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Robert Jeffress - The Beginning of the End (Part 2)

April 22, 2026 | 27:29

Robert Jeffress - The Beginning of the End (Part 2)
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - The Beginning of the End (Part 2) | April 22, 2026
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church of
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  • Dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory" with dr.
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  • Robert jeffress.
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  • Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress, and welcome
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  • Again to "pathway to victory."
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  • When most people watch the news, they're dismayed by the level of
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  • Violence and corruption in our world, but to christians, these
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  • Current events should come as no surprise.
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  • In fact, they're a clear indicator that the end is near.
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  • Today, we're going to wrap up our multi-day study of the
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  • Seven-year period of judgment known as the great tribulation.
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  • My message is titled "the beginning of the end" on today's
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  • Edition of "pathway to victory."
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  • ♪ death could not hold you. ♪
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  • ♪ the veil tore before you. ♪
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  • ♪ you silenced the boast of sin and grave. ♪
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  • ♪ the heavens are roaring the praise of your glory, ♪
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  • ♪ for you are raised to life again. ♪
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  • ♪ you have no rival. ♪
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  • ♪ you have no equal. ♪
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  • ♪ now and forever, god, you reign. ♪
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  • ♪ yours is the kingdom. ♪
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  • ♪ yours is the glory. ♪
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  • ♪ yours is the name above all names. ♪
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  • ♪ what a powerful name it is. ♪
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  • ♪ what a powerful name it is. ♪
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  • ♪ the name of jesus christ, my king. ♪
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  • ♪ what a powerful name it is, ♪
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  • ♪ nothing can stand against. ♪
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  • ♪ what a powerful name it is, the name of jesus. ♪
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  • ♪ you have no rival. ♪
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  • ♪ you have no equal. ♪
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  • ♪ now and forever, god, you reign. ♪
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  • ♪ yours is the kingdom. ♪
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  • ♪ yours is the glory. ♪
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  • ♪ yours is the name above all names. ♪
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  • ♪ what a powerful name it is. ♪
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  • ♪ what a powerful name it is. ♪
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  • ♪ the name of jesus christ, my king. ♪
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  • ♪ what a powerful name it is, ♪
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  • ♪ nothing can stand against. ♪
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  • ♪ what a powerful name it is, the name of jesus. ♪
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  • ♪ what a powerful name it is, ♪
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  • ♪ the name of jesus. ♪
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  • ♪ what a powerful name it is, ♪
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  • ♪ the name of jesus. ♪
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  • ♪ there is no other name but jesus. ♪♪
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • Male announcer: wars, natural disasters, global instability.
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  • Many people look at the headlines and wonder if we're
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  • Living in the end times.
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  • In his brand-new book, "ask dr. jeffress about the end times,"
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  • Dr. robert jeffress provides clear, biblical answers to the
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  • 20 questions people ask most about the future.
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  • Request "ask dr. jeffress about the end times" when you
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  • Give a generous ministry gift to pathway to victory.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Jeffress: "well, daniel's prophecy in 550 bc that
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  • The temple would be desecrated.
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  • Well, we know from history that happened in 168 bc, when the
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  • Greek ruler antiochus epiphanes offered a pig on the altar of
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  • The temple.
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  • He desecrated the temple," and that is true, but that was just
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  • The near fulfillment.
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  • When you look at prophecies in the bible, many times, there is
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  • An immediate fulfillment and there is an
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  • Ultimate fulfillment.
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  • Think about it like looking in the distance and seeing a
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  • Mountain range and seeing two peaks of a mountain that seems
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  • So close together and yet, when you get closer, you see there's
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  • A large valley that separates the two peaks.
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  • It's the same way with biblical prophecy.
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  • Many of the prophecies in the bible had an immediate
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  • Fulfillment, but they also had an ultimate fulfillment.
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  • And when jesus spoke about the abomination of desolation, he
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  • Wasn't just talking about something that had already
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  • Happened 400 years earlier in 168 bc, the
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  • Future is in jesus's mind.
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  • The people were asking jesus, his disciples, "lord, what shall
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  • Be the sign of your coming and the end of the age?"
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  • It was a forward look, not a backward look.
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  • And jesus was saying antiochus epiphanes, who 167 years ago
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  • Desecrated the temple, why, he is just a forerunner of that
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  • Great world leader that will one day stand in the rebuilt temple
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  • And desecrate it.
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  • And that leads to these final hours of earth's life.
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  • Look at matthew 24, verse 21: "and the great tribulation, such
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  • Has not occurred since the beginning of the world until
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  • Now, nor ever shall."
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  • Now, these final 3 1/2 years are summarized in the book of
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  • Revelation chapter 6 through 19, and these judgments against the
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  • Earth come in the form of three judgments, three series
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  • Of judgments.
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  • First of all, there are the seal judgments described in
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  • Revelation chapter 6.
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  • Now, i don't want to confuse anybody
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  • Here, but when we get to these early judgments, it's hard to
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  • Know which of the first ones have occurred in the first 3 1/2
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  • Years and which occur in the final 3 1/2 years.
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  • For example, in revelation 6, verses 1 and 2, john sees the
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  • The rise of the antichrist.
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  • It begins with the rise of the antichrist.
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  • Well, we know that's at the first part of the tribulation.
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  • In verses 3 and 4, we see war described.
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  • Verses 5 to 6, famine.
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  • In verses 7 to 8, death from the famine that will destroy 1/4 of
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  • The world's population.
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  • And then we see in verses 9 to 11 martyrdom of those who were
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  • Converted after the rapture of the church.
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  • These are the tribulation saints we just talked about.
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  • In verses 12 to 17, tremendous cosmological disturbances which
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  • Will occur.
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  • I believe it's evident when you get to these final judgments,
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  • The martyrdom, the tremendous cosmological disturbances, we
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  • Are well into the final 3 1/2 years.
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  • And that's true in the second series of judgment called the
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  • Trumpet judgments.
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  • These judgments, in many ways, are like the plagues that god
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  • Directed against egypt in the days of moses.
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  • The first four of these trumpet judgments are judgments against
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  • The natural world.
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  • Look at revelation 8:7, the first trumpet judgment: god will
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  • Use a mixture of hail and fire to destroy one-third of the
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  • Earth's vegetation.
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  • The second trumpet judgment is found in verses 8 and 9.
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  • John says he saw "something like a great mountain burning with
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  • Fire" and falling into the sea, and he says in verse nine, "a
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  • Third of the creatures which were in the sea had life, they
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  • Died; and a third of the ships were destroyed."
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  • What is he talking about here when he says "something like a
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  • Great mountain fell to earth?"
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  • Could it be that he's talking about a giant asteroid?
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  • We know asteroids are really chunks of rock that are flying
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  • Through space.
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  • Some of them are a few feet in diameter.
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  • Some are a few miles in diameter as well.
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  • And we look at the surface of the moon.
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  • The moon, those craters, the scarring of the moon, is caused
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  • By asteroids that have hit the moon.
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  • We know in the past that asteroids have struck our planet
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  • As well.
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  • Some scientists believe that 65 million years ago an asteroid
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  • That was 5 miles in diameter struck the yucatan peninsula and
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  • Killed all of the dinosaurs.
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  • They say that's how the dinosaurs were destroyed, and i
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  • Don't know if that happened or not.
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  • I wasn't here, but i've always thought that theory was a little
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  • Bit strange because i always wondered how did all the
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  • Dinosaurs happen to be in the same place at the same time?
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  • And they must have been having a really unlucky day that day to
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  • All get in the same place.
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  • We don't know if that happened or not, but what we do know is
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  • In 1908, an asteroid exploded over siberia, and it destroyed
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  • Thousands of acres of forest.
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  • There was a meteor, that's an asteroid cut down to size,
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  • It exploded over central russia and exploded,
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  • And remember the result of that?
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  • The aftershock of that exploding meteor shattered windows.
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  • A thousand people were injured because of the aftershock.
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  • Today, organizations like spacewatch and the near-earth
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  • Tracking comb the skies, looking for these asteroids and meteors
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  • That could hit our earth.
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  • Whatever the cause of this great mountain is, notice the result:
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  • 1/3 of the marine life and 1/3 of all the ships are destroyed,
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  • Resulting in ecological and economic disaster.
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  • The third trumpet judgment is found in verses 10 to 11: a
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  • Falling star that destroys one-third of the earth's
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  • Fresh water.
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  • That's the third trumpet judgment.
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  • The fourth trumpet judgment involves a disruption of the
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  • Rotation pattern of both the earth and the moon causing these
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  • Wild fluctuations in temperatures.
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  • You can only imagine what that will do to the food supply and
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  • The ecological system.
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  • The fifth trumpet judgment--look at this in verses 1 to 12 of
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  • Revelation 9, it describes satan (the "star from heaven")
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  • As unleashing demonic tormentors to persecute mankind, except
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  • Those who have been sealed by god.
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  • These torturers are described as having the sting of a locust.
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  • And look at verse 6 of revelation 9: "in those days,
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  • Men will seek death and will not find it; and they will long to
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  • Die, but death will flee from them."
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  • Imagine for just a moment the worst pain you have ever felt.
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  • I know exactly what it was for me: a kidney stone.
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  • Those of you who are in the fellowship of the stone, you
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  • Know what i'm talking about, and those are painful!
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  • They really are.
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  • But as painful as they are, ultimately, there's some relief
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  • That comes.
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  • Just imagine the worst pain you've ever felt and no
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  • Relief comes.
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  • That's what's going to happen during the tribulation.
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  • People are gonna be stung with the sting of these
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  • Demonic-inspired creatures, and "they are gonna writhe in pain
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  • For a period of five months, wishing, begging for death, but
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  • Being unable to do so."
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  • The sixth trumpet judgment: the assembling of a massive army of
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  • Two hundred million people who are later described as coming
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  • From the east.
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  • Look at revelation 9, verse 16: "and the number of the armies of
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  • The horseman was two hundred; i heard the number of them."
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  • And then when you turn over to chapter 16, verse 12, it says,
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  • "and the sixth angel poured out his bowl upon the great river,
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  • The euphrates; and its water was dried up, that the way might be
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  • Prepared for the kings of the east."
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  • There is going to be a 200 million massive army that comes
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  • From the east and marches toward where?
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  • Verse 16 says, "they will gather them together to the place which
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  • In hebrew is called har-magedon," the plain of
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  • Megiddo, what we call armageddon.
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  • Where--who are these 200 million?
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  • Many people have said, "well, they're the red chinese."
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  • That it is an army of the red chinese coming from the east.
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  • When we were in israel a couple of years ago, the tour guide
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  • Said, "i believe it is gonna be an amalgamation of islamic
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  • Forces that are going to come."
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  • Whatever they are, they are coming to wage the final war
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  • Against the earth.
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  • Revelation 9, verse 18 says, "a third of mankind was killed by
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  • These three plagues, by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone
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  • Which proceeded out of their mouths."
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  • Now, people ask, "well, in revelation 9, you see these
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  • Armies coming, and yet armageddon, what we call the
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  • Battle of armageddon, doesn't happen till revelation
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  • Chapter 19."
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  • I think the best way to understand this, and we're going
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  • To talk about this in-depth next time, is it's not a
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  • Single battle.
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  • It's really more like the war of armageddon.
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  • It is a war that begins during the last 3 1/2 years and
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  • Continues with the climactic battle occurring at this plain
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  • Of megiddo.
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  • Now think about this.
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  • When you combine the number you find in verse 18, a third of the
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  • Mankind being killed by these three plagues along with a
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  • Fourth of mankind being killed during the seal judgment, you
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  • Have one half of the world's population already killed by
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  • This time, which makes it clear why jesus said in matthew 24:22,
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  • "unless these days had been cut short, everyone would
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  • Have perished."
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  • The third series of judgments occur very rapidly, perhaps in
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  • Just a matter of a few days.
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  • They are called the bowl judgments.
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  • In many ways, they mirror the seal judgments except for
  • 00:13:56.292 --> 00:13:59.962
  • This--or pardon me, the trumpet judgments.
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  • The trumpet judgments are against only portions of
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  • The earth.
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  • The bold judgments are against the entire earth, and the last
  • 00:14:05.935 --> 00:14:09.605
  • Judgment is the most severe.
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  • Look at revelation 16, verses 17 to 19: "and the seventh angel
  • 00:14:11.140 --> 00:14:16.512
  • Poured out his bowl upon the air, and a loud voice came out
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  • Of the temple and from the throne, saying, 'it is done.'
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  • And there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals
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  • Of thunder; and there was a great earthquake, such as there
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  • Has not been since man came to be upon the earth, so great an
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  • Earthquake was it, and so mighty.
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  • And the great city was split into three parts, and the cities
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  • Of the nations fell.
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  • And babylon the great was remembered before god, to give
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  • Her the cup of the wine of his fierce wrath."
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  • What i want you to notice about this final judgment, according
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  • To verse 17, is "it is poured out upon the air" and it's
  • 00:14:57.219 --> 00:15:03.158
  • Accompanied by "flashes of lightning and peals of thunder
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  • And by a great earthquake."
  • 00:15:06.695 --> 00:15:09.031
  • Many have speculated that this is a final nuclear holocaust
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  • That occurs before christ comes back.
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  • Next time, we're going to see the descriptive power of a
  • 00:15:16.605 --> 00:15:20.009
  • Nuclear explosion and exactly how much power we have right now
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  • As a world to destroy the entire earth.
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  • It's very well that could be what john saw as he looked
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  • Forward into history, but whatever the source of this
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  • Judgment is, notice the result: the destructions of the cities
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  • Of the world, including babylon.
  • 00:15:39.294 --> 00:15:43.766
  • Now, where is babylon?
  • 00:15:43.766 --> 00:15:45.401
  • In the book of revelation, it's portrayed as the seat of the
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  • Antichrist power.
  • 00:15:49.304 --> 00:15:51.473
  • Now, some people believe that john is actually referring to
  • 00:15:51.473 --> 00:15:55.577
  • The actual city of babylon in iraq.
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  • It's a minor city.
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  • It's not much right now.
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  • Remember the late saddam hussein?
  • 00:16:02.151 --> 00:16:04.319
  • Remember that guy?
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  • He had as his goal to rebuild the ancient city of babylon and
  • 00:16:05.654 --> 00:16:09.625
  • Restore it to the splendor of king nebuchadnezzar.
  • 00:16:09.625 --> 00:16:13.028
  • Some people say it's the actual babylon is gonna be the city of
  • 00:16:13.028 --> 00:16:16.231
  • Antichrist power.
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  • Other people believe that babylon, the word, is a symbol
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  • For some future to-be-determined city.
  • 00:16:21.203 --> 00:16:24.239
  • Remember, in 1 peter 5:13, peter uses babylon as a code word
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  • For rome.
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  • He talked about babylon talking about corrupt rome.
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  • Some people believe it could be another city that will be the
  • 00:16:33.749 --> 00:16:36.752
  • Seat of antichrist power.
  • 00:16:36.752 --> 00:16:38.087
  • It could be london, could be paris, could be washington, d.c.
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  • Who knows what form this final revived roman empire will take,
  • 00:16:42.791 --> 00:16:47.329
  • But the bible says that that city will ultimately
  • 00:16:47.329 --> 00:16:50.566
  • Be destroyed.
  • 00:16:50.566 --> 00:16:51.934
  • These final events of these last 3 1/2 years point toward the
  • 00:16:51.934 --> 00:16:55.604
  • Great climax, the conclusion of the seven half years, the battle
  • 00:16:55.604 --> 00:16:59.108
  • Of armageddon, that will precede the return of jesus christ.
  • 00:16:59.108 --> 00:17:03.946
  • Now, some of you may be asking, "well, why do we need to know
  • 00:17:03.946 --> 00:17:07.282
  • All of this stuff?"
  • 00:17:07.282 --> 00:17:09.418
  • Well, first of all, if you're not yet a christian, it's good
  • 00:17:09.418 --> 00:17:14.256
  • To look at what is in store for unbelievers in the day to come.
  • 00:17:14.256 --> 00:17:19.328
  • This is a powerful motivation, i believe, for people to trust in
  • 00:17:19.328 --> 00:17:22.865
  • Christ so that they can escape not only the seven years of
  • 00:17:22.865 --> 00:17:26.268
  • Tribulation but the eternal torment that comes for those who
  • 00:17:26.268 --> 00:17:30.205
  • Are separated from christ.
  • 00:17:30.205 --> 00:17:32.341
  • But even for those of us who are believers, i think there's some
  • 00:17:32.341 --> 00:17:34.743
  • Value in looking at this seven-year period of time that
  • 00:17:34.743 --> 00:17:37.713
  • The bible devotes so much attention to.
  • 00:17:37.713 --> 00:17:40.649
  • Because in fact, this time of tribulation reveals two of god's
  • 00:17:40.649 --> 00:17:46.522
  • Most important attributes.
  • 00:17:46.522 --> 00:17:49.124
  • Do you realize that in the seven years of tribulation, you see a
  • 00:17:49.124 --> 00:17:52.361
  • Display of both god's holiness that demands his judgment, but
  • 00:17:52.361 --> 00:17:58.000
  • You also see a display of god's love.
  • 00:17:58.000 --> 00:18:00.869
  • You find both together.
  • 00:18:00.869 --> 00:18:03.939
  • You know, we live in a world in which people cannot reconcile a
  • 00:18:03.939 --> 00:18:07.643
  • God who judges with a god who loves.
  • 00:18:07.643 --> 00:18:10.445
  • To most people, that's nonsensical.
  • 00:18:10.445 --> 00:18:12.381
  • God can't be a god of love if he's a god of judgment, but the
  • 00:18:12.381 --> 00:18:16.051
  • Bible says god is actually both.
  • 00:18:16.051 --> 00:18:19.254
  • When i did an interview recently about the fact that christ is
  • 00:18:19.254 --> 00:18:23.325
  • The only way to be saved and people reacted so violently to
  • 00:18:23.325 --> 00:18:28.230
  • That idea that there's one way to be saved and that those who
  • 00:18:28.230 --> 00:18:31.800
  • Reject christ are destined to hell, i usually don't read
  • 00:18:31.800 --> 00:18:34.903
  • Blogs, but i picked up this comment from somebody's blog
  • 00:18:34.903 --> 00:18:37.973
  • About my statement.
  • 00:18:37.973 --> 00:18:39.308
  • He said, "i believe in a god of love, not of judgment.
  • 00:18:39.308 --> 00:18:43.712
  • If god is so intolerant and cruel that he would dispatch
  • 00:18:43.712 --> 00:18:47.783
  • Those who don't accept his son to a place of eternal torment,
  • 00:18:47.783 --> 00:18:52.054
  • Then i would just as soon be separated from him for
  • 00:18:52.054 --> 00:18:55.123
  • Eternity too."
  • 00:18:55.123 --> 00:18:58.527
  • He'll get his wish.
  • 00:18:58.527 --> 00:19:02.064
  • Is it impossible to be judgmental and loving at the
  • 00:19:02.064 --> 00:19:04.866
  • Same time?
  • 00:19:04.866 --> 00:19:06.235
  • Any parent knows the answer to that.
  • 00:19:06.235 --> 00:19:08.570
  • What do you say to your small children about
  • 00:19:08.570 --> 00:19:11.406
  • Electrical outlets?
  • 00:19:11.406 --> 00:19:12.741
  • You say, "now, if you put your finger near that outlet, i'm
  • 00:19:12.741 --> 00:19:15.043
  • Gonna spank you."
  • 00:19:15.043 --> 00:19:16.812
  • Why do you do that?
  • 00:19:16.812 --> 00:19:18.146
  • Are you being judgmental?
  • 00:19:18.146 --> 00:19:19.481
  • You bet you are.
  • 00:19:19.481 --> 00:19:20.816
  • But it's a judgmentalism that is born out of your love, your
  • 00:19:20.816 --> 00:19:24.186
  • Concern for the well being of that child.
  • 00:19:24.186 --> 00:19:26.722
  • You wanna save him from future harm.
  • 00:19:26.722 --> 00:19:29.791
  • It's the same way with god.
  • 00:19:29.791 --> 00:19:31.827
  • Is god a god of judgment?
  • 00:19:31.827 --> 00:19:33.161
  • Yes, his holy nature demands that he not overlook sin but
  • 00:19:33.161 --> 00:19:38.267
  • That he judges sin, and this period of the great tribulation
  • 00:19:38.267 --> 00:19:41.503
  • Will be the time that all of the wrath of god that has been
  • 00:19:41.503 --> 00:19:44.072
  • Stored up, paul said in romans 2, all of it will be poured out
  • 00:19:44.072 --> 00:19:47.175
  • On the earth.
  • 00:19:47.175 --> 00:19:48.510
  • In isaiah 26, verse 21, isaiah said, "for, behold, the lord is
  • 00:19:48.510 --> 00:19:53.148
  • About to come out from his place to punish the inhabitants of the
  • 00:19:53.148 --> 00:19:57.052
  • Earth for their iniquity."
  • 00:19:57.052 --> 00:19:58.820
  • In this final seven years of the tribulation, we see the holiness
  • 00:19:58.820 --> 00:20:03.091
  • Of god displayed through his judgment of sin, but listen to
  • 00:20:03.091 --> 00:20:07.262
  • Me, that's not all we see.
  • 00:20:07.262 --> 00:20:10.299
  • I mean, if god's purpose was simply to punish unbelievers, he
  • 00:20:10.299 --> 00:20:14.469
  • Could annihilate them in an instant, but you see, god is not
  • 00:20:14.469 --> 00:20:18.240
  • Just a god of judgment.
  • 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:19.574
  • He's a god of love.
  • 00:20:19.574 --> 00:20:20.942
  • If god only wanted to punish unbelievers, why did he go to
  • 00:20:20.942 --> 00:20:23.745
  • The trouble of sealing 144,000 missionaries and dispatching
  • 00:20:23.745 --> 00:20:28.984
  • Them throughout the earth?
  • 00:20:28.984 --> 00:20:30.319
  • He did it to give man one last chance to be saved.
  • 00:20:30.319 --> 00:20:34.723
  • God desires more than anything a relationship with fallen man.
  • 00:20:34.723 --> 00:20:39.961
  • As he said through the prophet ezekiel in ezekiel 33:11, "'as i
  • 00:20:39.961 --> 00:20:43.765
  • Live!' declares the lord god, 'i take no pleasure in the death of
  • 00:20:43.765 --> 00:20:47.769
  • The wicked, but rather i desire that the wicked turn from his
  • 00:20:47.769 --> 00:20:51.239
  • Evil way and live.
  • 00:20:51.239 --> 00:20:52.808
  • Turn back, turn back from your evil ways!
  • 00:20:52.808 --> 00:20:56.111
  • Why then will you die, o house of israel?'"
  • 00:20:56.111 --> 00:21:00.382
  • Now hear me this morning.
  • 00:21:00.382 --> 00:21:01.750
  • What god desires for israel in those final seven years, that
  • 00:21:01.750 --> 00:21:04.953
  • They turn back to him, is what god desires for your life
  • 00:21:04.953 --> 00:21:09.091
  • Right now.
  • 00:21:09.091 --> 00:21:10.425
  • He loves you.
  • 00:21:10.425 --> 00:21:11.793
  • He doesn't hate you.
  • 00:21:11.793 --> 00:21:13.128
  • More than anything, god desires to have a relationship with you.
  • 00:21:13.128 --> 00:21:17.532
  • The great theologian karl barth wrote thousands of pages on
  • 00:21:17.532 --> 00:21:21.002
  • Church dogmatics, and he came to the definition of god.
  • 00:21:21.002 --> 00:21:24.539
  • You know how he described god?
  • 00:21:24.539 --> 00:21:26.007
  • It wasn't in some flowery theological definition.
  • 00:21:26.007 --> 00:21:28.643
  • He described god as quote "the one who loves."
  • 00:21:28.643 --> 00:21:33.582
  • That's a great definition of god, the one who loves.
  • 00:21:33.582 --> 00:21:38.453
  • God loves you.
  • 00:21:38.453 --> 00:21:40.789
  • He desires more than anything for a reconciliation with you.
  • 00:21:40.789 --> 00:21:45.961
  • Think about this.
  • 00:21:45.961 --> 00:21:47.329
  • If god simply hated you and he wanted to punish you for sin, he
  • 00:21:47.329 --> 00:21:52.501
  • Could destroy you right now with a single word or even a single
  • 00:21:52.501 --> 00:21:55.971
  • Thought, but the bible tells us that god loves you and me so
  • 00:21:55.971 --> 00:22:00.709
  • Much that he will use whatever tools necessary.
  • 00:22:00.709 --> 00:22:04.279
  • He'll send whatever tribulation necessary into our daily life,
  • 00:22:04.279 --> 00:22:09.151
  • Not to punish us, not because he hates us.
  • 00:22:09.151 --> 00:22:11.887
  • He sends those tribulations in our life to drive us back into
  • 00:22:11.887 --> 00:22:16.391
  • The arms of the one who loves you most.
  • 00:22:16.391 --> 00:22:21.229
  • ♪♪♪
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  • Jeffress: are you glad to know that christ has provided an
  • 00:22:25.400 --> 00:22:28.303
  • Escape from the coming tribulation?
  • 00:22:28.303 --> 00:22:30.872
  • While the stage is set for the antichrist to rule without
  • 00:22:30.872 --> 00:22:34.109
  • Opposition, those who know jesus christ as their personal savior
  • 00:22:34.109 --> 00:22:38.613
  • Can rest in his saving grace.
  • 00:22:38.613 --> 00:22:41.783
  • As christians, we can conduct our daily lives with an attitude
  • 00:22:41.783 --> 00:22:45.620
  • Of both urgency and relief.
  • 00:22:45.620 --> 00:22:48.523
  • Now, in the time remaining today, let me remind you that
  • 00:22:48.523 --> 00:22:51.493
  • This program wouldn't be on television today were it not
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  • Recently, i received an encouraging comment that said,
  • 00:23:02.871 --> 00:23:06.107
  • "pastor jeffress, in this confusing time, you are helping
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  • Me decipher truth from untruth and to teach others to know the
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  • Truth as well.
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  • I'm sharing with my husband and teenage boys!
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  • Thank you for standing firm in god's word!"
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  • Jeffress: the judgments that god's angels pour out will be
  • 00:25:08.063 --> 00:25:11.566
  • Unlike any catastrophe earth has ever experienced, but the great
  • 00:25:11.566 --> 00:25:16.338
  • Tribulation isn't a mere demonstration of god's holiness
  • 00:25:16.338 --> 00:25:19.874
  • Displayed through his judgment and sin.
  • 00:25:19.874 --> 00:25:22.377
  • It's also a display of god's love.
  • 00:25:22.377 --> 00:25:25.680
  • Why else would god send those 144,000 missionaries, if not to
  • 00:25:25.680 --> 00:25:30.852
  • Call israel to turn back to himself?
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  • Well, we've discovered what will take place during the seven
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  • Years of the great tribulation, and next time, we'll look at the
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  • Long-awaited moment when christ finally returns to earth.
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  • Jeffress: and notice this judgment.
  • 00:25:50.739 --> 00:25:52.374
  • This bowl is poured out, not on the earth, it is poured out in
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  • The air.
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  • I believe that john is describing what we would call a
  • 00:25:59.748 --> 00:26:04.352
  • Nuclear explosion, a nuclear exchange, something that happens
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  • In the air and has great destructive force.
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  • Announcer: set your dvr and join us next time for the message,
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  • "history's most important event," here on "pathway
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  • To victory."
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  • Announcer: join us on the "pathway to victory" cruise to
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  • Alaska, june 13 through 20, 2026.
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  • Jeffress: let me paint a picture for you.
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  • You're standing on the deck of a beautiful cruise ship, coffee in
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  • Hand, watching a glacier calve into the pristine waters while
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  • Bald eagles circle overhead.
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  • That's going to be us this coming june.
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  • You've got to see alaska with your own eyes to believe it.
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  • Announcer: seven days of pure luxury where every meal is
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  • Prepared for you.
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  • The world-class service means you never have to think about
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  • The details.
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  • Instead, you can focus on casual conversations with like-minded
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  • Christians, laughing, telling stories, while surrounded by
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  • God's breathtaking creation.
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  • Jeffress: this is purposeful travel at its finest, refreshing
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  • Your soul in god's stunning cathedral of natural wonders.
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  • Or visit ptv.org.
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