[0:00] Try that. Is that better? 1, 2, 3, 9, 4, 5. Just like I learned in school. Okay, amen. Amen.
[0:11] Well, guys, good to be saved. Good to be in church. It's just always good to be saved, good to be in church. It really is. I don't know if you noticed, but, you know, it's always been a statement that is America.
[0:24] You hear people say it 30 years ago. America is an insane asylum run by the inmates. But it's never been so true as now. Is that not true?
[0:34] I mean, if you say men can have a baby, you're nuts, right? You are. You know, when I was a kid, they had state hospitals. They put those people in.
[0:45] Now they put them in Democratic headquarters. But anyway, anyway. But here's the thing. Things are so crazy that you know what you forget?
[0:56] You forget that it's just good to be saved. And so don't be distracted from a great truth, and that is that if you're saved, that is a good deal. This book, you know, I almost say 2004.
[1:10] I thought it was 2004. 2004, that came out. It's called Fight On. I tell people it's not about a Baptist business meeting. But probably a good book for a Baptist business meeting. Hardcover, pointed corner, stop a small count of a round.
[1:24] But guys, you know, when I came up in this country, this country exalted heroes. And every kid that was alive wanted to be a hero. You may not know this, but you were looking at the guy that sank every Japanese and German ship that was left over from World War II.
[1:40] I sank them myself. You say, where were they? They were in a creek out in the back of my house. And all I had to do was use rocks. And I did that while I built a hydroelectric plant and fought Indians, because back then you were allowed to fight Indians.
[1:53] But anyway, and so, you know, all of us guys, we just want to be heroes. Is this not true? Today, the country exalts victims. And everybody wants to be a victim.
[2:05] You know what a dangerous sentence is now? How are you doing? They'll talk for two hours. Let me tell you what happened to me. I'd rather not. Don't you care? No, I don't. But, and so, guys, I just say it this way.
[2:19] If you just want somebody to sit across from you, you know, hold your hand, have a little compassion, and listen to your sad story. I'm not your guy, okay? You say, don't care?
[2:30] No, I don't. That's okay, because you don't care about mine. Don't, don't. You don't have to. But if you want to keep going for the Lord, I will do anything I can keep you going for the Lord. And that's what this is. This is just single.
[2:41] Most of them are single-page stories. Oh, look, this one goes all the way to the next page. Take you a couple days. Get it done. But, and it's any war situation from the Napoleonic Wars to the Gulf Wars, but it also covers floods, fires, earthquakes.
[3:00] You guys ever have that kind of stuff? Train wrecks, plane wrecks, shipwrecks, grizzly bear attacks. Guys, on the order of violence, grizzly bear attacks rank just below a Baptist business meeting.
[3:16] And so, if you want to keep going, these are people. These are not survival stories. You know how you survive? You just wash up on a beach. That just happened.
[3:27] I mean, really. You can survive without making a great effort. These are fight-on stories where somebody could have given up and said, I am not going to. I am going to fight on.
[3:37] And there was a, I think it's in this one. There's two volumes. There were five guys in World War II. Their ship was sunk. Sailors, they made it to shore. But one of them was critically injured.
[3:52] And it was obvious he was going to die. And so, rather than try to, you know, get off the island or anything, the Japanese were on the island. And they knew that. And as long as they stayed in one place, especially out by the beach, they're just waiting to be found.
[4:08] And finally, after about two or three days, the guy that was dying told the other four, look, just take all of the food. I don't need it. I'm going to die. Just go and let me alone.
[4:20] He had no problem with that. And so, they did. And they left him. And that night, he went to sleep and waited to die. And he woke up the next day.
[4:31] And so, he waited all the next day to die that night and the next day. And after three days of just not being able to die, he said, I decided to try living.
[4:43] And he had barely any strength. And what he would do when he'd wake up in the morning is he'd take where dew had been caught in a leaf. He would tip the leaf down and drink the puddled dew. And he got stronger and nursed himself back to health.
[4:59] He went on a one-man war against the Japanese. You ever hear, you know, like you see in a movie where there's a patrol going in column through the jungle.
[5:09] And somebody knocks out the last guy, kills him. This guy did that. He'd get behind the last guy in a Japanese patrol and knock him out, kill him. And then the next one.
[5:20] And they knew he was on the island somewhere. And they started closing in on him. And he was able finally to, I think he alerted an American plane.
[5:31] They sent a submarine and got him off. And so, he just fought on. And they never found out what happened to the other four guys. Those guys were never heard from again.
[5:42] So, that is what those are about. Just keep you going. This one, repentance, a scriptural examination of vitally important subject. There are people that have a missed, I guess like a wrong definition of repentance.
[5:57] You know, if you say, what's repentance? Somebody says, let's turn from your sin, bless God. I don't know. God repented 14 times. I don't think God ever sinned.
[6:08] Okay. And really, this is what repentance is. Just turning around. You know how you repent. Here's how we repented when we got saved. Because some people, you know, they preach this thing where you got to, you know, weep about your sins and promise to get rid of them and everything else before you get saved.
[6:24] That's works. But you did repent when you got saved. The Bible calls it repenting of dead works. And all of us, whether it was your self-righteousness, your religion, your baptism, whatever it was.
[6:37] And that is a very, very thorough, scripture after scripture, very, very thorough study of repentance. This book is called Living with Pain.
[6:50] No, no, my wife did not write this. Okay. But you should know that. It's entirely too thin. She's working on a two-volume set called Living with the Pain.
[7:00] But I was just out of Bible college in 1973. I was in evangelism, working construction so that I could have a job when I didn't have a meeting.
[7:12] Step backwards, fell, oh, not quite as far as this roof, about two stories down. Got broken up. And amongst other things, I broke my neck. My doctor was the doctor that you heard about that was practicing medicine because he had not perfected it.
[7:28] Never looked at the x-ray, sent me back to work. And so it was almost three months before they fixed my neck. And, you know, if you broke your arm or leg and they waited three months before they fixed it, it would never be the way it should be.
[7:42] And so consequently, that's been the problem since 73. And then that's six and seven. You got seven vertebrae. Six and seven were fused. And then in 08, they've all been coming down.
[7:54] So in 08, they took C5 out and put in a cage and put a titanium plate from four to six. So from four to seven, it's solid. I have a titanium plate right here.
[8:06] Guys, I live for the day the Muslims try to cut off my head. I just want to see him say, and now we're going to cut off your head.
[8:19] I bet you can't. I called you. Anyway, and then there was another surgery in 13.
[8:30] And they want to do another one. Basically, turn it into a fence post. So I may have that. My first prayer and priority is just even so come Lord Jesus. But I deal with pain a lot.
[8:43] So that book has helped people. If you have a friend, if you have a problem with pain, that may help you. If you have a lost friend, that has got a good chapter on salvation.
[8:53] If you are not a reader, this is one of, I think, three books that we have in audio book. So that's the book. That's the audio book. Those are back there. And then this. A few years back, we did what we call production videos.
[9:06] Production videos are, you know, like, do you video this? Do you video this? Record it? Okay. If you, you know, if you just start a video and watch a guy preach, that's how it is.
[9:18] Production videos are that you, you know, you have a script and you do this. And the reason we did that is because I've got some lessons that are like an hour and a half and two hours on the King James Bible.
[9:32] So, and those are on, if you go to Sam Gipp, go to YouTube, Sam Gipp channel, you'll find those. But we want to reduce these things to anything from 12 to 15 minutes.
[9:43] And so their production videos, there's seven of them on the King James Bible. And then the, I know it gets hot here, but Arizona, guys, is where it's dangerous. Because it apparently burns out a lot of guys' brains.
[9:56] And there's two guys in particular in Arizona. One of them is James White, who doesn't believe God ever could have a perfect Bible. And so every time I'd make a video, he'd think he had to refute it.
[10:07] And so there's those, my seven videos. And then there's an eighth video where I undress him. And then the other guy whose brain got burnt out in Phoenix is a guy named Steve Anderson.
[10:19] And so there's a ninth video that just deals with him. So those are back there, like I said. Kathy will be back there to take your money. It's just fun.
[10:30] I just like to sit back and watch. All right, I want you to open your Bibles to Revelation chapter 1. Revelation chapter 1. It says this, the very first verse.
[10:57] The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him to show unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass. And he said and signified it by his angel unto his servant John.
[11:10] Let's bow our heads. Let's talk to the Lord. Father, we thank you now, God, for your goodness, your grace, and your great kindness. God, there is nothing wrong with you, God. We have no problem with you because there's nothing wrong with you. And we have no problem with this book because there's nothing wrong with it.
[11:24] And anybody, God, that thinks you have a problem or the Bible has a problem. The real problem is themselves. So, God, I ask you to, Father, be in this service. These folks came here tonight.
[11:36] They want to get something from you. And I pray, God, that they could. Please, speak to the hearts of each individual, God, and accomplish your purpose. And each life represented. In Jesus Christ's name I pray.
[11:47] Amen. Amen. It says, which things, things which must shortly come to pass. I don't know if some of you remember the summer of 2020 when they shut everything down.
[12:01] I was in a, you know, I started a meeting in March, first week of March. I was in Houston, Texas. And it's funny, I got into the motel Saturday, Saturday night, flew in.
[12:14] And Sunday morning, I had, you know how they have breakfast at the hotels, you know, so I had breakfast at the hotel. And Monday morning, there was no breakfast. And Tuesday morning, you couldn't walk out of your room without a mask on and a guard dog or something.
[12:27] And everything, you hear about, you know, they talk about small businesses that were shut down the summer of 2020. I'm one of those, okay? We lost everything from March all the way to October.
[12:42] Fortunately, they had a really nice piece of cardboard and a magic marker that said, we'll work for food. So we made it through the summer. But, you know, it's, does, is it me or are there some folks in power that really like to, to shut things down?
[12:59] They just, it's like that feeling of power, you know, that, I call it, I call it the, the power of no. Some years ago, out in Arizona, there was a, there was a, there is an Indian reservation and the government was bringing a highway through and they're just going to cut about 25, just, they're not taking the land, just going to put a road and it was going to traverse 25 miles.
[13:22] I mean, the people are all living up in here. So they had to ask permission and they said no. Say why? Because people, they like that power of saying you can't do that. And so, I'm going to talk to you tonight.
[13:33] Now, I'm not a Calvinist, all right? But I'm going to talk to you tonight about predestination. You say, what do you mean? You know what predestination is? Things that nobody can stop.
[13:45] Not the government, not you, not me. There are some things that are predestinated to happen in the future and the world cannot stop them, okay?
[13:56] And so we're going to, we're going to look at those. I want you to go with me, if you will, to a very familiar passage. Go to Titus chapter, chapter 2 and 1 Thessalonians chapter 4.
[14:08] Titus chapter 2, 1 Thessalonians chapter 4. And you know, I don't mean it when I, I'm not being coy when I say this.
[14:19] I like the Bible. I mean, I love the Bible, but I like the Bible. And I like the way God does things. And guys, I want you to know, I am for the Constitution.
[14:31] I am for the Declaration of Independence. And you know who I feel sorry for right now in our country? Lost conservatives. Because for a lost conservative, you know what their hope is?
[14:44] Donald Trump and the U.S. Constitution. Now, I think this, I think the United States Constitution is the greatest, get this word straight, the greatest uninspired writing on the planet.
[14:58] It is the greatest non-God inspired. inspired by a lot of smart guys. They had, man, back there, 13 little colonies and they already had it taken care of all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
[15:09] And so, I feel these people that are lost and conservative, you know what their hope is? Donald Trump's going to get back in and make it all good. The Constitution, we're going to get the Constitution back in and it's going to rule the country again.
[15:25] And guys, I'm sorry, but look, if Trump gets back in, he was only in four, he's only in four more. Well, after him, what happened after him this time? And we talk about the Lord coming back and getting us and we call it the rapture.
[15:39] But the Bible doesn't call it the rapture. The Bible calls it by the very best word that could be used today. Look what it says in chapter 2 of Titus in verse 13, it says, looking for that blessed hope.
[15:53] So here's people that have hope, but our hope is not man-made, it's not man-inspired, it's not man-guaranteed, our hope is a blessed hope. Isn't that true?
[16:04] You know what my hope is? I am getting airlifted out. That is my hope. Looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of our great God and our Savior, Jesus Christ.
[16:15] Look at 1 Thessalonians chapter 4, verse 13, but I do not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that you sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
[16:26] For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with them. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord that we which are alive and remain under the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
[16:41] For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, so shall we ever be with the Lord, wherefore comfort one another with these words.
[16:59] Guys, I got saved. I read this thing, the guy wrote this thing like in 375 A.D. He didn't call it the tribulation.
[17:10] That's our popular title. He called it the confusion. It was Ephraim the Syrian, I believe this guy. And in 375, he's talking about what's coming for seven years on this earth.
[17:23] Now it didn't happen in his lifetime. It didn't happen in several lifetimes after that, correct? And when I got saved in 1970, I almost, you know, Lord, I told you 10 weeks there I was in Bible college, but I almost didn't go to Bible college.
[17:36] It wasn't a matter of rebellion or, you know, I was afraid of what I had to give up. I told the guy that led me to Christ, I said, I think God wants me to go to Bible college, but I said, I don't think I'm going to go.
[17:49] And he said, why? And here's what was going on in the 70s, guys. We were ready for the Lord to come today, okay? And everybody in the 70s was ready for the Lord.
[17:59] There was a movement in this country. There were people getting saved by a massive number and everybody was excited about the Lord coming back.
[18:09] And I said, well, I don't want to go because it's going to take three years to get through school and I know the Lord's going to come before I get out. And I don't want him to come and find me sitting in a Bible college classroom.
[18:21] I want to be out doing something. And that guy gave me the very best advice he could have possibly given. He said, if God wants you in Bible college, that better be where he finds you when he comes back.
[18:33] And when I think back that if I had let that keep me out of Bible college, it never would have gone. And so, we have always been ready for the Lord to come back. But, did you ever notice how many people here in the last two years three years, all of a sudden, they are aware of the Lord coming back?
[18:51] Everybody is talking about the Lord coming back. You know, I always say it this way, in the 70s, the lost world thought that they were here to enjoy life. Not necessarily with sin and evil, they were just here to enjoy life, you know.
[19:02] And Christians thought they were here to serve God. Even if they weren't serving God, they knew that they should. Today, the lost world still thinks that it's here to enjoy life.
[19:14] But now, Christians have been convinced of that too. And Christians think they have a leg up on the world because they're going to do it without the booze and the sex and the drugs and all the stuff that's going to get them in trouble with God.
[19:25] You know, Christians, everybody wants to be at a party today. Christians just want to be at a tailgate party. We're going to grill burgers, drink Diet Coke, and talk about the Bible. Now, what could be wrong with that?
[19:36] And then the pastor comes by and says, hey guys, let's go knock on some doors for the Lord. And they go, pastor, pastor, we're not doing anything wrong here. You're messing up our party. Jesus Christ is going to come back at his height.
[19:48] You know why? Because is this party ending? If you're not praying for the Lord to come back, you will be by the time he gets here. There's a whole lot of people that were very happy with their life on this earth and all of a sudden it's like, even so come Lord Jesus.
[20:01] I hate to say it this way, guys. I am not sure that we love his appearing as much as we love our disappearing. We just want to get out of here. We think it's not the blessed hope, it's the divine rescue.
[20:13] Is that not true? But whatever you call it, it doesn't matter what you call it, he's coming back. He's going to get us out of here. Our hope is not somebody's going to get in the White House.
[20:25] Our hope is not the next justice on the Supreme Court. Our hope is not the Republicans. There's going to be a red wave in November. Do you remember 2020 before the election?
[20:40] Release the Kraken. I remember that. That's what everybody said. Release the Kraken. Oh man, watch what happens after this election. Well, you know, there's a little danger to doing a victory dance before the battle.
[20:58] And aren't conservatives right now already doing a victory dance over the great victories we're going to have in November? Don't you think the other side might be aware of that? And if you had a good, guys, you don't have to be a magician, but if you can conjure up 81 million votes in a matter of three or four hours, I don't think this midterm is going to be anything tough.
[21:18] Maybe they'll win, maybe they won't, I don't know, but it is not my hope. My hope is, my hope is the same as it was since I got saved. My hope is that one of these days you and I are going to hear a trumpet so loud, I don't care if you're working next to a piece of machinery where you can't even talk to the person next to you because they can't, it's louder than you're talking, but when that trumpet sounds where you are, what you're doing, you are going to hear that trumpet and you are going to leave here, okay?
[21:46] And could you imagine, you know, if the one world would be at the United Nations or be it our illustrious White House and they said this, I'll just let you Christians know, you're not allowed to leave in the rapture.
[22:02] Right. I mean, if you lost sleep over that, you need hitting the head. I'll be glad to do it. Guys, we're out here. They can't keep us here if they hold on to our leg.
[22:16] Isn't that right? And so guys, the Lord coming back to get his bride, that is predestined. It has been predestined for over 2,000 years.
[22:27] Is that not true? You know, I was talking to one of my brethren not long ago and he said, he was kind of stunned. He says, man, he said, I never thought we would be here in 2022.
[22:40] And I said, I did. He said, you did? I said, yeah, I did. I'm really honest, I did. I said, now, I thought we'd be 22 years in the millennium, but I thought we would be here.
[22:52] Right? Didn't you think the Lord was going to come like somewhere around 1993 and around 2000 or the tribulation is going to end and the millennium started? So guys, really, if you think about it, you all thought we'd be here in 2022.
[23:03] You just didn't think it'd be this side of the rapture. But, he is going to come. He, you know, I can't get over, you can't, you can't teach God anything.
[23:16] I mean, I have no idea how many times the rapture has been dated. And guys are dated, you know, there was a, back in 1988, if you were around, there was a guy who wrote a book called 88 Reasons Why the Lord's Come in 1988.
[23:27] Apparently, God didn't buy the book. And then there seems like somebody, I'm trying to think of where, thought he was coming in 1989. And that didn't work out so well. And then, now this is how far back 1990 was.
[23:40] In 1990, I pulled into a K-Mart parking lot. And here was this big Chevy Suburban and it had scripture all over it. And there was a big sign on the door that says, Jesus Christ is coming back on May 14th, 1990.
[23:55] 1990. And on May 15th, I was convinced, God doesn't frequent K-Mart. I mean, how come he has never, think about this, guys, if you can, think about, if you can date the rapture, and that date comes and passes, do you know what you've done?
[24:14] You have proved that you can find something in the Bible even God couldn't find. Now that is a competition you can win. So all these people have been dating the rapture and saying he's coming and saying he's coming and guys, he is coming.
[24:28] And I don't think you're going to stand up today and give us a date. I'm not going to stand up and give you a date, but I am telling you that we are going to know when it happens. Is that not true? So one of these days he's coming and we're getting out of here.
[24:43] I am going to, I am going to, I am going to, I am going to dispute if I could go to Acts chapter one, I am going to dispute a standard teaching about the rapture. If you read your Bible, the ascension of Jesus Christ is called the first fruits of our rapture.
[25:05] Actually the rapture opened when Jesus Christ went to heaven physically and it's going to close when we finally get up, go up. And look what it says.
[25:16] Acts chapter one, look at verse eight. But ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you and shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and in Samaria and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
[25:30] Now, guys, he ascends to the next verse, correct? Do you think they knew it was coming? I mean, he's, he's given what I call last minute instructions, but they don't know, they don't know, he's not saying this, guys, listen, I've got to hurry.
[25:50] My cloud is going to be here in about five minutes. He's talking. He's been with them 40 days. Why would they think for any reason that he's going to float away?
[26:01] So here he says it and I can see these guys going, guys, here's what I want you to do. I want you to go to the, I want you to go to the Jerusalem, got it, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, and Judea, all Judea, and Samaria, and Samaria, and the uttermost part of the earth, and the uttermost part of the earth.
[26:19] Okay, got it. Jerusalem, Judea, very good. What would you do if you were talking to somebody or they were talking to you? Now, do you think this happened when he finished saying verse eight?
[26:32] Do you think it went five, four, three, two? No. He gets done talking. They may be waiting for him to say something else.
[26:43] They're waiting for verse nine. And, guys, he didn't disappear. They watched him go. I do not believe we're going to disappear.
[26:55] Bing. You say, well, that's not what I've always been taught. We are going to be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye. But they watched him go. I think they're going to watch us go. You may be witnessing to somebody at that last moment and, buddy, when it happens and you change, you're gone and they're going to watch you go.
[27:14] So, guys, so look what happens. Look what happens in verse eight. He says, be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem and all Judea and in Samaria and unto the uttermost part of the earth. And when he had spoken these words while they beheld, he was taken up and the cloud received him out of their sight.
[27:33] I, would you, you know, I'm always talking to people about reading the Bible and I think you should read the Bible. But, you know what you do, what you need to do when you read your Bible? Get out of your chair and get out of your living room.
[27:49] Get out of your house. Get out of the time in which you live and enter the scene that you're reading about. Come on, you guys are like me. Were you not raised on TV? So, you know how to watch. Could you imagine being one of the eleven and he says, you know, go to Jerusalem, all Judea, Samaria, the uttermost part of the earth.
[28:05] And they're going, okay. And he disappears into a cloud. Do you believe this? Do you believe the second he disappeared from sight into the cloud they went, well, okay guys, let's go, you know, let's go fishing.
[28:20] I'll be honest, I'd be watching that cloud for a while. Wouldn't you? Not that I expect to see him come back out like this, but I would be watching that cloud. And I am sorry, but this leads to one of the most, what I call, unfair questions in the Bible.
[28:36] Look at verse nine. And we had spoken these things while they beheld he was taken up and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked steadfastly, guys, you know what steadfastly is?
[28:49] Your feet are riveted to the ground. These guys were, they're like this. And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven, as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel, which said, you men of Galilee, why stand you gazing up into heaven?
[29:07] Oh, no, I'm sorry. That's not a fair question. Here's these guys, they're standing like this. Two guys show up and they go, why are you guys staring at, why are you staring at heaven? Did you see what he, did you see what he just did?
[29:20] Listen, listen, I've seen him raise the dead. I've seen him walk in water. I've never seen him fly. But he left. And you're going to leave. We're going to get out of here.
[29:31] So guys, the world can say they're going to stop it. They can try to stop it. They cannot stop it. It is predestined and we are out of here. And just in case you're wondering, we're out of here before the tribulation starts.
[29:45] Now, if you want to stay through any of it, you can stay through as much as you want. I look at it like this. In this life here, I had a mother-in-law. That is as close to tribulation as I ever want to get.
[30:00] Okay? And so I'm not sticking around for the tribulation. I'll go to 2 Thessalonians 2. 2 Thessalonians 2. And look at verse 4.
[30:15] Talking about the Antichrist. Who opposeth and exalteth himself about all that is called God or that is worshipped so that he, as God, sitteth in the temple of God showing himself that he is God.
[30:31] I have heard critics of the King James Bible say they shouldn't have capitalized God in that verse. The devil's already a little G God.
[30:44] Right? He's not trying to attain what he already is. Doesn't he want to be the capital G God? Yeah. So you take that out and you take that all the way.
[30:56] And I'll tell you what's going on. It says, he sitteth in the temple of God showing himself that he is God. You say, what is that saying? Here's what it's saying. You tell, you know, like your family lives out of town and you work, you know, you work for a company like you're the janitor and you're telling your family, I'm the president of the company.
[31:14] I am. And then they fly in and they go, unexpectedly, they go, show us where you work. Oh, okay. I don't know. We can only stop by. I told the guys I wouldn't be in today.
[31:25] And so you pull in and as you drive into the parking lot, there's a parking spot that says the president and you pull in to the parking spot for the president showing that you are the president and then you back out and get out of Dodge as fast as you can.
[31:43] But this says that the Antichrist is going to sit down in the temple of God. Do we not know that as I speak to you there is no temple of God on this earth?
[31:56] Now, you know where it's supposed to be and there's a lot of speculation and a lot of dispute. It is, we were in Israel a few years ago and on that temple mount there is the dome of the rock.
[32:09] Keep in mind what those two words the rock mean. That rock is the rock in Genesis chapter 22 where Abraham was willing to offer Isaac.
[32:20] That is where the temple was. I've had people say well it doesn't have to be right there. The actual location is right beside there. Oh great. Try building the temple next door to it and see what the Muslims do.
[32:32] They're not going to be real keen on it, okay? And then I heard a guy say this and I'm honest guys if I don't agree with somebody I'm willing to listen. And this guy said this they don't have to build the temple.
[32:45] I'm talking about the brick and mortar or stone and mortar. They don't have to build the temple like it was in Solomon's day. He said all they've got to do is put up the tabernacle that we find in the Old Testament.
[33:01] So when I read that I thought nah that's not happening. Now did you guys ever go to Lancaster PA? Yeah. Alright. In Lancaster Pennsylvania over on the east side of the state there's a couple things.
[33:14] It's a large Amish community and so they have Amish restaurants etc. and so on. There is a Mennonite college and in that Mennonite college they have a full life size replica of the tabernacle.
[33:28] And to be honest with you it's surprisingly not that big. It's not as big as this room. Okay. And I'll tell you when you went but the guide for that tour is always some old Mennonite man or old Mennonite woman who's just as saved as you are.
[33:44] Boy you know who gets the gospel? Well everybody comes in but you know who gets the gospel? Jews. There's Jews Orthodox Jews who've never seen with their eyes any kind of representation of the temple.
[33:59] So they come by I remember we were there and there were Jews their little skull cap on and this lady was giving them the gospel. And so I think this guys guys I know the difference between a temple and a tent don't you?
[34:15] Yeah. So I said no never be the temple never be the tabernacle it's got to be the temple. But you know there's a problem and the problem is in a book with a very honest sounding name.
[34:27] Go to 1 Samuel. Go to 1 Samuel chapter 1 and in 1 Samuel chapter 1 the prophet Eli is sitting here and it says this oh let's go down to verse 9 so Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh and after they had drunk now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the what's the next word the Bible says?
[35:05] Temple Guys that wasn't a temple Solomon built the temple this was not the temple you know what that is? That's the tabernacle and God called the tabernacle the temple of God and he didn't do it once look at chapter 3 and in 1 Samuel chapter 3 look at verse 3 and there the lamp of God went out in the temple of the Lord now let me say this I don't believe they're going to put up the tabernacle I believe they're going to build a temple out of stone and whatever just like they had back then but I might be wrong based on that on those two verses they actually could erect the tabernacle because God has already called the tabernacle the temple two times he said well I don't believe it that's okay you don't have to believe it I don't believe it either but if you say it can't happen that's where you're mistaken okay but be that as it may they're going to put that temple up now I'm going to tell you what I think if you were around in 1967 they had the six day war the Jews just busted the chops of every Arab country that they bordered and that is when they took the west bank of Jerusalem and that is when they took the temple mount so here is
[36:24] Moshe Dayan they have they have they have vanquished the Arabs and he's standing on the temple mount and I thought why didn't he knock down that dome of the rock then oh it would have started a war the war was already over I mean that's like the guy laying on the bottom with his jaw broke and he's bleeding all over the place going now if you do that you're going to make me mad and I'm going to fight you he already beat him hadn't they already beat him yeah in six days they beat him so if he tore down then they could have built that new temple anytime now you tear down now you're going to have a bad war I don't know why he didn't do it some of you say well it wasn't God's time well I think it could have been a you know you could have put a hot dog stand up there for all these years if you wanted until the temple got built they still had the property but guys all I know is one of these days they're going to build that temple and you know there's something neat look at
[37:28] Matthew chapter 24 in Matthew chapter 24 the context is tribulation so it's not you it's not me but it refers to what we just read about in 2nd Thessalonians and look what it says in verse 15 when ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet that is what it is when the antichrist goes into the holy of holies and sits down to mercy seat and says this is proof that I am the god of this temple when you see therefore when you shall therefore see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet stand in the holy place parenthesis whoso readeth let him understand parenthesis you and I are not going to be here to see that happen correct look at the instructions then let them which be in
[38:36] Judea flee into the mountains who lives in Judea let him which is on the housetop not come down or take anything out of his house and it's talking about the Jews guys do you know what that parenthesis is that parenthesis is a silent testimony that during the tribulation some Jews going to be out behind a barn reading the new testament and he's going to be reading Matthew chapter 24 and when the antichrist sits down at temple he's going to go whoa that's what it said in that Gentile book I think that is so cool that God just said whoso readeth let him understand some Jew is going to read those words right there and so it's going to happen and that temple the third temple is going to be built and the antichrist is going to sit down in it and that's going to start that's going to be the middle of tribulation and that is what Jeremiah chapter I think 9 calls to the time of Jacob's trouble but we won't be here
[39:41] I want to go to Revelation chapter 13 Revelation chapter 13 and this may explain what you and I are seeing take place in our world right now you know there have been many men across time probably Adolf Hitler was the last maybe Stalin had the idea or had the hope but there have been a lot of men who wanted to establish a worldwide dictatorship didn't make it there is going to be a one world dictatorship is that not true now you think about that here you sit in what is called falsely a democracy what it actually is a representative republic and yet we believe that one of these days everybody is going to be ruled by a one world dictatorship right well it's going to happen and watch what takes place because there's something very remarkable about what takes place in verse two we're going to start reading verse one then he stood upon the sand of the sea and saw a beast rise up out of the sea this is the antichrist having seven heads and ten horns and upon his horns ten crowns upon his heads the name of blasphemy and the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard and his feet were as the feet of a bear and his mouth as the mouth of a lion now that is the leopard is the united states the bear is russia and the lion is england and the dragon gave him his power and his seat and his great authority alright then there's two things I learned from this passage number one before the beast shows up the beast is an individual before this guy shows up somebody precedes him called the dragon and the dragon consolidates all of the world power into the one world dictatorship so the dragon is around here now now you can call him what you want you know
[41:48] I don't spend a lot of time on this conspiracy stuff but I think there is one and you know you call him the Illuminati you can call him the Bilderbergers you can call him the Rothschilds call him what you want the dragon before the beast ever shows up is going to consolidate one world rule isn't that what we've been watching for the last two years what I think we may be seeing is the dragon this guy the other day some liberal guy talked about the liberal world order not the new world order he called it the liberal world order and the dragon is going to get all of the world together and it's going to have a dictatorship now here is the weirdest thing about verse 2 when he gets all when the dragon this this group gets all the power in the world they're going to give it up and turn it with some guy you can study history guys and you will find dictators in little countries and big countries you know what dictators never do give up power you never found Hitler saying I did this so I could give this power to somebody else you never saw Stalin do that you never saw Idi Amin do that you have never seen any dictator who rose to be a dictator and then said now I got this power
[43:03] I'm going to turn it over to somebody else that's exactly what he did so the dragon may well be getting the consolidating world power if what we are seeing is the consolidation of world power by the dragon that means the beast can't be too far away that means the Lord can't be too far away but there is going to be a one world dictatorship which the world is very happy about because that's what they've been after for a long time and it's going to happen and I'm sorry guys and look I'm sorry I'm going to fight this okay you know I talk to some of the brethren and they go well you know America's got to fall well who said it's got to fall today who said it's got to fall in our time oh because it's just got to no no no everybody knew it had to before the year 2000 everybody believed the Bible knew it had to fall before 2000 guys America may fall I'm not helping it I'm supposed to be here to fight the devil not help him and so you know here's a whole world we're going to stop it yeah you're not going to stop it you know you talk to guys my age
[44:16] I have talked to a lot of guys my age and I've heard it so many times I tell them I finish their sentence I just had a guy do this maybe two weeks ago he said in the 1970s I read a book not talking about the Bible I read a book and it changed my life and before he could tell me I said late great planet earth by hell Lindsay and he went how did you know that book in the by the way I never read it in 1970s I never did I was lost well actually I got saved in 70 but I never read it I read it oh maybe 20 years ago and it is a phenomenal book you can find a copy I'll read it it wouldn't be any news to you but there was something about that book had an effect I have talked to so many people who said I read how Lindsay's late great planet earth and either it caused me to get saved or it got me looking for the Lord to return that book had a profound spiritual impact on this country now you know what's remarkable about that that might be the first book the guy wrote you remember that series of books left behind how Lindsay wrote those
[45:31] I don't know how many there are 8 9 10 of them I don't know there's a series of them the first one was written to give people some information the second one was written to make Hal Lindsay a millionaire and it probably did I haven't heard anything any great movement come from those books you know why because in those books everybody that's left behind in the tribulation ends up somehow getting saved I talked to a lost guy and he said I read the left behind series and he wouldn't trust Christ because he still wasn't sure he said he said this I'm going to wait until after the rapture then I'm going to get saved those books may well damn a whole bunch of people all right but guys one of these days there's going to be a one world dictatorship you can't stop it because that's what happens in these left behind books you know these people are all fighting against the antichrist guys you're not nobody's going to be here fighting against the antichrist but there's going to be a one world crushing dictatorship and you're not going to be here for it but the world can't stop it now I don't know what they want to they just want to make sure they're the guys that put the guy on the throne the next thing is going to happen I don't mean just in a particular order but there is going to indeed be a worldwide tribulation it is not going to be three and a half years it's going to be seven years okay and I don't know if you ever thought about this if you could imagine the world you're in right now and the Bible isn't true okay just briefly if everything is like it is right now and the Bible were not true if
[47:11] America goes down it will bring on a worldwide tribulation if America guys if America goes down nobody no other country is going to stand financially okay they're not going to make it economically if America goes down you are going to see some countries that have been bordering each other and hating each other and holding back on invading each other because that those American policemen will come over and stop it and you're going to have wars all over this world if America goes down there's going to be a worldwide tribulation but that's what the Bible says anyway now some people put the ministry of Elijah and Moses and Elijah in the last half of the tribulation and I don't you can you know you can think what you want you don't have to agree with me just don't come up and tell me because I really don't care about your opinion anymore than you care about mine but I think they're going to show up at the beginning and I want you to take a look at something go to Matthew chapter 10 and
[48:12] Matthew chapter 24 Matthew chapter 10 Matthew chapter 24 and these two chapters are very much alike watch what happens in Matthew chapter 10 in Matthew chapter 10 the Lord sends the apostles out the 12 of them verse 1 and we had called unto him his his 12 disciples he gave them power against unclean spirits to cast them out and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease in that verse 2 verse 3 verse 4 it gives their names now watch verse 5 these 12 Jesus sent forth and commanded them saying go not into the way of the Gentiles how's that for a burden for the whole world guys at this time there's only two kinds of people on the world Jews and everybody's not a
[49:13] Jew is a Gentile now there's three kinds of people according to 1 Corinthians chapter 10 verse 32 Jews Gentiles and the church of God anybody from the Jews anybody from the Gentiles that trust Christ I you know I say I'm a Gentile actually I was a Gentile we are Gentiles after the flesh but you and I ceased to be a Gentile when we got saved and we became part of the church of God you say well I was a Jew then you were Jew you're not Jew anymore so so he says don't go to the Gentiles and into any city of Samaritans enter you not but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel so he sends these 12 guys to the Jews and look what he tells them to preach verse 7 and as you go preach saying the kingdom of heaven is at hand guys the kingdom of heaven is the millennial reign the kingdom of God is when you trust Jesus Christ your personal Savior the kingdom of God according to Luke is within you the kingdom of heaven is on this earth what the what you know what the goal of the United Nations is is to bring in the kingdom of heaven without the divine king they want the kingdom they don't want the king so he sends these guys out he says don't go to
[50:32] Gentiles because he gave no promise of a Messiah to the Gentiles don't go to Samaritans he gave them no promise of a deliverer he gave them no promise of this coming kingdom he said go to the lost sheep of the tribe of Israel and and tell them the kingdom of heaven is in you understand how many thousand years these guys have been waiting for this these Jews have been waiting for the Messiah to show up to set up the kingdom look what it says at verse 22 and you shall be hated of all men for my namesake but he that endureth to the end shall be saved keep keep in mind that phrase because now go to go to Luke chapter 24 and look what he says in verse 13 but he that shall endure under the end the same shall be saved guys isn't that same yeah somebody's gonna have to endure to the end of tribulation not you and me and this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached to all the world for a witness unto all nations and then shall the end come at the time of Christ this is obviously an estimation but but I when I've gathered on this earth you know when the flood wiped out everybody it took a long time you ever heard that thing about take a penny and the next day for one month take a penny and double it what you got next day we got two cents double it again four cents double it again you got eight cents double it again 16 cents somebody said would you be willing to take a penny a day if it was our penny doubled every day for 30 days well I mean come on man after after 16 you're talking about 34 cents to 32 cents after that 64 cents I mean come on and I think by the end of it it's something like 14 million dollars the the flood wiped out everybody but eight people and so man began to multiply slowly and replenish the earth and at the time of
[52:35] Jesus Christ there were only about 200 million people that is fewer people than live in the in our in our country and if you wanted to find the Jews at the time of Jesus Christ they were in a strip of land that we called us Palestine it was known in the Bible as Israel that's about 71 miles wide about 170 miles long so you only need 12 guys and say tell them the kingdom of heaven is at hand this is what they've been waiting for they didn't they didn't accept him take a look I'm sorry go back to go back Matthew chapter 10 and and go to Matthew chapter 12 and in Matthew chapter 10 he says verse 6 but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel and as you go preach saying the kingdom of heaven is at hand now look at verse 5 again these 12 Jesus sent forth a command of them saying go not into the way of the Gentiles is that too hard for you to understand
[53:40] I mean can you not get it he does not want them to go to the Gentiles look at chapter 12 look at verse 17 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Elias the prophet say Isaiah's prophet behold my servant whom I have chosen my beloved and whom my soul is well pleased I will put my spirit upon him and he shall forth judgment to the Gentiles 21 and in his name shall the Gentiles trust two chapters before this didn't he say don't go to the Gentiles now two chapters later he's saying we're going to the Gentiles now that would almost seem like there's a contradiction except now this could be a deep Bible question see if I've been come up with the answer what comes between 10 and 12 Biden's IQ that's probably a stretch 11 something for that for don't go to the Gentiles in chapter 10 go to Gentiles chapter 12 something had to happen in chapter 11 that changed everything radically and I'll tell you what it was Jesus Christ offered himself to
[54:52] Israel and they rejected him look at chapter 11 now before I read this we all know that Jesus Christ healed people you know blind people got their sight and deaf people got to hear and the dumb began to speak and the palsied and and when we read that don't we think well that was an act of compassion right well it was a nice thing but it wasn't an act of compassion it was called the credentials of the Messiah look at verse 1 and it came to pass when Jesus had made an end of commanding his 12 disciples he departed thence to teach and preach in their cities now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ he said to his disciples instead of him are thou he that should come or do we look for another now people said wait a minute in this a guy that said behold the Lamb of God that takes away sin of the world how could he be doubting that that was Christ this is what is known as a slap in the face if you were John the
[55:55] Baptist he was not only the the forerunner of the Messiah wasn't he Jesus cousin so when he gets thrown in jail and he hears Jesus Christ has come to town don't you think the next thing he's going to hear is hey pal somebody paid your bail but he never comes and he never comes so he gets to go ask him if he's the one or are we looking for somebody else that's a slap watch what Jesus Christ says to prove that he's the Messiah verse 3 or verse 4 Jesus answered and said unto them go and show John again those things which he do hear and see the blind receive their sight and the lame walk the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear and the dead are raised and the poor have the gospel preached to them he he is using the very miraculous things that he did as proof that he's a Messiah that's what that was those are his credentials the Messiah was supposed to be a healer and he did it all and then watch him slap John back verse 6 and blessed is he whomsoever shall not be offended in me but watch what he says next because all right does it does anybody think this way we know that the
[57:13] Jews rejected Jesus Christ as a Messiah but don't you figure hadn't many phonies showed up and said I'm the Messiah so don't you think there was somebody taking taking notes every time somebody said I'm the Messiah there's probably some brainiac that that he said well you know it's like some guy comes up says hey they say that guy's a Messiah well he had to be of the tribe of Judah oh well he's a tribe of Issachar well it's not Messiah can't be the Messiah gotta be a tribe of Judah so some guy would come up the next one they'd say well he'd have to be the tribe of Judah his tribe of Judah oh okay check yes well he'd have to be from Bethlehem no he wasn't born in Bethlehem can't be the Messiah okay so you get to Jesus Christ he'd have to be the tribe of Judah check had to be born of Bethlehem check well yeah but not just the tribe of Judah this guy's got to be in the line of David so he says he is he is check check check he has to give a constitution how he's gonna run the whole thing that's what we call the Beatitudes chapters 5 6 and 7 of Matthew that's the constitution for the kingdom he did it well he'd have to heal people and like raise the dead and they said he's doing it and this guy for the first time in his life has got a column of yes yes yes yes yes and somebody says look at that so he's the Messiah and the guy goes no well come on you don't believe it no I would like him to be the
[58:51] Messiah but I got a yes box here I cannot check what is it well the Bible says before our Messiah shows up Elijah is going to show up and nobody named Elijah showed up before this guy in fact we even asked John the Baptist are you that proper are you Elijah and he said he's not so Elijah never showed up before this guy so I'm sorry there's no way I can check that one that is the only thing that is withholding Israel from being able to accept Jesus Christ as their Messiah watch what he does here verse 7 and as they departed Jesus began to say unto the multitudes and about concerning John what went he out in the wilderness to see a reed shaken with the wind but what went he out for to see a man clothed in soft raiment behold they that wear soft clothed are in king's houses but what went he out for to see a prophet yea I say unto you more than a prophet for this is he of whom it is written behold I send my messenger before thy face guys when those words came out of his mouth don't you think the guy with a checklist like that got his attention when he said behold I send my messenger before thy face which I prepare thy way before thee that is the exact prophecy that Elijah was going to show up and I'll bet that guy went whoa oh yeah this is the box what's he's going to say now for this is uh well let's see let's see verse verse eight but what we out for to see nope nope um verse nine but what we out for to see a prophet yea I say unto you and more than a prophet this is he which whom it is written behold I send my message before thy face which I prepare thy way before thee barely
[60:38] I say unto you among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he and from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffer violence the violent take it by force for all the prophets and the law prophesied until John look at verse 14 and if ye will receive it this is Elias which was for to come he's got the entire nation of Israel front of me he says guys if you are willing to accept John the Baptist as Elijah this is the day I am here what does he say at 15 he that hears here let him hear oh they got it now guys I'm a King James Bible believer I wouldn't change a word I wouldn't change a comma semicolon none of that stuff you know I'd like to do I'd like to re-type set it I don't think the type setting is necessarily inspired and you see that little bitty space between verse 15 16 I'd make it about a big inch inch and a half because right between 15 16 by their silence Israel rejected their Messiah I say it this way they sat there like a spastic at an auction afraid if they rubbed their nose they'd buy something they didn't want and they rejected him that's why in verse 16 he goes off on a tangent he's mad now it's a whole different tack verse 16 but where into shall I liken this generation it is like other children sitting in the markets and calling on their fellows saying we have piped on you have not you have not danced we have mourned unto you and you have not lamented man he's getting on them now and look how the chapter closes verse 28 come unto me does it say Israel all ye that labor and are heavy laden and and I will give you rest take my yoke upon you and learn of me for I am meek and lowly of heart you find rest under your souls for my yoke is easy and my burden is light and next chapter he says okay guys go to the
[62:39] Gentiles so so they have rejected their Messiah so now you go to chapter 24 of Matthew and and it you know what Matthew chapter 24 is it's Matthew chapter 10 all over again but it's Matthew chapter 10 not with 200 million people on the earth but 8 billion it's Matthew chapter 10 but not with 99 percent of the Jews living in a little land that's 70 miles wide and 170 miles long guys there are Jews scattered all around the world it's almost like you couldn't reach them all in time with 12 guys it's almost like you'd have to get a hundred and forty four thousand guys so I think at the beginning of the tribulation you're going to have the the the the ministry of Moses and Elijah you know we see that in Matthew or in Matthew chapter Revelation Revelation chapter 11 and we miss the fact because they show up and within a few verses they're dead but they show up and and between them showing up and their death is three and a half years so I think that
[63:48] Moses and Elijah prophesy in Israel the hundred forty four thousand go around the globe and preach as it said in Matthew chapter 27 the gospel of the kingdom of heaven now I've I've I've heard guys talk about the tribulation and you know when some people say stupid things I say it this way they've either been hit in the head too many times or not enough and I've heard guys say this well you know the first half of the tribulation isn't really too bad are you kidding like half of the population of the world die so what I explained that the tribulation the seven years from this end to this end God turns this earth into a free fire zone you say why would he do that maybe he's tired of the jokes maybe he's tired of watching his people skinned alive and burned at the stake maybe he's never gotten over that crown of thorns on his son's head and so for seven years he unloads on the world for the first three and a half the hundred forty four thousand are going around around the world saying the kingdom of heaven is at hand and guys if you ever heard there's a mid tribulation rapture there is it's just not us we go out before the tribulation starts watch take a look at Revelation chapter 6
[65:13] Revelation chapter 6 now they say that there are 8 billion people on the earth and that's great figure because it it really can be well divided watch um verse 8 chapter 6 verse 8 and I looked and behold a pale horse and I hate the name of and his name that sat on him was death and hell followed with him and power was given unto them over a fourth part of the earth to kill with sword and with hunger and with death and with the beasts of the earth all right let me ask you a question if you have eight and a fourth is gone how many is that two billion so now you got six billion people six people public education you got six billion people look at chapter 9 look at verse 17 and thus I saw the horses in the vision and them that sat on them having breastplates of fire and Jason and
[66:23] Jason and Brimstone and heads the horses whereas the heads of lions and out of their mouth issued fire and smoke and Brimstone by by these three was the third part of men killed okay if you got eight billion what's a fourth of it two billion that leaves you with six billion what's a third of six billion two billion so by chapter 9 of Revelation Bill Gates is going to be thrilled because he said we need to get rid of half the population of the earth and it's going to happen but now go to chapter 14 and in chapter 14 that that because at the at the end of that first half of the tribulation Moses and Elijah are killed and that's recorded in chapter 11 and they lay in the in in the streets of Jerusalem for three and a half day or three days and then a voice says what come up hither right and up they go okay watch who else goes in chapter 14 of Revelation it is the only place a rapture takes place and we can watch it take place look at verse 1 I looked and low a lamb stood on
[67:53] Mount Zion and with him in hundred and forty and four thousand having their father's name written in their foreheads so in verse 1 you've got the lamb and the hundred and forty four thousand and I think whoever signs on and accepts their gospel of the kingdom that's what I'm guessing they're on Mount Zion Mount Zion is on this earth watch verse 2 and I heard a voice from heaven now guys you know where you hear things from you hear things from where you're not isn't that true if somebody let off a firecracker in here right now we wouldn't say I heard a I heard a noise noise from with from within the sanctuary you watched it but if you heard it from outside see I said from I heard I heard it from outside don't know where it was but it was outside I heard from outside oh maybe uh 30 years ago I was preaching meeting in uh Tennessee I'm standing outside on a beautiful day like this now have you ever heard a car wreck okay two distinct sounds right you hear the screech of the tires and then you hear the impact I'm standing outside in this church parking lot I'm looking right at the road it's way up on a hill I'm looking at the highway below us below me and I heard the sound of a car wreck I didn't hear the screeching of the tires I just heard the impact of metal to metal from above me I'm telling you I'm standing here and I heard a car wreck over my head
[69:27] I'm looking I look at the road there's no car wreck and I look up and when I look up you know what I see uh if you're familiar with our air force planes there's one it's actually a converted Boeing 707 uh airliner uh and it's called a KC-135 it's our it's the they use it for refueling and when I looked up I saw two KC-135s they weren't flying in parallel you know how they were flying like this they're like this going away from each other so I thought you know if they're like this and they're flying like this go back a few seconds I don't know if you know this but you know what they say the most common peace time damage to air force aircraft is wing damage because they're all being hot dogs so they get as close to each other's wings as they can and then they end up smacking each other and they get wing damage and I thought I looked at I see these guys flying away and I thought you know what if I go right back here these guys were trying to see how close they could get and they slap wings so you hear something from where you're not they're standing on on on the earth and they hear a voice from heaven I think I know what that voice says it says come up hither and I heard a voice from heaven as the voice of many waters and a voice of a great uh thunder and heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps watch verse three and they sung as it were a new song before the throne and before the four beasts and the elders and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand which were redeemed from the earth in verse one they're standing on the earth in verse two they hear a voice from heaven in verse three they're standing in front of the throne singing a new song they're no longer on the earth so I think there's a mid-tribulation rapture it's just not you and me I'm getting out early but what's going to happen is that first three and a half years hundred forty four thousand are going to preach the gospel of the kingdom anybody that signs on is going to go up Moses and Elijah are going to be get killed at the end of three and a half years they're going to go up and that's when the antichrist is going to sit down the temple and show that he's God and when the Jews go no you're not he's going to I'll show you and the last half of the tribulation all seven is bad for the world but the last half is where the antichrist tries to destroy the Jews because they don't like him sitting in their temple guys there's going to be a worldwide tribulation and we're going to we're not going to be here for it okay if you notice every great every age has ended with some great act in your bible the new testament starts with Matthew 1 Mark 1 Luke 1 and John 1 which starts actually with Matthew chapter 1 right but that's the book but the new testament doesn't start until the death of the testator which means the new testament in time doesn't start until the end of Matthew and the end of Mark and the end of Luke and the end of John correct which means most of those gospels are in the old testament so the old testament ends with some some great thing called the crucifixion of Jesus Christ you know we'll do a we'll do a thing like this you know we'll do a timeline and it'll show 4,000 years and then it'll show 2,000 we don't do it like that we put 4,000 years here we put a little hump here and and and the three crosses and then we start the 2,000 years but that's not accurate that cross is in the old testament and our 2,000 years look you know what you know how the millennium ends with a war so why would anybody think that our time is going to end peacefully it's going to end up with something great you know what it is us leaving it's going to be us leaving and then the tribulation is in our time so guys there's going to be a worldwide tribulation and I am not going to be here for it
[73:28] but the world can't stop it the world can't stop it I'll show you this and I'll be done in just a moment but but I always show you something uh do you think a thousand years a long time you're allowed to say yes there's not a trick okay there is not a man in this room that wouldn't like to buy tools that lasted a thousand years there is not a woman in this room that wants to buy a dress that will last a thousand years you would intentionally catch it oh look I tore it I need a new one I mean that's just the truth the entire millennium in the Bible is 15 verses long it's one chapter revelation look at chapter 20 and I saw an angel come down from heaven verse 1 having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand he laid hold on the dragon that old serpent which is the devil and satan and bound him a thousand years and cast him in the bottomless pit and shut him up and set a seal upon him that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were fulfilled and after that he must be loosed a little season I was talking with some of the guys last night and you know a lot of people equate the millennium to new heaven new earth the millennium is not the new heaven new earth the millennium is this earth that we're on with two major differences no devil there's no devil influence you know what that does for a thousand years for a thousand years nobody can say the devil made me do it the devil did this no devil didn't do it you know you know why the devil's gonna be locked up for a thousand years to show man you are the problem guys I don't know if you ever thought if you ever noticed this this is current in our time but when somebody gets caught in some kind of a sin you know what they say now
[75:22] I'm addicted I'm addicted to that you know why they say they're addicted it's real simple because if you're addicted to something you're a victim and I got news for you guys you're you're not victims of your sin you're volunteers see if you're not addicted well then it's you and it can't be me it's the devil so you get a thousand years no devil the other difference have you ever heard people say this well you know if we just had a good government I wouldn't be so I wouldn't be so upset with it well how about God running the whole show he's going to be sitting on a throne in Jerusalem run the whole show with no devil oh I bet that'd be wonderful yeah so wonderful at the end of a thousand years they want to kill him now look verse 7 and when a thousand years are expired Satan shall be loosed out of his prison and to go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth Gog and Magog to gather them together to battle the number of whom is as the sand of the sea now have you ever seen I call them those old Sessa B de Mil films they open opening scene blue sky and sand dunes and that's all and then you hear this boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom and the whole horizon an army like like army ants they they they show up and then they just swarm over the sand dunes that's what's going to happen at the end of tribulation don't you think it's take the devil a little while to get all those people together and then look at verse look at verse uh nine and they went they went up on the breadth of the earth and come past the camp of the saints about and the beloved city so they come over and they surround Jerusalem Jesus is not getting out they're on the north the south east the west they got the whole place covered look at the middle of verse nine and fire came down from God out of heaven devoured him guys it isn't even one whole verse all this time the devil goes to to to to come against God and overthrow him and his demise isn't even a whole verse it's a half of a verse
[77:39] I always feel whenever I see that you know I always think of I always think of wily coyote I see this I see the devil he's got Jerusalem surrounded he's standing at the gate of Jerusalem saying all right Jesus we got you surrounded what are you gonna do now oh that like right next to him is uh the acme count conquer Jerusalem kit but guys the millennium is over at verse 15 and the new heaven to earth show up in chapter 21 so let me tell you what the world can't stop they can't stop the rapture the blessed hope we're out of here they can't stop the third temple from being rebuilt they can't stop a one world dictatorship they can't stop a world wide tribulation one more thing they just cannot stop go to John chapter 14 and get John chapter 14 and get Romans chapter 10 and John chapter 14 and neither neither uh are the of these verses will be like the first time you ever heard them but in John chapter 14 here's what the Lord says
[79:03] Jesus saith unto him I am the way the truth and the life no man cometh unto the father but by me look at Romans chapter 10 familiar verse verse 13 for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved Ephesians chapter 2 verses 8 and 9 for by grace are you saved through faith in that not of yourselves it is the gift of God not of not of works lest any man should boast you know what the world can't stop can't stop you can get saved they should have already been saved good now if you haven't been you need to and you know what I say you know the thing in John chapter 14 no man cometh unto the father but by me he said do you know what that means if you say you're saved now if you're saved we all got saved the same way we took the death the burial and the resurrection of Jesus Christ as a sole complete payment for our sin correct so we got saved the same way now the circumstances of our salvation might be different somebody got led to Christ by their dad and mom when they were young somebody got got saved when they were in jail somebody got saved in a hospital somebody got saved in the military somebody got saved at the end of a church you know what I'm saying everybody our circumstance might be different but the way we got saved is the death the burial and the resurrection of Jesus Christ correct yeah so if you say you're saved tonight and I say really how'd you get saved and you can explain your salvation without mentioning Jesus Christ you're not saved we were talking
[80:41] Kathy and I were down south and you know down south where everybody's saved and gone to hell and this young woman we're telling about our ministry she was a very nice lady and she is just thrilled I mean she is just thrilled at what we're doing and she caught me so off guard I said well when did you get saved and she said I was raised in church now guys I think it's great to be raised in church I really do but that's not what I asked her and that doesn't get anybody to heaven so I thought maybe you know I thought maybe my mouth didn't say what I thought I was going to say so I said but when did you get saved and she said my daddy's a deacon like did you ever think maybe your mouth is not saying what your brain told you to say see I told my mouth to tell my brain told my mouth ask her when she got saved but apparently my lips went on independently and said where were you raised I was raised in church so my brain told my mouth again ask her when she got saved but apparently my mouth said so what'd your dad do that lady's lost ask her how she got saved she never mentioned Jesus Christ nobody's getting to heaven but by him you know they take some lost guy right now now look if somebody what if somebody just at this street corner and they had to get into this building to get saved somebody could stop isn't that true yeah they could put a lost person in a dungeon by themselves and they can go into that dungeon on their way to hell and come out of that dungeon on their way to heaven because whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved isn't that true and that world can't do anything about that they can't stop it they can't alter it they can't outlaw it they can't do anything about it guys it's predestinated you ask you get saved
[82:35] I think it was Greg got the name right I think Greg and I was talking the kook in Arizona Steve Anderson he has revoked my salvation and you know what he never says he never says any of his enemies are lost he never said you know what he says he says they're unsaved they're not lost they're unsaved like they were saved and he unsaved so I would say this Jesus saves and Steve Anderson unsaves nobody's going to save you nobody's got that power nobody can stop you listen if you're saved no one even your own sinful stupidity can stop you from going to heaven the world can't stop it so like I said if we're here and we're alive when the Lord comes back and takes us out of here you could be talking to a lost person and they can hang on to your leg and they cannot keep you here one of these days I'm going to prophesy one of these days every saved person every saved person in this room is going to go to heaven now one of two ways one by one by one by one by one as we die at different ages in different places or the Lord is going to come back sound the trumpet and we all go up at one time but if you're saved you are going to heaven the world can't do anything about it they can't do anything about it so guys
[84:03] I'm not a Calvinist but there are some things that are predestined blessed hope that's predestined the one world the third temple being rebuilt that's predestinated a one world dictatorship that's predestinated a worldwide tribulation that's predestinated and if somebody calls upon the name of the Lord they're getting saved I have never met anybody who said I gave it a shot it didn't work I had a guy one time I'll tell you this I'll be done I had a guy he was doubting his salvation and I did hear somebody say this one time the devil never tells any or God never tells somebody to doubt their salvation it's the devil and this guy's doubting his salvation well I don't know if I meant it but when I pray I don't know if I really meant it blah blah blah blah blah and I said okay I said so let's just say you drop dead right now and you stand in front of God or you're outside the city heaven and they say why should we let you in what would you tell him what do you trust him he goes all I'm trusting is the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ
[85:05] I said I've got bad news for you you do I said yeah if you weren't saved you just got saved right because that's all you got to do guys not get baptized not join a church not climb a mountain not flog your back and bleed enough to pay for your sins trust Jesus Christ your personal savior you will be saved and then you will be predestined to get out of here I mean if you think it's bad now you know one of the things I tell people you remember 2020 and what did everybody say in 2020 2021 is coming you know what's wrong with Americans we've watched so many movies and at the start it's okay and then it gets real bad but before the end it turns good and we think everything bad now is going to have a happy ending and so when 2020 was gone it was so bad they thought well 2021 is coming like 2020 on January or December 31st the movie will end and a new one will start and it will be a good one and I tell people
[86:07] I'm serious guys if we are here a year from now we may think today this you may think this is bargain price for gas and we may think man for the good old days of 2022 but we are getting out of here one of these days so be ready I'd like you to stand with your heads bowed your heads bowed your eyes closed you know what I'd like you to think about I'm not going to ask you to come forward and pray about anything but here's what I'd like you to think about you know we call Jesus Christ we call him God the son of God we call him the Messiah the Savior the Redeemer he's our hope and maybe before we leave here I'm going to have a word of prayer then the piano will play and maybe before we leave here you need to just say this to him thanks for not just saving me from hell thanks for saving me from the future of this world thank you for saving me for what's coming the confusion the tribulation the wholesale death of half the people on the planet thank you for saving me from that
[87:22] Father I thank you now God for your goodness and your grace and your very great kindness Lord God again I say we have no problem with you because there's nothing wrong with you we have no problem with your book your Bible because there's nothing wrong with it God if we are honest Joe Biden is not our greatest problem and Democrats and Republicans are not our greatest problem the greatest problem we have on this earth stares back at us every time we look in the mirror so help us God to live to your glory in some way help us to be a light in the darkness that is literally descending on our country and on our world but before we leave here tonight I just hope somebody that has really been saved saved from hell saved from themselves saved from the coming tribulation I hope somebody will just say to you I sure appreciate you saving me I sure thank you for what you went through so that you could buy me God none of us all together are worth what you paid for us we thank you
[88:27] Father for salvation being so free and so complete in Jesus Christ name we pray amen with your heads bowed and eyes closed as piano plays take some time and talk to the Lord just tell him how thankful you are to really be saved and said who Thompson and said thank you for being erf hanging s there say