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Pastor Chuck Swindoll | Insight for Living – Lawlessness: The Man and the Mystery, Part 2 · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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Speaker 1: We've all seen what happens when a teacher steps out
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Speaker 1: of the classroom or an authority figure disappears. Chaos breaks loose,
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Speaker 1: and one day the greatest restraining force the world has
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Speaker 1: ever known will be removed, and the man of lawlessness
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Speaker 1: will emerge. Today on inside for living, Chuck Swindall traces
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Speaker 1: the rise and fall of this man. The message comes
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Speaker 1: from his series called Steadfast Christianity, and Chuck is working
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Speaker 1: through four words.
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Speaker 2: That will help us in this study.
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Speaker 1: They are defiance, delay, destruction, and delusion. We resume our
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Speaker 1: study in second Thessalonians two.
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Speaker 3: First the defiance verse three, Let no one in any
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Speaker 3: way deceive you for it. That is the day of
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Speaker 3: the Lord. The time of earthly judgment will not come
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Speaker 3: unless number one, the apostasy, comes first, and number two
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Speaker 3: the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of Destruction,
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Speaker 3: who opposes and exalts himself above every so called God
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Speaker 3: or object of worship, so that he takes his seat
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Speaker 3: in the Temple of God, displaying himself as being God. Now,
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Speaker 3: if you let your mind wander and passages like this,
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Speaker 3: you will leave thinking this was kind of a boring talk.
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Speaker 3: But if you'll think with me. You'll find some real
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Speaker 3: interesting information. You may not agree with each of my interpretations,
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Speaker 3: but that's your prerogative. You want to be wrong, it's
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Speaker 3: up to you. I'm just gonna try to tell you
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Speaker 3: what I think it says. Please observe that before there
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Speaker 3: is the day of the Lord sweeping across this earth,
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Speaker 3: there must begin the apostasy, and second there must emerge
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Speaker 3: ultimately the man of lawlessness. The apostasy interests us. First
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Speaker 3: we see apostasy today, but it's like seeing the tip
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Speaker 3: of the iceberg. It's like the little trimmer of the
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Speaker 3: earthquake in light of the great quake yet to come.
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Speaker 3: The definite article is there on purpose. It is the apostasy,
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Speaker 3: as though there will never be another one like it
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Speaker 3: on the earth, and there will not. It's a time
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Speaker 3: of large scale, wholesale, widespread turning away from the truth
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Speaker 3: of scripture and obedience to God. I know there is
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Speaker 3: that in pockets of our world today. In fact, I
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Speaker 3: know there is a spirit of lawlessness that wraps itself
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Speaker 3: around our world. But there are still today marvelous movements
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Speaker 3: for Christ, great chunks of Christianity, pockets of people herein
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Speaker 3: Yon who would stand for Christ, and if necessary, die
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Speaker 3: for him. We have not entered the time of wholesale, worldwide,
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Speaker 3: large scale turning away from obedience to God and reverence
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Speaker 3: for scripture. Thankfully, we live in a land that allows
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Speaker 3: us the privilege and the freedom of worshiping our God
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Speaker 3: and holding his word high. There will be a day
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Speaker 3: in the apostasy when one will be killed for such
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Speaker 3: an act. It will be a time of unrestrained defiance
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Speaker 3: as this worldwide anti God movement is underway. The reason
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Speaker 3: it will be underway is because is the man of
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Speaker 3: lawlessness revealed here as the son of destruction. He will
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Speaker 3: be a human being. He will have enormous charisma. He
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Speaker 3: will have to use today's terms television presence. He will
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Speaker 3: be persuasive, He will be politically sophisticated. He will be
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Speaker 3: marvelously convincing in the realm of religion, so much so
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Speaker 3: that he will speak and people will be convinced that
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Speaker 3: his words come from God. He will do miracles and
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Speaker 3: wonders and signs, and he will give all of these
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Speaker 3: things as reason to follow him, and people by the millions,
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Speaker 3: by the billions, will follow this leader, even though he
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Speaker 3: opposes and exalts himself above every so called God and
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Speaker 3: object of worship, so that he himself becomes an object
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Speaker 3: of worship. He displays himself as deity in the flesh,
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Speaker 3: they will believe him. One reputable student of Scripture writes,
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Speaker 3: this will be the Antichrist, the great world dictator, who
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Speaker 3: will appear at that time, offering himself to the world
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Speaker 3: leaders as one who has these solution to their insoluble problems.
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Speaker 3: This figure is called in the Word of God by
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Speaker 3: several names, the Prince that shall come, the Little Horn,
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Speaker 3: the Beast, the Antichrist, the Son of Perdition, the wicked One,
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Speaker 3: the King of fierce countenance, the man of lawlessness, to
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Speaker 3: name a few. Clearly, he will be totally opposed to God.
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Speaker 3: My convictions are that when the believers are swept from
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Speaker 3: this earth to Heaven, and there is left chaos upon
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Speaker 3: this earth in their immediate absence, there will be the
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Speaker 3: need for someone to calm the waters. This man will
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Speaker 3: be primed and ready to speak. I believe he will
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Speaker 3: stand before not only a nation, but a world, and
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Speaker 3: will win their approval. He will have a body of
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Speaker 3: people serving as his emissaries, his cabinet. They will win
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Speaker 3: a hearing for him, They too will be gifted with
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Speaker 3: signs and miracles and wonders to attract the attention of
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Speaker 3: the masses, for those things always draw a crowd, and
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Speaker 3: in light of those works miracles, they will be prompted
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Speaker 3: to follow him. He will have a whole economic system
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Speaker 3: that he will offer, called in scripture the mark of
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Speaker 3: the Beast. People will have an identification that they will
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Speaker 3: carry that will allow them to buy and sell. Without it,
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Speaker 3: one cannot do that. Therefore, those who become Christians, as
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Speaker 3: difficult as it will be in that era, will be
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Speaker 3: unable to live in the marketplace freely buying and selling
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Speaker 3: as the non Christian world will live, and it will
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Speaker 3: become rugged, and it will in fact lead off into martyrdom.
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Speaker 3: Now there are those who don't claim that this is true. However,
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Speaker 3: I find this passage exceedingly helpful. When I come to
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Speaker 3: the Book of Daniel or the Book of Revelation to
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Speaker 3: find information about our future, I find other positions simply
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Speaker 3: don't have the specific answers that are needed to interpret
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Speaker 3: those passages. And while I'm not fascinated by the study,
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Speaker 3: I certainly find myself intrigued and drawn to it. For
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Speaker 3: some answers. Certainly explained some things that are happening in
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Speaker 3: our day, doesn't it. Now? There's delay right now? Verse five?
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Speaker 3: Do you not remember that while I was still with you,
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Speaker 3: I was telling you these things? And you know what
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Speaker 3: restrains him now? That in his time he may be revealed.
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Speaker 3: For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only
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Speaker 3: he who now will do so until he's taken out
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Speaker 3: of the way, and then the lawless one will be revealed. Now,
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Speaker 3: at the present time, there is a delay placed upon
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Speaker 3: this lawless lifestyle. There is a restraining power. Obviously, whoever
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Speaker 3: is able to restrain one that does the work of God,
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Speaker 3: quote unquote, will have to be stronger than any human being.
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Speaker 3: And therefore I believe the restrainer is the Holy Spirit.
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Speaker 3: I believe his work in the church is currently restraining sin.
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Speaker 3: There is a twice repeated statement in this passage regarding
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Speaker 3: restraining verse six. You know what restrains him now verse seven.
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Speaker 3: He who now restrains will continue to do so till
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Speaker 3: he's taken out of the way. If you were to
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Speaker 3: press me with a question, you would ask Quinn, will
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Speaker 3: let a O. I take it that when the believers
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Speaker 3: are swept from this earth to Heaven. With them goes
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Speaker 3: the same marvelous presence of the Holy Spirit that has
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Speaker 3: been doing his work, making his moves, shaping our world
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Speaker 3: in God's direction. And when that presence of the Spirit
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Speaker 3: of God as we now know it is removed, restraint
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Speaker 3: is removed, and the authority figure now emerges as the
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Speaker 3: man of sin, and he will, at least for a while,
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Speaker 3: take charge. As long as the Church of Jesus Christ
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Speaker 3: is present on this earth, lawlessness remains under great restraint.
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Speaker 3: By the way, when I say that, it reminds me
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Speaker 3: of a couple of scenes out of my life. I
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Speaker 3: remember a scene out of my elementary school days and
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Speaker 3: a scene out of my military days when I was
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Speaker 3: stationed overseas in the Marine Corps. This first one occurred
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Speaker 3: when I was in about the fourth or fifth grade,
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Speaker 3: I don't remember which, third, fourth, fifth, somewhere long there,
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Speaker 3: and we had a teacher who was very, very strong
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Speaker 3: and strict, and she was good, but I'll tell you
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Speaker 3: didn't get away with one spit. Wid Now, there was
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Speaker 3: one occasion where she had us all reading in our
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Speaker 3: books and we were to read the next eight pages,
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Speaker 3: and she left the room, unfortunately, leaving us to read.
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Speaker 3: And a spit wat No need to mention who from
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Speaker 3: but a spit wad moved from the left of the
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Speaker 3: room to the behind the left ear of a fellow
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Speaker 3: on the right of the room, through a straw that
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Speaker 3: came from a milk carton at lunch was perfect shot.
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Speaker 3: And the person whose ear was struck decided to take
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Speaker 3: an eraser in revenge. And then another fellow took watercolor
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Speaker 3: pan and poured it on the girl in front of him.
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Speaker 3: I was a victim of this. I couldn't imagine kids
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Speaker 3: doing that in my elementary school. But that it just
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Speaker 3: broke up. Now the fellow tied pigtails of a girl
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Speaker 3: to the chair so that when she stood up, she
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Speaker 3: looked like Samson at the Gate, you know. And I
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Speaker 3: mean it just broke loose until the restrainer came back.
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Speaker 3: It was It was really something when the restrainer returned
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Speaker 3: to the classroom. The other occurred after we had been
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Speaker 3: in the field about ten days, and we were rank
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Speaker 3: and in a rather foul mood. And you got a
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Speaker 3: group of a thousand marines together in one chow haul,
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Speaker 3: you have disaster in the making. And so happened that
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Speaker 3: the mess officer left early that evening, and someone noticed it,
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Speaker 3: and because he didn't like his pie, decided to push
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Speaker 3: it in the face of the guy sitting next to him,
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Speaker 3: who took his tray and emptied it all over the fellow,
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Speaker 3: and before long there were layers of pie and meat
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Speaker 3: and gravy and potatoes every square foot. I got out
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Speaker 3: of there. I couldn't imagine guys doing stuff like that,
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Speaker 3: but I'm telling you it was really something. Because the
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Speaker 3: restrainer had left, so happened that evening that he heard
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Speaker 3: the noise, which was unusual noise coming from the mess hall,
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Speaker 3: and he came back in. It was a great moment
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Speaker 3: in my life when he stepped in. As I recall,
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Speaker 3: I was up to my armpits and pie and gravy
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Speaker 3: and potatoes and all because the restrainer had left. Now
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Speaker 3: we'll laugh about stories, and we've all been through them,
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Speaker 3: or at least partly like that. We've seen it happen
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Speaker 3: when some authority steps out of the scene. And what
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Speaker 3: happens when the human nature occurs or begins to emerge.
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Speaker 3: I find no better interpretation for this section of scripture
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Speaker 3: in several others than that, I think gratefully to God.
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Speaker 3: We are in an interlude, a time of great grace,
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Speaker 3: where the spirit of God is moving in great chunks
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Speaker 3: of time, and we're among it right here in southern California.
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Speaker 3: It's a marvelous thing to be a part of it.
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Speaker 3: You can't even describe it at times. And it's so good.
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Speaker 3: And some of the miraculous things God is doing, and
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Speaker 3: some of the marvelous events that are occurring in the
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Speaker 3: shaping of lives and the changing of events, it's amazing.
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Speaker 3: Even in the political scene, God is at work. What
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Speaker 3: a time to be alive. One man writes it this way.
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Speaker 3: It is necessary to define what is meant, but the
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Speaker 3: Day of the Lord. In a word, it is the
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Speaker 3: period of time predicted in the scripture when God will
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Speaker 3: deal directly with human sin. It includes the tribulation time
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Speaker 3: preceding the Second Advent of Christ, as well as the
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Speaker 3: whole millennial reign. It will culminate in the judgment of
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Speaker 3: the Great White Throne. The Day of the Lord is
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Speaker 3: therefore an extended period of time, an extended period of
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Speaker 3: time lasting over one thousand years. This has brought out
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Speaker 3: in the events included in the Day of the Lord,
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Speaker 3: presented in chapter of five of First Thessalonians. Our present
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Speaker 3: time is a day of grace. God is not attempting
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Speaker 3: in our day to deal directly with human sin. He
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Speaker 3: may impose judgment in some cases. But there are many
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Speaker 3: wicked people who flourish, who have health and wealth. They
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Speaker 3: may succeed in business, even though they are not Christians
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Speaker 3: and not honoring the Lord. The Lord is not attempting
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Speaker 3: to straighten that out. Now this is a day of grace.
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Speaker 3: But there will be a time when He does step
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Speaker 3: on the scene to deal with such events, and that
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Speaker 3: will be a time of great destruction. Locate if you
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Speaker 3: will verse eight. Then that lawless one will be revealed,
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Speaker 3: whom the Lord will slay with the breath of his
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Speaker 3: mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of
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Speaker 3: his coming. That is the one whose coming is in
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Speaker 3: accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and
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Speaker 3: signs and false wonders, and with all the deception of wickedness.
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Speaker 3: I call this event a first round knockout. After the
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Speaker 3: events of that time of great tribulation have unfolded, and
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Speaker 3: this earth has grown and ached through one scene after another,
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Speaker 3: than our Lord Jesus will come exactly as in Revelation nineteen,
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Speaker 3: and will put an end to this beast and his following,
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Speaker 3: his emissaries, his entourage, and will establish himself as King
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Speaker 3: of kings and Lord of lords. Now, men and women,
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Speaker 3: most of you have never trafficked in the Satanic realm.
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Speaker 3: You've not been involved in what has been commonly called
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Speaker 3: in our day a ministry of deliverance. You probably have
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Speaker 3: seen demon oppression and possession, but didn't know it. Some
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Speaker 3: of you would know it, a few of you, And
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Speaker 3: I want to tell you, as a minister of the
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Speaker 3: Gospel and one not given to foolishness and extremism, the
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Speaker 3: few times I have dealt with satanic and demonic activity,
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Speaker 3: I've found myself all struck. It is a frightening encounter,
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Speaker 3: and my experience with it has not been sought, nor
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Speaker 3: has it been frequent. I can't imagine a scene on
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Speaker 3: this earth that lasts for years under the direction of
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Speaker 3: one so motivated and inhabited by the evil one himself.
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Speaker 3: I can't imagine what he will direct. But by comparison
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Speaker 3: with the tribulation we know today, it defies description, and
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Speaker 3: many will believe him, and will follow his lie and
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Speaker 3: will openly and deliberately reject the truth of scripture. And
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Speaker 3: God's response Verses eleven and twelve is one of delusion.
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Speaker 3: For this reason, because they have made their bed, he
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Speaker 3: will have them lie in it. God will send upon
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Speaker 3: them a deluding influence so they might believe what is false,
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Speaker 3: in order that they all may be judged. Who did
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Speaker 3: not believe the truth but took pleasure in wickedness sounds
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Speaker 3: to me like Romans one. Not only did they believe
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Speaker 3: in and evil lifestyle, but they took pleasure in that lifestyle,
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Speaker 3: and God gave them over to it, so there is
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Speaker 3: no recourse but to carry it to its ultimate. That's
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Speaker 3: the scene here. If you forget the context, you'll judge
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Speaker 3: God as being uncaring and without compassion. If you understand
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Speaker 3: the deliberateness of their unbelief, you'll say God is doing
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Speaker 3: what is just and what is right. I struggled a
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Speaker 3: bit with whether I should conclude the message as I'm
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Speaker 3: going to conclude it, but I think I shall. I'd
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Speaker 3: like you to turn to Revelation nineteen. I'd like to
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Speaker 3: read the concluding scene on this Earth as a wrap
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Speaker 3: up for a message on lawlessness, the man, and the mystery.
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Speaker 3: You've patiently sat and listened through this, and I appreciate
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Speaker 3: your hearing. Ear. I want this scene to emerge from
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Speaker 3: the Bible in all of its vivid color, so it
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Speaker 3: doesn't need any help from me. It says it well
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Speaker 3: by itself, your reading of the event that will occur
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Speaker 3: when our Lord Jesus faces the Antichrist at Armageddon nineteen eleven.
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Speaker 3: I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse, and
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Speaker 3: he who set upon it is called faithful and true,
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Speaker 3: and in righteousness. He judges and wages war, and his
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Speaker 3: eyes are a flame of fire. And upon his head
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Speaker 3: are many diadema, meaning crowns, many diadems. He has a
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Speaker 3: name written upon him which no one knows except himself.
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Speaker 3: He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and
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Speaker 3: his name is called the Word of God. That's not
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Speaker 3: the name written on him, but that's the name he's
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Speaker 3: known as. It's clearly the Lord Jesus Christ identified in
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Speaker 3: John One as the Word of God. And the armies
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Speaker 3: which are in heaven, I take these to be the
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Speaker 3: believers swept from the earth at the day of Christ.
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Speaker 3: The armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen,
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Speaker 3: white and clean, were following him on white horses. And
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Speaker 3: from his mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with
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Speaker 3: it he may smite the nations, and he will rule
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Speaker 3: them with a rod of iron. And he treads the
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Speaker 3: wine press of the fierce wrath of God the Almighty.
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Speaker 3: And on his robe and on his thigh he has
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Speaker 3: a name written King of Kings and Lord of Lords
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Speaker 3: verse nineteen. And I saw the beast. That's the man
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Speaker 3: we just read about, and the king of the earth.
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Speaker 3: These would be the political rulers in that day, and
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Speaker 3: their armies assembled to make war against him. Can you
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Speaker 3: imagine the one who sat upon the horse and against
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Speaker 3: his army, and the beast was seized. This is the
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Speaker 3: first round knockout. The beast was seized, and with him
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Speaker 3: the false prophet who performed the signs in his presence,
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Speaker 3: by which he deceived those who had received the mark
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Speaker 3: of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These
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Speaker 3: two were thrown alive into the lake of fire, which
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Speaker 3: burns with brimstone. The man and his campaign manager are
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Speaker 3: both forever removed. Turned the page, Chapter twenty, verse eleven.
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Speaker 3: What about the unsaved. I saw a great white throne,
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Speaker 3: and him who sat upon it, from whose presence earth
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Speaker 3: and heaven fled away, and no place was found for them.
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Speaker 3: The thing that makes them move so difficult is we
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Speaker 3: lose our place. Paul Treney has written a great book
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Speaker 3: called A Place for You. He talks about how all
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Speaker 3: of us have a place from conception. We have a place,
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Speaker 3: the womb of our mother at birth, in the arms
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Speaker 3: of our parents, growing up, in the home where we live.
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Speaker 3: This is what gives an orphan such trauma. He lacks
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Speaker 3: or she lacks a place. And here, for the first
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Speaker 3: time in their conscious awareness, there's no place. There's no earth,
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Speaker 3: Heaven has changed. The whole surrounding is disorienting, and they
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Speaker 3: are now standing naked before the living God at this
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Speaker 3: great throne. If I read this correctly, I saw the dead,
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Speaker 3: small and great, standing before the throne. Verse twelve books
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Speaker 3: were opened. Another book was opened, which is the Book
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Speaker 3: of Life, and the dead were judged from the things
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Speaker 3: which were written in the books according to their deeds.
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Speaker 3: The sea gave up the dead in it, Death and
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Speaker 3: hades gave up the debt which were in them. They
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Speaker 3: were judged. Every one of them according to their deeds
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Speaker 3: and death and hades were thrown into the Lake of fire.
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Speaker 3: This is the second death, the lake of fire, and anyone,
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Speaker 3: if anyone's name was not found written in the Book
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Speaker 3: of Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
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Speaker 3: How do I respond and how do I handle this? Well?
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Speaker 3: If I am a child of God, I am relieved.
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Speaker 3: I have great hope, great promise in my Savior's return
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Speaker 3: for me. If I'm without Christ, I have the greatest
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Speaker 3: need that's ever been present in the human heart, the
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Speaker 3: need to turn my life over to someone who can
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Speaker 3: get me through eternity. That's Christ and Christ alone.
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Speaker 2: I'd like est boutlegar.
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Speaker 3: I'm grateful, Father for your truth that lives and abides
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Speaker 3: forever where I have done it a disservice. Forgive me.
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Speaker 3: May it be quickly forgotten spoken the truth, May it
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Speaker 3: never be forgotten. May it run and have free course
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Speaker 3: through the power of your Spirit.
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Speaker 4: In this day of great grace, not simply that we
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Speaker 4: might miss hell and gain heaven, but out of praise
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Speaker 4: and adoration, that we might live for You.
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Speaker 2: For the rest of our lives.
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Speaker 3: It is in the name of Jesus Christ we.
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Speaker 1: Pray Amen, chuckx Wendall has just offered you the most
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Speaker 1: important invitation you'll ever receive, and the question he asked
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Speaker 1: is worth sitting with. Can you look back to a
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Speaker 1: moment when you gave your life to Christ if you
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Speaker 1: can reaffirm it today out of love and gratitude. If
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Speaker 2: H'm Bill Meyer.
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Speaker 1: Join us When Chuckswyndall continues his study in second Thessalonians
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