Then Matthew chapter 24 then and it's been a couple of weeks as I was away last week since
we're in Matthew. We're in chapter 23 last. Well if you remember Jesus really let rip on the
Pharisees didn't he? He gave us all of these what I called sort of classic traits of false prophets
and their varying types of false prophets. We saw the hypocrisy, the boasting, the pride,
the covetousness, uneven standards, fake persona and he's calling them out isn't he? He's giving
examples of their wickedness. This is direct preaching. Now whether or not you know and
maybe some people think they were there at the time I don't think they were. Either way
it's very biblical isn't it to do that. He's calling them out. He's making it very clear.
He then makes it clear that they're going to hell okay. He made it very clear. There's no
trying to save these people. I often see these sort of clowns. I've seen them before online
where they're kind of talking about praying for false prophets and things like this. Look
if it's a false prophet they're done. The bible's clear about that. Jesus Christ didn't go if we
could just reach them and just pray for them. He said in verse 33 ye serpents ye generation of
vipers how can you escape the damnation of hell? He didn't say oh you can escape how can you?
That's a rhetorical question. They can't. They can't escape it. He then said in verse 35 that
upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth. He wasn't oh if only I could
reach these scribes and pharisees. He then finished with a warning to Jerusalem the city
and ended up saying by saying for I say unto you ye shall not see me henceforth till ye shall say
blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. And we're now going to move on Matthew 24
and verse 1 from what was a sort of a few chapters there we're dealing with him going
into the temple and all the stuff that went on there and finishing with that sermon there
and verse 1 which 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 verily I say unto you there shall not be left here one stone upon another that shall not
be thrown down. I'd like to pray before we continue with this chapter. Father thank you
for your word. Thank you for the clear prophecies in the Bible. Lord you make them clear and you
know with a bit of just comparing and not even that chapters like this you can read on their own
and learn so much about what's to come in this world. Please please help me to to just preach
this accurately, boldly, clearly. Lord just fill me with your spirit. Help everyone here to really
pay attention to what your your Bible's got to say. Lord what your word saying to them.
Help me to just just preach exactly what you'd want me to preach and and to not preach what you
wouldn't want me to preach. Lord Jesus saying pray all of this. Amen. Right so so this passage
of scripture that we're in here is known as the olivert discourse which is basically an
intellectual sounding way of saying it was a chat on the mount of olives okay which is really what
it is the olivert discourse they like to talk about and a lot of times people like to use these
terms makes them sound really well read and and theologically educated um there are there are two
parallel passages to this which are mark 13 and luke 21 but we're going to stay here for the most
part and really we're going to be going into the book of revelation a bit today um you know as a
main main sort of turning point there um however just just a point with mark and luke's gospels
with this first bit you don't really have to to turn there but they both show that it was the
cost and the beauty um that the disciples were pointing out here in these first couple of verses
luke 21 5 particularly which says and as some spake of the temple how it was adorned with
goodly stones and gifts he said and we've just seen them in verse two uh sorry in verse sorry
they've shown him in verse one then jesus kind of replied to what we then see sort of from luke's
perspective about the goodly stones and gifts he said see not all these things verily i say unto
you there shall not be left here one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down
so he's he's telling them how it's going to be destroyed god doesn't really care much for the
beautiful buildings does he god doesn't really seem to care much for that sort of stuff it's
what's going on on inside the building that counts and obviously you know a church like this when
we're in an industrial building an industrial estate you know sometimes you need to preach
this message because people don't really get it do they they're kind of like well you know where
the stained glass windows where's like where's all the kind of the comforts or the beauty behind
where the graven images i mean what sort of church is this where's the steeple where's
all that sort of stuff that maybe maybe people growing up are used to or maybe they're used to
other stuff maybe it's like where the flashing lights where's the rock band or something else
where where's kind of you know all the kind of things that look oh you know why is it not next
to a train station or next to you know the bus stop whatever else well because this is what
god's given us yeah this is what god's given us this is what's being provided for us and this is
where god's house is and and this is where we come to worship god do you think he really cares about
those beautiful church buildings out there not at all he would happily smash every single one of
them all those beautiful buildings because it's very rare you'll see a beautiful church building
which is actually preaching the gospel if they're not preaching the gospel they preach a false
gospel really um do you think we should be looking for the most beautiful building we can in the
future well if we grow enough mate we need to really just get that no what what does that
matter what look obviously we want to be we want to have a place that we can respect and be happy
to be in but ultimately it's what goes on the building that really counts isn't it and and
really it's all going to be getting thrown down soon isn't it and here obviously you know it's
sooner that we're going to see this you know in 70 a.d it all gets destroyed but verse three we're
going to carry on it says 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 did they just ask about the destruction of jerusalem
no they asked about the end of the world because there are people that are called
preterists out there who believe that all of this has already happened so people out there
you might have stumbled across them if you kind of look at this all the stuff out there online or
maybe when you talk to people who believe that we we've already all of this has happened well
you talked about the end of the world i don't remember the end of the world happening anyone
remember the end of the world happening no no i miss that as well and jesus obviously makes it
clear and if you read this passage i don't see how you can come away with a preterist world view
unless you just reject parts of the bible and take the bits you like which is sadly what a lot of
a lot of false doctrine does and jesus answers said unto them take heed that no man deceive you
and there is a lot of deception out there especially about this this point as well and this
this sort of end times prophecy and obviously in our sort of circles we're we're you know if
anyone's wondering we're what we call a new independent fundamental baptist church so
we we have many similarities to the independent fundamental baptist movement you know we we
believe in the fundamentals of the faith we believe in an independent church yes we're baptist
yeah we and all that that should stand for and we're not talking about like the baptist union
clown churches out there we're talking about real baptist independent baptist churches
however there are certain things that you know define us as a new independent fundamental baptist
church and obviously really kind of carrying on what should have been a forever torch of
soul winning which kind of doesn't seem it's very hard to find an old independent fundamental
baptist church which has much of a heart for soul winning soul winning being a big one standing on
the word of god against about key issues which the the world is changing on but the word of god
doesn't such as sodomy and vile affections other things like that but also something that we stand
as well is that the bible is so very clear about what's going to happen in the end times and we
take what's called a post-tribulation pre-wrath position which sadly so many churches which seem
to a lot of them don't unfortunately some of them still seem to have the gospel right seem to be so
misled on this on this topic in this issue a lot of that has come from you know the sort of false
kind of study bibles you know the the scofield reference bibles things like this larkin and
others with their with their big notes and graphs which people it's just so easy to go to is it
rather just study the word of god for what the word of god says and that's what we're going to do
tonight um he said take heed that no man deceived you know they are very deceptive i have an old
pastor that i'm still on his email list you know and he sends me sends me emails and and i ignore
most of them but sometimes i do and i got sent an email not long ago basically it was this long
long long kind of claiming to be a study or or or uh an attack on the post-trip pre-wrath position
and support for his pre-trip heresy and um i mean it was it was ridiculous i tried looking through
it and and i've heard this description before some of you might have heard this called mental
gymnastics and this was just a classic case of mental gymnastics and just taking verses and
saying you see and verse it didn't have anything to do with his point and it was just absolutely
ridiculous and what they do is they take something which is ultimately very simple and as we go
through this passage those of you that maybe haven't looked at this before are going to see that
and then they make it so very complicated where no one can really keep up and goes well i'm just
going to have to believe what you say because because it doesn't make any sense it shouldn't
be like that should it so we're going to look at that tonight they do twist and turn they deceive
people and some of these look you know i'll say some of these people i don't think are out there
maybe purposely trying to deceive many are and the people that obviously that were pushing this
in the first place push it upon them were out to deceive um but there are others claiming all sorts
of weird stuff and one of those weird things that we see out there we see a lot of full
stock track there's people trying to claim that they are jesus christ but they are some form of
christ he said in verse five for many shall come in my name saying i am christ and shall deceive
many and there's a guy recently that haven't really looked into much i know there's a bit
of preacher on him called uh tyler doko and there are many of these guys and this guy has
a relatively big following from what i can tell at least an online following um he has a church
doesn't he's there are other cult clowns over history that have claimed to be christ and then
end up kind of doing some mass suicide or such just bizarre stuff it's all this weird stuff isn't
there but there is going to be a final more legitimate deceiver that we refer to as the
anti-christ so there will be many false christs and what you would call anti-christ but then
there's going to be one final anti-christ we're going to turn to revelation chapter six obviously
keep a finger here in matthew 24 where john talks of the seven seals which precede the wrath of god
and just to make it clear okay this isn't the wrath of god at this point because some people
want to call the whole thing the tribulation some want to call the whole thing the wrath of god
no they're clearly distinguished and we're going to see that as we go through these passages as
well like i said our position is we believe that we're going to be raptured as believers
post tribulation but pre-wrath okay and they're two different things revelation six lines up nicely
with matthew 24 by the way we're going to see that as well revelation chap uh chapter six and verse
one reads and i saw when the lamb opened one of the seals and by the way this is you know he's
kind of seen this picture of heaven up until this point and he's kind of been taken up into
and this is now the beginning of the prophecy here okay he says and i saw when the lamb opened
one of the seals and i heard as it were the noise of thunder one of the four beasts saying come and
see and i saw him behold a white horse and he that sat on him had a bow and a crown was given
unto him and he went forth conquering and to conquer so this first seal has someone sitting
on a white horse with a bow some will call these the riders of the apocalypse there's other names
which kind of gives a picture of a long-range sort of sniper kind of type individual doesn't
it someone may be working in the distance in the background maybe and look of course when
jesus christ returns he'll be on a white horse but this isn't the return of jesus christ okay
he doesn't go forth at the beginning going forth to conquer and to conquer jesus christ when he
comes that he's already conquered okay this is someone clearly counterfeiting jesus christ okay
this is a counterfeit another name for that is an antichrist or the antichrist and he was given a
crown which is a sign of authority isn't it some sort of leadership some sort of position and as
we see he's going to eventually rise to some sort of world position of leadership he went forth
conquering and conquer verse three says and when he had opened the second seal now we don't know
by the way when that kind of happens do we no one knows when he goes forth to conquer to conquer
and when he'd open the second seal i heard the second beast say come and see
and it went out another horse that was red and power was given to him that sat there on to take
peace from the earth and that they should kill one another and there was given unto him a great sword
so number two the second one is more isn't it peace from the earth that they should kill one another
okay then verse five says and when he'd opened the third seal i heard the third beast say come
and see and i beheld a lower black horse and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his
hand and i heard a voice in the midst of the four b say a measure of wheat for a penny and three
measures of barley for a penny and see they'll hurt not the oil and the wine now what's going
on here well a penny when we cross reference back in the bible seems to be a day's wage
a penny being a day's wage a measure of wheat for a penny and three measures for for a penny
a day's wage approximately 100 pounds for what probably maybe will get you a loaf of bread or
something else that's famine yeah that's famine that's when food is scarce very rare so number
three this fur this third seal is going to be famine and then verse seven says and when he
had opened the fourth seal i heard the voice of the fourth beast say come and see and i looked
and behold a pale horse and his name that sat on him was death and hell followed with him and power
was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth to kill with sword and with hunger with
death and with the beasts of the earth so number four here is is basically mass death
he said here he said he said to kill uh it said power over it was given over the unto them over
the fourth part of the earth to kill with sword and with hunger and with death that's a quarter
of the earth dying i mean that sounds horrendous isn't it why does death why does hell follow
because if anyone's not aware the vast majority of people are going to hell because broad is a
way that leads to destruction many there be which go in there out okay which is a sad truth of life
and that's not god's fault they they don't they don't want the truth do they they don't seek it
and yes people aren't going out and preaching the gospel as well but look that's just a way of life
isn't it so number four there we've seen mass death okay on a big scale keep a finger there
and flick back to matthew 24 which gives the same order of events okay so here we're just seeing
exactly the same order look at verse six in matthew 24 where jesus christ said this he said
and you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars see that you be not troubled for all these things
must come to pass but the end is not yet he didn't say you can avoid this did he
he said these things must come to pass he didn't say if you go on enough campaigns or if you
you know read enough conspiracy websites you're going to somehow inform everyone and stop it
happening no these things must come to pass he said in verse seven for nation shall rise against
nation and kingdom against kingdom and there shall be famines and pestilences and earthquakes
in diverse places all these are the beginning of sorrows so we've got our four there haven't we
we've got we've got the nation rise against nation we've got the famines we've got the pestilences
we've got the earthquakes obviously before that we don't know when the antichrist has gone forth
to conquer so let's go back to revelation six and see if then it continues to line up because
so far it looks like we're lining up even in the order there these things must come to pass and
they shall rise against nation that's our war then then we've got kingdom against kingdom that
continues with that point and there should be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in diverse
place which is just strange places basically places you wouldn't normally have earthquakes
okay so this isn't just oh there's an earthquake we must be in the end times no this is it's all
building and loads of people are dying okay these are beginning of sorrows is what it's described as
so revelation six and verse nine says and this says and when he had opened the fifth seal i saw
under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of god and for the testimony which
they held and they cried with a loud voice saying how long oh lord holy and true does thou not judge
and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth and white robes were given unto every one
of them and it was said unto them that they should rest yet for a little season until their
fellow servants also and their brethren that should be killed as they were should be fulfilled
by the way just a quick side point here while looking at this these people are in heaven these
souls are in heaven is there any sin in heaven no they haven't got their flesh have they at this
point so their souls are in heaven and what are these sinless now souls saying calling out to to
the lord they're saying how long will you not judge and avenge our blood upon them that dwell
on the earth so these sinless souls in heaven are calling for retribution from god on people
yeah that doesn't jive with the world's version of christianity does it people that should just
i'm just praying for those absolute you know wicked vile criminals out there just lord you know
please forgive them no that's not really what what should be happening now obviously there's
a difference here these are like you know the persecutors of the faith and everything else but
i see them calling for that and these people are in heaven and there's no sin in heaven
okay let's keep going anyway so white robes are given unto every one of them which is a
picture of sinlessness by the way obviously they're not sinless themselves they're flesh
but they don't have their flesh in heaven at this point uh pre pre rapture pre resurrection it was
said unto them that they should rest yet for a little season until their fellow servants also
their brethren that should be killed as they were should be fulfilled so number five here
was martyrdom wasn't it so we're seeing martyrdom here and if anyone's i wanted martyrdom just
basically dying for for your faith okay and obviously for the true faith here okay back
to matthew 24 in verse 9 he said then in verse 9 then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted
and shall kill you and you shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake now he's talking to
his disciples here by the way this isn't this this isn't reserved for some random converts
to the false wicked religion of judaism like hundreds if not over a thousand years plus later
in fact multiple thousand years plus okay or or because you've got some percent apparently of
blood of someone that was a false convert to judaism at some point in history it's absolutely
ridiculous the pre-trip line and all this stuff that you hear all this zionism and everything else
no he's talking to his disciples and i don't know about you but i'm a disciple anyone else here a
disciple of the lord jesus christ yeah we've got some disciples in the room here so this applies
to you okay this doesn't apply to only converts to the wicked false religion it doesn't apply to
them at all that has a few bits of my life to them but they're more warnings right okay that doesn't
apply to them let's keep going this clearly lines up though doesn't it so we're seeing like a real
parallel here between matthew chapter 24 and revelation chapter 6 with verse 11 of revelation
basically giving us a pause before the sixth seal so revelation says it was said unto them that they
should rest yet for a little season until their fellow servants also in their brethren that should
be killed as they were should be fulfilled so there's a pause then verse 12 then says after
that and i beheld when he'd opened the sixth seal okay so something there's a pause in between that
fifth and sixth seal there it says and lo there was a great earthquake and the sun became black
as sackcloth of hair and the moon became as blood and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth even
as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs which is shaken of a mighty wind and the heaven departed
as a scroll when it is rolled together and every mountain island were moved out of their places
and the kings of the earth and the great men the rich men and the chief captains and the mighty men
and every bondman and every free man hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains
and said to the mountains and rocks fall on us and hide us from the face of him that 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 by the way that's one of the many reasons that we separate tribulation from
wrath okay we separate the tribulation from the wrath we're talking about the wrath now coming
but this is obviously after the tribulation he's talking about the wrath is about to
about to come but we'll see what has to happen before that in a second so go back to matthew 24
which fills in that pause that gap in verse 11 which said that they should rest yet for a little
season until their fellow servants also and their brethren that should be killed as they were should
be fulfilled so what's happening with this rest for a little season but but before we do we're
just going to have a quick recap because i understand that this this sort of like sometimes
you're preaching this you're like yeah you know i i know what i'm preaching here but sometimes
not easy to you know it's easy to kind of go blank for a second or to drift off or something else you
know and look some people here are maybe very on top of this subject heard a lot of preaching
others might not have done so a quick recap verse three said as he sat upon the mount of olives the
disciples came onto him privately saying tell us when these shall these things be and what shall be
the sign of the coming in of the end of the world so they're asking what are the signs of the end of
the world okay look there's an end of the world as we know it coming okay verse four says if jesus
answers said unto them take heed that no man deceive you for many shall come in my name saying
i am christ you shall deceive many so it'll be false christ okay and we know that the anti-christ
will go forth to conquer that's the first seal but we don't know when that's going to happen
okay we don't know at what point that's begun he'll be in the shadows it seems he he's described
as someone with a bow he's going to be cutting deals daniel 9 27 yet of turner says and he shall
confirm the covenant with many for one week so he's going forth and he's trying to set things up
in the background it seems a seven-year period by the way is what one week is and when this begins
we we won't know now we may suspect things and suspect that it started at certain times i would
imagine a lot of people have suspected that they're going into the end times throughout a
lot of periods in history yeah i i mean can you imagine living through the first or second world
war for example and many other kind of very dark times in history okay so we look many people
have suspected it doesn't mean it has now there will also be it seems a daily sacrifice taking
place again in jerusalem and i i want to spend too long on this because we only have limited time to
get through this but um if you'd like if you're quick you could quickly turn to daniel chapter 8
and we're going to look from verses 13 to 14 where in daniel's vision here he and we're going to be
coming back to matthew 24 obviously he talks of a daily sacrifice okay so daniel also is you know
there's a lot of visions in daniel daniels is a bit harder to interpret obviously we go to
revelation we compare it and then we start to understand it more but daniel's vision says from
from chapter 8 verse 13 it says then i heard one saint speaking and another saint said unto that
certain saint which spake how long shall there shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice
and the transgression of desolation to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden
underfoot and he said unto me unto 2 300 days then shall the sanctuary be cleansed so it appears
there is going to be a daily sacrifice beginning again in jerusalem okay now how aware we're going
to be a lot of people are kind of there's been a lot of like kind of you know what would you call
it sort of false starters on this and people claiming yeah you know and these all these news
reports and kind of conspiracy theories going they started the sacrifice again i don't believe
that's the case maybe it will be very obvious i don't know i kind of believe that we're not
really going to know for sure until we see the abomination desolation and we're going to get to
that in a minute so i don't know how clear and how obvious i think it's going to be you don't have to
turn to chapter 9 27 of daniel says that that in the middle of the seven-year period the sacrifice
will stop with the abomination desolation and for me that's the image of the beast there so
the sacrifice in the abomination of desolation we've just seen will last a total combined of
2 300 days don't worry i know this is kind of a bit bit complicated maybe but but but basically
it would have it start starting around 250 days after the antichrist goes forth to conquer but
we don't know when that is but if you start seeing if you know for sure and maybe that will happen
we go there's a sacrifice going on they've started the daily sacrifice again that we know the
antichrist went forth to conquer 250 days i would say before that however let's continue with
matthew's gospel um and and don't worry if you're kind of wondering what all that was about
basically these are we're going to see more signs here of of we're going into the end times verse
six says he shall hear of wars and rumors of wars see that you be not troubled so there'll be wars
and there'll be rumors of wars and there'd be wars and rumors of wars for a long time haven't there
for all these things must come to pass but the end is not yet for nations shall rise against nation
nations have risen against nation a lot though haven't they so again we don't know for sure
and kingdom against kingdom and there shall be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in diverse
places so there's going to be war there's going to be famine there's going to be a quarter of
the earth dead from things like illness sickness is what pestilences are earthquakes in diverse
places but it's still not the end okay verse eight says all these are the beginning of sorrow
then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted and shall kill you and you shall be hate of all
nations for my name's sake so that's the martyrdom but what's next before the sixth seal before the
sun and moon is dark and now you can merge that martyrdom in with this it's up to you what you
think on that he said let's keep going now verse 10 says the nation and then shall many be offended
and shall betray one another and shall hate one another so we're seeing now this gap that we saw
in revelation six our little season what we're going to see happening so remember there's been
war famine mass death okay we're on to christian persecution killed for the cause of christ it
says many will be offended shall betray one another shall hate one another look when it
comes to death a lot of people do some crazy look people betray one another when it's got
nothing to do with them people betray one another for 20 quid people betray one another for all
sorts you think people won't be betraying one another when it comes to to risking getting getting
killed for for association with christians and things like that it's going to be a particularly
hard time okay if you're saved and you're going through this this sounds horrendous again you
don't have to turn in mark 13 12 the parallel passage says now the brother shall betray the
brother to death and the father the son and children shall rise up against their parents
and should cause them to be put to death i mean that sounds absolutely horrendous doesn't it
think of that thing and for me we're just talking about really that that sad state of affairs with
kind of mixtures of families where people are saved and unsaved but maybe not even necessarily
always the case as well what you think save people with the flesh won't deliver up others
to save their own hides everyone's got the flesh here you're not suddenly perfect because you've
got to say look look look it's going to be it's going to be horrendous isn't it i mean that's
a time when you want to be as close to god as possible as in the spirit as possible it says
in verse 11 and many false prophets shall rise and shall deceive many now like with the antichrist
there are many okay we've seen again many and look there are many false prophets around anyway
so again this is nothing new saying many false prophets shall arise and i mean we seem to be
seeing a lot of false prophets out there i mean it's hard to find people that are just preaching
the truth right but you could see you could see the apostate so-called christian i was thinking
about this kind of pitting the false prophet and antichrist badge maybe on one of these
and maybe going oh well we think like that one's a false prophet because really they're going to
they're going to accept the antichrist aren't they and they are going to accept the false prophet
so maybe they're going to try and justify it in one way well you can imagine them going well no
they'll like suddenly have dug up some new like better manuscripts that'll be it oh no no we found
some better manuscripts that just no one had for two thousand and something years and they're more
accurate and everyone will be like oh well it must be you know because i don't really like what that
word of god says i hope he doesn't say everything it says there and those those manuscripts are
going well actually when it comes to the end times he's not necessarily going to come like
in the clouds and the lightning from east to west it's going to be a bit different he's going to be
more of a world leader you know something else and they'd be like and the antichrist was actually
that kind of random guy on youtube you know i don't know you know just thinking you know these
there are many false prophets many antichrists but look revelation for us with the knowledge with
with the wisdom of the word of god with salvation we're not going to be deceived okay but uh turn to
revelation 13 which gives us a bit more insight into this period of period of time as well before
the sixth seal and second coming of christ and and the second coming of christ is the rapture
we're going to see that as well in a minute revelation 13 and verse 1 says this revelation
13 1 and if you're wondering why have we jumped from revelation 6 to 13 what's happening between
well well the book of revelation and if only i think many people here would be if only someone
explained this to me earlier you know many people here understand this point if you just split the
book of revelation into two you have one to eleven and you restart again 12 to 22 wow does it make it
a lot easier to understand doesn't it and all this mental gymnastics and this bits this and it's all
metal mixed up and everything no it just goes it just goes you know in a nice just timeline from
one to eleven and then restarts we go 12 to 22 so then we can compare and revelation 13 gives us a
bit more insight into this period and it says and i stood upon the sand of the sea and saw a beast
rise up out of the sea having seven heads and ten horns upon his horns ten crowns upon his heads
the name of blasphemy and this is a picture of the antichrist and his world empire okay so it is
a world empire as well and the beast which i saw was like unto a leopard and his feet was the feet
of a bear and his mouth as the mouth of a lion and the dragon gave him his power and his seat and
great authority and when comparing this to daniel seven especially it seems that this world empire
is a sort of montage of the previous world empires something like that the the leopard kind of
representing the greek the bear the medo persian the lion babylon and this being really a
continuation of the roman empire it seems as well um the the dragon is satan he's behind the
antichrist and it says and i saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death and his deadly wound
was healed and all the world wondered after the beast now bearing in mind it just said it was
seven heads so for me it's kind of one of these leaders one of these seven sort of leaders of this
whether they're behind the scenes or not i don't know kind of this is the point when i think he
then rises to power to ultimate leadership so at this point maybe it's kind of it's a bit hard to
see who really is a leader i think it would take a bit for for the world to accept a whole world
leader wouldn't it but then what happens is one of his heads so one of it's just said he had seven
heads in verse one is wounded to death his deadly wound was healed and all the world wondered after
the beast so so there's some sort of resurrection type miracle something along these lines and and
what is here a kind of a false version of christ right so whether it's some sort of rising from
the dead something along these lines and it results in the world's amazement so the world
is going to look at this just wow you know absolutely amazing what i don't know we don't
know we can speculate as to how this will be pushed and promoted and i don't know verse four
says and they worship the dragon which gave power unto the beast so they're worshiping satan yeah
remember the dragon satan and um you know i don't have time to go to the references to show you that
today and they worship the beast saying who is like unto the beast who is able to make war with
him so the vast majority of the world is going to be worshiping satan and it doesn't really surprise
i think anyone's here going wow i just can't work it out maybe it's through their varying
false religions i some people think there'll be this one one world really i think it's going to
be a merger of it oh it's really ecumenicalism for me and it's just going to all merge you know it's
all different paths of god with the antichrist being their kind of prophesied messiah of all
these different false religions and you know they're wondering after him and then they say
and they worship the dragon which gave power unto the beast and they worship the beast saying
who is like unto the beast who is able to make war with him so they're kind of putting him as
this sort of leader it's probably his final step to world power then verse 5 says and there was
given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies and power was given unto him to
continue faulting two months so so it seems like he's going to be a gifted orator as well
the blasphemies he's blaspheming whether it's not by lifting himself up as some sort of christ or
god or or discrediting the god of the bible or whatever else it is and this is this is you know
here this well sorry he's going to continue 40 and two months which is three and a half years so
we're continuing here so this is sort of the three and a half year mark in what is the fight that
daniel's 40th week the the week being the seven year period okay and really now we're going to
the start of what's known as the great tribulation which is basically a 75 day it's a two and a half
month period worse than anything the world's ever seen before okay and maybe that's worse in the in
christian's eyes probably it says in verse 6 and he opened his mouth in blasphemy against god to
blaspheme his name and his tabernacle and them that dwell in heaven so there we see some of that
blasphemy there um and he's just obviously just just whether he's just making up all these lies
whatever it is verse 7 says it was given unto him to make war with the saints and to overcome them
and power was given him over all kindreds and tongues and nations man he's got power over all
those tongue waggers and how did he get that if you watch my sermon sunday you know that's not
what's happening okay it's over different different languages but but who's he making war with who
is it the old saints from roman catholicism he's making words for digging up those boats
all those bones that just keep multiplying and multiplying and they've seen me at every church
going no it's the believers that's what a saint is a believer so he's making he's making war with
with christians real christians real believers okay not he's not making war with the c of e
church he's not making war with all these false stories making war with christians with believers
people have their faith in christ verse 8 says and all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him
it looks like the majority of the earth here are going to worship him whose names are not written
in the book of life as a lamb slain for the foundation of the world so these people aren't
saved okay they're worshiping him because they're not saved if any man have an ear let him hear okay
you have ears so you should hear and basically look if you're saved you should be listening and
paying attention to this verse 10 says he that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity
he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword here is the patience and the faith of
the saints look we're gonna have to ride this out and wanting to kill with the sword okay but but
that's not what we're called to do imagine being alive when this is going on right now and i've
talked about this a bit when you look what's just going on with police forces and armies you just
got more and more just reprobates reprobate just flaming sodomites just suddenly becoming in these
higher positions in control it's it's not it's not a far stretch of the imagination is it to see a
time when you'll be getting hunted down for your faith and killed by people that absolutely hate
you because of your faith in christ and it it's going to be horrendous isn't it and i don't think
you know you look at it now i mean i don't know maybe in all periods of time you could look and
go yeah it's probably not a long way off but i look at things going on right now and thinking
yeah i mean i'm just seeing i'm just seeing just just blatant open sodomites in the police force
all over the place in in the and that's not just here over all these nations all these just
wicked god haters all over the place and you're going to need some patience and faith aren't you
to ride this out to keep going to not just kind of want to just go on a massacre and on a rampage
because it would be in the flesh you'd just be like i just want just you know just take some
down with me but you need some patience and faith to to do it he said and i beheld another beast
coming up out of the earth and he had two horns like a lamb and he spake as a dragon this is a
false prophet and he exercise he exercises all the power of the first beast before him and
causes the earth and then which dwell there into worship the first beast whose deadly wound was
healed and and he do with great wonders that he didn't like you know stub his toe or something
he's a deadly wound okay and he do with great wonders so that he make a fire come down from
heaven on the earth and the sight of men that's gonna be amazing isn't it yeah like these wicked
people you know you know the devil can give some some power to people i mean he can get people
doing some miraculous stuff yeah and here obviously we're going to see like you know kind
of probably like you know the upper limit of the stuff that he can do here he's got a fire coming
down from heaven on earth in the sight of men and deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the
means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast saying to them that dwell
on the earth that they should make an image to the beast which had the wound by a sword and did live
which with with the healing of the deadly wound is for me the starter's pistol now for the great
tribulation okay this is this is when a lot of people go i knew it was him i knew it was him
you're not funny he never said i knew i knew you know okay this is kind of this is this is when
you can really be sure because the rest of it look there's nothing i'm i don't want to sound
unprecedented but this is look we're gonna we should be looking okay we should be looking out
and we're going to see why we should be looking as well why we should have our eyes over but but
this is when you can be like okay now i know for sure now i know for sure it says and he had power
to give life unto the image of the beast that the image of the beast should both speak and cause it
as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed and this is for me what's
known as the abomination of desolation okay and this is the image of the beast and he causeth all
both small and great rich and poor free and bond to receive a mark in their right hand or in their
foreheads and that no man might buy or sell safe either add the mark or the name of the beast or
the number of his name here is wisdom let him that has understanding count the number of the
beast for it is the number of a man and his number is six hundred three score that's sixty and six
six six six definitely not the covid vaccine i mean how much of that stuff was out there
it's the mark of the beast did anyone see a call to the world dying before that did anyone see
the wars and the and all that stuff it's so crazy isn't it yet these people are claiming biblical
knowledge and the guys are like falling at their feet and really they're false prophets aren't they
because they're prophesying falsely about the word of god and it doesn't come to pass you prophesy
stuff and it doesn't come to pass that says you're a false prophet okay and look there was a lot of
that stuff out there wasn't there a lot of that stuff and they'll continue to be so and as we go
in to kind of close this time people are going that's the mark and everyone's just a lot a lot
of people be confused apart of people that are grounding the word of god and they're reading the
word of god and going okay let's interpret world events by the word of god not interpret the word
of god by world events okay and that's a very important thing to do isn't it when we're when
we're going to be studying these sorts of things especially as we get closer to the end times either
us or generations to come right now go back to matthew 24 so in the shadows the archer goes
forth to conquer then there's war famine a quarter of the earth dead but it's still not the end
we've got christians are being martyred the false prophets are everywhere then we have this world
leader making some miraculous return to life okay and now we're like whoa wait a second what's going
on here okay and and obviously you know even that could be you could have people blagging you could
have people going i don't know that jfk is apparently living on some island somewhere was
you know it's actually the antichrist so again you know we're gonna there's we're gonna know we're
gonna wait a second this is getting close and then we're gonna know for sure i think when we see that
image of the beast and the mark set up so you've got the false prophet doing miracles then then
the image is set up yeah okay now you can imagine that with all of this taking shape okay there's
going to be believers literally just scouring conspiracy channels if they stay if you can even
access that i don't know they'll probably let you access certain stuff there'll be people just kind
of just trying to get you know find some comments and someone who's you know always joke about
someone who's got the government papers you know find those government papers or whatever it is
you know everyone's always like looking for something because instead of just just looking
at the bible right and they're going to be trying to or or maybe they're going to be setting up the
homesteads or looking for like that cryptocurrency that's going to survive this or or you know just
get those tins of food in and you know they're going to be like trying to like find all this
you know kind of way they can respond to it but what should we be doing what should be our
response to all this taking place but what is it it's preaching the gospel yeah you're getting to
a point where the the majority of the world's going to take the mark and then they can't get
saved they're done and look this is like as we see these things happening that should be when
we're like right it's like we've got to get out there we've got to get preaching we've got to get
people saved not be like how can i like find a way to hide before the time when i'm told to go
there is a time we're told to flee but that's not at this point that's not the beginning of sorrows
so verse 12 says this because look the wickedness will make many turn cold it says and because
iniquity shall abound the love of many shall wax cold so so i believe and we're going to keep
reading because he is talking about soul winning here okay and really i think if you're experiencing
that what i was talking about with like just probably just you can imagine how bad is it now
can you imagine what it's going to be like like with with all the just freakery and weirdness
and sodomy and filth and perversion and cross-dressing and all that stuff in your
face being pushed on you your kids and everyone around can you imagine how and all the people
supporting it because i mean how many liberal sellout just absolute brainwashed morons do we
have in this world who support this stuff in this nation people you know i bet there are people you
know that if you talk to them 20 years ago not even that probably and you talk to them now they've
literally just like just you turned on this sort of stuff you're gonna probably find it a bit hard
sometimes to have that love to go out and soul win with these people aren't you it'd be like let them
die because the flesh is going to do that isn't it let's be honest oh brother ian you know that
doesn't sound very christian look look you know you know what you know what chris it should be as
honest yeah they should be honest we should have some integrity and not try and pretend that we're
these holier than now people that are like i would still be praying for the pope you know to get saved
no no because the flesh is just going to be like i don't even want to go out and get these people
saved you know they're fighting these these weirdos around the house babysitting the kids
and stuff like what's wrong with them you know however however
we're christians and we should still have a heart for people shouldn't we and that's going to be a
challenge he said and because iniquity shall abound because of all this filth everywhere
the love of many shall wax cold then he said but he that shall endure and to the end the same
shall be saved now in case anyone is confused about this it clearly has nothing to do with
spiritual salvation okay so the enduring till the end this is talking about physically saved from
death okay we're going to see what that enduring is in the next verse but verse 22 in case you're
wondering says and accept those days should be shortened there should no flesh be saved that's
not talking about your soul but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened okay so we're
talking about about being saved from basically this this martyrdom getting your head chopped
off and worse yeah and everything else that's going on and who knows what they're these vile
vile wicked just just foaming at the mouth freaks are due to your body after and sadly probably
before you killed as well but however he said but he that shall endure and to the end the same shall
be saved what's the enduring well verse 14 says 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 enduring and to the
end is preaching the gospel that's the first works that's the that's the obvious the the one obvious
thing as a christian you should be doing if you did nothing else but went out and preached the
gospel at least you're doing something worthwhile yeah that's the obvious one that's you enduring
to the end oh well i'm still going to church i still pray in the morning but i can't even open
my mouth preach gospel here are you an enduring you're not enduring oh but i've just lived such
a holy life but i can't even open my bible and tell someone how to get saved i can't even tell
him how i got saved how can you tell him how you got saved well like yeah but i don't know the like
the list of going for you don't have to do that you don't have to do that you could you could
turn to john 316 and preach the gospel from that if you had to yeah look you don't have to now look
this isn't again there are people there are people in this chat and i've encouraged this many times
if you want to be a silent partner be a silent partner yeah great need pesca but but if you're
if it came to the point where you were then on your own with some family or neighbor or friend
can you preach the gospel yeah you might not be confident to go and do it on the street no worries
we need pairs yeah every silent partner is half a pair however can you do it when it comes to the
crunch on your own and if not why not okay because we should we should or if not that
should be our goal and what we're working towards that's enduring to the end preaching the gospel
he said in this gospel the kingdom shall be preaching all the world for a witness unto
all nations and then shall the end come and for me the tribulation the best chance that people
have of salvation i mean if there's ever a time and don't get me wrong it's going to be a wicked
time there's ever a time that those that would have got saved or at least could have got saved
will get saved it's during the tribulation isn't it during war during war the pride-filled people
where pride would have been an issue you might just think during war when they're thinking well
my money's probably not going to stop me getting bombed or stop me getting shot or stop me getting
ran up they might be a little bit more open to hearing the gospel right when they're staring
death in the face famine staring death of faith death the cult of the world dying you might like
yeah i need to make sure i know where my soul's going right this is a time forget and you know
what is it what it is as well it's a time especially with the martyrdom when those who
want to live for god and do things of god for me are going to be most likely to be out doing things
of god because it's a funny anomaly in life that the more that the christians are persecuted the
more they go out and they grow and they spend they do things the more we go actually no i'm
going to go and preach the gospel you're telling me i'm going to die for preaching of course i'm
going out preaching the gospel yeah and that's that should be our response shouldn't it however
there will be that issue where because of the iniquity abounding the love of many shall works
cold so look we need to make sure we're out preaching the gospel this would be a receptive
time for me you know that that's what that's a lot of what the great tribulation is about
it's about inspiring those that that that do what have a heart for doing the things of god to go out
and do things and and for me it's it's kind of that last chance for the gospel to go out
throughout the whole world and look look many have done the same in history okay so i'm not
trying to say that you know our sorts of churches are sort of you know some sort of pioneers or
anything but we do have a revival starting of soul-winning churches in in in what is the internet
age as well don't we i mean this is we're part of a revival there are more and more of churches like
us freeing up all over the place that are going out and preaching the gospel on mass every week
sometimes every day of the week with the bigger churches we're about to add our full soul-winning
time yeah oh you're trying to puff yourself each other no i'm not trying to puff myself in the
church i'm saying that we're part of a revival we're part of a group of churches they're going
out and preaching the gospel in a time when we see as we get to the end times he's saying that
it will go out to all the world and then you add the internet to that and then you add what really
is becoming let's be honest what is english becoming more and more a universal language
we're seeing this universal language and look i know sometimes you know people that aren't
english get offended by this that's the truth more and more people than ever are speaking
english that's going to keep growing probably like in a way greek was like in a way maybe latin was
like in a way before that well maybe maybe not quite hebrew but however look it is growing isn't
it english is growing it's getting out there we've got the internet we're we're preaching we're
getting our message out people are finding the way getting the message out that's what it's all about
that's what the tribulation is about that's what the beginning of science is about that's
what we're looking out for to be like let's get out of there let's look time's running out get
people saved verse uh verse 14 he said this he said 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 now don't get
me wrong the gospel's already gone out to all the world okay the gospel has already gone out to all
the world however it seems in this end period of time it's he's giving everyone one last chance
because he's long suffering isn't he not willing that any should perish but that all should come
to repentance and god gives everyone that last chance and he's going to do that through the soul
winning churches out there and through soul winning soul winning chris is going out preaching
the gospel through the message getting out through using the internet and other resources to get the
message out to people and the end is finally confirmed for sure once the abomination of
desolation the image of the beast for me is there in jerusalem it says in verse 15 when you therefore
shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by daniel the prophet stand in the holy place
who so readeth let him understand then let them which be in judia flee into the mountain so then
it's time to flee okay that's the confirmation of the end now at that point we might let you off if
you don't turn up for soul winning times yeah wait a second okay well look because there is a point
because for me that's that is the end then okay that's kind of that's that's like you know you
know for sure now you've got the abomination desolation everything else is tick tick tick tick
tick it's the end now that doesn't mean it's the end that second okay you've got this sort of 75
day period however that's that's kind of when you're confirmed we're in the end i think then
i think you're excused then you are enduring if you're then following what jesus is saying and
he's saying flee he's saying flee he's saying get somewhere safe he says this he says in verse 17
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 one to 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 so he's saying like don't even come and take something out of your house if you
want a rooftop let's talk about rooftops who access from outside obviously people that are
in the field don't go back home to get your clothes or even to where maybe you left he's
saying like once this happens he's making this point get out of there flee flee flee
okay now why verse 19 and 21 to them that are with child them that give suck in those days
well you know just just an obvious thing is it's going to be that much difficult fleeing isn't it
going to be that much difficult if one you're pregnant or do your nursing okay and and look
this isn't as well if you look at verse 20 pray that your flight be not in the winter neither on
the sabbath this isn't like plan your route time is it it's not all right pack up the bags it's not
okay you know get this got the sleeping bag ready got all the kind of winter shelter stuff this is
just legging and you're legging in the winter that's going to be tough yeah you're going to be
you're going to be legging it during the sabbath in certain parts of the world like there
i'd imagine public transport getting around it's going to be a bit harder i don't know
also you could also add maybe maybe a point for you know maybe that's when the mass worship of
the antichrist will be on the sabbath day because let's be honest we know the sort of spirit and the
sorts of people behind this sort of thing yeah so maybe that's going to be part of it as well maybe
it'll be a sabbath day worship maybe it's going to be a lot harder to be able to leg it when
everyone's going well why aren't you you like getting down with the sound of the psaltery and
harp and all that sort of stuff you know so let's keep going 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
definitely not the covid vaccine yeah definitely not that and except those days should be shortened
there shall no flesh be saved but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened okay so
with that look i mean it's saying like no flesh i don't think he's just talking about christians
maybe the whole world maybe maybe there's some mess up look you can imagine a sort of weird
technology in the mark maybe that's just going to you know it's like a ticking time bomb i don't
know maybe maybe it's because of the wrath of satan who doesn't care for anyone really
or maybe it's just all those reprobates everywhere and the mark's going to reprobate them
so there's going to be a lot of reprobates around that's going to be just yeah i don't think it's
going to be an easy time to survive is it oh the way it's going to be rough who are the elect the
saved okay the saved not the jews the saved paul said that you don't turn it to the church in
put on therefore as the elect of god that's the church in colossi put on therefore as the elect
of god holy and beloved bows of mercy's kindness humbleness of mine meekness long suffering okay
we're the elect you you everyone here who's saved your elect okay so then he says in verse 23 then
if any man shall sound to 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've told you before wherefore if they shall say
unto you behold is in the desert go not forth behold is in the secret chambers believe it not
so there's just going to be deception everywhere they're just going to want to try and get you one
way or another try and coerce you into going places to be caught there'll be people coming
out with all sorts of stuff it's going to be a scary time it's going to be a lot of deception
out there again even more reason to just be in the word of god to know what these passages are
saying to be studying out these passages verse 27 says for as the lightning cometh out the east
and shineth even unto the west so shall also the coming of the son of man be so when christ comes
we're going to know for sure okay we're going to know for sure there's not going to be oh well
someone said he's over there someone said he's just around the corner there someone said he's
oh no when when when he comes we know and you know he's not talking about one of those what's
that a flash of lightning we're talking about when it comes to the east all the way to the west
okay when you're like wow okay that was some lightning okay we're going to know and we'll
be gathered by the way because we're going to be raptured this is the rapture for wheresoever the
carcasses there will the eagles be gathered together okay gathered together and then it then
says immediately after yeah after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened and the
moon shall not give a light and the stars shall fall from heaven and the powers of the heavens
shall be shaken so right here we've got after the tribulation but we haven't got the wrath yet
i think hopefully everyone here understands why we're post-tribulation pre-wrath because we believe
what the bible says funnily enough verse 30 says 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 does this line up with revelation
chapter 6 then we just read let's just read that again revelation chapter 6 of verse 11
turn of revelation 6 and verse 11 and it says and white robes were given unto every one of them
sorry revelation 6 11 6 and verse 11 it says and white robes are given unto every one of them
and it was said unto them that they should they should rest yet for a little season until their
fellow servants also and their brethren that should be killed as they were should be fulfilled
okay so we saw that little season in matthew 24 then we saw christ's return and i beheld when he
had opened the sixth seal and lo there was a great earthquake and the sun became black as sackcloth
of hair and the moon became his blood looking a bit similar doesn't it and the stars of heaven
fell onto the earth even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs when she was shaking of a mighty
wind and the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together and every mountain and island
were moved out of their places when it's hard to even picture what what's going to be going on here
and the kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men and the chief cats are all these very
wealthy very powerful people and the mighty men and every bondman and every free man hid themselves
everyone hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains and said to the mountains
fallen 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 so the wrath is about
to start but first things first the elect the believers are to be gathered and raptured out
of their first okay we're not appointed to wrath yes look everyone who who lives godly
Christ he shall suffer like persecution okay we're gonna we're gonna go through tribulation
in life okay that we promise that but we're not going to go through god's wrath okay and that's
why they're clear and that's they're clearly two separate things so when they raptured out of there
well we've seen it we've seen it in in matthew we're going to continue to see it however just
turn over to chapter seven where where you are in revelation and chapter seven and and at the
beginning of chapter seven we see the 144 000 in heaven and again we're you know for sake of time
we're not going to go into that that's another seven for another day okay 144 000 are in heaven
okay then we see look at verse nine so this is obviously we're continuing on from chapter six
where you just were we see that there's 144 000 people already in heaven then look at verse nine
where it says this in in chapter seven after this after he goes through the different tribes of
12 000 he says after this i beheld and lower a great multitude which no man could number
of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues stood before the throne before the lamb
clothed with white robes and had palms in their hands and cried with a loud voice saying salvation
to our god which sitteth upon the throne and unto the lamb and all the angels stood round about the
throne about the elders and the four beasts have fell before the throne on their face and worship
god saying amen blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power might be unto our
god forever and ever amen and one of the elders answered saying unto me what are these which are
arrayed in white robes and whence came they and i said unto him sir thou knowest so he's asked him
to see what do you know i'm going to tell you and he said to me these are they which came out of
great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb
therefore they before the throne of god and serve him day and night in his temple he that
sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them they shall hunger no more neither thirst anymore
neither shall the sunlight on them nor any heat for the lamb which is in the midst of the throne
shall feed them and shall lead them unto living found fountains of water and god shall wipe away
all tears from their eyes that's the rapture okay that's the rapture okay that's the dead in christ
rising and also those those that are alive and remain and being caught up together in the air
okay and that's it and that's and it's just it just follows just chronologically clearly through
the book of revelation is that the same in matthew's gospel well let's go back to matthew's gospel
in chapter and verse 29 of chapter 24 where we are says this immediately after the tribulation
of those days shall the sun be dark and the moon shall not give a 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
sun and man in heaven and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn they shall see the
son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory and he shall send his angels
with a great sound of a trumpet and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds
from one end of heaven to the other by the way that's like the sky there okay okay four winds
north south east west okay gather together that's the rapture after the tribulation before the wrath
like we've just seen lined up in in the book of revelation like we've just seen in matthew's
gospel it's pretty clear isn't it okay i don't care how many mental gymnastics they do i don't
care how how you know they want to take a verse from here and a verse in the old testament try
and disprove just clear prophecy very clear isn't it okay so and then that is when those remaining
that's when those that endured and took heed and fleed will be raptured that's the point okay
that's the rapture now first corinthians 15 52 you don't have to turn this is in a moment in the
twinkling of an eye at the last trump for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raising
corrupt all and we shall be changed so what a lot of these people try and do they try and go no no
no that's not the rapture that's the coming and that's when the jews or something will will will
then be joined together with christ but a rapture is like a secret event that happened before
but it's all i mean we just keep seeing it time time again and we probably have time just quickly
turn to first thessalonians in chapter four we've got time to just just have a quick quick look at
again you know first thessalonians 4 and we're going to look from verse 13 just again makes it
so clear we see this trumpet we see this great sound of a trumpet we saw in verse 31 of matthews
gathering the elect from the four winds we saw you know the son of man coming you know in heaven
coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory first corinthians 15 52 said in the
moment in the twinkling of a night at the last trump for the trumpet shall sound the dead shall
be raising corrupt and we shall be changed then we see here in first thessalonians and and chapter
four from verse 13 but i would not have you to be ignorant brethren concerning them which are asleep
that you saw are not even as others which have no hope he's talking about those that are dead in
christ for if we believe that jesus died and rose again even so them also which sleep in jesus
will god bring with him for this we sound to you by the word of the lord that we which are alive
and remain unto the coming of the lord shall not prevent them which are asleep for the lord himself
shall descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of the archangel and with the trump of god
and the dead in christ shall rise first then we which are alive remain shall be caught up together
with them in the clouds to meet the lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the lord
wherefore comfort one another with these words i mean it's clear as day isn't it clear as day
and there's other places we could go it's clear as day um and we're going to finish there on matthew
just in in chapter 31 there um you know it's it's i can't preach all of those words there's so much
there isn't there and and you know i've preached a little bit on this subject before it's a good
time to kind of preach it and and next week we'll kind of go through some other topics around that
as well um but but for me you know what a great passage of scripture matthew 24 very clear isn't
it it all lines up it lines up with a clear revelation prophecy as well and then as you
start to look then at uh at daniel and first cecilonians you know chapter 4 it's just all
lines it all just matches perfectly okay it's clear as day but i mean what's what's the what's
the take-home message from it what's the take-home message that if you're looking out there and many
do and you're looking around you're seeing things get worse and you're thinking it's getting worse
yeah it's getting worse maybe we're not a long way off it maybe the things are getting in motion
you could see a what you could see a mark system where you can't buy or sell without a mark okay
that that's a cashless society that doesn't sound far off does it you could see a one world
government couldn't you that doesn't sound far off okay you you you can see all this stuff happening
around us you can see just apostate christianity everywhere i mean i was talking to someone here
just the other day on sunday and i think like because there's a hard balance isn't there between
look yeah of course there are some there are people of course there are safe people around
we get a lot of people save ourselves and others do and people get saved off of of videos online
people get saved off of soul winners they've been so when is obviously before ourselves and and
others here however at the same time you know we also have to have to accept how bad the state
of churches in this nation most nations around the world really is there are people in so many
nations around this world who contact us and other and other you know churches and talk to our pastor
and other pastors say like we don't even have a church we can go to that preaches of the gospel
in a whole nation that's how bad it is and here a lot of us here tried to go to churches which
claim to preach the gospel to find out eventually they didn't really believe the gospel and they
just pretended to believe the gospel but really they believe that you've got to repent of all
your sins or something else to get saved and it is that bad however what's the take-home from that
is we've got a job to do aren't we we're part of a revival we're part of a a group of churches
which is which have a heart for soul and we need to make sure we always continue that and as we see
though those days come on more and more that's more of a reason to get out and preach the gospel
more and more and more get people say get preaching and make sure that we're we're doing
what god wants us to do so the gospel goes out to all the world um on that we're going to pray
father thank you for your word thank you for um well matthew chapter 24 and all those other
passages that just help us you know those saved those are you know have the spirit of discernment
to be able to see these things and of course there are people that are misled on these things
you know your children and unfortunately have just been led astray by false doctrine but
there are also many deceivers out there lord there's many people trying to deceive
the the masses deceive people into into all sorts of false doctrine and really to just make them
apathetic apathetic towards soul winning to just think that at any time they're just going to vanish
and when when you have that in your mind it doesn't really make you think about going out
and getting people saved and you know we need to understand that not only do we need to get people
say but we need to be serving you living for you and enduring until the end to be able to be
physically saved in that time not to end up just being surplus to requirements and what's the need
to protect us in the top if we're not even doing anything for you help us all to have a heart to do
things for you lord to to live for you to work for you to want to preach the gospel to want to get
people saved however awkward that might be however embarrassing sometimes it is however tough it
sometimes is lord help us to just want to get people saved um we just pray that the rest of
the week we'll go where we pray that saturday um at the start of our anniversary celebrations
will go great especially with the soul winning that we plan to do in the morning um that we just
have a great celebration we get out on sunday just get more and more people saved lord and more
people wanting to serve you and wanting to get out and learn to do the same and just think for all
this amen