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Robert Jeffress - The Beginning of the End (Part2)

May 10, 2026 | 27:29

Robert Jeffress - The Beginning of the End (Part2)
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - The Beginning of the End (Part2) | May 10, 2026
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  • Hi, i am robert jeffress,
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  • And welcome, again, to "pathway to victory."
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  • When most people watch the news,
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  • They're dismayed by the level of violence
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  • And corruption in our world,
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  • But to christians,
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  • These current events should come as no surprise.
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  • In fact, there are a clear indicator that the end is near.
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  • Today, we're going to wrap up our multi-day study
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  • Of the seven-year period of judgment
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  • Known as the great tribulation.
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  • My message is titled "the beginning of the end"
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  • On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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  • ♪ death could not hold you ♪
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  • ♪ the veil tore before you ♪
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  • ♪ you silence the boast of sin and grave ♪
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  • ♪ the heavens are roaring ♪
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  • ♪ the praise of your glory ♪
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  • ♪ for you are raised to life again ♪
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  • ♪ you have no rival ♪
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  • ♪ you have no equal ♪
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  • ♪ now and forever god you reign ♪
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  • ♪ yours is the kingdom ♪
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  • ♪ yours is the glory ♪
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  • ♪ yours is the name above all names ♪
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  • ♪ what a powerful name it is ♪
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  • ♪ the name of jesus christ my king ♪
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  • ♪ what a powerful name it is ♪
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  • ♪ nothing can stand against ♪
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  • ♪ what a powerful name it is ♪
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  • ♪ the name of jesus ♪
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  • ♪ you have no rival ♪
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  • ♪ you have no equal ♪
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  • ♪ now and forever god you reign ♪
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  • ♪ oh, god, you reign ♪
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  • ♪ yours is the kingdom ♪
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  • ♪ yours is the glory ♪
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  • ♪ yours is the name above all names ♪
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  • ♪ what a powerful name it is ♪
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  • ♪ the name of jesus christ my king ♪
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  • ♪ what a powerful name it is ♪
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  • ♪ nothing can stand against ♪
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  • ♪ what a powerful name it is ♪
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  • ♪ the name of jesus ♪
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  • ♪ what a powerful name it is ♪
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  • ♪ the name of jesus ♪
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  • ♪ what a powerful name it is ♪
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  • ♪ the name of jesus ♪
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  • ♪ there is no other name than jesus ♪
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  • Wars, natural disasters, global instability.
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  • Many people look at the headlines
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  • And wonder if we're living in the end times.
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  • In his book, "till armageddon," billy graham wrote,
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  • "the whole world is sign and suffering
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  • On a scale perhaps not known in human history.
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  • The refugees, the starving, the psychological woes,
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  • The emotional turmoils, the broken marriages, the terrorism,
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  • The hostages, the wars,
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  • And a thousand other troubles
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  • Which beset every country in the world.
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  • There are no people anywhere that are immune.
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  • The rich and the famous suffer, as well as the obscure.
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  • It seems that the human race well be heading
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  • Toward the climax of the tears, hurts,
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  • And wounds of all of the centuries."
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  • That climax that dr. graham is writing about
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  • Is that seven-year period,
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  • Those seven final years of earth's history
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  • That are the focus of our study this morning.
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  • It is a time that we often call the great tribulation.
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  • It will be a time of natural catastrophes,
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  • Political chaos.
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  • But most of all,
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  • The distinguishing characteristic of this period of time
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  • Will be god's unrelenting judgment against unbelievers.
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  • Now, last time,
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  • We began looking at this seven-year period
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  • Known as the great tribulation.
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  • We looked at the beginning of act 1 last time,
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  • The beginning of the tribulation,
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  • And i want you to notice there are three things
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  • That are going to happen
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  • At the beginning of the tribulation.
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  • First of all,
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  • The rise of this world leader we call the antichrist.
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  • The second thing that happens at the beginning
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  • Of the seven-year period
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  • Is the rise of someone we call,
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  • The scripture calls the false prophet.
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  • He is best understood as antichrist lieutenant.
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  • He helps him in his rise to power.
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  • Now, during the first 3 1/2 years of the tribulation,
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  • This false prophet is seen as a religious leader
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  • And he is a religious leader who oversees a world church
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  • That is described...
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  • Now, the nice term is harlot.
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  • In revelation 17, the king james version,
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  • Is the ***** of babylon
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  • Is what this apostate church is called.
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  • This apostate church will have all of the trappings
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  • Of a christian church,
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  • But it will be an apostate, a fallen church.
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  • But something interesting happens
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  • After the first 3 1/2 years of the tribulation,
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  • In which the church has assisted the antichrist
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  • In his rise to power,
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  • The antichrist will turn against the church.
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  • He will destroy the church.
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  • Halfway through this time
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  • That the government uses the church,
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  • Notice what happens in revelation 17:16.
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  • And the 10 horns,
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  • That is that 10 nation confederacy and the beast,
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  • These will hate the harlot, that is the church,
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  • And will make her desolate and naked,
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  • And will eat her flesh,
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  • And will burn her up with fire.
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  • The antichrist will see no need,
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  • For the church will turn against the church,
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  • And this false prophet who was in the religious world
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  • Will then move to the political world.
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  • And he will assist the antichrist
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  • These last 3 1/2 years
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  • By demanding from people complete allegiance
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  • To the antichrist,
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  • Especially if they want to buy or sell goods.
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  • If anyone wants to buy or sell goods
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  • During these last 3 1/2 years,
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  • They have to take what is called the mark of the beast.
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  • Look at revelation 13:16-17.
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  • And he, that is the false prophet,
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  • Causes all the small and the great,
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  • And the rich and the poor,
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  • And the freemen and the slaves,
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  • To be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead,
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  • And he provides that no one
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  • Should be able to buy or to sell,
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  • Except the one who has the mark,
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  • Either the name of the beast or the number of his name.
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  • In order to be able to buy or sell anything,
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  • You are going to have to have this mark.
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  • We're already seeing the harbinger of that
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  • Take place right now.
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  • But notice what will happen.
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  • The bible says the only way you get this mark
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  • Is if you pledge allegiance to the world dictator,
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  • Known as antichrist.
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  • Without it, you don't receive the mark.
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  • And the bible says people,
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  • In order to buy and sell food, and clothing,
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  • And medical care for themselves
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  • Will take the mark of the beast.
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  • The only ones who refuse it are genuine believers.
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  • The third thing that happens during this time
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  • Is the sealing of the 144,000.
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  • Look at revelation 7:3-4.
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  • Do not harm the earth, or the sea, or the trees
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  • Until we have sealed the bond servants of our god
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  • On their foreheads.
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  • And i heard the number of those who were sealed, 144,000,
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  • Sealed from every tribe of the sons of israel.
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  • We don't have time to look at it in detail,
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  • But the bible indicates
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  • That at the beginning of the tribulation,
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  • 144,000 people will be selected.
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  • They will be saved
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  • And they will be selected to be evangelists
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  • During this final seven-year period of time.
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  • And when you get down to revelation 7:9-14,
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  • You see the result of the witness of these 144,000.
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  • John says after these things i looked,
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  • And behold a great multitude which no one could count
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  • From every nation,
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  • And all tribes, and peoples, and tongues
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  • Were standing before the throne
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  • And before the lamb clothed in white robes.
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  • He is talking about millions of people
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  • Who will come to faith in christ during the tribulation
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  • Because of these 144,000.
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  • The bible says halfway through
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  • This first seven-year period of time at the 3 1/2-year mark
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  • At the midpoint of the tribulation
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  • Is act 2 of the tribulation.
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  • It occurs after the first 3 1/2 years.
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  • It doesn't matter if it was daniel
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  • Or the apostle john or jesus himself.
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  • All three testified of the fact
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  • That after the first 3 1/2 years,
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  • There's going to be a major occurrence
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  • That is going to change the world forever,
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  • And that is antichrist
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  • Is going to break that peace covenant with israel
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  • And turn against israel
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  • And those who become christians during that period of time.
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  • You see it in daniel 9:27.
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  • And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week,
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  • That is seven years,
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  • But in the middle of the week,
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  • He will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering.
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  • That is, he'll stand in the temple
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  • And he will put a stop to israel worshiping in the temple
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  • And on the wing of abominations
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  • Will come one who makes desolate,
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  • Even until a complete destruction,
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  • One that is decreed to pour out
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  • On the one who makes desolate.
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  • Daniel 7:21, daniel says,
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  • "i kept looking, and that horn, that is antichrist,
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  • Was waging war with the saints and overpowering them."
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  • In revelation 13:5, it says,
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  • "and there was given to him antichrist,
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  • A mouth speaking arrogant words and blasphemies
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  • And the authority to act for how long?
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  • 42 months, that is 3 1/2 years."
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  • Over and over again,
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  • You see something different about these final 3 1/2 years.
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  • Sometimes, it's called 42 months, sometimes 1,260 days,
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  • Sometimes a time times and half a time,
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  • A year plus two years plus half a year.
  • 00:13:06.876 --> 00:13:09.111
  • But the bible says,
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  • These final 3 1/2 years will be a time of persecution,
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  • And that leads to act 3, earth's final hours.
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  • Jesus himself said the same thing
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  • About these last 3 1/2 years.
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  • Remember his words in matthew 24, we read them this morning.
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  • Therefore, when you see the abomination of desolation,
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  • Which was spoken of through daniel the prophet
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  • Standing in the holy place,
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  • Let the reader understand.
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  • Then, let those who are in judea flee to the mountains.
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  • What is jesus talking about?
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  • The abomination of desolation,
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  • Which daniel, 500 years before christ, had prophesied.
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  • When daniel lived in the 6th century bc,
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  • Gabriel told him of a time that a newly rebuilt temple,
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  • The temple would be desecrated by a world leader,
  • 00:14:02.898 --> 00:14:08.203
  • And that leads to these final hours of earth's life.
  • 00:14:09.238 --> 00:14:11.340
  • Look at matthew 24:21,
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  • And the great tribulations such has not occurred
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  • Since the beginning of the world until now,
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  • Nor ever shall.
  • 00:14:18.781 --> 00:14:20.916
  • Now, these final 3 1/2 years
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  • Are summarized in the book of revelation,
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  • Chapter 6 through 19,
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  • And these judgments against the earth
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  • Come in the form of three judgments,
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  • Three series of judgments.
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  • First of all, there are the seal judgments
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  • Described in revelation 6.
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  • I believe it's evident
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  • When you get to these final judgments, the martyrdom,
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  • The tremendous cosmological disturbances
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  • We are well into the 3 1/2 years.
  • 00:14:48.911 --> 00:14:52.281
  • And that's true in the second series of judgment
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  • Called the trumpet judgments.
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  • These judgments, in many ways,
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  • Are like the plagues that god directed against egypt
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  • In the days of moses.
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  • The first four of these trumpet judgments
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  • Are judgments against the natural world.
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  • Look at revelation 8:7, the first trumpet judgment.
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  • God will use a mixture of hail and fire
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  • To destroy 1/3 of the earth's vegetation.
  • 00:15:15.604 --> 00:15:19.274
  • The second trumpet judgment
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  • Is found in verses 8 and 9.
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  • John says he saw something
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  • Like a great mountain burning with fire
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  • And falling into the sea.
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  • And he says in verse 9,
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  • 1/3 of the creatures, which were in the sea,
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  • Had life, they died,
  • 00:15:33.822 --> 00:15:35.457
  • And 1/3 of the ships were destroyed.
  • 00:15:35.457 --> 00:15:38.227
  • What is he talking about here
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  • When he says something like a great mountain fell to earth?
  • 00:15:39.828 --> 00:15:42.898
  • Could it be that he's talking about a giant asteroid?
  • 00:15:42.898 --> 00:15:46.802
  • Whatever the cause of this great mountain is,
  • 00:15:46.802 --> 00:15:49.171
  • Notice the result.
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  • 1/3 of the marine life
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  • And 1/3 of all the ships are destroyed
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  • Resulting in ecological and economic disaster.
  • 00:15:54.676 --> 00:15:58.480
  • The third trumpet judgment is found in verses 10 to 11,
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  • A falling star that destroys 1/3 of the earth's fresh water.
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  • That's the third trumpet judgment.
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  • The fourth trumpet judgment
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  • Involves a disruption of the rotation pattern
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  • Of both the earth and the moon,
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  • Causing these wild fluctuations in temperatures.
  • 00:16:13.729 --> 00:16:16.799
  • You can only imagine what that will do to the food supply
  • 00:16:16.799 --> 00:16:20.302
  • And the ecological system.
  • 00:16:20.302 --> 00:16:23.005
  • The fifth trumpet judgment,
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  • Look at this in verses 1 to 12 of revelation 9.
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  • It describes satan, the star from heaven,
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  • As unleashing demonic tormenters to persecute mankind,
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  • Except those who have been sealed by god.
  • 00:16:35.851 --> 00:16:38.387
  • These torturers are described
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  • As having the sting of a locust.
  • 00:16:40.022 --> 00:16:42.257
  • And look at verse 6 of revelation 9.
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  • In those days, men will seek death and will not find it,
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  • And they will long to die, but death will flee from them.
  • 00:16:48.163 --> 00:16:51.967
  • Imagine for just a moment the worst pain you have ever felt
  • 00:16:53.168 --> 00:16:57.172
  • And no relief comes.
  • 00:16:57.172 --> 00:16:58.607
  • That's what's going to happen during the tribulation.
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  • People are going to be stung
  • 00:17:00.509 --> 00:17:02.411
  • With the sting of these demonic-inspired creatures,
  • 00:17:02.411 --> 00:17:07.015
  • And they are going to arrive in pain
  • 00:17:07.015 --> 00:17:08.650
  • For a period of five months,
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  • Wishing, begging for death, but being unable to do so.
  • 00:17:10.719 --> 00:17:14.857
  • The sixth trumpet judgment,
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  • The assembling of a massive army of 200 million people
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  • Who are later described as coming from the east.
  • 00:17:20.028 --> 00:17:22.631
  • Look at revelation 9:16.
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  • And the number of the armies of the horsemen was 200.
  • 00:17:24.633 --> 00:17:28.137
  • I heard the number of them,
  • 00:17:28.137 --> 00:17:29.938
  • And then when you turn over to chapter 16, verse 12,
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  • It says, "and the sixth angel
  • 00:17:32.407 --> 00:17:34.476
  • Poured out his bowl upon the great river, the euphrates,
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  • And its water was dried up
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  • That the way might be prepared for the kings of the east."
  • 00:17:39.448 --> 00:17:44.753
  • There is going to be a 200 million massive army
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  • That comes from the east
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  • And marches toward where?
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  • Verse 16 says,
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  • They will gather them together to the place
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  • Which, in hebrew, is called harmagedon.
  • 00:17:57.533 --> 00:18:00.035
  • The plain of megiddo, what we call armageddon.
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  • Who are these 200 million?
  • 00:18:05.207 --> 00:18:07.709
  • Many people have said, "well, they're the red chinese.
  • 00:18:07.709 --> 00:18:10.312
  • This is an army of the red chinese coming from the east."
  • 00:18:10.312 --> 00:18:13.849
  • When we were in israel a couple of years ago,
  • 00:18:13.849 --> 00:18:16.285
  • The tour guide said,
  • 00:18:16.285 --> 00:18:17.853
  • "i believe it is going to be an amalgamation of islamic forces
  • 00:18:17.853 --> 00:18:21.823
  • That are going to come."
  • 00:18:21.823 --> 00:18:23.292
  • Whatever they are,
  • 00:18:23.292 --> 00:18:24.826
  • They are coming to wage the final war against the earth.
  • 00:18:24.826 --> 00:18:28.664
  • Revelation 9:18 says 1/3 of mankind
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  • Was killed by these three plagues
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  • By the fire, and the smoke,
  • 00:18:34.269 --> 00:18:35.704
  • And the brimstone which proceeded out of their mouths.
  • 00:18:35.704 --> 00:18:38.941
  • Now, people ask, "well, in revelation 9,
  • 00:18:38.941 --> 00:18:42.444
  • You see these armies coming,
  • 00:18:42.444 --> 00:18:44.479
  • And yet armageddon, what we call the battle of armageddon,
  • 00:18:44.479 --> 00:18:47.416
  • Doesn't happen to revelation 19."
  • 00:18:47.416 --> 00:18:50.519
  • I think the best way to understand this,
  • 00:18:50.519 --> 00:18:52.354
  • And we're going to talk about this in depth next time,
  • 00:18:52.354 --> 00:18:54.256
  • Is it's not a single battle.
  • 00:18:54.256 --> 00:18:56.425
  • It's really more like the war of armageddon.
  • 00:18:56.425 --> 00:18:59.261
  • It is a war that begins during the last 3 1/2 years
  • 00:18:59.261 --> 00:19:02.364
  • And continues with the climactic battle
  • 00:19:02.364 --> 00:19:05.300
  • Occurring at this plain of megiddo.
  • 00:19:05.300 --> 00:19:07.936
  • Now, think about this.
  • 00:19:07.936 --> 00:19:09.371
  • When you combine the number you find in verse 18,
  • 00:19:09.371 --> 00:19:11.907
  • 1/3 of the mankind being killed by these three plagues,
  • 00:19:11.907 --> 00:19:15.577
  • Along with the fourth of mankind
  • 00:19:15.577 --> 00:19:17.346
  • Being killed during the seal judgment,
  • 00:19:17.346 --> 00:19:20.215
  • You have 1/2 of the world's population
  • 00:19:20.215 --> 00:19:23.285
  • Already killed by this time,
  • 00:19:23.285 --> 00:19:25.287
  • Which makes it clear why jesus said in matthew 24:22,
  • 00:19:25.287 --> 00:19:29.157
  • "unless these days had been cut short,
  • 00:19:29.157 --> 00:19:31.526
  • Everyone would've perished."
  • 00:19:31.526 --> 00:19:33.695
  • The third series of judgments occur very rapidly,
  • 00:19:33.695 --> 00:19:37.032
  • Perhaps in just a matter of a few days.
  • 00:19:37.032 --> 00:19:39.101
  • They are called the bowl judgments.
  • 00:19:39.101 --> 00:19:41.737
  • Now, in many ways, they mirror the trumpet judgments.
  • 00:19:41.737 --> 00:19:44.640
  • The trumpet judgments
  • 00:19:44.640 --> 00:19:45.941
  • Are against only portions of the earth.
  • 00:19:45.941 --> 00:19:48.277
  • The bowl judgments are against the entire earth.
  • 00:19:48.277 --> 00:19:51.913
  • And the last judgment is the most severe.
  • 00:19:51.913 --> 00:19:54.149
  • Look at revelation 16:17-19.
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  • And the seventh angel poured out his bowl upon the air,
  • 00:19:57.886 --> 00:20:02.391
  • And a loud voice came out of the temple
  • 00:20:02.391 --> 00:20:04.459
  • And from the throne saying, "it is done."
  • 00:20:04.459 --> 00:20:09.331
  • And there were flashes of lightning
  • 00:20:09.331 --> 00:20:11.500
  • And sounds and peals of thunder,
  • 00:20:11.500 --> 00:20:13.835
  • And there was a great earthquake,
  • 00:20:13.835 --> 00:20:15.270
  • Such as there has not been since man came to be
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  • Upon the earth so great an earthquake was it and so mighty.
  • 00:20:18.440 --> 00:20:22.544
  • And the great city was split into three parts,
  • 00:20:22.544 --> 00:20:25.681
  • And the cities of the nations fell,
  • 00:20:25.681 --> 00:20:28.784
  • And babylon the great was remembered before god
  • 00:20:28.784 --> 00:20:32.354
  • To give her the cup of the wine of his fierce wrath.
  • 00:20:32.354 --> 00:20:37.793
  • What i want you to notice about this final judgment,
  • 00:20:38.860 --> 00:20:39.961
  • According to verse 17,
  • 00:20:39.961 --> 00:20:41.330
  • Is it is poured out upon the air
  • 00:20:41.330 --> 00:20:46.001
  • And it's accompanied by flashes of lightning,
  • 00:20:46.001 --> 00:20:48.637
  • And peals of thunder, and by a great earthquake.
  • 00:20:48.637 --> 00:20:52.274
  • Many have speculated that this is a final nuclear holocaust
  • 00:20:52.274 --> 00:20:56.378
  • That occurs before christ comes back.
  • 00:20:56.378 --> 00:20:59.481
  • In this final seven years of the tribulation,
  • 00:20:59.481 --> 00:21:01.583
  • We see the holiness of god displayed
  • 00:21:01.583 --> 00:21:04.386
  • Through his judgment of sin.
  • 00:21:04.386 --> 00:21:06.655
  • But listen to me.
  • 00:21:06.655 --> 00:21:08.156
  • That's not all we see.
  • 00:21:08.657 --> 00:21:10.392
  • I mean, if god's purpose was simply to punish unbelievers,
  • 00:21:10.392 --> 00:21:14.296
  • He could annihilate them in an instant.
  • 00:21:14.296 --> 00:21:16.631
  • But you see, god is not just a god of judgment,
  • 00:21:17.566 --> 00:21:19.201
  • He's a god of love.
  • 00:21:19.201 --> 00:21:20.936
  • If god only wanted to punish unbelievers,
  • 00:21:20.936 --> 00:21:22.871
  • Why did he go to the trouble of sealing 144,000 missionaries
  • 00:21:22.871 --> 00:21:28.210
  • And dispatching them throughout the earth?
  • 00:21:29.111 --> 00:21:30.479
  • He did it to give man one last chance to be saved.
  • 00:21:30.479 --> 00:21:34.950
  • God desires, more than anything,
  • 00:21:35.584 --> 00:21:37.753
  • A relationship with fallen man.
  • 00:21:37.753 --> 00:21:40.155
  • As he said through the prophet ezekiel in ezekiel 33:11,
  • 00:21:40.155 --> 00:21:43.225
  • "as i live," declares the lord god,
  • 00:21:43.225 --> 00:21:45.961
  • "i take no pleasure in the death of the wicked,
  • 00:21:45.961 --> 00:21:48.864
  • But rather i desire that the wicked
  • 00:21:48.864 --> 00:21:50.599
  • Turn from his evil way and live.
  • 00:21:50.599 --> 00:21:53.001
  • Turn back, turn back from your evil ways.
  • 00:21:53.001 --> 00:21:56.204
  • Why then will you die? oh, house of israel?"
  • 00:21:56.204 --> 00:22:00.409
  • Now, hear me this morning.
  • 00:22:00.409 --> 00:22:01.910
  • What god desires for israel in those final seven years
  • 00:22:01.910 --> 00:22:04.713
  • That they turn back to him
  • 00:22:04.713 --> 00:22:06.548
  • Is what god desires for your life right now.
  • 00:22:06.548 --> 00:22:10.485
  • He loves you, he doesn't hate you.
  • 00:22:10.485 --> 00:22:12.954
  • More than anything,
  • 00:22:12.954 --> 00:22:14.289
  • God desires to have a relationship with you.
  • 00:22:14.289 --> 00:22:16.958
  • The great theologian karl barth
  • 00:22:17.592 --> 00:22:19.394
  • Wrote thousands of pages on church dogmatics,
  • 00:22:19.394 --> 00:22:22.764
  • And he came to the definition of god.
  • 00:22:22.764 --> 00:22:24.499
  • You know how he described god?
  • 00:22:24.499 --> 00:22:25.934
  • It wasn't in some flowery theological definition.
  • 00:22:25.934 --> 00:22:28.570
  • He described god as, quote, "the one who loves."
  • 00:22:28.570 --> 00:22:32.974
  • That's a great definition of god, "the one who loves."
  • 00:22:34.075 --> 00:22:38.480
  • God loves you.
  • 00:22:38.480 --> 00:22:40.816
  • He desires, more than anything,
  • 00:22:40.816 --> 00:22:43.251
  • For a reconciliation with you.
  • 00:22:43.251 --> 00:22:46.087
  • Think about this.
  • 00:22:46.087 --> 00:22:47.789
  • If god simply hated you and he wanted to punish you for sin,
  • 00:22:47.789 --> 00:22:52.561
  • He could destroy you right now with a single word
  • 00:22:53.562 --> 00:22:55.263
  • Or even a single thought.
  • 00:22:55.263 --> 00:22:57.332
  • But the bible tells us that god loves you and me so much
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  • That he will use whatever tools necessary.
  • 00:23:01.369 --> 00:23:04.172
  • He'll send whatever tribulation necessary
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  • Into our daily life,
  • 00:23:07.442 --> 00:23:09.077
  • Not to punish us, not because he hates us.
  • 00:23:09.077 --> 00:23:11.880
  • He sends those tribulations in our life
  • 00:23:11.880 --> 00:23:14.749
  • To drive us back into the arms
  • 00:23:14.749 --> 00:23:17.752
  • Of the one who loves you most.
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  • Are you glad to know that christ has provided an escape
  • 00:23:25.160 --> 00:23:28.663
  • From the coming tribulation?
  • 00:23:28.663 --> 00:23:30.699
  • While the stage is set for the antichrist
  • 00:23:30.699 --> 00:23:32.934
  • To rule without opposition,
  • 00:23:32.934 --> 00:23:34.936
  • Those who know jesus christ as their personal savior
  • 00:23:34.936 --> 00:23:38.406
  • Can rest in his saving grace.
  • 00:23:38.406 --> 00:23:41.576
  • As christians, we can conduct our daily lives
  • 00:23:41.576 --> 00:23:44.546
  • With an attitude of both urgency and relief.
  • 00:23:44.546 --> 00:23:48.283
  • Now, in the time remaining today,
  • 00:23:48.283 --> 00:23:50.085
  • Let me remind you
  • 00:23:50.085 --> 00:23:51.486
  • That this program wouldn't be on television today
  • 00:23:51.486 --> 00:23:53.889
  • Were it not for you.
  • 00:23:53.889 --> 00:23:55.590
  • When you support this ministry,
  • 00:23:55.590 --> 00:23:57.692
  • You're impacting viewers who watch "pathway to victory"
  • 00:23:57.692 --> 00:24:00.662
  • From all over the world.
  • 00:24:00.662 --> 00:24:02.597
  • Recently, i received an encouraging comment that said,
  • 00:24:02.597 --> 00:24:05.767
  • "pastor jeffress, in this confusing time,
  • 00:24:05.767 --> 00:24:08.637
  • You are helping me decipher truth from untruth
  • 00:24:08.637 --> 00:24:12.140
  • And to teach others to know the truth as well.
  • 00:24:12.140 --> 00:24:15.844
  • I'm sharing with my husband and teenage boys.
  • 00:24:15.844 --> 00:24:18.914
  • Thank you for standing firm in god's word."
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  • Isn't that encouraging?
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  • As, together, we pierce the darkness
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  • With the light of god's word.
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  • Now, stay right there.
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  • With everything happening in our world today,
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  • And that's why i wrote this book,
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  • There'll be wars, there'll be unprecedented persecution,
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  • The judgments that god's angels pour out
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  • Will be unlike any catastrophe earth has ever experienced.
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  • But, the great tribulation
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  • Isn't a mere demonstration of god's holiness
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  • Displayed through his judgment and sin.
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  • It's also a display of god's love.
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  • Why else would god send those 144,000 missionaries,
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  • If not to call israel to turn back to himself?
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  • Well, we've discovered what will take place
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  • During the seven years of the great tribulation,
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  • And next time, we'll look at the long-awaited moment
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  • When christ finally returns to earth.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview
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  • Of what's coming up next in our series, "perfect ending."
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  • And notice this judgment,
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  • This bowl is poured out not on the earth.
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  • It is poured out in the air.
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  • I believe that john is describing
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  • What we would call a nuclear explosion, a nuclear exchange,
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  • Something that happens in the air
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  • And has great destructive force.
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  • Set your dvr and join us next time for the message,
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  • Here on "pathway to victory."
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