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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - When All Hell Breaks Loose (Part 1A) | April 17, 2026
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- ♪♪♪
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- Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church
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- Of dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory"
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- With dr. robert jeffress.
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- Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress and
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- Welcome again to a "pathway to victory."
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- The bible describes a seven-year period of intense chaos known as
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- The great tribulation during which the antichrist will have
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- Free reign to unleash his evil power.
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- It will be a time of unprecedented calamity
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- Precipitated by political unrest and natural disasters.
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- And today, i'm going to share why i believe the groundwork for
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- The tribulation is already in the process of being laid.
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- My message is titled "when all hell breaks loose" on today's
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- Edition of "pathway to victory."
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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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- ♪♪♪
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- Jeffress: there will be no lasting peace in the middle of
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- East until the prince of peace, the lord jesus christ, returns.
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- And that's the focus of our series we've been in, "perfect
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- Ending: why your eternal future matters today."
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- We're examining what god's word says about the events that will
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- Precede and follow history's most important event, the second
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- Coming of jesus christ.
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- The bible says before christ returns, however, to earth, he
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- Has some final business to wrap up here on planet earth.
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- And that period of time in which god finishes his dealings with
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- Israel and the world as a whole is a period of time we're going
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- To look at today.
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- It's that period of time we commonly call the great
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- Tribulation and it's going to be in that great tribulation that
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- The world is immersed in political chaos and natural
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- Catastrophes, but most of all the world will be the recipient
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- Of god's condemnation.
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- And today and next week, we're going to look and see what the
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- Bible says about the last seven years of earth's history that we
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- Call the great tribulation.
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- Now, the place to begin understanding the tribulation is
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- Not in the book of revelation where the tribulation is
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- Realized, but in the book of daniel where it is prophesied.
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- So, i want you to take your bibles today and turn to daniel
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- Chapter 9, daniel chapter 9, now, a year or so ago we studied
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- The book of daniel verse by verse, so i'm not going to go
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- Into depth here, but i think it's important to review a
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- Little bit of material, especially from daniel chapter
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- 9, to understand this period of the seven year tribulation.
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- You remember that daniel was a teenager living in israel when
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- Israel was invaded by the babylonian king, nebuchadnezzar,
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- In 586 bc.
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- And remember, nebuchadnezzar took a group of jews captive,
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- Took them exile into babylon, and among those teenagers that
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- Were taken was this young man named daniel.
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- And daniel chapters 1 through 6, the first six chapters, are
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- Biographical and that is they tell about how god used daniel
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- In this pagan culture to make a difference to stand for god.
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- But chapter 7 through 12 of daniel are prophetic because you
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- See daniel, as well as many jews, living in babylon, they
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- Begin to wonder about god's plan for the future.
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- Had god forgotten his promise to abraham, they wondered.
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- What about this land that god said would be theirs forever?
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- And what about the promised deliverer named messiah?
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- Were all those promises null and void now that the israelites had
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- Been taken captive to babylon?
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- And god answered and said, "no."
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- And through a series of four different visions, god revealed
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- To daniel the future plans for israel and for the world.
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- It was god's way of reassuring daniel that god was going to
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- Fulfill his promises.
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- And of those four promise--or visions, perhaps the most
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- Sweeping one is found in daniel chapter 9, daniel had been
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- Praying and saying, "god, show me what your plan is.
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- Reassure me that you're not finished with israel."
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- Well, god answered daniel's prayer with more than he
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- Bargained for because god gave daniel the ability to peer down
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- The corridor of history and see the events that would finish up
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- God's dealing with israel, as well as the rest of the world.
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- To me, this is the most amazing prophecy in all the bible.
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- If you ever doubt that the bible is really the word of god, i
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- Want you to stay with me for about the next five minutes as
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- We look at this prophecy.
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- Daniel had been praying, gabriel the angel came and brought god's
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- Answer to daniel.
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- Look at verse 22 of daniel 9.
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- "o daniel, i have now come forth to
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- Give you insight with understanding.
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- At the beginning of your supplication the command was
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- Issued, and now i've come to tell you, for you are highly
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- Esteemed; so give heed to the message and gain the
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- Understanding of the vision."
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- Now, here's the vision, verse 24.
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- "seventy weeks have been decreed for your people," that is
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- Israel, "and for your holy city," that is jerusalem, "to
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- Finish the transgression, to make an end to sin, to make
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- Atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to
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- Seal up the vision and prophecy and to anoint the most
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- Holy place."
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- What was gabriel saying?
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- He said, "daniel, god has ordained 70 weeks, 70 sevens to
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- Finish up his plan with israel."
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- Now, this word that is translated in your bible "week"
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- Is really a weak translation of the hebrew word.
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- It's not 70 weeks, that word is better translated 70 sevens.
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- What is 70 times 7?
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- Four hundred and ninety, four hundred and ninety.
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- Now, 490 what?
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- Is he talking about weeks?
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- Is he talking about days?
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- If you look at the context of daniel 9, he's talking
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- About years.
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- He was talking about how many years israel would be in
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- Babylon, it was 70 years.
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- The context is years.
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- God is saying 490 years has been decreed by god to finish up all
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- Of the things he's promised for israel.
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- Within these 490 years he says specifically six things will
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- Have happened and he names those six things beginning in
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- Verse 24.
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- Get your pen and outline out and write very quickly.
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- Here are the six things that are gonna happen.
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- Within those 490 years,
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- First of all, to finish the transgression.
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- That is, within these 490 years, israel's unbelief and rebellion
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- Will be completed.
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- Secondly, to make an end to sin.
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- This is probably a reference to the end of the
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- Sacrificial system.
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- Within these 490 years there'll be an end to all sacrifices.
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- Number three, to make an atonement for iniquity.
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- I believe this is a phrase that refers to the sacrificial death
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- Of messiah, which will provide the ultimate covering for our
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- Sin, rendering the sacrificial system unimportant.
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- Now, remember, this is all coming to daniel in the 6th
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- Century bc, 550 years before the time of christ.
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- God said these things are gonna happen.
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- Number four, within these 490 years god will bring in
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- Everlasting righteousness.
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- This is a reference to the kingdom of christ which christ
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- Will bring with him when he returns.
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- Kingdom prophesied in isaiah 11 and other passages.
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- Fifth, during this 490 years god will seal up vision
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- And prophecy.
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- Once messiah comes and establishes his kingdom,
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- There'll be no longer a need for any more visions, any more
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- Prophecies, any more need for sermons on prophecy.
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- It'll all be over by that time, within those 490 years.
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- And number six, during that 490 years, god will anoint the most
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- Holy place.
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- Where is the most holy place?
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- Not dallas, texas, okay.
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- Some of you think that.
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- But to a jew the most holy place is the temple.
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- Now remember, when nebuchadnezzar came in 586 and
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- Took daniel captive, he destroyed the temple.
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- But we also know from history back in--that 70 years or so
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- Later in 516 bc, when daniel and the israelites returned, the
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- Temple was rebuilt under zerubbabel and then it was later
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- Enlarged by king herod at the time of christ's life.
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- But we also know that temple was once again destroyed in 70 ad
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- When the romans came under titus.
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- So, when he's talking about, within 490 years the temple is
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- Gonna be rebuilt, is he talking about the 518 bc temple or is he
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- Talking about the future temple that is going to be rebuilt
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- During the tribulation?
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- I think he's talking about both of those times.
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- The bible says the temple is going to be rebuilt again
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- During the time of the tribulation.
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- You know, after the destruction in 70 ad of the temple.
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- If you go to the temple mount,
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- You go up there to visit, you don't find a jewish temple, you
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- Find a muslim mosque right there.
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- But the bible says one day that mosque is going to be destroyed
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- And there's gonna be a temple built.
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- And right now, did you know there are preparations that are
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- Taking place to rebuild the temple by the jewish people?
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- In 1998 there was a conference in jerusalem about the
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- Rebuilding of the temple, 2000 participants attended.
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- Right now you can go to the treasuries of the temple mount
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- And you can see these faithful jews working on creating the
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- Artifacts that will be important as a part of the new
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- Temple worship.
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- In 2012, a workshop began actually manufacturing the
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- Priestly garments that will be necessary, described in exodus
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- 39, for the temple worship that the jews fully expect
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- To reinaugurate.
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- All of that is happening right now.
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- Now, here's the point.
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- God said to daniel in 550 or so bc, within a 490 year period
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- God's gonna finish his promise to israel.
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- All of these things will be accomplished.
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- Now, let's fast forward 2500 years later to the time we're
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- Living in today.
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- As we look back, what do we see?
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- We see some of these things have happened partially, but none of
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- These promises have been fulfilled completely.
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- And yet, 2500 years have elapsed.
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- God said it would happen within a 490 year period.
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- Was god not able to keep his promise?
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- The key to understanding this vision is understanding, okay,
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- When does the 490 years begin in which god is gonna fulfill
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- This time?
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- And god answers that question beginning in verse 25.
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- And i was trying to think, what is the best way to illustrate
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- This for you?
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- I'm no artist, but i sketched out this little stopwatch here,
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- Asked our art department to kind of clean it up for us.
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- But i want you to imagine god has a stopwatch and at the top
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- Of the stopwatch is 490 years, okay.
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- And what god said to daniel is, "once i start this stopwatch,
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- There are 490 years in which god is going to fulfill all six of
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- These plans for israel."
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- So the question is, when is god going to hit the begin, the
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- Start button, on the stopwatch?
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- Well, he tells us in verse 25.
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- "so that you are to know and discern that from the beginning
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- Of the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild jerusalem
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- Until the messiah the prince there will be seven weeks of
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- Years plus sixty-two weeks of years," or sixty-nine weeks
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- Of years.
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- Four hundred and eighty-three years is what that figures out
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- To be.
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- Now, when does the stopwatch begin?
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- It begins when the decree is issued to go and
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- Rebuild jerusalem.
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- When was that decree issued?
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- We know that cyrus in 538 bc told the israelites they could
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- Go back to rebuild the temple, but the actual decree to go back
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- And rebuild the city of jerusalem actually came on march
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- The 14, 445 bc.
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- Did you know we know that from secular history?
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- We know artaxerxes longimanus, the persian king, issued the
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- Decree to go back and rebuild jerusalem on march the 14,
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- 445 bc.
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- God said to daniel, "that's when the 490 years starts
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- Ticking away."
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- And he said from that time that the decree is issued until the
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- Time of messiah the prince will be 483 years.
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- Now, what is the time of messiah the prince?
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- This is a very clear reference to the prophecy of zechariah
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- 9:9, that said the messiah would be presented to israel riding on
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- The back of a donkey.
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- Did you know that was prophesied 500 years before it happened,
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- 520 bc?
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- The bible says in zechariah 9:9 that the messiah would be
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- Presented riding on the back of a donkey.
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- We know when that happened.
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- It was when jesus made his triumphal entry into jerusalem
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- Riding a donkey and the people cried, "hosanna, hosanna."
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- That was the day that was the presentation of jesus as
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- The messiah.
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- It's recorded in matthew 21, verses 1 to 11.
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- And we know, again, we can date that to april the 2, 32 ad,
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- Which is the 10th of nisaan, not--or rather nisan, not the
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- Car nissan, but nisan, okay?
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- Now, dr. j. dwight pentecost has done some
- 00:14:04.500 --> 00:14:07.303
- Fascinating calculations.
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- And taking into account the 360 days in the jewish calendar and
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- Also figuring in some of the irregularities of the jewish
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- Calendar, guess how much time there is between march the 14,
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- 445 bc and april the 2, 32 ad.
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- It is exactly 483 years.
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- Isn't that amazing?
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- That 500 years before the fact, god would prophesy not just to
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- The decade, the year, but the exact date, the time that would
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- Elapse between when israel was told to go back to jerusalem to
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- Rebuild the city and messiah the prince would come.
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- Now, notice on the clock that we have for you i've shown that 483
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- Of these 490 years have already passed.
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- But then, when messiah was rejected by the people, it's
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- Like god hit the stop button, the pause button, on
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- That stopwatch.
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- There is a gap between the first 483 years and the final 7 years.
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- Where do you see this gap?
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- I see it in the very next verse.
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- Notice if you will, daniel 9:26.
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- "then after the sixty-two weeks,"
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- Plus the 7 weeks before that,
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- Mentioned in verse 25, that is after the 69 weeks of
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- Years, or 483 years, several things are gonna happen after
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- That first 483 years, before the beginning of the final 7 years.
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- What's gonna happen in this gap?
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- "the messiah will be cut off and have nothing," that's a
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- Reference to the crucifixion of jesus.
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- And not only that, "the people of the prince who is to come
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- Will destroy the city and the sanctuary," the romans under
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- Titus did that in 70 ad, "and its end will come with a flood,
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- Even to the end, there will be war; desolations
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- Are determined."
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- God said to daniel,
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- "after these first 483 years, when messiah is presented
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- And rejected, there's gonna be a gap of time."
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- He mentioned several of the things that are gonna happen
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- During that gap, messiah will be crucified, jerusalem will be
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- Destroyed by the romans, but there's one thing he doesn't
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- Mention that you and i know about that the apostle paul
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- Understood would happen during this gap.
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- And that is, the church age, the time of the church.
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- Notice on your outline there i reprinted that chart from
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- Dr. campbell about the first 483 years separated by the
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- Church age.
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- Remember?
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- We've talked about this period of the church age.
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- During this lull, this gap, god has turned away from israel and
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- Turned his attention to gentiles so that we have an opportunity
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- To be saved, but it's only a partial turning away.
- 00:16:41.657 --> 00:16:44.560
- Romans 11:25 says, "for i do not want you, brethren, to
- 00:16:44.560 --> 00:16:48.030
- Be uninformed of this mystery-- lest you be wise in your own
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- Estimation--that a partial hardening has happened to israel
- 00:16:51.700 --> 00:16:56.105
- Until the fullness of the gentiles has come in."
- 00:16:56.105 --> 00:16:59.608
- God is giving us the opportunity to be saved.
- 00:16:59.608 --> 00:17:02.344
- But when the last gentile has been saved, who will been saved,
- 00:17:02.344 --> 00:17:06.515
- Then god is going to rapture us, 1 thessalonians 4:13 to 18,
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- We're gonna be snatched away to meet the lord in the air, and
- 00:17:10.819 --> 00:17:14.056
- God hits that time stopwatch for the final seven years of earth's
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- History to complete his program for israel.
- 00:17:18.427 --> 00:17:22.364
- And that's what we see in verse 27 of daniel 9, the final 70th
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- Week or seven years.
- 00:17:26.602 --> 00:17:28.337
- Notice on the time clock, again, 483 years have already elapsed,
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- Seven years remain on the stop clock.
- 00:17:32.474 --> 00:17:35.911
- What are going to happen?
- 00:17:35.911 --> 00:17:37.279
- Look at daniel 9:27.
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- "and he," talking about--who is he?
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- It's a reference of the prince who is to come, the antichrist,
- 00:17:43.118 --> 00:17:46.955
- "and he will make a firm covenant with the many," that is
- 00:17:46.955 --> 00:17:51.426
- Israel, "for one week, but in the middle of the week he will
- 00:17:51.426 --> 00:17:54.897
- Put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering and on the wing
- 00:17:54.897 --> 00:17:58.300
- Of an abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a
- 00:17:58.300 --> 00:18:02.204
- Complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the
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- One who makes desolate."
- 00:18:06.742 --> 00:18:08.677
- The final seven year countdown, daniel's--is told, begins when
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- This world figure, known as the antichrist, initiates a peace
- 00:18:14.716 --> 00:18:19.588
- Covenant with israel.
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- I'll talk about that more in a moment.
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- That's when the final seven year countdown begins.
- 00:18:22.291 --> 00:18:24.626
- But then gabriel said halfway through after the first three
- 00:18:24.626 --> 00:18:28.263
- And a half years, antichrist is gonna turn his back on israel.
- 00:18:28.263 --> 00:18:33.035
- He's gonna double cross them, he's going to break that peace
- 00:18:33.035 --> 00:18:36.572
- Covenant, and through the final three and a half years, there
- 00:18:36.572 --> 00:18:39.208
- Will be a time of unprecedented persecution against israel and
- 00:18:39.208 --> 00:18:43.979
- Against those who become christians during
- 00:18:43.979 --> 00:18:46.048
- The great tribulation.
- 00:18:46.048 --> 00:18:47.950
- In fact, jesus said in matthew 24:21 this is such a horrendous
- 00:18:47.950 --> 00:18:51.887
- Period of time that had the days not been cut short, everyone
- 00:18:51.887 --> 00:18:55.424
- Would have perished.
- 00:18:55.424 --> 00:18:57.326
- Now, this time, this final seven years on god's stopwatch, goes
- 00:18:57.326 --> 00:19:02.998
- By several different names in scripture.
- 00:19:02.998 --> 00:19:05.200
- Jesus called it--we often call it the great tribulation.
- 00:19:05.200 --> 00:19:08.904
- It's called the time of jacob or israel's distress.
- 00:19:08.904 --> 00:19:12.441
- It's called daniel's 70th week.
- 00:19:12.441 --> 00:19:15.110
- But the most common reference to this period of time in both the
- 00:19:15.110 --> 00:19:18.580
- Old and the new testament is the phrase "the day of the lord."
- 00:19:18.580 --> 00:19:23.986
- The day of the lord, anytime you read it in the bible, is not a
- 00:19:23.986 --> 00:19:27.923
- Day of hope, it's not a day that we look forward to the return
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- Of christ.
- 00:19:31.260 --> 00:19:32.628
- The day of the lord is always, in scripture, a time of judgment
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- Upon unbelievers.
- 00:19:36.999 --> 00:19:38.333
- Did you know that?
- 00:19:38.333 --> 00:19:39.701
- It is always used that way.
- 00:19:39.701 --> 00:19:41.036
- The day of the lord, not the day of christ, but the day of
- 00:19:41.036 --> 00:19:44.039
- The lord.
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- Jot down some of these references.
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- Joel 1, verse 15, "alas for the day!
- 00:19:46.742 --> 00:19:49.411
- For the day of the lord is near, and it will come as destruction
- 00:19:49.411 --> 00:19:53.582
- From the almighty."
- 00:19:53.582 --> 00:19:54.916
- Or amos 5, verses 18 and 20, "alas, you who are longing for
- 00:19:54.916 --> 00:19:59.054
- The day of the lord.
- 00:19:59.054 --> 00:20:00.422
- For what purpose will this day of the lord be to you?
- 00:20:00.422 --> 00:20:03.258
- It will be darkness and not light.
- 00:20:03.258 --> 00:20:05.694
- Will not the day of the lord be darkness instead of light, even
- 00:20:05.694 --> 00:20:09.197
- Gloom with no brightness in it?"
- 00:20:09.197 --> 00:20:11.733
- Or zephaniah 1, verses 14 and 15, "near is the great of the
- 00:20:11.733 --> 00:20:15.704
- Lord--near is the great day of the lord.
- 00:20:15.704 --> 00:20:18.540
- Near and coming very quickly; listen, the day of the lord!
- 00:20:18.540 --> 00:20:22.511
- In it the warrior cries out bitterly.
- 00:20:22.511 --> 00:20:24.946
- A day of wrath is that day.
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- A day of trouble and distress, of destruction and desolation.
- 00:20:27.316 --> 00:20:30.452
- A day of darkness and doom.
- 00:20:30.452 --> 00:20:32.187
- A day of clouds and thick darkness."
- 00:20:32.187 --> 00:20:35.424
- Do you see that?
- 00:20:35.424 --> 00:20:36.758
- The day of the lord is a day not of bright sunlight, of the
- 00:20:36.758 --> 00:20:39.161
- Return of christ, it is a day of god's judgment upon the earth.
- 00:20:39.161 --> 00:20:44.466
- And perhaps one of the most detailed new testament
- 00:20:44.466 --> 00:20:47.035
- Explanations of this time is found in 1 thessalonians
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- Chapter 5.
- 00:20:50.339 --> 00:20:51.673
- In these brief verses in 1 thessalonians 5 paul reveals
- 00:20:51.673 --> 00:20:56.244
- Three very important things we as christians need to know about
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- The day of the lord.
- 00:21:00.148 --> 00:21:01.616
- First of all, paul reminds us that the day of the lord follows
- 00:21:01.616 --> 00:21:07.222
- The rapture of the church.
- 00:21:07.222 --> 00:21:09.124
- It follows the rapture of the church.
- 00:21:09.124 --> 00:21:11.059
- Guys, this is so simple and yet so many people who believe
- 00:21:11.059 --> 00:21:15.197
- The church is going through the tribulation miss this.
- 00:21:15.197 --> 00:21:17.632
- Many christians believe, as you know, that the church does not
- 00:21:17.632 --> 00:21:20.635
- Escape the day of the lord, we have to experience the day of
- 00:21:20.635 --> 00:21:24.206
- God's wrath.
- 00:21:24.206 --> 00:21:25.874
- And yet, all you have to do is read the scripture simply to see
- 00:21:25.874 --> 00:21:28.577
- Why we're not going to be here to experience god's wrath.
- 00:21:28.577 --> 00:21:32.247
- In 1 thessalonians 4:13 to 18, paul is talking about
- 00:21:32.247 --> 00:21:36.284
- The rapture.
- 00:21:36.284 --> 00:21:37.619
- We've talked about that the last several weeks.
- 00:21:37.619 --> 00:21:38.954
- Look down at verse 16 of 1 thessalonians 4, "for the lord
- 00:21:38.954 --> 00:21:42.724
- Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of
- 00:21:42.724 --> 00:21:46.795
- The archangel, and with the trumpet of god.
- 00:21:46.795 --> 00:21:49.097
- And the dead in christ shall rise first.
- 00:21:49.097 --> 00:21:51.767
- And then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up,"
- 00:21:51.767 --> 00:21:54.903
- Harpazo, rapturo, raptured, "to meet the lord in the air.
- 00:21:54.903 --> 00:21:59.207
- Thus we shall always be with the lord.
- 00:21:59.207 --> 00:22:01.309
- Therefore comfort one another with these words."
- 00:22:01.309 --> 00:22:04.813
- Jeffress: there's much more to learn about the judgment that's
- 00:22:09.017 --> 00:22:11.887
- Coming during daniel's 70th week or the day of the lord.
- 00:22:11.887 --> 00:22:16.291
- And as we keep moving forward in this study of the end times, my
- 00:22:16.291 --> 00:22:20.195
- Hope is that you'll begin to see god's plan for the future, not
- 00:22:20.195 --> 00:22:23.965
- As some fearful unknown, but as a source of comfort and hope for
- 00:22:23.965 --> 00:22:28.336
- You personally.
- 00:22:28.336 --> 00:22:29.805
- Recently, i received an encouraging comment from
- 00:22:29.805 --> 00:22:32.407
- Elizabeth who watches our program in south carolina.
- 00:22:32.407 --> 00:22:36.178
- She said, "pastor jeffress,
- 00:22:36.178 --> 00:22:38.013
- Somehow your sermons always
- 00:22:38.013 --> 00:22:39.781
- Seem to address exactly
- 00:22:39.781 --> 00:22:41.616
- What's happening in my life.
- 00:22:41.616 --> 00:22:43.552
- Especially the one on
- 00:22:43.552 --> 00:22:44.986
- 'turning my messes into successes.'
- 00:22:44.986 --> 00:22:48.123
- I've had so many things going on in my life that i
- 00:22:48.123 --> 00:22:51.226
- Was too ashamed to ask for god's forgiveness.
- 00:22:51.226 --> 00:22:54.296
- But i know now that i'm forgiven, and that god sees me
- 00:22:54.296 --> 00:22:58.066
- As worthy of his love."
- 00:22:58.066 --> 00:23:00.469
- Well, i'm very encouraged to hear your comments, elizabeth.
- 00:23:00.469 --> 00:23:03.872
- And to those of you who are faithful supporters of "pathway
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- 00:23:06.708 --> 00:23:10.145
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- 00:23:10.145 --> 00:23:13.849
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- Jeffress: daniel chapter 9 is one of the most remarkable
- 00:25:00.589 --> 00:25:03.425
- Passages in all of scripture.
- 00:25:03.425 --> 00:25:05.994
- In fact, i often refer to it as the most amazing prophecy
- 00:25:05.994 --> 00:25:10.131
- In the bible.
- 00:25:10.131 --> 00:25:11.466
- From artaxerxes's decree to go back and rebuild jerusalem to
- 00:25:11.466 --> 00:25:15.570
- Jesus's triumphal entry into jerusalem, daniel's prophecy
- 00:25:15.570 --> 00:25:19.808
- Hasn't misguided us yet and it's just a matter of time until god
- 00:25:19.808 --> 00:25:24.279
- Presses his stopwatch button once more, beginning israel's
- 00:25:24.279 --> 00:25:28.583
- And the earth's final seven years.
- 00:25:28.583 --> 00:25:31.486
- Well, we've seen where the tribulation was prophesied in
- 00:25:31.486 --> 00:25:34.589
- Daniel chapter 9, and next time, we'll see what's going to happen
- 00:25:34.589 --> 00:25:38.994
- During that time as revealed in revelation chapters 6
- 00:25:38.994 --> 00:25:43.164
- Through 19.
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- Series, "perfect ending."
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- Jeffress: not only that, the bible says that this future
- 00:25:50.105 --> 00:25:53.675
- Dictator will wear down the saints of god, he will persecute
- 00:25:53.675 --> 00:25:57.245
- Israel and the people of god.
- 00:25:57.245 --> 00:25:58.647
- And again, no opposition.
- 00:25:58.647 --> 00:26:00.649
- How do you explain that?
- 00:26:00.649 --> 00:26:02.784
- Because the fact is, the world would be--will have been
- 00:26:02.784 --> 00:26:05.420
- Conditioned by that time to be not just apathetic about the
- 00:26:05.420 --> 00:26:09.257
- Persecution of christians, but even sympathetic to the
- 00:26:09.257 --> 00:26:12.794
- Persecution of christians who are now labeled as extremists.
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- Announcer: alaska is unlike any other place on earth, and this
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- Is your chance to witness god's masterpiece and america's
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- Priceless treasure, june 13 through 20, 2026.
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- Jeffress: you know, i can hardly wait to show you alaska.
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- I've been there before, and every time i witness those
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- Massive glaciers and towering mountains, i'm reminded of how
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- Incredibly creative our god is.
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- Announcer: picture this, waking up to snowcapped peaks outside
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- Your window, then heading to your refreshing breakfast
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- Knowing that all your meals are prepared for you.
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- The world class service means that you can truly relax.
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- Jeffress: we'll explore charming villages together, we'll stroll
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- Alongside the still waters of the mountain stream, and yes,
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- We'll see god's artistry at every turn.
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- Announcer: reserve your spot on the 2026 pathway to victory
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- Cruise to alaska by calling...
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- Or visit ptv.org.
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