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Robert Jeffress - Not Left Behind( Part 1)

April 13, 2026 | 27:29

Robert Jeffress - Not Left Behind( Part 1)
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Not Left Behind( Part 1) | April 13, 2026
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  • Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church of
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  • Dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory" with dr.
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  • Robert jeffress.
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  • Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress, and welcome
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  • Again to "pathway to victory."
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  • A look at the news reveals that we are living in ominous days.
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  • Nations are rising up against other nations, hostility abounds
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  • Against christians, and political tension in our own
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  • Country continues to divide americans.
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  • From the christian perspective, it's clear that the end times
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  • Are nearly upon us, so here's the pressing question: when will
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  • Jesus return to gather his church and what signs will
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  • Precede the rapture of the church?
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  • My message is titled, "not left behind," on today's edition of
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  • "pathway to victory."
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  • Male announcer: wars, natural disasters, global instability.
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  • Many people look at the headlines and wonder if we're
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  • Living in the end-times.
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  • In his brand new book, "ask dr. jeffress about the end times,"
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  • Dr. robert jeffress provides clear, biblical answers to the
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  • 20 questions people ask most about the future.
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  • Request "ask dr. jeffress about the end times" when you
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  • Give a generous ministry gift to pathway to victory.
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  • Jeffress: the subject of the end times always produces varied
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  • Responses among different people.
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  • When i was in high school, our english teacher assigned us
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  • A project, it was a semester project.
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  • She said, "you can select any book you want to, and then i
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  • Want you to, as creatively as possible, present the contents
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  • Of that book to the class."
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  • So this was the early 1970s and i chose the book, "the late
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  • Great planet earth."
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  • Remember that book by hal lindsey?
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  • Millions of people bought that book on bible prophecy.
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  • I thought, "now here's a great way to witness to my class by
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  • Sharing 'the late great planet earth.'"
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  • And i thought it would be a really good opportunity
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  • Especially to witness to my teacher who happened to
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  • Be jewish.
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  • And so when the day for the presentation came, i went
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  • Through the content of the book and talked about all of the
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  • Events that would lead up to the second coming of jesus.
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  • And i focused especially on what is gonna happen during the
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  • Tribulation when revelation says the king of the north will
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  • Attack israel, and how lindsey was saying that was going to
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  • Be russia.
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  • Now, that was particularly interesting at that time because
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  • We had very tense relationship with the soviet union.
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  • President nixon, at the day i was giving my report, was
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  • Actually in moscow trying to ease tensions with the
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  • Soviet union.
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  • So i went through all of this about the end time events.
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  • Now what nobody in my class knew, including my teacher, was
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  • That i had arranged with the assistant principal to come over
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  • The intercom at the appropriate time and interrupt
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  • My presentation.
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  • And so at the time we had agreed upon, while i was giving the
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  • Presentation, the principal came on the loudspeaker and did the
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  • Little chimes, ding, ding, ding, came on and said
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  • This announcement.
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  • He said, "we have just been informed by united press
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  • International that russia has invaded israel.
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  • President nixon is on air force one, now returning to
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  • Washington, d.c., from moscow.
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  • All students and faculty are dismissed immediately to go home
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  • And seek shelter."
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  • At that moment, my jewish teacher cried out, "my god,
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  • My god, it's true, it's true."
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  • All of the students raised up in the class, they started heading
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  • Toward the exits, and i quickly stopped them.
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  • I assured them that this wasn't true, that it was just an
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  • Illustration of how current events fit with bible prophecy.
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  • Unfortunately, the assistant principal made a mistake and,
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  • Instead of piping the announcement just into our
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  • Classroom as he was supposed to do, he accidentally sent it
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  • Throughout the entire high school, richardson high school,
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  • 3000 students.
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  • Suddenly i heard lockers slamming all over the school,
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  • Feet shuffling out as everybody headed toward the exits,
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  • Preparing for the end of the world.
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  • Today, i'm telling you, 40 years after that event, some of my
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  • Former classmates still kid me about that day in the spring
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  • When everybody thought the world was coming to an end.
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  • The truth is the end time events are going to be
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  • Very frightening.
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  • It's going to consist of economic turmoil, there'll be
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  • Wars, there'll be unprecedented persecution.
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  • But fortunately, christians don't have to fear that period
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  • Of time because of the event we're going to talk about today:
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  • The rapture of the church.
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  • Now, i know many christians do not believe in the rapture of
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  • The church.
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  • But today and next week, we're gonna see what the bible says
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  • About the rapture.
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  • And i think you'll understand at the end especially of next week,
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  • Why a rapture, a snatching away of the church, is both biblical
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  • And it's essential.
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  • If you have your bibles, turn to ephesians chapter 3, ephesians
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  • Chapter 3, you can never really understand the rapture until you
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  • Understand this period of time we are living in right now
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  • Called the church age.
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  • And--but let me just remind you about what the church age is
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  • All about.
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  • We said a few weeks ago that man in genesis 1 through 11 moved
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  • Further and further away from god.
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  • But in genesis 12, god instituted a rescue plan for
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  • Mankind, and it all started with a man named abraham.
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  • God made a covenant with abraham.
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  • He said, "abraham, i'm gonna give you and your descendants a
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  • Land, a seed, and a blessing."
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  • That is, a piece of real estate.
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  • "i'm gonna give you a great nation, and you're gonna be a
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  • Blessing to the entire world."
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  • And then he said to abraham, "this promise is a literal
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  • Promise, it's an eternal promise, and remember, it's an
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  • Unconditional promise."
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  • So god started his plan of redemption through this
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  • Abrahamic covenant.
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  • And you say, "well, that's great if you're a jew.
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  • But what about those of us who are not jews?
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  • Gentiles?
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  • How does the abrahamic covenant benefit us?"
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  • Throughout the old testament, there were hints, strong hints,
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  • That god's promise to abraham would spill over to people like
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  • You and i, that is, gentiles.
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  • You see that, for example, in non-jews being saved, rahab the
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  • Harlot, ruth, the residents of nineveh, all non-jews who were
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  • Saved through god's promise to abraham.
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  • You see the same thing in the new testament through the
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  • Teaching and ministry of jesus.
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  • Remember in matthew 22, jesus told that story about the king
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  • Who had the banquet for his son and he invited all of his
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  • Closest friends.
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  • And when they turned down the invitation, he sent his servants
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  • Out into the highways and the byways and invited anyone and
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  • Everyone to come join in the banquet.
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  • That was a hint that not only jews but non-jews would be
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  • Invited to become a part of the kingdom of god.
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  • You say, "now robert, you're reading a lot into that parable
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  • To get that out of the parable."
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  • Not at all.
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  • The jews understood exactly what jesus was saying in that story.
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  • In fact, in matthew 22:15, it says, "immediately after jesus
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  • Told that story, the pharisees were so angry at the idea of
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  • Gentiles being a part of the kingdom that they went out,
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  • Counseled together about how they might trap jesus in what
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  • He said."
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  • But even though the old testament hinted at it, even
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  • Though jesus hinted at the idea of gentile blessing, it was the
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  • Apostle paul who was given the task of explaining what was
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  • Called a mystery that gentiles like you and i are gonna be a
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  • Part of the abrahamic blessing.
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  • And that's what we find in ephesians 3, beginning with
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  • Verse 3, look at this with me.
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  • "that by revelation there was made known to me," paul, "the
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  • Mystery, as i wrote before in brief, which in other
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  • Generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has
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  • Now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in
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  • The spirit."
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  • And what is this mystery?
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  • He says in verse 6: "to be specific, that the gentiles are
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  • Fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow
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  • Partakers of the promise in christ jesus through
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  • The gospel."
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  • Now, what does he mean, "a mystery"?
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  • Whenever we think about a mystery we think of, you know,
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  • One of those old alfred hitchcock thrillers.
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  • I watched one the other night on tv, "north by northwest."
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  • You know, we think about a thriller like that.
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  • Or we think about the latest patricia cornwell novel,
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  • Something eerie, something creepy, mystery, mwahahahaha,
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  • You know, that's what we think of, when we think
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  • About mysteries.
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  • There's nothing creepy in the new testament about a mystery.
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  • The word "mystery" simply means a truth which was previously
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  • Hidden in past generations that has now been revealed.
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  • And paul said, "god gave to me the task of revealing this
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  • Mystery, this truth, which other generations didn't understand.
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  • But god has told me now to reveal."
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  • And the mystery specifically is that gentiles are going to be
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  • Fellow heirs to the abrahamic blessing.
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  • They are gonna be recipients of that blessing.
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  • You say, "well, what does that have to do with the rapture of
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  • The church?"
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  • Listen, this explains why the old testament doesn't talk about
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  • The rapture.
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  • It explains why even jesus himself never mentioned
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  • The rapture.
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  • The rapture is the end of the church age.
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  • The reason jesus never mentioned the rapture is he never
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  • Mentioned the church.
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  • He never talked about this mystery of the church in
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  • Specific detail like the apostle paul.
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  • This was something that was reserved for the apostle paul.
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  • And therefore this explains matthew 24 and 25.
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  • Remember, the disciples came to jesus and they said, "lord, tell
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  • Us when shall these things be and what shall be the sign of
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  • Your coming and the end of the age?"
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  • Now, why didn't jesus say: "well, the first thing that's
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  • Gonna happen is there's gonna be a rapture, followed by
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  • A tribulation."
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  • He never mentions the rapture.
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  • Instead, in matthew 24 and 25, the next thing jesus tells his
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  • Apostles that is on god's calendar, look at this first
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  • Chart i see here.
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  • Here's the end times according to jesus to his apostles.
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  • He said the next thing is gonna be wars and rumors of war, the
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  • Tribulation, the antichrist who's going to commit the
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  • Abomination of desolation, which daniel talked about.
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  • There's gonna be finally the return of the son of man.
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  • As it was in the days of noah, so shall it be in the coming of
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  • The sons of man, and then there's gonna be judgment and
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  • Finally, the kingdom.
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  • Never once did jesus mention the rapture.
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  • Why, because jesus was talking to jews.
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  • He was talking to his apostles.
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  • As far as israel is concerned, the next event is going to be
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  • The great tribulation.
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  • You see, beginning in genesis 12, god started dealing with the
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  • Nation of israel, to draw israel to himself.
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  • But when israel rejected jesus christ, god temporarily halted
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  • His dealing with israel and he turned his attention to people
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  • Like us, gentiles, who could become a part of the kingdom
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  • Of god.
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  • Now, has god given up on israel? not at all.
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  • Israel has a hardness of heart toward christ right now.
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  • Now there are a few who are being saved, obviously.
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  • There are great ministries to jewish people right now.
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  • But as a nation, they have a hardness of heart toward
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  • The gospel.
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  • But that's a temporary hardness of heart.
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  • The bible says that this is a time when god has turned his
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  • Attention away from jews toward those of us who are gentiles,
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  • Giving us an opportunity to be saved.
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  • But this hardening is not going to be forever.
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  • God has one final period in history when he's going to give
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  • Israel a chance to be saved.
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  • That period of time is the last 7 years on god's time clock.
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  • It's the time of the great tribulation.
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  • And so when the apostles said to jesus, "what shall be the sign
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  • Of your coming and the end of the age," he talks to these
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  • Jewish apostles about the great tribulation, which is called
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  • Daniel's 70th week, the time of jacob's trouble.
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  • It is a time of severe punishment, but it's a time of
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  • Redemption for israel that will be followed by the
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  • Lord's return.
  • 00:12:53.262 --> 00:12:54.897
  • Now, paul talked about this partial hardening that has come
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  • Upon israel and has resulted in our salvation.
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  • Turn over to romans 11, verse 25.
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  • I want you to see this, in the teaching of paul.
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  • Romans 11:25.
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  • Paul writes, "for i do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed
  • 00:13:10.679 --> 00:13:16.952
  • Of this mystery."
  • 00:13:16.952 --> 00:13:19.154
  • People who say, "well, end time events, we don't need to know
  • 00:13:19.154 --> 00:13:21.557
  • About all this."
  • 00:13:21.557 --> 00:13:22.892
  • Paul said, "i don't want you to be uninformed."
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  • The literal word is ignorant.
  • 00:13:24.460 --> 00:13:26.829
  • I don't want you to be ignorant about these things.
  • 00:13:26.829 --> 00:13:28.831
  • Paul says the same thing, 1 thessalonians 4: i don't want
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  • You to be uninformed about the rapture.
  • 00:13:31.700 --> 00:13:33.869
  • "i don't want you to be uninformed of this mystery--
  • 00:13:33.869 --> 00:13:35.971
  • Lest you be wise in your own estimation."
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  • And what's the mystery here?
  • 00:13:38.941 --> 00:13:40.509
  • "that a partial hardening has happened to israel until the
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  • Fullness of the gentiles has come in."
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  • There's the church.
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  • That is, god has temporarily set aside israel because of her
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  • Hardness of heart so that people like you and i can be saved.
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  • That's the gentile blessing.
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  • Do you realize you and i have benefited from israel's hardness
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  • Of heart?
  • 00:14:02.898 --> 00:14:04.233
  • Because israel hardened her heart against god, you and i
  • 00:14:04.233 --> 00:14:08.337
  • Have been given the opportunity to be saved.
  • 00:14:08.337 --> 00:14:11.173
  • "but don't forget this," paul says, "that hardness of israel's
  • 00:14:11.173 --> 00:14:14.777
  • Heart is only a temporary hardness."
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  • God is one final time going to give israel a chance to
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  • Be saved.
  • 00:14:21.383 --> 00:14:22.718
  • And when the last gentile has been saved, who god has planned
  • 00:14:22.718 --> 00:14:26.255
  • To be saved, then the final last 7 years of earth's history will
  • 00:14:26.255 --> 00:14:30.993
  • Begin: the great tribulation.
  • 00:14:30.993 --> 00:14:34.596
  • Now, i know that's a lot of theology to go through in about
  • 00:14:34.596 --> 00:14:37.900
  • 10 minutes here.
  • 00:14:37.900 --> 00:14:39.301
  • So we're gonna take a break right now, okay?
  • 00:14:39.301 --> 00:14:41.971
  • And i'm gonna tell you a story from my love life.
  • 00:14:41.971 --> 00:14:45.641
  • It's a sad story.
  • 00:14:45.641 --> 00:14:48.143
  • It's really a sad story, but it has a happy ending to it.
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  • When i was 12 years old, i met amy lyon renard in miss denny's
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  • Math class, 7th grade at west junior high school
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  • In richardson.
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  • And i was head over heels.
  • 00:15:02.658 --> 00:15:04.660
  • I mean, immediately in love and we became fast friends when we
  • 00:15:04.660 --> 00:15:09.164
  • Were 12 years old and best friends in the 7th and 8th grade
  • 00:15:09.164 --> 00:15:13.335
  • And in the 9th grade we started dating and i really fell
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  • In love.
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  • And, i mean, she was the best thing that ever happened to me.
  • 00:15:17.072 --> 00:15:20.876
  • But when we became sophomores in high school, amy did
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  • The unthinkable.
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  • She broke up with me.
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  • She wanted to start dating other guys.
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  • Can you imagine anything like that?
  • 00:15:32.321 --> 00:15:35.991
  • I mean, i just cannot imagine what possessed her to do that.
  • 00:15:35.991 --> 00:15:40.129
  • But i tell you, i was absolutely crushed.
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  • As the old country western song said, "she done stomped on
  • 00:15:43.966 --> 00:15:46.935
  • My aorta."
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  • She did.
  • 00:15:48.303 --> 00:15:51.173
  • I mean, i was so upset.
  • 00:15:51.173 --> 00:15:53.909
  • And suddenly i found that i had all this free time on my hands.
  • 00:15:53.909 --> 00:15:57.679
  • And so i got involved in student government at our school.
  • 00:15:57.679 --> 00:16:00.716
  • I started leading some bible studies.
  • 00:16:00.716 --> 00:16:02.384
  • And there was this girl who was a mutual friend of ours,
  • 00:16:02.384 --> 00:16:04.820
  • Who was a friend.
  • 00:16:04.820 --> 00:16:06.155
  • There wasn't anything romantic there, but she was a friend and
  • 00:16:06.155 --> 00:16:08.257
  • She wasn't a christian, and so i invited her to a few church
  • 00:16:08.257 --> 00:16:11.460
  • Functions and started talking to her about christ and she
  • 00:16:11.460 --> 00:16:14.396
  • Eventually came to faith in christ that year.
  • 00:16:14.396 --> 00:16:17.366
  • And then, later in our sophomore year, amy came to her senses
  • 00:16:17.366 --> 00:16:21.236
  • And--no, we got back together again and it's been eternal
  • 00:16:21.236 --> 00:16:25.741
  • Bliss ever since that time.
  • 00:16:25.741 --> 00:16:28.243
  • But, you know, it was interesting, that girl who came
  • 00:16:28.243 --> 00:16:30.579
  • To christ during that time, a few years ago, she wrote me a
  • 00:16:30.579 --> 00:16:32.848
  • Letter and she was reflecting on how she became a christian and
  • 00:16:32.848 --> 00:16:37.286
  • What had happened in her life since that time.
  • 00:16:37.286 --> 00:16:39.288
  • And she said, "you know, if you and amy had not broken up in our
  • 00:16:39.288 --> 00:16:43.225
  • Sophomore year, i doubt you would have ever had time to pay
  • 00:16:43.225 --> 00:16:46.762
  • Attention to me and to give me an opportunity to hear
  • 00:16:46.762 --> 00:16:50.466
  • The gospel."
  • 00:16:50.466 --> 00:16:52.534
  • Now, what she was saying was because of the hardness of amy's
  • 00:16:52.534 --> 00:16:57.039
  • Heart, a temporary hardness, i'm hoping, dear.
  • 00:16:57.039 --> 00:17:06.415
  • But anyway, because of the hardness of amy's heart, this
  • 00:17:06.415 --> 00:17:10.119
  • Girl had an opportunity to be saved, but it was a temporary
  • 00:17:10.119 --> 00:17:13.655
  • Hardness, and we were reconciled back to one another.
  • 00:17:13.655 --> 00:17:17.025
  • That's really what the church age is.
  • 00:17:17.025 --> 00:17:18.794
  • Paul is saying because israel hardened its heart toward god
  • 00:17:18.794 --> 00:17:23.232
  • Temporarily, gentiles have had the opportunity to be saved.
  • 00:17:23.232 --> 00:17:27.402
  • That's the church age we're living in.
  • 00:17:27.402 --> 00:17:29.304
  • Now, you have to understand the church age to understand the end
  • 00:17:29.304 --> 00:17:33.675
  • Of the church age, which is the rapture of the church.
  • 00:17:33.675 --> 00:17:36.845
  • The fact is after every gentile has been saved, who is going to
  • 00:17:36.845 --> 00:17:41.183
  • Be saved, then god starts that countdown clock, the final 7
  • 00:17:41.183 --> 00:17:45.787
  • Years called the tribulation.
  • 00:17:45.787 --> 00:17:47.389
  • Look at the second chart that i put on your outline.
  • 00:17:47.389 --> 00:17:50.459
  • The rapture of the church ends the church age and it begins the
  • 00:17:50.459 --> 00:17:55.197
  • Period of time known as the rapture of the church.
  • 00:17:55.197 --> 00:17:58.233
  • The rapture of the church precedes that 7-year period of
  • 00:17:58.233 --> 00:18:02.237
  • Time called the tribulation.
  • 00:18:02.237 --> 00:18:03.839
  • Now, where do we find this rapture of the church?
  • 00:18:03.839 --> 00:18:07.042
  • Turn over to 1 thessalonians chapter 4, this is the most
  • 00:18:07.042 --> 00:18:09.912
  • Definitive passage in all of the bible
  • 00:18:09.912 --> 00:18:13.682
  • About the rapture of the church.
  • 00:18:13.682 --> 00:18:15.884
  • A little background is helpful to understand.
  • 00:18:15.884 --> 00:18:18.453
  • Paul was writing to the christians at thessalonica.
  • 00:18:18.453 --> 00:18:21.757
  • Thessalonica is the second largest city in
  • 00:18:21.757 --> 00:18:24.927
  • Greece next to athens.
  • 00:18:24.927 --> 00:18:26.261
  • It is a thriving city and there was a large community of
  • 00:18:26.261 --> 00:18:29.264
  • Believers there.
  • 00:18:29.264 --> 00:18:30.766
  • And those believers, like most new testament believers, thought
  • 00:18:30.766 --> 00:18:36.338
  • That the lord was gonna return in their lifetime.
  • 00:18:36.338 --> 00:18:38.674
  • Do you realize that?
  • 00:18:38.674 --> 00:18:40.008
  • I think even paul believed that secretly.
  • 00:18:40.008 --> 00:18:41.376
  • He doesn't come out and say it.
  • 00:18:41.376 --> 00:18:42.744
  • But when you read between the lines, i think paul thought the
  • 00:18:42.744 --> 00:18:45.214
  • Lord was coming back in his lifetime.
  • 00:18:45.214 --> 00:18:47.282
  • These thessalonians believed that, and then something started
  • 00:18:47.282 --> 00:18:50.752
  • To happen.
  • 00:18:50.752 --> 00:18:52.120
  • As the lord's return seemed to be postponed, in their minds,
  • 00:18:52.120 --> 00:18:57.226
  • Their loved ones who were christians begin to die.
  • 00:18:57.226 --> 00:19:00.696
  • And so they had this question, they said, "paul, what about our
  • 00:19:00.696 --> 00:19:03.365
  • Loved ones who die before the lord returns?
  • 00:19:03.365 --> 00:19:05.901
  • Are they going to miss out on the resurrection?
  • 00:19:05.901 --> 00:19:09.504
  • And what about us?
  • 00:19:09.504 --> 00:19:10.872
  • When do we receive our new bodies that god has promised?"
  • 00:19:10.872 --> 00:19:14.643
  • So, paul writes this letter, especially chapter 4, to answer
  • 00:19:14.643 --> 00:19:18.213
  • Those questions about what happens to christians who die
  • 00:19:18.213 --> 00:19:22.784
  • Before the return of the lord.
  • 00:19:22.784 --> 00:19:24.820
  • And what about us?
  • 00:19:24.820 --> 00:19:26.154
  • When do we receive our new bodies as well?
  • 00:19:26.154 --> 00:19:28.257
  • Look at verse 13 of 1 thessalonians 4: "but we do not
  • 00:19:28.257 --> 00:19:32.127
  • Want you to be uninformed."
  • 00:19:32.127 --> 00:19:33.996
  • There it is again.
  • 00:19:33.996 --> 00:19:35.364
  • People who say, "oh, we don't need to know all this stuff."
  • 00:19:35.364 --> 00:19:38.000
  • No, paul doesn't want us to be "ignorant about those who
  • 00:19:38.000 --> 00:19:42.271
  • Are asleep."
  • 00:19:42.271 --> 00:19:44.339
  • Let me stop there and say a word about this word "asleep."
  • 00:19:44.339 --> 00:19:48.543
  • He is talking about what happens to the bodies of christians
  • 00:19:48.543 --> 00:19:52.748
  • Who die.
  • 00:19:52.748 --> 00:19:54.082
  • Never in the bible is it said that our soul or our spirit goes
  • 00:19:54.082 --> 00:19:57.886
  • To sleep when we die.
  • 00:19:57.886 --> 00:19:59.321
  • It's always the physical body that is said to go to sleep.
  • 00:19:59.321 --> 00:20:03.292
  • The bible is very clear.
  • 00:20:03.292 --> 00:20:04.660
  • If you as a christian die today, your spirit, the essence of who
  • 00:20:04.660 --> 00:20:08.830
  • You are, doesn't float around in nothingness.
  • 00:20:08.830 --> 00:20:11.066
  • It goes immediately into the presence of jesus christ.
  • 00:20:11.066 --> 00:20:14.036
  • 2 corinthians 5:8 says: "for a christian to be absent from the
  • 00:20:14.036 --> 00:20:17.572
  • Body is to be immediately at home with the lord."
  • 00:20:17.572 --> 00:20:21.276
  • When he talks about asleep here, he's talking about the bodies of
  • 00:20:21.276 --> 00:20:25.080
  • Christians who die.
  • 00:20:25.080 --> 00:20:26.415
  • He said, "we don't want you to be uninformed about those who
  • 00:20:26.415 --> 00:20:28.984
  • Are asleep, so that you may not grieve as those who have
  • 00:20:28.984 --> 00:20:32.521
  • No hope."
  • 00:20:32.521 --> 00:20:33.855
  • Don't worry about your loved ones who are christians who
  • 00:20:33.855 --> 00:20:36.425
  • Have died.
  • 00:20:36.425 --> 00:20:37.759
  • Look at verse 14: "for if we believe that jesus died and rose
  • 00:20:37.759 --> 00:20:42.030
  • Again, even so god will bring with him those who have fallen
  • 00:20:42.030 --> 00:20:47.869
  • Asleep in jesus."
  • 00:20:47.869 --> 00:20:49.438
  • Don't worry about your loved ones, god's gonna take care
  • 00:20:49.438 --> 00:20:52.074
  • Of them.
  • 00:20:52.074 --> 00:20:54.042
  • Well, you say, "how is god gonna do that?"
  • 00:20:54.042 --> 00:20:55.377
  • He describes it in the rapture of the church, beginning in
  • 00:20:55.377 --> 00:20:58.447
  • Verse 15.
  • 00:20:58.447 --> 00:20:59.815
  • What i want you to notice and jot down on your outline: there
  • 00:20:59.815 --> 00:21:02.084
  • Are four components of the rapture of the church.
  • 00:21:02.084 --> 00:21:05.354
  • First of all, the descent of christ.
  • 00:21:05.354 --> 00:21:08.190
  • The descent of christ.
  • 00:21:08.190 --> 00:21:09.691
  • Look at verse 15: "for this we say to you by the word of the
  • 00:21:09.691 --> 00:21:13.962
  • Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the
  • 00:21:13.962 --> 00:21:18.166
  • Lord, shall not precede," that is we shall not go ahead of,
  • 00:21:18.166 --> 00:21:21.870
  • "those who have fallen asleep.
  • 00:21:21.870 --> 00:21:25.340
  • For the lord himself," verse 16, "will descend from heaven with a
  • 00:21:25.340 --> 00:21:29.578
  • Shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet
  • 00:21:29.578 --> 00:21:32.414
  • Of god, and the dead in christ shall rise first."
  • 00:21:32.414 --> 00:21:36.017
  • Paul is saying, "don't worry about your loved ones who
  • 00:21:36.017 --> 00:21:39.054
  • Have died.
  • 00:21:39.054 --> 00:21:40.422
  • God is so concerned about them, he's gonna raise them first."
  • 00:21:40.422 --> 00:21:44.192
  • We will not precede, we will not go ahead of the dead in christ,
  • 00:21:44.192 --> 00:21:47.963
  • Those who have died in christ.
  • 00:21:47.963 --> 00:21:50.065
  • Verse 16, the first thing that's gonna happen at the rapture:
  • 00:21:50.065 --> 00:21:53.535
  • "the lord will descend with a shout, with the voice of the
  • 00:21:53.535 --> 00:21:56.338
  • Archangel and with the trumpet of god," the descent of christ.
  • 00:21:56.338 --> 00:22:00.742
  • Now, i want you to underline a word in verse 15: "the coming of
  • 00:22:00.742 --> 00:22:05.480
  • The lord."
  • 00:22:05.480 --> 00:22:06.848
  • Paul describes the rapture as the coming of the lord.
  • 00:22:06.848 --> 00:22:11.520
  • Now this word "coming" is the greek word, "parousia," and it
  • 00:22:11.520 --> 00:22:15.891
  • Literally means appearance.
  • 00:22:15.891 --> 00:22:18.960
  • The coming of the lord is the appearance of the lord.
  • 00:22:18.960 --> 00:22:22.364
  • So he says, the rapture will be characterized by the coming, the
  • 00:22:22.364 --> 00:22:26.635
  • Appearance, of the lord, for the lord himself will descend
  • 00:22:26.635 --> 00:22:31.106
  • From heaven.
  • 00:22:31.106 --> 00:22:32.541
  • At the rapture, the lord appears.
  • 00:22:32.541 --> 00:22:34.543
  • Now, the same word, parousia, is used to describe an event that
  • 00:22:34.543 --> 00:22:39.281
  • Happened 7 years after this, and that is the second coming
  • 00:22:39.281 --> 00:22:42.484
  • Of jesus.
  • 00:22:42.484 --> 00:22:44.386
  • Jeffress: the endtime events are going to be very frightening,
  • 00:22:48.590 --> 00:22:51.393
  • But gratefully, christians don't have to fear the great
  • 00:22:51.393 --> 00:22:54.095
  • Tribulation because god will take away the church and gather
  • 00:22:54.095 --> 00:22:58.200
  • His people into heaven before it happens.
  • 00:22:58.200 --> 00:23:01.069
  • Well, i hope this study is filling you with peace, joy, and
  • 00:23:01.069 --> 00:23:05.040
  • Anticipation as you look forward to the lord's return.
  • 00:23:05.040 --> 00:23:08.944
  • And thank you to everyone who supports "pathway to victory"
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  • For helping us broadcast this urgent message across america
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  • 00:23:16.117 --> 00:23:17.586
  • Yes, the darkness of our day is certainly alarming.
  • 00:23:17.586 --> 00:23:20.589
  • But in the end, we know that god is victorious.
  • 00:23:20.589 --> 00:23:24.359
  • And in the meantime, we remain committed to sharing the gospel
  • 00:23:24.359 --> 00:23:27.929
  • With as many people as possible until the lord returns.
  • 00:23:27.929 --> 00:23:32.033
  • So thank you for your support that enables us to pierce the
  • 00:23:32.033 --> 00:23:35.937
  • Darkness with the light of god's word.
  • 00:23:35.937 --> 00:23:38.773
  • Now, stay right there.
  • 00:23:38.773 --> 00:23:40.108
  • I'll be back with more "pathway to victory" in just a moment.
  • 00:23:40.108 --> 00:23:43.612
  • Announcer: with everything happening in our world today.
  • 00:23:45.280 --> 00:23:48.183
  • It's natural to wonder, are we living in the end-times?
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  • In his brand-new book "ask dr. jeffress about the end times,"
  • 00:23:52.521 --> 00:23:56.625
  • Dr. robert jeffress answers the 20 questions people ask the
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  • Most about the future.
  • 00:24:00.028 --> 00:24:01.429
  • Jeffress: in my 40+ years as a pastor, i've answered countless
  • 00:24:01.429 --> 00:24:04.666
  • Questions about the end-times, and that's why i wrote this
  • 00:24:04.666 --> 00:24:08.503
  • Book, to give you clear, biblical answers that will fill
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  • Your life with peace, joy, and excitement as we look forward to
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