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Robert Jeffress - What Every Christian Should Know About The End Time (Part 2)

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - What Every Christian Should Know About The End Time (Part 2) | February 27, 2026

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From the pulpit of the first baptist church
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Of dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory"
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With dr. robert jeffress.
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Hi, i'm robert jeffress,
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And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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Many christians are woefully ignorant about the end times,
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Not because they aren't interested, but because they fear
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The book of revelation is too complicated to understand.
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Or sometimes they don't realize how important
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Prophecy is to their everyday lives.
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Well, i believe future things
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Are both comprehensible and extremely relevant.
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And that's why my message is titled,
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What every christian should know about the end times,
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On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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♪ many are they that rise up ♪
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♪ against me ♪
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♪ many there be which say ♪
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♪ of my soul ♪
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♪ there is no help ♪
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♪ for him in god ♪
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♪ but thou, o lord ♪
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♪ art a shield for me ♪
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♪ my glory and the lifter ♪
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♪ of my head ♪
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♪ thou, o lord ♪
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♪ art a shield for me ♪
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♪ my glory and the lifter ♪
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♪ of my head ♪
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♪ i cried unto the lord ♪
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♪ with my voice ♪
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♪ and he heard me ♪
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♪ i laid me down and slept and awaken ♪
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♪ for the lord sustained ♪
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♪ the lord sustained me ♪
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♪ but thou, o lord ♪
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♪ art a shield for me ♪
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♪ my glory ♪
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Do you ever feel uncertain about what you believe,
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What is the purpose of the tribulation? 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 7.
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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 9 says, "they will come from every nation."
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This is god giving israel and others
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One last chance to be saved.
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This final seven years is called
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Daniel's 70th week, that he prophesied
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Over 2,000 years ago in daniel 9.
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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, "oh, you're just trying
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To have a quick way to get out of this world
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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
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Are going to suffer 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 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 that the whole world
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Has experienced god's judgment, his condemnation.
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And as a christian, i never need to fear
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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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Gather together in the valley of jezreel,
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The plane of megiddo that so many of us
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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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That's why they assemble there.
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They're tired of the world calamity
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And the judgments against the world.
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They're going to blame him for it,
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And they're going to try to overthrow antichrist.
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But suddenly, they're going to look into the sky
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And see something they never expected.
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Revelation 19:11, "i saw heaven opened and behold,
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A white horse, and he who sat upon it
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Is called faithful and true."
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"and the armies which are in heaven," verse 14,
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"clothed in fine linen were following him on white horses."
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That's you and me.
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"and from his mouth comes a sharp sword."
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Verse 16, "and on his robe and on his thigh,
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He has a name written king of kings and lord of lords."
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This is the return of jesus christ to the earth.
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That's the second coming, the second coming of christ
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Is the visible return of jesus christ
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To establish his kingdom.
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Now, as i said earlier,
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There are some similarities between this and the rapture,
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But there are some key differences.
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The rapture happens in secret.
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The only people who will see the lord in the air
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Will be believers who are snatched up to meet him there.
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At the second coming,
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Every knee shall bow, every tongue shall confess.
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Everybody will see jesus returning.
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During the rapture, we are caught up
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To meet the lord in the air.
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But at the second coming,
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Jesus doesn't just come in the air, he comes to earth again.
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Zachariah tells us, "his feet will stand
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On the mount of olives and it will be split in two."
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I'm telling you, when i go to israel,
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Next to the empty tomb
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Where christ conquered death forever,
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To me the most exciting place to stand,
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As we will do, is that mount of olives.
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To realize, this is ground zero.
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This is where the lord has promised to return one day.
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And why is he coming?
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To establish his kingdom, the millennium.
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Here's a definition for the millennium.
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It is the 1,000 year period of time
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During which christ will reign on the earth,
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Fulfilling god's promises to abraham
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And his believing descendants.
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God made a promise to believing israel,
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Not to national israel, not to unconverted jews,
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But to believing israel.
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You don't get into the kingdom by being a jew.
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You have to be a believing jew, or a believing gentile.
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Even paul said, "not everybody who claims to be a jew
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Is a true jew."
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It's those who believe and accept the abrahamic covenant,
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And believe in the messiah.
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And there's a time when god's going to fulfill his promise
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To abraham and his descendants
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Of a land of seed and of blessing.
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The millennium, you say,
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"oh, that term's never found in the bible."
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Here it is again, "then i saw an angel
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Coming down from heaven, holding the keys of the abyss
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And a great chain in his hand.
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And he laid hold of the dragon,
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The serpent of old, the devil, satan,
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And he bound him for 1,000 years.
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1,000 years. milli, 1,000, anum, years.
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Six times in revelation 20, you find the same phrase,
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1,000 years, a millennium.
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"and he threw satan into the abyss and shut it,
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And sealed it over him."
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During the millennium,
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Jesus will be on the throne reigning from jerusalem.
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Satan will be bound.
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And because of that, there will be a partial
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Lifting of the curse on the world.
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This isn't the recreated earth, that's still future,
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This is a renovated earth.
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And it's the period isaiah had in mind when he said
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People will live longer now that satan has been removed.
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Death will be rarer, it won't be non-existent,
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But it will be more rare.
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The world will enjoy a time of blessing.
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Isaiah 11 talks about it as a time
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That "he will judge the poor and decide with fairness
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The afflicted of the earth."
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Verse 6, "the wolf will lay down with the lamb,
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And the leopard will lie down with the kid."
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In verse 9, "they will not destroy or hurt
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In my holy mountain, for the earth will be full
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Of the knowledge of the lord."
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This is the millennium.
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At the end of the millennium
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Comes that sixth event,
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Known as the great white throne judgment.
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It is god's final judgment against all unbelievers
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Who have ever lived.
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Where do unbelievers go when they die?
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Right now, they go to a place called hades.
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It is a temporary place of intense suffering
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That jesus described in luke 16.
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But even though they're suffering right now,
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It's nothing compared to what awaits unbelievers.
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And at the great white throne judgment,
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The bible says hades will be emptied
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And all unbelievers will stand before god in judgment.
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Look at revelation 20:11 to 13,
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"and i saw a great white throne and him who sat upon it,
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From whose presence earth and heaven fled away
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And no place was found for them."
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Verse 13, "and the sea gave up the dead which were in it,
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And hades gave up the dead which were in them.
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And they were judged everyone according to their deeds.
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And if anyone's name was not found
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Written in the book of life,
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He was thrown into the lake of fire."
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Will you notice the subjects of the judgment?
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These are all unbelievers, every one of them.
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Their name is not written in the book of life.
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Secondly, notice the basis for the judgment.
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Verse 13 says they were judged according to their works.
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Why would they be judged by works?
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Because they said, we don't need to be judged by grace.
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We don't need jesus' grace in our life.
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If there is a judgment, we'll just go by our works.
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They think their works will validate
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Their entrance into heaven.
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But the bible says, when they see
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How short they have fallen compared to the righteousness
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Of jesus christ, then and only then will they understand
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Why they deserve to be in hell.
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They're going to be judged by their works
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They were depending on, and every man will come up lacking.
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And what is the result of that judgment?
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Eternal condemnation. verse 15.
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"and if anyone's name was not found
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Written in the book of life,
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He was thrown into the lake of fire."
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And that leads to the final period of time
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In bible prophecy, eternity future.
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That is the permanent state of believers
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Inhabiting the new heaven and earth,
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And of unbelievers inhabiting the lake of fire.
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Once you die, it is too late to make any changes
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In your eternal destiny.
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It is a fixed destiny for both believers and unbelievers.
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Peter talks about it in 2 peter 3:7 and 10,
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About after this great white throne judgment,
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The present heaven and earth will be destroyed.
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And john says in revelation 21:1,
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"it was at that point i saw a new heaven and a new earth,
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For the first heaven and earth have passed away
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And there is no longer any sea.
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And i saw the holy city, the new jerusalem
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Coming down out of heaven from god,
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Made ready as a bride adorned for her husband."
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John says, "i saw a new city, the new jerusalem."
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Right now, jesus is in heaven building that new city.
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I call it the ultimate in prefab housing.
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It's being built up there.
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But john says he saw it come, where?
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Down out of heaven to earth.
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The new jerusalem is going to be our primary
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Dwelling place for all eternity.
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It's not the only place, we'll zip around to other places.
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But it's going to be our main place.
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You know, somebody said, "well, how's a city
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Going to be big enough to include everybody?"
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John saw the measurements of the city.
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In fact, he said in revelation 21,
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"the size of this city is 1,500 miles long
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And 1,500 miles wide."
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Now, that would be over 2 million square miles.
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Tuesday, i'm going up to new york city
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To tape a special on prayer up there.
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To think new york's so big, eight plus million people,
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It's only 305 square miles, the whole island of manhattan.
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And yet it fits eight to 10 million people.
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This is going to be over 2 million
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Square miles on a plane.
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But it's not length and width,
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It's length, width, and height.
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This is a cube, it goes 1,500 miles high,
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These 2 million square miles.
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That is 660,000 stories high
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This city's going to be.
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People say, "oh, well, he's speaking symbolically."
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John says in revelation 21:17,
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"these are human measurements."
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Isn't that interesting?
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He knew some people would say, that just can't be.
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He said these are human measurements.
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It's going to be spectacular what god has planned for us.
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But you know what to me is even more exciting
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Than what's going to be in the new heaven and new earth?
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It's what's not going to be there.
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You may have seen me friday night on fox
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Talking about the hurricane and the anchor said,
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"pastor, do you have any word of encouragement for people?"
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I said, "well, one thing i know for sure.
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Hurricanes, death, and destruction,
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Were never a part of god's original plan for this world.
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And thank god, they won't be a part of the next world
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He has planned for us."
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Isn't that what john said in revelation 21:4?
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"and god shall wipe away every tear from their eyes,
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And there shall no longer be any death or mourning
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Or crying or pain for the first things,
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The first world will have passed away."
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That's the new heaven,
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That's the new earth god has planned for us.
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How do we respond to all of that?
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What should be our response?
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Three quick admonitions that come from scripture.
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Number one, stay alert.
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Stay alert, it could happen at any moment.
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1 corinthians 15:52, "in the moment,
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In the twinkling of an eye at the last trumpet,
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For the trumpet will sound and the dead in christ
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Will be raised imperishable."
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When roman soldiers were about to break camp
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To go to another location,
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There were three blasts of the trumpet.
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The first blast was, strike your tents,
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Fold your tense up, get ready.
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Second blast of the trumpet, fall in line.
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And the last trumpet meant march away.
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The first trumpet has already sounded for us.
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God has said, fold up your tents, live as aliens.
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Don't put down roots too deeply,
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You're just passing through.
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The second trumpet has sounded, be alert, be sober.
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We're awaiting that final blast of the trumpet
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When we march away
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Into the presence of the lord jesus christ.
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Be alert, stay alert. secondly, stay focused.
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You know, the great puritan preacher jonathan edwards,
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When he was 19, composed a list of resolves
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That would guide his life.
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One of those was this,
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"resolve not to do anything i would be afraid to do
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If it were the last hour of my life."
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Now, that's wisdom,
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But there's an even more powerful corollary.
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And that is, "resolved that we should be doing
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Whatever we would do if it were the last hour of our life."
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What should we be doing since time is short?
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In 1 corinthians 15:58, paul says,
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"therefore, be steadfast, immovable,
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Always abounding in the work of the lord,
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Knowing that your toil is not in vain."
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We need to spend whatever brief time we have left
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Doing that one thing god left us here to do,
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And that's to go into all the world and make disciples.
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Stay focused and, finally, stay encouraged.
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For those of us who are believers,
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We have every reason to be encouraged,
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And no reason to be fearful of the future.
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Do you remember charles dickens' work,
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"a christmas carol?"
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Ebenezer scrooge was such a miserable human being.
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He lived a miserable life,
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And he made everybody around him miserable.
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And remember when the ghost of christmas future came?
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He showed ebenezer scrooge what the future looked like
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For everybody's life he had impacted in a negative way.
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And then he took him to the cemetery
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And showed him what his own future was.
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And scrooge was devastated by what he saw.
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And he said, "are these shadows of things that will be,
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Or simply shadows of things that might be?"
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The end time events we've just looked at are not shadows
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Of what might be, they're shadows of what will be.
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These are set in stone.
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These things are going to happen
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According to the authority of god's word.
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But god has given you and me the ability right now
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To make changes in our life that can change how those solid,
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Set in concrete, end time events affect us.
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Right now, we can examine whether or not
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We are truly saved or not.
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We can examine whether we're focused
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On the things of god or not.
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And how we change right now
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Will impact our eternity forever.
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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,
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A nightmare like we've never known.
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As we come to the end of this study today,
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I thought jesus' words in john 16:33
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Are a great capstone for this message.
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Jesus said to his disciples, "in this world
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You will have tribulation.
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♪ music ♪
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But take courage, i have overcome the world."
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And so will everyone who belongs to jesus christ.
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In the end, that's what every christian should know
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About the end times.
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At the beginning of this teaching series, we set out
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Robert Jeffress - What Every Christian Should Know About The End Time (Part 2)

February 27, 2026 | 27:29

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