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Episode 91: Pandemic Of Lies II · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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I make the personal declaration today that I will bless the Lord at all times,
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and his praise shall continually be in my mouth. And I invite you
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to come and magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name
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together. Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord.
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Father. We thank you for another day, beautiful, glorious day that
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you have made. And we are certainly a man grateful and thankful as always
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to you for the blood of Jesus Christ that washes away our sins, that
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makes us whole, It makes us righteous before you your presence, because all
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of our sins, because of His shed blood, have been cast into the
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sea of forgetfulness. We are forgiven, We are redeemed. Blessed is the
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man to whom the Lord will not impute iniquity. Lord is because of you,
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because of your grace, because of your love, because of your compassion
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for us, that we are saved and set free and delivered by the mighty
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power of God. We thank you, Lord for saving and delivering yet those
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who are to come into the fold. Amen, Lord, we look now
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to you as the author the finish of our faith. Bless someone today to
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hear the voice of the Savior, and to come to know that you are
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the true in the Living God and the only hope of salvation. Be thou
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glorified and magnified in the earth, in your church, in your people,
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everywhere. It's in the name of Jesus, we pray give thanks for all
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things. Amen and Amen. All right, we welcome you once more and
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again to this another edition of End Time Revival Ministries USA podcast. I am
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your host, Pastor al Zachary, and today we are continuing in the second
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part of this series that we began in our last session entitled a Pandemic of
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Lies. Pandemic of Lies. Ladies and gentlemen, Let no one deceive you.
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That is our focus today. Let no one deceive you. Let no
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one, no one. I don't care if they're a preacher, apostle,
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bishop, priest, no one, not an angel from heaven, if he
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comes with any other gospel. Let no one deceive you. Ladies and gentlemen.
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We are living in a pandemic of lies. Lies, deception and delusion
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is permeating our world like never before in modern history. Bible prophecy fulfillment is
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playing for anyone to see. Amen. The DNA of the devil is being
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infused into the hearts and minds of people all over the world as he steals
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from them, as he destroys the lives of millions, and as he kills
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with no regard at all for human life. That's who the adversary is.
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That's what he does, that's his DNA, that's what he operates in.
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That's what he relishes doing, stealing, killing, destroying. The craftiness of
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deception, ladies and gentlemen, of this deceiver, Amen, is everywhere in
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the Word of God to make us aware of the deceitfulness, of the deceitfulness
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that is in our world. It is the number one too, deception.
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It is the number one tool of the devil that he's skillfully and effectively deploys
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in order to draw unsuspecting souls away from the truth of God and headlong into
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error. The Bible says, remember there is a way that seems right unto
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a man. Oh, that's deception, that's delusion, it's lies. Amen.
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The end thereof is destruction, is death, Amen. And that's how
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the devil operates. He wants you, you to go down a path a
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man of deception, and the only effective and absolutely reliable weapon that we have
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that's been given to us a man to use a man against his scheme to
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deceive us. It's the word of God. It's the word of God by
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which we have been commanded to live by. Remember from of old in the
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Old Testament. In the New Testament Testament, Jesus reiterated it, man shall
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not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth
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of God. That's our only weapon, amen effective weapon to be used against
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the deception, the lies, the delusion that is again permeating our world.
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Trying to live any other way apart from the truth of God's word guarantees deception.
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It guarantees delusion, Ladies and gentlemen, even when we are so called
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practicing religion religiously and fervently seeking to appease or to please God. The Pharisees
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by Jesus were called the children of the devil. And they thought, and
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boy who was more religious than they were, Amen, you can't. There's
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no other way to please God. But by Jesus Christ. If you come
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any other way, Jesus said, you are a thief. You're a robber.
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So beware of deception, Beware of false prophets. This is what Jesus
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warned us about. Beware of lawlessness. Jesus specifically warned his disciples to beware
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of these three things. Deception is directly from the devil. False prophets are
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emissaries of the devil. And lawlessness is a direct result of living in deception,
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living in denial of the judgment and the wrath of God that is coming
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upon the disobedient. Amen. Deception, false prophets, lawlessness, all of
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this is from the devil. And let no one deceive you. These times
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in which we are pointed to live through are certainly very very close to the
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fulfillment of biblical prophecies that indicate and point to the end of this world system
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of human government as we have known it to be. And I don't care
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if you go back two thousand years, four thousand years, five thousand years,
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six thousand years. Amen, the end of this world system of human
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government as we have known it to be is closer, oh much closer.
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The day of the Lord is imminent. The signs that Jesus himself gave to
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us serve as direct evidence. Matthew Chapter twenty four, by the way going
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down in just a moment. The signs that Jesus himself gave to us serve
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as diary evidence proof that we are closer with every passing day. And again
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we take you to this gospel account of Matthew chapter twenty four, when Jesus
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listened very carefully. If you're not following along in your Bible, if you
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don't have your Bible accessible at this moment, we certainly invite you to certainly
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go and read it for yourself. Amen. But Jesus was asked by his
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disciples about the end of the age, the end of this world as we
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know it. Listen to what Jesus said, verse number one. I'm gonna
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be in at verse number one, Matthew twenty four. Then Jesus went out
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and departed from the temple, and his disciples came up to show him the
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buildings of the temple. Amen. And Jesus said to them, watch this.
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Do you not see all these things? This was the magnificence of this
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temple and the temple buildings and all that was around it there. Hey man,
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Jesus said, do you not see all these things? Assuredly? Watch
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this prophecy. Prophecy as surely I say to you, not one stone shall
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be left here upon another that shall not be thrown down. Now look at
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verse three. Let me get come back to that. In just a moment,
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as he sat, that is, as Jesus sat on the Mount of
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Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, I'm sure they were
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mesmerized. They were taken aback by what Jesus said. Wait a minute.
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They were all marveling and looking at the temple and showing it to Jesus,
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and and speaking, so, I mean, I mean with a I guess,
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a sense of pride, a sense of accomplishment. You know, this
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is this is the place where God dwells. This is the this is the
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house of God. Hey man, This is where the mercy seat. This
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is where the shore bread and the candlestick, and and this is this is
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again where the high priest goes in and makes atonement behind the veil and all
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of that. They they're marveling at the buildings of the temple. And and
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so when Jesus says not one stone will be left upon another, they said,
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way, who wait a many Jesus tell us, when will these things
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be? And what will be the sign of your coming and of the end
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of the age. So what we have here, ladies and gentlemen, really
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is three distinct questions that are really kind of combine here together, and the
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forthcoming answer or answers that Jesus will give a man as we if we understand
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the Word of God and understand other passages of scripture, a man is not
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just in that immediate fulfillment sense. And I don't want to jump ahead too
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much here, but let's just see what the questions are here. When will
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these things be? When will these things come to pass? Number one?
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And then the second question or the second part of that question is what will
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be the sign of your coming? That's a question in and of itself,
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what will be the sign of your coming? And number three, what will
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be the end of the age or sign that will point to the end of
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the age. So now first number four, Matthew twenty four. Jesus answered
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and said to them, this is what Jesus answered. This is how Jesus
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answered. This is what is recorded according to the Gospel of Matthew. This
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is what Jesus said. And I find it striking, first of all,
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ladies and gentlemen, the first thing that Jesus said, the first thing,
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according to Matthew's gospel here, the first thing that Jesus said is take heed
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that no one deceives you. Oh, my God help us Jesus. Who
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I wish I could, Oh man, I could, I could, I
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could just feast on that for just a while. I mean, I mean,
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because that's what it's all about, ladies and gentlemen, Because if you
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don't believe what Jesus has, then you're going to be deceved, if you
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don't believe that he's coming back, if you don't believe this three part question,
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that these things will come to pass, that there is a second coming
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of Jesus, which the disciples evidently believed, because they said, what would
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be the sign of your coming? What do you mean when you of your
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coming? He's already there. He was already there with them. So obviously
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they believed that Jesus was going away and that he was coming back again,
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that there was going to be some kind of reckoning that's going to get some
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kind of judgment, something that they believed in asking this question, what would
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be the sign of your coming? What would be the sign of the end
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of the age. And how did Jesus answer this, How did he begin
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rather answering these questions or three part question. The first thing, again,
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according to Matthew's Gospel, is this, take heed that no one deceives you.
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No one deceives you. Listen what Jesus says verse number five. For
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many, not a few, not just a handful of ladies and gentlemen.
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Many will come in my name saying I am the Christ. Now they're not
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saying that I am Jesus the Christ. Christ means the anointed one Messiah.
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I am your Savior, I am your way, I am your truth.
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I am your deliverer. Many will come say I am the Christ and will
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deceive many. That's what Jesus. That's a prophecy, y'all, two part
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prophecy right there. Many will come in saying I am the Christ. Many
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will come and deceive many. So there's going to be deception. People are
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going to be deceived. But Jesus first warns his disciples that take heed that
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no one deceives you. You be careful, you be diligent, you be
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sober. What the Peter warned us. Your adversary, the devil goes about
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as a roaring lion, seeking whom he made the vout. Be sober,
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Be vigilant, search the scriptures, Read the word of God for yourself.
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Deception not only is coming, deception is here. People are being deceived,
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generation after generation, decade in decade out, century in century out, people
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are being deceived. Jesus says, verse six. You will hear of wars
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and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled, for all these
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things must come to past. Prophecy prophecy, prophecy, ladies and gentlemen.
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But the end is not yet. Now, ladies and gentlemen, we know
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the end is not yet because we're still here. Of course, we know
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that so has any of what Jesus said so far? Has any of this
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happened? Wars, rumors of wars, Jesus says, See that you are
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not troubled, for all these things must come to pass. They must happen,
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Ladies and gentlemen. There is no denial. Even if you don't believe
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the word of God, if you don't never read the Bible, if it's
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your first time hearing this, you cannot deny on secular history alone that we
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have had war after war after war after war after war, and even now
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we are still in war. But Jesus says the end is not yet.
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Listen verse seven, for nation shall rise against nation, kingdom against kingdom.
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Has it happened? Is it happening? Yes, Jesus is absolutely because he's
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the very embodiment of truth. He's right. His prophecy is true. Nation
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will rise against nation, kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines, pestilences,
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and earthquakes in various places. Now, from my understanding, my memory,
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you can search me out on this. When I believe I am correct
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in what I remember hearing or reading, that we have had more earthquakes,
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ladies and gentlemen, in the last one hundred years, than in all of
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recorded history. I'm paraphrasing, we have had more earthquakes in the last one
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hundred years than ever before. Now, even if it's not true, even
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if I'm wrong in what I remember, ladies and gentlemen, there's no denial
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that we have had famines, that we have had pestilences, and we still
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have them, and we are even now yet almost on a weekly monthly,
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certainly every year, experiencing earthquakes in different places all over the planet, and
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Jesus says in verse eight, and that's the last person I'm reading here.
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All these are the beginning of sorrows. Now, please understand, ladies and
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gentlemen, I'm almost don just a few more minutes with me, just a
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few momutes. The last days commenced with the first advent, or the first
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coming of Jesus Christ into this world. He came into this world, of
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course, to deliver us from deception and to deliver us from death. That's
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why it came. To deliver us from the deceiver, from our own wickedness,
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from our own desperately wicked heart. By the way the Bible says,
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the man of our the man is desperately wicked. I mean, we had
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to be delivered from ourself, from sin, from Satan, all of those
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things, and the destruction of the temple, as we saw what Jesus said
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on that one stone would be left to hear upon another. The destruction of
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the temple happened in a d seventy, just about thirty or so year,
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twenty less than thirty years. Of course, after Jesus said that it would
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take place, it happened. The Roman government came and totally de Troy the
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temple only a remnant of the wall, the whaling wall is what the Jews
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called it, one of the walls that was there. That's all that remains.
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Ladies and gentlemen, these prophecies of Jesus were both in in an immediate
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sense and of course delayed, if you will, in fulfillment. The destruction
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and the persecution in Jerusalem was immediate within that generation. All that Jesus told
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his disciples that they were going to go through some of You're gonna be killed,
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You're gonna be brought up for the council, You're gonna be hated of
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all nations. For my name's sake. All of that that Jesus said to
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them concerning their time and what was going to happen specifically to them, it
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happened. And what Jesus said about Jerusalem, how that they were rejecting him,
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and how he wept over them. You remember that Jesus wept over Jerusalem
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only if you had known the time of your visitation. But they didn't,
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and they rejected Jesus. They rejected the truth and this destruction, this trampling.
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And by the way, Jesus said also that the temple and Jerusalem would
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be trampled on, would be taken over, if you will, by the
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Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. I wish I had
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time, ladies and gentlemen. This is why again, that little tiny strip
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of land over there, that nation of Israel, and that city of Jerusalem.
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Amen. It is the very center of biblical prophecy. And Jesus said
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that the Gentiles would come in and take it over until and appointed time.
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And ladies and gentlemen, if you are if you are just plain o'blind or
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oblivious or wilfully ignorant, you can certainly see the return of the Jewish people,
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the return of the nation of Israel, the return of the descendants of
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Abraham, the rightful descendants of Abraham to that land. They are coming and
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have been coming back, ladies and gentlemen for the past seventy years. Amen.
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And all of it is a fulfillment of what Jesus said would happen,
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what the Bible said would happen, what the prophets said would happen. But
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much of what Jesus said is happening right now, and and again some of
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what he said is yet to occur. In these last of the last days
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in which we are living. Be not deceived, and do not let anyone
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deceive you. There are scoffers. I call them deceived scofferst that's what the
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Bible says. They are scoffers. They perceive that two thousand years you know,
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it's about the time when Jesus was here, two thousand years ago.
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They perceived in their minds two thousand years ago is a long time, and
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I believe it's there because of their denial. They're living in denial of the
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second coming of Jesus back to Desarve, and in that denial they fail to
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understand and believe, from my perspective, in the reality of eternity. When
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you fail to believe in the reality of the eternity, you may, in
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your feeble mind, in your mere mortality, see a thousand years of two
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thousand years of course, as a long time, and you become a scoffer.
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When is he coming back? When is he coming back? Y'all been
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preaching that, y'all been saying that for years and decades, ever since start
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being alive. When is Jesus coming back? Peter addressed it. He knew,
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he knew it was coming. By the way, Oh, you want
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to talking about Bible prophecy, Is that not prophetic? What Peter said that
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in the last days there would be scoffers who would come. Look at that
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Bible prophecy again, when you scoff at the second coming of Jesus, you
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know what you're doing. You are fulfilling Bible prophecy because the Bible said that
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you would do it as a scoffer. Please understand, scoffer that one thousand
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years is as one day, and one day is as a thousand years in
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God's time, so to speak. Because God dwells in eternity, he is
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eternal, He is from everlasting to everlasting. He has no beginning of days,
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he has no end of life. The reality of eternity is that time
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ceases, which we are yet to get there. When the Book of tells
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us Bible tells the Book of Revelation, by the way, when time will
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be no more, we're not there yet. So the reality of eternity is
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that time ceases from the perspective, from our way of understanding time, and
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is no more. It is again imperceptible to our mind, to our mortal
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existence, to our understanding, because we have fallen into a finality on this
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side of our existence, because of the penalty of death. Adam, in
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the day that you eat, you shall surely die from the dust you came,
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and to the dust you shall return. Now you can argue about whether
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the sun shines, the moon lights up at night and with stars, and
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having the winds blow, snow, rain. You can argue about whatever you
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want in terms of governments on this earth. Politics, whatever you want to
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argue, you can argue. We can debate back and forth about this,
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that and the other, religion and everything else. But there is no denial,
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ladies and gentlemen, that you are going to die. You are under
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the sentence of death. You may live sixty seventy, eighty ninety, you
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may live one hundred, you may live, Oh God, will it to
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be one hundred and ten, one hundred and twenty, very very few of
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those. But you will die the rapture, notwithstanding the day of the Lord,
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notwithstanding you are going to die. It is appointed unto man wants to
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die, and after death, the Bible says the judgment, let no one
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deceive you to be closed with Second Thessalonians second Thessalonians, chapter number two.
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I'm gonna read beginning the verse number one. Now, brother in, Paul
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says, concerning the coming of our Lord, Jesus, Christ and I were
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gathering together to him, ask you not to be listen what the Bible says,
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soon shaken in mind or trouble, either by spirit or by word or
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by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had
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come. There were deceivers, having the people of God, having the Church
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of God, thinking that the day of the Lord had already come. Paul
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said, no, no, no, no, nope, you are not
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to be shaken. You're not to be trouble. Hemen, listen, listen.
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I want you to hear this very carefully. Second Thesalonians again, chapter
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number two. Look at verse number three. Let no one deceive you.
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That's the same thing Jesus said. It's the same thing. Jesus said,
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Let no one deceive you. Paul says, by any moons, for that
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day will not come. What day the day of the Lord, That day
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will not come unless there's some things that will happen before the day of the
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Lord comes. What is going to happen before the day of the Lord comes?
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First of all, Paul says, it will not come unless the falling
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away comes first. Falling away. We get to that in just a moment.
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The man of sin is revealed. That's number two. The son of
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tradition, who opposes and assults, exalts himself above all that is called God
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or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of
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God, showing himself that he is God. Ladies and gentlemen. That has
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not happened yet, but it is coming to pass. That's the Antichrist embodiment
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Satan verse five. Do you not remember that when I will still with you,
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Paul says, I told you these things. So this was a reminder
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of what Paul had already spoken to them. He had already preached it to
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him. Now it's in writing. Thank God for it and writing. And
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now you know what is restraining that he may be revealed in his own time,
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in other words, at his appointed time. The Antichrist. Now we're
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not talking about the spirit of Antichrist that's already here. The Bible tells us
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that we know the spirit of Antichrist is here. He's already working. He's
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already at work. The Satan, the lying wonder, all of that the
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spirit of Antichrist, and little, as John wrote in his letters, anti
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Christ are already here working on behalf of the Antichrist Amen. But he the
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Antichrist, will be revealed in his own time Verse seven. For the mystery
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of lawlessness is already at work, and I'm gonna get to that lawlessness.
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Only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the
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way. And then the lawless, this one will be revealed, whom the
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Lord will consume with the breath of his mouth and destroy with the brightness of
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his coming, the coming of the lawless one. This is what the Bible
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says is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs and
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lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception, ladies and gentlemen. Deception,
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that's the hallmark of the devil. That's his number one two, ladies and
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gentlemen, to deceive you. That's what he did in the garden of ing,
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That's what he started with. That's what he's still working with because it
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works. Let no one deceive you, Jesus said, let no one deceive
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you by any means. The Apostle Paul warns us, because the Satanic working
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of the enemy, the adversary of your soul, it's lawlessness. And the
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Bible says, unrighteous deception among those who perish verse ten, because they did
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not receive the love of the Truth that they might be saved. And for
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this reason God will send them strong delusion that they should believe the lie,
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that they all may be condemned. The King James Virgin said, damned who
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did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. Now, I don't
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know about you, but this to me, it's one of the most frightening
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of passages in all the Bible. Right here verse eleven. God will send
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strong delusion to all those who refuse, use to believe and obey the truth.
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But brother had their pleasures in their unrighteousness, in their ungodliness, in
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their evil deeds, in their wickedness, in their rebellion against the truth of
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God. God is going to see to it that they are in delusion and
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under condemnation for rejecting Jesus. How can anyone escape? The Bible asks this
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question rhetorical question he Brewce chapter number two. I believe it is how can
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anyone escape? If you me we whoever neglect so great a salvation as was
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sent down from heaven, How can anyone there is no escape. Let no
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one deceive you. Just as Jesus wanted disciples again about being deceived, so
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does the apostle Paul and writing of this letter to the church the Thessalonians,
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that no one deceives you by any means that day, the day of the
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Lord, is not going to come unless and until the falling away comes first?
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Are we witnessing, ladies and gentlemen, Are we not witnessing with our
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very eyes apostasy and the falling away of people from the truth from the church.
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I believe right now that there is a division that's happening, and God
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is doing this, by the way, separating the wheat from the chaff.
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Or we're seeing it right here. You can live in tonial if you want.
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But it's happening. It's happening. There is a fault happening right now.
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So the falling away happens first. Apostlesy comes first, teachers, Oh
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my God, The Bible says, the Spirit speaks expressly that in the latter
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times some would depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines
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of devils. And the Bible says, they're gonna heap to themselves, teachers
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having itching ears, turning away their ears from the truth. Ladies and gentlemen,
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are you telling me? Can anyone honestly, with a straight face say
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that that is not happening now in our world? The falling away comes first
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people denying and people rejecting the truth of God. And then after this falling
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away, after this apostacy is complete. By the way, after this the
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church is going to be raptured. And I don't have time to go into
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all of the other scriptures, but the Bible says, after the falling away,
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the man of sin is going to be revealed, the son of tradition,
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who is the Antichrist himself in the flesh. The Bible says, he
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opposes, and he exalts himself above all that is called God. This is
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the devil, the same lucifer that was kicked out of heaven and man.
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He wanted to be God, he wanted to be like God. He wanted
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to take the place of God, the throne of God. He desires worship,
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He loves idolatry. That's why he again has so much deception in the
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world. Have people in all steeped in idolatry. It's all about and it's
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all pointing back to him. He wants to be worshiped. But when he
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comes in the flesh embodied in this man, whoever he is at his time,
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when the Lord again takes his church away, the Bible says, he's
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going to sit as if he is God in the Temple of God. And
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by the way, that's going to be in Jerusalem, and the temple is
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going to be rebuilt. It's going to happen, ladies and gentlemen. We're
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getting closer and closer. They've got the plan for it already. They're already,
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they're already ready to rebuild a temple. It's just a matter of when
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he's going to sit in the Temple of God showing himself that he is God.
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And Paul says, Doe, you don't, don't, don't, don't,
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don't forget. When I was with you, I told you these things.
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And now you know what is restraining what's holding him back, what's keeping
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all of this from transpiring, that he may be revealed in his time what
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is restraining, What is restraining the lawless one from enacting first and foremost total
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lawlessness in this world. Number one is the Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit,
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who is yet at work in this ungodly world, who is yet calling
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sinners to come to Jesus, come to repentance, and who is also working
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in the hearts of those who have those of us who are already saved,
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in keeping us from falling, so that He may present us faultless before the
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presence of His glory with exceeding joy. The Bible tells us, he who
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had begun a good work you is able to perform it until the day of
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Jesus Christ. This is one of the reasons why, and I believe the
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primary reason, the primary restraint for the enemy, the lawless one, not
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yet being revealed. Amen. And the other reason is that the Church,
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of course is still here carrying forth the mission Amen, that Jesus Christ gave
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to it because he said, the gates of hell shall not prevail. Now,
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we have a lot of problems. We have a lot of sin,
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We have a lot of ungodliness, we have a lot of unrighteousness, we
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have a lot of law breaking in this world today. And I'm not talking
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about the laws of the land necessarily, I'm talking about the law of God.
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I'm talking about that kind of lawlessness. And again I get to the
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lawlessness. We have a lot of that happening in our world today. But
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ladies and gentlemen, make no mistake about it. The only thing Number one
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that's restraining Number two with two things again, it's the Holy Spirit at work,
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who convert heart, who brings conviction. That's what you said, Remember
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the Holy Spirit the company when I sin, He's gonna convict people of sin.
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That's the only thing that's the holy entity other than the Church. And
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the Church, by the way, is being governed Amen by the movement and
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power of the Holy Spirit. So the Holy Spirit is the restraining force in
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this world, keeping back total lawlessness, complete mayhem in this world. But
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at that predetermined preset time after the proclamation of the Gospel into all the world.
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And this is on the authority of what Jesus Christ himself said to us,
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ladies and gentlemen, the end will come. Let no one deceive you,
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Let no one deceive you, Let no one deceive you.