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Robert Jeffress - When All Hell Breaks Loose (Part 1B)

April 20, 2026 | 27:29

Robert Jeffress - When All Hell Breaks Loose (Part 1B)
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - When All Hell Breaks Loose (Part 1B) | April 20, 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
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  • Dr. 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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  • Most people tend to live in survival mode, just trying to
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  • Make it from one day to the next.
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  • They simply don't have time to worry about far off events over
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  • Which they have no control.
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  • Well, today, i'm going to explain why everyone ought to be
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  • Paying close attention to signs of the coming tribulation
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  • Because it may be even closer than you think.
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  • We're turning to daniel chapter 9 to look at the final 7 years
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  • Of earth's history.
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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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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪ there is power in the name of jesus ♪
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  • ♪ to break every chain, break every chain, ♪
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  • ♪ break every chain. ♪
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  • ♪ there is power in the name of jesus ♪
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  • ♪ to break every chain, break every chain, ♪
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  • ♪ break every chain. ♪
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  • ♪ there's an army rising up ♪
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  • ♪ there's an army rising up ♪
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  • ♪ there's an army rising up ♪
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  • ♪ to break every chain, ♪
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  • ♪ break every chain; break every chain ♪
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  • ♪ break every chain; ♪
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  • ♪ there's an army rising up ♪
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  • ♪ there's an army rising up ♪
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  • ♪ to break every chain, ♪
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  • ♪ break every chain; break every chain ♪
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  • ♪ break every chain; ♪
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  • ♪ to break every chain ♪
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  • ♪ hallelujah. ♪♪
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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: look at daniel 9:27: "and he," talking about
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  • Who is "he?"
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  • It's a reference of the prince who is to come, the antichrist.
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  • "and he will make a firm covenant with the many," that is
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  • Israel, "for one week, but in the middle of the week he will
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  • Put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing
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  • Of an abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a
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  • Complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the
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  • One who makes desolate."
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  • The final 7-year countdown, daniel's is told begins when
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  • This world figure known as the antichrist initiates a
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  • Peace 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 7-year countdown begins.
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  • But then gabriel said, halfway through, after the first 3 1/2
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  • Years, antichrist is gonna turn his back on israel.
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  • He's gonna double-cross them.
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  • He's going to break that peace covenant.
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  • And through the final 3 1/2 years, there will be a time of
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  • Unprecedented persecution against israel and against those
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  • Who become christians during the great tribulation.
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  • Jesus called it, we often call it, the great tribulation.
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  • It's called the time of jacob or israel's distress.
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  • It's called daniel's 70th week.
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  • But the most common reference to this period of time in both the
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  • Old and the new testament is the phrase, "the day of the lord."
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  • The day of the lord, anytime you read it in the bible, is not
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  • A day of hope.
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  • It's not a day that we look forward to, the return
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  • Of christ.
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  • The day of the lord is always, in scripture, a time of judgment
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  • Upon unbelievers.
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  • Did you know that? it is always used that way.
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  • The day of the lord, not the day of christ, but
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  • The day of the lord.
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  • Jot down some of these references: joel 1, verse 15:
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  • "alas for the day!
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  • For the day of the lord is near.
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  • And it will come as destruction from the almighty."
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  • Or amos 5, verses 18 and 20: "alas, you who are longing for
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  • The day of the lord, for what purpose will this day of the
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  • Lord be to you?
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  • It will be darkness and not light; will not the day of the
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  • Lord be darkness instead of light, even gloom with no
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  • Brightness in it?"
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  • Or zephaniah 1, verses 14 and 15: "near is the great of the
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  • Lord-- near is the great day of the lord, near and coming very
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  • Quickly: listen, the day of the lord!
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  • In it the warrior cries out bitterly.
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  • A day of wrath is that day, a day of trouble and distress, of
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  • Destruction and desolation, a day of darkness and doom, a day
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  • Of clouds and thick darkness."
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  • Do you see that?
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  • The day of the lord is a day, not of bright sunlight of the
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  • Return of christ.
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  • It is a day of god's judgment upon the earth, and perhaps one
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  • Of the most detailed new testament explanations of this
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  • Time is found in 1 thessalonians chapter 5.
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  • I want you to turn over to 1 thessalonians
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  • Chapter 5, the passage we read just
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  • A few moments ago.
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  • In these brief verses, in 1 thessalonians 5, paul reveals
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  • Three very important things we, as christians, need to know
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  • About the day of the lord.
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  • First of all, paul reminds us that the day of the lord follows
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  • The rapture of the church.
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  • It follows the rapture of the church.
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  • Guys, this is so simple and yet so many people who believe the
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  • Church is going through the tribulation, miss this.
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  • Many christians believe, as you know, that the church does not
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  • Escape the day of the lord.
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  • We have to experience the day of god's wrath, and yet all you
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  • Have to do is read the scripture simply to see why we're not
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  • Going to be here to experience god's wrath.
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  • In 1 thessalonians 4:13 to 18, paul is talking about
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  • The rapture.
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  • We talked about that the last several weeks.
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  • Look down at verse 16 of 1 thessalonians 4: "for the lord
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  • Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of
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  • The archangel and with the trumpet of god, and the dead in
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  • Christ shall rise first.
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  • And then we who are alive and remain, shall be caught up,"
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  • Harpazoed, rapturo, raptured, "to meet the lord in the air.
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  • Thus, we shall always be with the lord.
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  • Therefore, comfort one another with these words."
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  • Now he's talking about the rapture.
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  • Then chapter 5 begins.
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  • Remember, there were no chapter designations in
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  • The original text.
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  • Paul didn't sit down, "right, okay, chapter 5."
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  • He didn't do that.
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  • He was writing a letter.
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  • He said, "okay, i've talked about the rapture."
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  • Now, look at what he says in chapter 5 about a brand-new
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  • Topic: "now as to the times and the epics, brethren, you have no
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  • Need of anything to be written to you for you yourselves know
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  • Full well that the day of the lord will come just like a thief
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  • In the night."
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  • Now, that english phrase, "now as to," it's a translation of
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  • The greek phrase "peri de."
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  • Paul, if you look at his writings, always uses that
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  • Phrase, "now concerning," or "now as to," peri de.
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  • It is always used as a transition to introduce a new
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  • Topic of discussion.
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  • The day of the lord is not a part of the rapture.
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  • Paul has already explained the rapture.
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  • Christians are gone and now he's gonna talk about the
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  • Day of the lord.
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  • And what does he say about the day of the lord?
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  • Look at 1 thessalonians 5, verse 2: "for you yourselves
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  • Know full well that the day of the lord will come just like a
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  • Thief in the night."
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  • Did you know that phrase, "thief in the night," is never used
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  • About the rapture?
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  • We use that as we're referring to the rapture.
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  • No, it's the time of judgment.
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  • He's saying to the world, after the christians have gone, the
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  • Day of the lord is going to come like a thief in the night.
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  • The day of the lord comes after the rapture of the church.
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  • Number two, the day of the lord is a time of judgment
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  • Upon unbelievers.
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  • Look at verse 3: "while they are saying, 'peace and safety!'
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  • Then destruction will come upon them and suddenly like birth
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  • Pains upon a woman with child, they shall not escape."
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  • And thirdly and most importantly for you and for me today:
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  • Christians do not need to fear the day of the lord.
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  • We have no reason to fear the day of the lord.
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  • Paul says in verse 4: "but you, brethren, are not in the
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  • Darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief."
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  • I mean, could that be any more clear, folks?
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  • We are not going to be in the darkness.
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  • We're not gonna be here for the day of the lord.
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  • We don't have to fear the wrath of god because christ has
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  • Experienced the wrath of god on our behalf.
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  • "there is no condemnation," romans 8:1 says, "awaiting those
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  • Who belong to christ jesus."
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  • Now, that's the day of the lord.
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  • Now, the most extensive discussion of the day of the
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  • Lord, and what happens during that time, is found in
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  • Revelation chapters 6 through 19.
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  • This is a record of those 7 years, 7 final years of earth's
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  • History and of the catastrophes, the chaos, and the condemnation
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  • From god that will categorize that time.
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  • Now, we're just getting revved up here.
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  • But we're going to go into next week and look at the
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  • Specific details.
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  • But this morning, what i want you to see is that this entire
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  • 7-year period, the day of the lord, the tribulation, can be
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  • Outlined like a 3-act drama.
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  • Act 1 is the beginning.
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  • Daniel 9:27 says there are really three acts to this thing.
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  • There's what happens at the beginning of the 7-year period
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  • Of time.
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  • Then there's something dramatic that happens in the middle,
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  • After the first 3 1/2 years.
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  • And then finally, there is a conclusion to it, the last
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  • 3 1/2 years.
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  • Now, this morning, we only have time to look at part of act 1,
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  • The beginning of the tribulation.
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  • And the bible says three things are going to happen at the
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  • Beginning, at the outset, of these final
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  • 7 years of earth's history.
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  • What are they?
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  • We're gonna look at one of those things this morning.
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  • First of all, it will be during this time that there will be the
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  • Rise of the antichrist-- the rise of the antichrist.
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  • Back in 1993 when a middle eastern peace treaty was
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  • Ratified under bill clinton, one popular television evangelist
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  • Announced, "the tribulation has begun."
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  • Obviously, he was wrong.
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  • But why would he say such a thing?
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  • Because the bible says that the mark for this 7 years beginning
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  • Will be a peace treaty that is made with israel.
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  • Now, how will that give rise to the antichrist?
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  • This is a little bit of speculation, but i think it's
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  • Sanctified speculation.
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  • I believe that the rapture which precedes the tribulation--
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  • I think the rapture will coincide with some worldwide
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  • Catastrophe that will explain or try to explain the disappearance
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  • Of millions of christians.
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  • I think it could be a giant natural disaster, an asteroid,
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  • For example.
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  • We're gonna talk about that more next week.
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  • It may be a nuclear exchange over some battle taking place
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  • Over the middle east that is used to explain the
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  • Disappearance of millions of people.
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  • But there is gonna be such calamity in the middle east
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  • During this time that the world is going to be clamoring for
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  • Somebody to bring an end to the standoff.
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  • And i think, especially, it's gonna be so if this war, this
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  • Conflict, results in the shutdown of the world's
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  • Oil production.
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  • Think about the economic crisis that would occur if there were
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  • No oil being shipped out of the middle east.
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  • I think people are going to absolutely clamor for it.
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  • I mean, you know, people were ready to run for the hills
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  • After, you know, a few days of government shutdown.
  • 00:13:43.846 --> 00:13:45.881
  • They thought the world was coming to an end
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  • Because of that.
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  • Wait till there's a real catastrophe.
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  • Wait till something really happens that affects people in
  • 00:13:51.186 --> 00:13:54.023
  • The pocketbook.
  • 00:13:54.023 --> 00:13:55.357
  • They will be clamoring for somebody to bring an end to this
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  • And that will cause the antichrist to rise to power.
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  • He will be able to broker a peace settlement that nobody
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  • Else has been able to broker in the middle east.
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  • And because of that, people will follow him, they will
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  • Worship him.
  • 00:14:11.173 --> 00:14:12.808
  • Now the bible gives us four insights, four major insights,
  • 00:14:12.808 --> 00:14:17.880
  • About this figure, this world leader known as the antichrist,
  • 00:14:17.880 --> 00:14:20.783
  • Write these down.
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  • First of all, he will come to power after christians are
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  • Removed from the earth.
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  • The bible says he will come to power after christians are
  • 00:14:27.656 --> 00:14:30.326
  • Removed from the earth.
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  • Turn over one book to 2 thessalonians chapter 2,
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  • Verses 6 through 9.
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  • This is so interesting to me.
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  • 2 thessalonians 2, verses 6 to 9.
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  • Paul is writing about this figure,
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  • The man of lawlessness, the antichrist, and look at what
  • 00:14:43.472 --> 00:14:46.442
  • He says, beginning verse 6: "and you know what restrains him now,
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  • So that in his time he may be revealed.
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  • For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who
  • 00:14:53.482 --> 00:14:58.153
  • Now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way."
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  • That is, the work of antichrist is going on in the world right
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  • Now, of rejecting god, of persecuting god's people.
  • 00:15:05.627 --> 00:15:08.197
  • He's already at work.
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  • But it's being restrained.
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  • Evil in the world today is being restrained.
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  • You know what's restraining evil in the world today?
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  • It's the holy spirit of god.
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  • It's the holy spirit of god present in the people of god.
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  • That is what it's gonna-- that's what's restraining evil.
  • 00:15:25.347 --> 00:15:28.150
  • But can you imagine, as bad as this world is, what it's gonna
  • 00:15:28.150 --> 00:15:30.886
  • Be like when all the christians are removed at the rapture?
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  • Can you imagine the evil that is going to be unleashed?
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  • Look at verse 8: "and then that lawless one will be revealed
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  • Whom the lord will slay with the breath of his mouth and bring to
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  • An end the appearance of his coming; that is, the one whose
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  • Coming is in accord with the activity of satan, with all
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  • Powers and signs and wonders."
  • 00:15:50.339 --> 00:15:52.307
  • Right now, the rule of antichrist is being restrained.
  • 00:15:52.307 --> 00:15:55.511
  • Right now, evil is being restrained.
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  • But once christians are gone, the holy spirit is removed, that
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  • Restraint will be over.
  • 00:16:01.817 --> 00:16:04.353
  • Well, the antichrist does not rise to power until after the
  • 00:16:04.353 --> 00:16:08.724
  • Rapture, but he very well could be alive right now.
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  • Number three, the antichrist, the bible says, will most likely
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  • Be a gentile.
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  • Revelation 13, verse 1, says that "he comes out of the sea."
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  • That don't mean out of the water.
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  • He's talking about the sea.
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  • John uses that to refer to the world of turmoil, the
  • 00:16:24.306 --> 00:16:28.277
  • Political world.
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  • He comes out of the sea.
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  • Thirdly, he will rule over a revived roman empire that will
  • 00:16:32.815 --> 00:16:37.886
  • Apparently be in the form of a ten-nation confederacy, daniel
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  • 9, verses 26-27.
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  • Remember how daniel refers to the destruction of jerusalem?
  • 00:16:43.158 --> 00:16:48.263
  • He talks about jerusalem will be destroyed by the "people of the
  • 00:16:48.263 --> 00:16:53.168
  • Prince who is to come."
  • 00:16:53.168 --> 00:16:56.572
  • Now, who destroyed jerusalem?
  • 00:16:56.572 --> 00:16:57.940
  • It was the romans.
  • 00:16:57.940 --> 00:16:59.575
  • So, if the romans are the people who destroyed jerusalem, and
  • 00:16:59.575 --> 00:17:04.847
  • They are simply the people of the prince, the antichrist, who
  • 00:17:04.847 --> 00:17:07.916
  • Is yet to come, this is telling us that the future antichrist,
  • 00:17:07.916 --> 00:17:12.187
  • His kingdom will have something to do with the roman empire.
  • 00:17:12.187 --> 00:17:15.557
  • As we saw in our book of daniel, the bible says that there will
  • 00:17:15.557 --> 00:17:18.660
  • Be a ten-nation confederacy that will rule over the world during
  • 00:17:18.660 --> 00:17:21.964
  • These final 7 years.
  • 00:17:21.964 --> 00:17:23.499
  • But those ten nations will ultimately give their
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  • Leadership, their reign, to antichrist.
  • 00:17:27.236 --> 00:17:29.872
  • It is a revived roman empire.
  • 00:17:29.872 --> 00:17:32.107
  • Daniel saw the vision of the statue and the last kingdom was
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  • Rome that was thought to be forever destroyed, but will rise
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  • Again to power.
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  • Daniel saw that in his visions.
  • 00:17:40.282 --> 00:17:43.085
  • I remember when i was in high school, about ten years after
  • 00:17:43.085 --> 00:17:49.558
  • The assassination of president kennedy, the rumor got started,
  • 00:17:49.558 --> 00:17:53.328
  • I think in the "national inquirer" is where it started,
  • 00:17:53.328 --> 00:17:56.064
  • But the rumor was that president kennedy wasn't dead.
  • 00:17:56.064 --> 00:17:58.567
  • He was still alive, he was on a greek island purchased by
  • 00:17:58.567 --> 00:18:02.271
  • Aristotle onassis.
  • 00:18:02.271 --> 00:18:03.605
  • He was recuperating and he was going to come back to power and
  • 00:18:03.605 --> 00:18:07.042
  • Be the antichrist.
  • 00:18:07.042 --> 00:18:10.012
  • Now, where does such a story get legs and carry
  • 00:18:10.012 --> 00:18:14.316
  • Credibility with people?
  • 00:18:14.316 --> 00:18:15.684
  • Well, part of that actually came from a prediction in the bible
  • 00:18:15.684 --> 00:18:18.921
  • That was sorely, i think, misapplied.
  • 00:18:18.921 --> 00:18:21.323
  • But it came from revelation 13, verse 3 and talking about the
  • 00:18:21.323 --> 00:18:24.359
  • Antichrist, it says john says, "i saw one of his heads as if it
  • 00:18:24.359 --> 00:18:28.497
  • Had been slain, and his fatal wound was healed.
  • 00:18:28.497 --> 00:18:32.267
  • And the whole world was amazed and followed after the beast."
  • 00:18:32.267 --> 00:18:36.838
  • Now, some people take this literally and believe that the
  • 00:18:36.838 --> 00:18:40.275
  • Antichrist will have an assassination attempt that will
  • 00:18:40.275 --> 00:18:44.279
  • Injure his head and he will thought to have died, but then
  • 00:18:44.279 --> 00:18:48.083
  • He will miraculously come back to life again.
  • 00:18:48.083 --> 00:18:51.386
  • That may or may not be true.
  • 00:18:51.386 --> 00:18:52.788
  • I think a better interpretation is it's not talking about his
  • 00:18:52.788 --> 00:18:55.657
  • Physical life, it's talking about his kingdom that he
  • 00:18:55.657 --> 00:18:57.559
  • Rules over.
  • 00:18:57.559 --> 00:18:58.961
  • The kingdom he rules over, the roman empire, will have thought
  • 00:18:58.961 --> 00:19:03.131
  • To have died.
  • 00:19:03.131 --> 00:19:04.466
  • You know, most people don't talk about the roman empire today.
  • 00:19:04.466 --> 00:19:07.035
  • Rome is finished, it's over.
  • 00:19:07.035 --> 00:19:09.304
  • But the bible says it will be resurrected in a new form and
  • 00:19:09.304 --> 00:19:12.908
  • This will be the kingdom that antichrist will rule over.
  • 00:19:12.908 --> 00:19:16.378
  • Number four, buckle your seatbelts.
  • 00:19:16.378 --> 00:19:23.452
  • He will oppose the people of god and attempt to change the laws
  • 00:19:23.452 --> 00:19:28.223
  • Of god without opposition.
  • 00:19:28.223 --> 00:19:31.693
  • Daniel 7, verse 25 says, talking about antichrist, "he will speak
  • 00:19:31.693 --> 00:19:36.865
  • Out against the most high and he will wear down the saints of the
  • 00:19:36.865 --> 00:19:41.003
  • Highest one, and he will intend to make alterations in times and
  • 00:19:41.003 --> 00:19:44.773
  • In law; and they will be given into his hand for a time,
  • 00:19:44.773 --> 00:19:48.477
  • Times, and half a time."
  • 00:19:48.477 --> 00:19:49.845
  • That's a year plus 2 years plus a half a year, 3 1/2 years,
  • 00:19:49.845 --> 00:19:52.748
  • The last severe time of the antichrist rule.
  • 00:19:52.748 --> 00:19:55.884
  • What is he saying here about antichrist?
  • 00:19:55.884 --> 00:19:58.720
  • This world dictator will be one, first of all, who attempts to
  • 00:19:58.720 --> 00:20:04.159
  • Change the laws of god.
  • 00:20:04.159 --> 00:20:07.829
  • Not only that, he will begin a time of persecution
  • 00:20:07.829 --> 00:20:10.032
  • Against god's people.
  • 00:20:10.032 --> 00:20:11.400
  • He will seek to, quote, "wear down the saints."
  • 00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:14.903
  • Not only that, this future world leader will be able to usurp the
  • 00:20:14.903 --> 00:20:19.675
  • Most basic rights of people: the freedom of worship, the freedom
  • 00:20:19.675 --> 00:20:22.511
  • Of religion, the freedom of commerce, as we'll see
  • 00:20:22.511 --> 00:20:24.946
  • Next time.
  • 00:20:24.946 --> 00:20:26.415
  • And there's no opposition to it.
  • 00:20:26.415 --> 00:20:28.884
  • And i ask myself, "how does that happen?
  • 00:20:28.884 --> 00:20:31.753
  • How do people just give in to the usurpation of our most
  • 00:20:31.753 --> 00:20:37.826
  • Basic freedoms?"
  • 00:20:37.826 --> 00:20:39.961
  • I believe that before the antichrist comes, people will be
  • 00:20:39.961 --> 00:20:43.231
  • So conditioned to giving up their rights, they will have
  • 00:20:43.231 --> 00:20:47.302
  • Given up so many rights, that it'll be very easy for the
  • 00:20:47.302 --> 00:20:51.373
  • Antichrist to come in and take over with no opposition.
  • 00:20:51.373 --> 00:20:56.345
  • Not only that, the bible says that this future dictator will
  • 00:20:56.345 --> 00:21:00.849
  • Wear down the saints of god.
  • 00:21:00.849 --> 00:21:02.551
  • He will persecute israel and the people of god.
  • 00:21:02.551 --> 00:21:04.853
  • And again, no opposition.
  • 00:21:04.853 --> 00:21:06.855
  • How do you explain that?
  • 00:21:06.855 --> 00:21:09.057
  • Because the fact is, the world would be--will have been
  • 00:21:09.057 --> 00:21:11.059
  • Conditioned by that time to be not just apathetic about the
  • 00:21:11.059 --> 00:21:14.596
  • Persecution of christians, but even sympathetic to the
  • 00:21:14.596 --> 00:21:18.333
  • Persecution of christians, who are now labeled as extremist.
  • 00:21:18.333 --> 00:21:23.972
  • People will follow the government line: "yeah, these
  • 00:21:23.972 --> 00:21:26.274
  • People are not helping us, they're hurting us.
  • 00:21:26.274 --> 00:21:28.910
  • They need to be diminished, they need to be marginalized.
  • 00:21:28.910 --> 00:21:34.983
  • They need to be prohibited from saying what they're saying."
  • 00:21:34.983 --> 00:21:40.255
  • That's something that we're seeing right now.
  • 00:21:40.255 --> 00:21:42.858
  • There's already begun a persecution of christians in our
  • 00:21:42.858 --> 00:21:45.727
  • Country by our own government and people are silent about it.
  • 00:21:45.727 --> 00:21:50.098
  • Absolutely silent.
  • 00:21:50.098 --> 00:21:52.267
  • What we're talking about in the future is already happening
  • 00:21:52.267 --> 00:21:57.406
  • Right now.
  • 00:21:57.406 --> 00:21:59.074
  • We're seeing the beginning, the laying of the groundwork for
  • 00:21:59.074 --> 00:22:03.512
  • This future time in which antichrist will rule without
  • 00:22:03.512 --> 00:22:07.416
  • Any opposition.
  • 00:22:07.416 --> 00:22:08.917
  • And what will he do with all of this power that he acquires
  • 00:22:08.917 --> 00:22:11.987
  • Relatively easy?
  • 00:22:11.987 --> 00:22:14.055
  • As we're gonna see next week, he will unleash an unprecedented
  • 00:22:14.055 --> 00:22:17.993
  • Time of attack against israel and those who become christians
  • 00:22:17.993 --> 00:22:21.930
  • During the time we call the great tribulation.
  • 00:22:21.930 --> 00:22:26.101
  • Jeffress: it's clear that the world stage is set for the
  • 00:22:30.272 --> 00:22:33.008
  • Antichrist to reign.
  • 00:22:33.008 --> 00:22:34.910
  • We don't know his name, but we certainly understand
  • 00:22:34.910 --> 00:22:37.813
  • His character.
  • 00:22:37.813 --> 00:22:39.181
  • And the antichrist reign is drawing nearer with every hour
  • 00:22:39.181 --> 00:22:42.517
  • Of every day.
  • 00:22:42.517 --> 00:22:43.852
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  • 00:22:43.852 --> 00:22:48.056
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  • 00:22:48.056 --> 00:22:51.560
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  • Well, today, we've set the stage for the final 7 years of
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  • Earth's history.
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  • And next time we'll begin to delve into the specific details
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  • And the purpose of this horrific event known as the tribulation.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next in our
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  • Series, "perfect ending."
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  • Jeffress: it is the time that we often call the
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  • Great tribulation.
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  • It will be a time of natural catastrophes, political chaos.
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  • But most of all, the distinguishing characteristic of
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  • This period of time will be god's unrelenting judgment
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  • Against unbelievers.
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  • Announcer: set your dvr and join us next time for the message
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  • "the beginning of the end,"
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  • Here on "pathway 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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  • Announcer: call...
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  • Or visit ptv.org.
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