"Feast of Trumpets & the Rapture: Are You Ready?" RESCUE RADIO with Marjorie Cole

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this, and we thank you for letting us know this, that there is a war

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and there is also a victory, triumph, Father God. So we thank

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you for this day. We thank you that your will be done, Father, for each

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one listening, that they'd be encouraged, Lord God, to give them eyes to see.

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Give us eyes and ears to hear, to understand, to understand

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the signs of the times, Lord God. And I thank you, Lord. You are the

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one in control of everything, no matter what goes on, no matter

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what the narrative, You have the final move and you are

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the Lord God and you are good. So we thank you that your kingdom come,

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your will be done on earth, in and through us as it's being done and

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declared in heaven. We are yielded to you. We are willing. We are your servants,

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your vessels, and your kingdoms, Lord God. I thank you, Jesus.

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You took step one when you died on the cross and defeated the enemy,

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rose from the dead. Thank you, Jesus, that you have also

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marked the calendar for your return. And I thank you that that

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day is coming. It is not here yet, but it is

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very soon to arrive. And so cause us to be not afraid,

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but be watchful and pray that we will be

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accounted worthy to escape from the wrath that

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is to come, Lord God, according to Thessalonians 5. I thank you,

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Jesus, that we are not appointed to wrath. I thank you, Lord, that you've given

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us power and authority even now to deal with this world in the

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way that you want our spirit, your spirit to deal through our spirit with the

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situations. So you've given us power to bind and loose and to forgive and to

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love. Our commandment is to love one another. So Lord, I thank you for this

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time. I thank you for this time of opportunity. I bind

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the powers of darkness that have raged against your church, against individuals. I bind

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and forbid you, enemy. You are being exposed and evicted by the name of Jesus

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Christ from the houses, the lives, the temples, the families

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of those who are listening. Bless them, Father God, with faith. And hope and love

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in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. So what

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are we talking about today? This is the week of the Feast of Trumpets,

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Rosh Hashanah, September, very, very big month with 3 major

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feasts showing up in September here. Right. Rosh Hashanah is coming the

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12th of this month. Oh, it actually starts on the evening. It starts the evening

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of the 11th, sundown,

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sundown till basically Sunday.

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Sundown. Anyway, um, and then comes the Feast of Atonement,

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or, and then comes the Feast of Tabernacles. So we've got 3 different feasts

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all crammed in. And you know, the interesting thing about the feast,

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and you're going to read about this in Leviticus, God marked his calendar

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with 7 feasts. And the 4 first feasts

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that are in the, usually in the spring, and then one around Pentecost, which is

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summer-ish, you know, June, whatever, um,

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Those are, they're all for telling the time.

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Calendars mark the time, tell the time. And so go ahead and share

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with us what God set up in the book of Leviticus when he was directing

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his people. Well, he said, Leviticus 23,

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beginning with verse 23, then the Lord spoke to Moses saying, speak to

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the children of Israel saying, in the 7th month, on the 1st

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day of the month, They're— that's according

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to the Jewish calendar, right? Not according to ours, right? You shall have a

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Sabbath rest, a memorial of blowing

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of trumpets, a holy convocation.

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You shall do no customary work on it, and you shall offer an offering made

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by fire to the Lord. And then in— it's kind of repeated

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in Numbers 29:1: And in the 7th month,

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on the 1st day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation,

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holy meeting, basically a big meeting.

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You shall do no celebration. You shall do no customary work.

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It's a time of rest for you. It is for

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you. It is a day of the blowing of the trumpets. Well,

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it's interesting, and the Feast of Trumpets, also known— we call it Rosh Hashanah,

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Feast of the Trumpets— is the, the start of

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their, uh, civil new year. They have a religious

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new year which starts Uh, at the, in Nisan,

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the month of Nisan, which is usually March where we have the Passover.

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But then this is the beginning. So it's kind of complicated in a way.

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But so this is the start of their new year civilly,

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you know, in their government calendar, government business and so

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forth. And, and, and the feasts don't change,

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although they look like they change on our calendar because we have a sun solar

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calendar. They have a lunar calendar. That's why they're always the same day for them,

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but not for us. Yeah, and sometimes this Rosh

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Hashanah is, is also referred to as the Day of Judgment. Yes,

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yes, Day of Judgment. And, uh, you know, some things about

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Jewish tradition— Jewish tradition— now there's,

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there's true tradition and truth. There's always a kind of a

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juxtaposition or mixture here. Jewish tradition says that

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God writes every person's words, deeds, and thoughts

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in the Book of Life. Yeah. And he opens it on

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Rosh Hashanah, and if good deeds outnumber the sinful ones

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for the year, that person's name will be

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recorded in the Book of Life on Yom Kippur for

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another year. That's the tradition of it.

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And so, well, that's interesting because a lot of us really believe our

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life is based on our good deeds, and this is True, but not, it's half

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true. I mean, once you follow Jesus and you're abiding in him, you will

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want to and be automatically connected with

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him. So your words and actions will come out of his love and

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his truth. But, you know, another name for

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Rosh Hashanah is Yom Teruah,

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T-E-R-U-A-H, which means blowing

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of the trumpets. And in Joel, we see that use of trumpets

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in a lot of different places in the Bible. And Joel is very interesting.

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He says it's to wake them up. He says,

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blow the trumpet in Zion, sound the alarm in my holy

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mountain. Joel 2. And then if you got Joel there and

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look at also verse 15, Margie, would you read that? Oh, I have Joel

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right here. Let the inhabitants of the land, you know, and now

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therefore thus says the Lord, turn to me with your hearts. So he's getting their

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attention to the trumpets in Joel and he's talking about this dreadful,

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the alas, For the day of the Lord is at hand. It is coming

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as destruction from the Almighty. And I believe this was

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always a process, a cycle. It's like the earth has

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been caught in this cycle and its inhabitants.

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It's always been, you know, like the tide of evil rebellion rising

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up, giving way to divine correction. So we have

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this ebb and flow of good and evil, wars and famines

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and destructions and nations that have been, um,

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like put in their place after we've got out of order, disobeyed,

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rebelled, killed one another. God brings back a kind of an

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awakening, an awakening. Very good. And so in

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Joel, he's talking about this calamity being on the horizon.

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It's upon us and there's nothing we can do about it except sound the alarm.

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And then he goes, he calls them to a place of repentance.

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He says, um, Blow the trumpet in Zion, consecrate a fast,

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call a sacred assembly, gather the people, sanctify yourselves, assemble the

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elders, weep and mourn

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and wail. And really the feast that comes right after Trumpets is

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Atonement. So they're being called to that place of repentance.

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Yeah, exactly, exactly. And so there

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is a call that's going out now, even though some

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people are not crying out, with that, but there's a call that's

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going out in the world now to repentance and judgment begins

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at the house of God. And there's a call to wake up the church

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of Jesus Christ. You know, this could be actually very super exciting and

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good news. And I think for a lot of believers it is because, uh,

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they look in 1 Thessalonians, um, where Paul is talking

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about comforting them, uh, chapter 4, verse 13, about their

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dead who had died and where did they go and are we ever going to

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see them again? They didn't know. See, we, They didn't have

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the revelation of the finished Bible, the early followers,

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that we do. But he says, um, he says, for if we believe

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that Jesus died and rose again, verse 14 of 4, 1 Thessalonians

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4:14, um, even so God will bring with

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him those who sleep in Jesus. He's going to— then he goes on to kind

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of talk about the process of how this is going to happen because we thought

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they were put into graves and tombs and things. For this we say

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to you by the word of the Lord. So he's talking not out of his

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own ideas, but he says, this is the word of the Lord, which is very

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important. Um, that we who are alive and

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remain until the coming of the Lord. Well, right now we are those people

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in that group. We're aliving and remaining, and the Lord hasn't come yet.

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Um, that will by no means precede those who are asleep. In other words,

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um, 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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Now these are 3 signs. He's going to come himself,

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descend from heaven with a shout, the voice

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of an archangel, maybe it's the shout of that archangel, and with the trumpet

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of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.

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Then, so they're going to come up out of the graves. There was a— that

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first happened when he rose from the dead. People saw

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their loved ones in Jerusalem had come out of the graves. They were— there

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was a resurrection there of some sort where that bunch of people appeared

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unto many. Yeah, I'm sure that some people were freaked out. Yeah, it's like,

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oh my. So they've— they were pulled out of their graves already then.

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Then— but there's been many put in the grave since then, including some of our

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loved ones. Um, then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together

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with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Now notice The

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thing that highlights or announces this is the trumpets.

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The trumpets. Now, it's interesting, the trumpets in the Old

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Testament, they were the trumpets, what they refer to as the shofar,

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which is a ram's horn. You know, it's the curly ram's horn

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of various sizes. And the trumpets were used as

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a wake-up call. They're used as signals. Trumpets were used,

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like we read in Joel, to sound an alarm, to bring a

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call to repentance. Um, they were also at the,

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uh, it's a signal of God's presence, you know, at Mount

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Sinai when the, um, connecting— yeah, when he came there

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on the mountain and, uh, there was a trumpet that went long and

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hard and loud. Yes. And that's— it

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signaled God's presence. And also back in

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those days, it signaled— there were signals that were given.

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They didn't have cell phones or computers.

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So they, they would blow the trumpet in marchings when

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you were marching and giving orders. There was a certain sound.

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Oh, right. Remember Jericho? Yep. They were marching around and

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then they blew the trumpets and it set this blast that

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actually shattered the walls. I really believe the sound of the vibrations

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of the shofar and the trumpets collide with the, the enemy and

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and disturb, break down walls, tear down obstructions

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to the kingdom of God. Yeah, exactly.

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And they were always, like you said, in Joel, they were trumpets

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that were blown to call assemblies, get together.

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Yeah, in Yom Teruah, which means the

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blowing of the trumpet, it means the word is used to describe to make a

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trumpet as a loud noise for the gathering of people.

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And so the shouting in unison, it's a very,

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It's about noise. It's about alerting. It's about shattering the silence.

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It's about shattering the lethargy of the darkness. Yeah.

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And it's, it's also in the book of Nehemiah, the trumpets were

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used as an alert against

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the enemy. So when the enemy's coming, then you blow the trumpet, let everybody

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know what's going on. And also in 1 Kings

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chapter 1, trumpets were blown when they heralded a new king.

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When a new king was being inaugurated,

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they blew the trumpets. And it's interesting that

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all of the feasts, all 7, all 6 of the 7

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have a sequence to them. You know, after 3

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days do this and after 4 days do that and, you know, whatever all.

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But, but the only one that doesn't have that preceding,

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uh, it's, it's a feast that's commanded by the Lord,

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but it does not give a specific reason for the celebration only

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to observe it as a holy day. So this big loud noise is to be

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observed on a certain day, but there's no reason for it yet.

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That is because I believe the secret of the rapture or

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the harpazo, he says, those who are,

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and then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with

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them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus

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we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words.

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That word, caught up together, shall be caught up together with

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them. So God is bringing— there's— he's gathering his people. I think

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that's referring to Revelation 19 where they're coming back.

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Maybe, maybe it's a different sequence, but nonetheless, this sudden

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blasting of the trumpets, which doesn't have a specific

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reason— there are speculations that this represents

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the scriptures, what we call the memorial blowing of the trumpets, or it's the the

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mystery that only God knows. But I believe it's an alerting.

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It's this trumpet he's talking about here. And he also talks about it in

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1 Corinthians at the last trump, you know,

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in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump, the dead in Christ will

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be raised and caught together with us. So there's 2 references to

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this mysterious being caught up. Rosh Hashanah,

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caught up means to be violently snatched away from evil, violently snatched

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away from evil, which means that there is evil and

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God is, is doing a sudden extraction

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of his people from that place of evil. Matthew 24, beginning with 29

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through 31: Immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun

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will be darkened, the moon will not give its light,

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

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Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven.

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Then all, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they

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will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven

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with power and great glory. And he will send his angels

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with a great sound of a trumpet. Wow. And they

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will gather together his elect from the 4 winds,

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from one end of heaven. That sounds like exactly what Paul is talking about.

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Jesus said it. Where was that you were reading? Matthew. Matthew 24:29-31.

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So, so Paul is picking up on that theme. And it

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says that every feast day, like I said, was recorded,

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accounted, but this one is unique.

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It is observed at the appearance, begins at the appearance of

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the new moon in the month of Tishrei. So what would happen is watchmen would

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sit on the wall and watch for the moon to come up or become visible.

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And then as soon as they saw it, they blow the trumpets at the first

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sign of its sighting. Um, signifying the start of the feast.

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However, because of many times atmospheric conditions

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and cloud cover, etc., people weren't seeing it,

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couldn't see it, and they couldn't blow the trumpet till they saw it. So there's

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a lot. So you could actually say that you didn't know the,

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the day or the hour because this is a— this is the only feast— well,

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Tabernacles is, is many days also, but this feast

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has 2 or 3 days to it. So when he's saying, um, people say,

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well, you don't know when Jesus is coming. Uh, you can't know the

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day. You can't know the hour. Yes, that's true. But as you read on in

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1 Thessalonians, verse 5, chapter 5, he says, verse 1,

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but concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need

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that I should write to you, for you yourselves know perfectly that

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the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. So he's

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talking about 4 different things here. We see, Times, seasons,

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days, and hours, they're not all the same thing at all. So I

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believe we can know the time represents the year, the season obviously is the time

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of the year, fall, winter, whatever, and the day and the hour.

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So with this very only, the only feast that has

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this kind of nebulous beginning, don't know exactly what hour

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we're gonna sound this trumpet, it makes perfect sense that we cannot

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know the day because it's a 2 or 3 day feast

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and we cannot know when this, they're gonna finally see that moon

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showing, the new moon, I should say. And so, um,

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it's very likely that we will be able to identify the time,

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which is the year or the season. We really believe it's got to be fall.

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I really believe that there's— God is very consistent

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and he doesn't— he's, he's very precise in what he does

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and he has deep purpose for what he does. So there's

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good evidence that the coming of the Lord could be right during that time.

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Absolutely. Or the Feast of Trumpets. Yeah. We're not saying that that's exactly

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when it's going to be, but well, a lot of people, the way

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God has lined it up through the feasts that point to

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the fulfillment. So the— see, a lot of the things in the feasts,

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there's symbolic things that point to the fulfillment

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of these things. Yes. But, you know, through Jesus Christ,

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we have— yes. And we have a couple of things, big things, yet to

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be fulfilled. Um, if you go to the Book of Revelation,

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you're going to see In chapter 19, some of those big things.

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Now here's the thing. We're not going to stumble over the

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day or the hour. People say, well, I, you know, I want to know.

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You don't want to know. You really don't want to know because Jesus

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said, if you knew the day, the time the thief would break in, you would

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have watched. But we need to be watching continually and

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not be shaken or suddenly afraid because

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if you're found doing what's right, you won't have to freak out about,

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oh no, I'm going to miss this. Because this is a complicated feast

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because everybody says, well, who's going? Who's not going? How are you going to pick?

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Um, because in, in Revelation 19, he says,

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um, the second coming of Christ, then verse 11, then I

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saw the heaven open and behold a white horse. And he who sat on him

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was called Faithful and True. And in righteousness he judges and makes

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war. His eyes were like the flame of fire. On his head were many

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crowns. He had a name written on him that no one knew except himself.

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He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and his name is called the

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Word of God. And the armies in heaven,

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clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed him on

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white horses. Um, and out of his mouth went a

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sharp sword, and with it he would strike the nations. He himself will rule

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them with a rod of iron. He himself treads the winepress of the wrath of

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God. I believe this is the initiation, possibly of that millennium,

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millennial kingdom. But the verses right before that

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are interesting also because they're talking about the marriage supper of the Lamb.

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Verse 7 of chapter 19: Let us be glad

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and rejoice and give him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come,

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and he made his wife, and his wife has made herself ready.

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So there is an interesting supper called

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a wedding supper, a marriage supper, where Jesus

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Christ will be will be reunited, united,

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reunited as well with this remnant, the church,

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the bride of Christ. And it says that she

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was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, bright and fine,

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with the right— these are— this is the righteous acts of the saints. And he

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said to me, write, blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of

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the Lamb. And they said, these are the true sayings of God.

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Now the thing is, so this marriage supper of the

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Lamb, is written, recorded just before we see

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the armies coming out of heaven. Now the sequence is,

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is kind of jumbled for everybody. I don't think anybody really knows exactly who,

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what, when, and how. But we do know that, um,

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people say, I don't believe there's a rapture. There's no such word in the Bible.

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That's right. It's a Greek word. It's called harpazo. And I just told you what

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that meant, the violent snatching away from evil. And so

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at some point the Lord God will find it suitable for,

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you know, remember the virgins, the parable of the 10

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virgins, 5 wise, 5 foolish. They were waiting for this

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door to open for them to be brought into the marriage supper

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of the Lamb, the bride and the groom

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to be reunited in this marriage ceremony.

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And so there was another parable that talks

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about being ready, being prepared, not missing it,

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because then the doors close and the 5 that were foolish and weren't prepared didn't

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have their oil. Got to have your own oil. Yeah. And plenty of it.

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Yeah. Yeah. So another thing here,

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this— the idea with the Feast of Trumpets is that it sounds like in the

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Jewish tradition that God kind of puts you in and

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out of this Book of Life. He checks it every year,

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supposedly. That's their tradition. That's tradition.

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But what about the Book of Life? You know, it's the Lamb's

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Book of Life. It talks about in Revelation

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20:12,

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and I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were open,

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and another book was open, which is the Book

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of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works by the things which

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are written in the books. So one thing we know about the Book of Life,

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it has the names of those that are saved. And it has the

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deeds of the righteous there according to Malachi. Well, it's interesting

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too. He says the books were opened, the books. So each one of

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us is writing a book, whether you've ever written a book or not.

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There is a book being recorded with your life story in

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it, you know, and I believe the things that are in that book can be

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blotted out through the atonement, through the forgiveness, through the blood

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of Jesus and through our repentance and accepting Jesus Christ as our

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Savior. I believe also that You know, it says your names

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don't, you know, Paul, I think, was saying about your names being blotted out of

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the book of life. Well, they can't be blotted out if they were never in.

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So what I see it is God wrote everybody's name that

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he knew that were his. You know, there's many dwellers on the earth and inhabitants

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of the earth that are not humans, not eligible. They don't have human DNA.

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They're not made by God, that are not written in that,

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in that book. But us who have been made and created in the image of

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God, and are written in there. And so that

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we're not— we're in. And Paul says, lest your name be blotted

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out. So we can be blotted out. And I would think

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the only way we could be blotted out is if we reject the salvation of

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Jesus Christ, because that's the only way we get to stay in the book.

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So God is not a respecter of persons. He put everybody's name in there.

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He's not, um, you know, then all— he says, all those

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he foreknew, he predestined to be called, to be to conform to

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the image of his Son. All those he foreknew, he called. So he has

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called all of us to participate in the marriage supper of the Lamb. He's not

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being exclusive here. He's not being, you know,

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I don't know what the word would be, partial. But he is,

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but we have something to do here. We have to, the next part of that

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verse in Romans 8:28-29

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is that we have to answer that call. And so answering that call,

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this, and so this, We answer God's call. And then now in this last

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day, when God calls us back, now this rapture,

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Rosh Hashanah, Feast of the Trumpets, catching away

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from the violence to come, doesn't mean

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everybody is going to go in that rapture. And that's the problem.

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It appears that there are others yet who are still on the earth

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who are tormented with the decision to make between choosing

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or not choosing the mark of the beast. Let me read this from Revelation 13:8.

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All who dwell in the earth will worship him,

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that is this beast, the earth dwellers, whose names

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have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb

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slain from the foundation of the world. And then in Revelation

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17:8, and the beast that you saw that

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was and is not will ascend out of the bottomless pit and go to perdition.

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And those who dwell on the earth will marvel whose names are not

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written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world when

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they see the beast that was and is not and yet is. And this makes

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sense too because if you go back to the parable of the wheat and the

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tares, Jesus was telling his disciples there's a lot of, you know,

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things in that harvest field that look like wheat but are not. They're actually tares.

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They're actually an imitation. They look,

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they're a lookalike. And those are not his. And they

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will be harvested out by the angels, the reapers.

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And so we understand that we— he says, it's very interesting in what

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you just read in Revelation 13, um, and all who

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dwell on the earth will worship him whose names have not been

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written in the, in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation

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of the world. So this foundation of the world slaying, this crucifixion that

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happened at the beginning was where our names were put in the book.

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But these earth dwellers dwell on the earth doesn't say,

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doesn't mean, although we jump to the conclusion that these are people,

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humans with souls and DNA that's human.

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It says these are people, these are all who dwell on the earth.

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Now this could be humanoids. This could be, um, you know,

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transhumans. It could be clones. It could be any kind of thing that we already

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know. It could be people that have just rejected Jesus. It could be all of

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that. It could be that. But, and that's what we assume it is,

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but it's, it sounds like this is a very interesting

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sorting process that only God understands.

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And it's interesting, in Revelation 21 and

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27, the verses before, he's talking about the New Jerusalem,

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the new heavens, the new earth, the New Jerusalem. Verse 27,

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but there shall by no means enter into it anything that

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defiles or causes an abomination. Abomination is a

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detestable or a lie, but only those who are

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written in the Lamb's Book of Life.

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So here's the deal. God is not partial. He's not judgmental.

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You can have your name written in the Lamb's Book of Life if you

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just simply accept Jesus Christ and his blood sacrifice as

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the atonement for your sin. So that's what we call new birth

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or salvation. It's surrendering your life to the

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truth of who and what needs to be done for you to save that life.

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We cannot save ourselves. It's not up to us. We— it's already been done.

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Now all we do is accept it and then follow. Accept Jesus

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Christ and then follow him. And so we thank the Lord

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for the— I pray right now that you will not

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be overwhelmed or confused by this because, you know, it has

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been purposely kept as a mystery up to this

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point where we are not to understand the, the, the day or the

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hour, but we can know the time and the season. And I believe we all

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know we're moving quickly through the times and the seasons to get to the

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day and the hour of his return. And that many people are not yet ready.

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And he said, the harvest is great, the laborers are few. Pray the Lord to

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send in harvesters or laborers. And so we're

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in— and it's also, as it's talked about in Revelation,

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that this is the time of the judging of the whore of Babylon.

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And so all of these things are coming together in a crisis

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moment, a climax of truth, and judgment.

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Matthew 24:42 says, watch therefore, for you

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do not know what hour your Lord is coming. And then

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he says in 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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We cannot delay anymore. We can't put it off. We can't make

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excuses or procrastinate on this matter anymore because it is the secure

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that this will come. It is already written. It is,

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you know, Jesus said, it is written, when he defeated the devil.

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This is written. You cannot ignore it. You cannot say,

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well, I don't believe this, and that makes it untrue or not possible.

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It doesn't matter what you say or what you believe. The truth is that we

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will be brought into a place of reckoning

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and judgment, and we will be either on the right side or

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the the place, place of death. So Father,

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we thank you for encouraging each one not to be discouraged, not to be overwhelmed,

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not to be scared, not to be anticipating in an anxious way,

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but to be praising and celebrating and rejoicing and looking up for the day

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of our redemption draws nigh. We thank you, Lord, the God— you are the God

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of heaven and earth. You are in control. You have known all of this from

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the foundation of the world and nothing surprises you. Nothing shocks

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you and nothing catches you off guard. So Let your people be illumined,

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brought into the place of, of truth,

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and they will not be deceived by the angels of light or the deception that's

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going on. Bless your people with truth, Father, in Jesus' name. Thank you, Lord,

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for waking us up, Lord, that your word is sounding the alarm.

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There are true men and women of God that are sounding the alarm

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in these days, and we better take heed. Help us to take heed to that,

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Jesus, that we will be ready for your return. And that

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while we're waiting for your return, we will be busy about

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your business, Lord, and that is making disciples of

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all the nations and preaching the gospel of good

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news and healing the sick and cleansing the lepers, raising the dead and casting

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