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

0:00 I have an emergency, what is your location? Rescue radio, cause there's a war for your soul. Yes, Father God, we know that. And we thank you, Father, for the revelation of the spiritual warfare and helping us to understand the rules to the end, the weapons and the authority that you've given us.

0:41 So, Lord, I thank you that there is a purpose for all of the things that we're going through, a divine, holy kingdom purpose. And I thank you that your kingdom, Lord God, come, your will be done on Earth and then through us as it's being done and declared in heaven. We are your contact points on the Earth. I pray that you'd use your people to bring forth the harvest, bring forth the revival, bring forth the revelation of truth that has been so hidden and buried underneath tons of enchantments and lies and deception. And thank you, Jesus, for dying on the cross. You saw through it all. You knew what was going on. You took action, laid down your life, paid the price in full that the devil demanded and released the captives.

1:23 We thank you for setting us free. We thank you for giving us the opportunity not only to be saved and justified, but also to be part of your kingdom in terms of authority and commissioned us. You say whatever you bind is bound, whatever you loose is loosed. But as soon as you forgive them, we thank you for these authorities. We thank you, Father, for giving us now assignments as well. And may we walk in the power and the delight of those assignments until you return. And we thank you, Lord, for the power that you've given us to bind and forbid the enemy to conduct his operation, the work of the thief. You said he's come to steal, lie, kill, destroy. And we forbid him, Father, God, in the name of Jesus Christ and in the authority that you've given us and declare that no weapon formed against us will prosper.

2:05 No word said deed done or action taken because we are children of the covenant of God, the covenant you've made with us through the blood of Jesus Christ. So now we walk in that protection, that integrity and that clarity, Father, in Jesus name. Give us eyes to see, give us ears to hear and not to be afraid. Amen. Well, this is a good, exciting couple of shows. We're going to do it for you guys. Things to look forward to in the coming days. Jerry, this is so much negativity out there about doom and glooming. And a lot of people don't have anything to look forward to. And we see the handwriting on the wall. You hear different reports from, you know, economists and so forth about the future.

2:49 What's going to happen? And and some of it is sort of hopeful because, you know, technology is going to be our savior and all that sort of stuff. But yeah, what do we have? What do you have to look forward to? Well, in these this chapter of John, Chapter 14, this discourse, starting with let not your hearts be troubled, comes right during the as we call it, the Last Supper, when Jesus had just finished washing the disciples feet and Judas had just left. It just went off to betray Jesus. So Jesus is right at that crisis point where he's going to the cross in a few hours, literally a few hours.

3:32 And this is his last big, long discourse with the disciples, the parting words, if you will. And one of the things he said after he, you know, he said, a new commandment, I give you that you love one another. That's Chapter 13, 34. That you love one another. This this they will know that you are my disciples by that love that you have for one another. That that means kindness, charity, putting other people ahead of yourself, looking out for their own interests, too. Then he says in Chapter 14, verse one, let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me. And then we get to some good news. Good news. Can you can you read that, Jerry? Verse two, he says, in my father's house, there are many mansions or many dwelling places.

4:17 If it were not so, I have told you. I go to repair a place for you, and if I prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to myself. Now, where I am there, you may be also. So he says, if we're not so, I would have told you I go to repair a place for you, a place. OK, what does this mean? Well, this is a future. He's talking about our future, things that we can look forward to in the coming days. So there is a there's an end to all this madness. There's an end to all this deception, this lies, this brutality, this injustice, this treachery, this amounting wickedness in this earth. And I think it's always been wicked.

4:58 But that end is a promise of a dwelling place to be with him, a place he is going specifically to prepare for us, he says. And then he says, I will come again. So we've got two promises in this couple of verses. He's going to go to make a house for us, a mansion, whether it's a mansion like we think of a mansion. It's probably nothing like what we think. But a mansion in heaven, you know, a shack in heaven is probably a mansion down here. I don't know. But anyway, so it's a mansion. That's the word. And he's going to come again and get us, receive us, receive you to myself that where I am, you may be also. So there's three great promises in here. We're going to get a mansion. He's coming back and he's going to come and bring us back to be with him.

5:41 And so we start with that promise. And then we go down to verse 27, 27 in chapter 14. And he says, as he's again, remember, he is ours, literally probably within two hours of going to Gethsemane. Peace, I leave with you my peace. I give to you not as the world gives. Do I give it unto you? Let not your hearts be troubled. Let not your heart be troubled. Neither let it be afraid. You have heard it said, it said of me, I am going away and coming back to you. If you love me, you would rejoice because I said I'm going to the father for the father is greater than I. So this is a past event.

6:22 This as we read it now, he did do that. These other things are yet to come. But he did go back to the father and he sent us his peace. So he went to do what he said he was going to do in verse one. Go prepare a mansion for us and and, you know, be part of that forever, eternal, you know, or eternal beings. Jerry, what does that mean? That means we live forever. I mean, we've come from God. You know, we were chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world. So before time we were in Christ. Before time began. Before time began. We're older than time. So, you know, we're older than time, not older than dirt.

7:04 But we are older than dirt. Now, we were here before the dirt, too, you know, in God's mind and heart. But we were there in Christ Jesus. That it's something that this mind is in Christ before the foundation of the world. So now we're here. We've been deposited at our birth. You kind of plop down here in this corridor of time, in a corridor of time. And then this time, whether it's just a, you know, a few hours or many years, but it's short, no matter what. But we're in this corridor of time to prepare us for the next phase, which is the eternity of our eternal existence. Yeah, listen. So this is just this is just the front end of this is just the temporary.

7:48 But it helps us to get a little perspective on what the what what's the fight about what's going on here. Yeah. And we get we're so used to being in time. Right. I mean, because that's our whole life is we're here in time and purpose and running late and got to get there on time and getting stuff and getting the family done, getting the work done, all that stuff and all the pressures and trials and things that we face. We get so basically focus, self-focus. So it's silly because on what's going on here. Yeah. Rather than thinking about we have to come to the place, Marjorie, where we relate everything here to over there to eternity.

8:32 Yeah, it's true. Otherwise, nothing here makes sense for us. If we don't put Jesus in the equation and his promises, then we're just racing towards retirement instead. And you might not make it to. Yeah, that's true. Well, Jesus goes on to say in verse twenty nine, he says, And now I have told you before it comes that when it does come to pass, you may believe. So he's foretelling, prophesying the future. And he's he's giving us some things to think and ponder and look forward to. And so let's go back and look at a couple. We're going to look at some of the items, some of the events, some of the situations that we are going to all be part of in these coming days.

9:17 Here's the thing, too. Some people are in a place right now where they're dreading the future. Some people read the Bible and dread the future. And it's true. Many difficult things are going to be happening. Many pressures, much persecution of the true ones that are following the Lord. And so there's troubles and attacks and demonic warfare. We get hung up in all those things. Yeah, we're in that. But Jesus said, like you read earlier, he says, my peace I give to you in the midst of all this. We have his peace. Well, in verse 20, chapter 24 of Matthew. And we have these same discourses in Luke and Mark.

9:58 He's talking about, of course, all is coming. His second coming is return. So that's one of the next events, too, is his second coming return of Jesus. And he says, but before that happens in the future, which I think is now upon us, this part is upon us that many will come. He says, saying, I am the Christ and will deceive many. We can see the sorting out process happening everywhere, all over people talking, their opinions, podcasts, predictions, all kinds of things. You just have to do five seconds on on X and you'll see that the news and you'll see that it's all crazy and confusing. It's just like Jesus said.

10:38 So that's a lot of what we're in, I think. It says he says the lawless because of lawlessness will abound. The love of many will grow cold. But he says that in chapter twenty five, he gives an interesting parable. This is Matthew. He says the kingdom of heaven should be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. So this he's telling us a parable here. He's making an analogy. He's helping us to understand a deep spiritual truth with a story, so to speak. So these five, these women all took their their lamps. And it's getting late. It's getting dark. And they half of them didn't take any extra oil because they I don't know if they couldn't afford it or if they didn't think about it or if they thought it wouldn't take that long.

11:25 It was going to take that. I think that's what they thought. It wasn't going to take that long. And so they just all sat around and then they actually all fell asleep. And and that wasn't the point. The point wasn't. Well, they got tired and slept. That wasn't what the problem became. That was at midnight. The cry was heard. Behold, the bridegroom is coming. Go out to meet him. So this is the the reception committee for the bridegroom, the return of Jesus Christ. And we are if we're still alive on the planet, would be those who go out to meet him, are ready, prepared, looking, watch, look up for your redemption, draws nigh, those kinds of this event, the return of Jesus Christ and the and the rescuing of the church is part of yet what we are looking forward to.

12:13 So half of these women were foolish, it says. And they said to the wise ones, give us some of the oil for our lamps are going out. But the wise ones answered and said, no, lest there be should be not enough for us and you, but go rather to those who sell and buy for yourself. So I believe this represents the oil, the vessels, the empty vessels represent people who are not supplied. They're not receiving a consistent revelation and energy and winting of Jesus Christ. They're they're kind of holding out to the end. I think there's a lot of people like that. We're just going to wait till Jesus comes back. Don't wait till he comes back.

12:54 Just abide and occupy until he comes back. So these this is one thing, the door, then the bridegroom came. He came. He said he was coming and he did come. And he those who were ready went in and those who had gone back to look for some oil got left out. And the door was shut after this is afterwards. The other virgins came and said, Lord, Lord, open to us. But he answered and said, Shirley, I, I say to you, I do not know you. Watch, therefore, for, you know, neither the day nor the hour when the Son of Man is coming. So a lot of these things that we're looking forward to, we don't know yet the day or the hour.

13:34 And in this parable, you have to have your own oil. You can't you know, there's the old saying God has no grandchildren, only children. You have to have your own oil. You have to have your own relationship with Jesus Christ. You can't borrow it from somebody else. You can be blessed by the relationship someone else has. But you have to have your own relationship, relationship with the Lord, your own, your own oil and just be be ready because you're looking forward to your own conversation. I think part of a relationship always includes conversation, communication. And I think many of us, we're just kind of watching other people have a relationship.

14:15 We're not really ready to are diving in or talking or having a dialogue with the Lord ourselves, which is really essential. That's how you keep your oil levels high, because you're knowing and talking to and trusting in and praying and praising God. So verse 25, 6 says the bridegroom is coming. Now if we go in 24, he says the Lord is coming back. The Son of Man is coming in an hour when you do not expect him. So if we look then, okay, so there's going to be now as we're going through this, there's going to be an anticipation of his return, but not a concrete date. And a lot of people say, well, when is he coming back?

14:58 What's going to be the end? The Bible says you cannot know the day or the hour, but it doesn't say you cannot know the time or the season. Yeah. And be ready. You don't know the time. That's very smart on the part of the Lord, because if we knew the time, people would say, okay, we're going to just send it up. We're going to send it up for a while. And okay, as it get closer now, we'll get to be godly. So we're ready at the right time. So the Lord is saying here, be ready all the time. He says, he doesn't say get ready. He says in Matthew 24, 44, therefore you also be ready for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect. So the Lord is coming. What hour and what hour is the Lord coming?

15:43 He's coming in an hour when we don't expect him. We're anticipating his return. Yeah. His, he's coming for those who love his appearing, not for those who dread his appearing because now my fun's going to be over when he comes. But that's not the right heart and spirit. So we're at the place where we're, we're loving his appearing. We're anticipating his returning. We're prepared. We're in that right relationship with him. So when he comes, we're not going to be ashamed. Right. In the first Thessalonians, we come to the next pretty big crisis event. We know that Jesus is coming back. We know that there's going to be a lot of calamity and chaos and earthquakes and division and, and, and you know, the whole world is going to be turned inside out and upside down to prepare for the antichrist who's going to get to rule for seven years. And so, um, I don't know if we're going to be there at that point.

16:40 That's the big discussion question. But in first Thessalonians chapter four, that was also their big discussion point. Um, and so they were wondering, you know, has Jesus already returned and we missed it somehow. And so Paul is writing to them. Um, and then he's talking in verse, this is chapter four, verse 13. Paul is saying, I don't want you to be ignorant brethren concerning those who have fallen asleep or died. Lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. So your friends have died. They have passed away. Sarah, some, you know, at old age, some very suddenly, shockingly, terribly, tragically, whatever. People are leaving this planet in the droves. If you haven't noticed, I mean, I've never seen people die every day, every almost every other day for sure. But almost every day I hear of someone else who's lost a loved one through some overdose or some tragic thing or some cancerous thing or some sudden calamity that comes to health issue, whatever.

17:38 And so here, so Paul is comforting them and he says, for we, if for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who sleep in Jesus. So all of your loved ones that have already departed or, you know, gone on to the other side, he's going to bring them back with him. So that's what we're seeing when we see the writers and those tens of thousands of white horses. Those are the writers, I believe. And they rose again, even so God will bring with him those who fall asleep, who sleep in Jesus, who are dead or passed away, left this life. They're not non-existent anymore. They're just simply existing in another dimension.

18:19 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord. So he's saying this is what God is saying, that we also who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord. So he was still a remaining and alive at that point, but now he's not alive here remaining anymore. But he says, those of us who are alive, we're still alive. You and I, those who are listening here will remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means proceed. Those who are asleep are dead. We won't go ahead of them. It's in other words, for the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of God and the dead in Christ will rise first. So the dead in Christ, um, better, they're going to go up first in this call, this shouting the voice of the archangel, the trumpet of God.

19:02 And then we who are alive and remain. So the ones who are dead are going to come up out of their graves. However that might be, I don't know, or I don't know. That's God's, a God problem, not mine. Then we who are alive and remain on this earth alive, still walking around down here shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall ever always be with the Lord. Then he says, comfort one another with this. These words now this is the main passage people use to describe what we would call harpazo, which means in English rapture, harpazo means a violence, a sudden snatching away from evil.

19:46 So there's going to be a swift, um, grasping or grabbing up, uh, catching up, catching away, catching up those caught up together. So those who have been living here in jeopardy, uh, uh, in, in the, in the wake of, and in the presence of probably the antichrist at that point in time, we will be caught up and snatched up together to be with the Lord. Now this is a very huge event in first Corinthians chapter 51. It also mentions this. Yeah. Can you read that if you can find it? Um, so what I'm going to say while you're finding that is first Corinthians 51, 15, isn't it?

20:27 First Corinthians 15, 51. Okay. There you go. I had it backwards. There we go. I'll have it here. Okay. Here it is. Uh, first Corinthians 15 starting with verse 50. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. Neither does, nor does corruption inherit any corruption. Behold, I tell you a mystery. Now a mystery in the Bible means something that's a truth that's been hidden, but it's now revealed. That it's really still true just because you haven't seen it. Doesn't mean it doesn't exist, but now it's being revealed. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last trumpet for the trumpet will sound and the dead in Christ will be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed.

21:18 There you go. So this is a double witness in the mouth of two or three witnesses. Now both of these letters were written by Paul, but here he's talking of pretty much the same in the twinkling of an eye at the last trumpet. Well, if you look in the book of revelations, I'm not sure I didn't look that up, but what is the last trumpet for that? When that trumpet sounds, the dead will be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed. So we'll be changed from corruptive, physiological, bodily vulnerabilities and decay. We're going to be translated, transformed, changed into an incorruptible body, one that does not pass away a spiritual body, so to speak. So he's talking about that, those two things that we're going to be caught up, but our physical form is also going to be eternalized.

22:04 That's a new word because we're going to be eternal beings at this. And you know, flesh and blood cannot come into the presence of God as we know ourselves because we would burn up. And so there has to be a transformation or a, you know, uh, that's, you know, the change so that we can be more. So we can withstand what is the immediate presence of God? Mortality, swallowed up in immortality or something like that. Yeah. Death is swallowed up in victory. Immortality is swallowed up with immortality is overtaken by immortality. And so if you're looking at revelation now, this is a relation of 1115 and the seventh angel sounded and there were loud voices in heaven saying the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ. And he shall reign forever and ever.

22:54 Is that the last trumpet? It's the seventh trumpet. There's seven trumpets that are blown. So, you know, we can get into all this. But these are things to come. These are things you're going to, you're glorified body. That's another thing that's good on the list. You know, if you have aches and pains and falling things, pulling apart, which of course, the enemies tried to corrupt all of it. We now can look forward to new bodies as well. Yeah. And so the Lord is, says he's going to descend from heaven with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God. And it's just interesting too. And back over to a revelation here, chapter one, um, have it here in just a second. Um, here we go. Um, let's see here.

23:46 Behold, verse seven, revelation, chapter one, behold, he is coming with clouds and every, I will see him even they who pierced him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of him. Even so, amen. I am the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end says the Lord who, who is, who was, and who is to come the all mighty. Now the rapture, what we think of first Thessalonians four is something that not everybody's going to see that not everybody's going to experience that. That is beach for the believers living on the earth at that time to be caught up, to be with the Lord. Those that, uh, have died in Christ are going to somehow be joined there with those who are alive and remain.

24:41 These are phenomenal, unbelievable, um, experiences that we can't even hardly imagine. But what you said, not everybody is going to be, can't, you know, some people don't even believe in the rapture. You don't have to believe in the rapture to be qualified to go in the rapture. Just like you don't have to understand everything to be qualified to be saved. I mean, you don't understand all the mechanisms that all the, you know, eternal things that had, that had transactions and covenants and for preparations for salvation to be saved. It's just an act of obedience. But the good news is that, um, the bridegroom, this is all part of the events that were talked about with the foolish virgins.

25:22 The bride groom is coming. The Lord is coming back. The son of man is coming back. Jesus said that. He said, um, in 2442 of Matthew, he said, I am, you know, basically one of the, I, I'm going to go prepare a place for you and I'm coming back. And I think this is very, to the devil, this is terrifying. He knows Jesus is coming back. I know that he knows that. I know he wants to push that out of his mind. But Jesus says, um, in 42 of Matthew 24, he says, watch therefore, you do not know what hour the Lord is coming, but know this, that if the master of the house had known the hour that the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.

26:06 Therefore you also be ready for the son of man is coming at an hour when you do not expect him. So that would be now, that'd be this hour. I don't expect him to come this hour. So this could be the very hour he's coming. And this will be a suddenly, this won't be a, you know, I mean, he's building up to it and there's lots, I think the Lord is going to give us lots of, um, heads up on all of this. You know, if we're in the word of God, if we stay close to him, he's going to let us know because like I said earlier, he says, we, we cannot know. Um, he says, uh, I'm going to verse, this is going to be chapter five of the first, the slices, but the coming, but concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you do not need that. I should write to you for you.

26:49 Yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord. So comes as a thief in the night. And when they say, for when they say peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them as labor pains upon a pregnant woman and they shall not escape. But you brethren are not in darkness so that this day should overtake you as a thief. You are sons of the light sons of the day or not of the night or the darkness. Therefore, let us not sleep as others do, but let us watch and be sober. And he says, for God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, whether we're living or dead, we should live together with him. Therefore comfort each other and edify one another just as you're doing.

27:30 So a lot of us, as I said earlier, have lost precious loved ones and, but we haven't lost them. They have just translated, they've transferred locations, addresses, and they're for the most part, they're in a way, way, way, way better place. And so if you can and everything gives thanks and rejoice that they are there and not here, although we do mourn for them, but he says, we can know the time and the season. So the time I see that as the year, because the Bible often talks about time times and half a time. So that would be like three and a half years as far as time. Cause a year would be time times would be two years at three and a half time with three and a half years. But the, but the, um, the actual moment, the actual hour, the season we can know, you know, is it going to be fall?

28:19 Is it going to be winter? Is it going to be spring summer? But, um, I don't believe we can know the moments, the hour or the day. And, and, you know, there's all these different views of what we know as the rapture or the second coming of Christ. So there's a, the, the first part of the second coming is the catching up of the believers living in those that have died in Christ. And you want to be in that first catching. And some believe it's going to be at the beginning of this seven year tribulation period. Some believe it's in the middle. Some believe it's at the end. Just be ready either way.

29:00 And you know, and, and the thing is, it's hard to be really dogmatic on any of those except for the fact that he's coming and our time is very limited and there are people that not everybody is going to be welcoming the return of Jesus. Right. There are those who are preparing for the battle of Armageddon departed that are not with the Lord right now that, that have gone, you know, lost. And so we want to make sure everybody that is right, that everybody possible is right with God as far as what we have to do with it. Yeah. You know, there, there's preparations being made right now in the world, in the earth, demonic preparations for that critical clashing that'll happen in the battle of Armageddon where Satan is preparing his forces.

29:56 Then I could say more about that to meet God and to try to defeat him. With their technology. And so this is, this is all of that too. So we are not far from the coming of the, of the return of Jesus Christ. So father, we, we ask now that you'd encourage as we look forward to the things that are coming, the good things, um, that we're not ignorant, that we're not caught off guard, that we're not afraid, that we're simply standing in the goodness, the faithfulness of God to keep us. We're standing and having done all to stand. We will not be afraid for you have promised to never leave us or forsake us.

30:36 So let everyone here be encouraged today. And that those who are afraid, worried about the coming of the Lord, let them stand in that place where they don't have to be afraid anymore by knowing that they're loved and that you are with them. Father God, in Jesus name. Yeah. Lord, this is not something that as believers, Lord, we dread, we anticipate your coming, you know, if we're for some reason, we're dreading your company. It shows that something's wrong in our hearts. So Lord, I would pray that you just change our hearts, that we will come to the place of that, that intimacy with you, that love for you, that being taken up with you, that one of these days, we just want to be with you for it. We're with you now.

31:19 You're present with us in the power of the Holy spirit. And, and we'll, but we pray that we long to be with you forever. But in the meantime, help us to do everything we can by your spirit to make sure that our family, friends, other loved ones will come to know you. And we'll be following you and be ready when you come whenever you do come. Yes. And you said, you said, I'm coming back. We do know this. This is good news. This is all this going on down here that we think is so eternal and urgent is only temporary. So father God give us courage to stand and having done all to stand in these very wonderful, exciting days in Jesus name.

32:07 So in the meantime, we're in this warfare, right? Yeah. And you have the God on trial series. Tell us about that because it really pictures so well and so creatively the battle that we're all in and, uh, and the truth about the questions people are asking about life and eternity and God and one another. Yeah. Well, God on trial is an audio drama. It's a 28 episode audio drama. Uh, you can get it on life recovery.com in our bookstore. Um, it is, uh, you can purchase it by the episode or the full, um, 28 episodes.

32:48 But the thing is, it is, uh, it is actually a masterpiece. We have used, we've used, um, uh, professional actors voices and amateurs who are also very, very good to portray the dialogue between God and Satan in the court where Satan is, is trying to, he is actually trying God and in charging him with criminal neglected the universe and abusive use of power. And so we have the dialogue there. We also have the dialogue on earth with Jesus Christ confronting demons and dying on the cross and descending into the belly of hell. All of these things are amazing. Uh, and absolutely, um, provoking if you want to use that word to make your, make you think and make you understand and cause you to ask questions by the way. And kids absolutely love it.

33:41 I can't believe how kids are drawn into the, it's like, it's, it's like some of these other audio things that kids like adventures and audio Odyssey and things. Kids are just really drawn into these things. So again, uh, that's at life recovery.com and it is God on trial, the audio drama. So God bless you. And we'll hope to talk to you again very soon. God.

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