mom and
dad don't see them.
Like my son sometimes, he likes to play hide and go seek, and he's literally right here,
and he'll just wrap the curtain around himself, and then I'm like, where's Zeph?
Where's Zeph?
And it's like, I know he's right there, but little kids, that's what these people are
like.
I'll just hide underneath a rock, and God won't know I'm there.
It's like, you know, whatever, good luck with that.
Verse 16, and said to the mountains and rocks, fall on us and hide us from the face of him
that sitteth 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?
And see, when God's wrath comes upon people, they're going to have no hope.
And so, look, we don't live in the end times right now, you know, who knows how long it's
going to be.
But I want you to realize that when it comes to God's wrath being poured out, these wicked
people that maybe frustrate us in our life, we see the LGBT and they can frustrate us.
They hate what we're doing, they hate soul winning, they fight against us, they'll try
to get you fired from your jobs.
Godly men have been fired because of the LGBT and things such as that and wicked people,
but God will destroy them in his time.
His time might not be right now, though.
You say, why?
Well, look, I didn't major in philosophy, I majored in math.
You can ask God why he's waiting, but just the reality is he is waiting because he hasn't
come back yet, the end times hasn't started, the anti-Christ has not declared himself to
be God, and so when things get tough, we've got to just decide we're going to last through
it.
And if the end times comes during our life, hey, go soul winning as much as possible,
and if you die, you die.
But it's just like, you know, we literally, 24 people, 24 people just an hour and a half
ago got saved.
24 people, seven soul winners out preaching the gospel, and it's like 24 people that are
not going to burn in hell.
I mean, that's literally changing the world.
And when I was young, you know, I loved sports and I wanted to be some famous athlete and
things such as that, and it's like, you know, you literally accomplished nothing in life.
You could be the most famous athlete in the world, but you go out soul winning and get
a couple of people saved, you've just changed all of eternity, okay?
Now turn to Malachi chapter four, Malachi four, and so look, if it gets rougher in
our days, then it is what it is.
Here's the thing though, I do believe that it's getting rougher in today's world.
I think it's more difficult to live as a Christian and a godly person today, but I also believe
it's easier to get lots of people saved.
You know, many people are here from day one at this church because, you know, you listen
to sermons from the new IFB online, and praise the Lord for that because in the past you
couldn't get the message out that easily to everybody.
Now it still got out to everybody.
We just went through Jonah recently, we saw that story, but I'm just saying people around
the world are hearing sermons and their lives are being changed because we're able to put
sermons online.
You're able to have missions trips in one month from now, and we'll have people from
like 15 countries around the world, and you know, you make a video and people see it and
then they end up coming here, thousands saved and things such as that.
That's not really something you could have done in the past.
And so yes, it's harder to live as a Christian, but you can accomplish more for God in today's
world.
You can accomplish bigger and better and greater things.
Malachi chapter 4 verse 3, but not only will God destroy the wicked, but the Bible teaches
we will actually triumph over the wicked.
Malachi 4 verse 3, and ye shall tread down the wicked, for they shall be ashes under
the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts.
The Bible says we shall tread down the wicked.
Now go back to Zephaniah chapter 1.
Malachi 4 verse 3 has new meanings since I've been in my first volcano now, you know, that
there's actually ash on the ground and everything such as that.
It kind of gives more meaning to that verse a little bit.
Okay, so go back to Zephaniah, Zephaniah chapter 1, Zephaniah chapter 1, and in Zephaniah
chapter 1 verse 7, the Bible reads, hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord God, for
the day of the Lord is at hand.
And so once again, we're talking about the day of the Lord, you say, what does it mean
to be at hand?
It basically means it's about to take place.
It doesn't mean it's already taken place, but it's at hand, it can basically happen,
you know, it's at hand, it's about to take place.
The day of the Lord is at hand.
For the Lord hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests, and it shall come to
pass in the day of the Lord's sacrifice that I will punish the princes and the king's children,
and all such are clothed with strange apparel.
You say, what is it referring to when it talks about a sacrifice and bidding his guests,
the princes are going to be punished, all such are clothed with strange apparel.
That might remind you of some parables in the New Testament, in the Gospels.
And what this is referring to is the marriage supper of the Lamb.
Turn to Revelation chapter 19.
Revelation chapter 19.
And so when you're talking about the marriage supper of the Lamb, and the Bible says that
he hath bid his guests, what the Bible basically teaches is that we're going to be feasting
on these wicked people at the marriage supper of the Lamb.
This is not literal.
Okay?
I mean, the Bible talks about us eating the flesh of Jesus Christ, and the Catholics,
they just don't understand the difference between literal and figurative.
Okay?
It's not literal.
But that's what it's saying at the marriage supper of the Lamb, that basically we're going
to feast upon the wicked people.
They basically tormented us, our lives, and been against us, and tried to cause problems
for us, and we're going to feast upon them.
That's what it's referencing in Zephaniah chapter 1.
He hath bid his guests, talks about them with strange apparel, and that goes along with
in the Gospels.
We don't have time to look at all of that, but in Revelation 19, what it says in verse
8, and to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white,
for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
And he saith unto me, write, blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper
of the Lamb, and he saith unto me, these are the true sayings of God.
And so realize that in our lives here on earth, the wicked people, they can persecute us,
but one day it's going to be completely changed.
This is like a Haman Mordecai situation.
Haman's the powerful man, the second most powerful man in the world.
Mordecai is just a good guy who's being persecuted.
He might be killed, and all of a sudden Haman tries to kill Mordecai, and what happens?
It gets flipped.
And what's going to happen in the end times, and turn to Psalms 37, Psalms 37, the wicked
people are going to think they have their day of triumph over us.
And just when they say, peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them.
It's going to be flipped.
It's going to be reversed.
And look, you can see God's methods throughout the Bible.
This is exactly like Haman and Mordecai.
It's going to be the same way during the end times.
They're going to be persecuting us.
Many of us will be killed for what we believe, and people are going to be scared.
They don't know what to do.
They're trying to survive.
They're trying to find food.
And then all of a sudden, boom, the Lord comes back.
They're going to be destroyed.
They're going to go through all the judgments of God, and God's people are going to be raptured
before He pours out His wrath, okay?
Psalms 37, verse 1, fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against
the workers of iniquity, for they shall soon be cut down like the grass and wither as the
green herb.
And so the workers of iniquity are basically talking about religious reprobates, really
bad people.
And look at verse number 7, rest in the Lord and wait patiently for Him.
Fret not thyself because of Him who prospereth in His way, because the man who bringeth wicked
devices to pass.
Cease from anger and forsake wrath.
Fret not thyself in any wise to do evil, for evildoers shall be cut off.
But those that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the earth.
So He's reminding us, don't be worried about these evil people.
You're going to be fine.
I'm going to rescue you.
You're going to be okay.
Verse 10, for yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be, yea, thou shalt diligently
consider his place and it shall not be.
But the meek shall inherit the earth and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
Now turn in your Bible back to Malachi 4.
So what we've seen here tonight is in the day of the Lord, God is going to pour out
His wrath upon the people that are left here that are not raptured.
But we also see that, you know what, we're going to feast upon them.
The roles are going to be reversed.
But I want you to understand that when Jesus comes back with a millennial reign, what you're
going to see is God's laws will be reinstituted.
God's laws will be reinstituted.
Malachi 4, verse 4, it says, Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded
unto him in Horeb for all Israel with the statutes and judgments.
And so He's reminding us about Moses and the commandments.
You say, why?
Because obviously God knew that the world is not going to follow God's commandments.
They're going to be out of existence.
Look, Leviticus 20 does not exist to most people in this country.
They don't even realize what that chapter is about.
They would never follow any of those rules.
They don't follow anything the Bible says.
But during the millennial reign, when Moses' laws are going to come back and Jesus is going
to reign, okay, and so all these laws that do not exist today, for example, the death
penalty is on many things.
The death penalty is on bestiality, you know, on kidnapping, on rape.
It's on many different things, but you rarely ever see anyone put to death for those things
today.
In the Bible, that's what God's law was.
And all God's laws are going to be back.
You say, I thought Jesus came and it was all love, love, love.
Well, turn to Matthew, chapter 5, Matthew, chapter 5, and people have this idea that
when Jesus came back, basically everything in the Old Testament is no longer valid.
Nothing's valid anymore.
There's kind of two extremes that are both wrong.
One extreme is this, that unless Jesus explicitly says something in the New Testament, like
this is wrong, then that means it's not wrong.
Well, you've got a lot of problems with that because if you look at some of the rules and
laws in the book of Leviticus that Jesus does not restate, like, for example, bestiality
and all kinds of other disgusting things and rape and kidnapping, having the death penalty,
stuff that he does not explicitly state, are you telling me that's no longer valid,
that it's okay in today's world to rape people, that it's okay to kidnap people?
It doesn't make any sense to say, well, Jesus has to restate everything, okay?
And so that's one extreme where people say, well, Jesus has to restate everything, otherwise
it's completely gone, and then some people go to an extreme and say, well, everything
in the Old Testament still applies.
And so many people that are saved, if you ask them, do we follow the Sabbath day in
today's world, they would probably say yes because they just don't understand, because
their pastor teaches them nothing, and they'll probably think, well, yeah, we follow the
Sabbath day.
It's like, do you realize what the Sabbath day was about in the Old Testament?
It's like, we really don't follow that, okay, and we shouldn't follow it.
There are certain things that are done away, and there's a movement of, like, Hebrew roots
and all this Judaism to try to bring us back under the law and bring these things back,
and it existed in the days of the apostles as they were trying to bring circumcision
in and things such as that, and in today's world, they're trying to trick people into
going back to those things.
All these things that are completely done away with, you say, well, why would they be
done away?
Well, notice what it says in Matthew chapter 5 verse 17.
Those are kind of the two extremes.
The actual thing that the Bible teaches is that some laws and cardinal ordinances and
cleanliness laws, they pictured the Lord Jesus Christ, and when He came, they were done away.
And He was resurrected was the close of that, and that's done away, okay?
An example of that would be, for example, the Sabbath day, as I mentioned, okay?
We'll look at that here in a second.
But other than that, everything else still applies.
Notice what it says in Matthew 5 verse 17.
Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets.
I am not come to destroy but to fulfill.
And so when Jesus was here, He said, I didn't come to destroy the law.
But when it comes to anything in Leviticus 18, 19, 20, the death penalty on kidnapping,
on rape, bestiality, on sodomy, adultery, those things didn't change.
God's laws did not change.
You say, why?
Because Jesus did not come to destroy the law but to fulfill the law.
Those things still apply.
You say, well, why is it that when Jesus was around, why didn't He, you know, stone that
woman caught in adultery, okay?
Well, I mean, here's the thing.
He wasn't the president of the country.
He wasn't the ruler of the country.
He didn't make the laws of that country.
I don't make the laws of this country.
I believe the death penalty should be here for a lot of different things.
But since I'm not the one who basically runs the country, I don't make those decisions.
And when Jesus was here, He was not coming to try to set up some sort of empire and be
this all-conquering king.
No, He humbled Himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
He became as a servant.
He didn't come to be a conquering king.
But when He comes and sets up the millennial reign, yes, His laws will be enacted.
He didn't come to destroy the law.
All of those laws were still good and valid.
The only things that changed were things that symbolized Jesus Christ, okay?
But He said, I didn't come to destroy the law.
Verse 18, for verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle
shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Nothing, not a jot, not a tittle.
You say, what's that referring to?
I mean, just think of like an I and a T. Just think of the dot on an I.
And just think of crossing that T. There's not a jot or a tittle that's going to be gone.
Everything's going to be done.
Not even dotting an I or crossing a T. No, it's all there.
It's all still existing.
So there are certain things that changed when Jesus rose again.
He didn't destroy these other laws, though.
So moral laws, they haven't changed.
See, God had laws if you steal something from someone.
Look, if you steal something from someone, you know what ends up happening and you get
caught?
Basically, you know what, you might have to pay the government money and then the person
gets their thing back, but that's not God's law.
God would say, depending on what you stole, be like a fourfold where you have to pay four
times as much, and God's law actually makes a lot of sense.
It's going to prevent people from stealing because, whoa, if I don't have that money,
then I'm going to have to be in servanthood to pay off my debt.
I mean, it makes perfect sense.
But our country's not going to follow that.
The U.S. isn't going to follow that.
No country in Europe's going to follow that.
None of these countries are going to follow this, but look, God's law hasn't changed.
He just didn't come to basically rule the world.
Satan is the god of this world, the Bible says, and when Jesus came here, he allowed
himself to be persecuted by the devil.
He didn't just destroy him or kill him.
He allowed himself to be persecuted by the devil, but he will come back one time and
set up his reign.
Verse 19, whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments and shall
teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven.
But whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom
of heaven.
Oh, Brother Stuckey, why do you always preach against all these things?
Because I don't want to be called the least in the kingdom of heaven.
Because if you're teaching people none of these things apply, just go do whatever, just
bring in the sodomites and all this stuff, you're going to be least in the kingdom of
heaven.
I don't want to be least in the kingdom of heaven.
I hope if my goal in life was to be a missionary and I read the Bible a lot and things such
as that, I love soul winning, it's not so I can be the least person in the kingdom of
heaven.
I want you to understand that these people, these pastors, the pastors in this country
that are actually saved, which is a small amount, the ones that are actually saved,
but they're just teaching you to sin and not really teaching you God's judgment, they're
going to be least in the kingdom of heaven.
They're not going to be most in the kingdom.
Even if they have a giant church, even if they have a thousand people that go to that
church, they're going to be least.
Turn to Romans 1.
Romans 1.
They say, why are you turning to Romans 1?
Well two reasons.
For one, look at the country we live in and there's all these guys dressed as women.
Number two, Malachi 3 and 4 are referencing the Sodomites and that's why we're turning
there.
Romans chapter 1.
You say, why?
Because the big law that people have a problem with in today's world, there's other laws
in the Old Testament they don't really have a problem with, okay, kidnappers are put to
death, rapists are put to death, okay, I understand those things.
But then if you say, well the Sodomites deserve the death penalty, how could you say that?
I watch Vice Pong-ing on TV every day, he's so funny.
I mean that dress he wears and everything like that, it's like, how could you say that?
Those are all my heroes on TV that I watch.
All these shows, all these men dressed up as women.
Well notice what it says in Romans 1.
Romans 1.
And actually, keep your finger on Romans 1, let's just go back to Leviticus 20.
As much as I try to do a short sermon, there's just too much to talk about in the Bible.
Leviticus 20.
Let me go there myself to double check, I don't misquote.
Keep your finger in Romans 1.
And I just want to show you that God's laws have not changed.
It's the same laws, okay, Leviticus 20 verse 13.
If a man also lie with mankind, and when it's referring to lying, it's referring to physically
being intimate together, physically like a man and a wife you'd expect to be.
If a man also lie with mankind as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed
an abomination, they shall surely be put to death, their blood shall be upon them.
It sounds like the Old Testament, you have the death penalty on the Sodomites.
Go back to Romans 1.
Here's what I find interesting about this.
People will admit that in the Old Testament, they had the death penalty on the Sodomites.
Don't they admit that?
They're like, yeah, that's what it says in Leviticus 20.
And then they say, well, those laws don't apply anymore.
Well, we're disproving that in the sermon, but let's say they didn't apply anymore.
If they didn't apply anymore, it still shows you what God thinks about it.
I mean, he still put the death penalty on it.
He doesn't put the death penalty on telling a lie.
Outside of Ananias and Sapphira, in general, you tell a lie that doesn't give you the death
penalty.
I mean, it shows what God thinks about that sin.
It's so stupid because, look, fornication is considered a really wicked sin in the Bible.
People can be put to death for fornication, but it's okay for two guys that aren't able
to get married to just be together.
Does that make any sense?
It's so stupid.
What they say just doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
They just want to deny the Bible.
But notice what it says in Romans 1, who, knowing the judgment of God, this is referring
to Sodomites.
I don't have time to go through all these verses.
If you know Romans 1, you're familiar with that.
Romans 1, everybody would agree, is referring to Sodomites, that they which commit such
things are worthy of death.
Has anything changed?
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed
an abomination.
They should surely be put to death.
Old Testament, New Testament, it says they're worthy of death.
Nothing's changed.
You say, well, Jesus didn't directly mention it.
He didn't have to mention it.
It was given because that's how people thought about it at the time.
It hasn't been done away.
Look, the moral law did not change when Jesus rose again.
Nothing changed.
The moral law is still the same.
It's still wrong for you to lie down with an animal, to kidnap someone, to rape someone,
to be involved in incest with a brother or sister or aunt or uncle.
That stuff's all still wrong.
Does Jesus have to directly mention, hey, by the way, it's still wrong to sleep with
your dad's wife?
I mean, it's kind of a given that's still wrong, right?
And so here's the thing.
When it comes to sodomy, Jesus is always quoting from the Old Testament.
Nothing's changed.
Love thy neighbor as thyself was Leviticus 19.
It's right there between 18 and 20 with the abomination of the sodomites mentioned there.
Nothing's changed.
He quotes from Leviticus.
And so God's moral law did not change when he rose again.
The only thing that changed were things that would symbolize Jesus Christ.
And so what does it say in Romans 1 verse 32?
It says they're worthy of death.
So even after the resurrection of Jesus, they're still worthy of death.
And here's what you need to understand.
Before Jesus rose again, it's still the Old Testament.
Think about this.
When Jesus was alive with his disciples, they kept the Passover.
After he rose again, it's now the Lord's Supper.
You see the transition as he mentions to them.
They're still under the Old Testament law when Jesus is here.
When he rises again, that's the end of it.
I know we say Matthew through John, that's the New Testament.
But until Jesus rose again, we're still under that Old Covenant.
So Jesus doesn't have to directly state it because we're still in the book of Leviticus
time.
It hasn't changed.
Once he rose again, if they wanted to have an argument, but once he rose again, it says
they're worthy of death.
There'd be no reason for Jesus to restate these things because he hasn't risen again
yet.
So all those things are still valid.
Everything's still valid at that point.
When he rose again, though, that's kind of the ending of it.
And guess what?
Right after that, they're worthy of death.
Two books after the book of Acts, then the book of Romans, you get to the book of Romans,
they're worthy of death.
Notice what it says at the end of verse 32.
And it's referring to the Sodomites, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that
do them.
And what that's referencing is that Sodomites, they enjoy when other people are committing
the same wicked acts as themselves.
They are trying to recruit people to their wicked lifestyles.
They do the same and have pleasure in them that do them.
They take pleasure in people being wicked people and evil people.
They take pleasure in that.
We take pleasure in reading the Bible, going soul winning, spending times with our wives,
our husbands, our kids, spending family time.
They take pleasure in people committing sins because they hate God.
That's what the Bible says.
Now turn to Romans 14.
We will look at something that does not apply anymore.
The moral law did not change.
So God's law on sodomy, it hasn't changed one bit.
But here's the thing.
Even in the Old Testament, in general, God's laws weren't being followed.
So even though there was the death penalty on these things, it's not like they were really
following them.
Because in the Bible, you'll notice a righteous king comes in, and one of the first things
it mentions is he breaks down the house of the Sodomites.
He cuts them off, reference to killing them and everything.
What that shows you is they weren't actually following the law until he became the king.
Because they weren't actually putting them to death like the Bible said.
And so by and large, God's commandments were never really being followed.
Even in those countries, they didn't really follow those things.
They just kind of did whatever they wanted to.
So it's not really any different in today's world.
And so we don't take the government into our hands and apply these things, because that's
the government's job, and unfortunately they don't do it.
But when God comes back to reign, Moses' laws, as it mentions in Malachi 4, they're
going to be back.
Even though our country doesn't follow it, they will be back when Jesus is here.
Those are the laws, because nothing changed.
He did not come to destroy the law, but to fulfill the law.
Romans 14, verse 5, Romans 14, verse 5, one man esteemeth one day above another.
Another esteemeth every day alike.
Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
And so what the Bible's saying is, if you want to follow one day as being more important
than others, you can.
If you don't, you don't have to.
For example, it's not a sin to work on Sundays.
It's not a sin to work on Sundays.
I used to work a job where, you know, I was at a church that had morning and evening services,
and you know, I would basically get out of church in the morning, I would just go right
to work, and then all of a sudden I'd work, I'd get off, and I'd quickly come back to
church.
Okay?
I used to work on Sundays all the time.
You say, why?
Well, I mean, that's just when my schedule was.
But I told them I won't miss Sunday, but I would be there, I'd be there for church, but
at that time I wasn't esteeming Sunday above another day.
I'd come for church, but I was still going to work.
Now I like being able to just focus on church on Sundays, but it's not a sin to work on
Sundays.
Verse 6, he that regardeth the day regardeth it unto the Lord, and he that regardeth not
the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it.
He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks, and he that eateth not
to the Lord he eateth not and giveth God thanks.
So the Bible says if you want to regard a day above another day, you can.
It's up to you.
So the Seventh-day Adventists, they need to understand their New Testament a little bit
better, because the Sabbath day, having church on Saturday is not somehow more special or
better and you have to do that or you're not right with God.
Look, you know, when we started our church plan in Pampanga, and we have services on
Sundays afternoons, and I like to have that schedule, you know, I think it's the best
thing for us.
But, you know, it wouldn't have been wrong for us if we said, we're just going to have
services on Saturday.
That wouldn't have been wrong.
That would have been fine.
I know churches that have started churches and they couldn't have all the services, so
they just held a midweek service.
There's nothing wrong with that.
There's nothing sinful about it.
We do it on Sunday, because that's the pattern in the New Testament, and everything's kind
of built around it.
People's schedules are built around it, so it works best.
But look, you know, if it became a law in this country that you get put to death for
having church on Sunday, we just have church on Saturday.
You say, why?
Because it doesn't really matter what the day is.
I mean, you're still hearing the same preaching.
You can still go so...
There's nothing really changes.
There's nothing special about Sunday.
It's nice to have it on Sunday.
That's what it's built around.
It's not a sin to have church on Saturday.
But to say that we have to have church on Saturday, that's ridiculous.
I was actually preaching the gospel one time.
This was like a decade ago.
I was preaching the gospel to this girl at the door, and she was a Seventh-day Adventist.
I was talking to her and going through the gospel, and with the Seventh-day Adventists,
if you know what they believe, you've got a lot of mountains to climb.
They believe a really weird thing about hell, this annihilation doctrine.
You've got to show them hell.
They believe weird things about Jesus with Michael the Archangel.
I mean, you've got a lot of hills to climb to get a Seventh-day Adventist safe.
So it was a long conversation.
I'm getting to the end.
I'm explaining eternal security, and I have not really covered the Saturday Sabbath-day
topic because I figured it's kind of like a Pentecostal with speaking in tongues.
If you explain the gospel to them, they get saved, they're going to understand, oh, wow,
that's really Bobo that I used to speak in tongues.
But I don't want to argue with them before they get saved because they don't have the
Holy Spirit inside of them, and that's their hot-button issue.
So I figured I'd just wait until the end.
So I'm going through it, and I explain murder, and then she's like, no, you wouldn't lose
your salvation if you committed murder.
It's eternal life.
It's forever.
I brought up suicide.
And so I brought up suicide.
She's like, no, it's eternal life.
But she said, you know, there's only one thing that would make you lose your salvation if
you don't meet for church on Saturday.
She said you would lose your salvation.
You can kill someone.
You'll still go to heaven.
But if you meet for church on Saturday, it's the unpardonable sin.
It's like the mark of the beast.
It's like you can't go to heaven.
And so I had avoided this topic the whole time, and I had talked to her for like 30,
35 minutes.
I had talked to her for a while.
And then all of a sudden I just started bringing up the Sabbath day.
And I went here to Romans 14.
I went to a few places, and I was bringing it up, and apparently her brother was like
right on the other side of the door the whole time, like sitting down on the couch or whatever.
He didn't even care during the whole conversation.
Right when I bring up the Sabbath day, he like jumps up and starts arguing with me at
the door.
I'm just thinking, what is wrong with these people?
They're like so obsessed with me.
Gotta have church on Saturday.
It's just like I've run into Seventh Day Adventist before at the door, or people that aren't
Seventh Day Adventist, but they have some sort of weird thing where they think we need
to follow the Sabbath and have church on Saturday.
But they're not against going to church on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday.
It's really weird.
It's fine to have a midweek service, but how dare you have church on Sunday?
And so I'll tell them, why don't you come to our midweek service on Wednesday?
It's like for some reason they think going to church on Sunday is this major sin.
It's so bizarre.
Let's go back to Malachi 4.
But anyways, when it comes to the Sabbath day, we don't follow the Sabbath day anymore.
Nobody does.
None of us do.
We don't follow the Sabbath day like they did in the Old Testament.
We don't sacrifice animals anymore because that's clearly a picture of Jesus Christ.
I don't know why the Jews don't sacrifice animals if they don't believe the Savior's
come.
They should still be sacrificing them.
I don't know why they don't keep Passover.
I don't know why they don't slay a lamb and do that.
But we don't do these things anymore.
We don't slay any animals because of the fact these were fulfilled by Jesus Christ when
He rose again.
The cleanliness laws, those things have changed.
A lot of those were done away because they symbolize Jesus Christ.
A lot of those verses, they like to mock the Bible, and it's really just a picture of Jesus
Christ.
Malachi 4, the last thing I want to look at here today, and I'll try to be quick, is this.
That things must take place before the day of the Lord, before the coming of the Lord.
Things must take place.
Notice what it says in Malachi 4, verse 5.
Behold, I will send you Elijah, the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful
day of the Lord, and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart
of the children to their fathers, lest they come and smite the earth with a curse.
What it's saying here is things must take place before the great and dreadful day of
the Lord, before Jesus comes back, before He pours out His wrath.
Now turn to Matthew 24.
The common doctrine, when it comes to people that believe in a pre-trib rapture, which
we completely reject, is they believe in imminency, that basically Jesus can come back right now.
It's like, I'll just be up in heaven.
I'm in the middle of speaking, and I'm just done.
It's like the imminent return of Jesus that could happen before the end of the service.
It's like, man, just imagine if you're driving your car here in Manila, all of a sudden boom,
you're taken up to heaven.
Well, there's an accident, and all this chaos takes place, but that Jesus can come back
at any moment, nothing has to happen.
The Bible does not teach that.
The Bible actually teaches many things must take place first.
Now, Matthew chapter... actually, let me show you the verse, one of the big verses, if not
the big one, that they say proves imminency, and that's verse 36 of Matthew 24.
But of that day and hour knoweth no man, know not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
So what it says in Matthew 24, verse 36, is nobody knows the day or the hour.
The way pre-trib people teach this verse is that, well, that means Jesus can come back
now, because nobody knows the day or the hour.
Now, look, I agree we don't know the exact hour He's coming back.
I don't set any dates.
It's kind of funny, because the pre-trib people are the ones that set the dates, even though
they don't know the day or the hour.
It's like I'll have to listen to Robert Breaker's 50-part series on why Jesus is coming back
this year again to figure out why He teaches that.
The Bible says we don't know the day or the hour, but that doesn't mean it can come at
any moment.
There's still things that must take place first, and what's funny about this is that
if you look at the context here of Matthew 24, it mentions specific things, just a few
verses up, that must take place first.
Matthew 24, verse 29, immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be
darkened.
Look, I don't know how you can read that and walk away and say it's before the tribulation.
Look, I've been pre-wrath, post-trib, a year after I got saved, 2004, before I ever heard
any sermons on it, my friend who got me saved showed me, but it's just so clear in the Bible
immediately after the tribulation.
There's nothing really to argue with about that.
I don't have time to go into all of the things they say in Matthew 24, but that is so clear
immediately after the tribulation.
I heard one pre-trib person say that if you go back to the original language, that it's
not referring to like a direct moment, like before and after, but it's kind of like a
time period.
So basically they sounded really intelligent and basically they're saying after could be
translated before.
They didn't directly say that, but that's literally what they're saying because it's
a time period.
So since it's this time period, even though you think it means here, it could be all the
way over here, which is before, that's what they're literally saying.
It's like to try to get around this, okay?
Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened and the moon
shall not give her light and the stars shall fall from heaven and the powers of the heaven
shall be shaken.
This has not taken place yet.
The sun has not been darkened, the moon not give her light, the stars fall from heaven
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.
So everybody's going to see Jesus, it says in verse 30, and then shall appear the sign
of the Son of Man in heaven.
All the tribes of the earth mourn because their day is going to come where they're going
to be destroyed.
Verse 31, and he shall send his angels with the great sound of a trumpet and they shall
gather together his elect from the four winds from one end of heaven to the other.
Look, if you're a saved person and you don't have some reason why you feel like you got
to be free trib, you're going to look at that when he gathers together his elect from one
end of heaven to the other.
You're going to see that this is referring to the rapture.
It's very clear.
You say, what are you trying to say?
I'm saying, but of that day and hour knoweth no man, but before verse 31, verse 29 must
take place.
Verse 30 takes place before verse 31, and the sun must be darkened first.
The moon and the stars and the cosmic signs, these things happen first.
Verse 31, that happens after.
So we don't know the day or the hour.
It doesn't mean it can come at any moment though.
There's still things that must take place.
Now turn in your Bible to the book of Luke, Luke chapter two, Luke chapter two.
And here's what you see with people that are pre-trib.
There are some people that for whatever reason are just dying in the wool pre-trib, but most
people that are pre-trib, they are very confused and they don't like to talk about it.
And so, you know, they're saved people that are pre-trib and they're just really confused
about what they believe.
I want to just admit, I have no clue what I'm talking about.
Okay?
You say, well, how do you know this?
Well, you know, I've talked to a lot of people that are pre-trib and then got converted to
post-trib.
My wife was pre-trib before we got married.
She was an independent, fundamental Baptist, and you know what?
She was stubborn.
She watched after the tribulation two times.
Two times and she was, and here's the thing, the reality why she wasn't post-trib yet,
she was still confused because she had heard so many false things.
It's hard when you're looking at these verses because you hear so many weird things.
And the pre-trib doctrine, there's like 50 different versions of it.
They all have all these weird explanations.
So you're taught basically that the book of Revelation is meant to be really confusing
and you can't understand it.
Look, the book of Revelation means the revelation.
It's being revealed to you.
It's not.
And you say, well, that's just the name of the book.
That's the word used in the book of Revelation.
That's why they named it the book of Revelation.
It says the revelation of Jesus Christ, okay?
He's revealing to you about the end times.
It's not confusing.
And if you tell people, no, it's post-trib, they'll say you're arrogant for thinking you
know.
Well, how do you know?
And it's just like because the Bible's very clear about it.
It's very clear and it clearly is not pre-trib because things must take place first.
Matthew 24, we saw that, but in Luke 2, verse 34, and Simeon blessed them and said unto
Mary his mother, behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel
and for a sign which shall be spoken against, yea, a sword shall pierce through thine own
soul also that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.
And what's being said to Mary is that she was going to suffer a martyr's death.
Sword's going to pierce through thine own soul also, it says.
And so, look, was the return of Jesus imminent in Luke 2?
No.
It couldn't have happened in any moment because she still had to die.
Not only Mary, though, what about Peter?
Turn to John 21, John 21.
Now we know that many of the apostles and many of the godly people, they were persecuted,
they were tortured, they were killed.
And you know, the Bible doesn't mention all of them, but, you know, there's a lot of historical
information that would suggest that a lot of them were.
But there are some specifically mentioned that were stoned to death or that were going
to be tortured.
And the big one that we think of is Peter, because the Bible tells us very specifically
that Peter was going to be tortured to death.
Notice what it says in verse 18, John 21, verse 18, verily, verily, I say unto thee,
when thou wast young, thou girdest thyself, and walkest whither thou wouldest, but when
thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee and
carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
You say, how do you know that's referring to him dying?
Verse 19, this spake he's signifying by what death he should glorify God.
And when he has spoken this, he saith unto him, follow me.
And look, Peter did not die of old age.
He didn't die of old age.
He was, and you know, historical information would say that he was crucified, and it would
actually say he was crucified upside down.
Some people say because he said he didn't want to be crucified in the same way as the
Lord.
I don't know if all that's true, but we do know that he was tortured to death, signifying
what death he should die.
He didn't glorify God by dying in old age.
That's not what it's saying.
It's a martyr's death being referred to.
So let me ask you a question.
Was the return of Jesus imminent?
Because this is after Jesus rose again.
Jesus speaking to Peter, was his return imminent?
It could happen then.
No, because Peter still had to die.
So when did the imminency begin?
That's what I want to ask the preacher of people, because it's certainly not imminent
here in John 21.
Peter still has to be.
Once Peter died, then it was an imminent return?
Well, no, because turn to 2 Thessalonians 2, 2 Thessalonians 2.
There's many things in the Bible.
Look, you could preach a whole sermon on all the things that must take place before Jesus
can return, okay?
And so look, Peter was being told how he would die, and he wasn't dead yet, which proves
Jesus couldn't just come back at that moment, okay?
And so that means when Peter wrote 1 Peter, the return of Jesus wasn't imminent, right?
He wasn't dead yet.
When he wrote 2 Peter, the return of Jesus was not imminent.
Why?
Because Peter's not dead yet.
He has to die, okay?
And so in all these books, and I don't know when every single book was written, okay,
I don't know what they say.
We can't necessarily prove all of them, but a lot of the verses they're trying to use
for these pre-Trib arguments, look, Jesus couldn't come back because Peter's still alive.
He must die first, okay?
That's what the Bible teaches.
Now, 2 Thessalonians 2 is probably the clearest one, and I would recommend this if you're
going to turn to one place, me personally, aside from math, I think that the biggest
and best areas to teach the post-Trib rapture, pre-wrath post-Trib, are 2 Thessalonians 2,
Matthew 24, and then kind of the Revelation 6, 7, and 8 combo, where in chapter 8, verse
1, it talks about there's silence in heaven for half an hour, and then in chapter 7, there's
a great multitude in heaven, and in chapter 6, his wrath's about to be poured out, but
it takes place in chapter 8.
I think those are the best places, the Revelation 6 through 8, Matthew 24, and 2 Thessalonians
2.
2 Thessalonians 2, verse 1, now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ and by our gathering together unto him, referring to the rapture, the coming
of our Lord Jesus Christ, our gathering together unto him, that ye be not soon shaken in mind
or be troubled, neither by spirit nor by word nor by a letter as from us, as that the day
of Christ is at hand.
What Paul is saying is, don't be troubled.
The day of Christ is not at hand.
It's not about to take place, the day of Christ, the day of the Lord.
It's not going to take place yet, and he gives three different scenarios.
He says, it wasn't the Spirit, so it wasn't the Holy Spirit that taught you the day of
Christ is at hand.
He says, it's not the Word, it's not the Word of God that teaches you the day of Christ
is at hand, and he says, nor by letter as from us.
We didn't write you any letter saying the day of Christ is at hand.
He's saying, don't be troubled.
It just can't happen now.
Don't let anybody come in here and teach you something false like the day of Christ is
at hand.
Don't be troubled.
It's not going to take place right now.
Because it wasn't the Spirit, it wasn't the Word, it wasn't the letter, and the gathering
together, the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, he's saying it's not going to take place right
now.
At hand means about to take place, and he says, it's not going to happen right now.
Don't be troubled.
Why?
Verse 3, let no man deceive you by any means.
So people teaching a preacher of doctrine, the Bible's saying they're deceiving you.
Let no man deceive you by any means.
For that day, what day?
The day of Christ mentioned in verse 2, the day of the Lord that we're talking about.
For that day shall not come except there come a falling away first and that man of sin be
revealed the son of perdition.
Who is the man of sin?
Everybody would agree it's the antichrist.
Even pre-trib people are going to agree the man of sin's the antichrist.
The son of perdition, the man of sin, this is referring to the antichrist.
Who wants to raise their hand and tell me who the antichrist is?
Who knows?
Nobody knows.
Now people say, well, maybe it's Donald Trump.
Maybe it's Vladimir Putin.
I don't know.
But nobody knows.
You say, why?
Because he hasn't been revealed yet.
Nobody knows.
Then it says in verse 4, who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called
or that is worshiped, so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that
he is God.
And so the antichrist is basically going to say, I'm God.
He's going to declare himself.
And no, it's not referring to a certain man in some other island in the Philippines.
It's not who it's referring to in 2 Thessalonians 2.
But what it's saying here in verse 4 is he's going to oppose and exalt himself above all
that is called God.
He's going to go against God, declaring himself, showing himself that he is God.
Verse 5, remember ye not that when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
He says, I already told you these things.
And when he was with them, he told them this.
But you can go back to 1 Thessalonians, and he told them these things as well, that that
day shall not overtake you as a thief, it mentions.
Verse 6, and now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in this time.
For the mystery of iniquity doth already work, only he who now letteth will let, and till
be taken out of the way.
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.
So the wicked gets revealed first, and then the Lord consumes them with the brightness
of his coming.
What's funny about this, and look, I saw Left Behind like 15 years ago, like I saw the movie
or 14 years ago, something like that.
And they agree in Left Behind, and pretty much all people agree that the Antichrist
is going to do this in the middle of the seven years.
They agree on that.
And it's like, well, what are we arguing then?
Because it clearly says the wicked comes and then his coming, oh, maybe there's like four
or five comings or something.
Like, they just come up with all these weird, bizarre things.
If you just read 2 Thessalonians 2, it's not confusing, because he says the day of Christ
is not at hand.
What some of the dispensationalists try to do is say, well, the day of Christ and the
day of the Lord are just completely different things.
And they try to just make all these weird arguments, and it's like they're going to
be like the minor prophets to try to prove their points.
It's like, what in the world?
It's like the Bible was meant for us to understand it.
It's meant to be simple.
It's meant to be easy to understand.
And the book of Revelation, it says it's being revealed.
And so, look, does that mean we understand everything in Revelation?
No, but realize that when Peter was here and James and John, they're asking about the Second
Coming.
And what's taking place in Revelation is it's being revealed, because it's basically kind
of like the book of Daniel, but added information, and it's a lot more clear than the book of
Daniel.
Things are being revealed so they can understand them.
We don't understand everything that's going to happen in the end times.
I think there's a lot of verses that we would read over and not even understand what it's
talking about, because we're not to that day.
Kind of like in Malachi 3, in that verse where I said this is referring to the Sodomites,
a hundred years ago I would have never said that.
Because now that we have the Sodomite agenda, it's like, oh, wow, maybe that's what that's
actually talking about.
It shows the depth of the Bible.
So are there things we don't understand?
Yes.
Are there things in Revelation that are confusing?
Yes.
The timing of the rapture is not one of them, though.
That's actually pretty simple.
That's actually the basics, and it actually lines up perfectly with everything you look
at, whether it's New Testament, Old Testament.
And in 2 Thessalonians 2, it refers to His coming.
He says don't allow yourself to be shaken in mind or be troubled.
The day of Christ is not at hand.
First the Antichrist reveals himself, which pre-trib people agree is three and a half
years in.
It's like then the Lord shall destroy.
It's very simple.
Verse 9, even him, even him whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power
and signs and lying wonders.
When it says after the working of Satan, it's referring to the Antichrist.
He has the same power and signs and lying wonders where he's trying to deceive people.
So what do we see with the day of the Lord?
Well, we saw that this is going to be the destruction of the wicked.
We saw that we will tread upon them.
We see that God's laws are going to be reinstituted with the millennial reign, and we see that
God's return, Jesus' return, is not imminent.
Things must take place.
You say, why is this important though?
Because we preach this sometimes and people get mad at you for preaching the poster of
rapture or they think it's, I don't know why they would get mad.
They say you're like in a cult if you believe in a poster of rapture or something like that.
You're not welcome at some churches if you believe in a poster of rapture here in the
Philippines.
You can't get your Bible college degree.
But they think it's like a, and here's the thing, I think it's an important doctrine
because I think everything in the Bible is important.
But I don't dislike people that are preachers.
They literally will dislike us.
But you know, honestly, here's why it's so important.
Because everybody in the world, all religions are waiting for their Messiah, their Savior,
or whatever to come back.
They call them different names.
But I remember I was in college one time and look, I'd only been saved for a short time.
I know this is stupid.
I wouldn't do this now.
But you know, I was invited to a Muslim Bible study and I was just curious.
He said it was about the end times.
I was like, oh, I'm just kind of curious.
What do they believe about the end times?
And I remember he's talking about the end times and he's talking about the return of
their one.
I don't even remember what he said exactly.
But he was talking about someone returning and bringing peace to the earth.
I remember going soul winning with Pastor Jason Robinson in West Virginia and I was
a silent partner.
He's preaching the gospel.
And this Muslim's talking about what they believe and how there's going to be one that
comes and brings world peace.
And that's what all of these religions say.
It's like, yeah, that's the anti-Christ.
And they're literally describing the anti-Christ right in front of you.
And then you've got all these Christians saying, it's pre-trib, it's pre-trib.
We don't have a verse, but it's pre-trib, pre-trib return.
It's like, yeah, you know, everyone's waiting for the anti-Christ.
And it's just like, you know, when you believe it can happen at any moment, you know, you
have a bad understanding.
And what's taking place is all these religions are getting together, they're falling under
one system.
Pre-trib people are really helping set up the system for the anti-Christ.
That's the reality.
It's not what the Bible teaches.
And look, it's not confusing.
And the book of Revelation is meant to reveal.
It's not confusing.
There are deep parts in the Bible, but the timing of the rapture is not one of them.
And if you read the book of Revelation, and you can ask people, because I'm sure all of
us know pre-trib people that are just being stubborn or whatever, look, those people,
they don't understand at all.
They are very confused.
If they had 20 minutes to present their case, oh, man, it would be entertaining.
I would watch that.
That would be funny.
If they had 20 minutes to present their best arguments, you know, they would literally
be here just like, I don't know what to say.
For us, we could just read Matthew 24, and, you know, even if you have only read it a
couple times, you can just explain as you go, and it's like, wow, immediately after
the tribulation.
They don't understand what they're talking about.
Let's close in word of prayer.
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for allowing us to be here today and just getting to read
your word in the book of Malachi and finishing it up, God, and just looking at the timing
of the rapture and the day of the Lord, and, you know, it's all throughout the Bible and
all of your word is important, God.
Help us to understand these things and continue to learn, and we just pray these things in
Jesus' name.
Amen.