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Doug Batchelor - Signs Of The Coming King (Part 2)

January 12, 2025 | S25:E6

Pastor Doug Batchelor is an energetic speaker of vision and deep spirituality.

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Amazing Facts | Doug Batchelor - Signs Of The Coming King (Part 2) | January 12, 2025

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>> this presentation is brought to you by the friends
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Of the amazing facts ministry.
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>> contrary to the popular belief that lightning never strikes the
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Same spot twice, it's actually been known to strike objects,
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Even people, multiple times during intense electrical
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Storms. during one storm, for instance,
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The empire state building in new york was struck 15
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Times within 15 minutes. sometimes a single bolt of
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Lightning will really consist of as many as 42 discharges
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Striking the same spot in such quick succession that it appears
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Like a single flash, but it all happens in less than
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One-quarter of a second. lightning, from one cloud to
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Another, is also very common and it's been recorded to jump as
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Far as 20 miles between clouds. but whether lightning is moving
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From cloud to cloud or cloud to ground or ground to cloud, it's
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Hard to miss the brilliant blinding flash that
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Illuminates the sky. in matthew 24 jesus said, "for
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As lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also
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Will the coming of the son of man be."
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In spite of his words, some still believe that his return is
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Going to be a secret. well, what is the truth?
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Join me now, friends, as we take a closer look at what the bible
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Really says about the return of christ.
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>> people know that something unusual is happening.
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In 2010 the pew research group did a survey and in that survey
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They explained that by the year 2050 - 50 about 60 percent of
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The people believed that jesus would come.
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I think 40 of those 60 percent were absolutely sure.
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20 percent said 'probably' and that's in north america, of
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Course. and that's why we're going to
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Be talking tonight about the pinnacle of prophecy and
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Signs of jesus' coming. you know, it's very interesting,
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We're going to be finding that the book of daniel is a
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Partner book for revelation. so we'll be going
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Back and forth. revelation does a lot of
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Referring to the book of daniel. you look in daniel chapter 12
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And he says, in verse 4, "but you daniel shut up the words and
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Seal the book until the time of the end."
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So no question about what he's talking about.
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And he goes on to say, "many will run to and fro."
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First of all, i think they're going to run to and fro through
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The word of god and discover truth.
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But you can't miss the point that people are running to and
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Fro faster - do you realize, for about six thousand years, people
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- the fastest thing you got is a horse?
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Just can't even imagine the change that's been seen.
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National geographic, back in 2006 - i know it's an old
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Article but it still bears the point.
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That's the magazine cover, if you want to reference it.
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There's a quote in there. people are traveling far from
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Home more than ever before in human history and
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Knowledge will increase. this is a picture here on the
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Screen of the great hadron accelerator.
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It is - it's the largest experiment in the world.
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It's the biggest machine in the world.
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It's under the ground about 500 feet - a 17-mile tunnel in
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Geneva underneath the ground where the - all these european
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Governments got together and they poured like 13 billion
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Dollars into building this testing equipment to understand
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Physics. and as they hyper accelerate
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These particles they smash them an then measure what they find
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To try and figure out what is the base core of
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What life is made of? what is the stuff of life?
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Now actually the nickname is the machine has been built to
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Discover - they call it the god particle.
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Have you heard that before? they said it's going to try
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- 'we're trying to find the answers of where everything came
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From.' - that's a big investment of technology, not only from
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Under the ground there in geneva but up in the sky with the
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International space station - knowledge is increased
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Just in in one lifetime. i should actually say in about a
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Century - you look at just some of the changes - incredible
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Inventions - automobiles, airplanes, radio, television,
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Smartphone, computers. a lot of young people today,
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They can't imagine a world without a smartphone.
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And you know it's - i get - karen and i got a rental car and
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It was a fairly new one - we got lucky - got a low mileage rental
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Car and i've nearly wrecked it three times trying to figure out
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How to run the thing. (laughter) i sat in the car when
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We got there and i sat there and said, 'oh, this is great, low
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Mileage', you know, and i figured out, finally, you don't
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Have to use a key, you just press the button because it
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Knows the key's in my pocket - i keep trying to figure out
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Where do i put the key? i'm one of these old people,
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I want to put the key in somewhere.
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And i keep taking the key out when i walk up to the car, but
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It doesn't need the key, it just opens by itself and i said, 'oh,
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What a waste of energy.' i had to find it.
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And i'm trying to figure out how to shift the thing.
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I'm looking at all this and finally karen reaches over - she
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Turns a knob. is that like a volume - you
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Shift gears with a volume button.
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I'm a man, i want to grab something and hear it clunk, you
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Know? when - it just - you turn a little knob.
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So it bothers me. just things have changed.
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Can you imagine trying to explain a smartphone to the
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Apostle paul? (raucous laughter) he would
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Think you're demon possessed. (laughter) paul would say,
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'look, let me find that in my scrolls.' say, 'no problem,
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Paul, i'll google it.' 'what?' can't you just see it?
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Things have changed. and another one for me that i
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Think is a tremendous evidence of the nearness of christ coming
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Is global evangelization. matthew 24, verse 14 - this, to
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Me, i think, is one of the most powerful prophecies that really
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Makes me believe we are living in the last days.
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Jesus said, extremely clearly, "the gospel of the kingdom will
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Be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations."
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And then he said, "then the end will come."
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He didn't say it might come, or it could come or it may come.
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He said, very emphatically, the end will come.
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He did not say the gospel'll be preached there will be a great
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Global revival and everybody will believe; he said 'for a
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Witness.' give them an opportunity.
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And then what they do with that opportunity is up to them.
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But the end will come. well is the gospel
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Going in all the world? just this last two days we've
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Had an invitation to return to china.
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Amazing facts was very blessed. we were one of - if not the
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First - christian organization in over 50 years invited to
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Preach publicly a whole series of meetings that was broadcast
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On television in china. (clapping) and that was such a
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Thrill and then the neat thing is they made copies of that and
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They continue to multiply that. i just got a call from our
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Headquarters there and they said, 'can you come back?
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And so, the gospel - and it's - it's now on satellite.
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Karen and i are going next month to new guinea and they tell us
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There'll be - about 100,000 people at this one meeting that
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We're going to in new guinea. we're going to be in australia.
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And i'm just one of thousands of missionaries that are out there
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Doing it. it's not like we're doing it -
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Jesus said the gospel would go to the world - it's
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Going the middle east. amazing facts gets e-mail from
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All these people in the middle east that are watching online.
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And so, people are searching and the gospel is going and
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Missionaries are going. and jesus said, 'then the end
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Will come.' and so we're seeing, i think, the fulfillment
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Of that in this generation. now i need to pause at this
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Point and delve into a very important part of our study.
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I've been talking about signs of christ's coming.
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Now i want to talk about how he's coming.
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About what? >>how.
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>>how he's coming - because there's a lot of confusion about
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How. now there's going to be a
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Lot of people in heaven that misunderstood how he's coming.
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Did the apostles misunderstand how the messiah was coming the
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First time? they'll be in heaven.
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But they had the scriptures wrong.
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They thought when the messiah came he was going to come on a
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White horse like king david he was going to destroy all of the
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Romans like samson or something. and they were going to be a
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World empire like solomon - and they just had all these great,
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Glorious ideas about when the messiah comes and jesus said
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'no, no, no.' that's when i come the second time - first time i'm
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Coming like a lamb, second time i come like a lion.'
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Well, the devil's doing the same thing to the church today.
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Lot of good people are confused about how he's coming so they
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Won't be prepared to receive him.
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A lot of christ's people - the jews - did not receive him when
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He came the first time because they said, 'nazareth?
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Who? there's no prophet in nazareth.
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And a poor carpenter. how can this - can't be him.'
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They misunderstood that he was coming first as a sacrifice.
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Well now there's a lot of misunderstandings.
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There are principally three views.
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When you read revelation there's one group that's - they're
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Called preterists and just think of the word pre.
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They believe that all of revelation was pretty much
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Fulfilled by 100 a.d.. they think nero is the antichrist and
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That it's all behind us - good people.
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I respectfully disagree. then you have futurists.
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Futurists are the ones who have popularized the version - the
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Left behind scenario where most of revelation chapter 4 - when
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John says 'i heard a voice and a trumpet' - that's all future.
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Then you have, where i fall in, what they call historists.
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And i am in the company - this is - used to be the old view.
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It's not as popular as it used to be but it's what the
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Protestant reformers believe it means revelation is covering a
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Panorama of history, from the first coming to the second
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Coming, and you can kind of track the history of the church
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And god's people across that horizon.
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And so i'll just tell you right now that you've got the two main
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Views are the futurist view - there's not as many preterists -
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And the historic view. the futurist view is
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A fairly new view. it was really popularized by hal
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Lindsey's book - i don't know if any of you remember a book
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Called the late great planet earth.
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And in that book he predicted that, because israel was
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Established as a nation in 1948, in 1981 the secret rapture will
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Take place; in 1988 seven years later after seven years of
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Tribulation jesus will come. and none of it happened.
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And he's still selling books. but it became very popular then.
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I am with the group that believes that the tribulation
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Comes before jesus comes. the other group believes that
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We are caught up before the tribulation.
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I'd love to believe that but i don't think that's what the
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Bible teaches. and we want to know - and i'm
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Going to give you biblical scripture here.
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If you disagree with me then we can still love and respect each
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Other, but you owe it to yourself to at least understand
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Your brothers and sisters that may believe differently, amen?
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We can disagree and still be agreeable, right?
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Will jesus come quietly? let's look at what
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The bible says. 1 thessalonians 4:16, "for the
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Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout with the
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Voice of the archangel and the trump of god.
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And then" - it tells us - "the dead in christ will rise."
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A trump. you read in jeremiah 25:30 - it
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Tells us, "the lord will roar from on high.
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He will utter his voice from his holy habitation.
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He will mightily roar upon his habitation.
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He will give a shout." jesus' coming is
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A very loud event. you read in psalm 50 - if this
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Was the only one it would be pretty convincing - it says
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There, "our god shall come and he will not keep silent and it
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Will be very tempestuous" - stormy - "round about him."
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It's a great climatic event. and someone might be thinking,
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'well, pastor doug, the bible says he's coming like a thief.
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Doesn't that mean he's coming quietly?'
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I don't think so. you can read in the bible where
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It says in 2 peter chapter 3 it says, "the day of the lord will
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Come as a thief in the night in which the heavens will pass
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Away with a great noise" - what happens in the day that
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He comes like a thief? notice, "heavens pass away with
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Great noise" - there's a noise again - "and the elements
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Will melt with fervent heat. and the earth and the works that
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Are in it will be burned up." so, when jesus comes s a thief,
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Does it sound to you like life goes on here on earth?
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He's coming like a thief. that just means it's a surprise.
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Now, i don't know how much to tell you, but i've not always
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Been a christian. i used to be a thief.
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I would break into houses and steal - right here in florida,
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Actually, because i used to live in southern florida.
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Not your neighborhood so i don't owe you anything.
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(raucous laughter) but i never sent out an announcement and
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Said 'i'll be coming just one to let you know.'
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It was a surprise. so that's what jesus is saying
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It's going to surprise people - but when he comes.
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They're going to know.
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>> don't go anywhere, friends.
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In just a moment, we're going to return to today's presentation.
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Have you ever wished that you could be in a world where
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There's no more pain or sorrow; to be delivered from this world
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Of suffering, heartache, and grief?
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Well, it's true, jesus is coming again,
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And we have a special beautifully-illustrated
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Resource we'd like to give you.
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It's called "the ultimate deliverance."
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This resource, filled with scripture,
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Tells us about the signs that precede the second coming of
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Jesus, how to avoid being deceived by false christs,
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And how you can be ready for the lord's return.
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Let's get back now to today's presentation and learn some more
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Amazing facts from the word of god.
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>> now who is going to see christ when he returns? is it only a
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Select group that disappears and - listen to what it says.
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I can give you several verses here - matthew 24:30, "and then
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Shall appear the sign of the son of man in heaven and then shall
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All the tribes of the earth mourn and they shall see the son
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Of man coming in the in the clouds of heaven with power and
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Great glory" - they're going to see him coming - great power -
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Great glory - means brilliant splendor.
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And again, revelation 1:7. behold, he comes with the clouds
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And every eye will see him. who will be with
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Jesus when he comes? he's not coming alone.
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The bible says the son of man will come in his glory - that's
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That splendor - and how many? >> all
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>> all the holy angels with him.
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Well how many angels are there?
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Let's think about that for a minute.
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Most of us have a guardian angel.
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Bible says jesus said, speaking of children, their angels do
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Behold the face of my father' - implying that they've got an
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Angel watching them. seven billion people in the
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World - god's angels not only watch over people,
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They're doing his work. they're the ministering spirits.
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They're the army of god - they're called the heavenly host
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- very real creatures with individual personality -
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Billions of them. now one angel came down from
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God, you read in the old testament, in the days of king
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Hezekiah - the angel of the lord went through the army of
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Syria - one angel killed 185,000 enemy soldiers in one day.
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The angels that were guarding the tomb of jesus - i'm sorry -
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When the angels came to the tomb of jesus at the resurrection,
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The roman soldiers that were guarding the tomb were so
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Frightened by the glory of that angel that came down and rolled
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Away the stone, they fell over as though they were dead.
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One angel. can you imagine the heaven being
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Filled with the brilliance of billions of angels?
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He didn't say we're leaving any of 'em behind.
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He said all the angels. all the angels have been
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Involved in our salvation. they are going to be very
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Interested in us being redeemed and you'll see, they play a part
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In our being collected, so to speak.
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What will the brightness of the glory of lord's coming and all
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These angels do to those who are not ready?
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"when jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty
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Angels in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not
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God." and, again, that was 2
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Thessalonians, chapter 1, verses 7 and 8.
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You can read in 2 thessalonians chapter 2, verse 8, "and then
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Shall that wicked one be revealed whom the lord will
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Consume with the spirit of his mouth and destroy with the
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Brightness of his coming." the wicked one's destroyed by
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The brightness of his coming. have you ever seen when you're
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Out the field on a nice sunny day and you just curious, you
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Pick up a stone, you turn and you see all these crawly things
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Start running for the dark. and at night you can light
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Something out the woods and all of the moths come to the light.
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You've got two kinds of bugs out there.
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You've got bugs like cockroaches that run from the light, and
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You've got moths and butterflies that love the light.
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And that's the kind of people you got when jesus comes.
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You've got your cockroaches and your butterflies.
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(raucous laughter) so those that are - it's really - if you don't
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Have the lord in your life, you are going to be terrified by his
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Coming. but if you love the lord, the
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Bible calls his coming the blessed hope.
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>>amen. >>but have you been living a
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Life of selfishness and sin, it's going to frighten
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You and it should. god wants you to have peace,
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But he doesn't want you to have peace if you're on your
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Way to destruction. he wants you to be troubled
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Until you repent and come to him.
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The brightness of his coming will destroy them.
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So what happens to the righteous who are dead at jesus' coming?
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First we'll start with the righteous who are dead.
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You read there the dead in christ will rise first.
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That's where we read in 1 thessalonians chapter 4 "the
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Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout;" - the
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Voice of the archangel, the trumpet of god.
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Someone once said that is the loudest verse in the bible and
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The dead in christ rise first. so does that sound like
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A secret still? at this point, what happens to
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The living who are - when the lord comes?
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The living and the resurrected saints, i should say.
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So you get the dead in christ they rise.
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Some of us we hope to be alive when jesus comes - i'd like to
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If i can, avoid death. woody allen said one time,
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'i'm not afraid of death. i just don't want to be there
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When it happens.' (laughter) so most of us are prewired by god
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That we'd like to stay alive right?
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So what's going to happen to those who are alive?
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It says the dead in christ are raised incorruptible and those
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Of us who are alive will be changed in a moment.
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It tells us this corruptible will put on incorruption -
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Corruptible means our bodies - we, you know, get old, they
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Decay, they die. we're going to get these
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Glorified bodies - like the kind adam and eve had before sin
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- before the light went out. 'this corruptible will put on
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Incorruption and this mortal will put on immortality.
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Then we which are alive and remain will be caught up
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Together.' what direction do we go?
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>>up. >>that's when it's
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Talking about the rapture. we will be caught up, or
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Raptured up together with them in the clouds.
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We meet the lord in the air. so jesus' feet don't touch the
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Ground when he comes next time, we meet him.
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And christ said this is how it would happen.
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He said, 'i go to prepare a place for you and if i go and
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Prepare a place for you, i will come again and receive you unto
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Myself - that's when we're caught up - 'that where i am' -
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He takes us where? back to heaven - 'you
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May be also' - right? we've read where it says the
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Lord's coming is literal, personal, visible, audible,
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Physical, vitality - vitalizing, glorious, climatic -
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There's an earthquake. every sense in your being
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Will know when jesus comes. you're not going to text someone
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And say, 'did you catch it?' 'catch what?'
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'jesus came with all the angels yesterday did you?'
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- 'i missed it. i did notice some planes going
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Down and cars careening off the road, but - there was a clump of
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Clothes in the bed next to me when i woke up.
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I think it was my spouse but they're gone now.' yeah, i know
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I'm teasing maybe. i don't mean to be unkind but,
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To me, i actually know people who think 'well, if i'm not
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Ready when jesus comes, no big deal.
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If my spouse - they're christian, they believe, if they
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Disappear then i'll get serious. i might have to go through the
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Tribulation but then i'll know it's true.
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And you'd be surprised how many people out there are thinking
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They're going to get a second chance.
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That's why it's a very dangerous thing to not understand the how
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Of his coming. another reason was because
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The devils got a lot of impersonators out there.
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What solemn warning does jesus give about the second coming?
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As you start reading matthew 11 - first thing he told - i'm
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Sorry - matthew chapter 24. first thing he says is be aware
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That no one deceives you. he repeats it over and over.
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'many will come in my name saying i am christ and deceive
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Many.' and i remember baptizing a young lady that was in
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Jonestown with jim jones. she escaped just before things
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All went sideways there and told horrible stories.
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He started out methodist preacher - good church -
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Preaching from the bible and just - but he was a false
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Prophet. see, he said, ultimately, he was christ.
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Jesus said there will arise false christs.
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They will show signs and wonders.
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Are miracle, signs, and wonders the evidence of who is real and
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Who's not? can the devil do miracles?
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>>yes. >>he can.
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We'll talk more about that. and they'll do this to deceive,
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If it were possible, the very elect.
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In other words, you need to know what the bible says because the
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Devil's going to have powerful deceptions in the last days.
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Some of us remember the heaven's gate group.
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Marshall applewhite - 39 people believed this poor deranged man
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Who said that he was a reincarnation of christ and they
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Needed to commit suicide so they could get on a spaceship that
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Was behind the hale-bott comet - hale-bott comet - and they took
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This deadly cocktail. 39 people committed suicide.
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And he said god was sending messages through star trek.
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There may have been a god sending messages, but it wasn't
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Jesus. what's going to prevent the
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Righteous from being deceived in the last days?
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Isaiah 8:20 - that's why we want to know your bibles.
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I hope you check on everything i'm saying.
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You can take notes. the bible says, 'to the
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Law and to the testimony. that's how the bible refers to
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The bible - the law and the prophets - 'if they speak not
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According to this word it's because there's no light in
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Them.' you measure everything by the scriptures you need to know.
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Jesus said, 'seek and you'll find.' amen?
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What will the wicked say when jesus returns?
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'and the kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men
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In the chief captains and the mighty men and every bondman and
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Every free man' - speaking of the lost - 'they said to the
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Mountains and to the rocks, 'fall on us and hide us from the
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Face of him that sits on the throne.
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For the great day of his wrath is come and who shall be able to
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Stand?'' i told you, once again, two
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Kinds of people - you've got the ones who know christ
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And he's in their heart. you have those who have resisted
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Him and they become his enemies. you've either got the love of
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God or the wrath of the lamb. i want him to come as my
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Lord and my savior not as my adversary. amen?
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What is the prime reason for jesus' second coming?
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Is he coming to get even with the lost?
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No, he's coming to redeem his own.
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John 14:3, "i will come again and receive you unto myself that
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Where i am you might be" - where i am you might be.
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Revelation says god, himself, will be with us.
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We will see his face. can you imagine that?
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"now we see through a glass darkly but then face to face."
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1 corinthians 13. what a privilege that we
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Can see god face to face. you know, friends, god is giving
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Us the signs along the way and i just want you to know that there
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Are some difficult days ahead. i believe there's going
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To be a tribulation. see, i believe the
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Lord is coming. i believe we'll be caught up,
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But i believe the tribulation comes before the rapture.
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>>that's right. >>does god save his people
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From trouble or through it? >>through it.
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Did god save noah from the flood or did he save him through
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The storm? >through the storm.
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>>did god save joseph from his trials or through them?
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How about job? was he saved from tribulation
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Or through tribulation? doesn't paul say 'it is through
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Much tribulation we will enter the kingdom of god'?
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God is coming for a church without spot or wrinkle or any
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Such things. you get out the spots and the
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Wrinkle with a hot iron and hot water.
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So the idea that the church is not going to go through any kind
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Of purging or purification before that - when does a church
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Shine the brightest, in the light or in the darkness?
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There is going to be a time of great darkness.
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Jesus said it was at midnight the cry was given.
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Behold the bridegroom comes. and so there are some
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Difficult days ahead. i don't worry about that.
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You know why? god said if you make the most
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High your habitation you don't need to be afraid.
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>>amen. >>he has given us signs.
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And some of christians are losing hope, right here on the
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Borders of the greatest event in history.
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You know, i love history. i remember reading about
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Christopher columbus when he was crossing the ocean, you know,
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And he just went launching out and he said, 'we're going to go
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Discover a new passage.' none of the explorers from portugal or
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Spain went very far into the atlantic as they had rumors
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You were going to sail off the earth, there were dragons out
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There, and all these scary stories.
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And he said 'we're just going to sail west until we find our
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Objective.' and, you know, after two months in august and
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September, those sailors were ready to mutiny.
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And columbus - you - read his diary.
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He prayed a lot. he believed he was
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On a divine quest. he finally told his sailors,
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Give me three more days. if we don't see land we'll turn
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Around.' can you imagine what was at stake?
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But as those days passed they began to see signs - overturned
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Canoe went by and they saw coconuts float by - some tufts
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Of vegetation. water began to change color and
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Saltiness changed in the water. they noticed when they were
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Sounding that it was getting shallower.
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They - songbirds came by - they couldn't see land but they saw
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The signs that they were nearing shore.
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And they were all encouraged by the signs to press on.
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Finally, at the end of the third day, at night, they saw a fire
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In the distance. next morning they spotted
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Land - san salvador. well, friends, we see the signs.
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Jesus is about to come. i want to be ready.
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How about you?
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It's sure to be a blessing.
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And thank you for your continued support as we take the gospel of
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Jesus christ to the world.
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We hope you'll join us next week as we delve deep into the word
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Of god to explore more amazing facts.
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♪♪♪
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Doug Batchelor - Signs Of The Coming King (Part 2)

January 12, 2025 | S25:E6

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