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04/22/26 Pastor Doug Daniels · LOH Church Archive

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  (MUSIC)
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  GOOD EVENING, LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH. LET'S DO SOMETHING A
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  LITTLE DIFFERENT TONIGHT. I DON'T KNOW WHAT KIND OF DAY YOU
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  HAD. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE JUST COMING FROM WORK OR YOU'RE
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  COMING FROM HOME, BUT LET'S REPOSITION OUR HEARTS RIGHT NOW
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  AND JUST EXALT THE LORD. FATHER, WE GIVE YOU PRAISE. WE GIVE YOU
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  GLORY. YOU ARE THE KING OF KINGS. YOU ARE THE LORD OF
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  LORDS. I EXALT YOU ABOVE MY FEELINGS. I EXALT YOU ABOVE THE
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  KIND OF DAY I HAD. I EXALT YOU ABOVE MY NEEDS AND WANTS.
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  AND I WELCOME YOU TO HAVE YOUR WAY TONIGHT.
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  IN JESUS' NAME. LET'S RAISE IT UP, COME ON.
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  (WORSHIP MUSIC)
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  (WORSHIP MUSIC)
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  IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE, GOD IS TAKING YOUR FAITH,
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  YOUR PRAYERS, YOUR PRESS, YOUR "NEVER QUIT" ATTITUDE, AND HE
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  IS WORKING IT FOR YOUR GOD. DO YOU BELIEVE THAT TONIGHT?
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  (WORSHIP MUSIC)
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  COME ON, PROPHESY OVER YOUR SITUATION.
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  (WORSHIP MUSIC)
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  HALLELUJAH. FATHER, WE THANK YOU TONIGHT THAT YOUR GLORY IS
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  PRESENT WITH US. WE THANK YOU TONIGHT THAT YOU'RE TOUCHING
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  LIVES IN THIS PLACE, JUST AS WE SANG. YOU'RE TOUCHING LIVES
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  AROUND THE WORLD, NOT ONLY IN THIS PLACE, BUT AROUND THE
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  WORLD. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ANOINTING. THANK YOU FOR YOUR
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  POWER. THANK YOU FOR YOUR GIFTS. THANK YOU, LORD, THAT YOU GIVE
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  US BREATH AND LIFE. WE WORSHIP YOU IN THIS PLACE TONIGHT.
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  YOU'RE WORTHY OF ALL PRAISE AND GLORY, AND WE GIVE YOU HONOR.
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  OH, MAGNIFICENT, AWESOME GOD, WE PRAISE YOU IN THIS HOUSE
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  TONIGHT. WE THANK YOU. WE HUMBLY THANK YOU FOR GIVING US INSIGHT
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  AND WISDOM. YOU TELL US IF ANY OF US LACK WISDOM WE CAN CALL ON
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  YOU AND YOU WILL PROVIDE IT. HMM WHAT'S MORE IMPORTANT THAN
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  WISDOM? IF WE HAVE THAT WE HAVE EVERYTHING. OH THANK YOU JESUS
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  FOR WISDOM. WE RECEIVE IT NOW. JUST SAY THIS WITH ME, I RECEIVE
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  GOD'S WISDOM IN MY LIFE. AMEN. HALLELUJAH. THANK YOU JESUS.
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  PRAISE GOD. THE LORD KIND OF GAVE ME TWO WORDS HERE TONIGHT
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  TOGETHER AND IT WAS TRANSITION AND DIVERSIFICATION. IS THERE
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  SOMEONE HERE AND YOU'RE GOING THROUGH SOME TRANSITION IN YOUR
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  LIFE? IT MIGHT BE TRANSITION WITH YOUR BUSINESS, IT MIGHT BE
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  TRANSITION IN YOUR EMPLOYMENT, IT MIGHT BE TRANSITION IN WHERE
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  YOU'RE LIVING, BUT YOU'RE DEALING WITH SOME TYPE OF
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  TRANSITION. COME UP HERE QUICKLY. THE LORD WANTS TO
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  MINISTER TO YOU TONIGHT. ISAIAH CHAPTER 43:19 SAYS, "BEHOLD, I
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  DO A NEW THING." AND SO TRANSITION IS GOOD. IT CAN BE A
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  GOOD THING. WHO HERE IS INVOLVED IN SPECIFICALLY TRANSITION FOR
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  YOUR BUSINESS VENTURE? YOU HAVE A BUSINESS VENTURE. I FELT THE
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  DIVERSIFICATION ISSUE SPECIFICALLY IN MY HEART AND YOU
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  TOO, BUSINESS. DIVERSIFICATION CAME TO ME IN ECCLESIASTES 11, I
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  BELIEVE IT'S VERSE 2 TELLS US, AND MOST OF US LOOK AT IT AS
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  INVESTMENT ADVICE, BUT IT SAYS DIVIDE A PORTION, THERE IT IS,
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  GOOD, GIVE A PORTION TO SEVEN AND ALSO TO EIGHT. AND ANOTHER
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  VERSION SAYS INVEST A PORTION TO SEVEN AND ALSO TO EIGHT. IT
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  DOESN'T JUST MEAN, IT CAN APPLY TO YOUR INVESTMENTS, LIKE
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  SPREADING OUT, IT'S WISDOM IF YOU'RE INVESTING YOUR RESOURCES
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  TO BE A GOOD STEWARD, TO NOT HAVE EVERYTHING IN ONE SPOT. IN
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  OTHER WORDS, IF YOU'VE GOT SOME CASH, YOU HAVE IT IN THE BANK,
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  MAYBE YOU ALSO HAVE SOME REAL ESTATE, MAYBE YOU ALSO HAVE SOME
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  MONEY IN A 401K OR OTHER INVESTMENTS, MAYBE YOU OWN SOME
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  PRECIOUS METALS, WHATEVER IT IS, DIVERSIFICATION IS GOOD, BECAUSE
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  THAT MEANS IF SOMETHING GOES DOWN, PROBABLY SOMETHING ELSE
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  YOU OWN IS GOING TO GO UP AND YOU WOULDN'T LOSE IT ALL IF
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  THERE WAS SOME TYPE OF ECONOMIC HARDSHIP. SO THAT'S GOOD, BUT IT
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  ALSO WOULD APPLY INVESTING YOUR TIME AND YOUR TALENTS. DON'T
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  JUST FOCUS ON THE ONE THING THAT YOU'RE DOING IN YOUR BUSINESS. I
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  BELIEVE THE LORD'S SAYING, "LOOK AT SOME DIVERSIFICATION." WHAT
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  ELSE CAN YOU DO, WHAT CAN YOU ASK GOD THAT WOULD GO ALONG WITH
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  YOUR BUSINESS BUT WOULD DIVERSIFY IT? AND WHAT THAT
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  ALLOWS THE SAME THING TO BE TRUE AS YOUR PERSONAL INVESTMENTS,
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  WHEN YOU DIVERSIFY IN YOUR BUSINESS. IN FACT, I WAS TALKING
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  TO SOMEONE YESTERDAY THAT HAD A CLOTHING STORE AND THEY SAID
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  THEY DECIDED TO ADD JEWELRY LINE TO IT SO THAT THEY COULD SELL
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  TWO THINGS IN THE SAME LOCATION. NOW, THAT'S A SIMPLE EXAMPLE,
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  BUT I'M JUST GIVING YOU THAT TO HELP YOU TO UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M
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  TRYING TO SAY. DIVERSIFICATION IS IMPORTANT. SO IS PASTOR
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  ANTHONY HERE? CAN YOU COME DOWN HERE, PASTOR ANTHONY? I THINK
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  YOU HAVE THE ANOINTING ON THIS TONIGHT. I WANT YOU TO PRAY FOR
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  EACH OF THESE HERE TONIGHT. I'M GONNA PRAY FOR THOSE ONLINE,
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  THAT THEY HAVE THE WISDOM THEY NEED FOR THIS TRANSITION TIME IN
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  THEIR LIFE, AND ALSO IF THEY NEED DIVERSIFICATION. YOU LAY
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  HANDS ON THEM IF YOU WOULD. AND FOR THOSE OF YOU WATCHING ONLINE
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  THAT YOU MAY BE FEELING THIS IS SOMETHING THAT YOU'RE DEALING
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  WITH. FATHER, WE LIFT UP THOSE ONLINE THAT ARE WATCHING AROUND
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  THE WORLD TONIGHT, AND I THANK YOU, LORD, THAT YOU GIVE THEM
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  WISDOM. HELP THEM, LORD, TO UNDERSTAND THE NEXT STEPS. LORD,
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  THE WORD SAYS THAT THE STEPS OF A GOOD MAN OR WOMAN ARE ORDERED
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  BY YOU. SO WE BELIEVE, LORD, THAT YOU'RE ORDERING THEIR STEPS
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  DURING THESE TRANSITION TIMES. GIVE THEM FAVOR. GIVE THEM
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  FINANCIAL BLESSING AS THEY MOVE FORWARD. I THANK YOU, LORD, THAT
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  YOU GIVE THEM INSPIRATION, DIVINE INSPIRATION, IF THEY NEED
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  TO DIVERSIFY IN SOME AREA OF THEIR LIFE. I THANK YOU, LORD,
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  THAT THEY HAVE THE ANOINTING OF GOD AND THEY MOVE FORTH IN MIGHT
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  AND POWER TO ACCOMPLISH ALL THAT YOU'VE CALLED THEM TO DO IN THE
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  MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS. AND I THANK YOU FOR IT. HALLELUJAH.
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  AND WE'LL PUT UP THE LET'S PUT UP THE PRAYER LINE NUMBER REAL
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  QUICK. AND IF YOU'RE AT HOME OR WHEREVER YOU'RE AT AND YOU NEED
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  PRAYER SPECIFICALLY FOR WHAT WE PRAYED FOR TONIGHT, YOU CAN CALL
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  THAT NUMBER. AND OUR PRAYER TEAM IS AVAILABLE 24 HOURS A DAY TO
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  MINISTER TO YOU IN THAT SPECIFIC AREA. ONE OTHER THING, AND THIS
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  IS A LITTLE ODD, I FELT THE HOLY SPIRIT SHOW ME A PICTURE. HOW
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  MANY OF YOU REMEMBER THE PLASTIC SCALE MODEL, LIKE YOU COULD BUY
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  CARS OR AIRPLANES OR TRUCKS IN A LITTLE BOX, AND THEN YOU GLUE
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  THEM TOGETHER AND THEN YOU COULD PAINT THEM? DOES ANYONE RELATE
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  TO THAT? THAT THEY HAVE, OKAY. IS THERE SOMEONE HERE THAT USED
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  TO REALLY ENJOY DOING THAT OR THAT WAS YOUR HOBBY OR MAYBE YOU
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  STILL DO? I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF PEOPLE STILL DO THAT. IS THERE
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  SOMEONE HERE? OH, COME ON UP HERE, PAUL.
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  (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING)
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  I USED TO DO THAT. I THINK I STARTED DOING THAT WHEN I WAS 10
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  OR SOMETHING AND THEN THERE WAS A SPECIAL GLUE THAT YOU HAD TO
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  USE ON THOSE PIECES AND IT WOULD AFFECT, I WAS ALLERGIC TO IT OR
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  SOMETHING, IT WOULD AFFECT MY EYES AND I GOT SOME KIND OF A
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  RED EYE AND I WENT TO THE EYE DOCTOR AND HE SAID, "WELL, YOU
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  CAN'T USE THAT GLUE." SO I HAD TO QUIT DOING THAT. BUT I ALWAYS
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  THOUGHT IT WAS FUN TO PUT THOSE THINGS TOGETHER, YOU KNOW, AND
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  SEE THEM COME TO LIFE. AND HERE'S WHAT I BELIEVE THE LORD
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  IS SAYING TO YOU, PAUL. THERE'S BEEN SOME THINGS IN YOUR LIFE
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  THAT HAVE BEEN PIECEWORK OR PIECES, AND GOD'S GONNA WORK
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  THROUGH YOU AND YOUR SKILLFULNESS TO MAKE SOMETHING
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  BEAUTIFUL OUT OF THAT, WHATEVER THAT IS. I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF
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  THAT RELATES TO YOU OR IF YOU KNOW, BUT WHATEVER IT IS, GOD IS
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  RESTORING THAT. YOU HAVE A GIFT TO PUT THINGS TOGETHER, AND YOU
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  HAVE A WAY TO TAKE A PILE OF WRECKAGE AND PUT IT INTO
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  SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL. AND GOD'S USING YOU IN THAT IN EVEN A NEW
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  WAY. AND IF THERE'S BEEN SOMETHING BROKEN IN YOUR LIFE,
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  IT'S GONNA BE RESTORED BACK TO YOU, RENEWED AND BETTER THAN
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  EVER IN THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS. AMEN, SO RECEIVE THAT
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  NOW. AND THEN IF THERE'S SOMEONE WATCHING ONLINE AND THAT'S FOR
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  YOU, AGAIN, YOU CAN CALL THE PRAYER LINE NUMBER AND RECEIVE
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  THE PRAYER OF AGREEMENT FOR GOD TO DO THE SAME THING IN YOUR
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  LIFE BECAUSE HE'S NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS. IF HE'LL DO IT FOR
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  PAUL, HE'LL DO IT FOR YOU. SO, PRAISE GOD. HALLELUJAH. THANK
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  YOU, JESUS. WELL, I THINK I'M DONE. IS PASTOR KEITH HERE? I'LL
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  TELL YOU WHAT. DO THIS. SHAKE HANDS AND TELL PEOPLE IT'S GOOD
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  TO BE IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD ON A WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THEN
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  PASTOR KEITH WILL BE UP HERE TO RECEIVE OUR OFFERING.
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  (MUSIC)
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  HALLELUJAH. WELL, IF YOU NEED A ENVELOPE TO GIVE WITH, YOU CAN
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  RAISE YOUR HAND AND USHERS WILL GIVE YOU ONE. I'M GONNA GIVE YOU
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  A SIMPLE WORD. DON'T BE A THIEF. CAN I TELL YOU AGAIN? IT'S A
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  SIMPLE WORD. DON'T BE A THIEF. NOW, I WANNA EXPLAIN THAT,
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  BECAUSE YOU COULD SAY, "WELL, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS TELLS ME
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  THAT. I KNOW THAT." BUT YOU KNOW, JESUS EXPANDED THE TEN
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  COMMANDMENTS. SO THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS EXPANDING THE TEN
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  COMMANDMENTS. 'CAUSE HE SAID, YOU KNOW, DON'T COMMIT ADULTERY.
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  AND THEN HE WENT ON TO SAY, DON'T LET IT, RESIDENT, COME
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  INTO YOUR MIND AND BECOME A REALITY THERE. SO I TOOK THAT
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  THOUGHT AND I FOUND A WORD FROM GOD A LONG TIME AGO THAT KIND OF
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  MADE ME THINK ABOUT THAT VERY CONCEPT. IN THE BOOK OF
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  EPHESIANS, THE FOURTH CHAPTER, AND YOU CAN STUDY IT FOR
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  YOURSELF, IN VERSE 28, HE SAYS, "LET HIM WHO STOLE, STEAL NO
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  LONGER." DON'T BE A THIEF. DON'T BE A THIEF. NOW, LET'S EXPAND
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  UPON THAT. "BUT LET HIM, RATHER LET HIM LABOR, WORKING WITH HIS
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  HANDS WHAT IS GOOD, THAT HE MAY HAVE SOMETHING TO GIVE HIM WHO
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  HAS NEED." THE EXPANSION IS THIS. EVERY PERSON AS A BELIEVER
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  WHO ISN'T PURPOSEFULLY PLANNING, PREPARING, WORKING TOWARDS,
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  SETTING A GOAL OF ACHIEVING, GIVING, IS A THIEF. THAT STRUCK
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  ME. THE PURPOSE IS PART OF THE PROCESS. SO IT'S NOT JUST GOING
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  TO YOUR NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE AND TAKING HIS GOODS. IT'S ALSO NOT
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  PREPARING, PLANNING, AND BEING READY TO GIVE. BECAUSE THE
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  SCRIPTURES ALSO TELL US IN 2 CORINTHIANS THAT HE HAS GIVEN US
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  GRACE TO HAVE THE ABUNDANCE TO GIVE. SO WHEN WE DON'T APPLY
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  OURSELVES TO THAT PURPOSE, WE ARE STEALING FROM GOD AND FROM
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  OTHERS. AND WE DON'T WANT TO BE THIEVES. SAY, I'M NOT A THIEF. I
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  PURPOSE, I PLAN ON, I PREPARE FOR MY GIVING. SO YOU'RE READY
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  TO GIVE? YOU CAN PUT THE GIVING INFORMATION UP. AND OUT THERE
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  ONLINE, YOU CAN GIVE AS WELL. DON'T PURPOSE TO BE A THIEF.
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  PURPOSE TO BE A GIVER, BECAUSE THAT IS WHERE YOU ARE BLESSED
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  FROM, FROM YOUR GIVING AND YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM. IF YOU
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  GOT YOUR GIVING READY, STAND UP WITH ME. LET'S DECLARE A
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  BLESSING OVER IT. FATHER, I DECREE IN THE NAME OF YOUR SON,
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  JESUS CHRIST, THAT THE RELEASE OF YOUR ANOINTING ON EVERY GIFT
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  GOES FORTH TO ACCOMPLISH YOUR WILL, AS THEY PURPOSE IN THEIR
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  HEART TO BE CHEERFUL GIVERS, AND TO GIVE OUT OF THE POWER OF YOUR
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  HAND WORKING THROUGH THEM AND IN THEM, THAT THEY WILL BE RELEASED
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  TO ACCOMPLISH GOOD ON YOUR BEHALF IN EVERY WAY. AND I
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  DECLARE IT IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. YOU CAN GIVE AS PASTOR DOUG
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  COMES. AMEN, THANK YOU, PASTOR KEITH FOR THAT. LET ME JUST DO
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  ONE THING HERE. I JUST REMEMBERED THAT MY WIFE, EILEEN,
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  MENTIONED, AND I BETTER DO IT RIGHT NOW BECAUSE I MIGHT
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  FORGET, I GET SO EXCITED ABOUT WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
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  TONIGHT, I MIGHT FORGET THIS, BUT THE CORE YOUTH BAKE SALE IS
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  THIS SUNDAY AFTER SERVICE, AND I ASSUME THAT'LL BE IN THE CHAPEL
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  OR CONNECT CENTER. IN THE CONNECT CENTER, CORE YOUTH BAKE
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  SALE. AND THEY'RE RAISING FUNDS FOR YOUTH CAMP. SO DON'T GO OUT
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  TO THE STORE AND BUY YOUR PIES AND CAKES ON FRIDAY OR SATURDAY,
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  WAIT AND GET THEM SUNDAY HERE. AND THEN YOU CAN BLESS CORE
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  YOUTH AND STILL TAKE SOMETHING HOME SWEET TO EAT. AND EVEN IF
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  YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO EAT SWEETS, LIKE I'M IN THAT
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  CATEGORY, THEN I'LL JUST BUY SOMETHING AND GIVE IT TO MY
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  NEIGHBOR AND THEN I DON'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE CALORIES, BUT I
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  STILL BLESS THE YOUTH AND BLESS SOMEONE ELSE AND PLANT A SEED,
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  SO I'M GETTING A LOT OF BLESSING THAT WAY. SO, YOU KNOW, BLESS MY
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  BODY WITH NO SUGAR, BLESS MY NEIGHBOR WITH A GIFT, AND BLESS
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  CORE YOUTH WITH, YOUTH, I MEAN, IT'S A THREE-WAY BLESSING, SO,
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  YOU KNOW, WE GOTTA REMEMBER TO DO THAT, EILEEN. SO, OKAY, SHE
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  SAYS OKAY. IF SHE SAYS OKAY, THEN WE CAN DO IT. OH,
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  HALLELUJAH. WELL, TONIGHT, OH, THE OTHER THING I WANTED TO
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  MENTION THAT IS TOMORROW NIGHT IS OUR FIRST CLASS OF NEW LIFE,
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  NOW WHAT? AND I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THIS TOO 'CAUSE IT'S GONNA
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  BE EVERY FOURTH THURSDAY AND ESPECIALLY FOR PEOPLE THAT GET
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  NEWLY SAVED, EVERY FOURTH THURSDAY WE'RE GONNA HAVE THIS
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  CLASS AND IT'LL GIVE THEM A PLACE TO FIGURE OUT WHERE TO GET
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  STARTED, HOW TO READ THE BIBLE, HOW TO LEARN TO PRAY, HOW TO
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  BUILD RELATIONSHIPS, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING IN CHURCH ON
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  A REGULAR BASIS. ALL OF THOSE THINGS WILL BE COVERED BECAUSE
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  TOO MANY TIMES, HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW, IT'S EASY TO GET SAVED AND
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  MAKE A DECISION HERE AND THEN THEY WANDER AND DON'T KNOW WHAT
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  TO DO. SO, BUT EVEN IF YOU FELT LIKE YOU NEEDED TO JUST BE
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  INVOLVED WITH SOMETHING LIKE THAT, TO LEARN MORE, OR BE A
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  SUPPORT TO KEVIN AND CANDY JONES WHO ARE LEADING THAT CLASS ON
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  THOSE THURSDAY NIGHTS. YOU CAN SHOW UP 6:30 AT THE LOH CHAPEL.
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  AND SO THEY'D APPRECIATE A SIGN UP, BUT IF YOU JUST WANT TO SHOW
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  UP, THAT'S FINE WITH THEM TOO. THERE'S PLENTY OF SEATING THERE.
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  SO JUST WANTED YOU TO KNOW ABOUT THAT. WELL, WE'RE ON THE BOOK OF
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  REVELATION AGAIN TONIGHT. AND I THOUGHT MAYBE I COULD DO THIS IN
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  ONE MESSAGE, AND THEN I DECIDED IT'S GOING TO BE AT LEAST TWO
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  MESSAGES. SO TONIGHT'S PART ONE, NEXT WEDNESDAY WILL BE PART TWO.
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  THE BOOK OF REVELATION, IT'S A BOOK OF FUTURE PROPHECY BUT IT'S
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  REALLY MUCH MORE THAN THAT. AND THE WORD REVELATION MEANS
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  UNVEILING OR DISCLOSURE. LET'S PRAY, FATHER I THANK YOU THAT
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  TONIGHT AS WE LOOK AT THE BOOK OF REVELATION, LORD, THAT'S THE
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  ONLY BOOK IN THE BIBLE THAT'S PROMISED A BLESSING IF WE READ
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  IT AND OBEY IT AND WE RECEIVE THAT TONIGHT. LORD, HELP US TO
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  RECEIVE WHAT IT MEANS TO SEE THE UNVEILED CHRIST IN THIS BOOK AND
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  HELP US, LORD, TO RECEIVE THE DISCLOSURE OR THE REVELATION OF
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  THE BOOK AND WHAT IT MEANS IN OUR LIVES AND HOW WE CAN LEARN
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  ABOUT YOU AND WHAT YOUR PLAN IS FOR THE FUTURE AND HOW IT
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  INVOLVES US. AND WE THANK YOU FOR IT IN THE MIGHTY NAME OF
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  JESUS. SO TONIGHT WE'RE GOING TO BELIEVE GOD TO UNVEIL OR
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  DISCLOSE TRUTH TO US. AMEN. AND IT MIGHT BE REVEALING SOMETHING
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  NEW THAT YOU'VE NEVER HEARD, OR IT MIGHT BE JUST REPETITION OR
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  REVIEW OF SOMETHING THAT YOU'VE ALREADY HAVE KNOWN FOR A LONG
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  TIME. BUT TRUTH IS GOOD EITHER WAY, RIGHT, WHETHER IT'S NEW OR
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  OLD. LAST TIME WE TALKED ABOUT THIS, WE CONCLUDED A TEACHING ON
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  THE SEVEN BLESSINGS FOUND IN REVELATION. BUT TONIGHT I WANT
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  TO START A BROAD OVERVIEW OF THE WHOLE BOOK. AND SO WE'RE GOING
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  TO TRY AND GET PARTWAY THROUGH REVELATION TONIGHT AND THEN
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  FINISH NEXT WEEK IF WE CAN. IF NOT, WE'LL MAYBE GO TO THREE
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  MESSAGES, WE'LL SEE. IT'S A LOT TO COVER. BUT WE DID DISCUSS THE
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  FACT THAT REVELATION IS THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST. AND
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  IT'S THE ONLY BOOK IN THE BIBLE, AS I MENTIONED, THAT PROMISES A
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  BLESSING TO THOSE THAT READ AND OBEY IT. SO I ALWAYS TALK ABOUT
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  THIS EVERY TIME I TALK ABOUT REVELATION. THE BLESSINGS FOUND
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  IN REVELATION 1:3, JUST BECAUSE I KNOW THERE'S PEOPLE THAT
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  MISSED OUR PREVIOUS TIMES TOGETHER. REVELATION 1:3 SAYS,
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  "BLESSED IS HE WHO READS "AND THOSE WHO HEAR THE WORDS OF THE
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  PROPHECY "AND KEEP THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE WRITTEN IN IT, "FOR
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  THE TIME IS NEAR." SO YOU HAVE A THREEFOLD BLESSING IN THIS
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  SCRIPTURE. READS, THOSE WHO READ, THOSE WHO HEAR, AND THEN
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  FINALLY THOSE WHO KEEP THE WORDS. IN OTHER WORDS, OBEY WHAT
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  WE FIND OUT AND WHAT IS DISCLOSED TO US. SO AS WE TALKED
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  ABOUT BEFORE, THE APOSTLE JOHN WAS EXILED TO THE GREEK ISLAND
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  OF PATMOS WHERE HE RECEIVED AND WROTE DOWN THE SERIES OF VISIONS
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  THAT ARE CONTAINED IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION. ROMAN AUTHORITIES
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  USED THIS ISLAND TO DEPORT POLITICAL PRISONERS AND
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  CRIMINALS SO THEY NO LONGER REALLY HAD TO DEAL WITH THEM IF
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  THEY SENT THEM OFF TO PATMOS. IT'S SIMILAR TO OUR GITMO, WHICH
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  IN THE UNITED STATES IS THE MILITARY PRISON ON GUANTANAMO
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  BAY IN THE NAVAL BASE AT CUBA. SINCE 2002, THE US HAS USED
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  GITMO OR GUANTANAMO BAY AS A PLACE TO HOLD PRISONERS THAT
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  THEY DON'T WANT ON OUR SOIL. PEOPLE THAT WERE INVOLVED IN THE
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  WAR ON TERROR THAT WERE CONVICTED OR WHATEVER ARE SENT
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  TO GITMO. SO YOU NEVER WANT TO GO TO GITMO. AND HEY, EILEEN,
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  CAN I TELL THEM ABOUT YOUR CUBA PROPHECY? IS THAT OKAY? OKAY. SO
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  YEARS AGO, EILEEN HAD A MINISTER PROPHESY TO HER THAT SHE WOULD
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  GO TO CUBA SOMEDAY AND EVANGELIZE. SO I ALWAYS THINK
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  ABOUT THAT. SHE WON'T WANT TO GO TO GITMO AND EVANGELIZE THOUGH.
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  THAT COULD BE A TOUGH PLACE TO EVANGELIZE. BUT THE THING IS,
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  SHE SAYS, UNLESS THE LORD SHOWS ME, I DON'T WANT TO GO TO CUBA.
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  BUT I TELL HER, YOU GOT TO LET THAT PROPHECY BREATHE. IT MIGHT
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  BE FOR A LATER TIME. SHE SAID, OH, SHE'S BEEN TO HAITI, AND
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  THAT WAS ENOUGH FOR HER. BUT MAYBE CUBA WILL BECOME A US
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  TERRITORY, AND IT'LL BE OPENED AND EASIER TO GO THERE. YOU
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  NEVER KNOW THE WAY THINGS ARE GOING. SO THERE HAS BEEN TALK
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  ABOUT THAT. BUT ANYWAY, THAT'S NOT MY SUBJECT TONIGHT. BUT SOME
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  HISTORIANS SAY JOHN WAS EXILED TO PATMOS BY ROMAN AUTHORITIES
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  FOR PREACHING THE GOSPEL. WE BELIEVE THAT'S HOW HE GOT THERE.
• 33:28
  AND THEY TRIED TO BOIL HIM IN OIL, COULDN'T KILL HIM, AND SO
• 33:33
  THEY SENT HIM OFF TO PATMOS. SO GOD HAD A PURPOSE FOR HIM EVEN
• 33:39
  IN PATMOS, WHERE THE OTHER CRIMINALS MIGHT HAVE BEEN. HE
• 33:42
  DID A GREAT THING THERE BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE HE PENNED THE BOOK
• 33:46
  OF REVELATION. SO, YOU KNOW, AND SOME CHRISTIANS AVOID STUDYING
• 33:50
  REVELATION BECAUSE THEY FEEL IT'S TOO HARD TO COMPREHEND. BUT
• 33:54
  JESUS HAS ACTUALLY GIVEN US A GOLDEN KEY TO HELP US UNDERSTAND
• 33:59
  THE BOOK. AND THIS GOLDEN KEY IS HANGING ON THE FRONT DOOR OF THE
• 34:03
  1ST CHAPTER OF REVELATION. AND IT HELPS US UNDERSTAND THAT
• 34:07
  THERE ARE REALLY THREE DIVISIONS IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION. AND
• 34:12
  WHEN YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THOSE THREE DIVISIONS ARE, IT HELPS US
• 34:16
  UNDERSTAND HOW THE BOOK IS LAID OUT. SO REVELATION NOT ONLY
• 34:21
  COMES WITH THAT BUILTIN BLESSING FOR READING IT, BUT IT ALSO
• 34:24
  COMES WITH A BUILT-IN OUTLINE. AND WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THAT
• 34:26
  TONIGHT. REVELATION 1:19 SAYS, "WRITE THE THINGS WHICH YOU'VE
• 34:31
  SEEN AND THE THINGS WHICH ARE AND THE THINGS WHICH WILL TAKE
• 34:36
  PLACE AFTER THIS." SO THE THINGS YOU HAVE SEEN, THE THINGS WHICH
• 34:42
  ARE, AND THE THINGS WHICH WILL TAKE PLACE. THREE THINGS THERE.
• 34:45
  LET'S LOOK AT THIS ON A CHART TONIGHT. I WANT YOU TO SEE THIS.
• 34:48
  IF YOU PUT THAT ON THE BACK WALL. SO, THE THREE THINGS,
• 34:52
  THREE DIVISIONS, THE PAST, THE THINGS WHICH YOU HAVE SEEN. THIS
• 34:55
  IS THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST IN HIS GLORY THAT IS IN
• 35:00
  REVELATION CHAPTER 1. THAT'S THE PAST. THEN THE PRESENT, WHICH IS
• 35:04
  THE AGE THAT WE'RE IN RIGHT NOW, THE THINGS WHICH ARE. AND THAT'S
• 35:09
  REVELATIONS 2 AND 3, WHICH REPRESENT THE LETTERS TO THE
• 35:12
  SEVEN CHURCHES AND REPRESENTS THE CHURCH AGE. SO, WE'RE PART
• 35:16
  OF THIS AGE RIGHT NOW. AND THEN, THE THINGS THAT WILL TAKE PLACE
• 35:21
  AFTER THESE THINGS, THAT'S THE FUTURE. THE THINGS THAT WILL
• 35:24
  TAKE PLACE AFTER THESE THINGS, REVELATIONS 4 THROUGH 22 TALKS
• 35:29
  ABOUT THOSE FUTURE EVENTS, INCLUDING THE TRIBULATION, THE
• 35:32
  MILLENNIAL REIGN, THE ETERNAL ORDER OF THINGS, AND WE'LL GET
• 35:35
  INTO THAT A LITTLE MORE. BUT I WANTED YOU TO SEE THAT
• 35:38
  THREE-POINT OUTLINE THERE, BECAUSE IT KIND OF HELPS YOU TO
• 35:41
  UNDERSTAND WHAT WE'LL BE LOOKING AT TONIGHT AND HOW THAT FITS IN
• 35:45
  A TIMELINE OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION. AGAIN, JUST TO BE
• 35:52
  CLEAR, RIGHT NOW WE'RE IN THAT MIDDLE CATEGORY CALLED "THE
• 35:55
  THINGS WHICH ARE." BUT RIGHT OUT OF THE GATE IN CHAPTER 1, JESUS
• 36:00
  BEGINS TO REVEAL HIMSELF. REMEMBER, REVELATION IS NOT JUST
• 36:03
  ABOUT THE FUTURE, IT'S ALSO ABOUT THE UNVEILING OF THE
• 36:07
  EXALTED CHRIST. GOD IS SAYING, "I WANT YOU TO SEE WHO I AM IN
• 36:12
  THIS BOOK." SO THE BOOK IS BOTH A REVELATION FROM JESUS, BUT
• 36:17
  IT'S ALSO A REVELATION OF JESUS. SAY THAT WITH ME. THIS BOOK IS A
• 36:22
  REVELATION FROM JESUS, BUT IT'S ALSO A REVELATION OF JESUS.
• 36:31
  AMEN, SO REGARDING REVELATION FROM JESUS, THE BOOK WAS GIVEN
• 36:38
  BY GOD TO JESUS AND THEN TRANSMITTED BY AN ANGEL TO GOD.
• 36:42
  AND YOU CAN PUT THAT UP SO THAT WE REMEMBER WHERE WE'RE AT. IT'S
• 36:45
  A REVELATION FROM JESUS CHRIST THAT GOD GAVE HIM, AMEN. IT
• 36:50
  EMPOWERS THE BELIEVERS TO OVERCOME. IT CALLS US AS
• 36:53
  CHRISTIANS TO BE OVERCOMERS IN EVERY AREA OF LIFE. I THINK
• 36:56
  PASTOR BRENDA DID A GREAT JOB ON HER MESSAGE FRIDAY NIGHT. SHE
• 36:59
  TALKED ABOUT WHEN YOU'RE, AND YOU MEN THAT ARE HERE, GO BACK
• 37:03
  AND WATCH THAT IF YOU DIDN'T SEE IT. FRIDAY NIGHT'S MESSAGE FROM
• 37:05
  PASTOR BRENDA WAS EXCELLENT ON HOW TO OVERCOME. WE ALL HAVE
• 37:09
  THINGS THAT COME AGAINST US IN THIS LIFE. AND SHE TALKED ABOUT
• 37:13
  BEING ABLE TO STAND UP AND OVERCOME. THAT'S WHAT WE'RE
• 37:15
  CALLED TO DO, AMEN? AND LIVE A LIFE OF CONTINUOUS ONGOING
• 37:19
  VICTORY. JESUS GAVE US REVELATION TO HELP US ALSO
• 37:23
  UNDERSTAND GOD'S PLAN. SO THAT WAS THE REVELATION FROM JESUS
• 37:28
  CHRIST. IT ALSO SERVES AS A ROADMAP TO UNDERSTAND GOD'S
• 37:32
  ULTIMATE PURPOSE IN THE PLAN FOR MANKIND AND GIVES US INSIGHT
• 37:37
  INTO THE FUTURE AND WHAT'S AHEAD FOR THOSE THAT CHOOSE CHRIST AND
• 37:40
  ALSO WHAT'S AHEAD FOR THOSE THAT REFUSE TO CHOOSE HIM. AND THEN
• 37:44
  THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST, IF YOU'LL PUT THAT ONE UP, THERE
• 37:48
  WE GO, GOOD JOB. THIS BOOK ALSO IS A REVELATION OF JESUS. IT
• 37:52
  MEANS THE BOOK UNVEILS AND REVEALS THE TRUE NATURE OF
• 37:56
  CHRIST. IT SHOWCASES JESUS AS THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA. HE'S
• 38:01
  THE LIVING ONE THAT HOLDS THE KEYS OF DEATH AND HELL.
• 38:05
  REVELATION GIVES US A FULLER UNDERSTANDING OF JESUS. HE'S
• 38:09
  FULL OF LOVE, BUT HE'S FULL OF POWER, AND HE'S FULL OF
• 38:13
  AUTHORITY. THE TRUTH PROVIDES US WITH THIS HOPE, ENCOURAGEMENT,
• 38:17
  AND A PICTURE THAT JESUS WILL HAVE FINAL VICTORY OVER EVIL.
• 38:22
  WHO'S A BETTER SOURCE ON JESUS THAN JESUS? NOBODY. LET'S LOOK
• 38:27
  AT REVELATION 1, VERSES 1 AND 2. THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST,
• 38:33
  WHICH GOD GAVE HIM TO SHOW HIS SERVANTS, THINGS WHICH MUST
• 38:38
  SHORTLY TAKE PLACE. AND HE SENT AND SIGNIFIED IT BY HIS ANGEL TO
• 38:43
  HIS SERVANT JOHN, WHO BORE THE WITNESS TO THE WORD OF GOD AND
• 38:47
  TO THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST TO ALL THINGS THAT HE SAW. SO
• 38:53
  IT'S A REVELATION OF THE IMMINENT SOON COMING EVENTS. THE
• 38:58
  WORD SAID THERE ARE THINGS THAT WILL SHORTLY TAKE PLACE. AND
• 39:03
  THIS VERSE ALSO EXPLAINS THAT REVELATION IS AN ACCURATE
• 39:06
  TESTIMONY OF THE WORD OF GOD AND THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST.
• 39:10
  IN VERSE FIVE, WE SEE JESUS IS THE FAITHFUL WITNESS. AND FROM
• 39:15
  JESUS CHRIST, HE IS THE FAITHFUL WITNESS TO SEE THESE THINGS, TO
• 39:18
  THE FIRST TO RISE FROM THE DEAD AND THE RULER OF ALL THE KINGS
• 39:21
  OF THE WORLD. ALL GLORY TO HIM WHO LOVES US AND HAS FREED US
• 39:26
  FROM OUR SINS BY SHEDDING HIS BLOOD FOR US. YOU KNOW, IT CAN
• 39:30
  BE HARD TO FIND A FAITHFUL WITNESS TODAY,
• 39:32
  SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T SPIN THE TRUTH. WHEN
• 39:36
  JESUS SPEAKS, HE'S THE FAITHFUL WITNESS. HE SPEAKS TRUTH, AND HE
• 39:40
  SPEAKS TRUTH IN LOVE. THERE ARE INDIVIDUALS THAT HAVE THE TRUTH,
• 39:46
  BUT THEY USE IT AS A WEAPON TO DESTROY RATHER THAN A TOOL TO
• 39:49
  BUILD. THESE PEOPLE CAN EVEN BE TECHNICALLY OR THEOLOGICALLY
• 39:54
  CORRECT IN THEIR POSITION, BUT THEY HURT PEOPLE IN THE WAY THAT
• 39:59
  THEY PRESENT THE TRUTH. WE SHOULD ALWAYS SHARE TRUTH IN
• 40:04
  LOVE. IN FACT, NOTICE THE LAST SENTENCE OF REVELATION 1:5. IT
• 40:10
  SAYS, "ALL GLORY TO HIM WHO LOVES US AND HAS FREED US FROM
• 40:14
  OUR SINS BY SHEDDING HIS BLOOD FOR US." WHAT A DECLARATION.
• 40:18
  THIS MESSAGE IS FROM JESUS, BUT HE LOVES US. SAY THIS WITH ME,
• 40:23
  "JESUS LOVES ME." AMEN. IT'S A DECLARATION. I MEAN, THIS BOOK
• 40:29
  IS FULL OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUSTICE ON EVIL. BUT HE STARTS
• 40:37
  OUT IN THE FIRST CHAPTER JUST REMINDING US HOW MUCH HE LOVES
• 40:41
  US. WHAT A DECLARATION. THE WORDS ARE FROM A SOVEREIGN,
• 40:46
  POWERFUL GOD IN CONTROL OF EVERYTHING. HE COULD STOMP US
• 40:50
  ALL OUT TONIGHT IF HE WANTED TO. BUT HE ENDS THE VERSE
• 40:54
  PROCLAIMING HIS LOVE FOR US. NOW FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT MISSED OUR
• 40:58
  LAST TEACHING ON REVELATION, I WANNA GO BACK AND REVIEW OUR
• 41:01
  TIMELINE CHART HERE JUST FOR A MOMENT, JUST TO GIVE YOU AN
• 41:05
  UPDATE ON KIND OF WHERE WE'RE AT AND HOW THE BOOK IS LAID OUT. SO
• 41:10
  FIRST OF ALL, WE HAVE CHAPTERS ONE THROUGH THREE OF REVELATION
• 41:15
  HERE. THIS IS THE CHURCH AGE. THIS IS WHERE WE ARE NOW. WE
• 41:18
  TALKED ABOUT CHAPTER ONE BEING THE EXPOSITION OF THE GLORY OF
• 41:25
  JESUS CHRIST, AND THEN CHAPTERS TWO AND THREE TALKING ABOUT THE
• 41:31
  SEVEN LETTERS TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES. SO THAT'S THE AGE WE
• 41:34
  ARE IN NOW. AND THEN AS WE MOVE TO REVELATION 4 AND 5, HERE WE
• 41:38
  HAVE THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH EXPLAINED IN A GREAT WAY THERE.
• 41:43
  SO THAT'S REVELATION 4 AND 5. AND THEN AS WE MOVE ON TO
• 41:47
  REVELATION 6 THROUGH 18, BY THE WAY, THANK YOU SAMUEL HERE
• 41:52
  TODAY. YEAH, SAMUEL, THANK YOU FOR MAKING THAT CORRECTION. WE
• 41:55
  FOUND AN ERROR IN THIS CHART AND HE CORRECTED IT FOR ME. IT'S
• 41:58
  REVELATION 6 THROUGH 18 THAT TALKS ABOUT THE SEVEN YEAR
• 42:01
  TRIBULATION. AND WE'RE GONNA GO INTO THAT A LITTLE BIT TONIGHT
• 42:04
  AND HOW THAT TRIBULATION PERIOD OCCURS. AND THEN REVELATION 19
• 42:10
  IS THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS. AND WE'RE GONNA EXPLAIN AGAIN
• 42:13
  TONIGHT, FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT MIGHT HAVE MISSED IT, THERE IS A
• 42:16
  DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH AND THE SECOND
• 42:19
  COMING. WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT. AND THEN IT MOVES
• 42:22
  INTO REVELATION 20, WHICH TALKS ABOUT THE THOUSAND YEAR
• 42:25
  MILLENNIAL REIGN. THAT'S WHEN WE COME BACK AS THE CHURCH, RIDING
• 42:29
  ON HORSES ALONG WITH JESUS. HE'S LEADING THE WAY ON A WHITE
• 42:33
  HORSE, AND WE'LL BE RULING AND REIGNING WITH HIM A THOUSAND
• 42:37
  YEARS ON EARTH DURING THE MILLENNIAL REIGN. IT'S A
• 42:40
  MONARCHY. JESUS IS IN CONTROL. HE'S RULING AND REIGNING FROM
• 42:45
  THE CITY OF JERUSALEM. AND THEN ALSO IN REVELATION 20, IT MOVES
• 42:50
  INTO JUDGMENT, THE LAKE OF FIRE, FINALLY TO THE GREAT WHITE
• 42:54
  THRONE OF JUDGMENT. AND THEN IN REVELATIONS 20 THROUGH 22, IT
• 42:58
  WINDS UP WITH THE NEW HEAVEN AND THE NEW EARTH. SO THAT'S KIND OF
• 43:01
  THE LAYOUT ON REVELATION THAT'LL HELP YOU TO UNDERSTAND A LITTLE
• 43:04
  BIT AS WE GO THROUGH IT TONIGHT. I THINK IT'S ALWAYS GOOD TO SEE
• 43:08
  THE PICTURE. SEVERAL PEOPLE TOLD ME THEY ENJOYED SEEING THE
• 43:10
  PICTURES OF THAT JUST TO KIND OF UNDERSTAND HOW THE BOOK IS LAID
• 43:13
  OUT. IN THAT, IT'S INTERESTING, CHAPTER 19 TALKS MORE ABOUT
• 43:22
  JESUS AND IT EXPLAINS THE FACT THAT HE'S THE ONE CALLED
• 43:25
  FAITHFUL AND TRUE. HE'S CALLED THE WORD OF GOD. HE'S DESCRIBED
• 43:28
  AS KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. AND HE'S DEPICTED AS THE
• 43:32
  VICTORIOUS WARRIOR, THE ULTIMATE TRUTH, AND THE SUPREME RULER
• 43:38
  RETURNING TO JUDGE IN RIGHTEOUSNESS. SO, WE'LL TALK A
• 43:42
  LITTLE MORE ABOUT THAT AS WE GET THROUGH THE END OF THE BOOK.
• 43:46
  CHAPTER 1, REVELATION, JOHN'S WRITING EVERYTHING THAT JESUS IS
• 43:51
  SHOWING HIM IN THIS MAGNIFICENT REVELATION OF CHRIST. LET'S LOOK
• 43:55
  AT REVELATION 1:11. IT SAYS, "WRITE IN A BOOK EVERYTHING YOU
• 43:59
  SEE "AND SEND IT TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES "IN THE CITIES OF
• 44:03
  EPHESUS, SMYRNA, PERGAMON, THYATIRA, SARDIS, PHILADELPHIA,
• 44:08
  AND LAODICEA." THESE WERE LITERAL CHURCHES. PASTOR BRENDA
• 44:13
  PREACHED ON THOSE LAST NOVEMBER. YOU CAN GO BACK AND LOOK AT THAT
• 44:16
  IF YOU WANT TO, AND SHE DID AN EXCELLENT JOB GOING THROUGH
• 44:18
  THOSE SEVEN CHURCHES. BUT THE WORDS OF JESUS WERE EXPLAINED TO
• 44:23
  THOSE ACTUAL CHURCHES IN EXISTENCE. AND THEY APPLY TO US
• 44:27
  TODAY BECAUSE THERE'S CHURCHES THAT FIT INTO THOSE CATEGORIES
• 44:29
  TODAY. THE WORDS OF JESUS TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES SPEAK
• 44:33
  PROPHETICALLY. IT'S KIND OF LIKE AN OVERVIEW OF CHURCH HISTORY.
• 44:37
  AND INSTEAD OF THE CHURCH GROWING STRONGER AS THOSE SEVEN
• 44:40
  LETTERS PROGRESS, WE FIND IT GROWING WEAKER. THE FIRST
• 44:44
  CHURCH, THE CHURCH OF EPHESUS, IS A GROUP OF BELIEVERS THAT ARE
• 44:47
  BEGINNING TO LOSE THEIR PASSION, AND THEY'RE IN DANGER OF LEAVING
• 44:51
  THEIR FIRST LOVE, ACCORDING TO JESUS, WHEN HE TALKS TO EPHESUS.
• 44:55
  AND THEN THE LETTERS END WITH THE SEVENTH LETTER TO THE CHURCH
• 45:00
  OF LAODICEA. AND THAT CHURCH HAS BECOME SO CORRUPTED THAT JESUS
• 45:05
  CALLS IT A LUKEWARM CHURCH. AND HE SAYS, "BECAUSE YOU'RE
• 45:09
  LUKEWARM "AND NEITHER COLD NOR HOT, I VOMIT YOU OUT OF MY
• 45:14
  MOUTH." NOW, THAT'S A PRETTY STRONG STATEMENT. BUT IN
• 45:20
  REVELATION CHAPTER 3, VERSES 19 AND 20, AS WE END THAT SEVENTH
• 45:24
  LETTER, WE ACTUALLY SEE JESUS ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE CHURCH OF
• 45:28
  LAODICEA. HE'S KNOCKING AND TRYING TO GET BACK IN. IT'S
• 45:33
  AMAZING. THIS CHURCH IS SO CORRUPT THAT HE SAYS, "YOU MAKE
• 45:37
  ME SICK. I WANNA JUST VOMIT YOU OUT OF MY MOUTH." AND YET RIGHT
• 45:41
  AFTER THAT, WE SEE JESUS KNOCKING, TRYING TO GET BACK IN.
• 45:46
  LET'S READ THAT, REVELATION 3:19-20. IT SAYS, "AS MANY AS I
• 45:51
  LOVE, I REBUKE AND CHASTEN. THEREFORE BE ZEALOUS AND REPENT.
• 45:57
  BEHOLD, I STAND AT THE DOOR AND KNOCK. IF ANYONE HEARS MY VOICE
• 46:01
  AND OPENS THE DOOR, I WILL COME INTO HIM AND DINE WITH HIM AND
• 46:04
  HE WITH ME. SO HERE WE HAVE JESUS TELLING THE CHURCH, YOU
• 46:11
  MAKE ME SICK, YOU'VE BECOME SO ROTTEN TO THE CORE. AND YET HE
• 46:16
  FOLLOWS IT UP WITH ANOTHER PLAN OF REDEMPTION. IF THEY'LL ONLY
• 46:20
  OPEN THE DOOR, LET HIM IN, HE'LL SAVE THEM AND ALLOW THEM TO COME
• 46:24
  RIGHT BACK INTO FELLOWSHIP, AMAZING. THAT'S OUR GOD,
• 46:29
  HALLELUJAH. SO IN REVELATION CHAPTER 4, WE HAVE A CHANGE
• 46:34
  THERE. WE LOOK UPWARD AT THIS POINT AND WE'RE GONNA SEE WHAT'S
• 46:36
  GOING ON IN HEAVEN. THE CHURCH IS REMOVED IN THE RAPTURE, WE'RE
• 46:40
  SAFE AND SECURE IN GOD'S ARMS, BUT LET'S READ REVELATION 4,
• 46:45
  VERSES 1 THROUGH 5. IT SAYS, "THEN AS I LOOKED, "I SAW A DOOR
• 46:50
  STANDING OPEN IN HEAVEN. "AND THE SAME VOICE I HAD HEARD
• 46:53
  BEFORE SPOKE TO ME LIKE A TRUMPET BLAST. THE VOICE SAID,
• 46:57
  'COME UP HERE, AND I WILL SHOW YOU WHAT MUST HAPPEN AFTER
• 47:01
  THIS.'" SO AS WE LOOK AT THAT PASSAGE, WE SEE IN VERSE ONE,
• 47:05
  JOHN WRITES, "COME UP HERE, AND I WILL SHOW YOU WHAT MUST HAPPEN
• 47:08
  AFTER THIS." HE'S REALLY TALKING ABOUT THE RAPTURE BECAUSE THIS
• 47:12
  CHURCH AGE HAS ENDED AT THE END OF CHAPTER THREE AND THOSE SEVEN
• 47:16
  LETTERS TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES. NOW WE MOVE INTO CHAPTER 4, AND
• 47:19
  JESUS SAYS, "COME UP HERE, JOHN. "I WANT YOU TO SEE WHAT MUST
• 47:23
  HAPPEN AFTER THIS." JESUS HAS JUST CONCLUDED THE MESSAGES, AND
• 47:28
  HE'S GONNA SHOW US WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN AFTER THE CHURCH AGE ON
• 47:31
  EARTH. BEFORE THE TRIBULATION BEGINS, THE CHURCH IS GOING TO
• 47:34
  BE REMOVED. WE DISCUSSED THIS IN DETAIL EARLIER. IF YOU WANNA
• 47:39
  LOOK BACK AND UNDERSTAND THIS IN FULLER DIMENSION, I CAN'T GO
• 47:43
  OVER EVERYTHING EVERY TIME, BUT FEBRUARY 4TH AND MARCH 25TH, IF
• 47:47
  YOU WANT TO LOOK AT THOSE ARCHIVES, FEBRUARY 4TH, MARCH
• 47:50
  25TH, WE TALKED ABOUT THE SEVEN BLESSINGS OF REVELATION, WE
• 47:53
  COVERED SOME OF THESE POINTS. BUT I WANT TO MENTION AGAIN,
• 47:56
  THERE'S SOMETIMES CONFUSION CONCERNING THE RAPTURE AND THE
• 48:00
  SECOND COMING. THEY ARE TWO DISTINCT EVENTS. AND I WANT TO
• 48:04
  PUT A SCREEN UP HERE JUST TO HELP YOU SEE THAT AGAIN. IF YOU
• 48:07
  WOULD PLEASE PUT THAT ON THE BACK WALL FOR ME. SO, THE
• 48:13
  RAPTURE AND THE SECOND COMING. SO, THE CHURCH IS RAPTURED AT
• 48:19
  THE END OF CHAPTER 3 THERE AND THEN WE MOVE INTO A TIME THE
• 48:23
  BIBLE CALLS A SEVEN YEARS OF TRIBULATION. AND AT THE RAPTURE,
• 48:28
  CHRIST RETURNS FOR THE CHURCH. WE'RE GONNA READ THAT OUT OF 1
• 48:31
  THESSALONIANS. BUT WHEN HE COMES FOR THE CHURCH, HE DOESN'T COME
• 48:34
  TO THE EARTH, HE COMES IN THE AIR. AND HE BASICALLY DOES A
• 48:37
  U-TURN, HE CATCHES US UP. THE BIBLE SAYS WE'RE GONNA READ THAT
• 48:40
  SCRIPTURE. THE DEAD IN CHRIST SHALL ARISE FIRST, AND THEN
• 48:43
  THOSE WHO ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN WILL BE CAUGHT UP TOGETHER WITH
• 48:46
  HIM. SO THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS. JESUS COMES DOWN, CATCHES UP HIS
• 48:51
  BRIDE, WE GO BACK TO HEAVEN AT THIS POINT. AND THERE'S THINGS
• 48:54
  THAT HAPPEN IN HEAVEN THAT AREN'T ON THIS CHART, BUT WE GO
• 48:57
  TO THE JUDGMENT OF BELIEVERS AT THAT POINT IN TIME. WE'RE JUDGED
• 49:01
  FOR OUR WORKS ON THE EARTH, NOT WHETHER OR NOT WE'RE SAVED.
• 49:04
  WE'RE ALREADY SAVED OR WE WOULDN'T GO IN THE RAPTURE. SO
• 49:07
  WHEN WE GO IN THE RAPTURE, THEN THE JUDGMENT OF BELIEVERS WHERE
• 49:10
  WE GET REWARDED FOR THE THINGS THAT WERE DONE ON THIS EARTH.
• 49:13
  THAT'S WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING, WHAT OUR
• 49:16
  FUTURE IS, BECAUSE WE WANT TO PUT OUR HAND TO THE PLOW AND
• 49:19
  OCCUPY UNTIL HE COMES. AMEN? OKAY. SO THE RAPTURE HAPPENS
• 49:23
  HERE. THEN WE GO INTO THE FIRST THREE AND A HALF YEARS OF THE
• 49:27
  TRIBULATION PERIOD. AND THAT'S A TIME OF PEACE AND SAFETY WE'LL
• 49:30
  LOOK AT A LITTLE MORE AS WE GO THROUGH THIS TONIGHT. BUT THEN
• 49:33
  THE LAST THREE AND A HALF YEARS IS CALLED THE GREAT TRIBULATION.
• 49:37
  THAT'S WHERE THE JUDGMENTS HAPPEN, BASICALLY STARTING WITH
• 49:40
  THE SEAL JUDGMENTS ABOUT MIDWAY THROUGH THAT SEVEN YEARS. IT'S A
• 49:45
  THREE AND A HALF YEAR POINT. THE GREAT TRIBULATION BEGINS. AND
• 49:49
  THEN AT THE END OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION IS THE SECOND COMING
• 49:52
  OF CHRIST. AND HERE'S WHAT HAPPENS SO MANY TIMES PEOPLE IN
• 49:56
  THE CHURCH TALK ABOUT THE SECOND COMING AND WE AUTOMATICALLY
• 49:58
  THINK ABOUT THE RAPTURE. THEY'RE TWO SEPARATE DISTINCT EVENTS.
• 50:02
  DON'T THINK OF IT THAT WAY. THINK OF THE RAPTURE, THE
• 50:05
  CATCHING AWAY. THE RAPTURE IS THE GREEK WORD HARPAZO. IT MEANS
• 50:09
  CATCHING UP OR THE CATCHING AWAY, THE SNATCHING UP OF THE
• 50:14
  BRIDE OF CHRIST. AND THAT'S WHAT THE RAPTURE IS. THE SECOND
• 50:18
  COMING IS WHEN CHRIST RETURNS WITH THE CHURCH. WE WILL BE
• 50:22
  FOLLOWING HIM, RIDING HORSES, COMING BACK AS HE LEADS THE WAY
• 50:26
  ON HIS WHITE HORSE TO DEFEAT THE DEVIL AND SATAN FOREVER. AND SO
• 50:29
  THAT'S AN EXCITING TIME WHEN WE ACTUALLY COME BACK. HIS FEET HIT
• 50:33
  THE MOUNT OF OLIVES AT THAT TIME AND SPLITS THAT MOUNTAIN IN TWO
• 50:36
  AND THERE'S A GREAT VALLEY IN THE MIDST OF THAT AFTER THAT
• 50:40
  MOUNTAIN IS SPLIT. SO WE'LL LOOK AT THAT A LITTLE MORE IN DETAIL.
• 50:43
  BUT THAT'S WHEN WE COME BACK WITH CHRIST AND THEN WE GO INTO
• 50:47
  THAT THOUSAND YEAR MILLENNIAL REIGN DURING THAT PERIOD THAT
• 50:50
  ISN'T SHOWN ON THIS SLIDE. BUT THAT KIND OF HELPED TO JUST SEE
• 50:54
  THAT AGAIN, AMEN. OKAY. LET'S JUST LOOK AT 1 THESSALONIANS
• 51:03
  4:15-17 JUST BECAUSE IT'S SUCH A GREAT DESCRIPTION OF THE RAPTURE
• 51:07
  OF THE CHURCH. AND YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS VERSE. IT'S AN
• 51:10
  IMPORTANT ONE. MOST OF YOU ALREADY HAVE HEARD IT MANY
• 51:12
  TIMES. FOR THIS WE SAY TO YOU BY THE WORD OF THE LORD, THAT WE
• 51:16
  WHO ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN UNTIL THE COMING OF THE LORD WILL BY
• 51:20
  NO MEANS PRECEDE THOSE WHO ARE ASLEEP. FOR THE LORD HIMSELF
• 51:24
  WILL DESCEND FROM HEAVEN WITH A SHOUT, WITH THE VOICE OF AN
• 51:27
  ARCHANGEL AND WITH THE TRUMPET OF GOD, AND THE DEAD IN CHRIST
• 51:31
  WILL RISE FIRST. THEN WE WHO ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN SHALL BE CAUGHT
• 51:35
  UP TOGETHER WITH THEM IN THE CLOUDS TO MEET THE LORD IN THE
• 51:38
  AIR, AND THUS WE SHALL ALWAYS BE WITH THE LORD. THAT IS THE
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  SCRIPTURE, AND THERE'S SEVERAL OTHER REFERENCES IN THE NEW
• 51:44
  TESTAMENT CONCERNING THE RAPTURE. YOU DON'T MAKE A
• 51:48
  DOCTRINE OUT OF ONE SCRIPTURE. SO IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT.
• 51:54
  AND WE TALKED LAST TIME ABOUT SEVERAL REASONS WHY I BELIEVE
• 51:59
  AND THIS CHURCH BELIEVES IN A PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE. ONE OF
• 52:02
  THE VERSES OUT OF THE SAME BOOK OF 1 THESSALONIANS 5, VERSE 9
• 52:08
  SAYS, "FOR GOD HAS NOT APPOINTED US UNTO WRATH, "BUT TO OBTAIN
• 52:11
  SALVATION BY OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST." HE DIDN'T BRING THE
• 52:15
  CHURCH THIS FAR AND FORGIVE US TO THROW US INTO A TIME OF
• 52:19
  JUDGMENT AND WRATH. IT DOESN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE WHEN YOU LOOK AT
• 52:22
  THE TIMELINE AND THE THINGS THAT HAPPEN. BUT ANYWAY, THAT'S A
• 52:26
  GOOD SCRIPTURE. BUT AS FAR AS OTHER SCRIPTURES THAT VERIFY OR
• 52:29
  TALK ABOUT THE SNATCHING AWAY, THE CATCHING UP, THE WORD
• 52:32
  RAPTURE ITSELF IS NOT USED IN THE BIBLE. IT WASN'T TRANSLATED
• 52:35
  THAT WAY, BUT THE MEANING IS THERE. 1 CORINTHIANS 15:50-55,
• 52:40
  IF YOU'RE TAKING NOTES, IT TALKS ABOUT THE MYSTERIOUS
• 52:43
  TRANSFORMATION OF BELIEVERS, BOTH THE LIVING AND THE DEAD,
• 52:45
  TRANSFORMED IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, IT SAYS. AND THEN JOHN
• 52:49
  14:1-3, JOHN 14:1-3, JESUS SAYS HE'S COMING BACK TO TAKE US TO
• 52:55
  BE WITH HIM. AND THEN TITUS 2:13 TALKS ABOUT THE BLESSED HOPE,
• 53:01
  THE APPEARING OF JESUS. PHILIPPIANS CHAPTER 3, VERSES 20
• 53:07
  AND 21, TALK ABOUT THE TRANSFORMATION OF OUR BODIES.
• 53:11
  JESUS WILL TAKE OUR WEAK MORTAL BODIES AND CHANGE THEM INTO
• 53:14
  GLORIOUS BODIES LIKE HIS OWN. IT'LL HAPPEN IN A MOMENT, IN THE
• 53:17
  TWINKLING OF AN EYE, THE BIBLE SAYS. SO THE CHURCH IS NOW IN
• 53:21
  HEAVEN, ENJOYING THE GLORY OF GOD. AND REVELATION HAS A LOT TO
• 53:25
  SAY ABOUT HEAVEN. CHAPTERS 4 AND 5 DEAL WITH SOME OF THOSE
• 53:29
  GLORIES OF HEAVEN. JOHN'S PEERING INTO THE THRONE ROOM OF
• 53:33
  HEAVEN IN CHAPTER 4 OF REVELATION. AND AS WE READ
• 53:38
  REVELATION CHAPTER 4 VERSES 2 THROUGH 5, WE'RE GONNA SEE THAT
• 53:41
  THE THRONE IS ESTABLISHED IN THE MIDST OF HEAVEN, AND GOD IS
• 53:45
  SEATED RIGHT THERE ON THE THRONE. THE THRONE OF GOD IS THE
• 53:49
  FOCUS. I WANT YOU JUST TO CLOSE YOUR EYES IF YOU WOULD RIGHT
• 53:51
  NOW, AND I WANT YOU TO PAINT AN IMAGE IN YOUR MIND OF WHAT'S
• 53:56
  GOING ON IN HEAVEN AS I READ THIS. REVELATION 4, VERSES 2
• 54:02
  THROUGH 5. "AND INSTANTLY I WAS IN THE SPIRIT, AND I SAW A
• 54:07
  THRONE IN HEAVEN AND SOMEONE SITTING ON IT. THE ONE SITTING
• 54:13
  ON THE THRONE WAS AS BRILLIANT AS GEMSTONES, LIKE JASPER AND
• 54:18
  CARNELIAN. AND THE GLOW OF AN EMERALD CIRCLED HIS THRONE LIKE
• 54:23
  A RAINBOW. 24 THRONES SURROUNDED HIM, AND 24 ELDERS SAT ON THEM.
• 54:30
  THEY WERE ALL CLOTHED IN WHITE, AND THEY HAD GOLD CROWNS ON
• 54:34
  THEIR HEADS. FROM THE THRONE CAME FLASHES OF LIGHTNING AND
• 54:38
  THE RUMBLE OF THUNDER. AND IN FRONT OF THE THRONE WERE SEVEN
• 54:42
  TORCHES WITH BURNING FLAMES. THIS IS THE SEVEN-FOLD SPIRIT OF
• 54:47
  GOD. OKAY, YOU CAN OPEN YOUR EYES NOW. WE'VE GOT A PICTURE
• 54:51
  HERE OF GOD'S THRONE. YOU KNOW, NOTHING CAN DO JUSTICE TO WHAT
• 54:58
  IS IN THE WORD OF GOD WHEN YOU TRY AND PAINT A PICTURE LIKE
• 55:00
  THAT, BUT IT GIVES YOU AN IDEA A LITTLE BIT OF THE THRONE OF GOD.
• 55:05
  VIVID COLORS ARE USED TO DESCRIBE THE THRONE ROOM AND THE
• 55:08
  ONE THAT SITS ON THE THRONE. GOD IS PICTURED HAVING THE
• 55:12
  APPEARANCE OF JASPER AND CARNELIAN. JASPER HAS
• 55:16
  CHARACTERISTICS AND COLORS SIMILAR TO A DIAMOND OR A
• 55:19
  CRYSTAL. IN REVELATION 21, THE JASPER STONE IS DESCRIBED AS
• 55:23
  BEING CLEAR AS CRYSTAL. YOU CAN VISUALIZE SOMETHING LIKE THE
• 55:28
  GLEAM OF A DIAMOND WHEN YOU THINK OF THAT. THE COLOR
• 55:32
  CARNELIAN WAS A FIERY RED STONE. AROUND THE THRONE IS A RAINBOW
• 55:38
  THAT HAS A SHINE OR A GLIMMER OF DEEP GREEN, LIKE AN EMERALD. THE
• 55:43
  RAINBOW IMAGE IS MENTIONED AGAIN IN CHAPTER 10 OF REVELATION, AND
• 55:47
  THE RAINBOW IS A REMINDER OF GOD'S FAITHFULNESS TO HIS
• 55:50
  COVENANT, JUST AS IT MEANT TO NOAH AFTER THE FLOOD. NOT ONLY
• 55:54
  IS A RAINBOW AROUND THE THRONE, BUT THERE ARE 24 THRONES AROUND
• 55:59
  THE THRONE. AND SEATED ON THOSE 24 THRONES ARE 24 ELDERS WHO ARE
• 56:04
  CLOTHED IN WHITE GARMENTS, AND THEY HAVE GOLD CROWNS ON THEIR
• 56:08
  HEADS. YOU KNOW, SHORTLY AFTER WE WERE MARRIED, MY WIFE,
• 56:13
  EILEEN, AND I—SOME OF YOU GET THAT MESSAGE—TOOK A TRIP
• 56:18
  OVERSEAS. AND WE VISITED SEVERAL EUROPEAN COUNTRIES. I'D NEVER
• 56:23
  RECOMMEND ANYONE TO DO THIS. IT WAS LIKE 10 COUNTRIES IN 10
• 56:26
  DAYS, AND IT WAS JUST A WHIRLWIND. YOU KNOW, I MEAN, YOU
• 56:29
  TRAVEL ALL DAY, AND THE BUS LOOK AT ONE OR TWO SITES, AND THEN
• 56:33
  YOU'RE PACKING, GO TO THE HOTEL, PACK UP, AND THEY'RE KNOCKING ON
• 56:35
  YOUR DOOR AT SIX IN THE MORNING TO GET YOU LOADED AND HEAD OUT
• 56:38
  AGAIN IN THE NEXT PLACE. AND IT WAS A MARATHON. BUT FROM THAT
• 56:43
  ASPECT, IT WAS FUN, BECAUSE WE GOT TO SEE WHAT WE WOULD WANT TO
• 56:48
  SEE AGAIN, I GUESS. IT GAVE US AN OVERVIEW OF EUROPE, YOU KNOW.
• 56:51
  NOW I REALLY DON'T DESIRE TO GO BACK TO EUROPE, BUT. BUT MY
• 56:56
  FAVORITE PART OF THE TRIP WAS VISITING GERMANY, AUSTRIA, AND
• 57:00
  SWITZERLAND. WE HIT ALL THREE OF THOSE COUNTRIES TOO. AND WE WERE
• 57:05
  MESMERIZED BY THE BEAUTY AND MAJESTY OF BAVARIA AND THE ALPS.
• 57:09
  IN FACT, SWITZERLAND IS PROBABLY THE MOST AWESOME SCENERY THAT
• 57:12
  I'VE EVER WITNESSED. IN FACT, WE HAVE A PICTURE OF IT UP THERE.
• 57:14
  AND IT'S JUST BEAUTIFUL. AND OF COURSE, BEFORE WE TOOK THIS
• 57:18
  TRIP, WE READ SOME BOOKS AND WATCHED A TRAVEL MOVIE ABOUT
• 57:21
  THOSE PLACES, BUT NOTHING REALLY PREPARED US FOR WHAT WE
• 57:25
  EXPERIENCED. AND IN THE SAME WAY I'M THINKING ABOUT HEAVEN, WE
• 57:31
  CANNOT EXPRESS OR PUT INTO WORDS WHAT HEAVEN'S GONNA BE LIKE,
• 57:34
  WHAT GOD HAS PREPARED FOR US. YOU KNOW, WE CAN HAVE A PICTURE,
• 57:38
  BUT IT'S NOT THE SAME. I MEAN, YOU CAN LOOK AT THAT PICTURE OF
• 57:41
  SWITZERLAND, BUT IT'S NOT THE SAME, PASTOR ANTHONY, AS IF
• 57:43
  YOU'RE STANDING THERE WATCHING IT. IT'S JUST NOT THE SAME. WE
• 57:46
  SAW THINGS THAT WE NEVER WOULD HAVE SEEN IN A PICTURE. CAN YOU
• 57:49
  IMAGINE HOW MUCH MORE GRANDIOSE, FANTASTIC AND AWESOME, I DON'T
• 57:54
  EVEN KNOW WHAT WORDS TO USE TO DESCRIBE IT, BUT RUDY, CAN YOU
• 57:56
  IMAGINE WHEN YOU GET TO HEAVEN SOMEDAY, WHAT WE'RE GONNA SEE,
• 58:00
  WHAT GOD'S PREPARED FOR US, THE MANSION THAT YOU'RE GONNA HAVE,
• 58:03
  CAN I COME VISIT YOU SOMEDAY IN YOUR MANSION? I'D LOVE TO DO
• 58:06
  THAT. I WANNA SEE PASTOR HANK'S TOO BECAUSE HE SAYS PASTOR
• 58:09
  BRENDA'S GONNA BE RIGHT THERE NEXT TO HIM, SO WE'LL SEE.
• 58:12
  THAT'S WHAT HE BELIEVES. I DON'T KNOW, HE HAS FAVOR WITH GOD, SO
• 58:15
  MAYBE HE WILL. HALLELUJAH. BUT IT'S GONNA BE ON WHAT WE COULD
• 58:22
  THINK OR ASK. YEAH, IN FACT, 1 CORINTHIANS 2:9 SAYS, "NO EYE
• 58:27
  HAS SEEN, NO EAR HAS HEARD, "AND NO MIND HAS IMAGINED WHAT GOD
• 58:32
  HAS PREPARED "FOR THOSE WHO LOVE HIM." IF YOU LOVE HIM, YOU
• 58:37
  QUALIFY FOR THAT, AMEN? AMEN. A LITTLE GIRL WAS TAKING AN
• 58:42
  EVENING WALK WITH HER FATHER AND WITH A LOOK OF AMAZEMENT ON HER
• 58:47
  FACE, SHE LOOKED UP AT THE STARS AND SHE EXCLAIMED, "DADDY, IF
• 58:51
  THE WRONG SIDE OF HEAVEN IS SO BEAUTIFUL, "WHAT DO YOU THINK
• 58:54
  THE RIGHT SIDE OF HEAVEN WILL LOOK LIKE?" YOU KNOW, WE'VE ALSO
• 59:00
  HEARD COMMENTS FROM CHRISTIANS THAT SAY, "YOU KNOW, YOU CAN
• 59:03
  BECOME SO HEAVENLY-MINDED THAT YOU'RE NO EARTHLY GOOD." HOW
• 59:06
  MANY OF YOU EVER HEARD SOMEONE SAY THAT BEFORE, TALKING ABOUT
• 59:09
  CHRISTIANS? ALL THEY WANT TO DO IS TALK ABOUT HEAVEN. WELL, THAT
• 59:13
  MIGHT BE TRUE TO SOME EXTENT, BUT THE OPPOSITE IS ALSO TRUE.
• 59:17
  IF WE DON'T UNDERSTAND OUR FUTURE, WHAT'S IN STORE FOR US
• 59:22
  THROUGH ETERNITY? WHAT GOD'S PLAN IS FOR THIS CREATION HE
• 59:27
  CALLS MANKIND. IF WE DON'T UNDERSTAND THE RAPTURE OF THE
• 59:31
  CHURCH, THE SECOND COMING OF THE LORD TO THE EARTH, WE DON'T
• 59:35
  UNDERSTAND THE REALITY OF HEAVEN. WE DON'T KNOW ANYTHING
• 59:39
  ABOUT THE MARRIAGE SUPPER OF THE LAMB OR EVEN THE WRATH THAT
• 59:43
  COMES DURING THE GREAT TRIBULATION, OR WHAT'S THE
• 59:47
  COMING JUDGMENT OF THE BELIEVERS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT AFTER WE'RE
• 59:50
  RAPTURED, WHERE WE RECEIVE REWARDS. IF WE DON'T UNDERSTAND
• 59:53
  THE NEW JERUSALEM AND WHAT OUR ETERNAL FUTURE IS REGARDING
• 59:58
  THAT, AND I COULD GO ON AND ON AND ON THROUGH THE BOOK OF
• 1:00:01
  REVELATION AND LISTING THINGS, BUT IF WE DON'T UNDERSTAND THOSE
• 1:00:04
  THINGS, HOW ARE WE GOING TO BE REALLY GOOD EVANGELISTS ON THIS
• 1:00:11
  EARTH TO HELP PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE'S A HEAVEN
• 1:00:14
  AND A HELL? THERE IS ETERNITY COMING THAT WE HAVE TO PREPARE
• 1:00:18
  FOR AND THAT WE NEED TO USE OUR TIME ON THIS EARTH AND OCCUPY
• 1:00:23
  AND GET THINGS ACCOMPLISHED FOR CHRIST BECAUSE WE HAVE A NARROW,
• 1:00:27
  NARROW PERIOD OF TIME CALLED LIFE ON THIS EARTH THAT WE HAVE
• 1:00:31
  TO GET THINGS DONE ACCORDING TO GOD'S WILL BEFORE ALL THIS
• 1:00:35
  HAPPENS. AND I DON'T CARE IF YOU'RE 10 YEARS OLD. THAT TIME
• 1:00:43
  GOES QUICKLY. SOME OF US HERE, YOU KNOW, I USED TO THINK 40 WAS
• 1:00:48
  OLD. HOW MANY OF YOU THINK 40 IS OLD? YEAH, SOME OF YOU DO. YOU
• 1:00:54
  DO? BOAZ DOES. YEAH, WHEN YOU'RE 20, 40 LOOKS REALLY OLD. I DID.
• 1:01:00
  YOU DID THINK THAT? OKAY. BUT NOW YOU'RE 70, I KNOW. AND IT
• 1:01:06
  GOES SO FAST. HOW MANY OF YOU WOULD SAY, YOU LOOK BACK AT THE
• 1:01:09
  YEARS AND YOU THINK, HOW COULD THEY GO THIS FAST? AND YOU START
• 1:01:13
  LOOKING AT THE AVERAGE LIFESPAN, AND THEN YOU CALCULATE YOUR AGE
• 1:01:18
  FROM THAT, AND YOU SAY, IF I'M LIVING AVERAGE
• 1:01:20
  LIFE, GOD BELIEVES THAT MAYBE YOU'LL BE
• 1:01:23
  LIKE RUDY AND LIVE TO 110, I DON'T KNOW.
• 1:01:25
  (CONGREGATION LAUGHING)
• 1:01:28
  BUT, AND HE'S NOT THERE YET. ARE YOU GETTING CLOSE, RIGHT? JUST
• 1:01:32
  JOKING. HE KNOWS I'M JOKING. BUT YOU START SUBTRACTING YOUR
• 1:01:38
  CURRENT AGE FROM WHAT AN AVERAGE LIFESPAN IS, YOU KNOW, JUST A
• 1:01:43
  NORMAL LIFESPAN. BELIEVE IN GOD, YOU'RE GONNA OUTLIVE THAT. BUT
• 1:01:49
  YOU REALIZE THE CRACK OF TIME THAT YOU HAVE GOES REALLY FAST.
• 1:01:55
  SO LET'S GET BUSY FOR GOD. LET'S DON'T TAKE THESE THINGS FOR
• 1:01:59
  GRANTED. THESE THINGS ARE ALL HAPPENING. THEY'RE ALL
• 1:02:03
  HAPPENING. AND WE DON'T KNOW, WE'RE NOT SETTING ANY DATES, BUT
• 1:02:08
  HERE'S THE DEAL. IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT DATE THE RAPTURE
• 1:02:11
  HAPPENS, WE'VE STILL GOT A LIMITED AMOUNT OF TIME ON THIS
• 1:02:14
  EARTH. BECAUSE WE'RE EITHER GOING TO GO THROUGH DEATH OR THE
• 1:02:16
  RAPTURE. SO YOU HAVE TO USE THE TIME THAT YOU'RE ALLOTTED TO DO
• 1:02:23
  SOMETHING FOR GOD. IF INCREASING OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THESE ETERNAL
• 1:02:29
  THINGS WILL MOTIVATE US TO BE BETTER STEWARDS OF OUR REMAINING
• 1:02:33
  TIME ON EARTH, LET'S DO IT. C.S. LEWIS MADE A PROFOUND STATEMENT.
• 1:02:39
  I DON'T EVEN REMEMBER WHAT YEAR HE HAD PROCLAIMED THIS, BUT THIS
• 1:02:43
  WAS REALLY GOOD, I THINK, IF YOU WANT TO PUT IT UP ON THE SCREEN.
• 1:02:45
  HE SAID, "IF YOU READ HISTORY, YOU'LL FIND THAT THE CHRISTIANS
• 1:02:49
  WHO DID THE MOST FOR THE PRESENT WORLD WERE PRECISELY THOSE WHO
• 1:02:54
  THOUGHT THE MOST OF THE NEXT. IT IS SINCE CHRISTIANS HAVE LARGELY
• 1:02:59
  CEASED TO THINK OF THE OTHER WORLD THAT THEY HAVE BECOME SO
• 1:03:04
  INEFFECTIVE IN THIS WORLD." IN OTHER WORDS, HE'S TELLING US
• 1:03:09
  THAT BECAUSE CHRISTIANS OFTEN DON'T THINK ABOUT THEIR FUTURE
• 1:03:12
  IN HEAVEN AND ETERNITY AND WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE
• 1:03:15
  WORLD, THEY BECOME INEFFECTIVE IN THIS WORLD. BECAUSE THE BIBLE
• 1:03:19
  SAYS WE GET CAUGHT UP IN THE CARES OF LIFE. JUST MAKING A
• 1:03:24
  LIVING, EATING, I DON'T WANT TO SAY DRINKING BECAUSE WE DON'T DO
• 1:03:29
  THAT, BUT YOU KNOW, WHATEVER THE EATING, DRINKING, BEING MARRIED,
• 1:03:32
  ALL THE THINGS, WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY? GETTING MARRIED AND
• 1:03:37
  HOPEFULLY NOT GETTING DIVORCED, BUT YOU KNOW, ALL THE THINGS
• 1:03:39
  THAT PEOPLE DO IN LIFE. WE GET CAUGHT UP IN THE CARES OF LIFE,
• 1:03:43
  DON'T WE? AND THEN WE FORGET ABOUT ALL THESE THINGS THAT ARE
• 1:03:47
  GONNA HAPPEN AND THEY'RE HAPPENING QUICKLY. WELL, LET'S
• 1:03:54
  MOVE ON TO HEAVEN. IN HEAVEN, THERE'S A LOT OF WORSHIPING. AT
• 1:03:57
  THE SCENE, WE SEE, AND WHAT WE JUST READ, THERE ARE ELDERS,
• 1:04:03
  THERE'S ANGELS, AND THERE'S REDEEMED. THEY'RE SINGING,
• 1:04:06
  "HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, LORD GOD ALMIGHTY." REVELATION 4:8-11,
• 1:04:12
  DEPICTS CONTINUOUS HEAVENLY WORSHIP. THE FOUR LIVING
• 1:04:17
  CREATURES AND THE 24 ELDERS BOW BEFORE THE THRONE DAY AND NIGHT,
• 1:04:22
  PRAISING GOD'S ETERNAL NATURE, HOLINESS, AND SOVEREIGNTY. YOU
• 1:04:27
  KNOW WHAT? IN HEAVEN, THERE APPEARS TO BE AN AWARENESS OF
• 1:04:30
  WHAT'S GOING ON IN EARTH. IN REVELATION 6, VERSE 10, WE SEE A
• 1:04:35
  PICTURE OF THE MARTYRED SAINTS IN HEAVEN. AND THEY'RE AWARE OF
• 1:04:39
  THE TIMING OF GOD'S JUDGMENT ON THOSE WHO TOOK THEIR LIFE ON
• 1:04:44
  EARTH. SO THEY KNEW WHEN THEY WERE IN HEAVEN, WHAT WAS
• 1:04:48
  HAPPENING DOWN ON EARTH. AND IN HEBREWS CHAPTER 11, WE SEE THE
• 1:04:53
  HALL OF FAITH LISTING THOSE THAT OVERCAME TRIALS OF LIFE. AND
• 1:04:57
  THEN IN HEBREWS 12:1, WE READ THIS, LET'S PUT THIS UP.
• 1:05:00
  THEREFORE, WE ALSO, SINCE WE ARE SURROUNDED BY SO GREAT A CLOUD
• 1:05:04
  OF WITNESSES, LET US LAY ASIDE EVERY WEIGHT AND THE SIN WHICH
• 1:05:07
  SO EASILY ENSNARES US AND LET US RUN WITH ENDURANCE THE RACE THAT
• 1:05:12
  IS SET BEFORE US. SO THAT SAYS FROM THE BOOK OF HEBREWS THAT
• 1:05:19
  LIFE IS LIKE A GREAT ARENA WITH THOSE THAT HAVE GONE BEFORE US.
• 1:05:24
  THE GREAT CLOUD OF WITNESSES, THEY'RE CHEERING US ON AS WE
• 1:05:27
  ENGAGE ON OUR EARTHLY ASSIGNMENTS. THAT'S EXCITING. WE
• 1:05:32
  GOT PEOPLE CHEERING US ON. MATTHEW, YOU GOT PEOPLE CHEERING
• 1:05:35
  YOU ON. PEOPLE THAT WENT AHEAD OF YOU. THEY KNOW YOUR NAME AND
• 1:05:39
  THEY'RE CHEERING YOU ON AS YOU ACCOMPLISH THINGS FOR GOD. AS
• 1:05:44
  YOU'RE AT SOMEONE THAT'S BESIDE YOU. THEY'RE CHEERING YOU ON AND
• 1:05:48
  SAY, PLANT A SEED IN THAT PERSON'S LIFE. AS YOU'RE OUT
• 1:05:53
  DOING YOUR YARD WORK AND YOUR NEIGHBOR COMES OVER AND ASKS
• 1:05:55
  WHAT YOU'RE DOING, YOU'RE SHARING SOMETHING ABOUT CHRIST
• 1:05:57
  AND PLANTING A SEED. PEOPLE ARE CHEERING YOU ON IN HEAVEN FOR
• 1:06:00
  THAT. WHATEVER YOU'RE DOING, YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT CHRIST AND
• 1:06:05
  ETERNITY IN THE FUTURE. BUT PASTOR DOUG, DOES THIS MEAN THAT
• 1:06:09
  PEOPLE IN HEAVEN COULD BE SAD WHEN THEY SEE EVIL TAKING PLACE
• 1:06:14
  ON THE EARTH? WHAT ABOUT THAT? THOSE PEOPLE ARE LOOKING DOWN
• 1:06:18
  AND THEY'RE SEEING SOME BAD THINGS HAPPEN DOWN HERE BECAUSE
• 1:06:20
  THERE ARE TRIALS DOWN HERE. YOU KNOW WHAT? I DON'T THINK
• 1:06:24
  THERE'LL BE ANY SADNESS IN HEAVEN. REMEMBER THIS, THOSE IN
• 1:06:28
  HEAVEN ARE NOT LIKE WE WHO ARE NOW ON THIS EARTH. THEY SEE THE
• 1:06:34
  WHOLE PICTURE. THEY KNOW THAT EVEN IN THE MIDST OF EARTHLY
• 1:06:38
  CHALLENGES AND HEARTACHES AND TRIALS, GOD IS STILL WORKING
• 1:06:42
  BEHIND THE SCENES. THEY SEE THAT FULL PICTURE. THEY KNOW THAT
• 1:06:46
  SATAN'S A DEFEATED FOE. THEY KNOW WHAT HIS END IS AND THAT
• 1:06:50
  SOMEDAY ALL EVIL WILL BE DESTROYED. AND THEY UNDERSTAND
• 1:06:54
  THAT CHRIST WILL RULE AND REIGN IN PERFECT PEACE AND JUSTICE.
• 1:06:59
  REVELATION 5:8 TELLS US THAT THE PRAYERS OF SAINTS ARE HELD IN
• 1:07:03
  GOLDEN BOWLS IN HEAVEN. THESE REPRESENT ACCUMULATED PRAYERS
• 1:07:08
  THAT ARE STORED TO BE ANSWERED IN GOD'S PERFECT TIMING. THESE
• 1:07:13
  PRAYERS ARE PRECIOUS TO GOD AND THEY ARE MIXED WITH INCENSE. AND
• 1:07:16
  EVEN DELAYED ANSWERS ARE REMEMBERED AND NOT LOST.
• 1:07:21
  REVELATION CHAPTER 6 GIVES US A VIEW OF WHAT'S HAPPENING ON
• 1:07:24
  THE EARTH. IN THE BEGINNING, THERE'LL BE A TIME OF PEACE AND
• 1:07:28
  SAFETY, AND THEN TERRIBLE JUDGMENTS WILL COME AFTER THAT.
• 1:07:30
  SCRIPTURE INTERPRETS SCRIPTURE, AND WE CAN SEE DIFFERENT ASPECTS
• 1:07:34
  OF THIS SAME TRUTH WITHOUT ANY DISAGREEMENT AS WE STUDY THE
• 1:07:38
  ENTIRE WORD OF GOD. THERE'S A GREAT EXAMPLE OF THIS IN
• 1:07:42
  REFERENCING A PROPHETIC VISION FROM DANIEL CHAPTER 9, AND
• 1:07:46
  THEN LOOKING AT WHAT REVELATION CHAPTER 6 SAYS. LET'S GO BACK
• 1:07:50
  BEFORE WE READ DANIEL 9 AND LOOK AT WHERE WE'RE AT ON THIS
• 1:07:52
  TIMELINE QUICKLY, IF YOU WOULD, JUST PUT THE TIMELINE UP. RIGHT
• 1:07:56
  NOW, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT REVELATION CHAPTER 6, WE'RE IN
• 1:08:00
  THE PERIOD AFTER THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH, THE SEVEN YEAR
• 1:08:04
  TRIBULATION PERIOD. THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW.
• 1:08:06
  SO I JUST WANTED YOU TO KIND OF HAVE THAT POINT OF REFERENCE
• 1:08:09
  QUICKLY. BUT LET'S LOOK AT DANIEL CHAPTER 9 AFTER THE
• 1:08:15
  RAPTURE, REVELATION 6 THROUGH 18 COVERS THAT SEVEN YEAR
• 1:08:20
  TRIBULATION PERIOD, AND THEN IT ENDS WITH THE SECOND COMING OF
• 1:08:24
  JESUS IN CHAPTER REVELATION 19. DANIEL CHAPTER 9 TELLS US THAT
• 1:08:29
  THE ANGEL GABRIEL DELIVERED A PROPHECY THAT COVERED A 490 YEAR
• 1:08:34
  PERIOD TO THE PROPHET DANIEL. AND AT THE END OF THE PROPHETIC
• 1:08:38
  VISION, THE LAST WEEK OF THAT VISION, WHICH IS THE LAST SEVEN
• 1:08:42
  YEARS OF THE VISION, IS THIS SEVEN-YEAR TRIBULATION THAT
• 1:08:47
  WE'RE LOOKING AT NOW. SO DANIEL 9:27, I'M GONNA READ OUT OF THE
• 1:08:51
  LIVING BIBLE, WHICH I NORMALLY DON'T USE, BUT JUST TO MAKE THIS
• 1:08:54
  REALLY CLEAR, I WANTED YOU TO SEE THIS, AND IT SEEMS
• 1:08:57
  SCRIPTURALLY ACCURATE. IT SAYS, "THE KING WILL MAKE A SEVEN-YEAR
• 1:09:01
  TREATY "WITH THE PEOPLE. BUT AFTER HALF THAT TIME, HE WILL
• 1:09:06
  BREAK HIS PLEDGE AND STOP THE JEWS FROM ALL THEIR SACRIFICES
• 1:09:11
  AND THEIR OFFERINGS. THEN AS A CLIMAX TO ALL HIS TERRIBLE
• 1:09:15
  DEEDS, THE ENEMY SHALL UTTERLY DEFILE THE SANCTUARY OF GOD. BUT
• 1:09:20
  IN GOD'S TIME AND PLAN, HIS JUDGMENT WILL BE POURED OUT UPON
• 1:09:25
  THE EVIL ONE." SO THE SCRIPTURE DESCRIBES A POINT IN TIME WHEN
• 1:09:29
  WE SEE THE ANTICHRIST FORMING A SEVEN-YEAR PEACE TREATY WITH THE
• 1:09:34
  NATION OF ISRAEL. THIS IS AFTER THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH. THE
• 1:09:37
  ANTICHRIST COMES ON THE SCENE, IS REVEALED, AND HE GOES TO THE
• 1:09:41
  JEWISH NATION, AND HE MAKES A SEVEN-YEAR PEACE TREATY WITH
• 1:09:44
  THEM. BUT THE PEACE TREATY IS BROKEN HALFWAY THROUGH. IN OTHER
• 1:09:49
  WORDS, AFTER THE FIRST THREE AND A HALF YEARS, THIS SATANIC
• 1:09:53
  CREATURE DESECRATES THE TEMPLE. HE BUILT A TEMPLE FOR THE JEWS,
• 1:09:57
  BUT HE DESECRATES IT. AND THIS IS THE FINAL AND LAST TIME WE
• 1:10:01
  SEE A DESECRATION OF THE JEWISH TEMPLE. BUT THE ANTICHRIST WILL
• 1:10:04
  CONTINUE IN HIS WICKED PLAN UNTIL THE TIME OF HIS JUDGMENT,
• 1:10:08
  COMING A LITTLE BIT LATER IN THIS SCENARIO. BUT THE SCRIPTURE
• 1:10:12
  PORTION FROM DANIEL ALIGNS WITH WHAT IS DESCRIBED IN REVELATION
• 1:10:17
  6 THROUGH 18, THAT PERIOD THAT WE CALL THE TRIBULATION PERIOD.
• 1:10:21
  AND WE SPECIFICALLY SEE IN REVELATION 12 AND 13 THAT THE
• 1:10:25
  ANTICHRIST IS REVEALED, AND THERE HE IS CALLED THE BEAST,
• 1:10:28
  THE BEAST OF REVELATION. THAT'S ANOTHER NAME FOR THE ANTICHRIST.
• 1:10:33
  LET'S LOOK AT THIS TIMELINE OF WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE RAPTURE,
• 1:10:37
  JUST SO WE'RE CLEAR AGAIN. I'M KIND OF KEEPING THIS SIMPLE, BUT
• 1:10:40
  I JUST WANT YOU TO FOLLOW ME HERE. SO HERE WE HAVE THE
• 1:10:43
  RAPTURE HAPPENING, AND THEN WE HAVE THIS THREE AND A HALF YEAR
• 1:10:48
  PERIOD, THE FIRST HALF OF THE TRIBULATION, WHERE IT'S PEACE
• 1:10:51
  AND SAFETY. THE ANTICHRIST IS ON THE SCENE. HE MAKES THIS
• 1:10:54
  AGREEMENT WITH ISRAEL, AND THEY HAVE A TIME OF PEACE. AND THEN
• 1:11:00
  HE BUILDS A TEMPLE. AND THEN HE DECIDES TO DESECRATE THE TEMPLE.
• 1:11:04
  AND HE BETRAYS THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND WALKS AWAY FROM HIS
• 1:11:10
  SEVEN-YEAR TREATY. AND SO THE SECOND HALF OF THE TRIBULATION,
• 1:11:14
  THIS LAST FINAL THREE AND A HALF YEARS, IS WHERE THE DESTRUCTION
• 1:11:18
  COMES. THAT'S WHERE THE SEALS, TRUMPETS, AND THE BULLS'
• 1:11:21
  JUDGMENTS BEGIN. SO WE ARE AT THE SECOND HALF OF THE
• 1:11:26
  TRIBULATION, THE LAST THREE AND A HALF YEARS AT THIS POINT. SO
• 1:11:29
  WE'RE GONNA MOVE ON. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT CHAPTER 6, BEGINS
• 1:11:33
  THE OPENING OF THE SEVEN SEALS. IT'S AN EVENT THAT INITIATES THE
• 1:11:37
  JUDGMENT OF GOD ON THE EARTH. LET'S PUT UP THE PICTURE OF THE
• 1:11:42
  SEVEN SEALS OF REVELATION. I WANT YOU TO SEE THIS. THOSE
• 1:11:46
  SEALS ARE JUDGMENTS THAT BEGIN, THE FIRST JUDGMENTS THAT ARE
• 1:11:52
  UNLEASHED ON THE EARTH. AND THEY'RE SIGNIFIED, FIRST OF ALL,
• 1:11:57
  BY THE WHITE HORSE, WHICH IS CONQUEST, THE RED HORSE, WHICH
• 1:12:02
  STANDS FOR WAR, THE BLACK HORSE, WHICH REPRESENTS FAMINE, THE
• 1:12:07
  PALE HORSE REPRESENTS DEATH. AND THEN WE HAVE A PICTURE OF THE
• 1:12:13
  FIFTH SEAL, WHICH IS SOULS CRYING OUT. THE SIXTH SEAL IS
• 1:12:21
  COSMIC DISTURBANCES, A GREAT EARTHQUAKE. SUN, MOON, AND STARS
• 1:12:26
  ARE ALL INVOLVED IN THAT. AND THEN THE FINAL SEAL IS SILENCE
• 1:12:30
  IN HEAVEN FOR 30 MINUTES. I WANTED YOU TO SEE THOSE IN A
• 1:12:34
  DESCRIPTIVE PICTURE. SO THE SIXTH SEAL, WHICH IS THOSE
• 1:12:39
  COSMIC DISTURBANCES, INCLUDE THIS MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE, THE SUN
• 1:12:44
  TURNS BLACK, THE MOON TURNS BLOOD RED, STARS ARE FALLING
• 1:12:49
  UPON THE EARTH, THE SKY IS RECEDING LIKE A SCROLL, THE
• 1:12:52
  BIBLE SAYS, AND AT THAT POINT, ALL OF HUMANITY ARE HIDING IN
• 1:12:56
  TERROR BECAUSE OF THE JUDGMENTS THAT ARE COMING ON THE EARTH.
• 1:12:59
  THE SEVENTH SEAL, FOUND IN REVELATION 8:1, IS THE FINAL
• 1:13:03
  SEAL JUDGMENT, WHICH MEANS PROFOUND SILENCE IN HEAVEN. IT'S
• 1:13:07
  ABOUT A HALF AN HOUR. THIS SILENCE SIGNALS THE PAUSE BEFORE
• 1:13:11
  THOSE FINAL JUDGMENTS, WHICH ARE THE TRUMPETS AND THE BOWLS THAT
• 1:13:16
  BEGIN TO FALL ON THE EARTH. SO AND AS I STUDIED REVELATION 6, I
• 1:13:19
  COULDN'T HELP BUT THINK HOW FAST THESE CHAIN OF EVENTS PROGRESS,
• 1:13:24
  WHERE THESE JUDGMENTS START PROGRESSIVE AND GETTING WORSE AS
• 1:13:28
  TIME GOES ON. HAVE YOU EVER LINED UP DOMINOES AND WATCHED
• 1:13:32
  THEM FALL? YOU KNOW, I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO ACCURATELY PLAY
• 1:13:35
  THE GAME OF DOMINOES. I'M NOT EVEN SURE HOW YOU DO THAT. BUT
• 1:13:39
  FOR OUR GRANDCHILDREN, FINN AND MAISIE, I'VE STACKED UP DOMINOES
• 1:13:42
  CLOSE TOGETHER, AND THEN THEY PRESS ON THE FIRST ONE, AND
• 1:13:47
  THEY'LL ALL START FALLING. THEY WON'T EVEN LET GRANDPA GET THE
• 1:13:49
  WHOLE THING SET UP BEFORE THEY WANT TO PRESS IT AND SEE THEM
• 1:13:52
  FALL, YOU KNOW? SO, BUT THEY ALL SEQUENTIALLY FALL QUICKLY. THE
• 1:13:58
  SAME COULD BE SAID OF THE EVENTS THAT WE READ ABOUT HERE. ONCE
• 1:14:02
  THE CHURCH IS RAPTURED OFF THE EARTH, THE ANTICHRIST WILL BE
• 1:14:05
  REVEALED, AND THEN THE OTHER EVENTS HAPPEN, AND THEY COME
• 1:14:09
  TOGETHER JUST LIKE DOMINOES, ONE AFTER ANOTHER, JUST QUICKLY.
• 1:14:15
  OKAY, BACK FROM DOMINOES TO THE FIRST FOUR SEAL JUDGMENTS. I HAD
• 1:14:18
  TO GET YOU TO LAUGH FOR A MINUTE ABOUT THE DOMINOES, 'CAUSE WE'RE
• 1:14:20
  IN A SERIOUS TIME HERE. SO, THE FIRST ONE THAT WE SAW WAS THE
• 1:14:24
  WHITE HORSE, AND HE'S DESCRIBED AS CONQUEST. THE WRITER CARRIES
• 1:14:30
  A BOW AND HE'S GIVEN A CROWN. LET'S LOOK AT REVELATION 6
• 1:14:34
  VERSES 1 THROUGH 2. AND IT SAYS, "AS I WATCHED, THE LAMB BROKE
• 1:14:38
  THE FIRST OF THE SEVEN SEALS ON THE SCROLL. THEN I HEARD ONE OF
• 1:14:42
  THE FOUR LIVING BEINGS SAY WITH A VOICE LIKE THUNDER, 'COME.' I
• 1:14:48
  LOOKED UP AND I SAW A WHITE HORSE STANDING THERE. ITS RIDER
• 1:14:52
  CARRIED A BOW AND A CROWN WAS PLACED ON HIS HEAD. HE RODE OUT
• 1:14:56
  TO WIN MANY BATTLES AND GAIN THE VICTORY. SO WHEN YOU FIRST READ
• 1:15:00
  THIS VERSE, YOU CAN INITIALLY MISTAKE THIS FOR BEING JESUS
• 1:15:04
  CHRIST. HE'S RIDING A WHITE HORSE. AND PEOPLE SOMETIMES DO
• 1:15:08
  THAT. BUT REVELATION 6, ONE IS NOT SPEAKING OF JESUS. IT'S
• 1:15:12
  SPEAKING OF THE ANTICHRIST. BUT PASTOR DOUG, WHY WOULD THE
• 1:15:15
  ANTICHRIST BE RIDING ON A WHITE HORSE LIKE JESUS DOES? BECAUSE
• 1:15:20
  THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THE ANTICHRIST IS. HE'S A PRETENDER.
• 1:15:24
  HE'S AN IMITATOR. THE PREFIX ANTI NOT ONLY MEANS AGAINST, BUT
• 1:15:30
  IT MEANS INSTEAD OF. WHEN THE ANTI EMERGES ON THE SCENE, HE'S
• 1:15:35
  NOT GONNA BE DRESSED HEAD TO TOE IN BLACK. BACK IN 2006, I KNOW,
• 1:15:42
  BOAZ, YOU PROBABLY WEREN'T EVEN ALIVE IN 2006, WERE YOU? WERE
• 1:15:45
  YOU? IT WAS WHAT? 2007, OH, YOU WERE PARTIALLY ALIVE THEN. I
• 1:15:52
  MEAN, YOU WERE ALIVE, BUT YOU JUST WEREN'T BREATHING AIR
• 1:15:54
  OUTSIDE. OKAY, GOT TO SAY THAT RIGHT. BUT ANYWAY, IN 2006,
• 1:16:00
  BEFORE YOUR TIME, BOAZ, YOUR MOM MIGHT'VE WATCHED THIS MOVIE, BUT
• 1:16:03
  THERE WAS A MOVIE CALLED "THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA." AND IT WAS
• 1:16:08
  ABOUT A DEMANDING, EVIL FASHION MAGAZINE EDITOR. SHE'S A WICKED
• 1:16:13
  BOSS THAT WAS CONSUMED WITH PERSONAL AMBITION AND SHE
• 1:16:16
  TREATED HER STAFF LIKE THE DEVIL WOULD. AND SHE DRESSED IN
• 1:16:21
  STYLISH BRANDS OF LUXURY CLOTHING, BUT SHE MADE HER
• 1:16:24
  SUBORDINATES FEEL LIKE THEY WERE LIVING IN HELL. HAVE ANY
• 1:16:28
  OF YOU EVER HAD A BOSS LIKE THAT BEFORE?
• 1:16:31
  (LAUGHING)
• 1:16:33
  DAN SAYS, SO YOU'RE SAYING THAT SINCE YOU'VE BEEN AT LORD OF
• 1:16:36
  HOSTS YOU'RE FEELING THAT? OH NO, I WOULD HOPE NOT, OKAY. BUT
• 1:16:41
  YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES THOSE BOSSES IN THE WORLD ARE TOUGH. BUT THE
• 1:16:44
  ANTICHRIST IS NOT GONNA HAVE STEAM RISING OFF HIM AND HAVE A
• 1:16:48
  DARTH VADER THEME SONG PLAYING BEHIND HIM WHEREVER HE GOES.
• 1:16:54
  HE'S GONNA COME OFF LIKE A MAN OF PEACE. HE'S THE OPPOSITE OF
• 1:16:58
  CHRIST, BUT HE'S A PRETENDER, HE'S AN IMITATOR. IN FACT, AS WE
• 1:17:03
  MENTIONED EARLIER, WHEN HE INITIALLY EMERGES ON THE SCENE,
• 1:17:05
  HE ESTABLISHES A PEACE TREATY WITH ISRAEL. WE'RE TOLD IN
• 1:17:09
  DANIEL 8:25 THAT THROUGH PEACE, HE WILL DECEIVE MANY. IT SAYS IN
• 1:17:14
  THE NEW LIVING VERSION, HE WILL BE A MASTER OF DECEPTION AND
• 1:17:17
  WILL BECOME ARROGANT. HE WILL DESTROY MANY WITHOUT WARNING. HE
• 1:17:21
  WILL EVEN TAKE ON THE PRINCE OF PRINCES IN BATTLE, BUT HE WILL
• 1:17:25
  BE BROKEN, THOUGH NOT BY HUMAN POWER. HALLELUJAH, HE'LL BE
• 1:17:29
  BROKEN, SO THAT'S VICTORY, IT'S COMING. BUT THE ANTICHRIST WILL
• 1:17:34
  BE ABLE TO DO WHAT NO ONE ELSE HAS BEEN ABLE TO DO. HE WILL
• 1:17:38
  TEMPORARILY SOLVE THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE PUZZLE AND RID THE
• 1:17:42
  WORLD OF TERRORISM. PRESIDENT TRUMP IS TRYING HIS BEST TO DO
• 1:17:46
  THAT, BUT AT THIS POINT NO ONE HAS BEEN ABLE TO PULL THAT OFF.
• 1:17:50
  MAYBE HE WILL, I DON'T KNOW. ANTICHRIST WILL ACCOMPLISH PEACE
• 1:17:55
  FOR THREE AND A HALF YEARS, WE DO KNOW THAT. WHATEVER IS GOING
• 1:17:58
  ON AT THAT TRIBULATION TIME, HE'S GONNA COME AND BE THE MAN
• 1:18:00
  OF PEACE, THE PRINCE OF PEACE IN HIS OWN WAY AS IMITATING CHRIST.
• 1:18:05
  HE EVEN MANAGES TO DECEIVE THE HEARTS OF MANY JEWISH PEOPLE
• 1:18:09
  BECAUSE HE REBUILDS THEIR LONG-AWAITED TEMPLE. AND IT'S
• 1:18:13
  ALL PART OF HIS WICKED PLAN. YOU KNOW, OUR MODERN WORLD AND THE
• 1:18:18
  MODERN CHRISTIAN CHURCH IS ALL ABOUT A GOD OF LOVE, WHICH IS
• 1:18:21
  VERY TRUE. ARE YOU GUYS OKAY ON TIME WITH ME? ARE YOU FOLLOWING
• 1:18:24
  ME? CAN I GO FIVE MORE MINUTES? MAYBE FIVE, SOMETHING LIKE THAT,
• 1:18:27
  I SHOULD BE DONE. BUT WE DO KNOW THAT GOD IS LOVE. BUT THE MODERN
• 1:18:35
  CHURCH, MANY TIMES, DOESN'T WANNA TALK ABOUT THE OTHER SIDE
• 1:18:38
  OF GOD. THEY DON'T WANNA TALK ABOUT HIS RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT.
• 1:18:42
  2 CORINTHIANS 5:17 TELLS US, "IF YOU BELONG TO CHRIST AND YOU'RE
• 1:18:47
  FOLLOWING HIM, "OLD THINGS HAVE PASSED AWAY AND ALL THINGS
• 1:18:50
  BECOME NEW." THEN YOU'RE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF JUDGMENT. YOU'VE
• 1:18:54
  ACCEPTED CHRIST, YOU'VE REPENTED OF YOUR SIN. YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE
• 1:18:58
  SAYS IF WE JUDGE OURSELVES, WE DON'T HAVE TO BE JUDGED. SO WE
• 1:19:02
  CONTINUALLY NEED TO JUDGE OURSELVES. AND IF WE FIND
• 1:19:05
  SOMETHING WRONG, HOLY SPIRIT SHOWS US SOMETHING, WE REPENT
• 1:19:09
  AND THEN WE CAN MOVE FORWARD, AMEN? IS THAT RIGHT, KATE AND
• 1:19:11
  PASTOR MARK? AMEN. I'M ON TRACK, I DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING WRONG YET?
• 1:19:16
  OKAY, GOOD, THEY GIVE ME A THUMBS UP THERE. THE MODERN
• 1:19:21
  CHURCH DOESN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH A GOD OF JUSTICE AND WRATH.
• 1:19:27
  MOST HAVE TRIED, MANY CHURCHES ANYWAY, HAVE TRIED TO PURGE
• 1:19:31
  GOD'S REPUTATION OF ANY JUDGMENT AND THE REALITY OF FUTURE WRATH.
• 1:19:35
  AND THEY'RE ONLY DOING PEOPLE A DISSERVICE BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT
• 1:19:38
  GETTING THE FULL TRUTH. WE NEED TO KNOW ALL THE TRUTH OF GOD'S
• 1:19:41
  WORD. THERE'S SOME THINGS WHERE GOD HAS TO DEAL WITH EVIL, AND
• 1:19:46
  I'M THANKFUL FOR THAT. WE CAN'T JUST LET EVIL RUN RAMPANT. MANY
• 1:19:52
  MODERN DENOMINATIONS WON'T EVEN MENTION THE WORD HELL. THEY
• 1:19:56
  DON'T EVEN WANT TO TALK ABOUT HELL BECAUSE IT MIGHT OFFEND
• 1:19:59
  SOMEONE, OR THEY MIGHT LEAVE THE CHURCH IF YOU START TALKING
• 1:20:01
  ABOUT HELL. LET ME GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE OF THIS. AND THIS IS
• 1:20:08
  FROM THE WEBSITE OF A LOCAL DENOMINATIONAL CHURCH. IT'S
• 1:20:11
  RIGHT HERE IN OMAHA. IT'S A LARGE CHURCH. I WON'T NAME THE
• 1:20:15
  CHURCH, BUT IT'S PART OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. AND
• 1:20:18
  THEY PUT THEIR DOCTRINE OUT ON THEIR WEBSITE. SO I'M NOT SAYING
• 1:20:24
  ANYTHING THAT IS NOT TRUE. I'M NOT TRYING TO BRING
• 1:20:27
  DISPARAGEMENT, OTHER THAN TO SAY, I WANT TO SHOW YOU WHAT
• 1:20:31
  SOME OF THE MODERN CHURCHES ARE ACTUALLY BELIEVING NOW AND
• 1:20:35
  TEACHING THEIR PEOPLE, BECAUSE WE NEED TO BE AWARE OF THAT. AND
• 1:20:38
  WE LOVE THOSE PEOPLE. BUT WHEN THEY'RE TAUGHT, I MEAN, GO BACK
• 1:20:43
  TO THE SEVEN LETTERS TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES IN THE BOOK OF
• 1:20:46
  REVELATION, AND A MAJORITY OF IT WAS WRONG TEACHING THAT CAME
• 1:20:50
  INTO THOSE CHURCHES THAT THEY GOT OFF, WRONG DOCTRINE. THEY
• 1:20:53
  LET WOLVES ENTER IN AND THEY ALLOWED WRONG DOCTRINE TO BE
• 1:20:57
  TAUGHT AND THE PEOPLE GOT OFF AND THEN THEY FELL AWAY FROM
• 1:21:00
  GOD. SO, IN THIS ONE UNITED METHODIST POSTING, THEY LIST
• 1:21:06
  THEIR EIGHT POINTS OF PROGRESSIVE THEOLOGY. I WANT TO
• 1:21:10
  TAKE A QUICK LOOK AT THOSE, BUT I'M JUST GOING TO SHOW YOU THREE
• 1:21:13
  OF THEM. I COULD GO INTO MORE OF THEM. THERE'S EIGHT POINTS TO
• 1:21:16
  THIS, BUT I JUST WANT TO SHOW YOU THREE TONIGHT. NUMBER TWO IN
• 1:21:20
  THEIR LISTING OF EIGHT POINTS OF PROGRESSIVE THEOLOGY, IT SAYS,
• 1:21:23
  "WE RECOGNIZE THE FAITHFULNESS OF OTHER PEOPLE WHO HAVE OTHER
• 1:21:27
  NAMES FOR THE WAY TO GOD'S REALM AND ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THEIR WAYS
• 1:21:31
  ARE TRUE FOR THEM AS OUR WAYS ARE TRUE FOR US." CAN YOU SEE
• 1:21:37
  THE DECEPTION IN THAT? JUST WHATEVER PEOPLE BELIEVE OR WANT
• 1:21:41
  TO BELIEVE, WE JUST KIND OF ACCEPT. YOU KNOW, IF IT'S TRUE
• 1:21:45
  FOR YOU, KAMALA, THAT'S FINE. IT MAY NOT BE TRUE FOR ME, BUT
• 1:21:50
  THERE'S REALLY NO ULTIMATE TRUTH. IT'S JUST WHATEVER YOU
• 1:21:53
  KIND OF WANT IT TO BE. LET'S LOOK AT POINT FOUR IN THE EIGHT
• 1:21:58
  POINTS. WE INVITE ALL PEOPLE TO PARTICIPATE IN OUR COMMUNITY AND
• 1:22:03
  WORSHIP LIFE WITHOUT INSISTING THEY BECOME LIKE US IN ORDER TO
• 1:22:07
  BE ACCEPTABLE. AND THAT SOUNDS REALLY GOOD. I MEAN, YOU KNOW,
• 1:22:10
  WE DON'T EXPECT EVERYONE TO DRESS LIKE I DO, OR WE DON'T
• 1:22:14
  EXPECT EVERYONE TO DRESS LIKE JANET DOES. WE DON'T EXPECT
• 1:22:18
  EVERYONE TO ACT THE SAME. BUT LOOK AT THAT. WE ALLOW THEM TO
• 1:22:24
  COME IN. THEY DON'T HAVE TO CHANGE IS BASICALLY WHAT WE'RE
• 1:22:27
  SAYING. WELL, WE WANT EVERYONE TO COME IN, BUT THERE IS TRUTH
• 1:22:32
  THAT WE HAVE TO ADAPT TO. AND WHEN YOU BECOME A BELIEVER,
• 1:22:36
  THERE'S A SET OF STANDARDS WE HAVE TO FOLLOW TO BE RIGHTEOUS.
• 1:22:40
  AND WE CAN'T JUST ALLOW EVERYONE TO BELIEVE EVERYTHING AND ACT
• 1:22:46
  ANY WAY THEY WANT AND THINK THEY'RE ALL GONNA GO TO HEAVEN,
• 1:22:49
  IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER BECAUSE GOD IS FULL OF MERCY AND GRACE
• 1:22:52
  AND HE DOESN'T, HE'LL JUST LOOK PAST ANYTHING IN YOUR LIFE THAT
• 1:22:56
  YOU DON'T HAVE TO LINE UP WITH THE WORD OF GOD. IT'S IMPORTANT
• 1:23:00
  TO KNOW THAT GOD LOVES YOU AND YOU CAN JUST LIVE ANY WAY YOU
• 1:23:03
  WANT AND YOU'RE FINE. NOW LET'S LOOK AT POINT SIX. FIND MORE
• 1:23:09
  GRACE IN THE SEARCH FOR MEANING THAN IN THE ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY
• 1:23:15
  AND FIND MORE VALUE IN ASKING QUESTIONS THAN HEARING ANSWERS.
• 1:23:21
  WHATEVER THAT MEANS. THERE'S MORE GRACE IN YOUR SEARCH FOR
• 1:23:26
  MEANING, PASTOR ANTHONY, THAN IN ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY. WE DON'T
• 1:23:31
  HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY. THERE'S NOTHING IN
• 1:23:33
  THE BIBLE THAT'S ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN OR ABSOLUTELY TRUE. WE
• 1:23:37
  CAN JUST LIVE ACCORDING TO WHAT WE MAKE UP AS WE GO. THAT'S WHAT
• 1:23:42
  IT SAYS TO ME. MAYBE I'M MISINTERPRETING IT. IF I AM,
• 1:23:46
  LORD FORGIVE ME. BUT THAT'S WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE TO ME. AND THEY
• 1:23:50
  PUT THAT ON THEIR WEBSITE TO TALK ABOUT BEING ALL INCLUSIVE
• 1:23:54
  IN BELIEFS. AND LIKE I SAID, WE WELCOME EVERYONE IN THIS PLACE.
• 1:24:01
  WE NEED TO WELCOME THEM. BUT WHEN THEY MAKE A DECISION TO
• 1:24:05
  SERVE CHRIST, THEN CHANGE NEEDS TO START TO HAPPEN. AND IT MAY
• 1:24:10
  NOT HAPPEN OVERNIGHT. WE HAVE TO GIVE PEOPLE GRACE. GOD GIVES US
• 1:24:13
  GRACE. GIVE US ROOM. WE ARE GOING TO MAKE MISTAKES. WE MAKE
• 1:24:16
  MISTAKES NOW, EVEN THOUGH WE'RE TRYING OUR BEST. BUT WE ALSO
• 1:24:20
  HAVE TO BELIEVE THAT THE BOOK IS TRUE AND FOLLOW TO THE BEST THAT
• 1:24:25
  WE CAN GOD'S TRUTH FOR OUR LIVES. WE HAVE TO LINE IT UP,
• 1:24:28
  AND WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS GRACE, AND THERE'S
• 1:24:31
  MERCY, BUT THERE'S ALSO BALANCE. THERE IS JUDGMENT. WE GO DOWN
• 1:24:35
  THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD BELIEVING IN GRACE, AND MERCY, AND LOVE,
• 1:24:39
  BUT WE ALSO BELIEVE AND UNDERSTAND THAT THERE'S JUDGMENT
• 1:24:41
  AND A RIGHTEOUS GOD THAT WE SERVE. 2 TIMOTHY 4:3 IN THE
• 1:24:47
  AMPLIFIED SAYS, "WANTING TO HAVE THEIR EARS TICKLED WITH
• 1:24:53
  SOMETHING PLEASING, THEY WILL ACCUMULATE FOR THEMSELVES MANY
• 1:24:56
  TEACHERS, ONE AFTER ANOTHER, CHOSEN TO SATISFY THEIR OWN
• 1:25:00
  DESIRES." AND THAT'S WHAT CAN HAPPEN IN THE MODERN CHURCH.
• 1:25:06
  THANK GOD FOR PASTORS THAT STAND ON THE TRUTH, STAND FOR THE
• 1:25:09
  BIBLE, AND DON'T BACK DOWN. I'M SO THANKFUL. I COULDN'T BE HERE
• 1:25:15
  IF PASTOR HANK AND BRENDA JUST SAID, WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT, WE'LL
• 1:25:18
  JUST BELIEVE WHAT WE WANT TO BELIEVE, AND SOME OF THE BIBLE'S
• 1:25:21
  TRUE, AND SOMETIMES WE CAN TEAR OUT A PAGE IF WE DON'T BELIEVE
• 1:25:24
  IT. THAT'S BASICALLY WHAT THEY'RE DOING. JUST TEAR OUT
• 1:25:27
  WHAT YOU DON'T WANT AND LIVE BY THE THINGS THAT YOU ENJOY
• 1:25:31
  READING. OH, BY THE WAY, IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT, THERE'S A NEW
• 1:25:38
  MOVIE THAT CAME OUT THE BEGINNING OF APRIL. IT'S CALLED
• 1:25:41
  THE GREAT AWAKENING. AND IT TELLS THE STORY OF THE FIRST
• 1:25:45
  GREAT AWAKENING IN THE 13 COLONIES THROUGH THE LENS OF
• 1:25:49
  BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BECOMES GOOD FRIENDS
• 1:25:54
  WITH AN EVANGELIST BY THE NAME OF GEORGE WHITFIELD. GEORGE
• 1:25:58
  WHITFIELD WAS SAVED AND TRAINED IN ENGLAND. HE STARTED PREACHING
• 1:26:03
  THE GOSPEL AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND BASICALLY KICKED HIM OUT
• 1:26:06
  BECAUSE HE WAS JUST PROCLAIMING TRUTH AND SALVATION. AND SO HE
• 1:26:10
  GOT ON THE BOAT, CAME ACROSS TO THE NEW COLONIES, AMERICA, AND
• 1:26:16
  STARTED EVANGELIZING. AND THE MOVIE PROCLAIMS IT. DID YOU SEE
• 1:26:22
  IT, JANET? IT PROCLAIMS THE GOSPEL SO CLEAR. I MEAN, SO MANY
• 1:26:26
  MOVIES THAT YOU SAY A CHRISTIAN MOVIE, YOU DON'T REALLY HEAR THE
• 1:26:29
  GOSPEL MESSAGE. THEY REFERENCE IT, BUT AN UNBELIEVER WOULD
• 1:26:33
  NEVER GET IT. BUT THIS MOVIE, YOU HEAR IT OVER AND OVER. IT'S
• 1:26:37
  SO GOOD. DID YOU KNOW THAT 80% OF THE PEOPLE LIVING IN AMERICAN
• 1:26:41
  COLONIES HEARD GEORGE WHITEFIELD PREACH IN PERSON AT SOME POINT
• 1:26:46
  IN THEIR LIVES? HE MADE THAT MUCH OF AN IMPACT. AND HE DID IT
• 1:26:49
  WITHOUT AMPLIFICATION. HE WAS TRAINED IN HOW TO RAISE HIS
• 1:26:53
  VOICE AND I HAVE TO HAVE AMPLIFICATION. I CAN'T DO IT
• 1:26:56
  WITHOUT THAT. BUT HE SPOKE TO THOUSANDS. SOMETIMES THERE WERE
• 1:27:01
  30,000 PEOPLE LISTENING TO HIM AND HE WAS DOING IT JUST OUT OF
• 1:27:05
  THE POWER OF HIS VOICE. BUT ANYWAY, THAT MOVIE, I DON'T KNOW
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  HOW LONG IT'LL BE ON, BUT IT'S WORTH IT. WE NEED TO SUPPORT
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  MOVIES LIKE THAT 'CAUSE IT WAS SO GOOD. SO IT'LL BUILD YOUR
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  FAITH. I DIDN'T HAVE THAT AS PART OF MY MESSAGE, BUT I WAS
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  JUST THINKING ABOUT IT BECAUSE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE MODERN
• 1:27:23
  CHURCH AND I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT GEORGE WHITEFIELD AND THE
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  AMAZING IMPACT THAT HE HAD. AND IF YOU PROCLAIM THE TRUTH, WE'LL
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  STAND BEFORE GOD SOMEDAY. PASTORS HANK AND BRENDA, THEY'LL
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  STAND BEFORE GOD SOMEDAY AND GOD WILL SAY, "WELL DONE, THOU GOOD
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  AND FAITHFUL SERVANTS, ENTER IN." BECAUSE THEY'RE TRYING TO
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  PROCLAIM THE TRUTH THE BEST THAT THEY KNOW. THE TRUTH OF GOD'S
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  RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT OF EVIL, IF THERE'S NO REPENTANCE, PERMEATES
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  THE BIBLE. BUT IT'S ESPECIALLY CLEAR IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION.
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  REVELATION INVITES US TO SING ALONG WITH THE SAINTS OF HEAVEN,
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  A SONG THAT CELEBRATES THE WRATH OF GOD. ACTUALLY, WE'LL BE IN
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  HEAVEN SINGING, CELEBRATING THE WRATH OF GOD AS A DEMONSTRATION
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  OF HIS PERFECT JUSTICE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS. REVELATION SHOWS
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  US THAT THE WRATH OF GOD WILL FALL ON THE EARTH TO CLEANSE AND
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  PURIFY IT. FINALLY, EVIL WILL BE DESTROYED. REVELATION PROVIDES
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  US WITH A RESPONSE TO THE QUESTION, "WHY DOESN'T GOD DO
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  SOMETHING ABOUT ALL THE EVIL AND THE SUFFERING IN THE WORLD?"
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  HAVE YOU EVER HEARD ANYONE ASK THAT QUESTION? THE ANSWER IS
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  THIS, "BE PATIENT. EVIL'S DAY OF DOOM IS SURELY COMING." AMEN?
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  ALL THE WHILE, WE'VE ALREADY SEEN AND WILL CONTINUE TO SEE
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  THAT GOD'S MERCY IS CONTINUALLY EXTENDED THROUGHOUT THE GREAT
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  TRIBULATION. I'M SO EXCITED. NEXT WEEK, WE'RE GOING TO TALK
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  ABOUT THERE'S GOING TO BE AN UNPRECEDENTED REVIVAL DURING THE
• 1:28:50
  END TIMES, DURING THIS TRIBULATION PERIOD. DESPITE THE
• 1:28:53
  DARKNESS, A GREAT NUMBER OF PEOPLE DURING THE TRIBULATION,
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  PEOPLE THAT MISSED THE RAPTURE, ARE GOING TO BE SAVED. GOD'S
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  MERCY JUST IS SO ABUNDANT, EVEN IN THAT TIME. HE RESURRECTS TWO
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  WITNESSES THAT WILL GO AROUND THE WORLD PROCLAIMING CHRIST.
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  ALSO, HE RAISES UP 144,000 JEWISH EVANGELISTS, JEWS THAT
• 1:29:19
  GET SAVED AND THEY TURN TO HIM. THEY'RE YOUNG CELIBATE MEN THAT
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  GO FORTH ACROSS THE WORLD AND PROCLAIMING THE GOSPEL, 144,000
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  OF THEM. THAT'S GOD'S MERCY FOR REDEMPTION OF MANKIND. AND THEN
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  IN ADDITION TO THAT, HE HAS AN ANGEL THAT'S GONNA BLANKET THE
• 1:29:38
  EARTH WITH THE GOSPEL, PROCLAIMING THE GOSPEL TO THE
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  EARTH. AN ANGEL WILL FLY ACROSS THIS EARTH, PROCLAIMING THE
• 1:29:46
  GOSPEL. WHAT ELSE COULD GOD DO? YOU KNOW, AND IF YOU'RE IN THE
• 1:29:51
  TRIBULATION PERIOD AND YOU MISS THE RAPTURE, YOU STILL HAVE A
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  SECOND CHANCE, PASTOR MARK. YOU STILL HAVE ANOTHER CHANCE. IT'S
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  NOT FUNNY, BUT YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST, I'M JUST JOKING BECAUSE
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  I'VE USED PASTOR MARK AT THAT EXAMPLE. HE'S GOING IN THE
• 1:30:10
  RAPTURE, BY THE WAY. BUT, YOU KNOW, THAT'S JUST SHOWING YOU
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  GOD'S MERCY, WILLIE. PEOPLE THAT ARE LEFT BEHIND, THEY MISS IT,
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  THE HARD-HEARTED, YOU KNOW. AND WHAT WAS IT PASTOR HANK WAS
• 1:30:24
  TALKING ABOUT? THE GNASHING OF TEETH, OR WHAT WAS THE OTHER?
• 1:30:27
  THE WEEPING? WEEPING AND GNASHING OF TEETH. SO THERE'LL
• 1:30:32
  BE SOME THAT'LL JUST SHAKE THEIR FIST AT GOD DURING THE
• 1:30:35
  TRIBULATION, AND EVEN WHEN THEY HEAR THE GOSPEL AGAIN, THEY JUST
• 1:30:39
  ARE HARD-HEARTED AND THEY'LL REFUSE. BUT THERE'LL BE SOME
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  THAT WILL WEEP AND ASK FOR FORGIVENESS. THEY MIGHT HAVE TO
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  GIVE THEIR LIFE, BUT THEY'LL GO TO HEAVEN. AND GOD GIVES THEM
• 1:30:49
  THAT CHANCE DURING THIS TIME OF TRIBULATION. THE HOLY SPIRIT
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  WILL CONTINUE TO BE ON THE EARTH, ENABLING PEOPLE TO BE
• 1:31:00
  SAVED, EVEN DURING THIS TIME OF INTENSE TRIBULATION. PEOPLE
• 1:31:05
  CAN'T BE SAVED WITHOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT. SO THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL
• 1:31:07
  NOT BE GONE. HE'LL BE ON THE EARTH DOING HIS WORK. HE WON'T
• 1:31:11
  BE HOLDING BACK THE EVIL BECAUSE GOD'S ALLOWING THAT TO HAPPEN.
• 1:31:15
  BUT HE WILL BE WORKING IN MAN'S HEARTS. THE TRIBULATION IS
• 1:31:20
  DESIGNED TO BRING PEOPLE TO REPENTANCE, INCLUDING LEADING
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  ISRAEL TO NATIONAL CONVERSION RATHER THAN MERE DESTRUCTION.
• 1:31:30
  AND THE OTHER GOOD THING ABOUT IT IS GOD FINALLY LIMITS THE
• 1:31:33
  DURATION OF THE EVIL. JESUS STATES THAT IF THE DAYS WERE NOT
• 1:31:37
  SHORTENED, NO FLESH WOULD SURVIVE. SO GOD PUTS A LIMIT TO
• 1:31:41
  HOW MUCH EVIL CAN HAPPEN DURING THAT DESTRUCTION DURING THE
• 1:31:44
  TRIBULATION. SO, WELL, THAT'S ALL WE'RE, I'M SORRY, IT'S 8:30,
• 1:31:49
  SO WE'LL DO PART TWO NEXT TIME. AS WE CLOSE TONIGHT, WHY DON'T
• 1:31:54
  YOU JUST STAND WITH ME AND WE'RE GONNA PRAY. FATHER, WE THANK YOU
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  FOR WHAT YOU'VE SHOWN US AND DISCLOSED TO US IN THE BOOK OF
• 1:32:03
  REVELATION. WHAT A MAGNIFICENT BOOK, LORD. WE'RE SO THANKFUL
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  FOR IT. AND WE'RE SO THANKFUL TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO
• 1:32:09
  UNDERSTAND YOUR PLAN FOR MANKIND. NOT ONLY WHILE WE'RE ON
• 1:32:14
  THIS EARTH, BUT WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE. WE'RE
• 1:32:17
  THANKFUL FOR THAT, LORD. YOU'VE REVEALED TO US, SOME PEOPLE ASK
• 1:32:20
  QUESTIONS AND SAY, WHY NOT THIS AND WHY NOT THAT? AND HOW DO I
• 1:32:24
  KNOW THIS? AND IS THERE GONNA BE JELL-O IN HEAVEN? AND ALL THOSE
• 1:32:27
  TYPES OF THINGS. I DON'T KNOW. WE DON'T MAKE A DOCTRINE OUT OF
• 1:32:31
  THAT. MAYBE THERE WILL BE JELL-O IN HEAVEN. BUT GOD'S GIVEN US
• 1:32:35
  WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW. HE'S GIVEN US EVERYTHING THAT WE NEED TO
• 1:32:40
  KNOW TO MAKE IT THERE. THAT'S WHAT'S IMPORTANT. AND WE'LL FIND
• 1:32:43
  OUT WHEN WE GET THERE, JANET, IF WE CAN EAT JELL-O. AND MAYBE
• 1:32:46
  IT'LL BE RED JELL-O, AND MAYBE IT'LL BE GREEN JELL-O. I DON'T
• 1:32:49
  KNOW. MAYBE WE'LL SEE MICHAEL JACKSON IN HEAVEN. THERE MIGHT
• 1:32:54
  BE A LOT OF THINGS THAT OPEN OUR EYES AND SURPRISE US. AND ONLY
• 1:32:59
  GOD KNOWS THAT. WE DON'T HAVE TO KNOW ALL THAT. BUT BE THANKFUL
• 1:33:04
  FOR WHAT YOU DO KNOW AND WHAT YOU CAN GLEAN WHILE YOU'RE ON
• 1:33:06
  THIS EARTH. AND THINK ABOUT ETERNITY AND SOULS AND WHAT CAN
• 1:33:10
  WE DO TO REACH PEOPLE. AND IF YOU NEED TO LINE YOUR LIFE UP TO
• 1:33:15
  BE MORE PRODUCTIVE IN WHAT GOD'S CALLED YOU TO DO, THEN DO IT.
• 1:33:22
  LET'S DO IT. LET'S REACH PEOPLE FOR CHRIST. LET'S USE OUR TIME
• 1:33:26
  TO BUILD RELATIONSHIPS AND GET INVOLVED IN OTHER PEOPLE'S
• 1:33:31
  LIVES. YOU KNOW, THIS LIFE THAT WE HAVE TODAY, I BELIEVE SOCIAL
• 1:33:36
  MEDIA AND TV AND INTERNET AND ALL THOSE THINGS, AS GOOD AS
• 1:33:40
  THEY ARE, CAN ALSO BE A CURSE IN SOME WAYS, BECAUSE WE ISOLATE
• 1:33:45
  OURSELVES. WE DON'T HAVE RELATIONSHIPS. WE DON'T TALK TO
• 1:33:47
  PEOPLE ANYMORE. IT'S ALL PEOPLE DON'T EVEN TALK TO PEOPLE
• 1:33:50
  ANYMORE WHEN THEY ASK FOR A DATE. THEY JUST GOT TO FIND THEM
• 1:33:53
  ONLINE AND WHATEVER. I MEAN, I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW THEY DO THAT
• 1:33:55
  ANYMORE, PASTOR ANTHONY, BUT THEY FIND THEIR WAY SOME WAY.
• 1:33:58
  YOU CAN'T EVEN ASK SOMEONE FOR A DATE ANYMORE. YOU JUST GOT TO DO
• 1:34:02
  IT ONLINE. AND AS GOOD AS WE'LL USE IT TO REACH PEOPLE WITH THE
• 1:34:08
  GOSPEL. BUT DON'T BE ISOLATED. TALK TO PEOPLE. BUILD
• 1:34:14
  RELATIONSHIPS. AND LET'S TAKE AS MANY PEOPLE AS WE CAN WHEN IT'S
• 1:34:20
  TIME FOR THE RAPTURE. AMEN? AMEN. WELL, GOD BLESS YOU. THANK
• 1:34:25
  YOU FOR COMING TONIGHT. BE IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD SUNDAY.
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  AND WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO IT. AMEN.
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  AND I'LL SEE YOU NEXT WEDNESDAY NIGHT, AND
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  WE'LL GO THROUGH PART TWO. AMEN. THANK YOU.
• 1:34:34
  (APPLAUSE)