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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Jesus the Prophet | November 2, 2025
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- From the pulpit
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- Of the first baptist church of dallas, texas,
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- This is "pathway to victory" with dr. robert jeffress.
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- Hi, i'm robert jeffress,
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- And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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- From newspaper horoscopes to fortune tellers,
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- People are constantly trying to predict what lies ahead,
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- But there's only one prophet
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- Whose words we can trust completely.
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- His name is jesus christ,
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- And his prophecies about the future are 100% reliable.
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- Today, we're going to examine
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- Christ's perfect prophetic record
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- And discover what he said about three future events
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- That will impact every person on earth.
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- My message is titled "jesus the prophet"
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- On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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- Jesus is the most talked about person in human history,
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- But we can't fully grasp who jesus is
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- Until we understand both his first and his second coming.
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- In his book, "jesus revealed in the end times,"
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- Dr. robert jeffress
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- Unveils the glorious return of our savior.
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- Among the modern day prophets,
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- One of the most popular is a man named kai-fu lee.
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- He's a taiwanese businessman and computer scientist
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- Who has written a bestselling book
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- About artificial intelligence.
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- It's called "ai 2041: 10 visions of our future"
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- And he attempts to suggest
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- What life is going to be like in 2041,
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- A world in which artificial intelligence
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- Has changed everything.
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- He predicts that this means, quote,
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- "the loss of traditional jobs,
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- An unprecedented abundance of goods,
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- Exacerbated inequality,
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- An autonomous weapons arms race,
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- Trade-offs between privacy and happiness,
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- And the human pursuit of a high purpose."
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- He says, "these are going to be profound changes
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- And humans may embrace them with compassion,
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- Exploit them with malice,
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- Capitulate to them with resignation,
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- Or be inspired to reinvent ourselves."
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- Lee predicts that by the year 2041,
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- We'll be wearing contact lenses
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- That record every moment of our day,
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- Providing us with an infinite memory repository
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- And digital immortality.
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- Everything you do, every word you speak,
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- Every thought you have will be stored and preserved,
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- Presumably available to government agencies
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- As well as the curiosity of future generation.
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- He then talks about the catastrophic dangers
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- Of future autonomous weapons designed to search for,
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- Engage and kill people
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- Without any human involvement whatsoever.
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- This new generation of weaponry
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- Will be generated by ai and by quantum computing.
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- I don't know about you,
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- But when i hear that, i want to go hide someplace.
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- Now the truth is we don't know
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- Whether kai-fu lee's predictions,
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- Any of them or none of them will come to pass,
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- But there is one prophet
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- Who makes perfect predictions about the future.
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- We can trust every word he says about the future.
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- He knows the future perfectly
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- Because he has planned the future.
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- And that prophet,
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- The only one on whom we can rely is named jesus,
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- The christos, the messiah.
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- We're in a series called "jesus revealed in the end times"
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- And we're discovering that bible prophecy
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- Is not so much about events that will happen in the future.
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- Those are secondary.
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- The real thrust of bible prophecy is the revelation,
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- The unveiling of jesus in all of his roles.
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- Last time we looked at how the end times
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- Will reveal jesus to be the ultimate messiah,
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- And today we're going to look at
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- How the end times reveal jesus to be the perfect prophet.
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- I want us to consider for just a moment,
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- Jesus as prophet, his unique identity.
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- In john 6:14, we find this description of jesus
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- As "the prophet who is to come."
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- In luke 7:16, the amazed crowd said,
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- "a great prophet has risen among us."
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- And so, what i want to look at briefly today
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- Are three predictions jesus made about the future,
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- His future, and your future that we can bank on
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- And know are going to come true.
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- What are these three future events?
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- First of all, the rapture, secondly, the end times,
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- And finally, his second coming and kingdom.
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- Let's first of all talk about jesus
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- And his prediction about the rapture.
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- What did jesus have to say about the rapture?
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- Now, those of you who have been around here for a while
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- Have heard me preach on the rapture,
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- And you probably heard me make this statement,
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- That nowhere did jesus say anything about the rapture.
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- Now, i'm going to stand by that comment with one asterisk,
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- One little amendment.
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- There is one verse in which jesus
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- May be alluding to the rapture
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- And it's the verse we're going to look at right now.
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- The context is the time before jesus was crucified,
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- He said to his disciples in john 13:33,
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- "little children, i am with you for a little while longer.
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- You will seek me,
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- And as i said to the jews,
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- Now i say to you, where i am going, you cannot come."
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- What do you mean you can't come?
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- Well, you can't come now.
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- And to clarify that, when the disciples were upset,
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- He continued in chapter 14 with these familiar words,
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- "do not let your heart be troubled.
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- Believe in god, believe also in me,
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- In my father's house are many dwelling places.
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- If it were not so, i would've told you
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- For i go to prepare a place for you
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- And if i go and prepare a place for you,
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- I will come again and take you to myself
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- That where i am there you may be also."
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- I want you to underline the words, "come again" and "take."
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- Some translations say "receive."
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- When is it that jesus christ is coming again
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- To take his disciples?
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- Well, there are really two stages, two fulfillments of that,
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- Two different events that share some things in common.
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- One is the rapture.
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- At the rapture,
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- Jesus comes again in the air and takes believers,
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- Snatches them away to be with him.
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- We'll talk about that in more detail in a moment.
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- But there's a second stage of the second coming of christ
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- And that is his visible return to earth
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- When he doesn't come into the clouds,
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- But he comes to earth.
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- The first time he comes at the rapture,
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- He comes to take believers.
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- The next time he comes, seven years later,
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- At the second coming,
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- He comes with believers to the earth
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- To establish his kingdom.
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- So in that sense, this phrase,
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- "i will come again and take you unto myself,"
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- Has its ultimate fulfillment in the second coming
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- After the tribulation,
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- But there's a partial fulfillment at the rapture
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- Of the church.
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- Now, you know there have been people
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- Who have tried to time when the rapture's going to happen.
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- Some people believe it happens before the tribulation,
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- Some people believe it happens after the tribulation.
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- Sometimes people believe it happens halfway
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- During the tribulation.
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- I believe in the pre-tribulation rapture
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- That this happens before, not problems,
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- But before the great tribulation.
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- Every christian has experienced problems
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- And tribulations throughout history,
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- But there's a special tribulation coming
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- That i believe we're exempt from.
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- Now listen to me carefully.
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- Jesus is not promising to keep us out of problems.
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- In fact, he guaranteed we're going to have problems.
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- He said in john 16:33,
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- "in this world you will have tribulation,
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- Pressure, problems, but be of good cheer,
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- I've overcome the world."
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- No, being a christian is a guarantee
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- You're going to have problems,
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- But the problems of this world
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- Are nothing compared to the wrath of god,
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- And that's what we've been exempted from.
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- If we have to fear some future judgment,
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- Anger by god being poured out upon us,
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- Then the death of jesus christ was totally worthless.
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- The reason jesus suffered on the cross
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- Was he took that wrath
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- That you and i deserved upon that cross where jesus died,
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- The wrath of god was satisfied.
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- We've seen that often, it's a theological truth.
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- There is now no condemnation awaiting those
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- Who belong to christ jesus.
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- That's why i believe we're going to get out of here
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- Before the tribulation, aren't you glad for that?
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- We don't have to fear the wrath of god.
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- Jesus made a prediction about the future.
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- First of all, the rapture of the church,
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- And that ushers in the second event
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- And that is jesus predicts the end times.
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- The end times technically begin after the rapture.
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- We see the end times outlined in matthew chapter 24.
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- Remember, jesus had just taken his disciples
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- On a tour of the temple and he says,
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- "not one of these stones will remain untouched.
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- Every stone of this place will be toppled over."
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- After they took their tour of the temple,
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- They walked across the kidron valley
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- That many of us have walked across
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- And sat on the mount of olives
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- And the disciples said, "now, jesus,
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- About this temple thing,
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- When will these things take place
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- And what will be the sign
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- Of your coming in the end of the age?"
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- Well, jesus skipped over the when question,
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- That wasn't for them to know,
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- But he gave a detailed explanation of what would happen
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- And it seemed to follow exactly what zechariah
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- In the old testament prophesied.
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- Look at the beginning of birth pains.
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- That's how he describes
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- The first three and a half years of the tribulation.
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- You ladies know that when those labor pains appear,
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- It doesn't mean you're going to deliver right then,
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- But it means you better stay near a hospital
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- Because something big is about to happen, right?
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- That's how jesus described the end times.
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- There'll be the birth pains.
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- What are those birth pains?
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- Well, the rise of a false messiah.
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- "many will come in my name saying, 'i am the christ'
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- And will mislead many."
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- Secondly, there'll be rumors of war,
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- And again, you say, "that's nothing new.
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- There have always been wars."
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- Well, thomas hobbes, the british philosopher said,
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- "war is the natural state of mankind,"
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- But like birth pains,
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- These wars will increase in frequency and intensity.
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- There are hotspots all over the world right now
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- And nuclear weapons that could blow this world apart.
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- There'll be a rise in natural disasters.
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- 24:7, jesus went on to say,
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- "and in various places
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- There will be famines and earthquakes,"
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- But they will become more intense.
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- That's the first three and a half years,
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- But the second three and a half years
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- Marks the end of the tribulation,
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- And i want you to notice the five characteristics
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- Of those final three and a half years.
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- There will be an intensification
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- Of persecution of christians, verse nine,
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- "then they, unbelievers, will deliver you to tribulation
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- And will kill you and you will be hated by all the nations
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- Because of my name."
- 00:15:03.125 --> 00:15:04.793
- Now again, christians have been persecuted in every age
- 00:15:04.793 --> 00:15:07.763
- And yet, it's intensifying.
- 00:15:07.763 --> 00:15:10.165
- There were more martyrs in the 20th century
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- Than all the other centuries put together, it is increasing,
- 00:15:13.235 --> 00:15:17.272
- It just hasn't hit the united states yet,
- 00:15:17.272 --> 00:15:22.544
- But make no mistake, it's on the way, it's coming.
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- We need to be prepared for it.
- 00:15:26.382 --> 00:15:28.217
- Secondly, the inclination toward apostasy, verse 10,
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- "at that time, many will fall away
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- And will betray one another and hate one another."
- 00:15:34.423 --> 00:15:37.626
- We see this all the time.
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- Christians who are no longer followers of jesus christ,
- 00:15:39.128 --> 00:15:42.464
- They call themselves ex-evangelicals.
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- They're giving up the beliefs,
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- The basic beliefs they've had in the past.
- 00:15:47.536 --> 00:15:50.305
- Thirdly, the inflation of falsehood.
- 00:15:50.305 --> 00:15:52.875
- Verse 11, "many false prophets will arise
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- And will mislead many."
- 00:15:56.078 --> 00:15:58.881
- The rise of artificial intelligence
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- Will make it possible for people to be deceived.
- 00:16:00.949 --> 00:16:04.820
- Remember, even the antichrist will appear
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- To have been assassinated
- 00:16:07.456 --> 00:16:09.024
- And will appear to rise from the dead.
- 00:16:09.024 --> 00:16:11.560
- I think all of that will be a deception
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- That very well could be fueled by ai.
- 00:16:13.595 --> 00:16:17.132
- The increase of lawlessness, verse 12,
- 00:16:17.132 --> 00:16:20.002
- "because lawlessness is increased,
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- Most people's love will grow cold."
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- Lawlessness will increase
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- Because of the man of lawlessness.
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- That's how the antichrist is described.
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- He has no regard for the rule of law
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- And neither will his followers.
- 00:16:34.216 --> 00:16:36.251
- And fifthly, an interesting twist,
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- The influence of the gospel
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- Will actually increase in the end times.
- 00:16:40.756 --> 00:16:44.159
- Matthew 24:14, "this gospel of the kingdom
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- Shall be preached in the whole world
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- As a testimony to all the nations,
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- And then the end will come."
- 00:16:53.368 --> 00:16:56.105
- How will the gospel go out?
- 00:16:56.105 --> 00:16:58.073
- It will go out mainly through the witness
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- Of 144,000 jewish missionaries who are saved
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- And supernaturally sealed
- 00:17:05.347 --> 00:17:07.282
- At the beginning of the tribulation,
- 00:17:07.282 --> 00:17:09.418
- And they will preach the gospel.
- 00:17:09.418 --> 00:17:11.520
- Jesus makes a curious comment in verse 22 of matthew 24.
- 00:17:11.520 --> 00:17:15.424
- He said, "unless those days had been cut short,
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- No life would've been saved."
- 00:17:18.794 --> 00:17:21.930
- If he didn't cut it short,
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- Everybody would've been killed during the great tribulation.
- 00:17:23.832 --> 00:17:27.636
- Well, what is it that cuts short those days of judgment?
- 00:17:27.636 --> 00:17:31.306
- That's the third event jesus predicted,
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- And that is his second coming.
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- The second coming will result
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- In earth's last days being cut short.
- 00:17:38.347 --> 00:17:41.450
- Matthew 24:27,
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- And his return visibly to earth.
- 00:17:43.685 --> 00:17:45.921
- Listen to matthew 24:29,
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- "but immediately after the tribulation of those days,
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- The sun will be darkened,
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- And the moon will not give its light,
- 00:17:53.395 --> 00:17:55.130
- And the stars will fall from their sky,
- 00:17:55.130 --> 00:17:57.499
- And the powers of the heavens will be shaken."
- 00:17:57.499 --> 00:18:00.202
- And then we have the descent from heaven
- 00:18:00.202 --> 00:18:02.204
- And glory of jesus christ.
- 00:18:02.204 --> 00:18:04.206
- When he comes, matthew 24:30,
- 00:18:04.206 --> 00:18:06.942
- "the whole world will mourn who have not accepted christ,
- 00:18:06.942 --> 00:18:10.946
- His coming.
- 00:18:10.946 --> 00:18:12.514
- Everybody will see him as king of kings and lord of lords,
- 00:18:12.514 --> 00:18:15.784
- But if they've waited until then, it will be too late."
- 00:18:15.784 --> 00:18:19.521
- And then finally, there's a gathering of his people
- 00:18:19.521 --> 00:18:22.691
- At the second coming when all of the resurrected saints
- 00:18:22.691 --> 00:18:27.262
- He brings back with him
- 00:18:27.262 --> 00:18:29.198
- And all those who have survived the tribulation
- 00:18:29.198 --> 00:18:32.134
- And the jewish patriarchs in their resurrected bodies
- 00:18:32.134 --> 00:18:36.605
- All will be invited to come in
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- To the millennial reign of jesus christ.
- 00:18:38.440 --> 00:18:42.177
- Now, jesus foretold all of these things
- 00:18:42.177 --> 00:18:44.479
- And treated them as absolute fact.
- 00:18:44.479 --> 00:18:47.349
- The question is how should we be living now
- 00:18:47.349 --> 00:18:50.953
- In light of these prophecies
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- That we know are going to come true?
- 00:18:52.821 --> 00:18:56.124
- May i in closing suggest three words for you to write down?
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- First of all, we need to be vigilant, watchful,
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- Attentive, observant.
- 00:19:04.700 --> 00:19:05.934
- Just put down the word, "be vigilant."
- 00:19:05.934 --> 00:19:09.271
- Jesus gave four parables at the end of matthew 24
- 00:19:09.271 --> 00:19:13.141
- To tell us why we ought to be vigilant.
- 00:19:13.141 --> 00:19:15.711
- We ought to be on guard.
- 00:19:15.711 --> 00:19:17.079
- We ought to be watching.
- 00:19:17.079 --> 00:19:18.714
- You get no points with god
- 00:19:18.714 --> 00:19:20.882
- For being ignorant of what's happening in the world,
- 00:19:20.882 --> 00:19:23.785
- We're to observe the signs.
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- If we see these things starting to take place
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- For the tribulation and the second coming,
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- Then we know the rapture is even closer than it's ever been.
- 00:19:30.826 --> 00:19:34.663
- And that leads us to a second application, to be prudent,
- 00:19:34.663 --> 00:19:38.267
- That means to be sensible, careful and wise.
- 00:19:38.267 --> 00:19:41.436
- The fact that he's coming back soon
- 00:19:41.436 --> 00:19:43.772
- Means that we need to be sensible in how we live.
- 00:19:43.772 --> 00:19:47.676
- Ephesians 5:15-16,
- 00:19:47.676 --> 00:19:49.978
- "be careful how you walk, not as unwise men,
- 00:19:49.978 --> 00:19:54.016
- But as wise making the most of your time
- 00:19:54.016 --> 00:19:57.452
- Because the days are evil."
- 00:19:57.452 --> 00:19:59.655
- Knowing how short of time we have here on earth,
- 00:19:59.655 --> 00:20:03.258
- We ought to make sure we're investing our treasure
- 00:20:03.258 --> 00:20:05.894
- And our time in those things
- 00:20:05.894 --> 00:20:08.096
- That will outlast our life here on earth.
- 00:20:08.096 --> 00:20:11.333
- And finally, be faithful.
- 00:20:11.333 --> 00:20:13.435
- Jesus gave a parable about two servants,
- 00:20:13.435 --> 00:20:16.271
- And the parable of the talents in this passage reminded us
- 00:20:16.271 --> 00:20:19.875
- We need to be loyal, true, diligent,
- 00:20:19.875 --> 00:20:22.644
- And most importantly, obedient.
- 00:20:22.644 --> 00:20:24.379
- That's how we're to remain faithful.
- 00:20:24.379 --> 00:20:26.848
- Last week, i had a man come to visit me,
- 00:20:27.716 --> 00:20:30.085
- I'd never met him before.
- 00:20:30.085 --> 00:20:31.320
- He lives in another city,
- 00:20:31.320 --> 00:20:33.955
- But for years and years,
- 00:20:33.955 --> 00:20:35.524
- He's watched our "pathway to victory" broadcast
- 00:20:35.524 --> 00:20:38.894
- And he talked about the impact
- 00:20:38.894 --> 00:20:40.562
- Our church has made on his life.
- 00:20:40.562 --> 00:20:43.398
- He's very soft spoken, very humble man,
- 00:20:43.398 --> 00:20:47.502
- But he said, "i've been diagnosed with cancer
- 00:20:48.437 --> 00:20:51.106
- And i don't know how much longer i have."
- 00:20:51.106 --> 00:20:54.042
- He said, "i'm not a wealthy man,
- 00:20:54.042 --> 00:20:55.711
- But i want to be sure that the gospel gets out
- 00:20:55.711 --> 00:20:58.313
- To as many people as possible as soon as possible."
- 00:20:58.313 --> 00:21:02.451
- And he handed me a check for $100,000 to say,
- 00:21:02.451 --> 00:21:06.121
- "use this to spread the word of jesus christ."
- 00:21:06.121 --> 00:21:10.225
- Now, there's a man who's vigilant,
- 00:21:10.225 --> 00:21:13.095
- Who's prudent, and who is faithful.
- 00:21:13.095 --> 00:21:16.264
- Are you being faithful to do that one thing
- 00:21:17.165 --> 00:21:19.501
- Jesus commanded you to do before he left?
- 00:21:19.501 --> 00:21:22.704
- "go into all the world and make disciples."
- 00:21:22.704 --> 00:21:26.875
- Jesus is the perfect prophet.
- 00:21:27.509 --> 00:21:30.045
- Everything he's said is going to happen
- 00:21:30.045 --> 00:21:33.048
- Can be trusted to happen.
- 00:21:33.048 --> 00:21:35.617
- His intelligence is not artificial, it's omniscient.
- 00:21:35.617 --> 00:21:40.789
- That'd be enough to frighten us
- 00:21:41.423 --> 00:21:43.058
- What we've gone through this morning.
- 00:21:43.058 --> 00:21:45.394
- But remember, jesus is not only our prophet,
- 00:21:45.394 --> 00:21:48.730
- He's our savior.
- 00:21:48.730 --> 00:21:50.465
- He's the one who promised to rescue us
- 00:21:51.299 --> 00:21:54.803
- From the wrath that is to come.
- 00:21:54.803 --> 00:21:57.539
- "let not your heart be troubled," jesus said.
- 00:21:58.473 --> 00:22:01.376
- "neither let it be afraid.
- 00:22:01.376 --> 00:22:03.645
- You believe in god, believe also in me,
- 00:22:03.645 --> 00:22:07.048
- For in my father's house are many mansions.
- 00:22:07.048 --> 00:22:10.886
- If it were not so, i would've told you
- 00:22:10.886 --> 00:22:14.122
- For i go to prepare a place for you,
- 00:22:14.122 --> 00:22:16.958
- And if i go and prepare a place for you,
- 00:22:16.958 --> 00:22:19.561
- I will come again to take you unto myself,
- 00:22:19.561 --> 00:22:23.765
- That where i am, there you may be always."
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- ♪ music ♪
- 00:22:28.570 --> 00:22:33.041
- Jesus has given us detailed prophecies about the future
- 00:22:34.176 --> 00:22:38.013
- That we can absolutely trust
- 00:22:38.013 --> 00:22:40.782
- And the reality of his return should compel us
- 00:22:40.782 --> 00:22:43.318
- To share the gospel while we still can.
- 00:22:43.318 --> 00:22:46.855
- Now, in closing today,
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- I want to share an encouraging note from sherry who wrote,
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- "i stumbled upon your radio program a few months ago
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- And working towards being more christ-like."
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- ♪ music ♪
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- Most teachings about bible prophecy focus on wars,
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- Natural disasters, and economic turmoil,
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- But the end times shouldn't scare us.
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- They should bring us hope.
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- In his book, "jesus revealed in the end times,"
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- Takes a radically different approach to prophecy,
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- Helping you see the end times
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- Through the lens of jesus christ.
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- In my book, i share why the bible's prophecies
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- About the last days should fill us with joy and peace
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- We know him as the antichrist,
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- And next time we'll discover how jesus,
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- The ultimate conqueror,
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- Will defeat this imposter and establish his eternal kingdom.
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