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Robert Jeffress - What Every Christian Should Know About The End Times (Part 1)

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Hi, i am robert jeffers, and welcome again
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Long after the people who built them,
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Along with everything else mankind has built.
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And for the christian, this knowledge should fill us,
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Not with dread, but with hope and anticipation.
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My message is titled
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"what every christian should know about the end times"
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A story this week on the cnn website
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Immediately caught my attention,
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And you can understand why in a moment.
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The article was titled,
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"for some christians,
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Rapture anxiety can take a lifetime to heal."
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Now you're not going to believe this.
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The story begins, "13-year-old april ajoy
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Had a sense something wasn't right.
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It was quiet in her dallas house, too quiet.
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Her brothers were gone, her parents were gone.
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On her parents' bed, a pile of her mother's clothes
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Signaled something terrifying.
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Ajoy's mind began churning, trying to remember,
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Trying to make plans.
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When was the last time she had sinned?
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Should she refuse the mark of the beast?
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At least she thought if she was put to the guillotine
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During the time of the tribulation,
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It would be a quick death.
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April ajoy grew up in an evangelical church,
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Surrounded by constant reminders
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That the rapture was just around the corner.
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She was taught to never sin,
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Since it could be the very last thing she did
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Before jesus returned to the earth.
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Dramatic rapture themed books and movies were presented
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As real glimpses into the end of the world.
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Now 34, she is one of a growing network
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Of ex-vangelicals who have removed themselves
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From what they now view as damaging beliefs
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Of some evangelical churches.
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She runs a popular tiktok account
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Discussing faith and, among other things,
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The effects of traumatic religious experiences
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That can last for years, even a lifetime.
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Rapture anxiety, as it's often called,
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Is recognized by some faith experts
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And mental health professionals
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As a type of religious trauma.
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Darren slaythe, the president of global research,
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Has been studying religious traumas across several faiths
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And denomination for years.
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He says, 'this is a real thing, it's a chronic problem.
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This is a new area of study,
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But in general, our research has revealed
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That religious trauma leads to an increase of anxiety,
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Depression, paranoia, and even some ocd like behaviors.
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I need to say this prayer of salvation so many times,
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I need to confess my sins so often.
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Now, imagine,' he continues.
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'you are taught that at any minute
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You could be left on earth.
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What does that do to a teenager who just had premarital sex
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Or even simply took the lord's name in vain?'"
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The article says, "experience like this young woman's,
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A latent fear of impending inevitable end,
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Are very common among communities
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Of religious trauma survivors."
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And on and on it goes.
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I've just got one question.
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If simply hearing about the rapture can be traumatic,
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What do you think it's going to be like for these people
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When they actually live through the rapture
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And find out they've been left behind?
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I mean, that's the ultimate trauma, isn't it?
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And yet that article highlights a basic truth,
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And that is differing people have different reactions
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To the end times.
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For those who do know jesus as their savior,
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The end time events are nothing to worry about.
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They represent simply a prelude
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To an eternity of eternal blessing.
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But for those who don't believe in jesus as their savior,
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They're obviously frightened by the end time,
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Because if these events are true,
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They are a prelude to an eternity of suffering.
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Today, as we come to the end of our series,
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What every christian should know,
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I thought it was appropriate
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That we look at the 10th historic pillar
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Of the christian faith,
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And that is what every christian should know
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About the end times.
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If you have your bibles,
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Turn over to matthew chapter 24 for a moment.
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Remember jesus had no difficulty
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Talking about the end times, no matter how traumatic it was
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For his listeners.
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Remember his disciples in matthew 24
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Were walking with him out of the temple
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And jesus said, "oh, by the way,
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This whole thing's going to be torn down one day."
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They were frightened.
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They said, "what do you mean it's going to be torn down?
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When will this happen?
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And what will be the sign of your coming
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And the end of the age?"
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Jesus didn't respond, "well, it's none of your business,"
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Or, "don't worry about the future,
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Just worry about the here and now."
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Instead, jesus gave them a very detailed outline
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Of the end time events.
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God wants us to understand, no, not the exact hour or day,
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No man knows that, but he wants us to know
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What we can anticipate in the future.
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Why is it so important to know about the end times?
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Let me just mention three reasons.
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First of all, the end times are a major theme
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Throughout the bible.
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Did you know there are 1800 references in the old testament
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To the second coming of jesus?
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For every one prophecy in the old testament
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About his first coming,
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There are eight about his second coming.
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In the new testament, you have 300 references
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To the second coming.
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23 out of the 27 books in the new testament
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Talk about christ's return.
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If it's such an important topic in the bible,
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It should be a subject of our understanding as well.
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Secondly, understanding the end times
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Helps us interpret and apply the bible.
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I'm convinced it is impossible to truly understand the bible
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And apply it if you don't understand the end times.
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Let me give you two examples of that.
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Let's just say you're reading through the book of isaiah
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In your daily bible readings,
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And you get to isaiah 65:20.
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It says, "no longer will there be in it an infant
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Who lives but a few days,
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Or an old man who does not live out his days,
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For the youth will die at the age of 100,
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And the one who does not reach the age of 100
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Will thought to be accursed."
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You wonder, well, when is isaiah talking about here?
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Obviously this isn't now.
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Infant death happens all the time,
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And very few people ever even reach the age of 100.
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So it can't be now.
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It can't be heaven,
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Because people won't die at all at age 100
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Or the age 100,000 in heaven.
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So when is he talking about?
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Unless you understand the millennium,
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The 1,000 year reign of christ
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That we'll talk about in a moment,
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A time when a partial renovation of the earth
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Is taking place, you'll never understand isaiah 65:20,
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Or matthew 25.
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As a part of jesus' description of the end times he said,
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"and the king will say to them, 'when i was naked,
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You clothed me, when i was hungry, you fed me.
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When i was in prison, you visited me.'
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And they will say to him, 'when did we see you naked?
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When did we see you hungry or in prison?'"
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Matthew 25:40, "and the king will answer to them,
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'truly, i say to you, to the extent that you did it
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To one of these brothers of mine, even the least of these,
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You did it to me.'"
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And people read that and they think,
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Well then jesus is saying,
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Our mission here is to clothe the naked, feed the hungry,
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And visit those in prison.
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Is that what he's talking about here?
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After all, he said after that, come enter my kingdom
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That i've prepared for you.
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So is the way to get to heaven to visit the imprisoned,
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To clothe the naked, and feed the hungry?
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You'll come out with all kind of wrong applications
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Until you understand again the context of this passage.
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Jesus was talking about a future time
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At the end of the tribulation when he returns to judge
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And he is going to judge people
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Who were living during the tribulation
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By how they treated the 144,000 jewish witnesses,
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The evangelists who did suffer, who did go to prison,
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Who were hungry, who were deprived of the basics of life
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And what jesus was saying,
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The judgment of those in the tribulation
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Will be how they treated those who were suffering
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For the lord.
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It will represent how they viewed jesus himself.
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To the extent you did it to the least of these,
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These 144,000 jews, you did it unto me.
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My simple point is,
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You can't understand passages of the bible
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Without having an understanding of bible prophecy.
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And thirdly, anticipating the end times
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Motivates us to live in a god-honoring way.
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Have you ever heard people say,
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"oh, i don't study the book of revelation or prophecy.
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That has no relationship to my life today."
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Wrong.
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Listen to what the apostle peter said in 2 peter 3
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After he had described the destruction of this present world
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At the end of time.
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He said, "since all these things are to be destroyed
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In this way, what sort of people ought you to be
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In holy conduct and godliness
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Looking for in hastening the coming day of god,
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Because of which the heavens will be destroyed by burning
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And the elements will melt with intense heat?"
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In other words, if everything in this world
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You see right now is going to be burned up one day,
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Shouldn't that affect right now the focus of your life,
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What you're investing in, what you're giving attention to?
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If there really is a time that i'm going to stand
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Before the judgment seat of christ
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And give an account of my life,
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Shouldn't that impact the choices that i make right now?
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Abraham lincoln said in 1858,
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"if you will tell me where we are and where we are going,
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I can better tell you what to do and how to do it."
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We need to know what awaits us to make decisions right now
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That are wise.
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Well, if we're to understand the end time events,
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What are we supposed to understand?
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I put on your outline the familiar chart
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Of the end time events.
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Now for some of you, this is going to be brand new material.
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For many of you it's review.
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So even if you've heard this 1,000 times,
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Think about, would you be able to explain this
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To your children or grandchildren or a friend
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Who asked you about the end times?
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Listen to this with the mind of how to explain this truth
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To others.
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Right now, we are living in a period of time
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We call the church age.
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Here's the definition.
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The church age is that period of time
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Between pentecost until the rapture
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During which gentiles are invited to participate
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In the blessings of the abrahamic covenant.
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Remember, god made a promise to abraham.
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It was a promise to abraham
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And his believing descendants, the jewish people,
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Who believed, but as we know,
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The jewish people rejected the messiah,
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The ultimate expression of the abrahamic covenant.
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And so what did god do?
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Did he just write off the jews and say,
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"you're lost forever?"
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No.
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He temporarily stopped his dealings with israel
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To give gentiles, people like you and me,
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An opportunity to be saved.
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And that's the period of time we're living in right now.
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In romans 11:1, paul, a jew himself said,
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"has god rejected his people?
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May it never be."
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God's not going to violate his promise.
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He hasn't rejected them,
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But here's what has happened, verse 25 of romans 11,
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"i don't want you to be ignorant, brethren,
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Concerning this mystery
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That a partial hardening has happened to israel
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Until the fullness of the gentiles has come in."
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God has hit the pause button in his dealing with israel,
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And their rejection means you and i who are gentiles
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Have an opportunity to be saved.
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But god will finish his dealings with israel.
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He will give them one last opportunity
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To trust in christ during a period of time
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We'll talk about in a moment.
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But that's the age that we're living in right now,
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The church age when gentiles are invited
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To participate in the blessings of the abrahamic covenant.
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Now, when the last gentile has been saved,
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Who is going to be saved,
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That marks the end of the church age
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And points to the next event, the rapture of the church.
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The end of the church age will be the rapture of the church.
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What is the rapture?
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It's the snatching away to heaven of all christians
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Before the beginning of the tribulation.
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It's the snatching away of all christians to heaven
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Before the beginning of the tribulation.
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The key passage in scripture for the rapture
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Is 1 thessalonians 4:16-18,
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"for the lord himself will descend from heaven
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With a shout, with the voice of the archangel,
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And with the trumpet of god,
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And the dead in christ shall rise first."
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I was at a cemetery yesterday doing a service.
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On the rapture day, those graves are going to be opened
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And all believers' bodies will be snatched up,
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And those of us who are alive at that time
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Will be snatched up as well
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To meet the lord in the air.
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Thus, we shall always be with the lord,
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Therefore comfort one another with these words.
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Now, people who don't believe in the rapture, christians,
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They say, "oh, that's just something
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That was made up in the 1800s.
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There's no word in the bible that talks about a rapture."
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Yes there is, it's right here.
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It's translated, caught up.
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It's the greek word harpatso.
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It means to snatch away.
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Paul used it in 2 corinthians 12 when he said
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He was snatched up into the third heaven
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For a brief period of time.
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It is a biblical term,
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And although there's some similarities to the rapture
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Between the rapture and the second coming of jesus
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That happened seven years later,
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There's also some distinct differences
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That we will look at as well.
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Just because things are similar
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Doesn't mean they're the same.
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My car has a motor, an engine in it.
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Our washing machine has a motor in it,
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But they're not the same thing.
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I can't wash clothes in my automobile.
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They're similar, but they're also vastly different,
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And we'll see in a moment there are some key differences
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Between the rapture and the second coming.
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By the way, the rapture's the next event
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On god's prophetic timeline.
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It could happen at any moment.
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There are no prophecies that have to be fulfilled
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For the rapture to happen.
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It could happen before this sermon is over
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And you'd be caught up,
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And the rest of you would be left here with me
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To go through the tribulation of the rest of my sermon.
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But no, no, no, i digress.
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Now, there's some different views about the rapture.
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Some people believe in a pre-tribulation rapture.
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They think it's going to happen before the tribulation.
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That is my belief, and i'll tell you why in a moment.
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There others believe in a post tribulation rapture.
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That is christians will go through the tribulation
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And at the end of the tribulation,
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Almost concurrent with the second coming of christ,
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At the end of the tribulation, they'll be snatched away
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And they'll come back again with christ.
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Or the mid tribulation rapture,
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That it occurs after the first three and a half years
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Of the tribulation.
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Now after the rapture will come the next event,
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The third event, the tribulation.
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Here's a definition,
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The tribulation is the seven year period
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That begins with the antichrist
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When he signs a peace covenant with israel
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And ends with armageddon
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And the second coming of jesus christ.
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The bible defines it as a seven year period of time.
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Now, this isn't the word of god, this is the word of robert,
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But amy and i were speculating last night
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About what the rapture's going to leave behind
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And how will the disappearance of millions of christians
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Around the world be explained.
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My belief is the rapture will coincide
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With some great global holocaust,
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Some great global tragedy that will be used
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To explain the disappearance of millions of people,
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And at the same time that global catastrophe
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Will serve as a catalyst for the rise,
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Immediate rise to power of the antichrist.
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Right now, 2 thessalonians 2 says,
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"the antichrist hasn't been revealed,
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But when the restrainer, the holy spirit,
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Living in christians is removed from the earth,
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Then he will be revealed."
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The world will be in such turmoil,
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I believe that countries like the united states of america
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And others will gladly surrender their constitution
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In order to follow the lead of this world dictator
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Who promises peace and order out of chaos.
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I think that's what you're going to see.
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Otherwise, there's no way to understand
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How the bible says he will rise to power
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Without any show of force at all.
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People will applaud his rule.
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That's the tribulation.
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It's a seven year period
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Beginning when this great world leader
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Signs a peace treaty with israel
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And it ends with a second coming.
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What is the purpose of the tribulation?
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It's twofold.
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First of all, the salvation of both jews and gentiles,
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Even though those who become christians
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Will pay a great price to do so,
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There's going to be a worldwide revival,
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And it's described in revelation chapter seven.
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John says he saw people from all nations
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Coming to faith in christ, jews and gentiles alike.
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Verse nine says, "they will come from every nation.
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This is god giving israel
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And others one last chance to be saved."
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This final seven years is called daniel's 70th week
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That he prophesied over 2000 years ago
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In daniel chapter nine.
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Remember the 70 weeks of years,
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490 years have been decreed for you and your people.
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483 of those years have already passed,
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There's one seven year period left,
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And that is the great tribulation,
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But it will also be a time
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Of the condemnation of unbelievers.
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God will pour out his wrath in the series of judgments,
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The seal, trumpet, and bowl judgments.
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God will pour out his judgment on unbelievers.
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And by the way, that's why i am absolutely convinced
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Christians will not live during the tribulation.
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We will not be here for that period of time.
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Now, critics of the rapture say,
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"oh, you're just trying to have a quick way
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To get out of this world so you don't have to suffer."
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No, that's not true at all.
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There is every guarantee that christians are going to suffer
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In this world.
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Christians right now around the world are suffering.
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There's no promise to be exempt from suffering in the world,
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But the suffering of the world
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The christians are experiencing right now
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Is persecution from other people, from unbelievers.
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The tribulation, that seven year period,
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Will be the first time in history
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That the whole world, since the flood,
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It will be the first time
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That the whole world has experienced god's judgment,
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His condemnation, and as a christian,
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I never need to fear god's wrath or condemnation.
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Romans 8:1 says, "there is therefore now no condemnation
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Awaiting those who belong to christ jesus."
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God took all of the wrath that you and i deserve
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And he poured it out on his own son, jesus christ.
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Jesus experienced the wrath of god
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So i could experience the blessing of god,
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And if i have to quake over the idea
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Of some future judgment of god,
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Then it means the death of christ was totally unnecessary.
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No, no christian needs to fear the coming wrath of god.
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That's the great tribulation.
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The tribulation will end when all the world forces
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Gathered together in the valley of jezreel,
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The plane of megiddo,
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That so many of us have been to so many times.
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It's the battlefield that when napoleon looked at it,
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He said, "this is the greatest battlefield in history,
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Of any place in the world."
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It's that spot that the world forces will gather together
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To overthrow the antichrist.
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♪ music ♪
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We're just getting started with this important topic,
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And i hope you'll join me again next time
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To learn what every christian should know
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About the end times.
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Now, in closing today, i want to share a note from cindy,
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One of our listeners from alabama.
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She wrote, "pastor, i was saved as a young girl,
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But strayed in my adult years.
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I renewed my faith four years ago
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And now i'm reading your books
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And listening to your program every day.
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At this stage in my life,
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I want others to have the same peace
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That comes in our heavenly treasures."
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Isn't that great?
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Over the years, philosophers have concocted
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Some pretty wild ideas about the way our world might end,
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But the bible contains the final word on the last days.
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For the christian, it's imperative to understand
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Biblical prophecy, because our future should impact
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The choices we make right now,
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And next time i'll continue to outline
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The key events of the end times
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And explain how every christian should respond
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To this knowledge about the last days.
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Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next
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In our series, "what every christian should know."
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Again, the end time events are set.
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We're not going to change that,
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But how we respond right now will determine
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Whether these events are a prelude
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To an eternity of blessing
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Or a prelude to an eternity of nightmare
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Like we've never known.
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Set your dvr and join us next time
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For part two of the message,
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"what every christian should know about the end times,"
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Here on "pathway to victory."
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Robert Jeffress - What Every Christian Should Know About The End Times (Part 1)

February 26, 2026 | 27:29

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