"Are You Ready? The Rapture and Christ’s Return" RESCUE RADIO with Marjorie Cole

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Music.

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Rescue Radio, because there's a war for your soul. Yes, Lord God, we thank you for the war.

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Thank you, Jesus, that you have promised to deliver us from evil,

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from the evil ones. Lead us not into temptation.

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We declare that your will be done, O God, on earth, in and through us.

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We are willing. Let it be done. Let your kingdom come, Father God,

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in Jesus' name. Let us be strong in the power of your might and do what you've called us to do.

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Be aware, be ready, be informed as to what and when and how you are returning.

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We thank you, Jesus, who came the first time and died on the cross for us.

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No one quite caught or expected that or got it.

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Even after it was finished and you had risen from the dead, they were still

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wondering what had happened.

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So, Lord God, we thank you for dying on the cross, for securing our salvation,

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our eternal life, establishing our eternal destiny in you and with you.

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And we thank you for giving us power over all the power of the enemy.

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We also thank you for the great promises that you've given us regarding your

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return and your second coming.

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And so today, as we look at those things, those events, those mighty and unimaginable

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events that are going to take place

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in and before and during your return, we ask that you would give us eyes to

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see, ears to hear, a heart to receive the revelation of your love and truth,

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and that we would not be afraid, but that we'd be prepared.

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Father God, we thank you for the promise in the blood that you've promised that

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no weapon formed against us will prosper.

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We thank you for protecting our children, those who work for us,

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pray for us, and love us, those who've come to us for help.

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Cover and keep all of us, our grandchildren, everything that pertains to all of us.

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Cover us. Don't forget, Lord, to allow us to pray that prayer to you many times,

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to believe that you've kept and kept and kept us from all the evil that Satan

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would intend against us, even keep our health and safety and our traveling,

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our vehicles, our finances, our property of the work of our hands and everything, Lord God.

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We thank you for your favor, your blessing, and your protection.

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Now, we ask for guidance and wisdom as we explore the scriptures on the rapture. Amen.

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Well, you know, the rapture is a word that is not in the Bible,

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and there's lots of words that we talk about that are not in the Bible, but,

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you know, like airplanes and things, but the rapture, and when John was talking

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in the book of Revelations, he was using and describing a lot of

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things that we would be able to name now that he didn't have a name for back then.

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And so the rapture of the church, what is it?

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What is it? Many people say, I don't believe in it. You know,

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how can that be? There's not that word in the Bible.

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Well, what does the Bible call it? Where is the feast? You know,

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it talks about trumpets and all those kinds of things.

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And what are we talking about here with the rapture? When will it happen?

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Who will go? Who will stay? Will we all go?

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This is a huge mystery. And Paul talked about it as a mystery.

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And so let's explore that for a few minutes, Jerry.

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Where do you want to start? Well, this whole thing about the rapture and the

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second coming of the Christ has been debated for a couple thousand years now.

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And a lot of people, different groups of people agree on certain things about it.

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Others agree on different aspects about it and that sort of thing.

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So here we are. It's interesting, in the scriptures, there are about eight times

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more references to Jesus' second coming than there are to his first coming.

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You know, in the first coming, they were very confused because it said that

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the Messiah would come out of Egypt, that he'd be born in Bethlehem,

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that he would be a Nazarene from Nazareth.

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And so the thing is, who is he, where is he coming from? And the people would

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say— All those things were true.

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Yeah, but they didn't put it all together, and they were questioning his legitimacy

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because they didn't identify the place where he was from. Jesus finally said

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to him, well, I know where I'm from.

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I'm from heaven. And so, let's look at—can I just start with Mark for a second?

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Mark 13, he's talking about the end.

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I just want to grab one verse, and then you can go into Thessalonians.

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He says, Thessalonians, but in those days, after the tribulation,

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the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light.

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The stars of heaven will fall, and the powers of heaven will be shaken.

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Then they will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.

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And then he will send his angels and gather together his elect from the four

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winds, from the furthest part of heaven to the furthest part of earth, earth to heaven.

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So there is going to be a gathering, some sort of a gathering that's coming, that's going to happen.

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And then Paul talks about that in 1 Thessalonians, where he talks about— I'll

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read that from 1 Thessalonians 4, beginning with verse 13.

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But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep.

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Lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died

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and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who sleep in Jesus,

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those who have died as believers in Christ.

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For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain

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until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep.

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For the Lord will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel,

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and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

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Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the

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clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and thus we shall always be with the Lord.

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Therefore, comfort one another with these words. It doesn't mean terrorize one

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another with these words.

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It's comfort one another with these words. Or traumatize, yeah.

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The fact that he's coming like this.

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Well, that word, shall be caught up together with them, And that phrase is harpazo

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in Greek, which is where we get the word rapture.

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So harpazo means a violent snatching away from evil.

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So now there's a quick move to move someone from a speeding vehicle or something.

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It's kind of grabbing away, catching away, snatching away, immediate,

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shocking without warning.

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It's kind of a reflex that you just don't even think about it.

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You're just doing it. But so rapture, that's where we get that word rapture,

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to catch away, caught up together and to meet the Lord in the air.

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So there is a meeting in the air with these first the people who are dead.

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And you say, I don't know if I believe in the rapture.

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I mean, how can this be? Well, you know, there's a lot of things we have a hard

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time believing in that God says, but yet we believe in them.

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You know, things like the resurrection, things like salvation.

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Things like judgment day.

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I mean, we have a hard time putting that in the context of our normal,

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everyday, temporal life down here, and yet we can see as we look back,

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as we read the Old Testament,

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the things that happened then, the phenomenal things that happened then,

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like the flood and the Red Sea crossing, that those phenomenal,

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impossible, humanly impossible events actually happened.

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And now, even now, just as an aside, they're finding in that place where they

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crossed the Red Sea, they're not only finding the chariot wheels,

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but they're also finding hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands,

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of bones, of skulls, horses,

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femurs, bones of horses, human

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skulls, in that place where the chariot wheels— So it really did happen.

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It really did happen. So it's kind of interesting that Noah's Ark,

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they're finding that, the AI, the sonar, the—.

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You know, the things, the drones, everything that, you know,

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God is giving us now to dig deeper, the things that have been hidden and mysteries

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that have been kept quiet are now being exposed for the very fact that God is

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getting us ready to believe and receive for the rapture.

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So the rapture, we're talking basically the whole issue is the second coming of Christ. Right.

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So if we, again, if we believe that Jesus Christ came the first time,

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And we see scriptures that predict his first coming.

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There are eight times more scriptures about his second coming, approximately.

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So there's apparently two phases of his second coming.

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That would be the rapture and then the return.

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The rapture for his church. Gathering them up. And then the return with power and great glory.

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In Revelations 19, it talks about the Lord descending with his 10,000 of his

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saints. Let's look at Revelation chapter— But we're kind of getting ahead of ourselves a little bit.

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So you're right. There's the

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rapture and the return. There's two different things. It's interesting.

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In Revelation chapter 1, he says.

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Behold, verse 7, Behold, he is coming with clouds, and every eye will see him,

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even they who pierced him, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of him, even so.

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Amen. So he's coming.

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This is, you know, he's coming. This is about his return to earth.

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He's coming back to earth, this earth, in power and great glory.

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And the book talks about the tribes of the earth shall mourn.

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And they're going to see him. Because of him. And it's like, really?

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Oh, man, we had this whole thing. We thought we had this whole thing under control,

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figured out. We didn't believe it. We rejected God.

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We rejected his son Jesus. And now it's almost too late. And now here he is

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in person taking over the whole earth.

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Okay, so we're stumbling at believing this. And why? because this whole spiritual dimension.

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Operates beyond the realm of reason. We just can't figure it out.

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So many times we have to see something to believe it, and yet we're asked to

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believe by faith, receive the promises of God, the promise of eternal life,

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the promise of restoration, the promise of healing.

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All these things are, as Abraham was given this promise to believe God,

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it was accounted to him for righteousness, and that's the same with us.

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It's not, we don't get our righteousness from keeping certain laws.

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We get our righteousness from following and believing the promises of God that he's given to us.

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So all of these mysteries, all these things, there's many, you know,

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there's many foreshadowings of this as well.

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Like an Elijah and the fiery chariot being taken up into heaven.

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We don't have to always see something to believe it. Actually,

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our faith comes from knowing what God says and that he's real and that he doesn't lie.

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And just then you can't figure it out. You can't even imagine it yet.

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We see now so many things that they couldn't even understand in the book of Revelations.

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We're actually, well, yeah, that's a drone. Well, that's this, that's that.

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We got it. We figured that's a helicopter. That's an atomic bomb.

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Yeah, we can understand that. But back in those days, they just had,

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you know, pictures and allegories.

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But going back to this rapture thing in 1 Corinthians 15, verse 51,

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there's also another reference to this.

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In the mouth of two or three witnesses, let every word be established.

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15, 51. I'll go. So I'll go ahead and read it here.

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Behold, I tell you a mystery. And a mystery is not like a mystery novel.

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But in the Bible, a whodunit kind of thing.

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A mystery in Scripture terms is basically a truth, a hidden truth that's now being revealed.

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He says, we shall not all sleep. And not all be, you know, sleep is a reference

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to those who died in Jesus.

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But we shall all be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last

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trumpet, for the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible,

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and we shall be changed. Yes.

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Amen. Let's look at the word trump, trumpet for a minute.

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That is a key word in both Corinthians here and in Thessalonians,

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where in this, in Corinthians, it says, at the last trumpet, okay?

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And in Thessalonians, it says that for the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout.

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With the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God.

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Three things there. So you have the trumpet of God and the last trumpet.

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And we also know that there are seven feasts that were given in the book of Leviticus 23.

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Let's talk about the seven feasts that God required the people of Israel to observe.

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Four of them have been accomplished through Jesus Christ. That's another story for another day.

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But the next one coming up is the Feast of Trumpets.

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Now the Feast of trumpet. The Rosh Hashanah. Rosh Hashanah Feast of Trumpets

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is coming up this year, and it's a movable feast because of the moons.

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This year, I think it's on the 23rd of September, 23rd, 24th.

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It is a more than one day feast. It is a several day feast because what they

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do during this time, I think it's two or two, maybe three days,

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is they sound off a hundred trumpets.

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So at the sound of the last trumpet, well, when does the last trumpet sound?

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We don't know. At the end, obviously, the last trumpet, at the end of this feast.

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And when do they sound it?

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When they see the sun, I believe, setting over Jerusalem or something like that.

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There's some strategic time correlated with the sun.

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And it's interesting, too, that in 1 Thessalonians 5, 1, it says.

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Concerning the day of the Lord, but concerning the times and the seasons,

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brethren, you have no need that I should write to you.

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For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night.

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For when they say peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them.

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But so he says, the time and the, you know, he's saying, you know the times and the seasons.

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So times refer to years.

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Seasons refers to time of the year. And so this feast is held or observed in the fall.

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It's usually September, October, our calendar.

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But the year, he said, you're going to know the year, you're going to know the

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season, but no one knows the day or the hour. So there's four different,

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qualifications here. There's the year, the season, the day, and the time.

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And the interesting thing is this Rosh Hashanah feast is several days.

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It's fluid. It's fluid. So you don't know the exact day of that feast,

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but he says at the last trumpet.

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So it's kind of a, you don't know the day or the hour of that.

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However, the signs are here, you know, just like we're starting to see the leaves

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dry up and fall off the trees.

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We know fall is upon us, and we know that after fall comes winter.

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So we are being given these warnings, the signs of the times,

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and I think that's what we're people, in your spirit, people are knowing this can't go on like this.

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This wickedness, this evil cannot go on like this.

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So the disciples were wanting to know in Matthew 24, verse 3,

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no, as he said, at the Mount of Olives, On the Mount of Olives,

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the disciples came in privately saying, Tell us, when will these things be?

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What will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?

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And basically what Jesus is saying, he says, Take heed that no one deceives

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you. These are the signs of the times, right?

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Many will come in my name saying, I am Christ and will deceive many.

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You will hear wars and rumors of wars. see that you be not troubled for all

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these things must come to pass but the end is not yet for nation will rise against

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nation kingdom against kingdom and there will be famines,

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pestilences and earthquakes in various places all these are the beginning of sorrows.

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Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you.

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There's so many people around the world that are being persecuted physically

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and emotionally in every way, people being killed just as we speak right now for the sake of Jesus.

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And you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake.

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Many will be offended and will betray one another and hate one another.

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And many false prophets will rise up and deceive many.

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And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.

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But he that endures to the end shall be saved.

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And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness

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to all nations, and then the end will come.

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So all this is— It's already pretty much— This is where we are. Right.

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This is exactly where we are. Well, the gospel is being preached,

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and basically in the whole world, everybody has pretty much a cell phone,

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and I believe everybody has access to what's really going on.

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But the light has also been given to us.

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Not everybody would believe, but there's access to the gospel.

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Well, so the question that remains then, well, if you believe in the rapture,

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if you believe or don't believe, it doesn't matter what you believe.

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It means what God says is going to happen, whether we get it,

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understand it, or can comprehend it or not.

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And so the next question is, how do you get ready for the rapture?

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Well, you don't get ready for the rapture. You be ready.

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Because we can't, Mark says to watch and pray.

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The same thing is in Thessalonians. He says in verse 5, he says,

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going on. He says, verse 4, but you, brethren, are not in darkness,

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so that that day, capital D, should come and overtake you as a thief.

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You are all sons of the light, sons of the day. We are not of the night, nor of the darkness.

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Therefore, let us pray. Let us not sleep as others do, but let us watch and be sober.

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And then he goes on to verse 9, for God did not appoint us to wrath,

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but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us,

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that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

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Therefore, comfort each other and edify one another just as you are doing.

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So, in the precursors to the days of the flood in Noah's day,

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and by the way, Noah is a reference where Jesus uses.

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He says, as they were in the days of Noah, eating, drinking,

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marrying, giving in marriage, and did not know until the day that the rain came and the door was shut.

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They had no absolute clue what was going on except that Noah had preached it for 120 years.

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That's pretty much where we are, right? and people don't have a clue who it

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is. Heating, drinking, marrying, buying, building.

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Yeah, in and out of marriage. Right. And all of these things are just distractions in a lot of ways.

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But what should we do to get ready? He says, pray that you, for God has not

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appointed us to wrath. I think this is really important because...

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I have to think of it like this. People are saying, well, okay, when is the rapture?

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Is it before, in the middle of, or during the tribulation? We have people on

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all three points, and then the pantheist says it's all going to pan out in the end.

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So, post, mid, or pre-tribulation.

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These can be argumenting points, but the thing is, the point is,

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you may die before the rapture even happens.

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And many people, many godly people, I believe many people are dying now because

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God is taking them away from the wrath to come. You know, that wrath to come

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is going to be, you know, all the upheaval that's mentioned and described in

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Revelations and Jesus even in the Gospels.

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So being taken away from the wrath to come.

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But nonetheless, he also says to occupy till I come.

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So I can't be hypervigilant, paranoid, freaking out, postponing everything,

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not going forward, not doing anything because the rapture might happen.

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I'm not looking for the rescue and the rapture to rescue me from anything.

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I'm just asking God for me to continually be ready.

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And the word, the old King James word for occupy means do business.

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It doesn't mean just sit around, you know, occupying your couch.

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Yeah, right. It means doing business. And our business is going into all the

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world, preaching the gospel, making disciples of all the nations.

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He says too, he says in verse Matthew 24, 42, Watch therefore,

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for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming.

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But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief

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would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.

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And here's the verse, verse 44, Therefore you also be ready,

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for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

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And then doesn't he stand there, too, that the two will be at the mill,

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one will be taken, one will be left?

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Yeah, right before that, he said there shall be two men in the field,

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one, verse 40 of Matthew 24, One will be taken in the other left.

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Two women will be grinding at the mill.

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One will be taken in the other left. So there's going to be a sorting. A sorting. Yep.

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That goes back to the parable of the wheat and the tares when the judgment's

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about to come. Even Enoch mentions that.

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He says that, you know, this book is appointed for those who will be alive on

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the earth in the day when the Lord separates the righteous, brings judgment

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upon the earth and separates the righteous from the ungodly.

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So we're in that separation period, he says here.

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So the more godly are becoming more godly. Who will be living in the day of

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tribulation when all the wicked and godless are to be removed.

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So the wicked and the godless are going to be removed, and I don't know if they

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go first or we go first. According to the parable, they're taken out first.

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That could very well be referring to the actual mark of the beast and the tribulation

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there and the battle of Armageddon, and they're taken out. and then we are,

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you know, allowed to remain on the earth for a thousand years.

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Yeah, and then Jesus gives a warning here after he's talking about being ready.

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He talks about some people are living in the shadows of his delay rather than

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in the light of his coming.

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They said, well, the Lord isn't going to come for a long time yet.

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And he said, if you just begin to beat your fellow servants. Right.

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Rip them off. And just rip them off. Lie.

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See, cheat, control. In a very carnal, self-centered way. You're going to be

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in trouble. You're going to be in trouble.

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He says you're going to be cut off. But think of how many people,

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though, they're looking for some answers, But they're going to places that are

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wrong, like the witchcraft and the seances and the drugs and the pharmakia and

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the violence and the brutality.

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And they're just going in the absolute, absolute wrong direction.

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If you're going to make the cutoff for the rapture, we don't know what that really means.

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Is he going to just take the best of the people? Is he just going to skim the

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cream off the crop? Cream off the crop, yeah. Or is he going to take all the

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believers and, you know, the five wise virgins, five foolish virgins?

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Well, when the time comes, the bridegroom comes and knocks on the door.

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They're all virgins. They all showed up at the door. They all were waiting for him.

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But some of them were, they all fell asleep.

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So we're kind of, that whole group is all doing the same thing,

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except the one thing that the five wise virgins did was that they had enough

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oil to get through the door. They had extra oil.

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They had oil for themselves. Everybody's got to get their own oil.

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Nobody can be saved for somebody else. Yeah, right. You can only be saved for yourself.

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And that's kind of interesting because some people try to feed off other people's

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anointings and whatever prophetic words are

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You've got to stand up and live your life. This is the life the Lord gave you

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to live, and so it's up to you to live it.

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But to be prepared is to be righteous, walking in truth, walking in the commandments

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of God, to love one another, love your neighbor as yourself,

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and to be faithful in what God has given you to steward over,

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and to not be, you know, the Bible says in Ephesians, redeeming the time because

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the days are evil. In other words, buy back the time.

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Don't sit around and waste your time waiting for somebody else to do it or something else to happen.

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You get up in front of the Lord and say, Lord, thy will be done in my life.

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Show up. Show up for there's a lot of work to be done yet.

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And there's a lot of people in the harvest field is the only thing I really believe in.

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This is my opinion because people say, well, when, when, when,

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when is this rapture? Tell me, tell me.

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Some people are saying in a couple of days, the tribulation starts in a month

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or two or eight or half or a year. Some people are already in the tribulation.

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Well, we are. It was technically kind of— We're in tribulation.

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In tribulation. But not necessarily the tribulation. And maybe we are at the edges of it.

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I do think the book of Revelations has some soft reveal of what we've already

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been through with the horses, the white horse, the red horse.

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We're in there. We're there. We're in that part anyway.

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But the thing is, how do we prepare for this? How do we?

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By being and abiding in Jesus Christ at all times. Fear not, I'm with you.

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This rapture piece should be an encouragement.

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However, it shouldn't change anything that you're doing right now.

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If you're doing the right things, you should not have to feel like you need

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to change or become more urgent or anxious.

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It's interesting. several years ago, back in 1988, there was a booklet that

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came out, 88 Reasons Why Jesus Was Coming in 1988. Mm-hmm.

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There's little booklets, they swept the country. And everybody was talking about

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it. Christians were talking about it.

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Churches were talking about it and stuff like that. Oh, he's going to come.

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88 Reasons. When we looked at that, we had that, and we looked at it.

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Because, number one, it's a signal that nobody knows exactly when he was coming, right?

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So that could have— People have tried to figure that out forever.

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Tried to figure it out. But, you know, I thought, okay, if Jesus is coming this

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year in 88, what would I do different?

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We found ourselves doing the same thing that we were doing.

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You know, we didn't like scramble around, oh, but I repent of this and repent of that.

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We just kept going with what we were doing. Here's how I see it for now.

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I mean, this is many, many, many years later, that we're closer now than we

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were back in 88. That is a for sure.

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The second thing is it is a for sure that Jesus Christ is coming back.

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It is a for sure that there will be a marriage supper of the Lamb.

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There will be a reunification.

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The ungodly will be retaken away. That is a for sure. All these are wonderful

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promises that are for sure.

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But the thing is, you know, again, the one thing that...

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Stands out in my mind is we're not ready. Be prepared.

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Individually, yes, but ready for the rapture is the harvest in yet.

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I believe the harvest is coming in in a very subtle and silent and kind of a stealth mode.

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God's in stealth mode with bringing in the harvest because we have people who

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are seeing God in dreams and Jesus and getting converted, getting saved.

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Young people are standing up, doing podcasts, telling the truth,

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taking—and these are the ones, These are the brave new warriors that are coming

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in as our children and grandchildren to do this.

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And I believe that is, God, you watch.

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That wasn't happening 20 years ago. That wasn't happening even 10 years ago.

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That's been happening in the last five years, maybe, where the righteous,

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the young ones are coming in to do the harvest.

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So my thought is, yes, I believe, I personally believe that the fall feast,

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the Feast of Trumpets, which, by the way, there's also seven trumpets in the book of Revelation,

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and the seventh trumpet, when you read that section, those trumpets are sounding,

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that could also be the last trump. That could be the trumpet.

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All those trumpets could correlate.

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The last trump, the trump of God, and in the book of Revelation,

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the one in Rosh Hashanah, they could all correlate to become one in the same moment.

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And at that moment when they sound together, I believe there's a shattering

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of the veil between the temporal and the spiritual, and we will be in the twinkling

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of an eye in that spiritual place. However, I do believe it's not this fall.

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Some people do believe that it is. I'm not going to—I'd be glad if it is,

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but I'm not ready to go in terms of there's too much work left.

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I'm ready, but the things that God's called us to do are still as many things

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stacked up that need to be done.

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In Revelation 11, 15, then the seventh angel sounded, and there were loud voices

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in heaven saying, The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our

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Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.

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So that's the last trumpet. This is the, you know, the blessed hope of the church

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is the coming of Jesus Christ.

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So the most important thing. The rapture, the return of Jesus.

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This is the bottom line. The blessed hope. This is what's going to be happening.

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But we have to be written in the Lamb's Book of Life and not be blotted out.

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We want to stay in that place.

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And you do that by accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior,

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submitting, surrendering your life, your plan.

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Your situation to the Lord God, your maker, and come back into your true identity

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of who you are as the created son and daughter of the Most High God.

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Come back into accepting and receiving that identity and stop letting everybody

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else tell you who you are and force you into some mold that doesn't belong to you.

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Do that. Know who you are and then know that God is good. And God is to be feared,

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but He also loves His children.

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He's jealous over us with a godly jealousy. So the thing is,

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you know, if you don't know how to find this truth and rest in it,

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then find someone who knows how to show you this truth or get into the Word of God.

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Just, you can do this right now. Jesus, come into my heart. Jesus,

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I don't know for sure if I'm saved.

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But the thing is, to know you're saved, you have to do, the Bible says,

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if you will confess that Jesus Christ died on the cross and believe it in your

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heart, you shall be saved.

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So, have you confessed Jesus Christ is the Son of God died on the cross for

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your sins, if you confess that with your mouth and believe that in your heart, you shall be saved.

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There may not be tons of bells and whistles going off. You may have an awesome

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experience here. You may just, by a matter of fact, just, okay, this is what I believe.

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And the Bible says in, that's Romans 10, 9 and 10 and 10, 13,

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it says, whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord will be saved.

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Have you ever called upon the name of the Lord? If you have,

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yes, then you shall be saved.

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So call upon the name of the make Him the biggest part, the main part,

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the only part of your everyday life and night and day, and live for God,

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let His Holy Spirit ignite you and lead you in the truth.

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Let him be the Lord of your life. He's the one that runs the show,

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and he's a good God. He's not cruel. He's not harsh.

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He's not going to rip you off. And tell somebody else about the good news.

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Just get going. Tell people, because this is a big warning.

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You know, this is our time of warning. The countdown has begun.

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So, Father, we thank you that you are with us. Give us eyes and ears to hear and see.

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And sort this out by the power of your Holy Spirit in the hearts of the people

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who are listening, that they will come to a place of peace and not panic.

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That come to a place of revelation and rejoicing and not regret and terror.

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Father, we bind the spirits of fear and terror and panic that are operating

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to bring your people into the place of separation from you.

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And we pray that you'd bring them into a place of close-knit relationship with

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you, love knowing they're loved, perfect love casts out fear.

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And we thank you for each one here today and we bless them, Father,

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in Jesus' name, amen. Amen, amen. In the meantime, it's a meantime.

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So spiritual warfare. Yeah, that's where we're at, spiritual warfare.

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Tell us about that book, your latest

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book. Yeah, Spiritual Warfare and How Deliverance Can Change Your Life.

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Actually, you can get it on Amazon. You can get it from us, too.

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But the thing is, it is about the battle.

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It's about the war between God and Satan for the souls of men,

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your soul, and the souls of your family, your loved ones.

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It incorporates not only the beginning, the origins of all of this,

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but also the very practical, everyday matters of deliverance and inner healing,

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and prayers that you can pray that will set you safe. Jesus Christ won the war, therefore we can win.

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Well, the battle's already been won. It's already been won. But we're helping

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rescue people from the terrible, violent lies of Satan and his snake pit lies

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that cause people to believe that they can't be saved, they'll never be saved,

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they're lost, they like being lost, or whatever all that is.

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So again, spiritual warfare and how deliverance can change your life,

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Amazon.com. We really encourage you to get it. Amen.

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Amen. God bless you. See you next time.

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