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Speaker 1: Have you ever looked at the world and wondered, is
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Speaker 1: this how it all ends? You can almost hear people
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Speaker 1: whisper is the world falling apart? But the truth is
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Speaker 1: it's not falling apart. It's falling into place. Because long
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Speaker 1: before the first star was hung in the sky, God
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Speaker 1: already wrote the final chapter. Isaiah forty six ten declares,
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Speaker 1: I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient
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Speaker 1: times what is still to come. My purpose will stand,
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Speaker 1: and I will do all that I please. The end
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Speaker 1: of the world isn't chaos. It's completion. It's not a
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Speaker 1: surprise to heaven. It's the unfolding of a divine story
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Speaker 1: written before time began. From Genesis to Revelation, everything moves
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Speaker 1: toward one purpose, to restore what sin destroyed. God began
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Speaker 1: with a garden, he will finish with a kingdom. The
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Speaker 1: Bible doesn't end with destruction. It ends with real union,
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Speaker 1: Heaven and earth finally reconciled, Creation, finally healed, humanity finally home.
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Speaker 1: But we don't always see it that way, do we.
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Speaker 1: We see headlines. He sees prophecy, we see fear, he
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Speaker 1: sees fulfillment, we see endings. He sees eternity. The world
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Speaker 1: trembles under the weight of uncertainty, but Heaven's throne hasn't
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Speaker 1: shifted an inch. What's coming isn't the end of God's control,
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Speaker 1: it's the revelation of it. Every generation is asked when
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Speaker 1: will the end come? But the better question is am
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Speaker 1: I ready for his plan to be complete? Because the
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Speaker 1: end isn't about prediction, It's about preparation. God isn't trying
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Speaker 1: to scare you, He's trying to awaken you. By the
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Speaker 1: end of this teaching, you'll see that prophecy isn't meant
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Speaker 1: to create panic, it's meant to create purpose. You'll discover
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Speaker 1: that every shaking is an invitation, every warning a whisper
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Speaker 1: of mercy, and every sign a signal that the author
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Speaker 1: is returning to finish his story. We're here to help
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Speaker 1: you grow in truth, to prepare your heart for eternity,
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Speaker 1: not just inform your mind about prophecy. Now, let's open
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Speaker 1: Scripture together and see what Jesus himself said about how
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Speaker 1: this world will truly end? What did Jesus say? If
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Speaker 1: you want to understand how the world ends, don't start
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Speaker 1: with movies, theories, or predictions. Start with the words of Jesus,
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Speaker 1: because when the disciples asked him the same question we
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Speaker 1: still ask to day, what will be the sign of
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Speaker 1: your coming and of the end of the age. He
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Speaker 1: didn't stay silent. He didn't tell them to ignore it
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Speaker 1: or panic over it. He gave them a road map,
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Speaker 1: not to fuel fear, but to build faith. In Matthew
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Speaker 1: twenty four, Jesus began with a warning before he gave
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Speaker 1: a time line. See that no one deceives you. He
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Speaker 1: knew the greatest danger in the last days wouldn't be disasters.
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Speaker 1: It would be deception. Before there are earthquakes and wars,
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Speaker 1: there will be false prophets, false christs, and false comfort.
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Speaker 1: The shaking begins in the mind long before it reaches
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Speaker 1: the earth. Then he said, you will hear of wars
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Speaker 1: and rumors of wars, but see to it that you
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Speaker 1: are not alarmed. These things must happen, but the end
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Speaker 1: is still to come. Notice that must happen. Jesus wasn't
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Speaker 1: describing random chaos. He was describing divine necessity. Each wave
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Speaker 1: of trouble pushes the story closer to redemption. Each storm
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Speaker 1: moves the ship towards shore. Nation will rise against nation
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Speaker 1: and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes
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Speaker 1: in various places. All these are the beginning of birth
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Speaker 1: pain Matthew twenty four, seven to eight. Birth pains. That
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Speaker 1: one phrase changes everything. The end isn't a funeral, it's
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Speaker 1: a labor. The world isn't dying, it's delivering. Every contraction
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Speaker 1: of crisis is creation, groaning for newness. What feels like
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Speaker 1: collapse is actually transit. In Luke twenty one, Jesus looked
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Speaker 1: up and said, there will be signs in the sun,
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Speaker 1: moon and stars on the earth. Nations will be in
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Speaker 1: anguish and perplexity. Men will faint from terror Verse twenty
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Speaker 1: five to twenty six. It sounds like chaos, but he
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Speaker 1: didn't end with fear. He ended with hope. When these
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Speaker 1: things begin to take place, stand up and lift your heads,
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Speaker 1: because your redemption is drawing near. Did you catch that
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Speaker 1: while the world bows down in panic, believers look up
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Speaker 1: in peace. The shaking of nations is not a sign
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Speaker 1: of God. God's absence, It's a signal of his approach.
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Speaker 1: When Jesus spoke these words, he wasn't just giving information.
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Speaker 1: He was revealing perspective. He was saying, don't mistake my
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Speaker 1: silence for distance, or world disorder for my defeat. The
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Speaker 1: things that terrify the world are the very signs that
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Speaker 1: tell the Church he's coming. And yet many of us
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Speaker 1: live more attached to the temporary than the eternal. We
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Speaker 1: fear losing the world we were never meant to keep.
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Speaker 1: That's why Jesus added in Matthew twenty four twelve, because
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Speaker 1: of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will
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Speaker 1: grow cold. The greatest prophecy of the end isn't just
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Speaker 1: about wars and earthquakes. It's about hearts. The real earthquake
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Speaker 1: happens inside us when love grows cold, when faith fades,
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Speaker 1: when comfort replaces conviction. But he didn't leave us hopeless.
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Speaker 1: The one who stands firm to the end will be
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Speaker 1: saved Volume thirteen. That's not passive endurance, it's active faith.
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Speaker 1: Standing firm doesn't mean hiding from the storm. It means
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Speaker 1: holding on through it, because faith that only works in
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Speaker 1: comfort is counterfeit. Real faith stands when everything shakes. Jesus
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Speaker 1: was brutally honest about what was coming, but his words
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Speaker 1: were drenched in mercy. He wasn't trying to terrify his followers.
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Speaker 1: He was training them. He wanted them to see that
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Speaker 1: every tremor is temporary and that no war, no famine,
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Speaker 1: no persecution can stop what God has decreed. So what
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Speaker 1: did Jesus really say about the end? He said, it's
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Speaker 1: not the end for those who belonged to him. He
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Speaker 1: said deception would rise, but truth would remain. He said
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Speaker 1: darkness would deepen, but light would shine brighter. He said
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Speaker 1: fear would fill the world, but faith would fill his people.
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Speaker 1: The end times are not a countdown to destruction. They're
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Speaker 1: a countdown to reunion. When Jesus returns, he's not coming
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Speaker 1: to destroy his children. He's coming to deliver them. That's
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Speaker 1: why Matthew twenty four isn't a chapter of despair. It's
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Speaker 1: a love letter of warning. Every prophecy Jesus gave was
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Speaker 1: wrapped in compassion. He didn't say be afraid, he said
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Speaker 1: be ready. So when you look at the world, when
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Speaker 1: wars break out, when morality crumbles, when nature convulses, don't
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Speaker 1: let fear dictate your faith. Instead, remember these words. When
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Speaker 1: you see these things begin to take place, stand up
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Speaker 1: and lift your heads, because the sky that's filled with
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Speaker 1: smoke today will soon split open with glory. The same
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Speaker 1: clouds that hide the sun will one day carry the sun.
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Speaker 1: He is not delaying, he is preparing. He is not distant.
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Speaker 1: He is liberate. The story isn't ending, it's unfolding, exactly
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Speaker 1: as he said. The question isn't when will it happen?
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Speaker 1: Its will you be ready when it does? What are
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Speaker 1: the signs? Jesus said? The signs would be everywhere, written
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Speaker 1: in the sky, echoing in the earth, and trembling in
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Speaker 1: the human heart. The heavens would shift, nations would crumble,
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Speaker 1: and creation itself would groan like a woman in labor.
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Speaker 1: There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars
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Speaker 1: on the earth. Nations will be in anguish and perplexity
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Speaker 1: Luke twenty one, twenty five. These aren't random events. They
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Speaker 1: are divine signals. The world's chaos is not God's absence,
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Speaker 1: it's his announcement. Every generation has seen wars and disasters,
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Speaker 1: but never with this global intensity. Earthquakes, multiply, fires, rage,
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Speaker 1: storms grow stronger, and the earth grows louder. It's as
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Speaker 1: though Creation itself is trying to shake humanity awake. Romans
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Speaker 1: eight twenty two says, we know that the whole creation
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Speaker 1: has been groaning, as in the pains of childbirth, right
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Speaker 1: up to the present time. Every rumble of the ground
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Speaker 1: and roar of the sky is creation's cry. The King
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Speaker 1: is coming. And while the earth trembles, so does morality.
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Speaker 1: The signs aren't only natural, they're spiritual. The greatest decay
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Speaker 1: isn't in the soil, but in the soul, Jesus said
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Speaker 1: in Matthew twenty four twelve. Because lawlessness will abound, the
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Speaker 1: love of many will grow cold. That's the sign most
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Speaker 1: people ignore, the slow freezing of hearts. When love grows cold,
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Speaker 1: sin burns hotter. You see it in our world, deception
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Speaker 1: celebrated as truth, purity mocked as weakness, violence normalzed, and
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Speaker 1: greed justified. Every moral shift is prophecy unfolding. Isia saw
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Speaker 1: our generation and wrote, woe to those who call evil
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Speaker 1: good and good evil Isia five twenty. That isn't poetic,
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Speaker 1: it's diagnostic. False prophets now preach comfort without conviction, influence
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Speaker 1: without integrity, pleasure without purity. They promise heaven while denying hell,
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Speaker 1: and people follow them not because they speak truth, but
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Speaker 1: because they soothe conscience. That too, is a sign two
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Speaker 1: Timothy four to three says the time will come when
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Speaker 1: people will not put up with sound doctrine. They will
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Speaker 1: gather around them teachers to say what their itching ears
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Speaker 1: want to hear. We are living in that time. The
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Speaker 1: air waves are full of prophets of convenience, while the
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Speaker 1: word gathers dust. And yet for those with spiritual eyes,
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Speaker 1: this darkness doesn't discourage, it confirms. Because Jesus said these
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Speaker 1: things must happen, he didn't say might, he said must.
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Speaker 1: Every shaking proves the foundation of his word is unshakable.
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Speaker 1: The signs in nature mirror the signs in humanity. The
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Speaker 1: ground quakes, so does morality. The atmosphere shifts, so does allegiance.
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Speaker 1: The sun darkens, so does understanding. The closer we get
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Speaker 1: to the return of Christ, the louder creation and conscience
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Speaker 1: will cry for redemption. And what about the signs in
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Speaker 1: the heavens? Astronomical anomalies, eclipses, and cosmic disturbances all remind
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Speaker 1: us that the universe itself is not eternal. Scientists call
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Speaker 1: them natural cycles. Believers call them divine signals. God painted
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Speaker 1: prophecy not only in words, but in the stars themselves.
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Speaker 1: Joel two thirty to thirty one foretold it centuries ago.
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Speaker 1: I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth,
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Speaker 1: blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will
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Speaker 1: be turned to darkness and the moon to blood. Before
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Speaker 1: the coming of the great and dreadful Day of the Lord,
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Speaker 1: we've seen glimpses of it, blood moons, cosmic unrest, and
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Speaker 1: celestial patterns that cause the world to wonder. But to
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Speaker 1: those who know scripture, they are not random. They are reminders.
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Speaker 1: And then there are the signs of global unrest. Jesus
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Speaker 1: said there would be wars and rumors of wars Matthew
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Speaker 1: twenty four to six. That phrase alone describes our new cycle,
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Speaker 1: from political upheaval to nuclear threats, from divided nations to
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Speaker 1: divided hearts. The world is boiling, But while people panic,
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Speaker 1: Heaven's plan proceedds. The Bible doesn't just describe the end.
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Speaker 1: It describes the escalation. Like contractions before birth, the signs
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Speaker 1: increase in frequency and intensity. The closer we get to
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Speaker 1: his return, the less time there will be between crises.
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Speaker 1: What use to shock will become normal, What once felt
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Speaker 1: distant will become personal. But here's the hope. For every shaking,
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Speaker 1: there's a shelter. Jesus said, when these things begin to
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Speaker 1: take place, stand up and lift your heads, because your
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Speaker 1: redemption is drawing near Luke twenty one, twenty eight. That
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Speaker 1: means when the world looks down in fear, the believer
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Speaker 1: looks up in faith. Every crisis that weakens the world
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Speaker 1: strengthens the church. Every tremor that shakes the ground shakes
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Speaker 1: loose our attachment to it. These signs aren't to make
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Speaker 1: us afraid. They're to make us awake. When a storm
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Speaker 1: is coming. A wise person doesn't run in stane circles.
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Speaker 1: They run for cover, and Christ is that covering. If
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Speaker 1: you're watching the world and wondering why does it feel
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Speaker 1: like everything is falling apart, it's because the world is
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Speaker 1: groaning for a new creation. The same hands that shaped
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Speaker 1: it will soon remake it. The same voice that said
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Speaker 1: let there be light will soon say behold, I make
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Speaker 1: all things new. Until then, the signs will keep shouting
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Speaker 1: what many still ignore that Jesus is coming soon and
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Speaker 1: the clock of grace is still ticking. The signs are
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Speaker 1: not meant to satisfy curiosity. They're meant to stir repentance.
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Speaker 1: And so look around. But then look up, look at
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Speaker 1: the signs, but then look beyond them, because the message
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Speaker 1: in every shaking storm and sin filled generation is the same.
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Speaker 1: Redemption draws near. Who is the Antichrist? Every story needs
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Speaker 1: a villain, but this one is not fiction. The Bible
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Speaker 1: speaks of a real man, a counterfeit Messiah, who will
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Speaker 1: rise in the final days to deceive the nations. He
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Speaker 1: will not come with horns or hide in shadows. He
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Speaker 1: will come shining, persuasive, eloquent, believable. He will not call
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Speaker 1: himself evil. He will promise peace. He will speak the
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Speaker 1: language of unity, tolerance, and progress. But beneath his calm
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Speaker 1: tone beats the same pride that turned Lucifer into Satan,
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Speaker 1: the desire to be worshiped. Paul called him the man
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Speaker 1: of lawlessness, the son of destruction. Second Thessalonians two three,
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Speaker 1: John called him the Antichrist. Jesus called him the one
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Speaker 1: who comes in his own name. He's not just a
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Speaker 1: political leader. He's the final counterfeit of everything Christ represents.
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Speaker 1: Sac Two Thessalonians two four describes him clearly. He will
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Speaker 1: oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called
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Speaker 1: God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up
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Speaker 1: in God's temple, proclaiming himself to be God. That's his
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Speaker 1: ultimate goal, not destruction but deception, not war but worship.
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Speaker 1: The Antichrist will not demand fear at first. He will
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Speaker 1: win admiration. He will rise out of chaos as the
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Speaker 1: answer to it, a savior in the eyes of the desperate.
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Speaker 1: Revelation thirteen calls him the beast, not because he will
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Speaker 1: look monstrous, but because he will embody the heart of rebellion.
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Speaker 1: He will receive power from the dragon Satan himself, and
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Speaker 1: the world will marvel. His authority will stretch beyond politics.
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Speaker 1: It will invade faith, the economy, and culture. He will
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Speaker 1: create a system where allegiance is not optional, where loyalty
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Speaker 1: to him replaces loyalty to God. Many wonder if the
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Speaker 1: Antichrist is already alive. Scripture doesn't reveal his name, but
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Speaker 1: it does reveal his nature. One John two eighteen says,
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Speaker 1: even now many Antichrists have come. The spirit of Antichrist
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Speaker 1: has always been among us, the spirit that denies Christ's divinity,
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Speaker 1: mocks holiness, and glorifies self. Every system that exalts Man
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Speaker 1: and removes God is a rehearsal for the coming deception.
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Speaker 1: This spirit is subtle. It hides behind good causes, moral language,
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Speaker 1: and technological progress. It convinces humanity that we no longer
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Speaker 1: need a savior because we can save ourselves. It celebrates
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Speaker 1: science but denies the Creator, preaches love but erases truth.
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Speaker 1: It's not waiting to appear. It's preparing the world's heart
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Speaker 1: right now. When Paul said the mystery of lawlessness is
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Speaker 1: already at work second Thessalonians two seven, he meant the
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Speaker 1: groundwork is being laid beneath our feet. The world is
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Speaker 1: being conditioned for a global savior, someone charismatic enough to
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Speaker 1: unite politics, religion, and power. He will speak of peace
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Speaker 1: while making war against heaven. He will promise freedom while
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Speaker 1: in slaving souls. He will build an empire not of nations,
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Speaker 1: but of worship. And yet he will not appear unchecked.
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Speaker 1: Paul wrote that the Antichrist cannot be revealed until the
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Speaker 1: one who now restrains him is taken out of the
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Speaker 1: way verse seven. That restraining power is the Holy Spirit
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Speaker 1: working through the Church. As long as the true believers
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Speaker 1: stand filled with the spirit, darkness cannot fully take the throne.
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Speaker 1: But when that restraint lifts. When the church is removed
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Speaker 1: or silenced, the stage will be set for the great deception.
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Speaker 1: What makes the Antichrist so dangerous is not his hatred
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Speaker 1: of God God, but his imitation of him. He will
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Speaker 1: perform false miracles, use prophetic language, and even mimic resurrection.
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Speaker 1: Revelation thirteen three says one of the heads of the
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Speaker 1: beast seem to have had a fatal wound, but the
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Speaker 1: fatal wound had been healed. It will look like death
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Speaker 1: and resurrection, a counterfeit gospel to seduce those who never
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Speaker 1: love the truth, and many will follow him, not because
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Speaker 1: they are evil, but because they will choose comfort over conviction.
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Speaker 1: They will trade truth for safety, eternity for temporary peace.
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Speaker 1: The Antichrist will offer what the flesh craves, a religion
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Speaker 1: without repentance, prosperity without holiness, progress without God. But his
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Speaker 1: reign will be short. Daniel saw his fall long before
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Speaker 1: his rise. He will be destroyed, but not by human
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Speaker 1: power Daniel eight twenty five. Jesus himself will end his
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Speaker 1: deception with the breath of his mouth and the brightness
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Speaker 1: of his coming. Second Thessalonians two eight. One word from
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Speaker 1: the word will undo every lie. One flash of glory
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Speaker 1: will erase every shadow. That's why believers need not live
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Speaker 1: in fear. The Antichrist's power will be great, but it
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Speaker 1: will be borrowed. His time will be brief, his empire fragile,
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Speaker 1: his throne temporary, every counterfeit crown will fall before the
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Speaker 1: king of kings. The question isn't who is the Antichrist.
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Speaker 1: The real question is what spirit rules your heart? Because
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Speaker 1: long before the beast rules the nations, the spirit of
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Speaker 1: Antichrist rules individuals. Any heart that exalts self above surrender.
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Speaker 1: You don't prepare for the Antichrist by studying his symbol.
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Speaker 1: You prepare by surrendering to Christ. The safest place in
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Speaker 1: the end times isn't under a government or a movement.
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Speaker 1: It's under the Blood. So when you see the world
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Speaker 1: rushing toward deception, don't lose hope. Lift your head, because
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Speaker 1: before the deceiver takes his seat, the deliverer will rise
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Speaker 1: from his throne. And when he does, the imitation will
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Speaker 1: end and the true king will reign forever. What is
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Speaker 1: the Great Tribulation? Jesus called it a time of great distress,
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Speaker 1: unequaled from the beginning of the world until now and
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Speaker 1: never to be equalled again Matthew, twenty four, twenty one.
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Speaker 1: The Bible names it the Great Tribulation, a final storm
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Speaker 1: of suffering that will shake every nation, test every heart,
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Speaker 1: and separate the faithful from the false. It's not just
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Speaker 1: another war or crisis. It's the culmination of every rebellion
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Speaker 1: and every prophecy. The Tribulation is not random wrath. It
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Speaker 1: is divine justice. It's the moment when mercy gives way
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Speaker 1: to judgment, when the patience of God finally confronts the
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Speaker 1: persistence of sin. For centuries, God has extended grace, pleading
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Speaker 1: forgiving warning, but the world has hardened its heart. When
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Speaker 1: that grace period ends, judgment begins. Revelation six through nineteen
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Speaker 1: unfolds it in vivid, terrifying poetry, seals, broken trumpets, sounding
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Speaker 1: bowls of wrath poured out. The world that rejected God
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Speaker 1: will face the consequences of its own rebellion. Peace will vanish,
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Speaker 1: economies will collapse, Plagues will sweep the earth, and darkness
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Speaker 1: will cover nations. The Antichrist will reign, enforcing his mark
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Speaker 1: on every soul who refuses to worship God. But even
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Speaker 1: in judgment, mercy shines. God will not leave the earth
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Speaker 1: without witnesses. Revelation seven to Is scribes a multitude sealed
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Speaker 1: by God, a group so vast that no one can
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Speaker 1: count them. These are the faithful who refuse the mark
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Speaker 1: of the beast, who endure persecution yet remain loyal to
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Speaker 1: the Lamb. Their suffering is immense, but their victory is eternal.
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Speaker 1: The Great Tribulation is both horror and hope. Horror for
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Speaker 1: the unrepentant, hope for the redeemed. In Matthew twenty four
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Speaker 1: twenty two, Jesus said, if those days had not been
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Speaker 1: cut short, no one would survive. But for the sake
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Speaker 1: of the elect, those days will be shortened. Even judgment
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Speaker 1: bows to mercy. God's wrath is never reckless. It is measured,
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Speaker 1: controlled and purposeful. To understand this time, you must see
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Speaker 1: both sides, the darkness of sin and the light of salvation.
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Speaker 1: The Tribulation is God's megaphone to a deaf world, a
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Speaker 1: final cry before eternity closes its door. It's not cruelty,
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Speaker 1: its clarity. The world that mock repentance will finally face
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Speaker 1: reality that every prophecy was true. Imagine it. The sun
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Speaker 1: darkened the moon turning red, oceans poisoned, stars falling, the
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Speaker 1: earth trembling. Yet amid the terror, there stands are remnant.
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Speaker 1: Revelation twelve eleven says they overcame him by the blood
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Speaker 1: of the lamb and by the word of their testimony.
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Speaker 1: They did not love their lives so much as to
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Speaker 1: shrink from death. These are not superheroes, their believers, who
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Speaker 1: loved God more than comfort. While the world bows to fear,
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Speaker 1: they bow only to Christ. They refuse the mark of
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Speaker 1: the beast, knowing it might cost their lives. They cling
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Speaker 1: to a truth deeper than survival, that death is temporary,
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Speaker 1: but loyalty to Jesus is eternal. The tribulation will expose
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Speaker 1: what people truly worship. When comfort collapses, character is revealed,
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Speaker 1: when compromise becomes costly, faith becomes visible. Some will curse
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Speaker 1: God for their pain. Others will cry out to Him
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Speaker 1: for mercy. Even in the final hour, Grace will still call.
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Speaker 1: Many will be saved in that time, Revivals will break
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Speaker 1: out in the ashes of destruction. God's heart will still
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Speaker 1: beat for redemption even as he cleanses creation. But the
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Speaker 1: suffering will be unlike anything before. Revelation nine describes torment
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Speaker 1: so severe that people will long for death but not
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Speaker 1: find it. The nations will rage, the Antichrist will rise,
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Speaker 1: and humanity will realize that every promise of the world
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Speaker 1: was a lie. Every idol will crumble, every false security
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Speaker 1: will burn, and every proud heart will break. Yet those
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Speaker 1: who endure will see something glorious. Out of the smoke
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Speaker 1: and ruin. Heaven will open, angels will sound trumpets, and
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Speaker 1: the lamb will prepare to return. For the faithful, the
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Speaker 1: tribulation is not the end, it's the threshold. They will
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Speaker 1: trade their tears for crowns, their crosses for songs. The
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Speaker 1: Great Tribulation reminds us that faith was never meant to
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Speaker 1: be comfortable. It was meant to be courageous. Christianity isn't
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Speaker 1: built for calm seas, it's built for storms. The Church
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Speaker 1: will face persecution, but she will not perish. The world
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Speaker 1: may silence her voice, but it cannot stop her victory.
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Speaker 1: And that's why Jesus said, when these things begin to happen,
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Speaker 1: stand firm Luke twenty one nineteen. He didn't say survive,
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Speaker 1: he said stand, because in the end, the only thing
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Speaker 1: that will matter is where you stand. When everything else falls.
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Speaker 1: The tribulation will shake the earth, but it will also
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Speaker 1: purify the bride of Christ. The fire of persecution refines
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Speaker 1: faith like gold. Those who endure to the end will
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Speaker 1: shine brighter than ever because they'll have learned the secret
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Speaker 1: that suffering cannot steal what surrender has secured. So when
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Speaker 1: you hear about famine, war, or collapse, don't let fear
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Speaker 1: rule your heart. Remember every prophecy of judgment is a
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Speaker 1: prophecy of justice. Evil will not win, sin will not last.
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Speaker 1: The Antichrist may reign for a moment, but Christ will
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Speaker 1: reign forever. The great Tribulation is not the victory of darkness.
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Speaker 1: It's the countdown to dawn. It's the shaking that makes
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Speaker 1: way for glory, the storm that precedes the King's return.
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Speaker 1: Because when the sky splits open and the trumpet sounds,
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Speaker 1: all the suffering will make sense. Every tear, every loss,
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Speaker 1: every prayer whispered in fear, will find its answer in
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Speaker 1: one breathtaking moment, the return of the King. How will
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Speaker 1: Jesus return. It will not be quiet, it will not
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Speaker 1: be hidden, it will not be symbolic. The second coming
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Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ will be the most visible undeniable and
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Speaker 1: world shattering event in human history. Scripture says, then I
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Speaker 1: saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse. The one
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Speaker 1: sitting on it is called faithful and true, and in
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Speaker 1: righteousness he judges and makes war. Revelation nineteen eleven. For
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Speaker 1: centuries the world has asked, where is this Jesus. You
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Speaker 1: talk about, nations, mock his name, skeptics laugh at his promises.
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Speaker 1: But on that day no one will question again. Every
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Speaker 1: eye will see him, every knee will bow, every tongue,
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Speaker 1: believer and blasphemer alike will confess that he is Lord.
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Speaker 1: Philippians two ten to eleven. When Jesus first came, he
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Speaker 1: came wrapped in humanity, born in a manger, riding on
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Speaker 1: a donkey, crowned with thorns. But when he returns, he
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Speaker 1: will come robed in glory, riding a white horse, crowned
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Speaker 1: with many crowns. The first time he came to save,
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Speaker 1: the second time he comes to rule. The same hands
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Speaker 1: that were pierced will now hold a sword. The same
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Speaker 1: voice that whispered mercy will thunder judgment. Matthew twenty four
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Speaker 1: twenty seven says, for as lightning comes from the east
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Speaker 1: and flashes to the west. So will be the coming
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Speaker 1: of the Son of Man. That's not a metaphor, it's
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Speaker 1: a promise. The return of Christ will be as sudden
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Speaker 1: as lightning and as visible as dawn breaking across the sky.
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Speaker 1: No broadcast, no technology, no news anchor will announce him.
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Speaker 1: The heavens themselves will split open and declare it. Picture it,
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Speaker 1: the skies, trembling, stars dimming, the sound of a trumpet
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Speaker 1: echoing through the cosmos. The dead in Christ rising first,
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Speaker 1: graves breaking open like doors flung wide, first Thessalonians four sixteen.
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Speaker 1: Then those still alive in faith will be caught up,
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Speaker 1: transformed in the blink of an eye, bodies glorified mortality,
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Speaker 1: swallowed by immortality First Corinthians fifteen fifty two to fifty three.
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Speaker 1: The weight of sin will drop like chains, and eternity
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Speaker 1: will begin to breathe inside of us. This isn't a
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Speaker 1: myth or poetic exaggeration. It's the fulfillment of everything the
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Speaker 1: prophets long to see. Zechariah foresaw it. The Lord will
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Speaker 1: go out and fight against those nations. His feet will
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Speaker 1: stand on the mount of Olives Zechariah fourteen three to four.
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Speaker 1: The same mountain that watched him ascend will feel the
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Speaker 1: tremor of his return. And when he comes, he will
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Speaker 1: not arrive as a gentle teacher or suffering servant. He
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Speaker 1: will return as the warrior King. Revelation nineteen twelve to
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Speaker 1: sixteen paints him with eyes like fire and a robe
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Speaker 1: in white. On his robent thigh, a name is written,
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Speaker 1: King of kings and Lord of lords. Every empire, every throne,
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Speaker 1: every ideology will collapse before that name. For believers, that
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Speaker 1: moment will be the end of waiting, the reunion of eternity.
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Speaker 1: Every unanswered prayer, every tear, every loss will melt in
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Speaker 1: his presence. The bride will finally see her groom. The
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Speaker 1: redeemed will finally see their redeemer. The world will shake,
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Speaker 1: but heaven will sing. But for those who have rejected him,
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Speaker 1: that same sight will bring terror. Revelation six fifteen to
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Speaker 1: sixteen describes kings and generals hiding in caves, crying out
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Speaker 1: to the mountains. Fall on us and hide us from
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Speaker 1: the face of him who sits on the throne. They
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Speaker 1: will finally see the one they ignored and they will
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Speaker 1: realize too late that grace was never weakness, It was warning.
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Speaker 1: The second Coming is the great reversal of history, every
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Speaker 1: injustice avenged, every lie exposed, every broken system dissolved. It
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Speaker 1: is the moment when mercy yields to majesty, when the
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Speaker 1: lamb who was slain stands as the lion who reigns,
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Speaker 1: and no power on earth, no weapon, no government, no
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Speaker 1: deception will stop him. For believers, the call is clear
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Speaker 1: when these things begin to happen. Look up, Luke twenty
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Speaker 1: one twenty eight. Don't look down in fear, look up
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Speaker 1: in faith. The same clouds that carried him away will
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Speaker 1: carry him back. The trumpet is not meant to frighten.
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Speaker 1: It's meant to awaken. And here is the wonder. This king,
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Speaker 1: who will come in fire, still invites you now in love.
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Speaker 1: Before before he rides in judgment, he knocks in mercy
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Speaker 1: Revelation three twenty Behold, I stand at the door and knock.
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Speaker 1: The one who will one day split the sky is
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Speaker 1: right now whispering to your heart. His return is both
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Speaker 1: a promise and a question. The promise he will come,
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Speaker 1: the question will you be ready? Because when that trumpet sounds.
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Speaker 1: There will be no time to prepare, only time to stand.
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Speaker 1: The world will wail, the church will rise, and the
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Speaker 1: king will claim what is his. And when every crown
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Speaker 1: has fallen, one crown will remain, One throne will stand.
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Speaker 1: One name will fill the heavens, Jesus Christ, faithful and true.
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Speaker 1: What is the final judgment? There will come a day
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Speaker 1: when time itself stands still, The earth will fall silent,
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Speaker 1: the skies will roll back like a scroll, and every
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Speaker 1: heart be will answer the same summons. Revelation twenty twelve says,
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Speaker 1: and I saw the dead, great and small standing before
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Speaker 1: the throne, and books were opened. It doesn't matter who
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Speaker 1: you were, the ruler or the beggar, the believer or
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Speaker 1: the blasphema. Every soul will stand before the throne of God.
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Speaker 1: This is not a myth. It is the most certain
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Speaker 1: appointment in human history. Hebrews nine twenty seven declares it
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Speaker 1: is appointed unto man once to die. And after this
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Speaker 1: judgment you may escape trials, opinions, or accounterbuilt in life,
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Speaker 1: But no one escapes this. Every secret thought, every careless word,
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Speaker 1: every hidden motive will be unveiled in the light of
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Speaker 1: His holiness. The scene is beyond imagination. The throne is white,
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Speaker 1: not from marble, but from purity around it. No shadows
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Speaker 1: exist because justice leaves no room for them. The judge
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Speaker 1: seated upon it is not corrupt, tired, or biased. He
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Speaker 1: is Jesus Christ, the one who bore mercy and now
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Speaker 1: executes righteousness. The same lamb who died for the world
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Speaker 1: now sits as the lion who judges it. John writes
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Speaker 1: that books were opened Revelation twenty twelve. What are these books?
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Speaker 1: They are the records of every life, every act of kindness,
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Speaker 1: every act of cruelty, every prayer whispered in faith, every
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Speaker 1: sin committed in pride, nothing forgotten, nothing hidden. The books
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Speaker 1: don't lie. They reveal what the mouth denied. But then
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Speaker 1: John sees another book, the Book of Life, and that
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Speaker 1: book changes everything, because while the first books record what
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Speaker 1: we've done, the Book of Life records what Jesus has
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Speaker 1: done for us. Every aim written in it belongs to
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Speaker 1: those who accepted his sacrifice, those who were washed in
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Speaker 1: his blood. Revelation twenty fifteen says any one whose name
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Speaker 1: was not found written in the Book of Life was
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Speaker 1: thrown into the lake of fire. That's not poetic. Language.
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Speaker 1: Its justice. Hell is not a punishment for those God hates.
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Speaker 1: It's a consequence for those who refused his love. The
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Speaker 1: Cross was offered to every person, but not everyone accepted it.
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Speaker 1: God doesn't send people to hell. People choose it by
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Speaker 1: rejecting him. Judgment is not cruelty, its confirmation of choice.
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Speaker 1: For those in Christ, however, the scene is different. Romans
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Speaker 1: eight one assures us there is now no condemnation for
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Speaker 1: those who are in Christ Jesus. When the redeemed stand
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Speaker 1: before the throne, they will not be condemned. They will
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Speaker 1: be commended. Their judgment is not for punishment, but for reward.
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Speaker 1: Paul wrote in Second Corinthians five ten, we must all
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Speaker 1: appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each may
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Speaker 1: receive what is due for the things done while in
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Speaker 1: the body. This is the bamer seat where believers receive crowns,
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Speaker 1: not of gold, but of glory. Imagine it Jesus looking
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Speaker 1: into your eyes, not as judge, but as savior, the
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Speaker 1: one whose blood erased your sin. Now celebrating your obedience.
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Speaker 1: Every act of love, every moment of faith, every unseen sacrifice,
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Speaker 1: will shine like jewels in his hands. Tears will fall,
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Speaker 1: but not from fear, from gratitude, gratitude that mercy won,
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Speaker 1: gratitude that your name is written in the book, that
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Speaker 1: no demon can erase. But for the unrepentant, the moment
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Speaker 1: will be dreadful. Revelation twenty eleven says Earth and sky
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Speaker 1: fled from his presence. The creator they deny, will stand
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Speaker 1: before them, and there will be no defense. Every excuse
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Speaker 1: one they mocked will show them the scars that could
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Speaker 1: have saved them. And when the sentence is spoken, it
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Speaker 1: will be just for every knee will bow, not some,
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Speaker 1: not most every. The final judgment is where mercy and
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Speaker 1: justice finally meet at the cross. Mercy triumphed at the throne,
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Speaker 1: Justice reigns. Together they reveal the full character of God,
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Speaker 1: perfect love and perfect righteousness. He cannot ignore sin, but
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Speaker 1: he refuses to ignore grace. For all of eternity. That
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Speaker 1: moment will echo the books opened, the names called the
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Speaker 1: destinies sealed. But for those written in the Lamb's Book
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Speaker 1: of Life, judgment will turn into jubilee because the judge
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Speaker 1: himself became their justification. This is why Jesus said in
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Speaker 1: John five twenty four. Whoever hears my word and believes
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Speaker 1: him who sent me has eternal life and will not
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Speaker 1: be judged, but has crossed over from death to life.
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Speaker 1: The verdict has already been rendered for those who belong
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Speaker 1: to him not guilty. So the question isn't whether judgment
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Speaker 1: will come. It will. The question is which book your
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Speaker 1: name will be in the Book of Deeds or the
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Speaker 1: book of life. One records your works, the other records his.
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Speaker 1: One leads to justice, the other to joy. On that
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Speaker 1: day there will be no lawyers, no appeals, no second chances,
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Speaker 1: only truth, only eternity, only Jesus. And when the final
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Speaker 1: name is read and the last book closed, heaven will
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Speaker 1: erupt in a sound unlike any before, praise that shakes creation.
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Speaker 1: The redeemed will fall on their faces, crying. Worthy is
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Speaker 1: the Lamb who was slain to receive honor and glory forever.
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Speaker 1: That is the destiny of those who trust him. Not fear,
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Speaker 1: not judgment, but eternal fellowship with the one who wrote
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Speaker 1: your name in his book before the world began. How
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Speaker 1: will Satan be defeated? For thousands of years, he has
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Speaker 1: slithered through human history, lying, deceiving, destroying, the one called
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Speaker 1: the accuser, the tempter, the serpent of old. He watched
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Speaker 1: Eden fall, watched Cain murder, watch nations rise in pride,
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Speaker 1: watch prophets bleed, and even dared to whisper to the
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Speaker 1: Son of God in the wilderness. From Genesis to Revelation,
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Speaker 1: Satan has tried to undo what God has done. But
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Speaker 1: his story, like every story that exalts itself above God,
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Speaker 1: has an ending, and it ends in fire. Revelation twenty
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Speaker 1: them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur,
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Speaker 1: one verse is the death certificate of evil. The same
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Speaker 1: enemy who deceived Eve, who accused Job, who entered Judas,
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Speaker 1: and who still whispers to every weary soul, will finally
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Speaker 1: meet justice. No parole, no escape, no more roaming the
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Speaker 1: earth like a roaring lion. The lion of Hell will
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Speaker 1: bow before the lion of Judah. But notice how God
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Speaker 1: defeats him. Not with a long battle, not with struggle
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Speaker 1: or sweat. Satan's defeat doesn't take an army it takes
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Speaker 1: a word. Second. Thessalonians two eight says the Lord Jesus
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Speaker 1: will overthrow him with the breath of his mouth and
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Speaker 1: destroy him by the splendor of his coming. Think about that.
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Speaker 1: For all of human history Satan has plotted, schemed, and resisted,
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Speaker 1: and Jesus will end him with a breath. That's how
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Speaker 1: powerless the devil truly is next to the authority of Christ.
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Speaker 1: One divine exhale, one flash of glory, and millennia of
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Speaker 1: rebellion collapse into silence. The same voice that said let
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Speaker 1: there be light, will say let there be no more
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Speaker 1: darkness before the lake of fire. There will be one
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Speaker 1: final rebellion after Christ's thousand year reign of peace. Revelation
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Speaker 1: twenty seven says, when the thousand years are over, Satan
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Speaker 1: will be released from his prison. It is last gasp.
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Speaker 1: He will gather nations again for war against the Holy City.
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Speaker 1: But this time there will be no cross to climb,
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Speaker 1: no saints to deceive, no delay in justice. Fire came
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Speaker 1: down from heaven and devoured them Volume nine. Just like that,
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Speaker 1: no negotiation, no resistance, just divine finality. That's the end
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Speaker 1: of Evil's empire. The dragon who once ruled by fear
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Speaker 1: will become a prisoner to it. The accuser who pointed
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Speaker 1: fingers will have no one left to accuse. The destroyer
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Speaker 1: Matthew twenty five, forty one. But those who align with
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Speaker 1: his rebellion share his fate. Not because God delights in punishment,
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Speaker 1: but because rebellion has consequences for every believer who's ever
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Speaker 1: been tormented, tempted, or oppressed. This is the moment Creation
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Speaker 1: has longed for, the day when spiritual warfare ends, when
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Speaker 1: the devil's voice is silenced forever Revelation twelve ten. For
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Speaker 1: dados it me now have come the salvation and the
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Speaker 1: of His Christ. For the accuser of our brothers, who
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Speaker 1: hurled down. Do you realize what that means? The devil
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Speaker 1: who accused you for every sin you ever committed will
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Speaker 1: who told you you'd never be forgiven will be the
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Speaker 1: will roar, the angels will shout, The redeemed will sing.
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Speaker 1: Every tear of pain, every sleepless night, every battle against
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Speaker 1: temptation will find its vindication, because the enemy of your
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Speaker 1: soul will never rise again. It's not just the end
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Speaker 1: of Satan's rule. It's the beginning of eternal peace. No
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Speaker 1: more lies in your mind, no more warfare in your spirit,
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Speaker 1: no more fear at night. The same Jesus who cast
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Speaker 1: out demons with a word will cast the devil out
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Speaker 1: defeat won't come through violence, It will come through holiness.
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Speaker 1: Satan cannot survive the presence of perfect purity. The light
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Speaker 1: of Christ is uninhabitable to darkness. When he returns in glory,
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Speaker 1: that light will consume everything that opposes it. Every demonic
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Speaker 1: throne will crumble, every curse will break, every stronghold will burn.
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Speaker 1: Even now that light is working in you, the blood
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Speaker 1: of Jesus already stripped the enemy of his power. Colossians
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Speaker 1: two fifteen says, having disarmed the powers and authorities, he
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Speaker 1: made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by
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Speaker 1: the cross. The devil's defeat began not in Revelation, but
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Speaker 1: at Calvary. The cross wasn't weakness, it was warfare. What
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Speaker 1: looked like loss was the greatest victory Heaven ever won.
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Speaker 1: So when you resist temptation, when you pray through oppression,
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Speaker 1: when you stand your ground in faith, you're enforcing a
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Speaker 1: victory that's already written. Your reminding Hell that it's on
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Speaker 1: borrowed time. Every no you say to Sin echoes the
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Speaker 1: final Know that God will speak to Satan himself, and
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Speaker 1: when that final moment comes, there will be no rematch,
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Speaker 1: no rebellion, no return. The serpent who slithered through Eden
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Speaker 1: will be chained forever. The deceiver who spoke lies will
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Speaker 1: be silenced. The destroyer who caused death will be destroyed.
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Speaker 1: Then will come the sound Heaven has waited for since Genesis.
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Speaker 1: The roar of victory Revelation twenty one four will become reality.
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Speaker 1: He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will
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Speaker 1: be no more death or mourning or crying or pain,
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Speaker 1: for the old order of things has passed away. That
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Speaker 1: is the triumph of Christ. Evil will not win, Satan
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Speaker 1: will not rise again, and those who endured his attacks
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Speaker 1: will rule beside the one who conquered him. The cross
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Speaker 1: was the promise, the return is the fulfillment. And when
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Speaker 1: that final word is spoken, when the breath of Jesus
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Speaker 1: extinguishes evil, forever, the universe will breathe peace again. What
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Speaker 1: comes after the end? After the final trumpet fades, after
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Speaker 1: Satan falls silent, after the judge has spoken, something breath
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Speaker 1: taking happens. The Book of Revelation shifts from fire to light,
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Speaker 1: from judgment to joy. The story that began in a
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Speaker 1: garden finally ends in a city, pure, radiant, eternal. Then
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Speaker 1: I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for
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Speaker 1: Revelation twenty one one. This is not the destruction of
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Speaker 1: God who once spoke let there be light, will speak again. Behold,
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Speaker 1: I make all things new. The same hands that shaped
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Speaker 1: Eden will reshape eternity, this time, never to decay, never
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Speaker 1: adorned for her husband, Streets of transparent gold, gates of pearl,
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Speaker 1: and a river of life flowing from the throne of
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Speaker 1: God Revelation twenty one ten to twenty one. There is
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Speaker 1: no temple there because the Lord himself is the temple.
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Speaker 1: There is no sun or moon because his presence is
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Speaker 1: the light. No night, no darkness, no shadow, only glory.
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Speaker 1: And at the heart of it all, a voice from
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Speaker 1: heaven cries out, Look, God's dwelling place is now among
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Speaker 1: the people, and he will dwell with them. They will
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Speaker 1: be his people, and God himself will be with them
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Speaker 1: and be their God. Revelation twenty one three. That's the
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Speaker 1: goal of the entire Bible. God with us, not through
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Speaker 1: a veil, not through faith, but face to face, every
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Speaker 1: tear wiped away, every fear forgotten, every scar turned into song.
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Speaker 1: Verse four continues, he will wipe every tear from their eyes.
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Speaker 1: There will be no more death or mourning or crying
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Speaker 1: or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.
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Speaker 1: Can you imagine that the things that haunt you now,
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Speaker 1: the pain, the loss, the regrets gone, not ignored, erased.
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Speaker 1: The new creation won't just be better, it will be perfect.
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Speaker 1: The curse that began in Genesis will end in Revelation.
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Speaker 1: No more thorns, no more sweat, no more distance between
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Speaker 1: God and man. The serpent is gone, the ground restored,
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Speaker 1: the lamb enthroned. It's not Heaven floating somewhere in clouds.
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Speaker 1: It's Heaven invading Earth. The new Jerusalem descends, merging Heaven's
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Speaker 1: glory with Earth's beauty. This isn't escape, its restoration, its
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Speaker 1: God finishing what he started, and this time nothing will
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Speaker 1: break it again. The nations will walk by his light.
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Speaker 1: The redeemed will reign with him forever Revelation twenty two five.
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Speaker 1: Work will become worship, and every task will feel like praise,
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Speaker 1: the creativity of Eden, the peace of Sabbath, the intimacy
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Speaker 1: of God's presence, all restored in perfect harmony. Think of it.
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Speaker 1: No more hospitals, no cemeteries, no wars, no lies, no
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Speaker 1: child crying from hunger, no family torn by sin, no
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Speaker 1: prayer unanswered, every longing fulfilled, every promise kept. And through
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Speaker 1: it all, we will never again wonder if God loves us,
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Speaker 1: because His love will be the very air we breathe.
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Speaker 1: John wrote that we will see his face Revelation twenty
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Speaker 1: two four, the same face Moses couldn't look at without dying.
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Speaker 1: We will gaze upon forever the one we prayed to
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Speaker 1: in faith, we will finally see in full. Every act
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Speaker 1: of worship on earth was rehearsal for that moment, and
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Speaker 1: on that day you won't need faith any more, only
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Speaker 1: joy for believers. This is home. For centuries, Christians have
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Speaker 1: longed for it, suffered for it, died believing in it.
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Speaker 1: Abraham looked for this city, the prophets foresaw it, the
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Speaker 1: martyrs held on to it, and one day soon we'll
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Speaker 1: walk its streets and know it was all worth it.
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Speaker 1: But this isn't just a promise for some day. It's
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Speaker 1: a pattern for to day. The same God who will
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Speaker 1: renew the universe wants to renew you now. Every time
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Speaker 1: you forgive, every time you love, every time you surrender,
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Speaker 1: a little piece of the new creation breaks into the old.
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Speaker 1: The Kingdom is already here, whispering through the ruins, preparing
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Speaker 1: hearts for the world that's coming. And yet the invitation
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Speaker 1: still stands. Revelation ends with an open door. The Spirit
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Speaker 1: and the bride say come, and let the one who hears,
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Speaker 1: say come. Let the one who is thirsty come, and
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Speaker 1: let the one who wishes take the free gift of
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Speaker 1: the water of life. Revelation twenty two seventeen. Heaven's gates
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Speaker 1: aren't closed yet. The fountain of grace still flows, The
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Speaker 1: lamb still calls your name. Each end of the world
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Speaker 1: is not the end of hope. It's the beginning of home.
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Speaker 1: It's where faith becomes sight, where prophecy becomes presents, where
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Speaker 1: love finally has no rival, and when time itself dissolves,
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Speaker 1: when eternity begins its endless dawn, we'll look back and
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Speaker 1: see that every moment of pain, every trial, every unanswered
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Speaker 1: prayer was not forgotten. It was redeemed. Because this is
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Speaker 1: how the story ends. Jesus wins, evil ends, Heaven begins forever.
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Speaker 1: How should we live now? If everything you've just heard
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Speaker 1: is true, if Christ really will return, if judgment really
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Speaker 1: is coming, if eternity really is closer than it feels,
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Speaker 1: then the question that matters most is not when, but
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Speaker 1: how how do we live now? Between prophecy and fulfillment,
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Speaker 1: between grace and glory. Because the Bible never gives us
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Speaker 1: the timeline to predict, it gives us the truth to prepare.
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Speaker 1: Jesus didn't say figure out the day, he said be
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Speaker 1: ready Matthew twenty four forty four. Readiness is not fear.
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Speaker 1: It's faithfulness. Its living like eternity starts tonight. It's waking
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Speaker 1: up every morning, asking if he came to day, would
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Speaker 1: he find me faithful. In Matthew twenty five, Jesus told
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Speaker 1: us story about ten virgins waiting for the bridegroom. Five
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Speaker 1: were wise and brought oil for their lamps. Five were
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Speaker 1: foolish and ran out when the midnight cry came. The
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Speaker 1: bridegroom is here. Only the ready ones entered in. The
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Speaker 1: rest were left outside, pleading too late. That parable isn't
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Speaker 1: about oil, It's about obedience. It's about the light of faith,
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Speaker 1: burning until he returns. So how should we live now?
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Speaker 1: With urgency, not panic, but purpose, not building bunkers but
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Speaker 1: building the kingdom. Romans thirteen eleven says, the hour has
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Speaker 1: already come for you to wake up from your slumber,
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Speaker 1: because our salve vation is nearer now than when we
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Speaker 1: first believed. Every sunrise is one step closer to his appearing.
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Speaker 1: Every breath is borrowed time to love, forgive, and preach
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Speaker 1: the gospel. While grace still knocks. We live also with purity.
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Speaker 1: One John three three says all who have this hope
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Speaker 1: in him purify themselves just as he is pure. The
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Speaker 1: hope of his coming should cleanse us, not just comfort us.
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Speaker 1: You can't long for his return and love your sin
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Speaker 1: at the same time. Every time you choose holiness over habit,
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Speaker 1: every time you walk away from what's easy toward what's eternal,
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Speaker 1: your living like someone who believes the king is near.
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Speaker 1: We live with watchfulness. Jesus warned, be careful, or your
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Speaker 1: hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and the
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Speaker 1: anxieties of life, and that day will close on you
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Speaker 1: suddenly like a trap. Luke twenty one thirty four. The
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Speaker 1: enemy doesn't always tempt us with evil. Sometimes he just
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Speaker 1: distracts us with busyness. The devil doesn't need you to
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Speaker 1: hate God, he just needs you to forget about him.
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Speaker 1: But those who keep their eyes fixed on heaven will
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Speaker 1: never fall asleep to the signs of the times. We
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Speaker 1: live with love, Jesus said, By this, everyone will know
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Speaker 1: that you are my disciples, if you love one another.
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Speaker 1: John thirteen thirty five. The closer the end comes, the
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Speaker 1: colder love will grow in the world, but in the
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Speaker 1: church it should burn hotter. This is not the time
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Speaker 1: for division or pride or argument. It's the time for mercy, forgiveness,
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Speaker 1: and unity. The same gospel that warns about wrath commands
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Speaker 1: us to walk in love, because only love can reach
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Speaker 1: the heart still running from truth. We live with mission.
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Speaker 1: Jesus said, this Gospel of the Kingdom will be preached
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Speaker 1: in the whole world as a testimony to all nations,
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Speaker 1: and then the end will come Matthew twenty four fourteen.
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Speaker 1: That's the timeline right there. The end won't come through
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Speaker 1: politics or panic, but through proclamation. God delays not because
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Speaker 1: he's forgotten, but because he's merciful, giving more time for repentance.
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Speaker 1: Every soul you reach brings the world one step closer
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Speaker 1: to home. And finally, we live with hope, not the
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Speaker 1: fragile hope of circumstances, but the fierce, unshakable hope of glory.
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Speaker 1: Titus two thirteen calls it the blessed hope, the appearing
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Speaker 1: of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.
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Speaker 1: Hope is not denial. It's direction. It's what keeps you
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Speaker 1: steady when headlines scream, when the world trembles, when your
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Speaker 1: heart feels tired. Hope doesn't say I know what's coming next,
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Speaker 1: It says, I know who's coming next. So how do
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Speaker 1: we live now? The same way Noah did when he
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Speaker 1: built the Ark while the world laughed, The same way
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Speaker 1: Daniel did when he prayed in a land of idols,
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Speaker 1: the same way the early Church did when Rome burned.
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Speaker 1: And they still sang with conviction, with courage, with eyes
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Speaker 1: fixed not on what's passing, but on what's permanent. Because
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Speaker 1: every small act of obedience echoes in eternity, every sacrifice,
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Speaker 1: every prayer, every choice for truth. When the world chooses compromise,
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Speaker 1: it all matters. The end times aren't meant to make
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Speaker 1: us hide. They're meant to make us shine. Philippians two
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Speaker 1: fifteen says, then you will shine among them like stars
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Speaker 1: in the sky, as you hold firmly to the word
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Speaker 1: of life. You were born for this generation, chosen not
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Speaker 1: to escape the darkness, but to stand as light in it.
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Speaker 1: When the world says everything is ending, you can say no,
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Speaker 1: everything is about to begin. So stay ready, keep your lampful,
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Speaker 1: your heart clean, your hands busy in love. The same
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Speaker 1: Jesus who left through the clouds is coming back through them.
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Speaker 1: And when he does, may he find you not frightened
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Speaker 1: but faithful, not hiding but shining, not sleeping but awake,
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Speaker 1: because one day, maybe soon, the sky will split, the
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Speaker 1: trumpet will sound, and everything temporary will fall away. And
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Speaker 1: in that moment all that will matter is that you
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Speaker 1: were his and he was yours. Live, Ready, Live, Holy, Live, expectant.
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Speaker 1: The King is coming. So here we stand at the
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Speaker 1: edge of eternity, looking back through the storm of prophecy
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Speaker 1: and the silence of waiting. You've heard about creation, rebellion, redemption,
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Speaker 1: judgment and glory. You've seen the Antichrist rise and fall,
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Speaker 1: the tribulation and shake the earth, the King return, Satan destroyed,
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Speaker 1: and Heaven descend. But now comes the question that has
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Speaker 1: always echoed through scripture and still whispers through the human heart.
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Speaker 1: Are you ready? Because the end of the world isn't
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Speaker 1: a story about destruction. It's a revelation of design, God's design.
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Speaker 1: It's the moment every prophet pointed to, every martyr died for,
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Speaker 1: every believer hoped in. It's not tragedy, it's triumph. The
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Speaker 1: end is the beginning, the closing of time's door and
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Speaker 1: the opening of Eternity's gates. Everything we see, the stars,
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Speaker 1: the cities. The systems is temporary scaffolding around an eternal plan.
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Speaker 1: The kingdoms of earth are loud, but the kingdom of
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Speaker 1: Heaven is lasting. The noise of nations will fade, but
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Speaker 1: the voice of the lamb will never be silenced. Every
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Speaker 1: empire that seemed unshaken will bow before the one whose
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Speaker 1: throne cannot move. Revelation twenty two twelve says behold, I
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Speaker 1: am coming soon. My reward is with me, and I
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Speaker 1: will give to each person according to what they have done.
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Speaker 1: That's not a warning for the fearful. It's a promise
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Speaker 1: for the faithful. It means nothing you've done for Christ
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Speaker 1: has been forgotten. Every quiet act of love, every unseen prayer,
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Speaker 1: every time you chose obedience over ease. He saw it,
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Speaker 1: and he's coming to reward it. But for the world
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Speaker 1: that keeps ignoring his voice, this same promise becomes a
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Speaker 1: final plea, because the patience of God is not permission,
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Speaker 1: it's mercy. Every delay in his return is another heartbeat
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Speaker 1: of grace, another chance for repentance, another door still open.
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Speaker 1: The clock of Heaven hasn't stopped yet, but it will,
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Speaker 1: and when it does, only those whose names are written
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Speaker 1: in the Lamb's book of life, will enter into the
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Speaker 1: joy that never ends. So don't let fear fill you,
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Speaker 1: let faith prepare you. Don't get lost in signs and dates,
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Speaker 1: get rooted in truth and devotion. Jesus never called his
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Speaker 1: followers to predict his return. He called them to reflect
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Speaker 1: his heart until he returns. The end of the world
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Speaker 1: is not a countdown to chaos. It's the countdown to completion.
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Speaker 1: It's the day when love outlasts sin, when light finally
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Speaker 1: silences darkness, when every question meets its answer in the
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Speaker 1: eyes of Christ. And until that day, live, awake, live, pure,
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Speaker 1: Live Ready. You were not chosen to panic, You were
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Speaker 1: chosen to persevere. You were not saved to hide, You
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Speaker 1: were saved to shine. You are the generation the prophets
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Speaker 1: long to see, the one standing in the last pages
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Speaker 1: of history, holding the same word that began it all.
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Speaker 1: So look up, keep your lampfull, and let every heart
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Speaker 1: beat echo the cry of revelation. Even so, come Lord Jesus,
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Speaker 1: cinematic prayer, Father in Heaven, we pause before you, the
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Speaker 1: author of time, the keeper of truth, the one whose
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Speaker 1: word stands when the world falls. We thank you for
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Speaker 1: revealing not just what will happen. But who you are
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Speaker 1: through it all, You are righteous in judgment, merciful in delay,
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Speaker 1: and faithful in promise. Lord, Awaken our hearts, shake us
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Speaker 1: free from distraction. Forgive us for fearing the signs instead
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Speaker 1: of trusting the Savior. Teach us to live not with
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Speaker 1: anxiety but with anticipation. Help us to see every storm
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Speaker 1: as a reminder that redemption draws near. We pray for
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Speaker 1: those who are far from you, those lost in doubt, deception,
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Speaker 1: or despair. Open their eyes before the trumpet sounds. Let
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Speaker 1: them see your mercy now so they can stand in
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Speaker 1: your glory. Then strengthen your church, Lord, purify your bride.
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Speaker 1: Fill us with the fire of the Holy Spirit, so
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Speaker 1: we can endure, proclaim, and shine until you come. And
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Speaker 1: when you do, may you find us faithful, not perfect,
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Speaker 1: but persistent, not proud but prepared. We surrender our plans,
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Speaker 1: our fears, our future because we know you hold the
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Speaker 1: end and the beginning. Come quickly, Lord Jesus, and until
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Speaker 1: you do, help us to live every day as if
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Speaker 1: it's our last chance to love, forgive, and tell the
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Speaker 1: world about you. In the mighty name of the One
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Speaker 1: who is, who was, and who is to come. Amen.
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Speaker 1: If you made it to the end of this teaching
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Speaker 1: on the end of the world, what the Bible really says,
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Speaker 1: that hunger is rare and it's holy. We pray this
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Speaker 1: you that the world's chaos isn't stronger than Christ's promise.
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