"Hope When the World Falls Apart" RESCUE RADIO with Marjorie Cole

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I have an emergency, what is your location?

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Rescue radio, cause there's a war for your soul.

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Yes, Father God, we know that.

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And we thank you, Father, for the revelation of the spiritual warfare

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and helping us to understand the rules to the end, the weapons

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and the authority that you've given us.

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So, Lord, I thank you that there is a purpose for all of the things

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that we're going through, a divine, holy kingdom purpose.

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And I thank you that your kingdom, Lord God, come, your will be done on Earth

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and then through us as it's being done and declared in heaven.

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We are your contact points on the Earth.

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I pray that you'd use your people to bring forth the harvest,

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bring forth the revival, bring forth the revelation of truth

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that has been so hidden and buried underneath

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tons of enchantments and lies and deception.

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And thank you, Jesus, for dying on the cross.

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You saw through it all.

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You knew what was going on.

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You took action, laid down your life, paid the price in full

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that the devil demanded and released the captives.

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We thank you for setting us free.

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We thank you for giving us the opportunity not only to be saved and justified,

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but also to be part of your kingdom in terms of authority and commissioned us.

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You say whatever you bind is bound, whatever you loose is loosed.

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But as soon as you forgive them, we thank you for these authorities.

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We thank you, Father, for giving us now assignments as well.

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And may we walk in the power and the delight of those assignments

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until you return.

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And we thank you, Lord, for the power that you've given us to bind

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and forbid the enemy to conduct his operation, the work of the thief.

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You said he's come to steal, lie, kill, destroy.

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And we forbid him, Father, God, in the name of Jesus Christ

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and in the authority that you've given us

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and declare that no weapon formed against us will prosper.

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No word said deed done or action taken because we are children of the covenant

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of God, the covenant you've made with us through the blood of Jesus Christ.

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So now we walk in that protection, that integrity

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and that clarity, Father, in Jesus name.

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Give us eyes to see, give us ears to hear and not to be afraid. Amen.

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Well, this is a good, exciting couple of shows.

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We're going to do it for you guys.

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Things to look forward to in the coming days.

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Jerry, this is so much negativity out there about doom and glooming.

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And a lot of people don't have anything to look forward to.

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And we see the handwriting on the wall.

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You hear different reports from, you know,

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economists and so forth about the future.

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What's going to happen?

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And and some of it is sort of hopeful

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because, you know, technology is going to be our savior and all that sort of stuff.

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But yeah, what do we have?

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What do you have to look forward to?

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Well, in these this chapter of John, Chapter 14, this discourse,

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starting with let not your hearts be troubled, comes right during the

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as we call it, the Last Supper, when Jesus had just finished

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washing the disciples feet and Judas had just left.

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It just went off to betray Jesus.

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So Jesus is right at that crisis point

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where he's going to the cross in a few hours, literally a few hours.

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And this is his last big, long discourse

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with the disciples, the parting words, if you will.

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And one of the things he said after he, you know, he said,

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a new commandment, I give you that you love one another.

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That's Chapter 13, 34.

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That you love one another.

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This this they will know that you are my disciples by that love

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that you have for one another.

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That that means kindness, charity, putting other people ahead of yourself,

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looking out for their own interests, too.

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Then he says in Chapter 14, verse one, let not your heart be troubled.

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You believe in God, believe also in me.

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And then we get to some good news.

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Good news. Can you can you read that, Jerry?

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Verse two, he says, in my father's house, there are many mansions

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or many dwelling places.

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If it were not so, I have told you.

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I go to repair a place for you, and if I prepare a place for you,

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I will come again and receive you to myself.

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Now, where I am there, you may be also.

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So he says, if we're not so, I would have told you

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I go to repair a place for you, a place.

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OK, what does this mean?

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Well, this is a future.

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He's talking about our future, things that we can look forward to in the coming days.

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So there is a there's an end to all this madness.

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There's an end to all this deception, this lies, this brutality, this injustice,

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this treachery, this amounting wickedness in this earth.

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And I think it's always been wicked.

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But that end is a promise of a dwelling place to be with him,

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a place he is going specifically to prepare for us, he says.

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And then he says, I will come again.

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So we've got two promises in this couple of verses.

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He's going to go to make a house for us, a mansion,

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whether it's a mansion like we think of a mansion.

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It's probably nothing like what we think.

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But a mansion in heaven, you know, a shack in heaven is probably a mansion down here.

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I don't know. But anyway, so it's a mansion.

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That's the word.

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And he's going to come again and get us, receive us, receive you to myself

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that where I am, you may be also.

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So there's three great promises in here.

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We're going to get a mansion.

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He's coming back and he's going to come and bring us back to be with him.

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And so we start with that promise.

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And then we go down to verse 27, 27 in chapter 14.

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And he says, as he's again, remember, he is ours, literally

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probably within two hours of going to Gethsemane.

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Peace, I leave with you my peace.

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I give to you not as the world gives.

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Do I give it unto you?

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Let not your hearts be troubled.

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Let not your heart be troubled.

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Neither let it be afraid.

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You have heard it said, it said of me, I am going away and coming back to you.

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If you love me, you would rejoice because I said I'm going to the father

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for the father is greater than I.

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So this is a past event.

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This as we read it now, he did do that.

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These other things are yet to come.

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But he did go back to the father and he sent us his peace.

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So he went to do what he said he was going to do in verse one.

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Go prepare a mansion for us and and, you know, be part of that

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forever, eternal, you know, or eternal beings.

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Jerry, what does that mean?

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That means we live forever.

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I mean, we've come from God.

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You know, we were chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world.

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So before time we were in Christ.

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Before time began.

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Before time began.

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We're older than time.

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So, you know, we're older than time, not older than dirt.

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But we are older than dirt.

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Now, we were here before the dirt, too, you know, in God's mind and heart.

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But we were there in Christ Jesus.

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That it's something that this mind is in Christ before the foundation of the world.

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So now we're here.

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We've been deposited at our birth.

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You kind of plop down here in this corridor of time, in a corridor of time.

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And then this time, whether it's just a, you know, a few hours or many years,

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but it's short, no matter what.

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But we're in this corridor of time to prepare us for the next phase,

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which is the eternity of our eternal existence.

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Yeah, listen.

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So this is just this is just the front end of this is just the temporary.

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But it helps us to get a little perspective on what the what

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what's the fight about what's going on here.

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Yeah. And we get we're so used to being in time.

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Right. I mean, because that's our whole life is we're here in time and purpose

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and running late and got to get there on time and getting stuff

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and getting the family done, getting the work done,

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all that stuff and all the pressures and trials and things that we face.

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We get so basically focus, self-focus.

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So it's silly because on what's going on here.

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Yeah. Rather than thinking about we have to come to the place, Marjorie,

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where we relate everything here to over there to eternity.

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Yeah, it's true. Otherwise, nothing here makes sense for us.

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If we don't put Jesus in the equation and his promises,

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then we're just racing towards retirement instead.

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And you might not make it to. Yeah, that's true.

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Well, Jesus goes on to say in verse twenty nine, he says,

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And now I have told you before it comes

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that when it does come to pass, you may believe.

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So he's foretelling, prophesying the future.

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And he's he's giving us some things to think and ponder and look forward to.

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And so let's go back and look at a couple.

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We're going to look at some of the items, some of the events,

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some of the situations that we are going to all be part of in these coming days.

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Here's the thing, too.

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Some people are in a place right now where they're dreading the future.

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Some people read the Bible and dread the future.

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And it's true. Many difficult things are going to be happening.

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Many pressures, much persecution of the true ones that are following the Lord.

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And so there's troubles and attacks and demonic warfare.

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We get hung up in all those things. Yeah, we're in that.

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But Jesus said, like you read earlier, he says,

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my peace I give to you in the midst of all this.

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We have his peace.

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Well, in verse 20, chapter 24 of Matthew.

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And we have these same discourses in Luke and Mark.

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He's talking about, of course, all is coming.

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His second coming is return.

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So that's one of the next events, too, is his second coming return of Jesus.

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And he says, but before that happens in the future,

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which I think is now upon us, this part is upon us that many will come.

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He says, saying, I am the Christ and will deceive many.

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We can see the sorting out process happening everywhere, all over people

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talking, their opinions, podcasts, predictions, all kinds of things.

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You just have to do five seconds on on X and you'll see that

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the news and you'll see that it's all crazy and confusing.

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It's just like Jesus said.

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So that's a lot of what we're in, I think.

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It says he says the lawless because of lawlessness will abound.

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The love of many will grow cold.

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But he says that in chapter twenty five, he gives an interesting parable.

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This is Matthew.

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He says the kingdom of heaven should be like ten virgins

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who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.

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So this he's telling us a parable here.

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He's making an analogy.

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He's helping us to understand a deep spiritual truth with a story, so to speak.

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So these five, these women all took their their lamps.

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And it's getting late.

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It's getting dark.

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And they half of them didn't take any extra oil because they I don't know

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if they couldn't afford it or if they didn't think about it

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or if they thought it wouldn't take that long.

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It was going to take that.

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I think that's what they thought.

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It wasn't going to take that long.

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And so they just all sat around and then they actually all fell asleep.

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And and that wasn't the point.

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The point wasn't.

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Well, they got tired and slept.

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That wasn't what the problem became.

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That was at midnight.

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The cry was heard.

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Behold, the bridegroom is coming.

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Go out to meet him.

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So this is the the reception committee for the bridegroom,

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the return of Jesus Christ.

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And we are if we're still alive on the planet, would be those who go out

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to meet him, are ready, prepared, looking, watch, look up for your redemption,

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draws nigh, those kinds of this event,

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the return of Jesus Christ and the and the rescuing

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of the church is part of yet what we are looking forward to.

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So half of these women were foolish, it says.

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And they said to the wise ones, give us some of the oil for our lamps are going out.

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But the wise ones answered and said, no, lest there be should be not enough

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for us and you, but go rather to those who sell and buy for yourself.

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So I believe this represents the oil,

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the vessels, the empty vessels represent people who are not supplied.

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They're not receiving a consistent revelation

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and energy and winting

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of Jesus Christ.

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They're they're kind of holding out to the end.

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I think there's a lot of people like that.

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We're just going to wait till Jesus comes back.

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Don't wait till he comes back.

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Just abide and occupy until he comes back.

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So these this is one thing, the door, then the bridegroom came.

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to look for some oil got left out.

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when the Son of Man is coming.

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we don't know yet the day or the hour.

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your own oil and just be be ready because you're looking forward to your own

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conversation. I think part of a relationship always includes conversation,

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communication. And I think many of us,

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we're just kind of watching other people have a relationship.

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with the Lord ourselves, which is really essential.

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because you're knowing and talking to and trusting in and praying and praising God.

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So verse 25, 6 says the bridegroom is coming. Now if we go

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in 24, he says the Lord is coming back.

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there's going to be an anticipation of his return, but not a

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concrete date. And a lot of people say, well, when is he coming back?

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but it doesn't say you cannot know the time or the season.

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That's very smart on the part of the Lord, because if we knew the time,

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people would say, okay, we're going to just send it up.

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We're going to send it up for a while. And okay, as it get closer now,

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we'll get to be godly. So we're ready at the right time.

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he doesn't say get ready. He says in Matthew 24, 44,

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therefore you also be ready for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not

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expect. So the Lord is coming. What hour and what hour is the Lord coming?

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We're anticipating his return. Yeah. His,

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he's coming for those who love his appearing,

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not for those who dread his appearing because now my fun's going to be over when

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he comes. But that's not the right heart and spirit.

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we're not going to be ashamed. Right.

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We know that Jesus is coming back.

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division and, and, and you know,

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the whole world is going to be turned inside out and upside down to prepare for

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the antichrist who's going to get to rule for seven years. And so, um,

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that was also their big discussion point. Um, and so they were wondering,

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you know, has Jesus already returned and we missed it somehow.

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this is chapter four, verse 13. Paul is saying,

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I don't want you to be ignorant brethren concerning those who have fallen asleep

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or died. Lest you sorrow as others who have no hope.

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So your friends have died. They have passed away.

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Sarah, some, you know, at old age, some very suddenly, shockingly, terribly,

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tragically, whatever. People are leaving this planet in the droves.

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every almost every other day for sure. But almost every day I hear of someone

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else who's lost a loved one through some overdose or some tragic thing or some

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cancerous thing or some sudden calamity that comes to health issue, whatever.

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if for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again,

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even so God will bring with him those who sleep in Jesus.

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gone on to the other side, he's going to bring them back with him.

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So that's what we're seeing when we see the writers and those tens of thousands

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of white horses. Those are the writers, I believe. And they rose again,

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even so God will bring with him those who fall asleep,

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who sleep in Jesus, who are dead or passed away, left this life.

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They're just simply existing in another dimension.

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So he's saying this is what God is saying,

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that we also who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord.

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So he was still a remaining and alive at that point,

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but now he's not alive here remaining anymore. But he says,

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those of us who are alive, we're still alive. You and I,

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those who are listening here will remain until the coming of the Lord will by no

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means proceed. Those who are asleep are dead. We won't go ahead of them.

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for the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of an

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

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So the dead in Christ, um, better,

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they're going to go up first in this call,

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this shouting the voice of the archangel, the trumpet of God.

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And then we who are alive and remain.

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So the ones who are dead are going to come up out of their graves.

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However that might be, I don't know, or I don't know. That's God's,

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a God problem, not mine.

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still walking around down here shall be caught up together with them in the

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clouds to meet the Lord in the air.

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comfort one another with this.

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These words now this is the main passage people use to describe what we would

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harpazo means a violence, a sudden snatching away from evil.

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grasping or grabbing up, uh, catching up, catching away,

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catching up those caught up together.

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uh, in, in the, in the wake of,

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and in the presence of probably the antichrist at that point in time,

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we will be caught up and snatched up together to be with the Lord.

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It also mentions this. Yeah. Can you read that if you can find it?

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Um, so what I'm going to say while you're finding that is first Corinthians

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51, 15, isn't it?

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First Corinthians 15, 51. Okay. There you go. I had it backwards.

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There we go. I'll have it here. Okay. Here it is. Uh,

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first Corinthians 15 starting with verse 50.

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Now this I say, brethren,

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that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.

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Neither does, nor does corruption inherit any corruption.

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Behold, I tell you a mystery.

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but it's now revealed.

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That it's really still true just because you haven't seen it.

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Doesn't mean it doesn't exist, but now it's being revealed.

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We shall not all sleep,

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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 in Christ will be raised

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incorruptible and we shall be changed.

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There you go. So this is a double witness in the mouth of two or three witnesses.

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Now both of these letters were written by Paul,

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but here he's talking of pretty much the same in the twinkling of an eye at the

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last trumpet. Well, if you look in the book of revelations,

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I'm not sure I didn't look that up, but what is the last trumpet for that?

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the dead will be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed.

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bodily vulnerabilities and decay.

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changed into an incorruptible body,

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one that does not pass away a spiritual body, so to speak.

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So he's talking about that, those two things that we're going to be caught up,

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but our physical form is also going to be eternalized.

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That's a new word because we're going to be eternal beings at this.

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flesh and blood cannot come into the presence of God as we know ourselves

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because we would burn up.

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And so there has to be a transformation or a, you know, uh, that's, you know,

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the change so that we can be more.

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So we can withstand what is the immediate presence of God?

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Mortality, swallowed up in immortality or something like that.

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Yeah. Death is swallowed up in victory.

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Immortality is swallowed up with immortality is overtaken by immortality.

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And so if you're looking at revelation now,

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this is a relation of 1115 and the seventh angel sounded and there were loud

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voices in heaven saying the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of

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our Lord and of his Christ. And he shall reign forever and ever.

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Is that the last trumpet?

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It's the seventh trumpet. There's seven trumpets that are blown.

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So, you know, we can get into all this.

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But these are things to come. These are things you're going to,

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you're glorified body. That's another thing that's good on the list. You know,

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if you have aches and pains and falling things, pulling apart, which of course,

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the enemies tried to corrupt all of it.

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We now can look forward to new bodies as well.

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Yeah. And so the Lord is,

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says he's going to descend from heaven with the voice of the archangel and with

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the trumpet of God. And it's just interesting too.

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And back over to a revelation here,

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chapter one, um,

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have it here in just a second. Um,

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here we go. Um, let's see here.

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Behold, verse seven, revelation, chapter one,

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behold, he is coming with clouds and every,

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I will see him even they who pierced him and all the tribes of the earth will

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mourn because of him.

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Even so, amen. I am the alpha and the omega,

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the beginning and the end says the Lord who,

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who is, who was, and who is to come the all mighty.

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Now the rapture,

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what we think of first Thessalonians four is something that not everybody's

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going to see that not everybody's going to experience that.

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That is beach for the believers living on the earth at that time to be

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caught up, to be with the Lord. Those that, uh,

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have died in Christ are going to somehow be joined there with those who are

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alive and remain.

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These are phenomenal, unbelievable, um,

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experiences that we can't even hardly imagine. But what you said,

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not everybody is going to be, can't, you know,

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some people don't even believe in the rapture.

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You don't have to believe in the rapture to be qualified to go in the rapture.

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Just like you don't have to understand everything to be qualified to be saved.

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I mean, you don't understand all the mechanisms that all the, you know,

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eternal things that had,

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that had transactions and covenants and for preparations for salvation to be

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saved. It's just an act of obedience.

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But the good news is that, um, the bridegroom,

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this is all part of the events that were talked about with the foolish virgins.

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The bride groom is coming. The Lord is coming back.

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The son of man is coming back. Jesus said that. He said, um,

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in 2442 of Matthew, he said, I am, you know, basically one of the, I,

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I'm going to go prepare a place for you and I'm coming back.

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And I think this is very, to the devil, this is terrifying.

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He knows Jesus is coming back. I know that he knows that.

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I know he wants to push that out of his mind. But Jesus says, um,

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in 42 of Matthew 24, he says, watch therefore,

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you do not know what hour the Lord is coming, but know this,

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that if the master of the house had known the hour that the thief would come,

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

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Therefore you also be ready for the son of man is coming at an hour when you do

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not expect him. So that would be now, that'd be this hour.

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I don't expect him to come this hour. So this could be the very hour he's coming.

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And this will be a suddenly, this won't be a, you know, I mean,

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he's building up to it and there's lots,

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I think the Lord is going to give us lots of, um, heads up on all of this. You know,

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if we're in the word of God, if we stay close to him,

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he's going to let us know because like I said earlier, he says, we,

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we cannot know. Um, he says, uh, I'm going to verse,

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this is going to be chapter five of the first, the slices, but the coming,

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but concerning the times and the seasons, brethren,

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you do not need that. I should write to you for you.

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Yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord.

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So comes as a thief in the night. And when they say,

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for when they say peace and safety,

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then sudden destruction comes upon them as labor pains upon a pregnant woman and

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they shall not escape.

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But you brethren are not in darkness so that this day should overtake you as a

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thief. You are sons of the light sons of the day or not of the night or the

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darkness. Therefore, let us not sleep as others do,

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but let us watch and be sober. And he says,

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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, whether we're living or dead,

481
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we should live together with him.

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Therefore comfort each other and edify one another just as you're doing.

483
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So a lot of us, as I said earlier, have lost precious loved ones and,

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but we haven't lost them. They have just translated,

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they've transferred locations, addresses, and they're for the most part,

486
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they're in a way, way, way, way better place.

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And so if you can and everything gives thanks and rejoice that they are there

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and not here, although we do mourn for them, but he says,

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we can know the time and the season.

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So the time I see that as the year,

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because the Bible often talks about time times and half a time.

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So that would be like three and a half years as far as time.

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Cause a year would be time times would be two years at three and a half time

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with three and a half years. But the, but the, um,

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the actual moment, the actual hour,

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the season we can know, you know, is it going to be fall?

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Is it going to be winter? Is it going to be spring summer? But, um,

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I don't believe we can know the moments, the hour or the day.

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And, and, you know,

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there's all these different views of what we know as the rapture or the second

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coming of Christ. So there's a, the,

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the first part of the second coming is the catching up of the believers living

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in those that have died in Christ.

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And you want to be in that first catching.

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And some believe it's going to be at the beginning of this seven year

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tribulation period. Some believe it's in the middle.

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Some believe it's at the end. Just be ready either way.

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And you know, and, and the thing is,

509
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it's hard to be really dogmatic on any of those except for the fact that he's

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coming and our time is very limited and there are people that not everybody is

511
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going to be welcoming the return of Jesus. Right.

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There are those who are preparing for the battle of Armageddon departed that are

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not with the Lord right now that, that have gone, you know, lost.

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And so we want to make sure everybody that is right,

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that everybody possible is right with God as far as what we have to do with it.

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Yeah. You know, there,

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there's preparations being made right now in the world,

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in the earth,

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demonic preparations for that critical clashing that'll happen in the battle of

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Armageddon where Satan is preparing his forces.

521
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Then I could say more about that to meet God and to try to defeat him.

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With their technology. And so this is, this is all of that too.

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So we are not far from the coming of the, of the return of Jesus Christ.

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So father, we,

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we ask now that you'd encourage as we look forward to the things that are

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coming, the good things, um, that we're not ignorant,

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that we're not caught off guard, that we're not afraid,

528
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that we're simply standing in the goodness,

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the faithfulness of God to keep us.

530
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We're standing and having done all to stand.

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We will not be afraid for you have promised to never leave us or forsake us.

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So let everyone here be encouraged today.

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And that those who are afraid, worried about the coming of the Lord,

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let them stand in that place where they don't have to be afraid anymore by

535
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knowing that they're loved and that you are with them. Father God,

536
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in Jesus name.

537
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Yeah. Lord, this is not something that as believers, Lord,

538
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we dread, we anticipate your coming, you know,

539
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if we're for some reason, we're dreading your company.

540
00:31:02,199 --> 00:31:05,119
It shows that something's wrong in our hearts. So Lord,

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I would pray that you just change our hearts,

542
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that we will come to the place of that, that intimacy with you,

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that love for you, that being taken up with you, that one of these days,

544
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:19,300
we just want to be with you for it. We're with you now.

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You're present with us in the power of the Holy spirit. And, and we'll,

546
00:31:23,619 --> 00:31:27,959
but we pray that we long to be with you forever.

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But in the meantime,

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help us to do everything we can by your spirit to make sure that our family,

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friends, other loved ones will come to know you.

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And we'll be following you and be ready when you come whenever you do come.

551
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Yes. And you said, you said, I'm coming back.

552
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We do know this. This is good news.

553
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This is all this going on down here that we think is so eternal and urgent is

554
00:31:56,359 --> 00:31:57,199
only temporary.

555
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So father God give us courage to stand and having done all to stand in these

556
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:06,800
very wonderful, exciting days in Jesus name.

557
00:32:07,479 --> 00:32:11,640
So in the meantime, we're in this warfare, right? Yeah.

558
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And you have the God on trial series.

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Tell us about that because it really pictures so well and so creatively the

560
00:32:21,780 --> 00:32:24,199
battle that we're all in and, uh,

561
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:29,680
and the truth about the questions people are asking about life and eternity and

562
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God and one another.

563
00:32:31,939 --> 00:32:36,739
Yeah. Well, God on trial is an audio drama. It's a 28 episode audio drama.

564
00:32:37,180 --> 00:32:42,180
Uh, you can get it on life recovery.com in our bookstore. Um, it is, uh,

565
00:32:42,599 --> 00:32:47,599
you can purchase it by the episode or the full, um, 28 episodes.

566
00:32:48,839 --> 00:32:52,880
But the thing is, it is, uh, it is actually a masterpiece.

567
00:32:53,359 --> 00:32:56,420
We have used, we've used, um, uh,

568
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professional actors voices and amateurs who are also very,

569
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:05,520
very good to portray the dialogue between God and Satan in the court where

570
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Satan is, is trying to,

571
00:33:08,119 --> 00:33:12,520
he is actually trying God and in charging him with criminal neglected the

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universe and abusive use of power. And so we have the dialogue there.

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We also have the dialogue on earth with Jesus Christ confronting demons and

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dying on the cross and descending into the belly of hell.

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All of these things are amazing. Uh, and absolutely,

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00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:29,400
um,

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00:33:29,959 --> 00:33:34,680
provoking if you want to use that word to make your,

578
00:33:34,719 --> 00:33:39,199
make you think and make you understand and cause you to ask questions by the

579
00:33:39,199 --> 00:33:41,400
way. And kids absolutely love it.

580
00:33:41,479 --> 00:33:45,719
I can't believe how kids are drawn into the, it's like, it's,

581
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:49,560
it's like some of these other audio things that kids like adventures and audio

582
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:53,839
Odyssey and things. Kids are just really drawn into these things. So again, uh,

583
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:59,479
that's at life recovery.com and it is God on trial, the audio drama.

584
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So God bless you. And we'll hope to talk to you again very soon.

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God.

586
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Rescue radio. Cause there's a war for your soul.