continue to pray for the expecting mothers. We're obviously today is Father's Day, but we're having
our summer family nights coming up right here. And so one of the events that we'll be having
is on June 22nd, we have our Nacho Fellowship, but also we have a sheet that Pastor Munoz created
so that has a list of all the events that we're going to have going on throughout this time.
One thing to kind of note on that sheet is June 20th, we have Brother Marcos's,
Brother Marcos and Brother Hernandez's team that will be meeting on June 20th.
Tijuana Mission Strip, and outside of that, there's the rest of the events that are listed
there below. So we have our Tijuana Mission Strip on Saturday, June 28th, at the meeting at the
building at 915 a.m. If you'd like to participate in that, then you can go on and reach out to
Brother Hernandez. And then we also have our Jumpers and Hot Dogs on June 29th, and then our
Fourth of July Picnic, which will be July 4th on the Friday. There's some special instructions
and the address is there. There's a sign-up sheet for attendance and also for having the
ability to bring or bringing something as well. So outside of that, that is about it for the
announcements. Please silence your phone to not be a disturbance to the service and open up your
hymnals to song number 363. 363, Wonderful Words of Life. 363. Let's get on that first verse.
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Tonight we're in Matthew chapter 24.
Matthew 24, the Bible reads,
And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying,
Tell us, when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you; for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ, and shall deceive many.
And ye shall hear wars, and rumors of wars; see that ye be not troubled, for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
For nations shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, and diverse places; all these are the beginning of sorrows.
Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you; and ye shall be hated of all nations, for my name's sake.
And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations, and then shall the end come.
When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of, by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, whoso readeth, let him understand.
Then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains. Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take anything out of his house.
Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days.
But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day. For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved. But for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there, believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets,
and shall show great signs and wonders, insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before.
Wherefore, if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert, go not forth. Behold, he is in the secret chambers, believe it not.
For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be.
For wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
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 heavens shall be shaken.
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 into the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
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.
Now learn a parable of the fig tree. When his branch is yet tender, and put forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh.
So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, this generation shall not pass till all these things be fulfilled.
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away. But if that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. But as the days of Noah were, so shall the coming of the Son of man be.
For as in the days that were before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away, so shall the coming of the Son of man be.
Then two shall be in the field, the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill, the one shall be taken, and the other left. Watch therefore, for you know not what hour your Lord doth come.
But know this, that if the good men of the house had known in what watch the thief should come, he would have watched and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. Therefore, be ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of man cometh, who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his Lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in his due season. Blessed is that servant, whom his Lord, when he cometh, shall find so doing. Verily I say unto you, that he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
But, and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My Lord, delayeth his coming,
and shall begin to smite his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken, the
Lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him in an hour that he
is not aware of, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites,
that shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Let's pray.
Dear Lord, God, just thank you for this time we have this evening, Lord, to hear the preaching
of your word.
Lord, just please bless this service, Lord, and be with us, Lord, in the congregation,
and please be with Pastor, and fill him with the Spirit, Lord, as he preaches unto us your
word.
Lord, we pray this all in Jesus' name.
Amen.
Okay, we're in Matthew chapter 24 this evening.
Look down at verse 6.
It says, "And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars.
See thee, be not troubled, for all these things must come to pass."
And I want you to notice this, but the end is not yet.
So the Bible's telling us here that even when we see wars and we hear about nations,
rumors about nations rising up against nations and going to war, you know, you shouldn't
be troubled, you shouldn't get nervous, you shouldn't start posting all types of things
saying, "Hey, the end is near, the third temple is near, Jesus Christ is coming."
It says why, because the end is not yet.
In spite of the fact that there are wars taking place, nations are rising against nations,
God is specifically telling us here that is not the marker that you should be looking
for when it comes to the coming of the Antichrist and of course when it comes to the second
coming of Jesus Christ.
Now one of the reasons I want to preach this is because Israel as its manner is, is getting
involved in wars with Iran and doing what they do best of course.
And a lot of times when things like this happen, when you hear about wars taking place throughout
the world, automatically people who are uneducated in the word of God, who don't necessarily
know how to decipher end times Bible prophecy, automatically think, "Hey, I wonder because
there's a war in the Middle East, Israel's involved, this might be the beginning of the
tribulation."
And obviously people like that are getting their information from YouTube, social media,
they're not necessarily getting it from the Bible itself.
And so I know that none of our church members are like that of course, and after this sermon
if you are, you probably will cease being that way.
But lest you should fall into that same trap of deception and this boy who cries wolf type
of mentality, we need to make sure that we stay on our toes when it comes to end times
prophecy, stay educated when it comes to the timeline of end times of when the Antichrist
comes as well as the Lord.
And so tonight I'm going to go verse by verse regarding Matthew chapter 24 and just give
you the events leading up to the second coming of Jesus Christ.
Now let me start off by saying by way of introduction, having nothing to do with the sermon and that
is that the United States of America should not get involved with this war, should not
aid Israel in fighting against Iran.
You say why?
Well let me just give you a scriptural reason as to why, okay?
And the scriptural reason is that no nation should ever aid a wicked, godless, Christ-hating
nation in wars against other people, okay?
Especially when it comes to Israel because Israel is the greatest Christ-hating nation
that exists on the face of the planet, okay?
And quite frankly, the Bible teaches us that when a nation does that, they actually end
up in curing the wrath of God upon themselves by proxy because God does not see appropriate
for any nation to aid and help and go to war with or join affinity with a nation who hates
the Lord.
In fact, we have an example of this in the Old Testament, where you have a righteous
king by the name of Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat was a righteous king, okay?
And he was the king of the southern kingdom of Judah, and although he was righteous and
he was a great man, you know, he just had a lot of bad associations.
And so he's a good guy, but he has an affinity with the northern kingdom of Israel, whose
king at that time was Ahab.
We all know Ahab.
He's the henpecked husband, I preached a lot of sermons on him, but he's extremely wicked.
He's married to Jezebel.
He is an idolater.
God does not like Ahab at all.
And so Ahab comes to Jehoshaphat and essentially persuades him to get involved in a war against
Syria.
Now, the Syrians had no beef with Judah.
They had no beef with Jehoshaphat, they didn't want nothing to do with Jehoshaphat.
There's nothing going on between them and Jehoshaphat.
But Jehoshaphat gets involved in this war against Syria because he's trying to back
up Ahab, that northern kingdom, okay?
And you can read the story in 2 Chronicles chapter 18, and it's just like, "Jehoshaphat,
what are you doing?"
You know, and he's just like, "Join me, we're going to take over Syria."
And he's like, "I am as thou art, and my people as thy people."
It's like, "All right, Ruth, you know, chill out."
So they make a long story short, you have them going to war, and you know, Ahab, because
he's so wicked, he's not looking for the benefit of Jehoshaphat.
He doesn't care what happens to him, which is why he tells Jehoshaphat to dress like
he does.
Right?
He's just like, you know, disguise yourself as the king of the northern kingdom, and Jehoshaphat
is kind of stupid, you know?
He's just like, bro, you know, they're going to kill you if they think, you know, because
they're going after Ahab.
But of course, because the Lord wants to slay Ahab, you know, the Bible talks about a man
drawing a bow at a venture, and essentially ends up finding Ahab.
It smites him between the joints of the harness.
He ends up bleeding out, and he ends up dying.
So, you know, you can disguise yourself, you can bring someone else to help you.
At the end of the day, you can't escape the judgment of God, right?
Some guy can just literally close his eyes and launch an arrow, and it'll still get
you, okay?
If God wants you dead.
Now, thankfully, Jehoshaphat, he ends up escaping the war unscathed, but he does get scorned
by God, because he sends Jehu, the son of Hanani, to go and preach against Jehoshaphat,
and he gives us the famous passage in 2 Chronicles chapter 19 that says, "Shouldest thou help
the ungodly and love them that hate the Lord?"
Now, who is he talking about?
Well, the ungodly is referring to Ahab, and those that hate the Lord is referring to Ahab.
Now, ironically, Ahab is the king of what?
Israel.
And he says, "Therefore, wrath is upon thee from before the Lord."
So he's essentially saying, you are going to suffer the consequences by proxy because
you're helping an ungodly hater of God.
And obviously, we read the rest of the story, judgment does not come upon Jehoshaphat because
he essentially repents.
But the warning still applies to us today as a nation.
We should not help ungodly Israel carry out their wicked desire against other nations.
And so that's not part of the sermon, but people need to hear that.
And the people who need to hear it the most are these Republican conservatives.
They're like, "Hey, if you're waving the Mexican flag, why don't you go back to that
nation?"
Well, okay, then let's have every church who waves the Israeli flag go to Israel then too.
And by the way, I agree with that first statement, but if you really want to draw the line, you
know, why don't we take all these churches that are waving the Israeli flag and send
them back to Israel too, if you love Israel that much.
You know, they're like, "America first," then stop waving the Israeli flag around.
Bullicker.
Point that I'm making here is that we, you know, I'm for the philosophy of America first
because this is the nation in which we live.
So it's crazy that people would think, "No, we really got to support Israel," and, you
know, "there's God's chosen people."
It's nonsense.
Okay?
So anyways, that was all introduction.
It had nothing to do with Matthew 24, but I'm tying it in somehow because there's wars
going on and stuff, so, you know, it's always good to mention that.
All right, let's get into it.
So the first three verses, what we're going to look at here is the prediction of 70 AD
along with the end of the world and the rapture.
Verse one says, "And Jesus went out and departed from the temple, and his disciples came to
him for to show him the buildings of the temple.
And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things, barely I say unto you, there shall
not be left here one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down.
And as he sat upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately saying,
Tell us when shall these things be and what shall be the sign of thy coming and of the
end of the world.
So in light of his condemnation, his prediction of the destruction of the temple, they're
just like, Whoa, you know, so what shall be the sign of that coming?
What is this going to happen?
Okay.
Now he is going to address this in a two part type of an answer because the first answer
has to do with the destruction of the temple that came in 70 A.D., understand?
And one thing you have to know, one thing you have to understand that when it comes
to end times prophecy, a lot of it, yes, was fulfilled in the past, but it doesn't
mean that it's completely fulfilled because there is a foreshadowing even in
those past fulfillments. When you when we hear about Antiochus Epiphanes, he is a
picture of the Antichrist. When you hear about Titus destroying the temple in 70
A.D., he is a picture of the Antichrist, so to speak, but it's all a foreshadowing
of an ultimate fulfillment in end times Bible prophecy. And the reason that's
important to know is because you have a stupid doctrine out there known as
Preterism that seeks to say well all this has already taken place, nothing to
see here, revelation is not for us, you know let's ignore all this, this stuff
already happened. And what Preterism is, is simply a knee-jerk reaction to the
pre-tribulation rapture. Because the pre-tribulation rapture is false, right?
Pre-tribulation rapture and Zionism go hand-in-hand. The problem is, is that
people see through the deception of the pre-tribulation rapture, they see through
the deception of Zionism, and they end up going the opposite extreme to
preterism and say well all this has already been fulfilled, the rapture is
not even real. But you know that is a false doctrine because it's a false
doctrine that was even taught in Paul's day where you have men claiming that the
resurrection was passed already. That's called preterism. We know the
resurrection is not passed. The point that I'm making here is Jesus Christ is
talking about the destruction of the temple that came in 70 AD, but he takes
advantage of that particular question to address a more broader fulfillment of
end times Bible prophecy regarding the second coming of Christ and you know the
end of the world and quite frankly we can say that 70 AD was essentially like
a day of the Lord because when you study the term the phrase the day of the Lord
in the Old Testament it is strongly associated with the judgment of God in
the New Testament the emphasis on the day of the Lord is more heavily placed on
the rapture but it's two sides of the same coin the day of the Lord is the
rapture but it's also the judgment of God that ends up coming upon the world on
the same exact day it's redemption for us it's revenge for them understand or
revenge upon them should I say and so he addresses this and he begins to tell
them what are the signs of his coming and of the end of the world now the
first thing he addresses in verses four five and six is that there's gonna be a
major deception okay look at verse number four Jesus answered and sent into
them take heed that no man deceive you now folks we have to pay attention to
that okay because right off the bat before he even addresses any of the
elements any of the factors involved in end times Bible prophecy he starts off
by explaining hey you need to make sure that you pay attention you give heed
because a lot of deception is gonna be taking place and you got to make sure
that you are not deceived you're not being lied to now what is deception
other than we obviously know it's a lie it's something that is false but if you
think about it deception is has truth mixed in it as well because in order to
pass it off in order to make it believable it has to have some substance
of truth in it which is why people believe it right if you just came out
with an outright lie people are gonna reject it they're not gonna accept it
but if it has a measure of truth within it then it can deceive people it can
cause people to believe whatever they're telling them is true so he starts off by
explaining you need to make sure that you're not deceived by this okay says
the first number five for many shall come in my name saying I am Christ and
shall deceive many now look we don't have to go very far in history to see
that that's true and obviously when we talk about in context of intense Bible
prophecy we know that there's one main person who's gonna come and say I am
Christ the Antichrist but we also know that there's been various individuals
throughout history even in recent history who have claimed that they were
Jesus Christ I mean you have a guy recently who was saying that like he's
the Christ he's the Imam he's like everything and you know you think
yourself like you know how can people be deceived by this like this sounds so
retarded but people believe it though people believe it and you just kind of
like racking your brain like really you would believe this but there's people
sitting front and center just listening to them just eating up with fork and
spoon you know why because of the fact that people are just gullible it's a
spirit of deception it's obviously people you know I'm not trying to be
disrespectful oh wait I am they're stupid sometimes you know we need to
make sure that we the simple the Bible says that the simple believe in every
word in our punish we can't be simple-minded regarding the Word of God
and just believe everything that we see on the internet everything that we see
on social media and on YouTube no matter how convincing it may sound we need to
make sure that we prove all things hold fast that which is good why because the
Bible tells us here that deception will permeate society many are gonna be
deceived you have some guy with the beer claiming to use Christ and he will
garner a following because of that people will believe it says it verse 6
and you see you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars so keep in mind this is
all still in context of deception part of the deception is that you're gonna
have people coming saying I am Christ I am the Messiah I am the chosen one don't
be deceived but then he says you're also gonna hear about wars and rumors of wars
now if someone comes and says they're Christ they're trying to convince you
that the end is near if someone also comes to you and says hey there's a war
going on in the Middle East I heard about a war taking place what does it say
see thee be not troubled for all these things must come to pass and here's the
key but the end is not yet now that's important to know why well because if
you go on social media during any war no matter what war it is you will find
people that are saying that we're in the end and look I've seen specific people
pop their heads on social media only when stuff like this happens it's true
why because they're afraid because they're ignorant of what the Bible says
now here's what's interesting to me okay because if I was that person who was
deceived into thinking that the wars and rumors of wars that are currently going
on if I were to believe that those wars isn't was an indicator that we are in
the end times I would not be posting about it you know what I'll be doing
getting right with God you know what I would be doing I'd be winning souls to
Christ you know what I would be doing reading the Bible you know what I'd be
doing going to church not posting about it I'm gonna be oh man I'm gonna get
ahead on this one see how many likes I could get on this if you really thought
that those wars and rumors of wars were precursors to the end of the world you
know do something spiritual about it rather than just post some stupid post
about it's the end of the world because all you're doing is looking dumb when it
doesn't happen and look folks you know the greatest hindrance or should I say
the people who are the most responsible for dumbing down Christianity are
Christians themselves they're the ones who are responsible for crying wolf and
they're the reason why the Bible says in 2nd Peter chapter 3 that there's
gonna be scoffers in the last day who shall say where is the promise of his
coming for since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as the word from
the beginning of the creation you know there's gonna be so many people crying
wolf throughout history that when the end does come the Antichrist does come a
lot of people are gonna be like yeah you posted about this a long time ago
it just never happened you know you said that the wars and rumors of wars was an
indicator that we're in the end times you made this big hoopla about it and
nothing ever happened you guys have been saying this for a long time so really a
lot of these people are kind of playing into making people gullible because you
know what the public is gonna get tired of that they're gonna lose faith in the
Bible which is why such a grand deception can be introduced into society
in the end of the world and people are gonna believe it because there's been
so many Christians throughout history that have said it's the end it's the end
it's the end and just nothing ever happens why because there's just ignorant
of the Bible they are desiring to be teachers of the law understanding
neither what they say nor of they affirm folks if you don't know what
you're talking about shut up don't talk about it if you don't know what the
Bible says about end times prophecy or any subject of the Bible just zip it
just be quiet about it if you don't have a plenary understanding of these
particular subjects why because you could do more damage than good and you
end up discrediting yourself as a Christian you bring a reproach to
Christianity in the Bible because when these things are not fulfilled when you
claim that they were then people are gonna point to you and say see this is
what Christianity is they say dumb stuff like this all the time point that I'm
making here is that the Bible is even saying that even when they are wars and
rumors of wars the end is not yet now let me also say this because verses 7
through 14 is where we get into what we what the Bible referred to as the
beginning of sorrows and we would call it the tribulation and that's a valid you
know type of title to give it but the biblical term would be the beginning of
sorrows and this is referring to the thousand two hundred and sixty days
prior to Great Tribulation which is the fifth seal where Christians are being
martyred and put to death right and you know this is you know the first four
horsemen of the apocalypse the Antichrist going forth conquering to
conquer wars famines pestilences death on a massive scale okay these are
essentially what comes first before the martyrdom of Christians and before the
second coming of Jesus Christ everyone understand that but let me just say this
is that the Bible doesn't seem to indicate that even just because those
things take place the end is there which is kind of crazy if you think about it
because what the Bible tells us to actually look for it gives us the
elements of end times prophecy it gives us the elements of the beginning of
sorrows but what it actually tells us to look for is what the abomination of
desolation and in fact skip down to verse 14 it says in this gospel of the
kingdom shall be preached into all the world for a witness into all nations and
then shall the end come okay and then of course verse 15 talks about the
abomination of desolation he says wherefore when ye therefore shall see the
abomination of desolation we'll get into that just a bit so the main thing we
should be looking for is the abomination of desolation not
necessarily the first four horsemen of the apocalypse now what's the point
that I'm trying to drive out here well I just want to say this is that you know
when there's wars and rumors of wars it doesn't mean that the end is near and
may I even be bold enough to say this even if there's famines pestilences and
death on a massive scale and yes sometimes even martyrdom that's not
necessarily an indicator that the end is near either because you know those
things have happened throughout history and the end did not come now you say
well yeah that makes sense yeah but hold on a second you know that there's been
times throughout history when this has happened and Christians did think it was
the end and you know what they could have been you know they were probably
believed by many it was probably very valid in their eyes when you see
Christians dying when you see famines pestilences death on a massive scale
you have these anti-christ type figures who are conquering the world that could
be an indicator I think the end is near because it's matching up with what the
Bible says but the Bible never tells us to look for those specific things to
indicate that we are in the end time so if these things have happened throughout
history and I'm talking about you know the first four horsemen of the apocalypse
type stuff we still need to make sure that we look for one particular thing
and that's the abomination of desolation and we'll get in there in just a bit the
point that I'm making here is that it is possible there is a possibility that
wars and rumors of wars can lead up to famines in our lifetime by the way they
can lead up to pestilences in our lifetime and quite frankly it could even
lead up to martyrdom of Christians and it's still not the end of the world it's
not the beginning of sorrows as we see in the Bible because this stuff has
happened throughout history I mean brother Mark was just telling me you know
he's just like yeah what about the inquisition you have people taking over
you have Christians dying on a massive scale I'm sure Christians at that time
thought oh we're living out this is the end but here we are you know hundreds of
years later and you know the second coming of Christ is still not you the
point that I'm making here is that these are elements that are involved in end
times prophecy but they're not necessarily elements that we should be
looking for to lend veracity that we are in the end times right now okay as far
as the timeline of end times Bible prophecy is concerned as far as the
thousand two hundred sixty days is concerned you say the people really
believe that well let me just remind you of corona virus can I just remind you
of 2020 when everyone lost their minds and their dignity I mean folks I hate to
be a broken record here but I'm not gonna let you forget never forget some
of the dumb nonsense that people were spouting off I remember people telling
me like hey you know I don't know man corona virus corona's crown a crown is
given to him you know you know it's a disease past the lens I don't know man
it's just like oh you know and then you got the guy from France what's the guy
what was the guys what is it Macron yeah you know mark of the
beast Macron I mean other people were telling me I don't know mask mark just
one letter off there uh-huh I promise you people were saying this I'm not
just being funny I'm funny but I'm not that funny I'm not like clown funny you
know I'm trying to tell you what people were actually telling me they were
literally saying like hey you ever notice that mask and mark kind of same
there just one letter off and I'm just like stupid can't exist this much is this
real and and here's the thing and people believe like man this was the beginning
of the end and these are people who understood the timeline essentially like
how long the end is because we're talking about a thousand 260 days then
you have 70 days thereafter before the second coming of Christ well here we are
in 2025 it's been longer than three and a half years since coronavirus and yet
here we are right and and look you know I don't want to be a byword in a proverb
of someone who's claiming that the end is near and then it just never happens
and then I just look like a fool understand I rather just have faith in
the Bible and so you know and and let me also say this is that when the Bible
admonishes us to watch and pray you know in the Greek it doesn't say watch
social media watch the wars and rumors of wars watch Alex Jones watch what's
going on in the Middle East watch from the biblical definition of watch is be
in the spirit that's literally what it means if we're to take that that term
that word watch and see what the New Testament has to say about it it's
referring to the fact that you are spiritually awake meaning that you're
filled with the Spirit meaning you're not asleep not physically but you're
spiritually not asleep awake to righteousness and sin not for some have
not the knowledge of God I speak this to your shame awake thou that sleep is you
know in Christ shall give thee light the Bible says arise from the dead in Christ
shall give thee light it's referring to a spiritual awakening the fact that the
Lord is enlightening your eyes through the scriptures you're winning souls to
Christ you're pleasing God you're filled with the Spirit that's what it means to
watch it's not like today in Iran today in Israel today about Macron or you know
just going down all the conspiracy rabbit holes of just nonsense that's
not what it means to watch that's actually fleshly is what it is okay and
so I just want to prepare you for that because I'm not saying that the end is
not gonna happen in our is not gonna happen in our lifetime because it very
well it very well could happen in our lifetime for sure okay there's a major
possibility but what I'm saying is if these elements take place within our
lifetime I'm not trying to have a church freaking out you know what I mean and
start like you know oh man we gotta we gotta like collect food and you know I
got I got beans for weeks under my floorboards and all this stuff we need
to make sure that we are spirit-filled we're serving God we're serving Christ
we're basically doing exactly what we're doing right now okay all right point
that I'm making here is verse 6 clearly tells us even if there's wars and rumors
of wars the end is not yet look at verse 7 this is what Jesus calls the beginning
of sorrows we just call it tribulation it says in verse 7 for nation shall rise
against nation and kingdom against kingdom and there shall be famines and
pestilences and earthquakes in diverse places all these see all these are the
beginning of sorrows then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted and shall
kill you and you shall be hated of all nations for my name sake and then many
shall be offended and shall betray one another and shall hate one another and
many false prophets shall rise and shall deceive many and because the
iniquity shall bound the love of many shall wax cold but he that shall endure
until the end the same shall be saved now let me break down some of these
verses here first and foremost verse 7 is highlighting the beginning of the
tribulation the beginning of sorrows and this tribulation isn't just something
that affects Christians is actually a worldwide affliction because when we
look at Revelation chapter 6 for example and the first four seals of the of the
apocalypse what we see is the white horse the red horse the black horse and
the pale horse right the white horse representing the Antichrist who is given
the crown he has a bow and he's going forth conquering and to conquer this
doesn't mean that the public knows who he is it just stating that this is when
he comes on the scene and he's going forth conquering and to conquer he is
starting wars he is conquering land he's making a name for himself the second
horse of the apocalypse is the red horse and this is a horse of war this is where
wars this is what verse 7 is referring to nation against nation kingdom against
kingdom so you can see how this is kind of hard to decipher to tell if this is
in our day because there's always wars going on right there's always wars
happening everywhere you know the military industrial complex is all it's
always booming right it's always wars taking place so it's telling us here
that this is what's gonna happen in the end times and it says that there's gonna
be famines famines is the black horse okay what the pair of balances in his
hand measure of wheat for a penny through measures of barley for a penny
and see thou touch not the oil and the wine this is referring to major
inflation due to famine okay and then he says pestilences earthquakes in diverse
places this is the pale horse that is essentially a compilation of the effects
of the previous horses the results in massive death okay a lot of a lot of
people are dying during this time but the point that I'm making here is the
beginning of sorrows is something that affects the entire world we can call a
tribulation upon ourselves but really what it is is just tribulation upon the
entire world and this is why in Revelation chapter 12 it pictures the
woman going into the wilderness for a thousand two hundred and sixty days and
some people try to surmise who is the woman referring to well the woman is
referring to Eve because she is the mother of all living and because it
gives us that number of a thousand two hundred and sixty days we know that it's
referring to those first four seals okay and because it affects the entire world
it would make sense that the woman is Eve since her children so to speak all
of mankind is experiencing this tribulation is not just safe people but
also unsafe people that are experiencing the nation rising against nation the
famines pestilences earthquakes and death on a massive scale now what is the
point of those first four horsemen of the apocalypse well I personally believe
that this is just man-made stuff here okay this isn't God imposing these seals
upon the world it's Satan it's the Antichrist constructing these events in
order to help him catapult the New World Order you understand you see how so well
if you have famines taking place right because of major inflation you know the
dollars crashing you have all these problems with finances because of what
the economy because of the wars well there's gonna be a reset of all that okay
and so when the Antichrist comes on the scene he's going to use the famines and
pestilences as a catalyst to introduce what the mark of the beast because what
is the mark of the beast well when you read Revelation chapter 13 we come to
the realization that the mark of the beast is passed off as technology that is
used so you can buy and sell right essentially it's the one world currency
that the world will you know have through the introduction of the Antichrist
so that people can buy and sell and so he's using this cataclysmic event known
as the famines the pestilences the wars that took place to introduce this mark
of the beast and say hey why don't we just you know forget the euro forget the
dollar forget whatever and let's just use a one-world currency hit a reset
button on the economy we'll just use this one thing here and now we just all
use this particular currency obviously it's not gonna be called the mark of
the beast probably gonna be called something else okay now this is
important why because even now we already have the technology to institute
the mark of the beast right I mean I use Apple pay all the time on my phone you
know and you even have Amazon one for example where you know you just you
just wave your hand to the the little cashier is like you just you go to the
store you make your grocery list you know and you can pay with your palm and
what are they doing they're obviously conditioning the public to accept that
technology and even when that technology was rolled out you had a lot of
Christians like I'm never gonna get that it's not gonna that's the mark of the
beast but you and I both know that that's not the market okay and you know
obviously some of these people mean well and I can understand why they would be
hesitant to to adopt that technology because they are precursors to the mark
of the beast the problem is is that it's not the mark of the beast and so
because they are uneducated on the biblical timeline of end times prophecy
they believe that's the mark of the beast so here we are three years later
nothing happens and now the people are like hey I thought you said I was the
mark of the beast you know I'm actually you know I just paid for my Amazon Prime
on this and I got Netflix now you know there's just nothing's happening I'm not
damned or something but what's being what's taking place is a conditioning
for this technology because people often when they read Revelation 13 they think
the mark of the beast is just all of a sudden just rolled out to society and
then people just take it right but that's not necessary was taking place
the mark of the beast the technology for the mark of the beast has already been
been circulating within society for a long periods of time it's already been
accepted right the society in the world have already been conditioned to kind of
accept the mark of the beast the technology of the mark of the beast so
that when the mark of the beast is rolled out it's just like an upgrade for
them understand got a chip on there the difference is like you're gonna get one
on your forehead instead okay what's the difference between the right hand of the
forehead you know this is 4g this is 5g one's faster than the other or whatever
you know and so obviously this is gonna be introduced as a matter of convenience
but it's in my opinion that by the time we get to this particular point here
there will be people who already have the chip in their right hand possibly
possibly maybe even have a chip on their forehead and it's already been
normalized in society to have such a thing that can that really happen though
pastor can this be really be normalized I mean my phone right you can do it on
your iWatch it's just normal now and you know what 2020 made in that normal
right oh you don't want to get coronavirus and look let me just tell
you right off the bat I'm for new world order technology this is let me make
myself very clear here okay AI is awesome new world order technology is
awesome how can you say it well cuz I'm saved and there's no stopping the new
world order first and foremost okay I'm not an accelerationist okay I'm not a
fatalist but I'm not gonna just I'm not gonna be an Amish dude you know I mean
like I'm gonna utilize the technology available for the greater good until we
get turned off okay but you know until then I'm just gonna keep using it now
I'm probably not gonna get the chip in my right hand you know just because you
know it's just that's kind of weird but what I'm saying is society is just
already being conditioned to accept these things and even Christians will be
conditioned to accept these things and quite frankly it's not really bad if
Christians accept it as being a technological advancement in society as
long as they know what the Bible says about this because you don't want to be
someone who's saying oh the vaccines the mark of the beast which people were
saying that too how many remember that don't get coronavirus and look I'm not
for vaccines I don't get vaccines okay I haven't been vaccinated you know since
I was like a kid okay you know and I'm not the Mexican who has the you know
that whatever but I was vaccinated as a child but I haven't been vaccinated but
let me just say this like I do not believe the vaccine is the mark of the
beast okay and I remember during 2020 I was
going at it with this guy online we're doing a live and this guy was like no
the vaccine is the mark of the beast this guy's a false prophet Christians
are dying in China right now and I'm just like there's a ton of Christians in
America that are not getting killed and you know that's weird that you said the
vaccine is the mark of the beast because I've never seen anybody take a vaccine
in their forehead but all this is to condition everyone to accept these
things and obviously you know these technologies are already rolled out by
the time we get to this point though in history for the end times this stuff
will already be accepted now I'm mentioning this because of the fact that
when the mark of the beast is rolled out it's brought out under the guise of
being the alternative to having separate currencies right and this is far more a
far more superior system that we can operate under far more convenient we
need a reset we had a global catastrophe and therefore here's the reset for the
economy the mark of the beast or whatever it is they're gonna call it now
that is what they're kind of proposing it as in the end times according to
Revelation 13 but what's the real reason for the mark of the beast the real
reason for the mark of the beast is to sift out believers to kill believers
because the only ones who are incapable of taking the mark of the beast will be
believers so it's not that the Antichrist cares for anyone's convenience
he wants him to buy and sell no the purpose of the mark of the beast is to
find Christians because they are the only ones who are not gonna be able to
take it how do we know well the only ones who are qualified to take the mark
of the beast are those who worship the Antichrist well someone who saved will
not be able to worship the Antichrist now obviously it's a little obscure you
know we see through a glass darkly we don't necessarily know beyond a shadow
of a doubt how is it that the Antichrist will be able to know if you worship him
or not right we don't necessarily know we can obviously say oh a person will
just never deny Christ but you know the Apostle Peter you know you know he did
three times right so it's possible that people are gonna be able to do it there's
gonna be some maybe some sort of technological advancement or well where
they'll know that you're lying basically okay the mark of the beast is put forth
not to help the economy it's put forth to kill Christians to find Christians
and to kill Christians how do we know the Bible says in Revelation 13 that the
Antichrist makes war with the Saints and he overcomes them Christians will be
public enemy number one in the end times and in order for him to
locate them in order for him to find them he's gonna do it through the system
of instituting the mark of the beast there's probably gonna be stations all
around the world where you get your mark of the beast in order for you to buy and
sell and you know I'm sure there's gonna be a lot of weak Christians going to
these stations you know because they're just like I just need canes you know I
just need my in-and-out you know I'm sorry Lord but then once you get there
it's just like off with his head okay and so the point that I'm making here is
that this is where the mark of the beast fits in to Matthew 24 is the famines
pestilences earthquakes they're being used as a catalyst for the mark of the
beast to be instituted in order to find Christians which is why it says in verse
number nine then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted and shall kill you
and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake and then shall many be
offended and shall betray one another and shall hate one another so the verse
seven is highlighting the first four horsemen of the apocalypse the fifth seal
in Revelation chapter 6 is what verses 9 and 10 are referring to because after
the fourth seal is revealed which is the pale horse the mark of the beast is
instituted at this particular point in the timeline you have the Antichrist
receiving a deadly wound to the head because he's going forth conquering and
to conquer and I'm not gonna get into what my theory is but let me just give
you a little synopsis if I may I do believe that the Antichrist will probably
receive a deadly wound to the head in a war against Islam okay I think that's
what's probably gonna happen and Islam during this time will be viewed as the
Antichrist that the Bible is talking about right they will be portrayed as
that New World Order the Antichrist that the Bible is predicting and the
Antichrist the son of perdition will essentially be viewed as the Christ who
defeats Islam okay and in war with Islam will eventually receive a daily wound to
the head he'll die essentially a martyr's death and then three days later
he will come back to life and it's at that point that he will proclaim himself
to be God now why do I think that he's gonna go to war with Islam well because
of the fact that the the most common narrative in mainstream Christianity
regarding the Antichrist is that it's Islam the Imam Islam Muslims they're the
Antichrist they're Ishmael they're the ones that we need to be looking out for
and now look Islam is an Antichrist religion no doubt about that but the
Antichrist is gonna be a Jew you know and and Christians did just need to wake
up to this because you know Muslims are not didn't exist during this time the
Lord's not even mentioning Muslims or Islam you know there's someone who's
coming in his own name okay and there's a reason he's called an antichrist right
he's referring he's coming in the place of Jesus Christ well in order for you to
come in the place of Jesus Christ you have to kind of look like Jesus Christ
right you have to be a fraudulent Christ remember we said in the beginning the
deception has to have a little bit of truth mixed in which is why when the
Antichrist shows up on the scene of Revelation chapter 6 he's coming on what
someone tell me a white horse how does Jesus Christ come in Revelation 19 on a
white horse when Jesus Christ comes on a white horse in Revelation 19
he's gonna go what make war and then what does he do after he makes war
he sets up his what his millennial kingdom well that's exactly what the
Antichrist is gonna do he's gonna go forth conquering and to conquer and once
he's done conquering he's setting up his millennial reign which is essentially
the New World Order understand so it is a fraudulent Christ he's coming in the
place of Christ and so before that takes place obviously you have all these four
horse the four horsemen of the apocalypse coming on the scene the fifth
seal is the martyrdom of Christians which is why they're being delivered and
being killed and it says the first ten that many shall be offended what does
that mean it means believe it or not this is the sad part okay Christians
will be killed and there's some Christians that will be delivered by
other Christians into the hand of the enemy as well and you know we don't
have time to go into it but you could go read Matthew chapter 10 that gives you
the sad reality of how it's gonna happen you know this persecution is
gonna be so severe that the Bible talks about that your own children rise up
against you anything how could that happen folks we just saw that happen
like a couple months ago we talk that's like common now you know children
rising up against their parents parents going against their children this is
happening even now how much more when you have all of these elements in the
world you're gonna have your children God forbid you know delivering you up to be
killed delivering you up to be executed you know because you are a Christian
this is why it says that many shall be offended and this is many false prophets
shall rise and shall deceive many now I don't necessarily believe that this is
referring to the false prophet who is essentially the forerunner of the
Antichrist it could be but it seems to mention this as a plural meaning there's
many and the way I would interpret this is to mean that in the end times you
obviously have the Antichrist and you have the false prophet but then you have
many false prophets who are carrying out their orders and preaching their message
you know and we have those today you know non-denom churches you know you
have all these all these kinds of pastors out there you know Greg Locke
and whatnot and you know what's that fat guy's name who promotes Israel all the
time John Hagee you know who who's another one who's Robert Breaker you
know there's all types of false prophets even now that are promoting new world
order doctrine right dispensationalism is new world order doctrine
preterism is new world order doctrine okay and so during this particular time
you'll have a lot of false prophets promoting that new world order and let's
move on here verse 13 says but he that shall endure until the end the same
shall be saved now obviously this verse has been abused and misconstrued to say
that we have to live out the Christian life until the end if we're gonna be
justified and be able to go to heaven but that's not the context now is it
say from what we'll save from verse 9 being delivered up to be afflicted and
be killed so if you're able to make it through the thousand two hundred and
sixty days he ain't even passed the 70 days of persecution you will be saved
from that persecution to see the Lord coming in the clouds that's what it's
referring to and the proof of that is verse 22 that says except those days
should be shortened there shall no flesh be saved but for the elect's sake those
days shall be shortened so it says that no flesh shall be saved and of course
according to verse 9 saved from being killed being afflicted being delivered
up all right now look at verse 15 here so up until this point we've seen the
first five seals of Revelation chapter 6 okay now verse 15 is still on the fifth
seal but it's giving us specific details regarding that particular seal because
when you look at verse 7 and 9 that's my baby you know so forgive her let's just
a moment of silence please while she exits the auditorium she's not happy
about this fifth seal when we look at verses 7 and 8 and 9 we don't really see
a break there and we don't see how is it that you go from the beginning of
sorrows and all of a sudden we're just being killed so the Lord divulges us
the information necessary for us to know what is it that we should be looking
for between the fourth and the fifth seal and that is verse 15 when you
therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the
prophet stand in the holy place whoso readeth let him understand then let
them which be in Judea flee into the mountains let him which is on the
housetop not come down to take anything out of his house neither let him which
is in the field return back to take his clothes and woe unto them that are with
child and to them that gifts suck in those days but pray that your flight be
not in the winter neither on the Sabbath day for then shall be great
tribulation such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time no
nor ever shall be so let me just give you a little synopsis of what this is
referring to so you have the first four seals which is beginning of sorrows
after the Antichrist receives a deadly wound to the head according to
Revelation 13 he comes back to life now how does he do it it's not because God
is giving him life it's actually because Satan possesses him okay he possesses
his body at which point it's really at that point that he becomes the son of
tradition he becomes that Antichrist okay once he does that according to 2nd
Thessalonians chapter 2 he actually goes into the temple of God and he proclaims
himself to be God okay and this is what verse 15 is referring to the
abomination of desolation when he goes into the temple proclaims himself to be
God and obviously this is in tandem with the image that the false prophet sets up
of the Antichrist that every person is supposed to worship okay so once this
image is set up the Bible says when that thing is up everyone's got to run you
can't go back for your pictures you can't go back for your photo album you
know don't go back to get a last meal it's that's the time where you need to
run now the book of Matthew is geared towards who the Jews right it's obviously
for everyone but it is geared towards Jews so it seems to indicate because
it's talking about the Sabbath that there might be Jews who are getting saved
during this particular time now I would say that it's a very small percentage of
the Israeli population that are getting saved and you know there's different
portions of scriptures that indicate that you know Jews are being saved but
it's a remnant this has always been a remnant according to the Bible the
problem is is that today people think that the modern state of the whole
modern state of Israel is gonna be saved and that's a false doctrine okay
because the vast majority of our Christ rejecting haters of God but I'm sure
that there's Jews out there who are not like you know the modern state of
Israel that will get saved during this time which is why he's instructing them
to flee now we can go to mark 13 that's addressing just all Gentiles and in
there it says what I say to you I say to all watch so these instructions are not
just for Jews who are in Israel during this time it's just for everyone in
general so we who are in the United States of America when we hear about the
abomination of desolation being set up in Jerusalem in Israel it's time to go
it's time to run now it's not time to run and hide it's time to run and go
preach the gospel and just try to stay alive as much as possible for as long as
possible okay and I'm not gonna give all the numbers and everything because it's
just take too much time of how long this is gonna be or how we come to the
conclusion that it's gonna be 70 days of Great Tribulation but according to the
Bible there shall be 70 days or 75 days of Great Tribulation and you know they're
gonna be hunting Christians and trying to put them to death and obviously I
mean 75 days is a long time right it's a very long time especially when you're
on the run and so the main marker the main indicator that we are in Great
Tribulation that Christ is returning is when the Antichrist comes back to life
so let me just say this let's say the first four seals happen the elements of
those first four seals and let's say there is an Antichrist who comes on the
scene and let's say he receives the deadly wound to the head folks if he
doesn't come back to life we're not in the Great Tribulation right so that
means that stuff can happen all the way to that point and I promise you if it
were to happen a lot of Christians like this is it but then like a week passes
like I know he's gonna come back they're just like hoping he's just let's just
wait one more day it could be three weeks that could be the case this is why
the Bible only gives us this indication right here that we should look for
because once that image is set up once he does come back to life and he
proclaims himself to be God this is why folks let me just say this you know I'm
not banking on the third temple like oh man and once the third temple is built
this is it does the end is near does it say that though you see anything about
and I'm not saying it could be the third temple for sure but it could be a fourth
temple too though because the Bible does not tell us that that's exactly what we
should be looking for because these things could come about and then they
could end and let me just say this once a temple is built the animal sacrifices
are reinstated and then they cease once the Antichrist goes into the temple of
God and proclaims himself to be God did you know that you know during that
tribulation period those three thousand two hundred sixty days you have the
animal sacrifices being instituted again because the Antichrist is trying to
placate the Jews that have helped them get into power so he's reinstating
those animal sacrifices but then the Bible talks about the oblations ceasing
and when do they cease when the abomination of desolation is set up
because now he's just like I don't need you Jews anymore I'm our I'm God
already okay and of course you can read Luke 21 that vengeance comes upon them
on the Jews for you know their rejection and blasphemy of Jesus Christ point that
I'm making here is that the main marker that we should be looking for is that
abomination of desolation that's when the Bible says that we should be fleeing
verse 21 says for then shall be great tribulation such as was not since the
beginning of the world to this time no nor ever shall be so this tribulation
this type of martyrdom this type of you know killing of Christians is far more
vast numerically than compared to any time in history okay why because it's
obviously worldwide let's move on here he says in verse 23 then if any man shall
say into the you lo here is Christ or there believe it not for there shall
arise false Christ and false prophets and shall show great signs and wonders
in so much that if it were possible they shall deceive the very elect this is why
we don't have to you know tell people hey don't believe the the Antichrist you
know if you say he's Christ no safe person will believe that the Antichrist
is Jesus Christ it says if it were possible you know they shall deceive the
very elect but the reason it says that is because it's not possible right now I
do believe that mainstream Christianity will be deceived into thinking this it's
it's the Jesus Christ because of the fact that the vast majority within
mainstream Christians are not saved okay so all these Catholics and
Orthodox and non-denom people who just you know have this image of their head
in their mind about Jesus being a long-haired Caucasian six-foot blue-eyed
guy or whatever with the goatee you know that's probably what the Antichrist is
gonna look like and I'm really like that's him you know look what it says in
verse 25 behold I have told you before wherefore if they shall say unto you
behold he is in the desert go not forth behold he is in the secret chambers
believe it not this is telling us that the coming of Jesus Christ is not a
secret you know like the secret rapture this weird rapture of the pre-tribulation
doctrine that states that Jesus Christ is gonna come invisibly and then we're
just gonna go naked to heaven or whatever our clothes just drop to the
floor and everyone just ascends up you're just like you know it's like it's
not a secret why because according to the Bible the second coming of Christ
is visible the Bible says that every eye shall see him and you know if I may he
comes in with style he's not like you know you know and just like oh and
everyone just disappears no according to the description given in Revelation
chapter 6 and 7 and as we're gonna look at here everyone sees what's going on
okay how do we know look at verse 27 for as the lightning cometh out of the east
and shineth even unto the West so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be
whenever there's lightning if you're driving on the freeway it flashes and
everyone's just like you don't even care if you missed it light flashes and you're
just like I saw lightning this is saying that that's how the coming of Christ
will be everyone's gonna turn to see it well how can that happen on a sphere
though yeah stupid question how about social media okay you know obviously the
description the Bible gives in Revelation chapter 6 is that the Sun
shall be darken the moon's gonna be darken I mean whenever you have a big
show going on typically the lights go off and the spotlight comes on the main
attraction what's the same thing with Jesus Christ the lights go off he
descends he breaches the realm between eternity and what we have here on this
earth and he shows himself and by the way he's not descending like I come in
peace no he's coming with war in his heart he said well how do we know well
because the the Bible's description of Revelation chapter 6 is that when
everyone sees him they're like can I get a rock to fall on me please he's such a
terrifying sight that much of humanity would rather have a mountain collapse on
them than to have to deal with Jesus Christ that's literally what it says
fall on us that's what they're crying for the mountains and the rocks and hide
us like they're trying to hide from the wrath of the Lamb so you really think
that they're hiding from some guy who no he's coming for blood he's coming with
lightning it says in verse 28 for whatsoever the carcasses there will the
Eagles be gathered together immediately after the tribulation not before but
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 heavens shall be shaken so keep this in mind when this takes place you'll
have lightning striking from the east to the west you have the Sun being darkened
the moon is not giving her light and then all of a sudden you have this
cosmic occurrence of stars falling from the sky hitting the earth okay it's like
the beginning of a show and now it's just all these stars are just collapsing
there's death there's destruction and then verse 30 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 Jesus Christ descends and what are the tribes of the earth do I
shouldn't have posted that against Jesus I shouldn't have said that just
remembering all the blasphemous things they've ever said all all these
fagnostics and atheists who mocked Jesus Christ all of these pseudo Christians
like Jordan Peterson that's what you said that's not what I said I never
claimed that everyone who's ever mock Christianity where they're gonna mourn
why cuz payday is arrived the days of vengeance have arrived what was that
where's thy mouth now look what it says in verse 31 and he shall send his angels
with great sound of a trumpet and they shall gather together his elect from the
four winds from one end of heaven to the other what does it say so when he
descends everyone sees it everyone mourns everyone's afraid and then you
have these angels just being scattered throughout the heavens with trumpets
they blow the trumpet and this is when the real show starts because what does
it say the dead in Christ shall rise first then we which are alive and remain
shall be caught up with caught up together with them in the clouds and so
shall we ever be with the Lord what do we see the trumpets are blown and then
carcasses are just flying out of the ground from cemeteries and every other
place where Christians have died and it's not like an invisible ascension
either they're physically coming out of the grave physically coming out of the
ocean physically coming out of the ground to meet the Lord of the air those
who have died in Christ first okay and this is why Luke 21 says that men's
hearts are failing them for fear they're just like having heart attacks as
they're seeing bodies that sent into the earth and so after them then if we are
there if we endure into the end right we too shall be saved and we ascend up to
be with the Lord as well okay now I want to mention this because this is very
important verse 31 it says that they shall gather together his elect and
herein we find the main verse that pre tribulation and dispensationalists will
use to claim pre tribulation rapture because you know how do you look at a
chapter like this and still believe that the rapture you know that the rapture
happens before the tribulation if it literally says after the tribulation
I'll tell you how because verse 31 they'll claim that the elect is referring
to who the Jews this is why Zionism and the pre tribulation rapture our little
incest buddies they go hand-in-hand their perversions married together to
teach this false doctrine you remove the interpretation of verse 31 the entire
pillar all the pillars of dispensationalism completely falls apart
because they'll say oh no Matthew 24 is for the Jews it says for the elect oh
I'm sorry you know the elect according to the New Testament is believers who
shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect you know how about the fact
that Peter writes to those in Cappadocia, Bithynia, Pontius, Galatia and he calls
them elect according to the foreknowledge of God and what that tells me
is that the elects referring to believers now what's so retarded about
dispensationalism is that they'll say well Matthew 24 is for the Jews but then
when you ask them about proof regarding the imminency of Jesus Christ where do
they go Matthew 24 oh Matthew 24 is for the Jews where do the Bible say that he
can come in any moment he comes in secret Matthew 24 you just want to smack
them here's the proper interpretation Matthew 24 is for believers and you know
I'm not saying that the book of Matthew is not for the Jews because it is just
read some of the parables they can have that that's for them point that I'm
making here is that when he's gathering together his elect he's not gathering
the Jews now the only Jews he's going to be gathering those who have believed in
Christ who no longer refer to themselves as Jews the elect is referring to
believers okay and look folks this is this is where the seven-year tribulation
has come from this is where the time of Jacob's trouble comes from all these
nonsensical titles that dispensations come up with to try to fit a round peg
into a square hole this is where they get it from they try to claim that the
elect is referring to the Jews folks it does not fit the Jews Israel was God's
elect of the Old Testament but now that we're in the New Covenant the elect
according to the biblical definition the New Testament are all believers and
once you realize that everything just falls right into place so he gathers
together his elect and he raptures his believers he says now learn a parable of
the fig tree when his branches yet tender and put it put it forth his
leaves you know that summer is nigh so likewise ye when ye shall see all these
things know that it is near even at the doors barely I say to you this
generation shall not pass to all those things be fulfilled heaven and earth
shall pass away but my word shall not pass away but of that day and hour knoweth
no man no not the angels of heaven but my father only so this is the first that
they'll use to claim imminency oh no man knoweth the day or the hour true true
true true true but we do know after what season and that is after the
tribulation we do know the events that take place before the coming of Christ
we're just not gonna know the day or the hour now we can surmise as to why we
don't know the day of that hour even though we know that it's 70 days 75 days
after the fifth seal has started but you also have to keep in mind that
according to the book of Daniel the Antichrist at the end times will seek to
change times and seasons so you know when you're on the run you can't really
you know carry a calendar with you and figure out what's going on the only
imminent coming that we're gonna see is the imminent coming of the Antichrist
he's the only one who's gonna show up at any time okay and so I'm gonna stop
there because I'm way beyond my time here you got the gist of it though and
it's important for us to just know the timeline understand the events to take
place prior to the coming of Christ and recognize that the Antichrist is the
imminent coming and what is what by the way what is the pre-tribulation rapture
promote the imminent coming of Christ but scripturally the only ones who the
only one who shows up first is the Antichrist he's the one who shows up
first he's the one that presents himself as Christ Jesus Christ comes
thereafter and according to the biblical timeline that's exactly how it is too
and so let's pray Father we thank you so much for your word and thank you for
Matthew 24 and all of the the information that's given to us Lord so
that we are not left in ignorance in darkness Lord help us as your people to
pay attention to the Bible to pay attention to lost souls not to politics
not to wars not to leaders Lord we need to give ourselves to the Word of God we
need to give ourselves to the service of the Lord we need to walk in the spirit
and not fulfill the lust of the flesh now is high time for our salvation is
nearer than when we when we first when we first got saved Lord and so I pray
that we look forward to the the day of our redemption of our bodies Lord where
we can go home to be with you but help us to realize Lord as Christians that we
must through must tribulation enter into the kingdom of God and so bless us Lord
with knowledge bless us with endurance in the Christian life to withstand in
the evil day Lord if this were to happen in our days and help us not to be
gullible and just to believe everything that's out there help us to keep our
minds on you we love you we thank you pray this things in Jesus name amen
song number 472 this is my father's world 472 and 72 this is my father to my
father singing you are dismissed